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Founder/MD at Tailored Communication - Cormac, Ellen Allien, JakoJako, I. JORDAN & Marco Freivogel. Potter at MF Ceramics. Member of Peace Pledge Union. No Gods - No Masters 💥
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It is always worth remembering that the level of someone's pay is not an accurate measure to their value to society and importance in the economy.
Similarly, there's a reason why those who work in the financial sector, and who have extremely well-paid occupations more generally, almost never go on strike. As Rutger Bergman likes to point out, in 1970 there was a 6-month bank strike in Ireland and rather than the economy grinding to a halt as the organizers had anticipated, most people simply continued to write checks, which began to circulate as a form of currency, but otherwise carried on much as they had before. Two years before, when garbage collectors had gone on strike for a mere ten days in New York, the city caved in to their demands because it had become uninhabitable. . - David Graeber
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
melisfreet.bsky.social
Watch. This. Film.
hahauenstein.bsky.social Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Mar 13
The mayor of Miami Beach wants to cut funding and terminate a lease for an independent cinema after it screened No Other Land, calling it “hateful propaganda.” His justification? Claudia Roth’s comments last year - and the Berlin city website smearing the film as displaying “antisemitic tendencies.”
March 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Huge congrats on the Oscar nomination, Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham - you guys are such an inspiration! Keep exposing the realities on the ground (and Germany’s relentless provincial cluelessness).

*this is from a screening I moderated in November, after Berlin.de labeled the film as antisemitic.
January 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Front cover of Private Eye.
January 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )
Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla
January 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM