Rather than an affordable and less disruptive alternative to flood defence schemes, ‘natural flood management’ is a wedge that opens up questions about how land is valued and who has the power to shape landscapes. In this opening, ecosocialist politics shouldn’t overlook how cycles of flood and ebb have played a role in producing habitable waterways, wetlands and other amphibious spaces for other living beings. Flood defences as they often appear today – as walls and straightened, concrete-lined waterways – are ecological violence. An ecologically-attuned flood politics might reengineer upstream tributaries so that they hold more water, perhaps with the assistance of beavers. It might set houses back from the coast to allow salt marsh and tidal flats to develop. This approach represents an ethics of repair, responding to the decimation of the living world which accompanies and extends beyond climate disruptions.
https://scottishleftreview.scot/flood-politics/
https://scottishleftreview.scot/flood-politics/
scottishleftreview.scot
Flood Politics
With government money pouring into local climate change adaptation, Elliot Hurst considers how the left might shape a better flood response.
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Hasbara is a Hebrew word defined by the Israeli government as “public diplomacy” that seeks to “influence the perception of Israel abroad.” Critics like Noam Chomsky, meanwhile, have described hasbara more bluntly as a “sophisticated system of propaganda.” On the internet, hasbara now includes a network of websites and users dedicated to manufacturing pro-Israel posts and manipulating social media platforms to remove content sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/israels-propaganda-machine-is-filling-the-internet-with-misinformation/
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/04/israels-propaganda-machine-is-filling-the-internet-with-misinformation/
Current Affairs
Israel’s Propaganda Machine is Filling the Internet with Misinformation
A sophisticated network of websites is spreading pro-Israel posts and suppressing content that “harms Israel’s image.” Would we accept this from supporters of any other country?
"we must begin to gain control of housing and force its de-commodification. We need to create large funds to acquire said housing and we need to house our own. The management of this housing needs to be self-managed by occupants in a federated system of housing cooperatives. Municipal social housing efforts should wage this fight in tandem."
Second, we must begin to gain control of our employment. There are two main ways to do this — unionization and cooperation.
Resources should be dedicated to both the bottom-up founding of self-managed worker cooperatives as well as the conversion of existing business into self-managed worker cooperatives.
Community defense should be encouraged whenever and wherever possible, with measures taken to limit legal risks to the overall organization. Medic work and survival-based mutual aid are also critical here.
Recruitment efforts must be taken. It’s not enough to only bring in new members to an organization. There must be ongoing engagement. We need mentorship. We need accessibility. We need a formal education program that covers not only theory, but also the practice of participating in our organization and, most especially, in organizing as a general practice.
Restorative Justice. We need a group that dedicates itself to learning this, training others, and establishing best practices.
Finally — and this really is lucky number seven — people need to embrace the social. Have hobbies. Treat people as friends — normal friends — not just “comrades in arms” or potential debate partners or whatever you want to call the current state of Left expectation setting and infighting. Maybe drink a beer once and a while. Play some board games. Do sports. This past Sunday was Easter so, for Christ’s sake, break some bread with comrades. It was also Trans Day of Visibility. Be visible, be a part of your community — your neighborhood, your school, your workplace, etc. — and show kindness even more than militancy. If the people who know you are fond of you, you’re winning half the battle right there.
https://dsa-lsc.org/2024/04/02/democratic-socialists-of-america-and-the-2024-elections-forging-a-new-path/
Second, we must begin to gain control of our employment. There are two main ways to do this — unionization and cooperation.
Resources should be dedicated to both the bottom-up founding of self-managed worker cooperatives as well as the conversion of existing business into self-managed worker cooperatives.
Community defense should be encouraged whenever and wherever possible, with measures taken to limit legal risks to the overall organization. Medic work and survival-based mutual aid are also critical here.
Recruitment efforts must be taken. It’s not enough to only bring in new members to an organization. There must be ongoing engagement. We need mentorship. We need accessibility. We need a formal education program that covers not only theory, but also the practice of participating in our organization and, most especially, in organizing as a general practice.
Restorative Justice. We need a group that dedicates itself to learning this, training others, and establishing best practices.
Finally — and this really is lucky number seven — people need to embrace the social. Have hobbies. Treat people as friends — normal friends — not just “comrades in arms” or potential debate partners or whatever you want to call the current state of Left expectation setting and infighting. Maybe drink a beer once and a while. Play some board games. Do sports. This past Sunday was Easter so, for Christ’s sake, break some bread with comrades. It was also Trans Day of Visibility. Be visible, be a part of your community — your neighborhood, your school, your workplace, etc. — and show kindness even more than militancy. If the people who know you are fond of you, you’re winning half the battle right there.
https://dsa-lsc.org/2024/04/02/democratic-socialists-of-america-and-the-2024-elections-forging-a-new-path/
Democratic Socialists of America's Libertarian Socialist Caucus
Democratic Socialists of America and the 2024 Elections — Forging a New Path
Freedom lives in the lungs. Take a deep breath…. Exhale. Four years ago, a new virus making its way across the world had just entered the United States. The results on a populace denied the right to healthcare was to be deadly. Four years ago, a man known…
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