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Remember when Extinction Rebellion burst onto the scene in 2018? They hit like a tornado. They were fired up and angry ...

After years of tepid work from groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club slowly filled the well, XR came along and said, "Here's a bucket. Start drawing water.”

Fast forward to 2023. XR UK is getting out of the rebellion game. No more blocked roads, no more smashed windows, no more arrests.But we're not done rebelling. With XR out of the fight, we need a new strategy going forward. So let's get to it.

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The Unholy Alliance

Fifty years of American diplomacy in the Middle East has achieved very little. In many ways it has been a deliberate sabotage of the Palestinian cause. Aided by a succession of cowardly presidents, systematically biased reporting out of New York and Washington, and the electoral clout of the evangelicals, America has played a two-faced game that has brought us to this: a semi-fascist government in Israel, led by a bunch of racist criminals determined to beat the Palestinians into submission by whatever means necessary.  

The time has come to end the madness. We cannot tolerate another pipsqueak like Blinken jetting off to Tel Aviv to bang on about a two-state solution that never materializes. Someone has to break the impasse. The Europeans can’t do it. The UK won’t do it. America will never do it. It’s up to us, the people of the world, to lead the charge. Just like it was up to us thirty years ago in apartheid South Africa. It takes a movement to turn things around. That’s why they call it revolution.

A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

Fight for your freedom! Stand up to those sons of bitches. Do what the Algerian freedom fighters did to France, the South African freedom fighters did to apartheid and the Ukrainian freedom fighters are doing right now to Putin. And gain strength from knowing the bulk of the people of the world are behind you. Billions of us will fight alongside you with boycotts, donations, cash transfers and everything else we got.

Until the bullies stand down.

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“Which is more poisonous for humanity — cocaine or coal?” Petro asked, from the floor of the United Nations General Assembly last summer, just weeks after being elected president of Colombia. “Surmounting the climate crisis,” he told the world leaders assembled there, “means leaving behind the consumption of oil and gas.”
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The Big Ideas of 2023

Adbusters #149 The Re-enchantment of the Political LeftGet this issue

The question’s as blunt as the times are dire. Are we winning or losing the planetary endgame?

In our year-end issue we argue both sides, with our most optimistic, bright-eyed inclinations colliding in the middle with our bleakest and grimmest intuitions.

It’s a stitching-together of two warring tendencies. Truth is, neither one is sufficient for our salvation: to win the endgame, we desperately need both.

To stave off extinction, we’re going to have to muster both the courage to face the harshest truths about our reality and the guts to imagine a radically different one — and then see it through.

So summon all the chutzpah you can muster. It’s going to be the match of the millennium.

Touch Grass: A Gardener’s Pandemic-era Political Awakening

Over the last two years, I have developed one of the most politically clarifying of all my habits. I became a gardener; I was not alone. The global spread of green thumb, which tracked intimately with the tally of Covid infections as they rose and dipped and rose anew, is well documented. Since...

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The question’s as blunt as the times are dire. Are we winning or losing the planetary endgame? In our year-end issue we argue both sides, with our most optimistic, bright-eyed inclinations colliding in...

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Our most iconic item is finally back with updated logos! The story of America is a chronicle of democracy derailed, a revolutionary spirit suppressed, and a once-proud people reduced to servitude. Wave this infamous piece of protest art in the streets, fly it outside of your home, or hang it defiantly on your wall. The double-takes and commentary will matter.

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“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
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Herman Daly, a towering figure who was shamefully suppressed by generations of mainstream economists, passed away on October 28, 2022.

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The rules were simple: You keep producing more things for people to use, and the market system fairly distributes these things; wealth trickles down and everyone’s life gradually gets better.
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Three blind mice

This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics went to three economists who certainly made an impact, just not in the way we might hope. Each of them played a huge part in perpetrating multiple financial meltdowns, crippling the world’s economy and pushing humanity to the brink of collapse. They and their neoclassical colleagues are the architects and cheerleaders of our failing world system, and I’d be happy if angry Econ101 students who know full well they have no future started disrupting classes, throwing pies and nailing manifestos to their professors’ doors.
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I dislike the crush of the protesting crowd. My hands don't grip placards. My voice rings false when raised to chant.

I prefer the solitary range. As I roam, in descending twilight, I mark territory. Sticking blackspots on ads I don't like. Laying notes on ATMs and posters in strategic locations. I forgo the tumult of demonstration for the prinprick of consciousness that will catch someone, somewhere, sometime, unawares.

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To live without dead time means to embody a great refusal, to find pleasure in struggle, to transform every moment of existence into a repudiation of the consumerist nightmare and an affirmation of revolutionary possibility. A semester, a year, a decade without Big Macs, Frappucinos and Facebook but overflowing with midnight adventures of blackspotted billboards, guerrilla gardening and spectacular synchronized global memewar actions. Imagine if a huge number of us start living in this way, turning daily life itself into a form of resistance that re-enchants the city and reawakens the promise of a people’s insurrection. The way forward is through this kind of radical play.

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