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"Yo, Louie, you're all smiles. Whaddup?"
"Man, I can't make this stuff up. I'm telling you I saw the greatest thing ever."
"You haven't told me anythin'."
"So, you know how you keep telling me this area is strange and dangerous, now I know what you mean."
"Right, right..."
"On my way over, I passed by this bar or whatever, and near the doorway were two bouncers trying to manhandle a big guy. He was huge, you know, maybe 1.90 and about 140 kgs. One of those well built peeps that are a burden to cross paths with."
"And then?"
"They somehow got him out the door, onto the street, and one dude, short, but not scrawny, had him in the choke hold, you know, the one from behind, against your neck, and plying in the pressure. The guy's face turned blue-purple. That was awesome."
"What then?"
"I turned away for a sec, cause I saw this girl, and he was laid out on the ground. Then everything returned to normal."
"He die?"
"Nah. He was moving a little bit afterwards."
"But that girl, man, *whistles*, she was a hottie."

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Celebrating 65 - A Challenge for You!
Good morning Everyone!
I am coming up on my 65th birthday next month and I have decided to challenge myself and any of you that would like to participate. This is an exercise challenge.
Even though I was diagnosed Type 1 over 20 years ago, I have been able to maintain very good health through nutrition and exercise ( and insulin, of course). I have exercised fairly regularly by "Walking Away the Pounds" video exercise, starting several years ago with the 1 mile walk. At that time I could only go about 1/2 mile before I had to quit. I then worked up to doing the 2 miles walk most of the time and rarely, the 3 mile walk. Now I am challenging myself to do at least the 3 mile walk every day and add the 4 mile walk! I did that one for the first time today~ Yay!
Come on and try to exercise with me! You can do anything, but I am going to walk 6 days a week until my birthday in October. I started about 10 days ago, and have only missed 1 scheduled day, because of company over the Labor Day weekend.
I'll check back every few days and let you know how my plan is going. (And by the way, I am not going to stop after my birthday…just have that as a goal to get to.) Right now I feel like Super Woman! I feel strong!
Let's do this! (and have a great day),
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Just wanted to let everyone know that I reached my goal and my birthday! :) I walked 3-4 miles 6 days a week until October 25 and then Danny and I did our first 5K on November 8, benefitting the American Diabetes Association. Not bad for a 65 and a 68 year old.
We are in the best health of our last 20 years and feeling better all the time.
Happy Thanksgiving to all~
Checking in this week with my stats…I have walked 6 days this week (2 miles each day, except for today when I went 3 miles). That's 13 miles for the week. My hubby and I have signed up for the 5K Step Out ADA Walk/Run in Grand Praire, TX on November 8.
This is the first 5K we have ever participated in and we are PUMPED! Hopefully we will be able to run at least part way. Not bad for 65 and 67 year olds!
Have a great weekend, Everyone~
Good morning everyone! I have 3 weeks to go until my 65th birthday! I started this thread a month ago and it was 2 weeks before that , that I started my walking challenge. So, this week I walked 6 days, 2,2,3,3,3,3, (that's 16 miles this week).
Hubby and I are thinking about our first 5K in November! We will probably walk most of the way. It's an ADA walk in Grand Prairie, TX. Anybody want to join us? Would love to meet some of you~
Have a great weekend!
Patti :)
Good morning Everyone!
I'm just checking in today - I've got about 5 weeks left until my birthday and I'm proud of myself and all of you that are exercising along with me. I went 2 miles on Sunday, 3 miles each of the following 4 days and 4 miles today…
That's 18 miles this week. Some days I used 2 pound weights in each hand for parts of the work-outs.
Best wishes to everyone and have a great weekend! I'm taking tomorrow off~
I am in the walking challenge me and hubby walk 3 miles every other day and I walk 5 days so I do about 8 to 9 miles a week will that work!!!
Oh yes! That is a great goal! Anything on a consistent basis is good for you. Welcome to the challenge~ :)
Wonderful !!! Proud of you. I will take your challenge , But with a bad hip, I will ride my stationary bike for 30 min. a day or more.
Thanks for the encouragement .
Great goal, Papa C. I just finished my 3 mile walk today…It's funny how some days are easier than others. I am even thinking about doing a 5K…have never been able to run very far, but maybe I can part run/part walk.
A bike sounds good to me as well. Maybe I'll follow your lead with a stationary bike after my challenge is up~ Thanks for the support! :)
I'm just checking in today to keep myself accountable for this challenge to myself. I have walked 6 days this week…1 day I walked 4 miles, 5 days I walked 3 miles. Some days were much easier than others and some days I told myself I might skip…but I didn't!
That's 19 miles this week friends. Not bad for an "almost 65 year old". Good luck to all of you and I am taking tomorrow off! :)
Hey Everyone!
It's Monday morning and I'm fixing to go on a 4 mile exercise video walk! Saturday I took off my 1 day per week and Sunday I went 3 miles. Had to talk myself into it, but today I'm glad I did! I feel like I'm raring to go!
I hope some of you will join me in a daily exercise this week! Just do what you can and increase each time~
See you later,
You rock and you inspire me to do much better in the exercise department. So yes i except your challenge to do much better and I will be walking and as I do I will be thinking of you and your goals as I set my own goals.
At my Dr's office there are two posters on the wall that I can see when I check in at the desk. I just love them. One is a man and one is a woman probably in their 70s both very fit and in swimsuits. Written on the posters "aging is not for sissys".
Thanks Pam! Maybe by the time I reach 70 I'll be ready for that swimsuit photo! Ha, ha! Thanks for inspiring me~
The videos that I walk with are found on YouTube, so anyone that wants can choose their length of walk (just look up Leslie Sansone Walk Away the Pounds).
I did my 3 mile walk today and feel great!
Y'all have a great weekend!
Patti :)
I went 3 miles today - feeling great!
Anybody else out there with me? :)
Howdy Belle!
Congrats at nearly reaching 65.
Also congratulations in doing the 4 mile walk. YOU GO GIRL!
Unfortunately I will not be joining you in the walk as I have burning neuropathy in my feet, but I will be cheering you on from the sidelines!
God's best to you
James Baker.
Thanks for the encouragement, James. And sorry for your neuropathy pain…I experienced the beginning of that pain, but was able to nip it in the bud, so to speak…I know it really hurts~
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The first round of Munich auctions took place at the end of September and produced several notable results for paintings and sculpture. They include a rare appearance at the rostrum for a work by a Greek artist who studied in the Bavarian capital and a 19th century Orientalist subject painted in Rome by a German artist shortly after a return journey from Greece. £1 = €1.12


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Kelli Berglund Graduates High School; Debuts New 'How To Build A Better Boy' Sneak Peek
Kelli Berglund wears her gold robes proudly after graduating from Moorpark High School with the class of 2014 earlier this week.
