Nach den Gewaltexzessen gegen israelische Fussballfans diskutieren nicht nur die Niederlande kontrovers über Hergang und Interpretation der Geschehnisse. https://www.woz.ch/!6RJDRVQHDNQK

Good Idea: Help people form cooperatives

https://smartde.coop/home-english-2

Smart is a cooperative focused on improving working conditions for the self-employed by offering access to social security and promoting social fairness. Rooted in solidarity, the organization provides support and expertise in various sectors, such as technology and sustainability, helping freelancers thrive.
They host online info sessions for those interested in joining, with upcoming sessions available in November and December 2024. You can get in touch with them via email, phone, or by appointment at their office in Berlin.

TIL: That the Don McLean song "Vincent" was a particular favorite of the rapper and actor Tupac Shakur. The song was played to him at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, the hospital that he was admitted to just before he died of gunshot wounds from a drive-by shooting. [source, comments]

I also just read the lead of this article 😅 : https://news.1rj.ru/str/Science_News_Facts_Updates_daily/42914

TIL while filming Metropolis (1927) they would often end up with more children in the evening than in the morning. Coming from the poorest areas of Berlin, the children would sneak onto set or climb over the fence to experience the warm rooms, games, toys, cocoa, cake, and regular meals [source, comments]

Song of the Day 🤠🎬: https://youtu.be/BhWbXpjn-OU

The Case for Resistance: What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight 🏴

https://crimethinc.com/resist2025

We have prepared a full analysis of what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it.

If you're wondering how to resist, please review these proposals.

Good Idea: Tax the Billionaires!

https://350.org/tax-their-billions-dossier/

"It’s impossible to seriously fight climate change without a profound redistribution of wealth, both within countries and internationally.”

-THOMAS PIKETTY

Taxing socially and ecologically destructive wealth should be a no brainer. The urgent action needed to power the world with cheaper, cleaner renewable energy and reduce our energy use needs huge public investment, but governments in the Global North are failing to step up. Controversy over who foots the bill for climate action is happening in many countries around the world. Forcing the richest in society to pay through implementing wealth taxes is one of the clearest and most straightforward solutions to this problem. Not only could governments raise the trillions needed to act on the climate crisis, they would also help reduce wealth inequality between the richest and poorest

"You deserve higher wages and more free time."

Lesbos, Greece @antifastreet

#Switzerland: on 24 November, voters will cast their votes in four referenda.

Here is an overview of national registered and/or parliamentary parties' positions.

➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland

TIL that ants have domesticated some species of butterfly [source, comments]

Continued…. As nations with clear anti-imperialist aims, they make no secret of seeking to break free from the neo-colonial stranglehold France has maintained over Francophone Africa for decades. ECOWAS, on the other hand, has proven to be a defunct institution that serves as little more than a mouthpiece and enforcement agency for French interests.

According to Samba Sylla, author of Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story, '[France’s] capture of ECOWAS can be seen in the nature of the financial sanctions imposed on Mali in 2022 and Niger since the 2023 revolutionary putsch. No foreign country could order the central bank of a sovereign currency-issuer to prevent the government accessing its bank accounts and the domestic financial system.'

Given this context, why would the Sahel region regard ECOWAS as an ally of African people seeking liberation rather than a French-neo-colonial puppet?

Video credit: TV5Monde (YouTube)

Sources:

https://jacobin.com/2024/02/french-neocolonialism-coups-west-africa

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/8/economic-hardship-insecurity-spirals-in-mali-as-ecowas-exit-looms

https://www.globalgovernance.eu/publications/ecowas-after-the-triple-withdrawal-and-the-creation-of-the-alliance-of-sahel-states-challenges-and-ways-ahead-for-regional-security-governance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4_xBNluWI&t=502s

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/7/7/whats-behind-the-creation-of-the-alliance-of-sahel-states

https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/fes-pscc/21558.pdf