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Amid the accounts of climate breakdown recently, the story of energy workers “climate quitting” as a form of dissent to the complicity of their employers in the climate crisis has emerged.
The post Climate quitting won’t stop the fossil fuel companies appeared first on Solidarity Online.
[TomDispatch and StatORec Literary Journal are sharing the publication of this article.] Looking into the long reflecting pool of the past, I find myself wondering what it was that made me an activist against injustice. I was born in New York City’s poor, rundown, and at times dangerous South Bronx, where blacks, whites, and Latinos (as well as recent immigrants from Ireland, Italy, and Eastern Europe) lived side by side or, perhaps more accurately, crowded together. I was the middle child of four siblings, not counting the foster children my mother often cared for. My father worked six days a week in a leather factory where the rat-tat-tatting of sewing machines never stopped and layoffs were a constant reality. I... Read more
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 2, 2023
by Tony Wikrent
War
The Darkness Ahead: Where The Ukraine War Is Headed
John Mearsheimer [via Naked Capitalism 7-1-2023]
The real casualties of Russia’s ‘civil war’: the Beltway expert class
Max Blumenthal [The Grayzone, via Naked Capitalism 6-29-2023]