The 17-year-old Lab Rats star really did it all — juggled a full-time acting job and school!
"Graduating high school tomorrow.. A little surreal," Kelli tweeted ahead of the ceremony. She later added, "the tassel was worth the hassle."
Congrats, Kelli!
Psst, in case you missed it, a new preview of her movie, How To Build a Better Boy, was just released! Check it out below!
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We're seeing a more vulnerable side to Harvey now. How's it been to play him as a more sensitive soul?
I love that Harvey is three-dimensional. There's a reason why he is this uber-confident, macho guy. He's covering for all the insecurities he's got underneath, so when we start poking holes into his armour and actually reveal what it is about him and what makes him tick, that's engrossing as an actor. That said, Aaron and the writing team have done a great job with slowly pulling that out. You can see from the first episode, Harvey is now getting in touch with his feelings as all the strong women in his life have told him he needs to do. I think he got burnt by his mother and he figures that out over this series. It's headed to an exciting place.
You directed an episode in Season 4 - will you do that again?
I hope so! It was a fantastic experience. As a producer, I don't make the final call, but when I have ideas I can throw them into the mix and people listen, so it becomes collaborative. I love having that input. I can't wait to direct again. I had an ensemble of great actors in the trenches with me. I was ill that day so having to be an aggressive guy also with the director's hat it was challenging but thrilling. I needed a Donna to help me!
Do you get any weird fan-mail? Apart from what we send you of course.
Have you seen the homo-erotic Harvey/Mike fan-fiction?
Umm, no...we never Google that sort of thing... ever...
It's awesome! They are hilarious. Just before a serious scene with Patrick I'll pull out a super-imposed image of me dominating him just to freak him out the second before they yell, 'Action!' I guess people are fascinated.


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Long story short, when we have left over fermented idli batter, my MIL generally makes the idlis in the night and allows it to cool over night. This way, it helps breaking down the idli's easier and faster for making the upma. I never got a chance to make this upma here in US for 2 reasons. One, I end up making small batches of batter and does not last beyond a couple of days and two, the batter never gets over fermented for me to think of alternatives!
Now, am part of the Blog Hop Wednesdays of Tickling Paletes and my hop partner for this week is Chaitanya of Delicious Desi Foods. Last week, while I was leafing through her blog, I came across Idli upma and instantly decided to make them for this wednesday event! Sadly, I noticed that her entry had not got much attention. What better opportunity to make the recipe more popular than this:-) Ofocurse, I made it a couple of days back but am posting it today. Hope you all like my version of it....
- 10 to 12 idlis
- Idli powder or chutney powder mixed in oil (optional)
For seasoning:
- 1 medium onion
- 2 to 3 green chillies or more as you prefer
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 tsp each of channa dhal and urad dhal
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1/4 tsp hing or asafoetida
- mustard and curry leaves
- Salt , if needed
Prep time: Over night Cook time: 10 mins
- Steam the idlis the previous night and let it cool over night. This will help is loosening up the idlis in the morning for the upma. If this is not possible, you can cool the idlis under a fan and try breaking them up too.
- To add more zing to the taste of th upma, I smeared all the idlis in a mix of idli powder and sesame oil, overnight. The idlis were soaked in the flavour of the sesame oil and the chutney powder and it added so much more taste to the upma.
- Chop the onions and green chillies and set aside. Loosen up the idlis and set aside.
- In a pan, heat the oil and splutter the mustard and curry leaves. Add the dhals and let them roast. Now, add the onions and green chillies and fry them till the onions turn translucent.
- To this, add the broken idlis and top it with hing and turmeric. Add salt, as needed.
- Toss everything for a couple of minutes and serve!
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Yeah yeah this isn't an energy drink,so what who gives a dingle berry its got caffeine and ginseng so its close enough.This was the winner of the 3 and I though this was the worst I really think the supernova should of been picked,you can even taste the bromanated vegetable oil in this after the carbonation goes down.
Taste-Out of the other 3 older mountain dews this is still better a nice smooth berry flavor,so delicious yet so bad for you.
Buzz-I wouldn't imagine this would have alot of ginseng but at least it comes before food coloring blue 1,and its also got 54 mgs of caffeine which is dec. for a pop.
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I recently ran across this blog post on the Knight ARTS website by Carmella Jarvi. She gave me permission to repost her article on the South End blog and I hope you enjoy.
The Evolution of Another Neighborhood – Carmella Jarvi
"At any given time in Charlotte there is always some interesting art event happening. Many of the areas in which these events happen are pockets of transformation, often a metamorphosis stemming from the early vision and work of artists. South End is yet another example of this phenomenon. Some years ago, the only art found on Camden Road was the Charlotte Art League. It still occupies the large building with studios and exhibition space in a great location, minutes from Uptown Charlotte. Here is one of many places in South End to enjoy the art of Charlotte's local talent pool and maybe discover a hidden up-and-coming name, too. Do not miss the mosaic gallery called Ciel Gallery next door.
Over the years, other businesses, restaurants and galleries opened (some are still around). Sometimes there is music at night or farmer's market-type venues by day. There are two iconic businesses in South End: One is the infamous Price's Chicken Coop (for awesome fried chicken), and the other is the quintessential funky Common Market, whose motto is: "A modern twist on the general stores of our past."
You can get to South End by Tryon Street, South Boulevard or even light rail. It's hard to miss the artsy Camden Road area because of all the public art. There are mosaics installed in both the Lynx line station and on the Charlotte Art League building. A newcomer to the public art scene in South End is a large mural by artist Carlleena Person. Charlotte Art League knew her work, as she's been a member for a few years. It commissioned her to create a new painting on the parking lot wall.
People seem to like big art in Charlotte, and Person's style marries street art and fine art, as well as adding to the culture of our city. This new mural has a huge visual impact to anyone passing by. Folks actually leave their light rail ride to take a closer look. Another great thing about Person is her love for people and her concern with youth and art education. Over the past several Sundays, she's been out painting, encouraging public interaction. Person even graciously invites others — especially kids — to add some paint to the mural.
What is fascinating about her process is she did not do any preliminary work for this. Instead, she went right up the white wall and began with black lines. (This mural was inspired by a particular painting of hers, so there was a starting point.) Being involved with the Charlotte Art League gives Person opportunities and exposure. Her outdoor mural offers engagement with people who will visit South End and, hopefully, come again.
When asked about transformation, she shares a favorite quote by Napoleon Hill. "First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." This sums up the neighborhood transitions taking place all over Charlotte, beginning with a handful of artists with a dream.
