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Presumably because the Philly cops got really chewed out when they tear-gassed trapped BLM protestors for no reason
https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/04/live-updates-penn-pro-palestinian-gaza-solidarity-encampment-day-…

LIVE UPDATES: Philadelphia Police Department declines Penn request to disband Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Several students have received disciplinary hearing notices, and students previously reported threats from Penn's administration that the encampment would be cleared on Wednesday.

Apply by April 15, sign up for summer solidarity shifts: https://cjnv.org/summer-solidarity/ 10-day shifts of Palestinian-led rapid response work.

Culture in Flames: What Russia’s War Is About On February 26, 2024, UNESCO hosted a conference titled “Event of Solidarity with Ukraine” at the initiative of the Lithuanian and Canadian delegations. U Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/culture-in-flames-what-russia-s-…

We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-all/we-must-fight-in-solidarity-with-trans-youth

We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action
This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice.

Nation’s largest nurses union stands in solidarity with campus protesters facing crackdowns and arrests
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nations-largest-nurses-union-stands-in-solidarit…

Nation’s largest nurses union stands in solidarity with campus protesters facing crackdowns and arrests
Nurses represented by National Nurses United stand in solidarity with student and faculty protesters at campuses across the United States facing a violent crackdown for speaking out against the mass killings and public health catastrophe in Gaza.

Encampment at Vancouver Island University in the Commons outside the Library. Appears well organized and peaceful. About 6 tents a couple tables. Some flags and signs. I saw 5 or so people, all looked like student-age.
#FreePalestine #VIU

New #ethicalConsumer magazin about #outdoor clothing brands
Issue 208 May/June 2024
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I'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

Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests. ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/verso-and-other-publishers-are-offering-free-ebooks-in-solidarity-with-pr…

Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests.
As students organize and resist to demand action and justice for Palestinians, publishers are offering free books on Palestine, protest, and more, in solidarity. Verso has seven ebooks available fo…

It had to happen sooner or later, first broken bone for our kids trio. Took a while! Small toe :) And it's always a "perfect timing", today was supposed to be her belt testing to advance to the next level. She is really upset because of that. The other two are skipping their testing in solidarity to maintain the same level. OH well, we will still have ice cream :)