"Over the weekend, developing country representatives were kept out of late night backroom negotiations where final texts were being discussed. And on the last day, the final plenary was delayed because the UNFCCC wasn’t sure they had the two-thirds quorum required to move forward. Several representatives from developing nations lacked the funds to change their flights."
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/18/un-climate-cop25/
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/18/un-climate-cop25/
The Intercept
Rich Nations, After Driving Climate Disaster, Block All Progress at U.N. Talks
“They’ve effectively been lighting the house on fire as they plan to walk out the door,” said an advocate about Trump’s pledge to leave the Paris Agreement.
Update: A vote has been held in the group @Pantopia and the broad majority of voters has decided to decrease the number of media posted every day, so 3-4 will now be the rule
Have a wonderful day leftists ✊
Have a wonderful day leftists ✊
Forwarded from Syndiegram (Amir Omidi)
Americans, please get the BERN app so the Bernie Sanders campaign knows how and where to target their efforts
It also ensures that you are in fact registered and not purged from the voter rolls in your state
https://app.berniesanders.com/
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It also ensures that you are in fact registered and not purged from the voter rolls in your state
https://app.berniesanders.com/
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BERN: The Official Bernie Sanders App
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Snipers in the Kitchen: State Theory and Latin America’s Left Cycle
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/snipers-in-the-kitchen
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/snipers-in-the-kitchen
New Left Review
Juan Carlos Monedero, Snipers in the Kitchen, NLR 120, November–December 2019
Amid ongoing political turbulence in Latin America, Juan Carlos Monedero mobilizes the resources of state theory, from Gramsci to Poulantzas, to provide a comparative critical analysis of the cycle of left governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina…
"The story of American politics over the past decade is that of a political party on the cusp of enduring power and world-historical social reform, and how these once imaginable outcomes were methodically squandered."
https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency
https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency
The New Republic
A Decade of Liberal Delusion and Failure
It was the death of hope by a thousand tiny technocratic "nudges."
From major, statewide legislative victories and tax-code changes to preliminary community meetings and discussions with local politicians, it is clear that 2019 has paved the way for replacing our current broken economic system with a new, democratic economy that operates on principles of racial, social, and economic justice.
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/major-advances-2019-toward-more-democratic-economy
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/major-advances-2019-toward-more-democratic-economy
TheNextSystem.org
Major advances in 2019 toward a more democratic economy
This past year, state and municipal lawmakers teamed up with community organizations to fight for—and win—a wide variety of policies and initiatives that will help foster a more democratic economy.
A review on Richard Seymour's "The Twittering Machine", by Oliver Eagleton #books
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles
New Left Review
Oliver Eagleton, Mind-Forged Manacles?, NLR 120, November–December 2019
Oliver Eagleton on Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine. A Marxian-Freudian polemic against social media, seen as irredeemably hostile to progressive politics.
"The confederation becomes the umbrella democratic counter-institution that joins the forces of the multitude of democratic assemblies by pooling resources and knowledge, engaging in shared struggles, emboldening new ones, and creating a formidable dual power that could constitute the tipping point for a new democratic and egalitarian society."
https://roarmag.org/magazine/confederation-commune-of-communes/
https://roarmag.org/magazine/confederation-commune-of-communes/
ROAR Magazine
The Confederation as the Commune of Communes
Confederalism as a revolutionary strategy provides us with the means to build and organize a radically democratic and egalitarian society at scale.