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"I was among the 100,000 who marched in San Francisco’s Women’s March the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. While enthusiasm for the struggle seemed high, an important question was looming: What’s the strategic plan, as we head into the Trump era? Although there’s no simple answer, I offer this 10-point plan — fully open for discussion and debate."
A 10-point plan to stop Trump and make gains in justice and equality
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Anarchism shares common roots in the late Enlightenment with liberal republicanism, through figures like William Godwin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. They agreed with earlier liberals like Locke, for instance, that people have the capacity to reason and the dignity to self-govern; the difference was that they went further in seeking self-governance at every level and in every corner of life.
An occasional ballot box is not enough. Anarchism is not content with any form of coercion, whether by countries or corporations or an electoral college. It is skeptical of all pretenders to authority, like God’s warnings about kings in the Hebrew Bible and Jesus’ indifference to the powers that pretended to rule Palestine in his time. This is the anarchism, for instance, that Dorothy Day inherited and lived by. On a day that saw the ascent of a man who promises to personally deliver more weapons, walls and wealth for some, anarchism offers a stark alternative. It calls for a politics that doesn’t begin and end with politicians. more Gasolinazo protests: The symptom of a bigger crisis....
...In the late 1980s Mexico started its political transition from a one-party authoritarian regime towards what is now a "crony" capitalist political system with low levels of investment blocking democratic development and with highly corrupt political parties infiltrated by organised crime. Throughout this period until the present, most state enterprises providing health, water, oil and other basic goods were being gradually transferred to political cronies and oligarchs. These people have no inclination to pursue technological innovation or to generate employment.... A longtime advocate for public lands, Terry Tempest Williams has been at the forefront of fighting for conservation. This year, she stepped into the firing line. “I’ve thought so much lately about what erosion means – how the same geologic principles that erode stone also erode us closer to the essence of who we want to become,” she said. In her philosophical consideration of the natural world, Williams might be considered a successor to Thoreau, most famous for his nature writing but most ardent in his abolitionism. She’s taken up the gauntlet from her friend Edward Abbey, the Utah polemicist whose novel The Monkeywrench Gang launched a thousand bulldozer-wrecking Earth Firsters. Public lands have always been more than scenery in the US: they’re political battlegrounds, now and forever. “Lease sales are an ostensibly public process in which the public has no actual say,” Jason Schwartz, a Greenpeace media officer, told the Guardian. To Schwartz’s mind, Williams’s intervention carved out a potential new avenue for participation in the opaque auction system. “She showed that you don’t have to get arrested to protect the public interest – you can put a credit card down.” |
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