Intentionally blocking traffic on a major highway is NOT an effective method to achieve anyone's transportations goals/objectives. 😡
The reaction will only be negative amongst those who are in charge of making transporation management decisions.
It makes for good press for those in support of it but you can be sure that law enforcement is using any available means to identify any/all of the participants in this demonstration and, if successful, arrests will follow. 👍
Another end of the world is possible: #indigenous solidarity and blocking extractive infrastructure in Canada
"Not only can blockades “shut down the world”, they also open up space for a new one to be built, or in the case of colonized peoples, a world restored. We can look to many of the indigenous blockades or occupations of the last several decades for the examples of ceremonial, culinary, and other socially reproductive practices that point toward new ways of living which are themselves produced through resistance. Similarly, we see the revitalization of warrior culture being expressed at Standing Rock and other moments of indigenous revolt to be indicative of a broader possibility of life without the state or capitalism.
We hold evident that blockades are a crucial tactic in our war against planetary annihilation. With this tactical imperative, we call on all warriors and revolutionaries around the world to immediately orient themselves around blockading infrastructure. Collectives must research infrastructure to find the most vulnerable chokepoints and get organized to block them in effective ways. Those without fighting comrades can still contribute by engaging in lone wolf acts of sabotage. – Disrupt the Flows: War Against DAPL and Planetary Annihilation"
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Das 40,00€ teurer gewordene Nachfolgeticket zum 9-Euro-Ticket soll Daten melken. Zwar solle das Ticket übergangsweise nicht nur für Smartphones erhältlich sein sondern auch auf Chip-Karten und kurzzeitig auf Papier mit QR-Code, aber wichtig scheint es den Regierenden vor allem anderen, dass mit dem 49€-Ticket Echtzeit-Verkehrsdaten erhoben werden können.
Positiv klingt zunächst: "Es werde nicht gespeichert, wer von A nach B fährt, sondern nur, wie stark die Verkehrsmittel ausgelastet sind. Für die Fahrgäste könnte das ein Nutzen sein, weil die Verkehrsunternehmen so für ausreichend Kapazitäten sorgen könnten."
Allerdings: Das Ticket wird wohl nur als Abo personalisiert erworben werden können, so dass darüber anfallende Personendaten zukünftig schnell integriert werden könnten. Mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen massiven Ausbau des Überwachungsstaats und der Kontrollgesellschaft in Deutschland und der EU (digitale Personenkennziffer/RegMod, Chatkontrolle, Identifizierungspflicht, Biometrie, eIDAS uvm) ist es doch auch gar nicht die Frage ob, sondern nur wann und mit welchem Vorwand (Anschläge, Pandemie, Jugendschutz, Wahlkampf) personalisierte Datenerfassung und Polizeizugriffe kommen werden, sobald die digitale Kontrollinfrastruktur erst einmal errichtet wurde.
Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression
"...offers the first in-depth study of how various communities and activist organizations are resisting such efforts by integrating digital media activism into their actions against state surveillance and repression and for a better world. The book focuses on a wide array of movements within the United States such as Latinx copwatching groups in New York City, Muslim and Arab American communities in Minneapolis, undercover animal rights activists, and countersummit protesters to explore the ways in which government surveillance and repression impacts them and, more importantly, their different but related online and offline tactics and strategies employed for self-determination and liberation. Digital media production becomes a core element in such organizing as cell phones and other forms of handheld technology become more ubiquitous. Yet such uses of technology can only be successfully employed when built upon strong grassroots organizing that has always been essential for social movements to take root."
the circus that currently performs in finnish government is getting so out of hands that im just waiting for the day it just implodes in on it self like couple billionaires in a submarine.
Today was supposed to be the day for Great and Massive Counter Protest for the antigovernment and antiracism march held last month, that had over 10 000 participants. bit late for a counterprotest anyway but sure what ever.
#TheGlobalJigsaw latest episode was looking into the months long #protest in #Israel and why hundreds of thousands care for what is called a judicial #reform but can be viewed as limitations on the checks and balances on #Knesset lawmakers and govt
Proteste am "Tag der Störung" gegen Justizreform in Israel gestartet
Zu Beginn des "Tags der Störung" gegen die umstrittene Justizreform haben Demonstranten in Israel am Morgen wichtige Autobahnen blockiert. Im Laufe des Tages sind weitere Massenproteste und Kundgebungen geplant.
Today in Labor History July 31, 1968: Students protested the Olympics in Mexico City. They occupied schools and began a General Strike. Cops violently attacked them. The violence culminated with the Tlatelolco massacre, October 2. As a result, the cops slaughtered 350-400 people, using snipers. They arrested and tortured over 1,300.
Alejandro Jodorowsky dramatized the massacre in his amazing film, “The Holy Mountain” (1973). In it, he showed birds, fruits, vegetables and other things falling and being ripped out of the wounds of the dying students. The late author, Roberto Bolaño, recounted the massacre in his novel “Amulet” (1999). He also retells the story in his novel, “The Savage Detectives.”
"A group of anti-car activists in San Francisco have been disabling driverless cars owned by Waymo and Cruise by placing traffic cones on their hoods which appear to render the vehicles inoperable."
Academics say that disruptive protest helps rather than hinders activists’ cause. This comes from Apollo polling 120 academic experts in Sociology, Political Science etc.
The poll also found that disruptive tactics were effective for issues (like climate change) that have high public awareness and support.
90% of experts thought that non-violent climate protests targeting the government are at least somewhat effective overall.
I love events like this one that scramble stereotypes for good causes: local youth with the Rose Park Brown Berets organized a bike ride through their neighborhood on the west side of Salt Lake City to protest a proposed interstate highway expansion as another round of racist displacement.
Die Punks sind auf die Insel Sylt zurückgekehrt. Bereits während des 9-Euro-Tickets kamen sie auf die Insel. 🌾
Nun will eine Gruppe von Punks bis zum 20. August auf Sylt bleiben, um auf eine "Spaltung der Gesellschaft" aufmerksam zu machen. Der Kreis hatte die Protestaktion unter Auflagen genehmigt. 🪧
Climate protestors block entrances to two major oil refineries (news.stv.tv)
Protestors from This is Rigged have blocked the entrance to the Ineos plant in Grangemouth and the Nustar Terminal in Clydebank.