My latest: Don't listen to the siren calls against populism. What we desperately need now is real populism - of Extinction Rebellion, of Greta Thunberg and the school strikes, of a Green New Deal and climate emergencies to save us from the abysshttps://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2019-05-14/real-populism-is-the-answer-to-climate-crisis/ …
they argument is not against protests or raising popular consciousness; on the contrary: it is that corporate-sponsored "protests" are a mystification that can only make the problem worse, because they lead us away from any meaningful solution
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So you're saying millions of schoolkids and protesters are doomed to 'mystification' that will leave them permanently in the pockets of the corporations and therefore shouldn't bother taking to the streets?
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this article that Robin Monotti forwarded very well illustrates the cynical manipulation of protestors by what Cory Morningstar calls the Non-Profit Industrial Complex--it is they who hold these schoolkids and protesters in contempthttps://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1126719466643963907 …
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