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Are you part of the movement?

Find out more from these organizations:

Uncommitted National Movement

Protect Palestine

Vote for Peace

Palestinian Action // US Branch

Swing States for Peace

America Hates Us

Our Moral Imperative

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From @blackwomenradicals

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Dreaming of watermelon seeds I can plant where every home, school, faith space, hospital, nursing home, animal shelter, and neighborhood was erased so the vines can bring us together again - s. rose 🍉

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@sfs_ucla “But what about Trump?”

Tens of millions of people across the country are deeply concerned about the prospect that Donald Trump will return to the White House. Faced with this profoundly troubling possibility, many feel like they have no choice but to view the election purely as a referendum on whether or not Trump comes back into power, regardless of who his opponent is.

But for people who want to defeat the racist, pro-corporate, anti-women, war-mongering and planet killing politics that Trump represents, this would be a big mistake.

Read more about combating the “lesser than two evils” rhetoric on votesocialist2024.com.

🍉 Claudia de la Cruz // Karina Garcia

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Maki Yamamoto’s appreciation for Palestinian tatreez goes back far before she began seamlessly weaving the indigenous cross-stitch embroidery into Japan’s most well-known form of traditional clothing, the kimono.

“For me and those who know the history of kimonos, it's a very natural pairing because the kimono has been influenced by neighbouring countries by the way of the Silk Road – China, Korea, Persia, Syria and many other cultures,” Yamamoto shares.

From the TRT World article Palestinian tatreez in Japanese kimonos: A cultural symbol of solidarity

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all dirt roads taste of salt, 2023 (dir. raven jackson)

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Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish

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JABAL MARRA, SUDAN

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“I dream of places I have never been, but I dream of them often so they are familiar.”

— Joana Doxey, from “The Book of Worry” (via k-apme-h-salzc-a)

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Degrowth basics

"The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress."

What is Degrowth? | Caracol DSA

Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward | OpenDemocracy

Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment

We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth | Current Affairs

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance | Common Dreams

Can degrowth save us and the planet? | Nottingham Trent

Defending limits is not Malthusian | Undisciplined Environments

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | New Yorker

The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy | The New Republic

Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier | The New Republic

A guide to degrowth: The movement prioritizing wellbeing in a bid to avoid climate cataclysm | CNBC

What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change? | Popular Science

Enough for Everyone | Yes! Magazine

Toward a Post-Capitalist Future: On the Growth of “Degrowth” | Lit Hub

All we are saying is give degrowth a chance | The RSA

A pathway out of environmental collapse | newsroom

On Technology and Degrowth | Monthly Review

What is degrowth (and more importantly, what is it not)? | META

Green growth

"There is no empirical evidence that absolute decoupling from resource use can be achieved on a global scale against a background of continued economic growth."

Is Green Growth Possible? | Jason Hickel & Giorgos Kallis

The Myth of America’s Green Growth | Foreign Policy

The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability | The Conversation

Is green growth happening? | Uneven Earth

Green Growth | Uneven Earth

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth | Scientific American

Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite | Al Jazeera

A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think | Timothée Parrique

Deceitful Decoupling: Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth | Alevgul H. Sorman

Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever | The Conversation

Degrowth and the left

"In the middle of an ecological emergency, should we be producing sport utility vehicles and mansions? Should we be diverting energy to support the obscene consumption and accumulation of the ruling class?"

The Left should embrace degrowth | New Internationalist

Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way | The Trouble

Degrowth: Socialism without Growth | Brave New Europe

Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable | Monthly Review

For an Ecosocialist Degrowth | Monthly Review

Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth | Rupture

Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist | Protean Mag

Degrowth Communism | PPPR (Part one | Part two | Part three)

Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century | New Socialist

Degrowth and the South

"Southern countries should be free to organize their resources and labor around meeting human needs rather than around servicing Northern growth."

