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listen to Uncle Mike on @democracynow: "People are not going gently into Trump’s good night. They’re fighting like hell. But the problem is: Have you read about this very often? Have you heard about it even on CNN?..." 1/ https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/mike_davis_as_workers_face_dangerous
"And you haven’t, because there’s not been any kind of decisive action from the Democrats to support the protests, or by the progressives to build a national movement in solidarity..." 2/
"people seem to believe it’s all a matter of [
's] disorganization...his incompetence... I don’t think that’s really true. I think, from very early on... they’ve embraced this theory that in order to keep the economy open... to rely on herd immunity, let people get infected." 3/
's] disorganization...his incompetence... I don’t think that’s really true. I think, from very early on... they’ve embraced this theory that in order to keep the economy open... to rely on herd immunity, let people get infected." 3/
in re Dan Patrick: "Well, the Nazis had a program of killing elderly people with dementia, & they put them in a category w children w severe handicaps[:] 'lives not worthy of life.' And that seems to be the kind of neo-Nazi ethic that’s running through the GOP right now." 4/
"it’s not just [Trump or Bolsonaro]... [In the EU] member nations are responsible for their own health system, [but] in the event of cross-border epidemics, each country is supposed to aid the other. Italy... invoked this treaty, and 29 other EU members did absolutely nothing."5/
"one thing we know for sure is that if a vaccine is developed in [the US], it won’t be going to Africa, probably won’t be going to South America. I assume it will go to red states first and then maybe trickle down to blue..." 6/
"But it’s not simply abandoning the existing institutions of internationalism. This is a kind of **triage of humanity**, where wealthy countries have retreated from even the pretense of moral obligations to the poorer countries..." 7/
"we’ve seen millions of people... who have been laid off work, lost their jobs [&] their workplace-based health insurance... Public health, the system is collapsing. Hospitals are going under... there’s only one possible way [out:] Medicare for All w universal sick leave" 8/
"we need to fight like hell for [M4A]... whatever happens, we’re going to have to get out & vote for Biden. But I can’t convince my own children of that,& I can’t convince my students, unless they see some dramatic changes in Biden’s attitude...& in the elite of the Dem Party."9/
AG: "you reject the choice between optimism & pessimism. Why?"
MD: "...people fight for what is necessary & for what is right. And the necessary very often is not the realistic... the test of a true radical is always choose the necessary, what is humanly essential to be done."10/
MD: "...people fight for what is necessary & for what is right. And the necessary very often is not the realistic... the test of a true radical is always choose the necessary, what is humanly essential to be done."10/
"One thing that’s happened recently has been the reinvention of an old, sacred weapon of the labor mvt, used by Ford workers decisively in 1941 when they rang River Rouge, the biggest plant in the world, w 100s of cars. Now we see demonstrators in cars, moving picket lines." 11/
"we need to be out there. And we need to be calling for some kind of national coalition &... day of action, bc people, partic the [1000s of people who volunteered for] the Sanders mvt... they’re sitting at home for instructions that haven’t come yet, and they may never come." 12/
"We have to be sure that they’re given a strategy and a narrative to follow, to fight through. And this must begin, I think, with solidarity with the workers who are already struggling." /end
that's praxis, folks: enough waiting for Godot
that's praxis, folks: enough waiting for Godot
