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If organizers in Atlanta can face RICO charges over taking care of one another, while a supreme court justice can take bribes to reverse his rulings…
…I simply don’t know what further evidence people need to conclude that this entire U.S. system is illegitimate.
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As we hit 1.5 C likely next year, 16 years earlier than expected world reacts by increasing fossil fuel production
World elite are intent on collective suicide for almost every species on the planet as fast as possible
Guest post: Plans for new oil and gas power plants have grown by 13% in 2023 | Jenny Martos & Julie Joly
Read: bit.ly/3RxI6pN
ALT Tunghsiao Power Plant in Miaoli, Taiwan. Credit: Jui-Chi Chan / Alamy Stock Photo
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111 years wasted when we could have acted to avoid climate collapse but instead fossil fuel companies lied and fueled the problem and our politicians repeatedly failed to do what is needed.
We still have a window to avert disaster but it gets shorter by the day. #ActOnClimate
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Kurt Vonnegut once claimed future generations would look on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. I see his point, but it turns out we just had actual lead in the actual water pipes the entire time.
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Reminder that wage theft is the single biggest source of theft in this country, far outpacing all robbery put together.
ALT Chart showing that wage theft amounts to as much as $50 billion every year stolen from workers, while all the robberies in the U.S. put together add up to about 13 billion.
Fast food corporations and trade groups have spent $4 million lobbying against a California bill that would hold corporations responsible when franchise owners break the law.
Some of these companies, unsurprisingly, have a history of wage theft.
Thread.
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This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat.
99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.
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pretty wild that corporate media just won’t ever mention this data that comes directly from the U.S. government
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FYI, since Limits to Growth was published in 1972 we’ve been following these lines scarily closely.
Look what’s about to happen to population & food in this ‘business as usual’ scenario…
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When the world burns, the gap between where we are and where we need to be appears unbridgeable...
And, yet, it is in these very moments we must recognize how far we have come and how quickly.
Climate goals are reachable. It's now about doing the work. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Cop City will never be built, and the Atlanta Police Foundation will go bankrupt. All public officials with ties to the project will be investigated for corruption. If Cadence Bank approves this loan, they'll never get the money back.
Tell them this loan is a terrible idea
Updated! You can also email the CEO, and the President of Cadence Bank and tell them not to sign off on the $20 million cop city loan!
[email protected] & [email protected]
#StopCopCity
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Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of #ClimateCrisis
1. Stop methane emissions
2. Stop deforestation
3. Restore degraded land
4. Change what we eat
5. Go #RenewableEnergy
6. Use energy more efficiently
7. Stop burning #FossilFuels
8. #ActNow theguardian.com/environment/…
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Atlanta Police LITERALLY surveilling a referendum petition drive— what isn’t clicking for folks? This is chilling af.
Cops are not the caretakers of democracy they are the hired hunters of capital. WAKE TF UP and stop buying into all the copaganda.
Abolish APD! #StopCopCity
In case there was any doubt, social media is very much monitored during movements. This is from an Atlanta police homeland security report dated 6/28/23 #StopCopCity #foiaFriday
@CopCityVote
ALT Atlanta police department homeland security unit social media updates screenshot of copcityvote instagram post of a person standing in front of the office of the municipal clerks office with 5 boxes of petition papers
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A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia, upsetting a conservative, pro-police candidate
A day later, a state lawmaker proposed the whitest county in the district separate itself, creating a new judicial circuit in GA for the 1st time in nearly 40 yrs
theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
