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24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life – Guardian News

December 12, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Allotments, CIC, CICs, credit unions, Don’t drive, Don’t use banks, Ethical and green living, Fairphone, food, Freecycle, Go to the pub, Make your own, non-digital, Quit social media, rubbish, smallholding, Stop buying, visit the library

Raising a Child in a Doomed World

July 16, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

By Roy Scranton July 16, 2018 NYT Climate Change and Parenting … Take the widely cited 2017 research letter by the geographer Seth Wynes and the environmental scientist Kimberly Nicholas, which argues that the most effective steps any of us can take to decrease carbon emissions are to eat a plant-based diet, avoid flying, live … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Feminism, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: biological adaptation, carbon capture, carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, climate change, environmentally destructive, global climate, having a child, Planet B, procreation, SUICIDE, waste carbon

Zuka

May 31, 2018 by sergneri 2 Comments

Zuka (Zenaida Gourievna Booyakovitch) was born in Los Angeles in 1924. Her parents left Russia in 1917 during the Revolution and settled in America. Zuka studied at the University of Southern California where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Her mentor, Estella Katzenellenbogen took her around Europe, England and France. She settled in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Feminism, Obituaries, Thinking about Tagged: French Revolution, Les Oiseaux de Zuka, Louis Mitelberg, Violets, Women's March, Zuka, Zuka Mitelberg

MaryLou Haddit – 1928 – 2017

May 14, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Faits Divers, Feminism, Obituaries, Thinking about Tagged: Activist, Feminist, MaryLou Haddit, Obituary, Writer

Analytics – The Network of Propaganda

February 27, 2017 by sergneri 3 Comments

Today, it is apparent that advertising’s roots in propaganda are resurfacing, we can now add the term analytics under the propaganda heading. These new and highly devious suites of  techniques are becoming key to swaying hundreds of millions of people who use social media and who are unprotected from targeted advertising during their internet sessions. Persuasion is part and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, IT Failures, Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Advertising, Analytics, Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, Epidemic models, Farage, GAI, Government Accountability Institute, Macro-Propaganda, Meme Magic, Micro-Propaganda, Persuadables, Propaganda, Propaganda-lytics, Psychological Operations., Psyops, Robert Mercer, SCL Group, Steve Bannon, Twitter

SUFFRAGIST LEADER UNDER ARREST

January 22, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Mariposa Gazette, 13 December 1913 Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst Is Seized on Her Arrival in England and Jailed Turbulent Seas Prevent “General” Drummond and Her Aids From Rescuing Their Chief Plymouth, England — Wind and sea helped the police to evade the posse of suffragettes who had planned to prevent the rearrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics Tagged: Cat and Mouse Act, England, militants, Mrs. Child Dorr, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Mrs. Flora Drummond, Mrs. Joan Wickham, suffragettes, suffragist, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

IN THE WORLD OF LABOR

January 20, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Union, 11 February 1912 By A. J. EISSING. The French government employes 120,000 women. Agriculture supports 250,000,000 persons in India. Kingston, Can., police want their pay raised from $50 to $60 a month. The Barbers’ association of Quebec asks the legislature to provide that all barbers be licensed. Hamilton, Ont., bricklayers want to increase … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, History, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: American death rate, bricklayers, cigar makers, cooks, employment, employment of women, England, foremen, labor, Labor party, linotype, Masons, Mexico, Pablo Iglesias, Plasterers', police, printers, seamen, Socialist, textile mills, Union, union men, workmen
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