First Fridays are all about festive art receptions, and these are some shows to check out in South End on Friday, June 3. (Most openings run 6 to 9 p.m., but check with venue website for specifics.) Charlotte Art League will host "Black & White." Around the corner, The Charlotte Artery will have its closing reception for "TransFUSION." And, off South Boulevard, check out the Lark & Key show "Second Nature: Works by Susan Hall, Duy Huynh, Angie Renfro & Dawn Rentz." Finally, on West Morehead, Gil Gallery will present a selected group of Latino artists as part of "Con A de Arte"(A is for Art), an annual celebration that showcases the Hispanic arts and culture in Charlotte. If punk music is your thing, check out Tremont Music Hall a few blocks away.
A is for Art, and art is good for our city." – Carmella Jarvi
In addition to the mural on the side of CAL, there is also a mural on the side of GROOVE Salon in South End. Eventually, there will be a post on all the public art in South End because it's pretty extensive although most is technically private art.


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The greatest gift any restaurant could ever get might just be a celeb drop-in. The most miraculous gift? A ROBSTEN drop-in, obvy! And Mestizo, a Mexican joint in London, won the publicity lotto a few days back when the famous Breaking Dawn lovebirds made the choice to dine at their fine establishment.
Not only was there sufficient buzz that the couple ate there -- which is amazing in itself -- but the cute couple was also sweet enough to take a photo with some of the Mestizo employees ... and then green-light Mestizo putting the pic up on their Facebook page with the caption, "With customers@mestizo." How amazing is that?!
Really, it's not every day that Robsten goes out of their way to be, well, "Robsten" in public. We hear they dine out quite frequently, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time they've actually done the "celeb" shtick (which they both act like they loathe) while visiting a restaurant. And how utterly refreshing is it that their version of the "celeb" shtick is basically 180 degrees from other stars' versions? As in, they clearly aren't making headlines here for being entitled brats or for throwing epic tantrums like some people (cough Diana Ross!).
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On the other hand, they're getting much-deserved cred for being completely cool. They didn't have to take that photo or even let the restaurant put it up on their Facebook page. But I guess they figured they'd be doing them a solid, and it's no skin off their backs!
I'm not saying I expect celebs to always take time out of their hectic schedule/hot dates to come out from under their baseball cap disguises in public to help promote a little local restaurant like this. But when they do, doesn't it reflect so much better on them than when they throw supreme hissy fits? I'd say so.
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Bruins' fourth line can provide more than just energyby Tal Pinchevsky
NEW YORK -- On a team known for its remarkable consistency, the Boston Bruins benefited in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference Semifinal series against the New York Rangers from a trio not known for filling the net.
In a 2-1 win Tuesday, Boston's fourth line of Shawn Thornton, Gregory Campbell and Daniel Paille accounted for both goals in an unexpected show of offensive flair. Thornton's two assists in the game doubled his career point total accumulated over 76 previous Stanley Cup Playoff games.
Even if offensive outbursts like the one they had in Game 3 aren't an every-game occurrence, the Bruins' fourth line has been known to set the tone for the rest of their team, thanks mostly to their contagious energy and physicality.
"When those guys come up large for us, it really ignites our dressing room. Guys are really happy for them," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "In a team sport, sometimes you have players that have more attention than others. These guys don't get the attention they probably deserve on a lot of occasions. So when they get that opportunity, everyone kind of rallies around them."
They might not always register on the score sheet, but Boston's fourth line does demonstrate the chemistry that has become a Bruins staple. Thanks in large part to Julien's refusal to mix up his forward lines too often, the Bruins have shown on-ice communication that the Rangers have had trouble combating.
"We know where each other is going to be. We can anticipate it more than other people, maybe, because we've been together so long," Thornton said. "It helps that [Paille] is one of the fastest guys on our team. We can just shoot pucks in areas and nine times out of 10, he'll get there at the very least at the same time."
Paille's game-winning goal in Game 3 was the signature play in a contest that Boston slowly started taking over after New York took a 1-0 lead. And with one more win needed to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, that fourth line would like nothing more than another chance to score a big goal.
Game 4 is Thursday at Madison Square Garden (7 p.m. ET; CNBC, RDS, TSN).
"Hopefully it keeps going. I'm hoping we can continue to contribute," Thornton said. "I've said it a million times, I'm very fortunate to play with those two guys. They're extremely good hockey players, and they'd probably play on better lines than the fourth line on a lot of other teams. I'm very lucky to be able to go along for the ride."


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Mom n dad,
I can't believe God gave me such a precious gift. Being your child feels so beautiful, so perfect. HAPPY 25th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. You are everything a kid could dream ever. My hearty wishes to you on your silver jubilee.
Marriages are settled in heaven.
However celebrated on the earth.
Though I couldn't witness "James Roy weds Shanthini" I enjoyed watching James vs Shanthini ;)
You are the greatest gifts God has given me,
You gave me the sweetest sibling(I nee...d not wish for anything more),
You showered me with love and made me whole,
You taught me how to love without reservation,
You made me a good person;
May you always be warmed by each others smile,
Always take time to walk and talk a while,
Always know deep down you're each others best friend,
And enjoy the kind of love that grows and knows no end...
With all the love,
yours naughty child...


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Djeco Snow Globe Night Light, Airplane
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Dreamy night light from French toymaker Djeco is a perfect way to start a goodnight's sleep for your little one. Once it is turned on ( no shaking needed ), the silver flakes swirl and warm light emits inside the liquid filled plastic dome . Color of the light changes. It stops automatically after 45 minutes. Comes in a lovely matching box. Great gift that will be cherished for a long time!
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Solidarity with the Rohingya
You know you're in trouble when Nobel Prize winners take part in carrying out genocide. For years, the Muslim Rohingya population of Myanmar has been suffering at the hands of its government, led now by famed Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. They have been subject to mass murder and…Read More


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Wonderful antique green glazed plate with an impressed design and portrait of a young women manufactured by the Rubelles Pottery, France. The stamped intaglio process used to produce this plate was patented by Baron Paul de Bourgoing in about 1827 and was an early example of a type of lithophane. The plate listed here uses a colored green glaze that varies in translucency depending on the depth of the impressed design and resulting in the appearance of a molded pattern or printed scene. Instead of light coming through the ceramic body, this particular method uses the translucent glazes to create the same effect. The earliest examples of this type of impressed designs on earthenware plates, dishes, tiles and plaques are attributed to Baron Alexis du Tremblay and his Rubelles Pottery between 1842 and 1855. Baron du Tremblay was a close friend of Baron Paul de Bourgoing.
