read and support alternative news sources – humanist, socialist, environmentalist, non-corporate; unlike the MSM, they’re not sock-puppets for the rich
this is BIG
question the media narrative, the slogans, the exaggerated enemies, the nudges towards selfishness or aggression, the divisive sneers, the smearing of decent people…
Think…
Socrates showed you how
Challenge the big lies
–our economy works
–our democracy’s healthy
–protesters are the enemy
–mainstream news isn’t propaganda
–climate change can wait
–wars fix problems
do ONE THING EVERY DAY to sabotage the interests of the corporations, the powerful and the super-rich
bin a right-wing paper, leaflet your street, don't buy something they want you to buy, bus out with XR or Just Stop Oil – do that ONE THING
#11 acts of resistance #11
Recognise and resist propaganda
RAPID:
R_ecognise it’s propaganda
A_nalyse what it’s trying to make you do
P_ublicise the fact it’s propaganda
I_dentify its sources & their motives
D_emolish with logic, mockery & facts
The morality of the treatment of Palestinians by Israel and the recent breakout from Gaza is clear.
All lives are equal.
We ALL deserve protection, nurture, fairness, freedom and equality.
1/9
Killing civilians and innocents is immoral.
Any civilians.
Any innocents.
On any side.
This is something moral people do not do.
This is something any person who claims to be moral condemns.
2/9
The killing of innocents for revenge, retaliation, deterrence or punishment is immoral.
The killings by Hamas were immoral.
The current killings in Gaza by Israel are immoral.
Anything other than an immediate ceasefire, to halt the killing of innocents, is immoral.
3/9
A moral society puts people first.
Not wealth.
Not power.
Not nation states.
Not archaic forms of government or law.
Not royal families or venerable castes.
People.
Ordinary people.
Us.
1/-
#Imagine
Imagine a decent, kind and moral world – a world where people matter.
2/-
#Imagine
Imagine a world where a hungry child on the other side of the world matters just as much as the child next door. A world where that child’s sister matters too, who works in the fields or in a factory when she should still be at school.
A moral society puts people first.
Not wealth.
Not power.
Not nation states.
Not archaic forms of govt or law.
Not royal families or venerable castes.
People.
Ordinary people.
Us.
2022
2019, 2020 and 2021 were ominous – but they barely touched the surface.
Expect more heatwaves, storms, floods, droughts. Watch as the Arctic and Antarctic continue to melt.
2032
Ice caps and glaciers lose cohesion. Water sources evaporate. Heatwaves, droughts and soil loss ratchet up.
Climate famines hit Africa, South Asia, South and Central America. Water is now the primary cause of war.