#fridays for future

[alpaca-clouds]

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (or: why the climate movement is failing)

Okay, talking about politics this week, let me talk about this amazing book that you all should read, because it is not that long and it really makes a lot of good points. I found this book through the Philosophy Tube video a couple of years ago.

So, what is this book about?

To put it lightly: It is about how the climate movement is failing over their refusal to use any sort of violence or sabotage. And it is about the ethics of violence.

Which is not only important to the climate movement, but all sorts of progressive movements. Which again brings me back to what I talked about so many times before: Being against a revolution is being against change. And the left in general has a problem with idealizing parcifism to an unhealthy degree.

Let me explain: The left has in general very much drunken the cool-aid to accept that there is no violence happening right now, so using violence against the perceived non-violence is wrong. But that entire idea is bullshit.

Letting people starve, while there is enough food around for everyone, is a form of violence.

Letting people die of preventable deseases, because they cannot afford health care, is a form of violence.

Letting people die in extreme weather, just so that a few people can profit from fossil fuels... Well, that is a form of violence, too.

But left people - especially white, leftists - have very much accepted that non-action can never be violence. So, not giving someone the food they need, cannot be violence in their point of view. So, using violence to act against the system that lets this happen again and again... that is "out of proportion" in their point of view. Because they do not suffer themselves, they do not perceive the violence.

The book talks about how specifically the climate movement refuses to use any form of violence, even just in the form of sabotage, in which no human would ever come to harm. Which is why the title is "how to blow up a pipeline". Because blowing up a pipeline would harm those, who profit from climate change, from the fossil fuels. The book is also about how the climate movement then goes ahead to appropriate civil rights leaders, without really understanding the context they were in. Because they will name Martin Luther King, Ghandi or Nelson Mandela as examples of people who succeeded with non-violence, without acknowledging that all three of those leaders were leaders of a non-violent group that closely associated with a violent movement that aimed for the same changes. And through that contrast - of a violent group and a peaceful group with widespread support - the people in power were forced to make a move to work towards them to some degree.

Now, technically the book involved nothing new to me. Because I thought about this topic - about the ethics and visuals of violence - for a long while now. It also is fitting with the entire French Revolution thing I spoke about on Sunday. Because we see it in the judgement of the French Revolution as well. On how there a) was a peaceful group first, and b) the violence that happened, happened in response to other violence.

And as the book points out: The fossil fuel industry does not care. As a German I know this too well. And I think it is no accident that a lot of the examples of this in the book come from Germany. Our climate movement here is very tame. It is mostly just kids (like people between their teens and early twenties) doing protests in forms of blocking streets and the likes. Yet, the fossil lobby and those in power will call that "terrorism" and will call that one time when folks tore down a fence at the coal mine as "extreme violent behavior". They are doing massive and at times violent police action against those KIDS, who organize the street blockades. Having thrown literal teenagers into prison for at times weeks, before judges intervened clearly saying that "the kids have done nothing illegal".

They do not care that the movement is non-violent. And the movement will not get anywhere, without some group standing in and doing some damage to the most important thing those people can think of: Their base line.

#how to blow up a pipeline #climate movement #fridays for future #climate action now #anarchism #anti fossil fuels #protest #solarpunk

[higherentity]

#greta thunberg #climate activist #activist #climate warrior #greta #swedish #fridays for future

[leo-fie]

News from the Twilight Zone

And it's about Greta Thunberg again. I think she's a good example as she is an international figure and the news about her can be compared and contrasted.

So you all saw the video where some dude took away Thunbers's mic when she was speaking on behalf of the palestinian people. He said he was here for a climate protest, not for politics. Irony is dead.

Now, what was the reaction to this on the German left?

Volksverpetzer is a non-profit whose bread and butter is debunking covid conspiracies. They don't call themselves explicitly political, but their dedication to the truth and to rigorous research automatically places them on the left. Also they sell merch saying "FCK NZS" (Fuck Nazis) and "Lebe jeden Tag so, dass die AfD was dagegen hätte" (Live every day in a way alt-right party AfD would hate). They are based, as the kids say. I donated to them in the past.

Now they say the climate movement should get rid of Thunberg for her "antisemitism".

The text says "take away Greta's mic"

Wearing a kufiya, which until 5 minutes ago was just a normal fashion item in Germany worn and sold everywhere, is antisemitic apparently. Saying "No climate justice on occupied land" is "glorification of Hamas terror".

This view is shared in every news outlet, from the alt-right Welt to the public broadcast Tagesschau to the oh so radical taz.

Politicians are calling for her to be removed. There is no difference between critique of Israel and Antisemitism and not a word about how popular the pro-palestinian position is worldwide.

This is a microcosm of what I see everywhere. I'm just some person, I don't know how to research or analyze this. But I am active in both English and German speaking internet discourse and the difference is driving me insane.