Who is afraid of degrowth? A Global South economic perspective | IBON Foundation

The anti-colonial politics of degrowth | Jason Hickel

Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts | Resilience

Journals/Reports

Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance | Jason Hickel

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification | Jason Hickel

Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario | Global Environmental Change

Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios | Nature Energy

Degrowth and critical agrarian studies | Julien-François Gerber

Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability | European Environmental Bureau

Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World | David Woodward

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help | Nature

A New Political Economy for a Healthy Planet | Jason Hickel

Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions | Cleaner Production Letters

Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries | The Lancet

Books

Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Pluto Press

A People's Green New Deal | Max Ajl

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job | Verso Books

The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Verso Books

The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | Verso Books

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism | Kohei Saito

Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation

27 Essays and Thoughts on Degrowth | Giorgos Kallis

Videos

Yes To Limits To Growth! | The Other School

How Degrowth Can Save the World | Andrewism

How We End Consumerism | Our Changing Climate

Demystifying Degrowth | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Degrowth is not Austerity | John the Duncan

Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Planet: Critical

Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better | Think That Through

The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) || SRSLY WRONG

"Degrowth means power to the working class!"with Jason Hickel | GND Media

Others

degrowth.info

Degrowth Journal

Doughnut Economics

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I'm sorry for being so sappy, but I wanted to show you guys something.

When I first donated to PCRF in December 2023, it was barely 10% close to its goal. Now in March 2024, they're also 100%. Everyone of you has helped support a better future for Gaza.

They're so close to their goal. Please donate or share this post so that they can get to their goal🇵🇸

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Spring is here and that means new growth, new knowledge, and new histories to recover 🌸

Please join us this Sunday as we will hold space with afrofeminist historian Dr. Nneka Dennie to reflect and reimagine the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. As we continue to watch and witness the resurgence of apartheid and white supremacy rippling across our world, upRooting our miseducation about our shared (and very segregated) history is essential to manifesting everyday resistance and reclamation in our community gardens, hearths, and (neighbor)hoods. Save your seat here~

📆 Sunday, March 24th at 12:00 PM (EST)

🎟️ To support the labor and liberation work of our speakers, this program is ticketed. (Patrons of the Antiracist Liberation can access the program and playback via Patreon | www.patreon.com/antiracistliberation)

⚠️ This program contains topics involving antiblack racism, family separation, cultural erasure, gendered violence, and a whole lot of white supremacy.

🍉 As we continue recovering our history, we also continue our solidarity and freedom struggle efforts to call for the end the apartheids and imperial projects in Palestine, Congo, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Hawai’i, Haiti, and across our indigenous, diaspora, queer, (dis)abled, and (dis)placed communities. None of us are free until we are ALL free to exist as our full selves free of colonialism.

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李子柒 Liziqi

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Feminists pushed for women to be able to work because being totally financially dependent on and beholden to One Singular Man was extremely dangerous and quite literally killing women.

Capitalism gets worse but being able have and keep your own money is ideal over being totally financially dependent on One Man.

People who are anti capitalist (in a general sense of the term) rightfully say that the conditions under which we work totally suck (and should change).

Misogynists see that the working conditions are awful (and they see other things happening), but rather than using that fact to push for improvements in the work place for women and people of other gender minorities, they launch back to deeply sexist and dangerous rhetoric that, beyond glorifying a past for women that never existed, doesn't even understand the basics of child and home care that SAHMs have to go through.

So now we have women who thoroughly believe that a) working sucks (theyre right in some ways) and b) the "solution" to this is for women to be SAHMs or housewives because "all you have to do" is cook and clean. They glorify the man having to go out and make all the money--money which they presume will be handed over to them if they so much as ask. Money that they don't have real access to, money that they believe will be their compensation for fulfilling an archaic gender roles successfully. Meaning if they don't perform to the man's standards, they lose the money.

All day. Every day. It's very clear that the women who say this often do not, themselves, have to do all the cooking and cleaning for other people, and the fact that they think this is simple and easy work shows they devalue the real labor that goes into being a SAHM/housewife. I've done cooking and cleaning for a household of five people and I will tell you it's awful.

But these traditionalists and hypergamists and whatever else they wanna call themselves are leading people into believing that ultimately, it's men that should be in control of everything. Women not having to work is somehow a good thing.