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Act Out! [54] - Activist Reflections, Disarm Saudi Arabia & AIPAC, and Life in the Waste-Stream

Act Out! [54] - Activist Reflections, Disarm Saudi Arabia & AIPAC, and Life in the Waste-Stream
Wed, 3/16/2016 - by Eleanor Goldfield

This week, spring is in the air and so is a renewed call for justice, peace and freedom. But before we get to the front lines, let's take a look at what it means to be an activist and what makes a social movement successful.

Next up, Code Pink wants you to stand against the military industrial complex, and more precisely against the Saudi regime and the Israeli lobbying group AIPAC. And finally, we can't all live off-the-grid, but we can all make changes that loosen our strong ties to a consumerist, overly commodified lifestyle.

But first, I just gotta riff this right now.

 

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History Is A Weapon

Four Roles of Activists

Code Pink

 

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It isn’t difficult to argue that Musk is likely a white supremacist obsessed with increasing the white birthrate and simultaneously killing off undesirables by cutting off their aid.

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.

There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.

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It isn’t difficult to argue that Musk is likely a white supremacist obsessed with increasing the white birthrate and simultaneously killing off undesirables by cutting off their aid.

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There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.

Posted 1 month 1 week ago

A broad range of Americans are organizing a 24-hour economic boycott on February 28th to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate America.

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Over the next four years, we’re about to be inundated with a flood of lies—including from federal agencies themselves.

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The grassroots opposition to President Donald Trump is hitting the streets everywhere.

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