If you're in the SF Bay Area on Dec 7, be sure to come to the HOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR. i'll be hosting a Panel Discussion And Readings With: Tongo Eisen-Martin: San Francisco Poet Laureate (Someone's Dead Already; Waiting Behind Tornados for Food) Ananda Esteva: (The Wanderings of Chela Coatlícue; Pisco Sours) Jenny Worley: (Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest & Power) and myself, Michael Dunn: (Anywhere But Schuylkill) #books #author #writer #fiction #poetry [@bookstadon](

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“​​Countries are falling behind on almost every policy required to cut greenhouse gas emissions,” according to the “state of climate action 2023” report covered in the Guardian. The newspaper says that to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures, coal must be phased out seven times faster than the current rate – equivalent to retiring about 240 average-sized coal-fired power plants a year, every year between now and 2030. Deforestation must also be reduced four times faster than the current pace and public transport around the world built out six times faster than the current pace, it says. It adds that the world must also “cut meat consumption from ruminants such as cows and sheep to about two servings a week in the US, Europe and other high-consuming countries by 2030” and “increase the rate of growth of solar and wind power from its current high of 14% a year to 24% a year”. The newspaper reports that electric vehicle sales – which have more than tripled since 2020 – is the only indicator of the 42 assessed that is progressing on track.

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World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds - Carbon Brief

“​​Countries are falling behind on almost every policy required to cut greenhouse gas emissions,” according to the “state of climate acti...

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Yes, it seems that the "Don't Tread On Me" freedom-loving, deep-state-hating right actually love secret police when they're attacking POC and immigrants, fulfilling their racist blood lust. Kinda like how the gun rights right, who insist we need hundreds of millions of guns to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government, cheer on a tyrannical government when it panders to their racist, sexist, homophobic blood lust.

Today in Labor History November 8, 1939: Johann Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. He placed a bomb near the platform where Hitler was to deliver a speech. However, Hitler left earlier than expected and was unaffected, 8 others were killed & 62 were injured. Elser imprisoned for five years and then executed at Dachau concentration camp less than a month before the Nazis surrendered. Elser had been a member of the left-leaning Federation of Woodworkers Union and the Red Front-Fighters' Association. #workingclass #LaborHistory #hitler #nazis #fascism #antifascism #assassination #georgelser

Today in Labor History November 8, 1968: At the request of the U.S., the UK began their ethnic cleansing of the Chagos Islands, in the Indian Ocean. The forced removal of the Chagos Islanders concluded in 1973, paving the way for the U.S. to use the islands as a staging and refueling station for its wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan, primarily from its base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia. The U.S. desired a depopulated territory to avoid the UN’s decolonization requirements. Lord Greenhill wrote the following to the British Delegation at the UN: “The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours; there will be no indigenous population except seagulls who have not yet got a committee. Unfortunately, along with the Birds go some few Tarzans or Men Fridays.” In the early- to mid-1800s, the Chagos Islands were used as staging post in the slave trade. In the 1970s, the governments of Mauritius and the Seychelles protested the forced removals. There were also protest actions taken by Chagos Islanders, including street demonstrations and a hunger strike by six Chagossian women. In 2000, the British High Court granted the deportees the right to return, but they were never allowed to actually return. In 2019, the International Court of Justice delivered the advisory opinion that the removal of the islanders had not been lawful. #workingclass #LaborHistory #colonialism #chagos #diegogarcia #deportation #GulfWar #afghanistan #civildisobedience

Today in Labor History November 8, 1972: The “Trail of Broken Treaties” marchers occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Washington, DC. The protest was led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means and members of the Rosebud Sioux. They were demanding legal recognition of all existing treaties, restoration of the treaty-making process, and the return of 110 million acres of stolen Indigenous land. #workingclass #LaborHistory #TrailOfBrokenTreaties #nativeamerican #indigenous #protest #AmericanIndianMovement #aim

Today in Labor History November 8, 1923: Hitler led a failed coup d’etat in Munich, known as the Beerhall Putsch. Inspired by Mussolini’s march on Rome, roughly 2,000 Nazis marched on Munich, but were repelled by police, who killed 16 Nazis in the process. Hitler escaped, wounded, but was eventually caught and imprisoned. The putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German public for the first time, and his trial gave him his first significant public platform. In prison, he dictated “Mein Kampf” to fellow prisoners, Rudolf Hess and Emil Maurice. Nearly 11 years later, on May 2, 1933, in one of his first acts after coming to power, Hitler abolished all labor unions. Storm troopers occupied union offices across Germany. Union leaders were arrested, beaten, tortured and imprisoned, or sent to concentration camps. In the coming months, thousands more communists, anarchists and labor activists were arrested and murdered. #workingclass #LaborHistory #unions #Nazis #Fascism #Hitler #prison #torture #communism #anarchism

Today in Labor History November 8, 1897: Dorothy Day was born. She was a Christian anarchist, journalist and activist. In 1933, she cofounded the Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin, combining a spiritual vision of social justice with trade unionism and other activism. They used nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to fight for the rights of workers, the poor and homeless, and against war. Catholic Worker houses still exist throughout the country, providing hospice care, housing for activists, and support for various movements. #workingclass #LaborHistory #catholicworker #dorothyday #anarchism #antiwar #peace #labor #union #activism #socialjustice #journalism #writer