Should we save the planet or kill the enemy? 

Perhaps no question more succinctly separates the past from the future, or so it occurred to me after I read Rebecca Solnit’s stunning observation in a recent essay: that the mass murders in Christchurch, N.Z. on March 15 occurred on the same day, and in the same general area, as the climate strike young activists were holding in Christchurch as part of a global action, with rallies in well over a hundred countries involving tens of thousands of people.

This juxtaposition was “also a perfectly coherent one, a clash of opposing ideologies,” Solnit wrote. “Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected; behind white supremacy is an ideology of separation.”

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Coup-leader Prayuth Chan-ocha expects his
impressive wins in elections on March 24 will extend his prime
ministry, but anti-junta politicians are struggling to form a
coalition strong enough to challenge him.

Voting results were marred by irregularities and delays but both sides
appeared to win large competing blocks of seats in the House of
Representatives elections.

Attention was now on smaller parties to see which side they would support.

The most stunning victory by a smaller party was Thanathorn
Juangroongruangkit's rebellious Future Forward.

They promised to punish future coup leaders, end army conscription,
slash the military's budget and rewrite Prime Minister Prayuth's 2017
constitution.

Mr. Thanathorn is a 40-year-old scion of a wealthy family
manufacturing automobile parts, and attracted most of his support from
younger voters.

They were fed up with their parents' inability to stop Thailand's
U.S.-trained army from launching a dozen coups since World War II in a

The progressive liberal Democratic-Republican hero was supposed to be handed the presidency in 1800, and instead there was a tie.

Somebody was going to have to pay. And the proper payment would be a charge of treason.

We know that Thomas Jefferson was a progressive liberal because he said really nice things. He also enslaved and whipped and raped. He invented claims of white racist superiority to prove that all men were not created equal — claims that inspire fascist visitors to Charlottesville to this day. He invented the right of slave states to “nullify” federal law, not to mention being the principal creator of our beloved two-party system.

It was Jefferson’s presidency. He had waited for it. It was his turn now. And that blasted Aaron Burr had exactly as many votes as he had. First this would have to be fixed. Then Burr would have to be punished.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types have made insufficient progress on key issues, particularly in relation to ending violence and war (and the threat of nuclear war), stopping the exploitation of many peoples and halting the endless assaults on Earth’s biosphere.
 

Of course, in order for those of us who identify as activists to have any prospect of success in these and other endeavors, we need to understand how the world works and to develop an interrelated set of nonviolent strategies that are being effectively implemented to address each of the key aspects of this crisis.