Oppositional Politics is not enough: Imagining Another World is Possible in Grand Rapids

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Jeff Smith (GRIID)'s avatarGrand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

Four years ago lots of people couldn’t have imagined that Donald Trump was just a few months away from being elected President of the United States.

Within days of the elections, people all across the country took to the streets to protest the election of Trump and to signal the need for a resistance movement that would have the capacity and vision to respond to what was to come.

In Grand Rapids, we wrote about how the Democratic Party was scrambling to respond to the fact that they had lost power. An event was organized in Grand Rapids entitled, Surviving the Trump Apocalypse, an event was focused exclusively how an electoral strategy. At the time, March of 2017, we wrote

The opposition to the new president is refreshing in some ways, but this is a pattern amongst liberal and progressive circles. Liberals and progressives tend to get activated when…

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Barcelona’s ‘Rent Strike Now’ video to ‘Oops, I won’t Pay’ version of Britney Spears

Covid: Britney Spears (feat. Sindicat d’Habitatge de Vallcarca) – #HuelgaAlquileres

3,013 views•31 Mar 2020 1142ShareSaveAssemblea Vallcarca Sindicat d’Habitatge de Vallcarca, març del 2020

Sindicat d’Habitatge de Vallcarca, Housing Union of Valllcarca Barrio
rough translation of lyrics

We don’t get paid, So we won’t pay! –

  • Another crisis,
  • but we have Support Networks
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  • Oh my friends, you see they have Control
  • but now we are many, we say ‘That’s enough!
  • We’re out of work, and for years we’ve been paying rent
  • Listen neighbour :
  • oops, Rent Strike
  • I’m not paying this month,I prefer to eat

RENT STRIKE NOW

  • Do you see the current problem now?
  • From so much squeezing,
  • we can’t take anymore and we’re going to act
  • I don’t want to cry anymore,
  • I get up to fight, they’re going to find out!
  • All the banks and vulture funds,
  • all want to speculate!
  • listen Neighbor!
  • Oops, Rent Strike
  • I won’t pay this month, I prefer to eat
¡Huelga de Alquileres!
  • Listen landlord:
  • oops, you have no choice
  • suspend the rent payments!

RENT STRIKE NOW

  • -I want to teach you something! –
  • -Oh, how bureaucratic … but wait, what it is?
  • -Yes, yes it is!
  • – But I need to renew for 7 more years! –
  • – Come on neighbor, we changing it to an airbnb ..
  • – Well you shit …
  • RENT STRIKE , we won’t pay
  • That’s enough!, you’ll find out!
  • Hey you, get organized on your block!
  • RENT STRIKE NOW
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  • Oops, Rent Strike
    I won’t pay this month, I prefer to eat

    Here comes the landlord
  • Oops,you got no choice
    suspend the rent payments
    RENT STRIKE NOW

    Oops, Rent Strike
    I won’t pay this month,
  • I prefer to eat
  • Listen landlord:
  • oops, you have no choice
  • suspend the rent payments!

RENT STRIKE NOW

Britney Spears – Oops!…I Did It Again (Official Video)

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Music in this video

Song

Oops!…I Did It Again

Creada una xarxa de suport mutu per a persones en risc i dependents - Diari  de Terrassa

Artist

Britney Spears

Writers

Rami Yacoub, Max Martin

Chiapas/National/International: “Stop the War against Zapatista Communities”

Chiapas/National/International: “Stop the War against Zapatista Communities”

In a statement published on August 26th, more than 450 people and 140 organizations from 22 countries demanded “Stop the War against the Zapatista Communities.” This occurs after “paramilitaries from the Ocosingo Coffee Growers Regional Organization (ORCAO) looted and set fire to the facilities of the New Dawn Rainbow Trade Center, which is located in the place known as the Cuxulja Crossroads, Lucio Cabañas Autonomous Municipality, within the official municipality of Ocosingo on August 22nd”, they explained.

