"Time to change the world" painting in Naples, Italy, depicting Lenin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis and George Floyd. 2020
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Ein weiterer Entscheid der bürgerlichen Ratsmehrheit in dieser Session, der komplett dem Volkswillen widerspricht. Der Kampf gegen die Ärmsten geht mit paranoider Panikmache weiter. Wer sollte die Schweiz denn angreifen? Putin bestimmt nicht, da er hier seine Devisen bunkert und eine Drehscheibe für seine Rohstoffe mit unzähligen skrupellosen Händlern vorfindet.
Dazu die SP: «Der heutige Entscheid ist eine Katastrophe für die soziale Schweiz. Mitte-Rechts rüstet massiv auf – und das auf Kosten der Ärmsten.»
Die SP Schweiz lehne diese «verantwortungslose Aufrüstung» klar ab.
https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/nationalrat/517257406-so-werden-die-hoeheren-armeeausgaben-kompensiert

Wird sich die Hochwasserkatastrophe auf die österreichischen Wahlen auswirken? Die renommierte Politologin Natascha Strobl über den Kulturkampf der extremen Rechten in ihrem Land – und in Europa. https://www.woz.ch/!8XV26WT93Y19

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On 19 September 1952, musician, producer and former Black Panther, Nile Rodgers was born in New York.As a teenager, Rodgers joined the Harlem group of the Black Panther Party (BPP), after moving to the left during the turbulent events of the 1960s. Rodgers told Huck Magazine: “I started out as a peacenik hippy, and from that, I got more and more politicised, more and more radical. Finally, one day the national guard beats you up, and you say, ‘Wait a minute, I didn’t do anything.’”Rodgers rapidly became a section leader of the BPP due to his martial arts skills. He later recounted to the Guardian newspaper:“The day I became a Panther, I had to stand security for Sister Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s widow. Very first day!”Rodgers also explained what being part of the organisation meant in practical terms: “being a Panther was making breakfast, fixing people’s houses, washing the streets. That’s what we really did.”The same drive which motivated Rodgers’ activism, influenced his musical career:“When I grew up, it felt like the beginning of the women’s movement, the gay movement, the civil rights movement ramping up. I’ll never forget when I walked into a disco for the first time… and saw gay people, Latin people, Asian people, Black people and white people all dancing and having a blast. I remember thinking to myself, ‘Wow, this is more political than anything I’d ever been involved in, more than anything I’d ever seen.’ The whole concept on any movement I’d been in was to bring people over to your side. I walked into a disco and saw all these disparate people getting along, within about an hour, I knew I wanted to be a part of that.”At the time, like many young people, Rodgers was very optimistic: “I thought America would become this beautiful utopian place. Of course, it never happened.” Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo

Swiss Song of the Day 🇨🇭🤗: NNAVY was the support act at the Montreux Jazz Festival for Lionel Richie in 2023. And that has to be enough as an explanation why she stands out in the Swiss music scene. https://youtu.be/bejwhsMJ1lI

TIL: Contactless payments such as phones, cards, etc have numerous studies that shows users spend more. This is due to the removal of the "psychological pain" of spending. Users will spend twice as much. Coincidentally, the rise of frictionless payment correlates with rising consumer debt worldwide. [source, comments]

"Jede Umweltpolitik ist zugleich Sozialpolitik, regional wie global. Und umgekehrt: Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitik sind immer auch Umweltpolitik. Wenn man mit den Ressourcen der Welt umgeht, als wären sie unerschöpflich, verschärft man nicht nur den ökologischen Notstand, sondern auch die brutale Ungleichheit." https://www.woz.ch/!71XJFQGFEE8K

Das Einzige, was Politologen mit Sicherheit sagen können: bei knappen Entscheiden kann die Höhe des Kampagnenbudget einen Unterschied machen.
https://www.persoenlich.com/kategorie-werbung/wahler-uberschatzen-kampagnen-der-gegner

Striking Indian doctors set to resume essential services

Striking junior doctors in India's West Bengal state agreed to resume essential services, in a partial resumption of medical facilities, but they will continue their strike over the rape and murder of a colleague over a month ago.

The rape and murder of the 31-year-old female doctor in West Bengal in August set off a wave of protests by doctors demanding greater workplace safety for women and justice for their slain colleague, prompting India's Supreme Court to create a hospital safety task force. read more