@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialScary re US election Zimmer: “Project 2025” Promises Revenge, Oppression, & Autocratic Rule
The Right’s plans for a return to power are driven by a radicalizing siege mentality & a desperate desire to restore dominance
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/pr
@josemurilo@mato.social"Don’t get us wrong: we do love #Wikipedia. But for us, our passion for the projects translates into tough love. We believe in speaking up about some of the critical issues of #marginalization that have been lurking, invisible, or silenced over the past 20 years. And we believe that acting to…
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeThere's a certain flavor of person who makes it their own responsibility to unlearn and process the various forms of systemic oppression we've all absorbed by living in it
And then there's a certain flavor of person (usually White/male/cis/etc) who not only does none of those things but actively resists folks explaining the things they should have learned on their own
I want to ask them how they remained so ignorant of the very visible world around them, and yet...the answer is right there
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.caA most enlightening thing I learned, many years ago now, was about how one individual was able to oppress many others. I was not surprised to learn that an oppressor believed themselves superior to others. What surprised me was that many of those that were oppressed also adopted the oppressor's supremacist ideology. Had they all been woke, the oppression could never have persisted.
Never to rule or be ruled.
Vote for Democracy!
@sofia@chaos.social"doesn't the government know that this will have bad consequence XYZ?"
they might, they might not. it's the wrong question. ask: do they have a reason to care?
the one thing that makes it easiest to disregard the interests of the people around you, is to rule over them. that's the point.
ask whether it helps their claim to power. though means of oppression, demagoguery or maintaining the privilege hierarchy. that usually explains it pretty well.
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@drahardja@sfba.socialProject 2025 is the playbook of Fascism, isn’t it? This is how the Heritage Foundation wants Fascism to get implemented in the US. https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/111976163019036268
@anneroth@systemli.socialSehr spannend gerade, mit Stream:
„This panel brings together three different stories from Gaza, Ukraine and Azerbaijan, documenting the monopoly of communication channels during wartime and how strategies of digital authoritarianism can be used to maintain power, target people and distort reality.“
Beyond Control — Disruption Network Lab
@adrianriskin@kolektiva.socialHere's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.
@jbaert@mastodon.social
@villavelius@mastodon.online... almost a third of those cancelled in Germany for their supposed antisemitism have been Jews. There is, as the Israeli-born academic Eyal Weizman has acidly put it, a certain irony in “being lectured [on how to be properly Jewish] by the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators who murdered our families and now dare to tell us that we are antisemitic”.
@axbom@axbom.meLooking at complaints can be one way of surfacing pain points in a workflow. Often used by designers as input for customer journey maps.
But you also need to consider who is behind the complaint, who feels comfortable complaining and who is not given an opportunity to complain.
If you don't know what I mean by "not given an opportunity to complain", I'd urge you to read more about privilege, oppression and social norms.
@annsev@troet.cafe"Surveillance as a Service: The Global Impact of Israeli “Defense” Technologies on Privacy and Human Rights" - Tor Project.
https://blog.torproject.org/surveillance-as-a-service-global-impact-of-israeli-defense…
@benb@osintua.euRepressions and xenophobia: What comes after Moscow mass shooting: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/31/repressions-and-xenophobia.html
@anneroth@systemli.social
@pre@boing.worldI've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics
@wmclark@publishing.social“He captured, as no other writer of his time did, the fury engendered by colonial humiliation in the hearts of the colonized. He was also a startlingly prescient analyst of contemporary ills — the enduring psychological injuries of racism and oppression, the persistent force of white nationalism and the scourge of autocratic, predatory postcolonial regimes.”
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de“The left wants 🇩🇪 to liberate itself from its guilt and to acknowledge the colonised peoples as a victim group of the present. This overlaps with the right-wing extremists' demand to finally end the Germans' “cult of guilt”. The artificial competition of victim roles is despicable and shames all victims of violence and political oppression. And yet, and this is not the fault of the #Jews,…
@villavelius@mastodon.online... almost a third of those cancelled in Germany for their supposed antisemitism have been Jews. There is, as the Israeli-born academic Eyal Weizman has acidly put it, a certain irony in “being lectured [on how to be properly Jewish] by the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators who murdered our families and now dare to tell us that we are antisemitic”.
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.caDemocracy!
Power concentrated in one or a few hands is oppressive.
Democracy with constitutional protections for human rights disperses power, prevents oppression, and enables freedom for diverse groups of people.
Democracy evolved from imperfect systems and is never quite perfect, yet, improvement to become a better democracy continues for as long as there is Democracy.
Vote for Democracy!
‘Power To The People’: John Lennon’s Revolutionary Statement
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/power-to-the-people/
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.caDemocracy!
Power concentrated in one or a few hands is oppressive.
Democracy with constitutional protections for human rights disperses power, prevents oppression, and enables freedom for diverse groups of people.
Democracy evolved from imperfect systems and is never quite perfect, yet, improvement to become a better democracy continues for as long as there is Democracy.
Vote for Democracy!
‘Power To The People’: John Lennon’s Revolutionary Statement
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/power-to-the-people/
@wmclark@publishing.social“The results for this era could be wide-reaching, altering the composition of student bodies and corporate workforces, locking in and perpetuating privilege and disadvantage for a generation. And as with previous backlashes, some liberals have grown weary, distracted or disaffected, and their allyship has withered and fallen away.”
@wmclark@publishing.social“The results for this era could be wide-reaching, altering the composition of student bodies and corporate workforces, locking in and perpetuating privilege and disadvantage for a generation. And as with previous backlashes, some liberals have grown weary, distracted or disaffected, and their allyship has withered and fallen away.”