Explaining the context, they recalled that “on February 24th, 2020, the ORCAO, together with the ‘Chinchulines’ group (identified for years as paramilitary), and members of the MORENA party in the region, used violence against and kidnapped members of National Indigenous Congress (CNI), this in the context of the Conference in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth ‘We Are All Samir’, convened by the EZLN and the CNI.”

They denounced that the “new aggression is part of the intensification of the war of attrition in Chiapas, characterized by the increase in violence by paramilitary groups and organized crime, as the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human has duly documented”, a trend that this center has highlighted in recent weeks, mostly in the agrarian conflict between the municipalities of Aldama and Chenalho.

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Rhiannon Giddens – “Freedom Highway” (Recorded Live for World Cafe) —video

https://www.rhiannongiddens.com/ Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens – “Freedom Highway” (Recorded Live for World Cafe) — Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement

Freedom Highway is the second solo studio album of Folk/Americana musician and Carolina Chocolate Drops front woman Rhiannon Giddens.

It was released via Nonesuch Records on February 24, 2017.[13] Freedom Highway was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2017 Americana Music Honors & Awards.

The title track “Freedom Highway” is a 1965 civil rights protest song written by Roebuck Staples and title track of The Staple Singers’ album of the same name.

Meidas Touch Presents …. “💥 #TrumpTerrorism …. ‘from the Highest Office’ 💥 …. “!!

Meidas Touch Presents …. “💥 #TrumpTerrorism ….

‘from the Highest Office’ 💥 …. “!! by — It Is What It Is

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TRUMP TERROR

Because this is the only way he can conduct a campaign after his botched errors in all he has done. He’s trying to stay out of prison, he’s a cornered, wounded animal. He resorts to the basest instincts of his lizard mind and projects them to the Kool-Aid drinkers.

Gawd help us all!!

It won’t get any better … it will get worse!

HortyRex©

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‘Stuart Christie, comrade, friend’ by Octavio Alberola

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‘Stuart Christie, comrade, friend’ by Octavio Alberola

Octavio Alberola, who was in charge of Defensa Interior and was a close friend of Stuart’s has left us this farewell message to his friend.

Originally published by Rojo y Negro. Translated by Kate Sharpley Library.

Stuart Christie, comrade and friend

The news of Stuart Christie’s death arrived by phone halfway through yesterday afternoon from comrade René after he asked if I had heard the bad news and after I quizzed him brusquely: Who’s dead? I could tell from his tone of voice that it must have been somebody close who had passed away.

René’s answer stopped me in my tracks, because even though Stuart had told me a week before that the cancer had left him still hoarse and that the findings of his medical tests were none too encouraging, it never at any moment occurred to me that he would be taken so quickly. I am surrounded by several male and female comrades – more or less of my own age – who are in none too rude health and at my age (due to turn 93 shortly) the thought that one’s days are numbered is just “normal”.

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‘Opening Borders’ caravan mobilizes to legalise migrants Abriendo Fronteras se moviliza. English/Spanish

from El Salto.. @mathiasrodz_ 30 ago 2020 Translation by thefreeonline shared with thanks.

Abriendo Fronteras caravan mobilizes for the regularization of migrants
Migrant Caravan 2020


Activists of the RegularizaciónYa movement participate in the demonstration of the 2020 Abriendo Fronteras Caravan in València. Mathias Rodriguez

On its fourth day of activity, the 2020 Opening Borders Caravan has demanded the unconditional regularization of migrants living in an “unsustainable” situation, with an immigration law that obliges them to remain illegally.

“This year Caravana has not been able to travel but we are not going to silence the voice,” says Emilia Moreno de la Vieja, spokesperson for the Caravana. “We continue to denounce all the violations suffered by migrants,” he adds.

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The demonstration in Valencia began last Saturday at 7 p.m. from Avenida de los Naranjos to the promenade, with the aim of making visible that the Mediterranean is a space of no-law where institutional racism causes thousands of deaths with total impunity .

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