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Fascism

What can I do to fight this coup?

People are resisting at every level. Tesla Takedowns. Refusing illegal orders. Court challenges. Boycotting. Thousands of protests. (More examples!) Alongisde grounding yourself in these times, here are some starting points on how to orient and help fight the coup. Read more at Choose Democracy

Capitalism

Left v. Right is a Distraction

Left versus right is just divide and conquer while all our political parties are owned and controlled by upper class influences based on campaign contributions and political lobbying. The political right is controlled by the upper class, the political left by the upper middle class. Meanwhile, the working poor have no political representation, this is

Immigration

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage…

“Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration” And I thought that the Anti-Robot project was adding noise. The Robot is a silly amateur. All the archived Ice press releases soaring to the top of Google search results were marked with the same

Capitalism

Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies

We need to uncouple the concept of technology from the ideas of progress and development. It often happens that, when I talk about the relationship between technology and capitalism, someone pops up to present me with an argument I call the iPhone fallacy. “Without capitalism, we wouldn’t have the technology you use to write from

Capitalism

Economic Democracy Is the Only Practical Cure for Our…

The capitalist financial system blocks democratic control over investment by its very nature. We need a new model of democratic finance that can address our urgent social and environmental needs. Capitalist property relations, whose basic feature is the private control of the investment function in the hands of the few, generate systemic barriers to human