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Alan Keenan
@ajcpkeenan.bsky.social
A while back I wrote a book called "Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure". Little did I know... So much still to learn.
If they profit off our pain, they don’t get our dollars.Join Black Voters Matter, Indivisible, the Working Families Party, & SURJ & say no to corporate backing to ICE & Trump racist cruelty.

Boycott Home Depot, Target & Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
We Ain't Buying It! Pledge to Boycott with SURJ · Showing Up for Racial Justice
............................................................................... ### SURJ is joining forces with the _We Ain't Buying It!_ Campaign to send a clear message to corporate America and the Trump administration: you can’t continue to profit off of us while catering to MAGA’s racism. SURJ Ain't Buying It. ### _Join us and hit pause on shopping at Home Depot, Target, and Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday 2025._ ............................................................................... **Here are the facts:** - For nearly a year, this administration and its corporate allies have attacked working families, immigrants, and people of color. Federal workers have been fired, DEI dismantled, troops deployed in our neighborhoods, and millions denied healthcare during a government shutdown. - Meanwhile, corporations have profited — securing tax cuts, funding this administration’s agenda, and looking the other way as people suffer. Enough is enough. ***If they profit off our pain, they don’t deserve our dollars.*** - **20% of annual retail sales happen during Black Friday weekend.** Sales figures make national news - any dip in them will be reported. If we all wield consumer collective power in a targeted boycott with clear demands, we'll be the headline instead of corporate greed and profit margins. - **White folks are the largest consumer base in the US** and spend almost double that of Black households. Our outsized wealth drives the economy, and when we take ownership of what and how we spend, we can drive change. Join the multiracial coalition of this boycott, and bring your people! #### This holiday season we’re using our collective power to speak the only language corporations understand: our wallets. Together we’ll practice economic noncooperation and: - 👉🏽Call out the corporations that are doing our communities harm - 👉🏽Withhold our spending from major corporate retailers - 👉🏽Redirect our dollars locally and in our communities - 👉🏽Show the power of our ability to act together. *** Let’s show them that our silence isn’t for sale and our values aren’t up for purchase. *** ### Join us and make our impact bigger. Sign below and pledge to boycott **Target, Amazon, and Home Depot** from **November 27th through December 1st.** ............................................................................... _About us: Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) is the largest organization that explicitly organizes white people towards racial and economic justice - all are welcome to do our work with us. For more info, visit [surj.org](https://surj.org/)._
https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/871276/?referring_vol=12226546&rname=Alan&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5621791
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Join me in asking the local council to refuse planning permission!

Data centre by data centre, let's say no to the AI juggernaut.

www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th...
Thurrock Council - say no to Google's plan for a monster new Data Centre
Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Tell the local council to refuse planning permission!
www.foxglove.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Labour, Big Tech, and "Growth" - the disastrous alliance we need to dismantle.

This is the kind of well-researched and critical business/economics journalism that should be everywhere - thank goodness for @ethanshone.bsky.social and @opendemocracy.net

www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-co...
Inside Labour’s campaign to ‘defang’ competitions watchdog
How Keir Starmer’s government prioritised tech firms and the finance industry over British consumers
www.opendemocracy.net
October 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The key factor behind #Mamdani success isn’t his ads or charisma — it is a public campaign finance system that can be replicated across the country.

Time to start making it happen!

Excellent analysis from @davidsirota.com

www.levernews.com/how-zohran-m...
How Zohran Mamdani Fought The Master Plan
The key factor isn’t his ads or charisma — it is a public campaign finance system that can be replicated across the country.
www.levernews.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
At Oakland #NoKings, I asked Justin here if, as a Black man, he had particular concerns w the Trump admin's actions. Loved his answer.
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Such an obvious and powerful idea, well-argued by @davidsirota.com - but with so many vested interests embedded in the Democratic Party, we'll have to fight to get the party to see the light and shift gears.

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats www.thebulwark.com/p/anti-corru...
How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.
www.thebulwark.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
“The real owners can be seen in the ‘Who Owns Britain?’ report by think tank Common Wealth ... asset managers and private equity own Britain.”

Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — in @leninology.bsky.social’s new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social 🔗👇

jacobin.com/2025/09/brit...
They Want Their Country Back, but It Was Never Theirs
This month’s “Unite the Kingdom” march was the biggest far-right rally in British history. Sponsored by Elon Musk, it seeks not just to install Nigel Farage in government but to build a mass street mo...
jacobin.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Want to better understand the current political conjuncture in Britain (& beyond) & what "fascism" might have to do it & w/anti-migrant wave? @trillingual.bsky.social is BRILLIANT at pulling the pieces together while making the most of @leninology.bsky.social's writing. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Daniel Trilling and Thomas Jones · Is this fascism?
www.lrb.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Absolutely - perhaps (hopefully?) too late to save Starmer, but a project a renewed Labour party would be wise to pursue.
This is a welcome shift but it should have been the strategy from day one. The rise of support for Reform is not really about immigration. Support for Reform is highest in those areas with *low* migration, but high deprivation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer gambles on ‘levelling up’-style initiative to tackle Reform threat
Deprived communities to be given tens of millions to patch up derelict shops, pubs and libraries and ‘restore pride’
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
As TV dramas go, "The Hack" is brilliant. Watch it.

It's fun - and a crucial reminder of the dangerous nexus between media giants, police & politicians that has distorted British politics.

The UK needs strong press reform: time to sign Hugh Grant's and other victim's new petition 38d.gs/bgit
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
38d.gs
September 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Such great work from @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social
challenging the need for, and revealing the dangers of, a #DigitalID for the #Britain. What a juicy target for hackers!

If you care about your rights, watch this video and sign the petition - #JustSayNotoDigitalID

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvJV...
History warns us against digital ID
YouTube video by Big Brother Watch
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ke...
Keir Starmer - don't promise Trump more giveaways for US Big Tech
We the undersigned call on Keir Starmer to resist Trump’s pressure, and put the interests of the UK before those of US Big Tech.
www.foxglove.org.uk
September 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
Funding cuts have hit the UN hard, and its wider membership faces tough choices about how to manage the fallout.

From Gaza to Sudan to Ukraine, @crisisgroup.org lays out 🔟 challenges for the UN General Assembly to grapple with.

www.crisisgroup.org/visual-expla...
September 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
Deliberate genocide by starvation - a crime against humanity by the state of Israel. Western countries are entirely culpable through inaction and their support for Israel.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City
IPC says famine is ‘entirely man-made’ and immediate response is needed or avoidable deaths will soar
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
YES

"As much as we are struggling, seeing people who have never been politically active before attending their first protest, meeting others & being part of a mass movement makes me feel that I have never been freer than I am in prison right now." #Filton24 #Gaza

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/an-a...
An Anti-Genocide Protester in a British Jail
Political prisoner Aleks Herbich — one of the ‘Filton 24’ accused of sabotaging an Israeli arms factory — describes the vile conditions the prisoners suffer in, and how belonging to such a mass moveme...
tribunemag.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
🔴Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?

The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
⏰ ONE MONTH TO GO! ⏰

The stakes couldn’t be clearer:
🥵 we’re coming out of the 4th heatwave of the summer
🔥 a record amount of land has been burnt by wildfires already this year
🤑 and CEOs of the most polluting industries in the UK are getting richer
August 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Excellent from @trillingual.bsky.social on roots of bad idea of housing asylum seekers in hotels. A question: What about govt paying people to offer places in their homes? The money would go to the people, not hotel chains & could help build trust. Crazy idea?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling
In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
84% of Labour Party members want the government to end the two-child benefit limit.

In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently.

@compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...
More than eight in ten Labour members support end to two-child benefit cap - LabourList
More than eight in ten Labour members support ending the two-child benefit limit, according to a new poll.
labourlist.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Respect to #MyleneVialard, indigenous communities, protestors, lawyers and supporters who took risks to say NO to the fossil fuel criminals & their state agents backing #Line3

#ClimateEmergency
#ProtestIsADemocraticRight

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US pipeline protester’s obstruction conviction overturned by appeals court
New trial for Mylene Vialard after Minnesota judges find ‘pervasive’ prosecutorial misconduct in Line 3 protest case
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
The Bubble Nebula, in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The bubble itself is a shell of material cast off by the intense winds of the bright star SAO 20575 inside. The radiation also illuminates a vast cloud which surrounds the region, causing it to glow the characteristic red of ionized hydrogen. 🔭
August 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
Good news alert

In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%

Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...
July 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Reposted by Alan Keenan
Let's say it again, "the economy" is entirely dependent on the environment.

No economy on a dead planet, no #PublicHealth on #biodiversity-depleted islands

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves to cut ‘bats and newts’ in boost to developers
Chancellor considers making it harder for concerns about nature to stand in the way of infrastructure projects, in an effort to boost the economy
www.thetimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM