2+ week, 2+ day ago (369+ words) But accountability is closer than you think. It's being called the GREAT Trust. A glossy plan for Gaza's "redevelopment" that includes solar plants, hospitals and an Elon Musk-branded "Smart Manufacturing Zone." But, as analysts have suggested, it only works if the people of Gaza are gone. The slides leaked over a month ago to the Washington Post spell out the game plan: Gazans will be forced to choose between dubious and iniquitous "voluntary" mass relocation or "temporary housing," while and billionaires get their branded tech playground built on ashes and bones. This is what genocide looks like when Silicon Valley writes the brochure: ethnic cleansing dressed up as innovation. But this sickening plan by American tech oligarchs to profit off the devastation of Gaza and its people is not the first chapter of their involvement in this conflict. The truth…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago (158+ words) The first Conference of the Parties (COP) summit I attended was back in 2015, COP 21, which took place in Paris, France. At this point in my climate and environmental justice journey I was wide-eyed and perhaps even a bit naive as I believed that nation states, international bodies like the United Nations, and so-called Civil Society Organizations contained the requisite mettle and principles to take on the crisis of climate change at scale while and the root causes that maintain and exacerbate it - white "supremacy" ideology, patriarchy, and colonization - contemporaneously. The post Theme From The Bottom: Post COP30 Reflections appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. The path to climate liberation requires a radical break from failed leadership and a serious commitment to class analysis. "We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (271+ words) There is a military axiom that if your positions are encircled by far superior forces, you will inevitably be annihilated, "unless you break out. I have been a member of our labor movement and left wing since I got out of high school in 1979. For every one of those 46 years our labor movement has been under heavy attack, and at the end of every year we were smaller and more exhausted than when it began. This year will be no exception. With only a few scant exceptions the U.S. labor movement continues to avoid the key question of new organizing. The call to "Organize the Unorganized!" is no longer heard. Embattled unions must draw to their support the masses of unorganized " or face destruction." The post Organizing For A Breakout appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. As volunteers of all types, as…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (342+ words) Zohran Mamdani's victory was historic. So was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's. So was Barack Obama's. The most common excuse that I saw from people who normally reject electoralism was that we should "let people celebrate" Mamdani's victory purely because it made zionists angry. Okay, everything makes zionists angry. In that sense, we should support Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Azealia Banks. This is an unserious and desperately reactive political barometer. And as for the potential of eventually disillusioning and shifting Mamdani's base, the most revolutionary potential in the US lies in the people who do not or cannot vote at all. Historically and now, revolution in the US will never be executed via a national socialist party like DSA, or via integrating ourselves into the genocidal settler empire's state apparatus. Mamdani's supporters hit it on the nose when they described their strategy…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (228+ words) The American Indian College Fund has launched a new campaign,You Can Do Something, in recognition of Native American Heritage Month. The effort aims to reshape how Americans understand history, power and culture " and to encourage action to honor and support Native peoples. The campaign began Nov. 1 with the release of a 30-second film,What You Pass On, featuring real Indigenous students rather than actors. Set in everyday spaces such as classrooms, football fields and history displays, the film contrasts what Americans are often taught with what is left out. Narrated by an Indigenous voice, the film highlights how national pride in mascots, presidents and founding moments has often overshadowed Native stories and contributions. It concludes with a Native teacher placing books by Indigenous authors on a classroom shelf " underscoring that while Americans cannot change what was handed down, they…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago (213+ words) In 2025, "peace" has been reduced to a political buzzword. President Trump aspires to be seen as a peacemaker'boasting about ending wars'yet his administration continues enabling and waging aggressive military campaigns in Gaza, Iran, and beyond, while repressing dissent at home. Despite this, countries such as Israel and Pakistan have stated their intentions to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize. This dangerous framing narrows peace to mean a pause in fighting or a shift in military power, ignoring the deeper truth that peace requires justice, dignity, and human security. The post "Peace Is / Peace is Not" Campaign appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. This dangerous framing narrows peace to mean a pause in fighting or a shift in military power, ignoring the deeper truth that peace requires justice, dignity, and human security. WILPF US"s'Peace is / Peace is Not'campaign challenges the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (234+ words) The new coalition "Students Rise Up" held actions in 100 cities at schools and where politicians were targeted on Nov. 7 to protest President Donald Trump's attacks on higher education and address a range of issues impacting students. Nearly 20 unions and organizations endorsed the actions, including the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Ohio Students Association, New Hampshire Youth Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, Campus Climate Network, Gen-Z for Change, Indivisible, Jewish Voice for Peace and March for Our Lives. Sunrise Movement, whose executive director, Aru Shiney-Ajay, stressed in a Nov. 4 press release that "everyone deserves an accessible, affordable and quality education." The post "Students Rise Up' Actions Hit 100 Cities appeared first on PopularResistance.Org. The new coalition "Students Rise Up" held actions in 100 cities at schools and where politicians were targeted on Nov. 7 to protest President Donald Trump's attacks on…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago (284+ words) Failed technology predictions make for'colorful and amusing reading. Just one example: in 1959, Arthur Summerfield, the U.S. Postmaster General, forecast that "before man reaches the moon," mail would be delivered long distances (e.g. from New York to Sydney) using guided missiles. Instead, we got email. Note: For most economists, an "optimistic future" is one in which human population and consumption grow endlessly. As we'll see, we humans need a very different kind of optimism. Starting in the 1950s, with the advent of the nuclear arms race, along with growing realizations that suburban life could be less than liberating and that bigger highways just meant even worse traffic jams, many visions of the future began to have a distinctly dystopian flavor. Which brings us to quadrant two. With the enormous amounts of energy that are being unleashed by burning fossil fuels, and that could potentially…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (203+ words) The giants of agribusiness, the ultra-processed food industry, and mining, in addition to sponsoring Agrizone, will also dominate the debate panels at the event. Syngenta, together with Ita" Bank, will coordinate the panel "Cooperation for long-term financing in the restoration of degraded areas." Although Agrizone was officially conceived by Embrapa, control of the space is, in fact, in the hands of agribusiness. It is no surprise that important players in the sector here in Brazil, such as the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (ABAG), the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), and Amaggi will be in the spotlight. There is no way to build concrete solutions to the environmental crisis when the main causes of this scenario are sitting at the table, coordinating the "board room." In Brazil, agribusiness (and the entire industrial complex surrounding it) is the main cause of this crisis. It…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago (391+ words) Allies and Customers Back Their Fight. They join baristas from union stores in the following 65+ cities who remain out on the open-ended ULP strike.For a complete list of cities where workers are striking, see this'Interested Parties Memo'from Workers United. The 11,000 Starbucks Workers United baristas across the country, backed by tens of thousands of allies and supporters, are prepared to do what it takes to win a fair contract and an end to union busting. As of Black Friday,'more than 125,000 people have signed the "No Contract, No Coffee" pledge'to not buy Starbucks while baristas are on ULP strike. "It"s time for Brian Niccol and Starbucks executives to stop stalling and cut the excuses,said'Michelle Eisen, Starbucks Workers United spokesperson and 15-year veteran barista.We need real solutions that address our basic demands and the hundreds of labor law…...