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Act Out! [25] - What #FergusonTaughtMe, pits of despair, street artist Morley & Wikileaks book

Act Out! [25] - What #FergusonTaughtMe, pits of despair, street artist Morley & Wikileaks book
Wed, 8/19/2015 - by Eleanor Goldfield
This article originally appeared on Occupy.com

Ferguson one year later – what happened, what did we learn and what's next? Then, tar sands – from Secretary Kerry's front door to the oily pits of despair, we're gonna show you what activists are doing about this overused and crude fossil fuel, PLUS what YOU can do to tell big oil to go f*%@ themselves with a rusty oil pipe. Street artist Morley combats consumerism in its vapid capital, and finally, get cozy with Wikileaks. But first, how flat is your past?

 

This weeks links:

thisisthemovement.org

mappingpoliceviolence.org/

midwestunrest.org

tarsandsride.org

iammorley.squarespace.com

wikileaks.org

occupy.com/donate

 

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Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.

What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.

Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.

Donald Trump, Hitler

Like Hitler, Trump has a unique command of propaganda, a captivating public presence, and he knows how to drive home narratives beneficial to him and harmful to his enemies.

Trump’s brand of hyper-nationalism combined with the intense consolidation of executive power follows the same playbook as fascistic leaders in other countries like India,Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, Italy and Argentina, among others.

Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.

History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.

What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.

Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.

Donald Trump, Hitler

Like Hitler, Trump has a unique command of propaganda, a captivating public presence, and he knows how to drive home narratives beneficial to him and harmful to his enemies.

Based on details that have emerged about Trump’s presidential agenda, the far-right Heritage Foundation plans for the next GOP president to have all the tools necessary to demolish multicultural democracy and establish a white, Christian ethnostate that imposes a gender apartheid not unlike the Taliban’s Afghanistan.

Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago

What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.

Posted 4 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.

Posted 5 days 20 hours ago

History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.

Posted 1 week 20 hours ago