Christo

wdlindsy , 1 hour ago to random

"There is, many critics insist, nothing 'far right' or 'racist' about wanting to restrict immigration or in raising concerns about radical Islamists. That is true."

~ Kenan Malik

#immigrants #FarRight #mainstream
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/16/far-right-policies-dont-become-palatable-just-because-mainstream-politicians-adopt-them

Christo , 1 day ago to random

How the youth of Europe turned to Fascism.
How far-right parties seduced young voters across Europe | Albena Azmanova https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/14/far-right-seduced-young-voters-europe-elections?CMP=share_btn_url
#CapitalismEatsItsYoung

GottaLaff , 5 days ago to random

👍🏻In a sweeping change that could improve millions of Americans’ ability to own a home or buy a car, the #Biden administration will propose a rule Tuesday to ban medical debt from credit reports. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sweeping-change-biden-administration-ban-medical-debt-credit/story?cid=social_twitter_abcn&id=110997906

DemocracyMattersALot , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

CLARENCE THOMAS MUST GO!!!

#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCorruption #JohnRoberts

Thomas has accepted $4M in gifts during career: Watchdog
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4708390-thomas-has-accepted-4m-in-gifts-during-career-watchdog/

auschwitzmuseum , 14 days ago to random

1 June 1926 | A Czech Jewish girl, Sonja Roubičková, was born in Prague.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

MikeDunnAuthor , 14 days ago to random

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
--Bill Gates

#classwar #capitalism #greed

GottaLaff , 15 days ago to random

Oh, what was that?

You’re asking if we GOT OUR OFFER ACCEPTED on the new townhouse?

…

…

YES!!!

Now if only I weren’t so miserable with this cold so I enjoy the moment. #Canada

Speaking of which, I will only post news alerts today again. I really do feel crummy.

Don’t expect replies. Apologies.

EndIsraeliApartheid , 15 days ago to random

#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

"Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed", said Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (June 1).

"Netanyahu is saying that Israel would never agree to the permanent ceasefire until its conditions have been met", reports FRANCE 24's Chief Foreign Editor Rob Parsons.

"Its conditions are the total defeat of Hamas so that they could no longer function in a military sense or in a governmental sense", he added.

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️

video/mp4

RadicalGraffiti , 17 days ago to random

"1000 kids lost limbs to bombs in Gaza"
Graffiti written on a "pro life" billboard in Medford, Oregon

Natasha_Jay , 22 days ago to random

The Independent (UK): First poll with fieldwork after the GE was announced, first Techne UK poll with the Tories under 20% ...

🔴 Lab 45% (+1)
🔵 Cons 19% (-2)
🟠 Lib Dems 12% (=)
⚪ Reform 14% (+2)
🟢 Greens 5% (-1)
🟡 SNP 2% (=)
⚫ Others 3% (=)

👥 1643 Surveyed
🔎 Field Work: 22 & 23 May 2024
🗓️ +/- 17th May 2024

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-poll-low-snap-general-election-b2550507.html

#UK #UKPol #GE2024 #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #Polling

breadandcircuses , 25 days ago to random

Are you shocked by this news? Or is it exactly what you would expect?

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Major oil companies have made splashy climate pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, but a new report suggests those plans do not stand up to scrutiny.

“There is no evidence that big oil and gas companies are acting seriously to be part of the energy transition,” David Tong, global industry campaign manager at Oil Change International, who co-authored the analysis, said in a statement.

The report’s authors used 10 criteria and ranked each aspect of each company’s plan on a spectrum from “fully aligned” to “grossly insufficient” and found all eight companies ranked “grossly insufficient” or “insufficient” on nearly all criteria.

The US firms Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil each ranked “grossly insufficient” on all 10 criteria.

“American fossil-fuel corporations are the worst of the worst,” Allie Rosenbluth, US program manager at Oil Change International, said in a statement.

The authors found that the companies’ current oil and gas extraction plans could lead to more than 2.4C of global temperature rise, which would probably usher in climate devastation. The eight firms alone are on track to use 30% of the world’s remaining global carbon budget to keep global average temperature rise to 1.5C.

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Leaders of capitalist industry will continually lie, cheat, and steal. They will do anything to make a profit. Business As Usual must go on!

FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/oil-companies-report-fossil-fuels-climate

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

larsibacken , 30 days ago to classicalmusic group

@classicalmusic @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

#CarolineShaw b.1982

'Ochre' (2022)

#EveryVoiceConcertChoir
#NicoleBecker

#JaredSoldiviero #Vibraphone
#MattKantorski #Marimba
#ShaneShanahan #Percussion

#musik #music #musique #musica #Shaw #classicalmusic
#contemporarymusic
#womencomposers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CizL60cZGEQ

ElleGray , 30 days ago to random

so. in January I was in a bad car accident. fractured spine, ruptured discs, cracked pelvis, broken arm. last 4 months have been v hard. tonight though I'm going back to my adult dance class for the first time. I wasn't sure I'd ever even walk properly again so this is a moment for me. a good one

breadandcircuses , 1 month ago to random

I found this truck parked on the street in my neighborhood. Notice that the life-threatening bumper is actually labeled ROAD ARMOR.

We sometimes talk about a #WarOnCars. But what's really happening is a war BY cars on pedestrians and cyclists.

breadandcircuses , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

INTRO —

Yesterday we learned how climate scientists feel about the looming existential threat of global climate change. They’re terrified. It’s obvious to them and it should be to us that the only rational option is to change course, quickly and decisively.

So, are we ready now to face some hard questions about what level of degrowth is actually necessary? To examine what that might look like, and how different it would be to live in a truly ecologically sustainable society?

Today I will devote an extended series of posts to the best description I’ve found yet about how severe our present situation is, and what we can and should do in the face of such daunting challenges. I’m going to excerpt heavily from a recent long article by Ted Trainer, an Australian academic, author, and advocate for degrowth. Trainer is a retired lecturer from the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales. He has written numerous books and articles on sustainability and is developing Pigface Point, an alternative lifestyle educational site near Sydney.

In the linked article, Trainer criticizes and debunks inadequate proposals such as the Green New Deal, along with the whole idea of ‘green growth’. He argues, however, that we must not only reject capitalism but also must recognize the inability of Marxism or even state-centered eco-socialism to make all the necessary changes that could avert societal collapse and global catastrophe.

This is a brief introduction. Eight separate posts will follow soon…

ARTICLE TITLE: A (Friendly) Critique of the Degrowth Movement

SUBTITLE: Sufficient degrowth cannot be achieved without enormous and radical transition to some kind of simpler way.

THEME: The recent spread of degrowth is encouraging — however, the movement is founded on a number of confusions and mistaken initiatives. This is understandable given its early stage, and can be regarded as a healthy exploring of possibilities. The literature welcomes pluralism, but we should try to find unifying directions.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/postgrowth/a-friendly-critique-of-the-degrowth-movement-f0bd2297072d

MORE ABOUT TED TRAINER -- https://simplicityinstitute.org/ted-trainer

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #Degrowth

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

#Russia to Hold Drills on Tactical Nuclear Weapons in New Tensions With West

Russian officials claimed the order was in response to comments from the West about the possibility of more direct involvement in Ukraine. NATO called Russia’s announcement “irresponsible.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/world/europe/russia-tactical-nuclear-weapons-drills.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

appassionato , 1 month ago to palestine group

2/
“Most chilling about this decision is what it will mean for Al Jazeera journalists and crews working and living in Gaza. They are not mentioned in the government decision. By branding Al Jazeera as a national security threat, we are deeply concerned that the Israeli government may view them as legitimate military targets. They are not.”

Emily Wilkins, the president of the National Press Club

@palestine
#Gaza
#AlJazeera

MikeDunnAuthor , 1 month ago to random

rbreich , 1 month ago to random

Pepsi replaced its 32oz Gatorade bottle with a 28oz for the same price.

Nabisco shrank the family size box of Wheat Thins by 12%.

General Mills shrank the family size box of Cocoa Puffs by 6%.

Frito-Lay shrank the size of a bag of Doritos by 5%.

Shrinkflation is everywhere.

JSharp1436 , 1 month ago to random

🇺🇸 #POTUS Joe #Biden has called #Japan and #India "xenophobic", grouping them together with #russia and #China as countries that "don't want immigrants"

His criticism of #Japan comes just weeks after he called the US-Japan alliance "unbreakable" during a state visit from Prime Minister #Kishida

India is also a key #US partner, despite #US concerns about human rights and religious freedoms there

The #WhiteHouse says that Mr Biden meant no offence to either country

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68947042 #News

faab64 , 1 month ago to israel group

Amid growing speculation that the International Criminal Court could issue arrest warrants against #Israeli officials in the coming days over the war against Hamas in #Gaza, a White House spokesperson reiterates #US opposition for the investigation.

“The #ICC has no jurisdiction in this situation,” the spokesperson says.

#WgiteHouse #Hypocrisy #Gaza #WarCrime
@palestine @israel

lowqualityfacts , 1 month ago to random

Signs you are old:
-You dropped acid in a Blockbuster.
-You hid cocaine in your VHS player.
-You bought heroin behind a RadioShack.
-Your grandfather served in WWI (he smoked crack in the trenches).

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

#WompWomp

NYT- #Tesla has agreed to recall nearly 4,000 of its Cybertruck pickups to fix an accelerator pedal that can get stuck, raising the risk of crashes, a federal safety agency said on Friday.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

Should I be posting dopey countdown posts to my move to BC?

Your choice.

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

#ProLifeMyAss 😳”1 woman miscarried in lobby restroom of TX emerg rm as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another learned her fetus had no heartbeat at Fla hospital, day after security guard turned her away from the facility. No Carolina, woman gave birth in car after emerg room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.

Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade”
https://apnews.com/article/9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c

Snowshadow , 1 month ago to random

⚠️ HEALTH ALERT⚠️

please boost--thank you.

A "natural supplement" containing a hidden painkiller ingredient could be catastrophic!!

*read article for more info.
@gemelliz @GottaLaff
#News #Alert #Healthcare

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/it-could-be-catastrophic-woman-says-natural-supplement-contained-hidden-painkiller-drug-1.6853215

MikeDunnAuthor , 1 month ago to bookstadon group

Today in Labor History April 17, 2014: Journalist and author Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on this day. Affectionately known as Gabo, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Two of his most famous books were, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). Garcia Marquez was a socialist and an anti-imperialist, and critical of U.S. policy in Latin America.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #GabrielGarciaMarquez #columbia #author #writer #fiction #nobelprize #books #Literature @bookstadon

GottaLaff , 1 month ago to random

GOP Fascist party has a lust for violence.

“#Arizona GOP Senate hopeful #KariLake told supporters they can "strap on a Glock" to be prepared for the intensity of the 2024 campaign and urged military and law enforcement veterans to be "ready," as her race heats up in a key battleground state.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kari-lake-suggests-supporters-strap-glock-ready-2024-rcna147902

MikeDunnAuthor , 2 months ago to random

Today in Labor History April 15, 1998: Cambodian dictator Pol Pot died on this day. Under his rule, the Khmer Rouge committed genocide, killing 2-3 million Cambodians, or 25% of the population. https://youtu.be/U4reO3LabZY

#workingclass #LaborHistory #genocide #cambodia #polpot #killingfields #KhmerRouge

alice , 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

It seems like a lot of people I see here need a 🫂 or few lately.

If you're feeling like you might hurt yourself, please consider a helpline or even DMing me as an alternative (see profile for contact options). I may not be able to respond immediately, but I will read it and I will respond. :neocat_heart:

Yes, I'm just some queerdo on the internet, but sometimes that's enough to get through a hard patch. How do I know? Because if it wasn't for the kindness of some of the people on this site, I wouldn't be here today. (thank you 💕)

You can call a peer-run warm-line for your state here: https://warmline.org/warmdir.html

If it's critical, you can go to https://988lifeline.org/ or call tel:988, but beware of the risk of possible emergency services involvement.

If you're not in the US, here's a list of crisis lines by country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

#SuicidePrevention #ItGetsBetter #YouAreNotAlone #BoostWelcome #Boost

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

Judge Orders Timely Housing for Migrant Children Waiting at Border

The decision established that minors at open-air sites were in legal custody of the Department of Homeland Security and thus must receive safe shelter, even if they had not yet been formally processed

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/health/migrant-children-border-housing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

figstick , 2 months ago to israel group

I'm about to reach out to a pro-palestine group to encourage them to set up a #mastodon presence. What would be a good instance to recommend? Pls :boostplease: for visibility.

