538 updated its forecast model

“The power of divestment comes from the larger movement that surrounds the financial action. By challenging business-as-usual, we can remove the industry's social license to operate both in the market and in our political sphere.”
Here’s a step-by-step plan for you and your DSA chapter to get involved in the divestment movement.

dsabuild.org/divest

"College students organized walkouts. Bridges were blocked, ports were stalled, and railroad tracks were blockaded. The Wet’suwet’en encampments had become a flashpoint in a larger struggle for Indigenous sovereignty—and against a warming planet. "

https://newrepublic.com/article/156582/wetsuweten-take-another-anti-pipeline-struggle-mainstream

"The very idea of projecting Modi as a future Prime Minister had come up, sometime before 2014, at an “investors’ summit” attended by the major corporate honchos of the country."

www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/02/layers-within-corporate-financial.html

"Defining ecofascism is vitally important because it allows those of us who value equality, dignity, and liberty to recognize emergent ecofascism while it is still imminently smashable. It also helps us imagine how current political formations support reactionary responses to climate change and how those responses will be horrifically violent toward people of color and climate refugees."

dsabuild.org/on-ecofascism

"Systems are intertwined in nonlinear ways. Macro level systems both develop from and create microsystems. What appears to be a new environmental movement from Sunrise with the Green New Deal, championed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has deep roots in localized actions."

dsabuild.org/organizing-with-nature-in-mind

"socialists should create socialist consciousness in local organizing groups, movement groups, and other activist organizations like non-profits, coalitions, volunteer groups, social justice-oriented groups, and other non-socialist and non-union formations."

https://dsabuild.org/las

"If previous data-sharing arrangements are a guide, the new facial recognition network will likely be connected to similar databases in the U.S., creating what privacy researchers are calling a massive transatlantic consolidation of biometric data."

theintercept.com/2020/02/21/eu-facial-recognition-database/

"If we look at the recent global protests, uprisings and movements including the four countries that I mentioned above, they still use the same old tactics and methods to meet their demands. Surely, we cannot use the old tools and tactics in dealing with this very advanced system.
... Regardless, the protesters need to expand and spread their struggles effectively to the masses by organising in local groups and non-hierarchal mass organisations. They need to involve people in their neighbourhoods, factories, workplaces, schools, universities and offices to set up people’s assemblies. To have regular meetings to bring back the politics to the hands of people by empowering themselves to make their own decisions about every aspect of their own lives and their communities."

libcom.org/news/we-must-bury-traditional-struggles-adopt-new-ones-12022020

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