Tag: Social Change

Climate Change

Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 Hasn’t Been This High In Millions of Years

A burned Valero gas station smolders during the Creek fire in an unincorporated area of Fresno County, California on September 8, 2020.

Meanwhile  for the sake of money the LNP, IPA, and News Corp deny the urgency just as they did the pandemic. They say we just have to live with it.

Climate scientists and concerned citizens are sounding the alarm as daily, weekly, and monthly records for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to be shattered while the fossil fuel-powered capitalist economic system responsible for skyrocketing greenhouse gas pollution plows ahead.

Source: Earth’s Atmospheric CO2 Hasn’t Been This High In Millions of Years

Uncategorized

Prosecuting individual police officers won’t deliver racial justice | Race | The Guardian

Kill the Bill and BLM protesters in London, 17 April.

The protests of summer 2020, as well as the people who gathered this year to protest over the death of Sarah Everard and the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, brought together people from a wide range of backgrounds. Police and prison violence has shown itself to be a problem that can’t be solved through self-regulation; the criminal justice system cannot put itself on trial. Despite what the government may think, the harm caused by police, prison and border systems is both a racist and a British problem. The outcome of the Chauvin trial, despite its political cheerleaders, reaffirms the necessity of finding alternatives to the criminal justice system as we know it.

Source: Prosecuting individual police officers won’t deliver racial justice | Race | The Guardian

Informed Comment, Uncategorized

Why stocks have further to fall amid the coronavirus pandemic – Business – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

An electronic display shows data at the Australian Stock Exchange in Sydney

This is what the 1% don’t want to happen (ODT)

via Why stocks have further to fall amid the coronavirus pandemic – Business – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Corporate Crime

Not one rotten apple, it’s the whole barrel: Crunchtime for banks

“Companies are often so concerned with appearance and damage control that they are unwilling to engage in the degree of examination required to root out the entrenched causes of trust violations,” the study says. For instance, BP allowed its Texas refinery explosion in 2005 to be followed by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. News Corp had an employee jailed for phone hacking in 2007, but endured another phone-hacking scandal in 2011.

Source: Not one rotten apple, it’s the whole barrel: Crunchtime for banks

Social Reality

Lights, camera, reaction | The Monthly

Source: Lights, camera, reaction | The Monthly

class

How the housing boom is remaking Australia’s social class structure

By focusing on intergenerational inequalities that will eventually be reversed, we are framing the housing affordability question the wrong way.

Source: How the housing boom is remaking Australia’s social class structure

Socialism

Who’s Afraid of Socialism? – New Matilda

With young people now ready as ever to align with an ideology once stigmatised, and the GOP now having nowhere to go in the face of rapidly growing anti-establishment sentiment, what’s the next step for the political establishment? Martin Andersen explains. Bernie Sanders’ rise and rise looks set to continue, but no-one could have expectedMore

Source: Who’s Afraid of Socialism? – New Matilda

Philosophy of Violence

There is no social change without coercion: Race, Baltimore, and how violence makes nonviolence possible – Salon

There is no social change without coercion: Race, Baltimore, and how violence makes nonviolence possible

There is no social change without coercion: Race, Baltimore, and how violence makes nonviolence possible – Salon.com.