#bds #FreePalestine #ceasefire #ceasefirenow @israel @palestine #gaza #biden #joebiden #israel #GenocideJoe #genocide #Netanyahu #apartheidisrael #IsraelApartheid #ethniccleansing

Miro_Collas , 2 months ago to palestine group

A Genocide Foretold - The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-genocide-foretold

"The genocide, which the U.S. is funding and sustaining with weapons shipments, says something not only about Israel, but about us, about Western civilization, about who we are as a people, where we came from and what defines us. It says that all our vaunted morality and respect for human rights is a lie."

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #USA #AmericanEmpire
@palestine

jeffowski , 2 months ago to random

oatmeal , 2 months ago to palestine group

#Israel / Knesset Committee Pushes Bill Allowing Imprisonment of Children as Young as 12 on Terror Charges

[...] In the proposed bill, a minor suspected of murder or attempted murder on the basis of terrorism will be subject to the same terms of detention as adults.

From a legal standpoint, this potentially violates international conventions on children's rights and the principle of proportionality in sentencing minors.

#Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-27/ty-article-live/israeli-hostage-uriel-baruch-was-killed-on-oct-7-body-held-by-hamas-in-gaza-family-says/0000018e-7dc0-d680-a1cf-ffc7736c0000?liveBlogItemId=405887272#405887272

@israel
@palestine
#Israel #Apartheid

lowqualityfacts , 2 months ago to random

Clint Eastwood has some strong opinions about some weird stuff.

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

👋🏼 A third former #Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has each been sentenced for his part in the racist torture of two Black men by a group of white officers who called themselves the “Goon Squad.” Daniel Opdyke was sentenced Wednesday to 17.5 years in federal prison.
https://apnews.com/article/94d9dcfa00e582b9d50a6eb7288b058b

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago to random

What does it mean to be collapse-aware?

Below are some excerpts from a recent article by Alan Urban that discusses this. I'd be interested in your thoughts.

Also, for those who (predictably) are going to yell at me for being a 'doomer', my next couple of posts will be about solutions, changes we must make soon if we're aiming for a slightly less dire future.

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If you’re collapse-aware, it means you’ve learned enough about climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss to conclude that civilization is unsustainable and will eventually collapse.

Whether the collapse happens suddenly or takes several decades, and whether it happens soon or in the distant future, is up for debate. But the end result is the same: a pre-industrial world with a much smaller population.

It could be a world where nearly everyone works from sunup to sundown to put food on the table. It could be a world where people have to hunt and gather for survival, constantly moving in search of food and resources. Or it could be a world where humans, along with most other creatures, have gone extinct.

Before 2020, I was a techno-optimist. I believed advances in technology would allow us to overcome our problems and create a world where everyone was free to pursue their interests and lead a happy life. Goddamn was I naive.

In the fall of that year, I learned that the problem was much worse than I had thought. Climate change wasn’t the main problem. In fact, climate change — along with pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss — were merely symptoms of a much bigger problem: overshoot.

For those who don’t know, overshoot is when a species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecosystem. As a result, the ecosystem is unable to produce enough food for the species, and the population collapses. Once a species goes into overshoot, collapse is inevitable. There’s no way out.

According to the Global Footprint Network, humans exceeded the carrying capacity of planet Earth over 50 years ago. That means it’s only a matter of time before the human population collapses. The only question is when.

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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.collapsemusings.com/what-it-means-to-be-collapse-aware/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

"Trump loyalists have been obstructing aid to Ukraine since President Joe Biden asked for it in October 2023. Their insistence that they would not address the national security needs of the U.S. in Ukraine until they were addressed at the border now sure looks like a smokescreen to help Russian president Vladimir Putin take Ukraine," (continued in /2)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Putin #Ukraine #NationalSecurity
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-11-2024-monday

Strandjunker , 3 months ago to random

Did you know? The word “trumpery” appeared in the 15th century with the meanings “deceit” or “fraud”. 100 years later, it was being applied to objects of no value. Then in the 1900’s, it came to mean “showy but worthless”. Today, it is equated with “treasonous shitweasel”.

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

Heather Cox Richardson notes that the image of the ideal woman Republicans offered the word with Kate Britt's response to the SOTU in a kitchen is the result of years of attacks on women's equality and feminism, with the white evangelical base of the Republican party leading the way.

She concludes,

#Republicans #women #WomensRights #SOTU #KatieBritt
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2024

parismarx , 3 months ago to random

Italy’s far-right party proposed using AI to assign youth mandatory jobs.

“The young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits.”

