If you care about climate justice, or worker rights, social justice or simply about life on earth, you should join others.

I enjoyed this video.

How you can topple Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3aZ8ZofABM

What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

If the left can come to grasp the right-accelerationist moment we are in, there are as many opportunities as there are threats. We did not ask for this. We do not want it. But we will not cower from it.

The only efficiency #ElonMusk cares about is how efficiently he can take your money to line his own pockets. Despite the campaign promises by President #Trump, Musk is coming after your earned #SocialSecurity benefits.

https://thehill.com/opinion/5148448-elon-musk-targeting-social-security/

"The real danger is unfolding quietly — not with #tanks in the #streets but with hard drives, spreadsheets and #bureaucratic maneuvers," notes this York Dispatch editorial call for #resistance: "The time is now. Start small. Don’t stop."

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/opinion/editorials/2025/02/05/a-coup-is-unfolding-before-our-eyes-heres-what-you-can-do/78249870007/

#Resistance must be politically #independent of the #neoliberal corporate #Democrats as well as the #far-right #Trump #Republicans.

https://tempestmag.org/2025/02/trump-seizes-power-in-d-c/

Leaked: Who’s trying to “re-lay the foundations of civilization”?

https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/leaked-oil-executives-donald-trump-allies-attend-jordan-peterson-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship-london-conference/

Heyyy, don't shoot the messenger

[thread 2/x] Social justice
parent: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113437775631475804
https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/social_democracy.pdf

#democracy #SocialDemocracy #ecosocialism #sustainability #environmentalism
#SocialJustice #HumanRights #equality
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #WomensRights
#activism #advocacy #education #epistemology
#billionaires #capitalism #PoliticalEconomy #WealthTax #taxation
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #whiteSupremacism #theocracy
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Fight the Rich

Kshama Sawant

"I served as the only socialist on the Seattle City Council for ten years. In that decade, my council office led movements of working people to win historic victories, including the highest minimum wage in the country. I also saw firsthand how every part of the political establishment, led by big business and the Democratic Party, viciously opposed virtually every pro-worker piece of legislation we fought for. I saw how all the cogs of the capitalist machine — the establishment politicians, the courts, the police, the NGO leaders, and sadly many labor leaders — all work in concert together against the interests of workers.

I can tell you from my experience — and it is increasingly evident to working people — that this system is completely irredeemable, as are both U.S. political parties."

[Kshama Sawant is a revolutionary socialist, a founding member of Workers Strike Back, and a former Seattle City Councilmember who helped win the first $15/hour minimum wage in a major city and the Amazon Tax on wealthy corporations to fund affordable housing.]

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/27/fight-the-rich/

Here's some good signs of people abandoning the #Democrats, this should be promising.

In #WestVirginia, the Mountain Party of #WV who's affiliated with the #GreenParty, gained 8.46% registered members while the #DemocraticParty of West #Virginia got -3.82%.

Source 1: (https://twitter.com/mountainpartywv/status/1881417194502025281)

Is this actually a surprise for anyone?

What this says is simply that if social movement forces can't get it together and profoundly coordinate in resistance on the ground, MAGA will leave us "shocked and awed" and take us down piecemeal. And unless those movements can organize and mobilize a pole of *independent*, political opposition, the MAGA regime will atomize, demoralize and sway a majority, who will go along with whatever measures MAGA pursues. All the legislative and legalistic dithering in the world won't stop them.

This is not simply my opinion, but history and lived experience. Among others, I'm just old enough to remember the last years of McCarthyite anti-Communism, although I was in diapers when the witch-hunts occurred. I had a cousin who was persecuted during the witch-hunts. Trump has all but announced his intention to engage in a new witch-hunt against "leftists."

[continues...]

https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-two-thirds-of-trumps-first-executive-orders-mirror-project-2025s-aims/

#DonaldTrump within 30 minutes of being inaugurated has already declared an #energy emergency to "drill baby drill". It highlights how spineless & corrupt #Democrats are that they never bothered to declare a #climateemergency & a real #GreenNewDeal. We must keep fighting for a Green New Deal.

My new favorite study of 2025 thus far: there is a lot of support among the #US public for #ecosocialist (degrowthish) policy.

“This study paves the way for new strategies for a transition that enhances well-being & reduces dependence on economic #growth.”

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-highlights-eco-social-policies-economic.html

My tenth FANuary boost for a person or account on Mastodon that makes my Mastodon experience a little better goes to –

Ika Makimaki (@pezmico), who posts and boosts things of interest to someone who knows we are molding a society for the next generation in a world we've borrowed from later generations.

Think about that. Seriously.

For example, from May 2022:
https://mastodon.nz/@pezmico/108241354950532511

“Some of the themes emerging are consistent: every #wildfire is accused of not being a wildfire at all but a planned attack for some sinister end. This serves two purposes: casting doubt on #climatechange & finding a politically useful target to pin a disaster on.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/los-angeles-fires-conspiracies/

Did you see yesterday's #GreenSocialist podcast? Howie talked about his New Year's Resolution to do anything he can to build an independent #left alternative to fight #DonaldTrump.

Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8k2eC7cFB0