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
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.
Under Keir Starmer's leadership Labour have been losing their vote share in council and by-elections across the country, making greater losses than in GE 2019, despite that year’s smearing of Labour and its leadership (now pretty much ‘on hold’).
KEIR STARMER’S TOP 10 MISTAKES
Mistake No.10: Being Starmer
It was a strategic error for Labour to choose a leader so stale, male & pale he makes even ultra-privileged Johnson look anti-establishment. Tactically, should Starmer have put himself fwd for the leadership role?
We’ve talked about the enemies of our civilisation and biological world:
– the corporations
– the growth economy
– the oligarch- or state-controlled media
– the greedy and power-hungry 0.1%
Anyone who calls a socialist an enemy of ordinary people is an enemy of ordinary people – because socialism is precisely about protecting ordinary people.
Anyone who calls a socialist an enemy of the economy is an enemy of the economy – because any fool knows the economy's real enemies are those who strip away its assets and hoard away its wealth.