Forwarded from Dead Lasagna (Kozy Raccoon)
The eco-city is an ecological city: a city built from the principles of living within environment means, with the high level principles:
- Ecology: Cities should have a deep and integrated relationship with nature.
- Economics: Cities should be based on an economy organized around social needs.
- Politics: Cities should have an enhanced emphasis on engaged and negotiated civic involvement.
- Culture: Cities should actively develop ongoing processes for dealing with the uncomfortable intersections of identity and difference, including the current tension between culture and nature.
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- Ecology: Cities should have a deep and integrated relationship with nature.
- Economics: Cities should be based on an economy organized around social needs.
- Politics: Cities should have an enhanced emphasis on engaged and negotiated civic involvement.
- Culture: Cities should actively develop ongoing processes for dealing with the uncomfortable intersections of identity and difference, including the current tension between culture and nature.
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Forwarded from IWW
Jacobinmag
How Australian Workers Prepared to Socialize Industry During the Great Depression
In the 1930s, working-class radicals in the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party established Socialization Units, mass organizations parallel to the party. Their goal was to prepare for the democratic takeover of industry, and to build “socialism…
Follow @USACoup if you want to remain informed on the far-right attempted coup. I won't deal about it here too much
"On Monday, in a move that would seem a little too on-the-nose even for The Onion, the CIA completed a chic and diversity-encouraging rebrand to attract new recruits who can trace their heritage to the places that the agency has undermined and destabilized. The newly-launched recruitment site features a new tech-y logo, vaguely familiar fonts, prominently figured Black and brown faces across the sleek new site."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vqme/inspiring-cia-rebrands-to-attract-diverse-operatives
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vqme/inspiring-cia-rebrands-to-attract-diverse-operatives
Vice
Inspiring: CIA Rebrands to Attract Diverse Operatives
The coup-plotting spy agency has a diversity problem preventing it from attracting recruits who can trace their heritage to places the CIA has undermined and destabilized.