rip unabomber up until recently i thought that he got his title because he only bombed one place and i thought that was pretty lame like i could do that
Legendary musician, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte has died at 96 years old. He was one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidants and helped organize the March on Washington in 1963.
Watch our interviews with Belafonte: https://t.co/06gknbtfjg
There is no easy way to talk about this but today Joe Biden approved a $38,700,000,000 gas project in Alaska.
This includes 807 miles of pipeline, a gas treatment plant, a liquefaction facility, & a LNG terminal that would process 20,000,000 metric tons of gas per year. (1/9)🧵
Long ass thread about why I'm NOT voting YES on the WGA SAV.
I've been poor my entire life. I moved to LA with no financial support system, ended up living in my car for two months, before finally landing an assistant job on a long-running show (CSI).
@ArielaBarer and her collaborators belong to the first generation experiencing the climate crisis as lived reality. And yet their movie, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, is so propulsive it defies despair. She spoke to @anya1anya about the taut eco-thriller https://t.co/1oNaEGmtJ5
I honestly can’t believe music I made is in How To Blow Up A Pipeline it’s sooooo crazy and I’m so proud of everyone who worked on it and I’ve never been more stoked to be a part of something!!!! I hate capitalism!!!! But I love movies!!!
One of the biggest obstacles to building a robust anti-war movement is people's belief that their own individual activism and opposition makes no difference, which is simply not true. Your individual activism and opposition makes *ALMOST* no difference, not no difference. These might sound similar, but they're actually literally an entire infinity apart.
If your efforts to oppose our track toward WW3 made no difference, then those efforts would be pointless. But if your efforts make even the slightest bit of difference above absolute zero, all that means is a lot more people need to join you to help turn us away from this dangerous trajectory.
Hollywood has given us the wrong impression of how these things work, because the narrative structure of movies always places all its emphasis on the actions of the individual protagonist having an immensely consequential effect. Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star. Frodo destroys the One Ring. The Avengers save the universe. They need to make the hero's actions have major consequences to make you care about their adventure.
But real life isn't like that. In real life it takes many, many people to bring about real change. The actions of one individual make very little difference; even people like me who have larger-than-average voices are just a tiny drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things.
Real change doesn't depend on the individual, it depends on the collective. We can see this just by looking around society, at what a massive billions-of-cast-members collective improvisation human civilization is. It takes the collective to keep civilization functioning, and it will take the collective to change it.
One bee sting won't protect the hive, but many bee stings is deadly. The bee doesn't hesitate because its one individual sting isn't going to bring about its Hollywood ending — it just stings.
We need to be like that. Sting with all the power of your one sting, whatever that may be. Organizing. Attending protests. Guerrilla street activism. Writing. Tweeting. Making memes. Distributing literature. Talking to people. Making videos. Whatever you can do to help wake up the rest of the bees and alert them to the threat that our collective hive has come under.
You won't stop the empire by yourself. You won't make a major difference. But you will make *A* difference. And there's nothing anyone can do to stop you from making that small difference that you can make.
Take that unstoppable small difference and work toward getting as many of the others to do the same, because enough unstoppable small differences will necessarily add up to becoming an unstoppable big difference. And once we hit that point, healthy change becomes inevitable.