cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22208294

Niraj Warikoo
Detroit Free Press
November 6, 2024 updated 10:03 EST

Organizers from Chevron Out of Palestine, Oil & Gas Action Network, Scientist Rebellion, Palestinian Youth Movement, and Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) Movement passed out stickers to protestors, solidifying the call to expose Chevron’s complicity in “fueling the genocide.” According to organizers, this was the seventh protest in the Bay Area this year against the oil giant, which is one of Israel’s largest power sources.

A half-hour later, the group made their way along a dirt-paved trail parallel to a lake that sits within Chevron’s headquarters. Dressed in keffiyehs, protesters carried signs that read, “Boycott Chevron” and “Chevron Out of Palestine,” while chanting, “Chevron, Chevron, you can’t hide, you are fueling genocide!” Meanwhile, at the center of the lake, activists stationed on three boats unfurled a banner that read, “Boycott Chevron.”

TED talk on quadratic funding, a non-market mechanism that a postcapitalist society could use to support a decentralized ecosystem of public goods available to each according to need

"How Quadratic Funding Could Finance Your Dreams | Kevin Owocki | TED"

https://youtu.be/1GRt0j698T4

This mechanism could be used to solve funding issues in public goods such as journalism and FOSS.

Please ignore the reference to crypto. This could be incorporated into today's voting process

@socialism

/watch?v=Z5sA0ioZcNE

Ewww a youtube link

New York City mayor Eric Adams has had a bad tenure even by the low standards of New York City mayors. He has enraged the city’s progressives with his policies, and his political future looks shaky now that he and his allies are the subjects of overlapping federal corruption charges. Adams’ weakness has already prompted five Democratic challengers to declare their candidacy for mayor, and that number may well increase in coming months.

One of those candidates is socialist Zohran Mamdani, who currently represents parts of Queens in the New York assembly. Mamdani, a 33-year-old with a history of leftist activism for labor and antiwar causes, has won the official endorsement of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, making his candidacy an ambitious step forward for DSA’s burgeoning involvement in New York City politics.

I spoke to Mamdani yesterday about Eric Adams, Donald Trump, and the painstaking task of hauling socialism into the political mainstream.