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Steve Rushton
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Writer and political organiser interested in ground-up and autonomous movements co-creating socially just & ecologically sound worlds

#Municipalism #Degrowth #Decolonise #Commons
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Taxing the rich is key to challenging the far-right

Latest by me

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Taxing the Rich Is Key to Challenging the Far-Right
Anyone who claims to oppose the rise of the far right must, at the very least, support higher taxes on extreme wealth.
occupy.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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I’m paddleboarding 12km down the river towards the sea in East London to raise funds for my friend Solly’s family in Gaza. Please support them!
gofundme.com/f/Save-my-family-from-death-in-gaza-now

#SupportGaza
www.gofundme.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Questioning The All Powerful Age of AI - and Big Tech
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my latest for occupy.com

#Degrowth
#AI
#CriticalMinerals
Questioning the All Powerful Age of AI
We do not need to move towards a world where AI grows exponentially and accelerates the world's – and our own mental health's – destruction.
occupy.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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How minerals will drive geopolitics, as oil already does

by me for the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice

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@ccccjustice.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Securing access to minerals essential for the green transition will in the 21st century will be a resource curse, just like fossil fuels were in the 20th Century.

Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog.

ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
steve-rushton.bsky.social
The world cannot afford electric vehicles

occupy.com/article/worl...

My latest article with focus on #CriticalMinerals

#Degrowth
#ElectricVehicles
The World Cannot Afford Electric Vehicles
If we embraced integrated public transport rather than the rush to fill our cities with EVs, there would be much more space for parks and society on foot.
occupy.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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"In fact, almost everything worthwhile that has come out of British culture for the last century, from music hall, to street kebabs, to standup comedy, rock 'n' roll, and the rave scene, has been primarily a working-class phenomenon. Essentially, these were the things the working-class created when they weren’t actually working. The sprouting of British popular culture in the 60s was a product of the UK’s then very generous welfare state….and a surprising proportion of major bands later to sweep the world spent at least some of their formative years on unemployment relief." David Graeber
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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5 years since he passed. Rest in play David Graeber

www.occupy.com/article/my-f...
My Friend David Graeber
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
www.occupy.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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MSM is complicit in genocide
August 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Why are there so many empty spaces and voids in the City, in capitalism's core? These are Bullshit Spaces!

Me for @DopeMagazine developing ideas from #DavidGraeber #BullshitJobs

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Bullshit Space in Capitalism’s core — DOPE Magazine
T he downstairs two floors of the global bank UBS's 13-storey headquarters lie empty. In the City of London, this space – dubbed a 'double-height reception' – is barren of activity. Except for the m...
www.dopemag.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Degrowth offers so many ways we could imagine a future beyond endless mining and the crises it brings. It's time to broaden out this political debate that will determine the future so we can get off the path towards the billionaires' dystopia.

#criticalminerals
#degrowth

occupy.com/article/crit...
Critically Rethinking Minerals—and the Cost of Extraction
In the green transition, the IEA predicts lithium usage will rise by 40 times the current amount by 2050, while graphite, nickel and cobalt use will increase 20 times. Can we imagine a different futur...
occupy.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
steve-rushton.bsky.social
This all sounds dystopian. It's not fiction. Billionaires with corporate interests from Silicon Valley to the military, from mining and oil extraction to cryptocurrencies, are backing a new wave of US expansionism.

#CriticalMinerals
#ArcticOpening

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Digging Deep into Trump's Aims to Annex Greenland
Behind the scenes, the billionaires backing Trump have serious plans to build a techno-futuristic, regulation-free city on Greenland to serve as a stepping stone to Mars.
occupy.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Capitalists argue all the minerals are need for a #GreenTransition

In reality, "A great deal of the demand is for war machines and technology. Wars are being fought to control these minerals, which replicates how wars have often been fought for oil."

#CriticalMinerals
occupy.com/article/mine...
Minerals, Like Oil, Will Drive the Wars and Conflict this Century
Minerals touted as essential for the “Green Transition” are central in ongoing wars from Ukraine to Myanmar, and to Trump's ambitions to take over Canada and Greenland.
occupy.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Less chop 👎 More green 💚 www.change.org/p/stop-the-f...
Sign the Petition
Stop the felling of three healthy lime trees on Trelawney Road in Falmouth.
www.change.org
June 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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You can't make this shit up.

"A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém."

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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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bellacaledonia.bsky.social
This is an in-depth well-researched exploration of the whole issue of 'opening up' the Arctic to commercial exploitation and mineral extraction, and how to resist it ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/14/d... #Trump #Sami #Arctic #North #Sweden #Greenland
How to respect indigenous rights in the Arctic
US President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland have created concern globally. However blatant his approach, the shock element masks the fact that the entire capitalist system foll…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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On Inuit and Sami indigenous rights and how to protect the Arctic and Greenland from Trump and industrial exploitation by @steve-rushton.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/14/d...
How to respect indigenous rights in the Arctic
US President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland have created concern globally. However blatant his approach, the shock element masks the fact that the entire capitalist system foll…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
steve-rushton.bsky.social
In many places the rise of the populist far-right seemed unlikely, not possible. Then it happened. And it seemed inevitable.

latest by me about the dysfunctional state of Britain for Occupy.com

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Britain Is Sleepwalking Towards Far-Right Populism
In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.
occupy.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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bellacaledonia.bsky.social
WE HAVE BEEN CREATING INDEPENDENT SCOTTISH MEDIA SINCE 2007. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO CONTINUE AND DEVELOP. Backing Bella Caledonia 2025 – for an independent Scottish Media Fighting for Scotland www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be...
February 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Today would have been Graeber's birthday. I recommend checking out his work.
"Everywhere the centrist argument that the Left has to abandon its principles to fight fascism, leaving the only choice between corporate bureaucrats and Nazis, has had the effect of empowering Nazis. That's a failed formula every time." -David Graeber
February 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Collectively resisting fascism and building alternatives in Naples

by me

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#UrbanCommons #Municipalism
Collectively Resisting Fascism and Building Alternatives in Naples
The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
occupy.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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bellacaledonia.bsky.social
Degrowth Municipalism could change the world
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/12/20/d...
Degrowth Municipalism could change the world
A panel discussion about Degrowth and Municipalism, at the international municipalist summit Fearless Cities in Sheffield November 2-3rd, explored the overlaps between the two movements. Degrowth a…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
December 20, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Cities were crucial in humanity's journey long before capitalism & other structural oppression. Through Degrowth Municipalism cities can continue this role as these human constructions fade into history.

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/12/20/d...

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#FearlessCities
December 23, 2024 at 2:15 PM