Anyone ready to rethink the excuse that “boys will be boys” long enough to consider it simple psychosis?

https://www.facebook.com/sueann.lorig/posts/pfbid02ehC5SU5TtwJ9fRZfptFPfRiwCKtmKBiPa2QGPPurasooRbHvdQu12YEidVi7yANzl    —

Fighting the patriarchy one grandpa at a time.”

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The truth about Tiger Swan is finally being made public .It needs to be spread far and wide.

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Tomato…tomoto…..Tiger Swan…..patriarchy….

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/13/standing-rock-tigerswan-protests/?fbclid=IwAR0OTM8I86q-7HQmaVQF4RODJZiQzqLyed9VVWHd8wgLLVIXQz7K9xIOzZI   00
A NEW BUSINESS model for breaking down environmental movements was being hatched in real time. On Labor Day weekend in 2016, private security dogs in North Dakota attacked pipeline opponents led by members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as they approached earth-moving equipment. The tribal members considered the land sacred, and the heavy equipment was breaking ground to build the Dakota Access pipeline. With a major public relations crisis on its hands, the pipeline’s parent company, Energy Transfer, hired the firm TigerSwan to revamp its security strategy.The revelation of TigerSwan’s close working relationship with the National Sheriffs’ Association is drawn from more than 50,000 pages of documents obtained by The Intercept through a public records request to the North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board. In 2017, the board sued TigerSwan for providing security services without a license. The state eventually sought a $2 million fine through the administrative process, but TigerSwan negotiated a $175,000 fine instead — well below standard fines for such activities.

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Should law enforcement protect local community members?

The subtle character of patriarchal persuasion is often mandated in laws passed by legislators who hold office based upon campaign contributions from hierarchical capitalists.  This may be harmful to humanity and nature.  —  https://popularresistance.org/its-time-for-cities-to-rethink-lawn-policy/     —

To slow the pace of extinctions and pull carbon from the sky, we need laws that incentivize replacement of grass with native plantings. We need yard reform, and we need it yesterday.

Illinois is not alone. Most states and cities have similar outdated laws and ordinances that actively discourage native plantings, although local native plant enthusiasts are working hard to rewrite these.

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We can draw strength from those who seem balanced in patriarchal/matriarchal function, if we only have the insight to recognize them.  –From lakotalaw——-To make the United States honor treaty law and shut down the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), Standing Rock and our allies are taking a long look at a new legal offensive based on the Bad Man (or Bad Men) Clause in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. Check out our blog, and at the top you’ll find the latest chapter of our Dakota Water Wars video series — co-produced as always by Lakota Law, Standing Rock, and the Great Plains Water Alliance — which takes you inside our recent strategy meeting at Standing Rock.

As you’re likely aware, DAPL parent company Energy Transfer has a terrible safety record. Today, we share with you testimony from me, Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire, Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance Director Doug Crow Ghost, and legal and technical experts. You’ll hear about Energy Transfer’s dangerous behavior, including 23 felony citations, and what we plan to do about it.

The clause states that when “bad men among the whites, or among other people subject to the authority of the United States” commit crimes against tribes or our property, the United States must take punitive action against the offenders. Energy Transfer definitely qualifies. To make things worse, DAPL currently operates without a workable emergency response plan in violation of the Clean Water Act, without an easement in violation of the Mineral Leasing Act, and without a valid Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.

The government should respect its own rules — including treaties, which are some of the original laws of this land. It’s time to hold Big Oil accountable and stop letting fossil fuel giants endanger our people and our world. Very soon now, after much delay, the Army Corps of Engineers will release DAPL’s deeply problematic EIS. They know that when they do, they’re going to hear from us en masse. Please be ready to act, because this fight isn’t over. Through the courts and public pressure, we can still beat the bad men at their own game.

Wopila tanka — thank you, always, for standing with us!
Phyllis Young
Standing Rock Organizer

The Lakota People’s Law Project–end of lakotalaw info–

I especially recognize, support and appreciate the emphasis NYS Senator Lea Webb of District 52 places on reproductive freedom for women.  This is a human right and a natural right.  I don’t recognize or support lawmakers who choose to promote freedom for half the population only.  

I believe Liz Cheney is anti-women’s reproductive freedom, yet she is an interesting politician based on her independent positions backed up by public expression.

One hopes Liz Cheney appreciates the same in others enough to honor democratic action.

A reason one would consider voting for Liz Cheney for President is her independence from Partisan capture; a mature stance yet to be internalized by some politicians.  —

https://www.aol.com/news/liz-cheney-says-greene-lose-154445472.html         –Former Rep. Liz Cheney said Thursday that GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should not have a security clearance after Greene defended the Air National Guardsman suspected of leaking a trove of classified documents.

–end of aol info————Having read somewhere that Marjorie Taylor Green defended the alleged leaker of Secret documents based on his traits of being a white male Christian, one finds this as nonsensical as the wholesale vote for Biden for President based upon a corporate-purchased Senator.  This isn’t to cast aspersions on the leaker, about which topic one knowns nothing.  This is a referral about partisan and inane politicians of which we have far too many.

Someone once said we need to judge people by the content of their character more than the color of their skin.  A politician who judges by standards described by Marjorie Taylor Green may not have the judgement to retain security clearances in a very dangerous world.

From organicconsumers  —  https://organicconsumers.org/organic-bytes-newsletter-799-plants-can-save-us/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+799+Saturday&utm_content=OB+799+Saturday         —

REGENERATIVE ACTION

How the Environmental Movement Can Find Its Way Again

REAL ORGANIC

Eat Blueberries to Save This Farm

BIG PHARMA

Eyebrows Raised at Pfizer’s Purchase of Anti-Tumor Drug

GRASSROOTS RISING

Building a Grassroots Movement for the Regeneration Revolution

APPETITE FOR A CHANGE

Kids’ glysophate exposure linked to liver disease

AGROECOLOGY

Agroecology Movement Gathers for Hope and Action

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As one who would be perfectly contented to retain the Senate if they adhered to Oaths of Office more than to Citizens United campaign donations, one is interested in a topic raised as to the reason we maintain the US Senate—-

 This is a reminder of how much we don’t know.  This brings one around to Howie Hawkins, who continues to impress with original thought.  We also could acknowledge Hawkins often speaks to censored information.
One such topic about which one would never have even considered, is whether the USA needs The Senate.  Apparently The Senate is little other than expensive window dressing, promoting hierarchical interests, and too often placed in positions of power by big-money via Citizens United.  But the public gets to fund this curiosity of pompous supremacy.  Who knew?
The Democratic Branch of the Republican/Democratic Duopoly are especially functional in voter suppression—–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbdkuU1edw          —#GreenSocialist Notes #76
Howie Hawkins brings up the concept of whether the USA needs the Senate.  Apparently according to some people, the Senate isn’t necessary.  This brings up the blockage from the Senate of many bills that would benefit We The People.  Combined with Citizens United that promotes big-money interest choice of Senators, in which laws are passed that benefit big-money interest rather than We The People, and that We The People support economically, the members of the Senate, this seems a good topic for discussion.
The US Constitution doesn’t seem to sanction elections run by political Parties, and to permit control of political debates by political Parties seems equally corrupt.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7kn2-GEmM       —

Ross Perot in 1992 on NAFTA and the “Giant Sucking Sound”

Centralization is the lifeblood of the R&D duopoly.  It’s the way to enforce capitalism onto workers in 2022.———————–We can do better———-

That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!