A green glazed plate with this same circular factory mark consisting of 'BREVET ADT D'INVENTION' and identical molded rim pattern but different central portrait is listed among the ceramic collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and accessioned under C.683-1909 (apparently it was donated to the V&A over 100 years ago). The V&A also attributes the plate to Baron Alexis du Tremblay's Rubelles Pottery factory and the 1842 to 1855 period.
The identity of the woman depicted in the central portrait is currently unknown although her long hair, pearl necklace, lace fringed dress suggests some elevated social status or public figure (actress or ?). The background to the portrait seems to include a fallen Corinthian column leaning askew off to one side behind and another one more complete farther back but also slightly askew. The columns may be stage props in which case she is an actress or opera singer in the 1840s. If any viewer knows who this lady may be, please kindly drop me an email – thanks, Doc.
This style of decoration also seems to go under the label 'emaux ombrants' and was first perfected by the Rubelles factory and Baron du Tremblay. The Rubelles pottery started in 1827 or 1839 (exact date seems unclear) and closed in 1857 after which many of its molds were sold to other French potteries including the Sarreguemines Majolica factory, Choisy-le-Roi, and other factories. Emaux ombrants is apparently a French term that refers to the stamped intaglio motifs where colored glazes create the appearance of pattern or scene. Later examples were produced by these other potteries in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s.
The plate for sale here is an early example of Baron du Tremblay's intaglio process. It is in good condition with some wear but no chips or repairs (see full Condition Notes below). So if you are looking for a visually striking lithophane-like ceramic piece with known provenance from the factory that first perfected this process, then make sure you seriously consider this plate while it is still available. And as always, this green glazed plate also comes with my Docs Antiques 100% satisfaction guarantee or you may return it using my return policy for a refund (see full Return Policy details farther below).
SIZE: This plate has a diameter of 8 5/8 inches across and stands about 3/4 inches tall along its outer rim. It weighs about 3/4 lbs and sits on a foot rim that measures about 4 3/4 inches across (diameter). As such, this plate is a nice size for displaying on a shelf, mantle, table top or in a hutch or china cabinet among other antique majolica and colored glazed wares from the 1800s and will certainly capture attention in most any setting.
CONDITION: This plate is in good condition with just one very tight hairline at about the 11 o'clock position on the front of the plate but is really only noticeable upon close inspection on the back of the plate. The hairline is 1 1/4 inches long on the back side of the plate (see last photo where a pencil points to the hairline) and is slightly shorter on the front at about 1 inch where it is also much harder to locate. Beyond this, the plate has no chips, no other hairlines, no stains and no repairs or restorations. Some wear from storing and stacking the plate over the past two centuries is evident on the front of the plate, and it seems to simply enhance the other visual qualities of the intaglio motifs (see all photos). Of course, if the buyer is not 100% satisfied, then she/he may return this plate for a refund (see our complete refund policy noted below.
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"Comrades, we need to change": report from the Ecosocialism: Fracking, Climate and Revolution conference
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- Category: Environment / Green Politics
- Published on Wednesday, 11 June 2014
- Written by Brian Collier & Richard Atkinson
Report from the Ecosocialism: Fracking, Climate and Revolution conference held at SOAS on Saturday 7 June 2014
Brian Collier:
This conference was held under the auspices of Socialist Resistance (SR) and Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century (rs21) and was a model of revolutionary cooperation on the ground. It consisted of opening and closing plenaries, with two sessions of four simultaneous workshops either side of (a rather late) lunch. There was a good variety of speakers on offer from the two sponsoring organisations, obviously, but also from the Oxford University Fossil Fuel Disinvestment Campaign, the Green Party, Left Unity, Biofuel Watch, the Front de Gauche, Grandparents' Climate Action, PCS, Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise, Frack-Off Manchester, Fuel Poverty Action, Green Left and the Campaign against Climate Change. John McDonnell MP also spoke. It is notable that no one from the International Socialist Network was invited to speak (although I was invited to chair a workshop) and that we were not seriously considered to co-host the conference, despite our longstanding friendly relations with SR. I am sure that this is because we are not considered to have a serious enough commitment to the protection of the environment and especially opposition to climate change. SR have ecosocialism at the heart of their politics and, by the evidence of this conference, there are a large number of rs21 comrades who are passionately committed to this idea, even if they may not use the word 'ecosocialism'. As catastrophic climate change is the most important issue that the world (and therefore the left) faces in the next 50 years we need to get our act together.
The first speaker in the opening plenary was Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party. She is a very impressive speaker and is definitely on the radical socialist wing of her party. She began by affirming that climate change is the most pressing item on the agenda for any progressive party, but for the most part emphasised her party's social agenda, saying that our immediate demands should be the implementation of the living wage for all, the renationalisation of the railways and utilities and the defence of the NHS from privatisation. She went on to outline what should be the next steps, firstly the idea of a basic income, which people would get whether in work or not.The first and one of the most important effects of this would be 'freedom from fear'; working people would not wake up every morning and feel that their jobs (and therefore their homes and the living standards of themselves, their partners and their children) were under threat, leading to a great improvement in the mental health of the nation. It would change wage differentials, as unpopular jobs would not be filled unless they were well paid; she used the example that this might lead to sewer cleaners being paid more than bankers, for example! And it would lead to a big impact upon working hours as people might not choose to work long and anti-social hours if they got a basic income anyway. Which leads us on to her final social point, the gradual progress towards the 21-hour working week (as posited by the New Economics Foundation), which would solve unemployment at a stroke. All these things would lead to a new kind of society that would use less energy, would lead us to want fewer useless consumer goods (because our wants for self-fulfilment would be satisfied in other ways). At the moment we in Britain consume such that, if it were replicated worldwide, we would need three planets to provide the resources (as for the US, don't ask).Her message was: 'Be radical, think big!' A case of the Green talking 'red' here, definitely.
Alan Thornett was the next speaker and he did not disappoint, despite having woken up that morning with a problem with his voice. I have been an admirer of him since my schooldays, and I'm now 61! He said that he was pleased that the two organisations were collaborating on such an important issue and that he thought that the event title was very ambitious. His contribution (which was in lieu of Daniel Tanuro, author of Green Capitalism: Why It Can't Work, who had to pull out due to family commitments), focused on the question of where ecology stands in the struggle for socialist revolution.
