BRICS under Brazil's leadership is going green
-energy transition investment surge in China, Brazil, India, UAE,S Africa,Indonesia.(none in russia)
-first joint statement on climate finance in road to COP30
-sovereignty now includes green energy

Our report: www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-...

Bruuuuuh — I almost lost my fingers on the ride to the office

I had to use this all the time in my days working for European Alternatives.

It’s basically a play-by-play script of an event that makes clear who has to do what and when and what materials they need to make sure it’s doable.

The feeling and texture of crisis has never been so visceral for so many.

Our discourse and our action must meet it — or else we fail in the first lesson of organizing: meet people where they are at.

This demands we think big, plan big, and scale big.

Our hypothesis can’t be that the sum of our workplace struggles will produce a better world without needing to actively envision this world beyond “better.”

This is, in the final instance, an action+action+action (ad infinitum)=victory strategy.

and point the finger at the solution — expanded and fuller democracy in the workplace and in society as a whole. They don’t blame boogeymen like migrants or the gay agenda, but at the oligarchs themselves and their unchecked power.

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This is why unions are frontline organizations in the fight against fascism. They point the finger at the real problem — the distribution of power and the enormous inequality it necessarily produces —

13/x

The road from the boardroom to the kanzlei des führers is being revealed, especially as neo-fascist thinkers like Curtis Yarvin who have the ears of oligarchs, declare that the nation state needs a monarchy that does away w/ democratic pretensions, and should be run like a startup by tech bros.
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Yesterday it was trade unionists, queer people, Jews, sinti -romani, intellectuals, & communists. Today it’s trade unionists, queer people and their “agenda”, migrants l, environmentalists, scientists, and communists.

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What makes fascism necessarily even more destructive is how it gaslights people into believing that power-hoarding oligarchs aren’t to blame for the social calamity that unfolds as power & resources pool at the top of society’s ladder, pointing the finger instead at most vulnerable.

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Fascism then is simply the extension of this logic to society as a whole, with the loss of any liberal pretensions of pluralism, multilateralism, or democracy.

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— all at the command of oligarchs who govern from the top down and for their own short sighted benefit. The connection between anti-democratic organization and the accumulation of capital are intimately tied with one another in the workplace.

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