It's not that our leaders and main stream media aren't staunchly zionist, of course they are. But as far as I can see, the anti-zionist, pro-palestinian opinion exists in your news coverage. There is a discussion happening in the wider public. Piers fucking Morgan had Bassem Youssef on multiple times.

Here it's as if questioning Israel is such a fringe and obviously stupid opionion that it does not have to be taken seriously. No normal person would think that.

It's kinda similar to how we talked about Neo-Nazis until a few years ago. They exist, they have opinions and symbols and stuff, but they are so obviously evil that none of their talking points are worth debunking in polite society.

Germans calling themselves antifa are supporting Israel as if it's the most normal thing in the world. This is a different reality.

#news from the twilight zone #israel #palestine #free palestine #gaza #news media #germany #israel palestine conflict #israel palestine war #antifa #antizionism #zionism #fridays for future #greta thunberg #climate activism

[gortius-viii]

Dumb flag project

So, I don't blame you if you haven't, but I've recently added a to-do list to my pinned post, where I wrote something along the lines of: "What if the flags that have blue/white for the sky had it grey???". This 300 IQ idea came to me while remembering a project by the Spanish branch of Fridays For Future, in which they took the flags of Spanish provinces which were most threatened by rising rea levels and "sunk" them. A link to that is right here:

I'm honestly too ashamed to post this on my main twitter, since it's so effortless and doesn't have the impact that the "Juventud por el clima" campaign had. Anyone is free to add some cloud effects, industrial chimneys of anything of the sort that I simply don't have the skill for.

More quality content will be coming soon hopefully.

See ya!

#pollution #flags #flag #fridays for future #grey #vexillography #flag design

[tattoosandkinkystuff]

#femboys #fridays for future #climate change #climate crisis #femboii #feminine men

[anthropologistfromentropy]

Oh, if a lot of children and teens went on strike or just laid flat in protest, for example for Palestine, how much of an effect it would have?

I know they did for climate, but only on Fridays. What about every day until USA stops giving aid to Israel and votes for a ceasefire?

I don't think it would take that many months if it was most children and teens in most states... They definitely couldn't take everyone into custody.

#palestine #free gaza #free palestine #ceasfire now #strike for palestine #strike for gaza #gaza #global strike #school strike #fridays for future

[readingsquotes]

"Advocating for climate justice fundamentally comes from a place of caring about people and their human rights. That means speaking up when people suffer, are forced to flee their homes or are killed – regardless of the cause. It is the same reason why we have always held strikes in solidarity with marginalised groups – including those in Sápmi, Kurdistan, Ukraine and many other places – and their struggles for justice against imperialism and oppression. Our solidarity with Palestine is no different, and we refuse to let the public focus shift away from the horrifying human suffering that Palestinians are currently facing.

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We won’t stop speaking out about Gaza’s suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future Sweden

Young climate activists haven’t ‘been radicalised’ – solidarity with marginalised people has always been at the heart of our message

#free palestine #greta thunberg #fridays for future #climate action

[szepkerekkocka]

Ezt hozták össze a diákszervezetek az önkori választásra.

#adom #egységes diákfront #fridays for future

[ithinkwehitametaphor]

Fridays for Future, Hamburg. Strejk för klimatet. 🌍

#nothing #fridays for future

[unfug-bilder]

Das wird man ja wohl noch fragen dürfen!

(C) Beck

#Beck #Halloween #fridays for future

[leaving-fragments]

i think i'm so wet and muddy i'll never be dry and clean again but also wow 35 000 ppl demonstrating in lützerath, which is literally in the middle of nowhere, in the rain all day... surreal in a good way

#im so tired now but also feeling actually better about the world #people CARE #lützibleibt #fridays for future

[higherentity]

#luisa neubauer #climate activist #german #luisa #fridays for future #activist

[leo-fie]

News from the twilight zone: After Fridays for Future stood with Greta Thunberg in her support for Palestine, German left leaning newspaper taz calls the whole movement antisemitic. According to them stating the fact that Israel is an apartheid state and is doing a genocide of the palestinian people right now is peddling conspiracy theories and victim blaming. Stating that many news outlets have swallowed Israels propaganda is alluting to the conspiracy theory of jews controlling the media.

Sauce

Can't make this shit up...

Germany, quo vadis?

#israel #palestine #israel palestine war #fridays for future #greta thunberg #german media #zionism #just so much #fucking zionism

[o0o0o0o0o0o0o]

Just saw this at a FFF demonstration about the state of climate and felt the vibes

#introverts #fridays for future #climate activism #relatable memes #memes

[shiny1jux]

Für mehr gute Nachrichten zwischendurch 😇

#Erde #fridays for future #fridaysforfuture #Bäume #nachrichten

[yenshuliao]

#people not profit #fridays for future