He started off by saying that the science on climate change is now so conclusive that even the BBC probably won't have Nigel Lawson on any more! But this is no time for levity, we need to look at what's happening. We are approaching the 'climate cliff'; this is 2°C in average warming over the entire world, which will have bad consequences in itself; any more than that, say to 4°C and all bets are off. There are tipping points, such as the melting of the West Antarctic ice shelf, which may take up to a thousand years, but could happen in the next century. This will lead to a rise in sea level of somewhere up to nine metres. It's going to happen unless something drastic is done. Then there is extreme weather, such as Super Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines earlier this year; you can't blame any single weather event on the warming of the planet, but these things are statistically going to get more common. Ten years ago a tropical storm ('Vince') crossed the Atlantic and made landfall in Europe for the first time ever, in Spain. In 2003 a hurricane called Catriona (no relation to Katrina) formed in the Southern Atlantic, again for the first time ever. We are undergoing what certain biologists call 'the Sixth Extinction' (the fifth was the dinosaurs), with half of all the species on the planet under threat. As Alan said, the earth doesn't belong to us, we're just stewards, here to hand it on to our descendants; who would want a world without birds or bees (assuming that one without the latter would be able to feed itself without these essential pollinators)?
Where then, asked Alan, does this leave the Marxist tradition? Well, we didn't have a very good 20th century, to say the least. Marxists have tended to see, in a Stalinist way, nature as an externality, a free good to be exploited, rather than to see ourselves as part of it which Marx did in some of his early works, The German Ideology, and in Volume 3 of Capital. We on the left have always tended to describe our relation to nature in 'productivist' language.Alan gave an example of when he worked in Cowley making cars; he said that the union was proud of the exemplary working conditions and wages and that they even had a certain measure of workers' control. However, they never questioned the anti-social and environmentally destructive nature of the product that rolled off the end of the line. He now thinks that they should have done.
SR considers 'ecosocialism' a fundamental part of its political identity and that ecological issues should always be central to any analysis of society. We, as socialists, look forward to a revolution which will fundamentally alter the social relations of society; we don't want to inherit a desert after all. Lots of the damage is being done now and will be long-lasting; we will still find it difficult to defend the planet after a socialist revolution.
Next came Michaela from the Oxford University Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign.She and her fellow students were concerned about climate change and wanted their university to disinvest in fossil fuel shares. She pointed out that in order to not fall over the 'climate cliff' of 2 degrees we need to leave 80% of currently known fossil fuel reserves in the ground. Instead of this Oxford University has now a contract with Shell to investigate new ways of extracting them, including Arctic drilling and fracking. The campaign has been targeting JCRs to get them to pass motions against this stupidity and so far has done this in 25 (about a third). They also have links with the Oxfordshire Fossil-free Campaign, which is a broadly-based movement.
After a short break we divided up into workshops on: Marxism and Ecology; Zero Growth and Productivism; Food Sovereignty and Land Grabs and, the one I chaired, The Ruling Class and Climate Change. I made sure that I introduced myself as a member of the International Socialist Network (of Bradford and Leeds branch, by the way!) I found it difficult to take notes during this meeting and thus will have to rely on my impressions of it, as I chaired.The two speakers, Amy Gilligan made the fairly standard points that despite paying lip service to the need to address climate change, they find it practically impossible to put in place any effective measures to stop it.In the recent Queen's speech almost all the measures were environmentally unfriendly and the only sop was the levy on plastic bags! Obama acknowledges the reality of the problem, but is shackled by big business and the free market ideology, which prevents him from actually doing anything about it.
The discussion was wide-ranging, taking in almost all the various opinions except outright denial. Various comrades argued against the debilitating effect of 'catastrophism' for example. Jonathan Neale explained that this could be overplayed, that this isn't the end of the world. Most people would survive, it was just that the world they survived in would be a significantly worse place, with worse politics as the ruling class took measures to ensure that they wouldn't be more disadvantaged than necessary when the rest of the world woke up to who was responsible. It would be the worst catastrophe since the Black Death, he said, but this time it wasn't an 'act of God', we'd know who to blame. Jonny Jones argued that we shouldn't just eschew technological fixes, it might be that we'd have to try them and in this he was joined by Amy Gilligan. Phil Ward was against this, both solar panels and wind turbines relied on rare elements and we didn't know if there were enough of these in the world and what the effect would be on the communities living near where they would be mined. He was much more pessimistic than Jonathan Neale in that he thought many more would die and there would be just a few living in Northern climes in what used to be tundra areas.
Richard Atkinson:
Gareth Dale (rs21) and the economist Özlem Onaran (Socialist Resistance) led a session on 'Zero growth and productivism'. Gareth, in a wide-ranging introduction, emphasised the newness of the very idea of 'growth' which, applied to a nation or economy, only began tentatively to be explored in 17th century England before being systematically developed by Adam Smith and the Physiocrats in the 18th. Even then it was a theory for the ruling class, a capitalist understanding of the meaning of capitalism, until the 1920's - Marx and Engels were ambiguous and critical. It was the twin failures of social democracy and Bolshevism, unable to offer a decisive transformation away for capitalism, that led the left into fetishising growth as the only means to improve working class conditions.
Özlem then explored the ways in which growth had become both unsustainable and largely unrelated to most people's living standards and how zero growth, an essential target, could be managed only with large-scale redistribution of wealth and income: globally from North to South; nationally from rich to poor and within the working class as well - and how Left Unity's economic policy, which she had helped produce, was designed with this in mind. Green 'New Deals' she emphasised would not be enough. While slightly enlarged in discussion I felt that this short meeting could only introduce an issue with vast implications about the nature of capitalist growth and for the aims of socialist change.
The second session in the afternoon consisted of another four workshops. Richard went to Fracking.
The session on fracking, introduced by Eva Barker and Stephen Hall brought out, I thought, how unevenly this new but vital struggle had developed, with most of the London left yet to grasp its importance. So Eva had to explain just what fracking was - a menu of extreme energy techniques - and why it had to be opposed - which probably wouldn't be necessary at a socialist conference in the North West. She emphasised the need to unite disparate wings of the movement and keep them united - particularly the direct actions camps and local residents. Stephen emphasised the urgent need for systematic political, as well as direct, action and suggested taking the issue into the unions - with the BFAWU the first to come out in opposition to fracking - mass mobilisations in opposition to the proposed legislation legalising fracking underground, regardless of opposition from landowners and residents of the land above.
I added a little on the threat of underground coal gasification - burning coal seams in situ - in coastal areas and the ways in which fracking raised large and general political issues to do with democracy, the powers of the state, and the control exerted by capital. Other points to come up included police behaviour at Barton Moss and Balcombe and attempts by fascist groups to infiltrate the movement.
