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Catharina Blaauwendraad<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/postdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postdemocracy</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warmongering</a> <a href="https://blaauwendraad.blog/2024/10/21/billionaires-stand-behind-me/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blaauwendraad.blog/2024/10/21/billionaires-stand-behind-me/</a>

Mark CarriganReading Lynne Segal’s (super) Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy reminded me of the closing lines from Jeremy Corbyn’s acceptance speech in 2015:<pre>I say thank you to everyone for all their support, friendship and comradeship during this election process. And I say thank you in advance to us all working together to achieve great victories, not just electorally for labour, but emotionally for the whole of our society to show, we don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable, things can and they will change.</pre>Let’s leave aside the question of whether Corbyn was ever well suited to being Labour leader, let alone Prime Minister. The significance of those words, stated plainly with absolute sincerity, just hit me like a punch to the gut. There was a crack in the order of things, an opening to something better, which has been rather violently closed. Things can change but they won’t change. <a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/11/we-dont-have-to-be-unequal-it-doesnt-have-to-be-unfair-poverty-isnt-inevitable/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/11/we-dont-have-to-be-unequal-it-doesnt-have-to-be-unfair-poverty-isnt-inevitable/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/centrism/" target="_blank">#centrism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/corbyn/" target="_blank">#corbyn</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/labour/" target="_blank">#labour</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/post-democracy/" target="_blank">#postDemocracy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/socialism/" target="_blank">#socialism</a>

BellingenNSWHuman rights, the environment and a crack down on protests."The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) says the number of climate-related protests and non-violent direct actions is escalating as public frustration over the lack of government action on climate change grows.""At the same time, many states around the country are introducing harsh new penalties for protesters... ""The appropriate response from government is not to crack down on protests. Rather, it's to deal with that very serious issue of climate change," EDO's director of legal strategy, Elaine Johnson"We're seeing a really alarming crackdown on protests around the issue of climate change and other environmental issues, like forestry." <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-16/older-climate-activists-joining-the-fight/102822208" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-16/older-climate-activists-joining-the-fight/102822208</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/habitable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#habitable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PostDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostDemocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EDO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EDO</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWlogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSWlogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheGreatKoalaNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NativeForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeForests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a>

BellingenNSWAustralians have never been more distrusting of corporate Australia."They say corporate Australia's behaviour since the onset of COVID has led to dramatically soaring distrust, and voters are distressed by the amount of "moral blindness" they see among corporate leaders.""They say Australians are angry with firms like PwC, Optus, Telstra, Medibank, Rio Tinto and Facebook/Meta, following huge data breaches and other scandals. The PwC tax scandal and the data breaches at Optus and Medibank are among recent events accelerating distrust.""Rio Tinto hasn't recovered from Juukan Gorge blast...distrust in the mining giant increased dramatically in May 2020 after it blew up an unfathomably-ancient sacred Indigenous site, and it has never recovered from that scandal. In mid-2020, the leadership of Rio Tinto authorised the destruction of a 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelter at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia...In a matter of minutes, 8 million tonnes of ore were blasted from the heritage site so that Rio Tinto could access $135 million dollars' worth of high-grade iron ore.""It's distrust where society's deepest fears, pain and betrayal surface – and that's because distrust embodies the fundamental vulnerabilities, past betrayals, and concerns that can erode the foundational bonds and shared beliefs that unite a community."<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/australians-distressed-by-moral-blindess-of-corporate-australia/102807234" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/australians-distressed-by-moral-blindess-of-corporate-australia/102807234</a><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ImaginedCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImaginedCommunities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PostDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostDemocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/distrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#distrust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corporate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/outsourcing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#outsourcing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CorporateWelfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateWelfare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/consulting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consulting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MoralBlindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoralBlindness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeoples</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CulturalHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalHeritage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ForestryCorporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForestryCorporation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FCNSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extractivism</a>

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