Thread by @PeterCronau

There was a pandemic before Covid - it’s called Neoliberalism. It had already taken a toll.
It deindustrialised our economy - it propelled income inequality - it impoverished our public schools - it corporatised our universities - it privatised the profit-making services.
#auspol

Neoliberalism has dynamited the foundations of a fair society. Far more effectively as any Japanese dive bomber or vengeful Middle Eastern terrorist.

Globalisation stripped the jobs out and sent them overseas.

Powerful elite corporations declined to pay tax and our governments let them.

The working class has been discarded and the assault now moves in the the middle class.

Oil and gas companies suck up corporate welfare and export their profits.

All things good for the public are targeted for destruction. By economic reformers.

Two incomes are now required to afford a house and family. When once but was one.

Free market allows freely exploiting the environment, and resources, and our people.

We bequeath a country of ever-rising expensive housing, expensive education, fee-for use roads, and more and more stadiums. To distract.

Dissent is taken as disloyalty. That must be quashed by policing, surveillance, oppressive laws, without transparency or influence.

Passive hasn’t worked. Perhaps then it is time we fight back against these policies. It’s our society to create.

But organising threads are weakened - unions, communities, universities. Hence new ways are required. New communities of ideas and action.

No guru will take our hand, no Whitlam or Clinton hold the key, no Dalai Lama to lead the way. Don’t look to leaders, organise. Don’t go to the footy, go to meetings.

Join, participate, act, encourage, sign up, donate, imagine, plan, participate, anticipate, get ready, make sandwiches. But, at the very least, just fucking turn up.

Don’t meditate. Militate.

Don’t pray. Take part.

Build communities. Build hope.

Raise the cost of state power.

Hold power to account.
Ask questions.
Demand transparency.
Insist on honesty.
Hold, ask, demand, insist.

Protest injustice.
Call out hypocrisy.
Deride elitism.
Pull apart privilege.
Decline to cooperate.
Refuse orders.

Believe no leader.
Choose moral.
Support family.
Bank on your community.
Grow.
Share.

Don’t watch TV
Read books.
Take notes.

Tweet ideas - take actions.

Start a campaign.
Grow food.
Share a meal.