Brian Collier:
I went to the session on Climate Crisis: revolution and alternatives. The two speakers here were S. Savier (Front de Gauche) and Nancy Lindisfarne (Grandparents' Climate Action and rs21).This was an intriguing discussion, both speakers emphasising the centrality of ecology to socialism. The comrade from Front de Gauche said that the only way to tackle the linked economic and ecological crises was to shift to ecosocialism as capitalism uses more resources in eight months than can be renewed in a year, which he described as 'death by corporation'.He pointed out that there is no clear separation between the state and the market: neoliberalism actually means more state intervention, it is just that it is concentrated in surveillance and discipline rather than welfare, something that Bourdieu recognised a couple of decades ago. Neoliberal newspeak talks of liberty while we are policed and our only ecosystem is wantonly laid waste; there is a need for a concerted campaign of counter-propaganda.Front de Gauche are calling for an end to the Fifth Republic and a 'citizens' revolution' to rewrite the constitution and strip the president of his monarchical powers. Comrade Savier argued that need new forms of democracy, and that we should emphasise the 'commons' as against the market, but all our forms of commons are under attack.
Nancy spoke of 'intergenerational justice'. The group she belongs to takes inspiration from the Norwegian Grandparents' Climate Justice Campaign and the American group, the Gray Panthers. The phrase 'intergenerational justice' comes from the ex NASA climate scientist James Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren; the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity. She was adamant that revolution was the only answer, that our current weak form of 'democracy' was incapable of saving the planet. The meeting generally agreed.The problem that the Front de Gauche had, said Savier, was that the Communist Party seemed not very interested in ecosocialism, which he found surprising. Given the record of official CPs here, right up to the Chinese CP now, some of us were not so shocked.
The final plenary was particularly good. It started off with Fiona Brookes, the national coordinator for the Campaign against Climate Change talking about the crucial UN conference on climate in Paris next year. She said that this was our last chance, we couldn't afford another Kyoto or Copenhagen and that, if there was no satisfactory agreement that the time for demonstrations and protest was past, we had to fight. We had to bring major cities around Europe to a halt by involving students and trade unions, there was no alternative. She was followed by Claire Walton of Fuel Poverty Action, who also linked austerity and climate and also advocated direct action.
The day was summed up by Jonathan Neale of rs21, a long time climate activist and for a number of years the secretary of the Campaign against Climate Change. He re-iterated what he'd said in the meeting I chaired and, indeed, what he says in his excellent article in the latest issue of Socialist Resistance, entitled 'Climate Change and Socialists'. If the climate crisis starts affecting the ruling class they won't suddenly say, 'Hey guys, you know what, we were wrong'. They will bring out the iron fist to ensure that their rule continues, but they will justify this by using extreme green rhetoric: in effect we will have 'green fascism', not in the sense that we have it now, with a few romantic thugs tagging along to the anti-fracking movement, but in the sense that we will have an authoritarian state violently enforcing policies that protect the ruling class in an extreme situation. We need to act before we get there. Jonathan pointed out that socialists have had a dismal record over the environment and that Greens have had to point out all the problems. The trouble is that they have come up with environmentalist solutions, which are based upon morality or the market, and in neither case will they work. We have ignored the problems, but it is only socialists who have the answers. Trouble is, we can't just turn up and tell people that, having been missing before. We need to earn our respect in campaigning against the kind of society that is inexorably leading us towards catastrophic climate change during which a billion people might die. Only if we are the best fighters will people listen to our solutions.
This was a great conference with an extremely high intellectual content. It was also very competently organised, after a very small initial hitch. I'm sorry we in the IS Network weren't asked to be involved, but I know why that is, I think. We are very good on certain issues, feminism in particular, which is not surprising given the reasons that we split from the SWP, and we should be very proud of that. We are also not behind the game when it comes to anti-fascist work and rank and file trade unionism. Where we are woeful is on the environment and especially climate change (which should be the major thing the left concentrates on, not to the exclusion of other important issues, but it should always be in our sights). SR complained that the agenda for the 'regroupment' conference was too full, but they also critically noted that the environment was conspicuous by its absence.
SR are committed ecosocialists and they see in rs21 a group that takes that agenda seriously. They look at us and don't see such partners. Comrades, we need to change.Add a comment
Anti-fracking in Cheshire West
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- Category: Environment / Green Politics
- Published on Friday, 6 June 2014
- Written by Richard Atkinson
The Dee estuary area was one of the first areas to be approved by the coalition government for extreme energy extraction - coal bed methane, fracking and underground coal gasification or just fracking in the usual shorthand. There had been national actions against fracking at Balcombe and at Barton Moss, with a few local people involved in the latter but there was little local organisation at the beginning of 2014 - just a couple of small Facebook groups.
Cheshire West Left Unity decided to try and kickstart things so we called a public meeting in Chester - our first - in January. Twenty eight people attended, including the local press and, although the speaker didn't turn up and we had done little enough preparation, the meeting pretty much ran itself so expert and committed were the audience. Within a few weeks we had a plethora of Facebook groups with hundreds of members (now thousands), organising meetings across the affected areas - largely rural areas except for one Chester suburb.
Just in time. In March exploratory drilling was started in Farndon, a village south of Chester - the anti-fracking campaign responded with a couple of mass protests and the beginning of a protection camp. The drilling company - Dart Energy - soon went away that time, having completed their exploratory drilling but it was a useful test run for local organisation - and we knew what the rigs looked like. We now have a permanent encampment at Upton, on the fringe of Chester and their anticipated next site.
Meanwhile the campaign had spread. In Wrexham comrades were just in time to protest at a council planning meeting considering the first exploratory fracking application. Over 50 attended at short notice and, to everyone's astonishment, the Labour planing committee voted 19 to 2 to refuse the application, against officers' advice. Wrexham is a town with memories of methane, and its effects, scarred deep into its psyche following the Gresford disaster of 1934.
In Wirral meanwhile the major concern is the threat of underground coal gasification underneath the entire Dee estuary. One would have thought the idea of setting fire to underground coal seams to produce gas was fairly obviously dodgy and indeed the experience in the few places it has been tried (like Stalin's Russia) has been uniformly disastrous. That hasn't stopped the laughably named Department of Energy and Climate Change issuing Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs) for the entire Dee estuary and a string of others shown on the map below.
All of which raises the question of the politics of fracking. We can assume that national government, under either the coalition or Labour, is completely under the thumb of the energy industry. That is why they are now holding another fake consultation on a proposals to stop landowners refusing permission for fracking under their land - even private property rights must bow to big capital.
Local councils are more open to influence, as the Wrexham experience shows - but they are ultimately powerless. The Wrexham decision is being appealed by iEnergy and the appeal will win. Planning officers in local authorities invariably advise for accepting fracking applications as a result. This obviously raises certain issues as to the extent of our democracy.
