What It Really Takes To Save the Planet
Hi Hi! Hope your Friday is going well! Here’s your monthly email with my brand new video alongside three quotes and three links I found illuminating during the research process. Enjoy and I hope it makes you think.
Three Quotes:
“There is a stark difference between political protest and direct action. Political protest is a form of expression, done specifically to be seen by an audience—such as the ral public or politicians in power—with the hope of convincing that audience to share the protestors’ viewpoint and maybe act on their behalf. Direct action is also political, but avoids the “middleman”; it is instead an action done to directly pursue a concrete goal, such as acquiring food with which to feed oneself.”
— CounterPunch
“Use of radical tactics by one flank led the more moderate faction to appear less radical, even though all characteristics of the moderate faction were held constant”
— Brent Simpson et al.
“The ruling classes will not really be talked into action. They are not amenable to persuasion; the louder the sirens wail, the more material they rush to the fire, and so it is evident that change will have to be forced upon them.”
— Andreas Malm
Three Links:
Violence & Protest (Philosophy Tube)
Angela Davis on Violence and Revolution (The Black Power Mixtape)
Call climate change what it is: violence (The Guardian)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie