@Lookout

yeah, biden is really taking a page out of obama's book with symbolic acts and lip service to the left while doing the business of the corporate state.

have a great evening!

President Biden has formally recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a federal holiday, following a growing movement to debunk the myth of Christopher Columbus as a beneficent discoverer and replace it with recognition that the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas unleashed a brutal genocide that massacred tens of millions of Native people across the hemisphere. But the holiday will continue to be shared with Columbus Day, which many argue glorifies the nation’s dark history of colonial genocide that killed millions of Native people. “It’s just not appropriate to celebrate Columbus and Indigenous peoples on the same day. It’s a contradiction,” says author and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. “Genocidal enslavement is what Columbus represents.”

Interesting take as is this

In response to the completion of the contested Line 3 pipeline, which is now reportedly operational, thousands of Indigenous leaders and climate justice advocates are kicking off the “People vs. Fossil Fuels’’ mobilization, an Indigenous-led five-day action of civil disobedience at the White House to demand President Biden declare a climate emergency, divest from fossil fuels and launch a “just renewable energy revolution.” “This pipeline doesn’t respect treaty rights,” says Winona LaDuke, longtime Indigenous activist and founder of Honor the Earth, a platform to raise awareness of and money for Indigenous struggles for environmental justice. “They’re just trying to continue their egregious behavior. It’s so tragic that, on the one hand, the Biden administration is like, ’We’re going to have Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but we’re still going to smash you in northern Minnesota and smash the rest of the country.’” LaDuke faces criminal charges linked to her protest of pipelines in three different counties.

Hypocrisy front to back. No mention of genocide, but we're gonna honor you now (as we continue to screw you).

Great music tonight anyway. Helps me get past the stench of America. Thanks js!

@gjohnsit

i hope that it gets traction and gets something started. this would be the time for a general strike.

https://www.octoberstrike.com/

@humphrey

heh, that's fucking great.

This might be the most perfect political ad. pic.twitter.com/vyQf4cmB53

— Anthony Michael Kreis 169 A.D.2d 254 (@AnthonyMKreis) October 11, 2021

@humphrey

i guess we better all stock up on rubber rafts now before the rush is on.

The effects of climate change could already be impacting 85 percent of the world's population, an analysis of tens of thousands of scientific studies said https://t.co/kOi3F6BXGb

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 11, 2021

@ggersh

well, let's see, so far billionaires have brought us a crushingly brutal system of wolves and sheep, where the billionaires get to play the wolves and everybody else, well you guessed it. funny that they are now worried about "sustainability."

a billionaire of course. Russell Brand explains it all.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwV4T9of1oY]

@humphrey

seems like corporate dems are always most comfortable when they are "forced" by republican villains to do the will of the 1%. i suppose the only good thing about that is that it would make manchin and sinema redundant.

@on the cusp

wow, that's pretty bad when your medical testing facility has to close during a pandemic. is that common in your area?

wow, how much time do you get between hearings? that sounds like a pretty huge caseload for a single afternoon.

have a great evening!

to get a 2 hour allergy test done. Got there to the office, discovered the lab employees were all out sick with COVID, so no testing for 3 weeks.
Oh well, caught a great sale at a clothing store, and have spent the afternoon and evening listening to music. Blues, rock, country, vintage 50s top hits, and some great cajun. Well, until my Dear One saw me looking for motels in Baton Rouge to book, and he switched to 50s movie themes.
Oh well, tomorrow afternoon is a test. Can I announce "ready" for 8 hearings in succession and really mean it? That is going back to work after a day off with a vengeance.
Hope you had a nice weekend, joe!

@pswaterspirit

glad to hear that activism scored a big win - and glad to hear that protecting the environment drew a broad coalition across the usual political divides.

have a great evening!

The Lummi, the paper mill workers, and others from every walk of life ran out 5 proposed oil export facilities, a coal export facility and an LNG facility. When the dust settled and we had won no one was more surprised than we were. We beat BNSF. Tessero/ Savage, Millennium Coal, and the Chinese who were busily greasing palms well on their way to building an LNG facility. Oddly enough Bernie Sanders probably deserved part of the credit. We were presented with the Vancouver Washington facility as a done deal. We each felt helpless. I had decided to hear all the presidential candidates speak as they rolled through our second rate town. Bernie came to Portland the following week, so I went. He inspired me to at least go speak my piece and not just take oil trains, at the rate of 1 an hour, running through my town. I met 300 like minded people who individually came to the same conclusion. We had each individually decided to go hear what Bernie had to say and had attended his rally. From there we grew into a huge group for the next 3 years the port commission had to hold it's meetings in an auditorium. We were of all political beliefs including more than a few who likely ended up voting for Trump. The Lummi joined and we were soon having our meetings outdoors around a totem pole carved specifically for this quest. Even little old logger town Aberdeen with it's 14% unemployment rate joined us and came out in droves to support the Quinalt tribe on whose oyster beds another oil company planned to build on. It can be done but it takes setting aside what people don't agree on and focusing on what we do. At the bottom of everything that is the key.