As will in due course the role of the police. At Barton Moss and Balcombe the police operated aggressively, resulting in a string of largely failed prosecutions. Round here they are being suspiciously friendly as yet, while of course gathering information all the time.
Our side meanwhile has a largely, and loosely, anarchoid feel to it. Left Unity and socialist activists like myself have had no significant problems being part of the movement, provided we aren't seeking to dominate; and there are plenty of arguments to be made - and listened to if you are in good faith - about other political issues. So we have members our protection camp being attacked for being on benefit. Or we have the local, Tory, council leader claiming, ludicrously, to be concerned about fuel poverty while doing nothing about deepening actual poverty.
We can make links to trades unions with similar ease - one of the initial activists around here, apart from Left Unity members, was a PCS activist, and the Upton anti-fracking group had a substantial presence at our May Day rally. And we can initiate actions, as I did here. There are occasional problems - one local activist, a good one and a Socialist Appeal member, supports fracking on the economic development grounds - but not many.
But of course we've hardly started yet. The state and the industry will play a long game if need be, harnessing fears about energy shortages, buying off some opposition and repressing the rest. In Cheshire West the council is trying to position itself at the forefront of fracking development - they had more representatives at a recent industry conference than any other council. They aren't going to give up. There are anti-fracking groups springing up everywhere. Get involved.Add a comment
Debating rising population and the environment: meeting report
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- Category: Environment / Green Politics
- Published on Monday, 13 January 2014
- Written by Brian Collier
This is a report on the Socialist Resistance meeting on 'Population and the Environment' which took place on 15 December at Canterbury Hall in London.
Socialist Resistance (SR), in a spirit of comradely discussion, invited IS Network members to their meeting on the environment and having an interest in such matters I went along to observe and contribute. The discussion was around two papers that had been circulated in advance: one by Alan Thornett and one by Phil Ward. It was a small meeting, with six members of SR and myself. Roland Rance was in the chair, Alan Thornett, Phil Ward and Terry Conway were the main contributors, and there were two other members present, Dave and Tony.
It soon became apparent that I had parachuted into the middle of an ongoing debate. They had been arguing about this within SR for a couple of years at least. Roland introduced the discussion by informing us that it was a matter of some debate within SR and the wider Fourth International (FI). SR's 'Ecology Commission' has been discussing it and lots of the relevant articles are on the FI's 'International Viewpoint' website (http://www.internationalviewpoint.org) and SR's website (http://socialistresistance.org). It is for this reason that I am not going to present the discussion in the order that it transpired on the day. Phil Ward actually presented his article first, but I'm going to start with Alan and Terry's contribution, because it was Alan who started the controversy with his review of Ian Angus and Simon Butler's book Too Many People? a couple of years ago in Socialist Resistance (http://socialistresistance.org/3013/too-many-people-a-review).
There were two questions to be addressed in the meeting: is rising population a threat to the planet, and what is the socialist solution to this?
My personal viewpoint was the former question was addressed more adequately than the latter.
Alan started his contribution by reiterating the title of his circulated article: 'Population and the Environment: time for a rethink'. He said that this was a difficult subject for the left to engage with, because of the spectre of Thomas Malthus, which always haunts discussion of demography. Malthus's view was that population growth would always accelerate way beyond the plodding increase of food supply. His analysis in 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' (http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/malthus/) was powerful enough to change the law of the land in 1834! He argued that the only way to prevent catastrophe (the Malthusian checks of 'war, starvation and disease') was to prevent the poor and indigent from breeding, which led to the New Poor Law with its mainstays of 'less eligibility' and the 'workhouse test'. The same philosophy is behind Iain Duncan's Smith's tenure at the DWP today: the poor shall not be 'rewarded' for being poor, life must be harder for them than the poorest in work and people with large families shall be especially punished (welfare caps, cuts in housing benefit, etc.).
Actually, in the last instance Malthus was right! A finite planet cannot provide for an indefinitely growing demand on its resources but, to borrow a phrase from the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, 'the lonely hour of the last instance never comes' – but we must leave this for Phil's contribution and my own small intervention. Malthus of course greatly underestimated the 'carrying capacity' of the planet, because he didn't take into account new agricultural techniques, improvements in medicine, surgical and clinical techniques and facilities, etc.
Alan acknowledged the fact that socialists are always shivering due to old Tom's ghost, before going on to say that since he left school the population of the planet had grown almost fourfold. It now stood at well over 7 million and even this level was not sustainable without severe damage to ecosystems. The Earth's population seems to increase by 80 million souls per year whatever happens, which is equivalent to a country the size of Germany appearing annually to share the world's produce. According to Alan, it shows no sign of decreasing. The last UN estimate in 2012 (the UN publishes a new estimate every two years) was revised upwards. Because of this, Alan says, it is impossible to assess in advance what the population will be in 50 years' time, let alone by the end of the century. The received view of the Marxist left (and also leftish academics such as Danny Dorling) is that population will level off before the end of the century and then start to fall and that the main problem is distribution of food and other resources.
Alan says that Phil and other Marxist theorists tend to ignore the problem because it seems to play into the hands of the right. Perhaps we could distribute food etc. rather better, but that in itself would cause ecological problems because of the energy usage and carbon emissions due to transport. Perhaps the world could feed 10 million if we used intensive factory farming methods, but this would cause great animal suffering and destroy ecosystems in the process. We are living through the 'sixth extinction', the only one that has been caused by a single species: human beings. We should be protecting biodiversity because we are a part of it and living in harmony with nature, because we are a part of it. This is not 'hippy dippy shit' (I paraphrase here!), but is in Marx!
We need to take all this seriously, because even if we had a revolution now a socialist society would still have to deal with the ecological emergencies created by capitalism. Because of population growth (of course allied with other issues, in particular climate change) there will be tipping points such as struggles over water in the Middle East and in the Sahel. Alan went on to say that most population growth was among people with low carbon footprints, but that this may change as they become more affluent, as we hope they do.
Phil Ward had actually started the discussion, but I decided to reverse the order of the contributions in order to better reflect the debate within SR, as I said. He also started with the title of his circulated paper: 'Is Rising Population a Problem for the Planet?' Phil said that he doesn't see the question in those terms. The boundaries are not entirely those set by nature, but depend upon human activity, so that population growth is not an absolute but a relative problem. Phil thought that phrasing the problem in this way can align us with the right, as Alan had acknowledged, but denied that this had to be the case. I personally do not think that Phil's assertion here is helpful; we and the right might ask the same questions, but have different answers.
