New Political Glossary for 2021

Songwriter's Notebook: New Political Glossary for 2021: Times change, and so do politics.  Here I give a crack at defining the basic political camps as they exist in the US today.

Navalnyj - retoriker och dörröppnare

Birger Schlaug: Aleksej Navalnyj - modig retoriker och dörröppnare.: Efter en föreläsning om demokrati på ett av Moskvas universitet kom professorn fram och sa: "Demokrati - härligt, härligt, men farligt...

David Rovics - An Open Letter

    This Week with David Rovics: An Open Letter to Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys: Have you ever found yourself surrounded by masked rioters being chased by flag-waving patriots and thought, I've seen this movie before...

This Week with David Rovics: Taking Stock

This Week with David Rovics: Taking Stock: "If you really look at the results of these elections with a clear eye, and you understand how I make my political predictions, and why they are more or less accurate, you will conclude that what the people want is socialism.  If they can't get something that feels like real socialism, they'll settle for fake socialism, also known as National Socialism, also known as fascism.  What they hate the most is the capitalist elite.  So many people are so desperate and feel so legitimately so abandoned by the Democratic Party and any connection it used to have to the working class, that they would rather vote for anyone who appears to be critical of the establishment, regardless of how vile that person may be in every other possible way."

David Rovics: Diary of a Smoke Refugee

This Week with David Rovics: Diary of a Smoke Refugee: As Arun Gupta tweeted the other day, “Pardon the catastrophic global warming, we now return you to your regularly scheduled state violence.”...

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Dominating Cities and Dominating the Narrative

This Week with David Rovics: Dominating Cities and Dominating the Narrative: What I am saying here is familiar to many people with a knowledge of actual history, rather than the fantasy version in the textbooks.

Who's Trashing Downtown Every Night and Why?

This Week with David Rovics: Who's Trashing Downtown Every Night and Why?: The corporate media and corporate politicians are paralyzed with indecision. Which fake myth do we adhere to?

A Note from the Ministry of Staple Guns

This Week with David Rovics: A Note from the Ministry of Staple Guns: The City of Portland, Oregon, and Multnomah County, are doing the best job in the country at kicking the can down the road. Now is the time to push for a real solution to the housing crisis, here and across the USA.

David Rovics: Rich Peasants, Poor Peasants and "Mom-and-Pop Landlords

This Week with David Rovics: In the course of the evolving patchwork of rent strikes happening right now across the US, there is suddenly a lot of talk in the press about how much the landlords are hurting. The landlords, of course, own the press, control the federal government, run all fifty states, and have a stranglehold on most of the city councils, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.

David Rovics: The Forms of Isolation

This Week with David Rovics: The Forms of Isolation: As we hunker down wherever we are, we are collectively having radically differing experiences of isolation.

David Rovics: Unprecedented Precedents

"It is in moments like this when the fundamental dysfunctionality of late-stage capitalism is laid bare. We live in a society where most people have inadequate health care in the best of times, and where most people are in no financial position to pay the rent next month after being laid off this month. In such a sudden economic crisis as this, even the capitalists know something has to give. This bailout package is the first big effort on the part of the federal authorities to preserve their capitalist system, by applying some classic Keynesian, FDR-style economics. Which FDR did for the same reason, as he made clear himself."

https://davidrovics.blogspot.com/2020/03/unprecedented-precedents.html

Vi behöver gå mot den absoluta cirkulariteten

I Sverige lever vi som om vi hade fyra jordklot att bre ut oss på. Men vi har bara ett, och allt fler företag inser att det är dags att ställa om från en linjär till en cirkulär affärslogik. Vad möter de för utmaningar? 20 februari föreläste RISE-forskarna Derek Diener, Ann-Charlotte Mellquist och Thomas Nyström på Estrad och diskuterade bland annat begrepp som relativ och absolut cirkularitet. Det förstnämnda handlar om att göra mindre skada, medan det sistnämnda går ut på att skapa produkter av material som redan är producerat.

– Vi behöver gå mot den absoluta cirkulariteten. Det handlar inte om att den visionen skulle minska antalet produkter, utan om hur vi kan fånga produkter som finns i omlopp ute i samhället, sa Thomas Nyström.

https://esbribloggen.blogspot.com/2020/02/skapa-fanga-och-leverera-varde-i-en.html

David Rovics: Anarchists For Bernie

This Week with David Rovics: Anarchists For Bernie:



"There is no Sanders wing of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is a corrupt, captured institution, and Sanders' campaign is an insurgent campaign to take it over. A Sanders government could -- not would, but could -- be a qualitatively different sort of government, of the sort that could make a difference in whether we continue our societal march towards fascism or reverse course."

Behind These Prison Walls

If Europe loses Julian Assange, Europe will lose its soul

Bloody Sunday - Stiff Little Fingers

David Rovics: So This Is What It's Like

This Week with David Rovics: So This Is What It's Like: Living among the concentration camps of America. Concentration camps in the United States are nothing new.

David Rovics: The United Tent Cities of America

This Week with David Rovics: The United Tent Cities of America: I viscerally remember a particular protest I participated in with Portland Tenants United that involved using tents as a symbol of the impending homelessness that will result if the landlords keep on raising the rent the way they've been doing.  It's a common, useful symbol, that communicates well in a picture, a tent.  But there was that one protest when a bunch of actually homeless teenagers asked us, "what are you going to do with those tents when you're done?"

David Rovics: Taking On Spotify

This Week with David Rovics: Taking On Spotify: Why We Need A Global Campaign: How should independent musicians survive in the streaming age?