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- Removing the mask of the insecure babyman
- The internet: from digital democracy to digital dementia
- Doubt as an asset, certainty as an affliction
- Fascism, collective insanity and ourselves
- Navigating disinformation, uncertainty, individualism and the poison apple of conspiracy
- If nothing changes nothing will change: the Voice referendum
- What can we learn from disaster communities?
- New year, a time to embrace the uncertainty of it all
- We could be non-binary
- Adaptive resilience vs safety paternalism
- Left wing, right wing? What just happened to politics?
- Covid, class and the addiction to certainty
- Neoliberalism, the Life World and the Psychopathic Corporation
- Democracy is about our bodies, not just our minds
- What’s your motivation: is it yourself or the change you’re making?
- Mind over matter: The world of abstraction is driving us to destruction
- The real threats to our liberty and survival
- Avoiding the abyss of conspiracy theories
- The difference between a legal system and a fantasy novel
- What’s a conspiracy and what’s just common garden variety corruption?
- Unpredictability, humility and an emerging anthropandemic
- The trilemma – climate change, economic collapse, and rising fascism
- Happy New Normal for the decade ahead
- The race to the bottom in australian politics
- Fires, liars and climate deniers
- Talking about lock-on devices – an article in ‘The Conversation’
- The Ponzi scheme is teetering
- Regenerative culture a key part of the blockade experience
- Staying sane in the late Anthropocene
- Extinction Rebellion
- Major parties have failed on climate, it’s time to rebel.
- Elections In The Late Anthropocene
- It is the Greens that are defeating the Nats and it’s all about your preferences
- Australia’s powerhouse of democracy and innovation is in the Northern Rivers
- Is identity politics a problem for the left?
- The climate emergency and the awful state of Australian politics
- Democracy and rights under threat in corporate police state
- Liberty, freedom and civil rights? Do any of us understand these things anymore.
- The forest wars are back, time to mobilise
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- A Flood of Emotions – Sydney Ideas Event
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- Activism educator Aidan Ricketts explains how and why protests can be peaceful
- Bob Brown Is Taking “Shocking” Anti-Protest Laws To The High Court
- Anti protest laws could arrest nannas, seize tractors
- “They blinked first”
- Colin Barnett quick to protest against ‘activism degrees’ – The Australian, 16/10/2014
- ‘Degrees in activism’ put brake on growth – The Australian, 15/10/2014
- Magistrate throws out vexatious police case against CSG protesters
- Outrage over school PR ‘by stealth’- The Northern Star
- CSG clash a certainty
- Communities use new tactics
- Gas group attacks lecturer
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Toxic politics, misogyny as ideology, and tough guys that are really just insecure babymen. There is something very badly amiss with popular conceptions of what it means to be strong, especially for men, and it is having real consequences for all of us.
Continue Reading → From Andrew Tate to Donald Trump, I am so over […]
The internet when it first appeared promised a new era of information democracy. The old media would lose control and new social movements, protests even revolutions could be organised from the bottom up from dispersed information sources. It was like that at first.
Continue Reading → Progressive social movements are often first to take up new […]
The fear of uncertainty and the deceptive allure of binary thinking are both things I have written about before. Our living universe originates in a chaos so profoundly untrammelled that there is nothing to stop the continual process of emergent order, together with its eventual decay.
Continue Reading → As humans we cling to the edge […]
We need to have a talk about fascism.
Continue Reading → Never in my lifetime has the palpable risk of fascism been so high.
People who have lived through the violence and mendacity of fascism describe a common pre-curser: a collective collapse of reason, a retreat from rigorous evidence-based thinking, and emotionally healthy compassion. Fascism is […]
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Community Organisations
- Code Green Tasmania
- CSG Free Northern Rivers
- Friends of the Earth Melbourne
- Generation Alpha
- Huon Valley Environment Centre
- Lock the Gate Alliance
- Nature Conservation Council NSW
- North Coast Environment Council
- North East Forest Alliance
- Plan to Win
- Rainforest Information Centre
- Save our Foreshore
- Still Wild Still Threatened
- The Change Agency
- The Wilderness Society
Preserving our sanity amidst the consuming madness of the times
Whilst never having been a fan of US global hegemony, interventionism or the neo-liberal duopoly of US politics, this latest descent from neo-liberalism towards fascism takes us from the frying pan into the fire.
It is so saddening to […]