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/

#tech #ai #italy #government

oatmeal , 3 months ago to palestine group

#UK / Sun cleared by IPSO over report of claim Hamas ‘beheaded babies’ on 7 October

Press regulator #IPSO ruled on a complaint against The Sun newspaper for reporting claims that Hamas "beheaded babies" during the 7 October 2022 massacre in Israel.

The Sun's front page stated "savages 'beheaded babies'" and said #Hamas "reportedly" beheaded babies during an attack that killed 40 youngsters.

A complaint accused The Sun of publishing an unsubstantiated and false claim.

The Sun because it presented the beheading claim as unconfirmed by using quotes and "reportedly", rather than stating it as fact. Other UK papers like the Daily Mail and Daily Express also published the beheading claims without quotation marks on the same day.

#PressGazzetteUK https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/the-sun-ipso-ruling-beheaded-babies-claim/

@israel
@palestine
#MediaBias #TheSunUK #Islamophobia
#IsraelHamasWar

luckytran , 3 months ago to random

It’s official: The CDC has weakened its COVID isolation guidelines, in a move that goes against the science, encourages disease spread, and prioritizes corporate interests, making it easier for bosses to exploit workers.

Link: https://wapo.st/49zV8ZZ

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

Lisa Hagen looks at PRRI's new survey re: Christiian nationalism, and finds that it prevails in rural Republican-voting states. She writes,

"In states including North Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia, half or nearly half of residents support the view that Christians should dominate all areas of American society, including its laws…."

#PRRI #ChristianNationalism #Republicans

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234304058/christian-nationalism-survey

faab64 , 3 months ago to palestine group

❝ We have turned Gaza into a wasteland - with love. We have killed many thousands of children and women and other non-combatants - with love. We dropped bombs with love. Even the soldiers who were killed by friendly fire were killed with love. And so were those abductees of ours that we killed. Every home we destroyed, we destroyed with love. And in general, blood is shed with love or not shed at all.

That's the whole warped concept in a single sentence: We beat Hamas because of love. Under the auspices of this lyrical expression Israel is becoming a barbaric state. Television lyricism masks reality and makes this falsehood possible. ❞
– Rogel Alpher • (Translated by Sol Salbe)

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Inhumanity #SaveGaza #StopIsrael
@palestine @israel

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago to random

Is degrowth the answer?

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Global consumption of raw materials is set to rise 60% by 2060.

Already, the technosphere, the totality of human-made products, is heavier than the biosphere. From the 2020s onward, the weight of humanity’s extended body — the concrete shells that keep us sheltered, the metal wings that fly us around — has exceeded that of all life on Earth.

Producing this volume of stuff is a major contributor to global heating and ocean acidification, and to the rapidly accelerating extinction of plants and animals.

The extractive activities that lie behind the concrete, metal, and other materials we use are disrupting the balance of the planet’s ecosystems. The mining industry requires the annexation of large tracts of land for extraction and transportation; its energy consumption has more than tripled since the 1970s.

Is degrowth the answer? The insufficiency of engineering and green growth programs has informed the waxing interest in “degrowth” strategies. This term is not intended to suggest that all economic sectors should shrink, but that for society-nature relations to regain some balance, the unsustainable global use of materials and energy must radically reduce, and in an egalitarian manner.

As the scale of the environmental crisis grows more daunting, even moderate voices — not degrowthers — have recognised that certain sectors, such as shipping and aviation, will have to be cut to virtually zero over the next 20 or 30 years. What does this mean for critical minerals? According to degrowth advocate Jason Hickel, political means should be forged through which to plan priority sectors.

Reducing luxury and wasteful sectors such as SUVs, aviation, and fast fashion would free up critical materials for the green transition. “Factories that produce SUVs could produce solar panels instead,” suggests Hickel. “Engineers who are presently developing private jets could work on innovating more efficient trains and wind turbines instead.”

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://theecologist.org/2024/feb/22/there-nothing-green-about-urban-mining

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

Christo , 11 months ago to random

#Introduction.
I started on Mastodon when Twitter was bought by Musk.
I'm 74, married to Bill, who is 78 for 56 years this year, have a son and a deceased daughter. I'm anti-royalty and anti-celebrity, anti-capitalist and am a anarcho-syndicalist. I love live music from classical to opera to rock, R&B, pop, jazz, experimental, contemporary etc., reading, growing food and flowers, volunteer and seek a way to live sustainably. No God's, No Masters
I will vote Green.