Phil looked at the projections for the future based upon the UN figures. The UN estimates for the rise in population say that we will reach 11 billion by 2100, but it will peak before then and will be falling. Of that rise of 4 billion, 3 billion will be in Africa whose population will quadruple by the end of the century. Phil reckons this is nonsense; for example, the idea that Nigeria will reach a billion by then is completely unsustainable. Phil thinks it is ridiculous to think about how we are going to manage a planet of 10 or 11 billion people, as we aren't going to get there; other factors will kick in well before then. The problem is not population but capitalism, which externalises environmental factors and doesn't count them in the costs of production and distribution. The problem is capitalism's obsession with growth.
As John Bellamy Foster, an editor of Monthly Review and the author of Marx's Ecology, has argued, most growth is waste: check out what's in your bin at the end of the week and check out what goes into landfill. If we take waste into account a socialist society can manage to sustain the current level of population and, indeed, a much bigger one, but we will have ecological disasters to deal with that we inherited from capitalism. We need to eat far less meat, which is a very wasteful use of agricultural land, and we need to move to clean energy, while recognising that the latter is not energy-neutral given the materials from which clean energy technology is manufactured. The post-capitalist world will be difficult and complicated, but at least the former rich, along with the rest of us, will pay their share.
For the most part, I agreed with Phil, which seemed to surprise the rest of the meeting, none of whom did. I mentioned the bourgeois 'demographic transition theory' (DTT), which has a graph at its heart. In traditional societies the birth rate is high and the death rate is high, so the graph flat-lines along the bottom, with a low and stable population. As the agricultural and industrial revolutions kick in then the death rate falls, but the birth rate remains high due to demand for labour; the graph becomes a very steep slope. As mechanisation increases, along with a decline in infant mortality, then fewer children are born and the graph begins to level out and, quite often, to fall. The DTT describes what goes on without giving a Marxist analysis of these phenomena.
In over half of the countries in the world the number of children born per woman is below replacement rate (which is about 2.1, because of infant deaths). This includes most of the countries with the highest population: China is about 1.8 (and the effects of the one-child programme, which favoured male births, won't kick in for another 10-15 years); India is going the same way, as is Brazil. Most of the developed world is well below replacement: Japan being well below 1 and almost all of western Europe below 2. Britain has recently had a rise, but it is still below 2, and its population would be falling disastrously but for immigration. Sub-Saharan Africa is bucking the trend, but given other eco-disasters waiting to happen will not in the end.
To use Marxian language that has been forgotten or ignored, there is a 'metabolic rift' between humanity and nature. We do not recognise that we are a part of nature; we see nature as a free 'good' to be exploited without cost. We are alienated from nature, which is what Marx said when he suggested we should abolish the distinction between country and town. Most of this is elaborated in Capital Volume III.
So, I agree with Phil, the current situation is not sustainable; probably (all other things being equal, which they aren't going to be), the population would stabilise and then fall. The problem is that there will be issues in the meantime, mainly to do with climate change: water wars and desertification will lead to mass movements of people.
I thought the next part of the discussion, about what a socialist response should be, was far less impressive, which was probably inevitable. It's always easier to identify a problem than identify solutions. Alan and Terry suggested that the main solution would be a socialist society (with which Phil obviously concurred) and that women around the world should be given full control over their own fertility. Alan suggested that this was a feminist solution and that the left, to their shame, had pretty much ignored feminism, and Terry agreed, but suggesting that the FI had a better record than most, given their central involvement in the early 1980s in the National Abortion Campaign.
Phil agreed that giving women access to free contraception and abortion would be a good thing in itself, but that it couldn't solve what his antagonists considered to be the main problem. If there are 135 million people born every year and 55 million die, then there will be a net increase of the world's population of the order of 80 million, the population of Germany. Somehow, somebody has worked out that of the people born about 35 million are not planned or 'wanted'. So, if you give women complete control over their fertility then the world population will still grow by 45 million people a year. Phil thinks we need a better and more integrated Marxist analysis of the situation and campaigns to solve the problems of the environment we already have. If we don't do this in 20 years then there's no point worrying about 2100. I agree.
This was a fantastic discussion between passionate people who were incredibly well read on the subject that they were discussing. It grew rather heated at times, but that was an indication of how passionately they were engaged in the subject. I felt privileged to be a part of it and I look forward to other such discussions and to the time when the IS Network manages to match it. In my years in the SWP I never had a meeting like this, and almost never as a postgraduate at university.
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Another green world
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- Published on Saturday, 20 April 2013
- Written by Roobin, Gina Nic, Andrew Bebbington and Ray
Green politics mean many things to many people. Environmentalism is generally associated with the left mostly. The kind of action necessary to create stable, sustainable civilisation involves at least curtailing the capitalist prerogative of competitive accumulation. But as anti-capitalism can pull in a number of directions, so can environmentalism. There is Deep Ecology, which is Malthusian and anti-industrial. There was even an Eco-fascist strand. Max Karl Schwarz was a senior Nazi party member who welcomed the destruction of the 'Jewish' city.
There is of course Eco-Socialism. It is perhaps a too-apologetic term. Environmentalism and socialism are not two disparate forms of politics that need yoking together. The Green movement, judged on its own terms, is not such a fantastic success, no more than any other movement. Socialists should incorporate environmental concerns without incorporating utopianism. The biggest difficulty for Green politics is agency.
Linking environmental concerns to working class agency of course starts with issues around the quality and cost of living, the first will be driven down and the second up as the legacy of climate change accumulates. Flood defence is one issue - Britain is generally low-lying. Most urban areas are based around rivers and estuaries. Electricity generation is another. Why, in a country like Britain, with long hours of sunlight, consistent wind (Britain has 40% of Europe's wind energy but only generates 10% of wind-powered electricity) and three tidal rivers, do we not have cheap, clean and plentiful energy? Environmental concerns permeate issues such as transport, housing and food. It is still difficult to found a meaningful environmentalist practice though. Global climate change is an even bigger challenge than capitalist austerity.
The below is not by any means a manifesto, but a start of a discussion. These points are not meant to win votes, nor are they 'realistically' costed (for one thing cost/price/value etc are estimates of labour – what is realistic is what people make real). They are not ideas for lobbying a government authority and they are not a party programme. They are meant as demands and as a means to get people active.
There should be an urgent house building programme, linked firstly to available brownfield sites and secondly to a plan for redistributing work around the country. All building materials should be locally sourced where possible. Key workers and workers in existing nearby workplaces should be given high priority, helping to reduce the need and length of commuting, reducing emissions and costs.
New houses should be owned by an elected local government commissioner and administered by tenants and residents associations. Rent control should be applied to the entire local housing market.
All houses, new and old, should to be properly insulated, supplied with solar panels and fitted for grey water recycling where appropriate to help make them more energy efficient.
Legal recognition should be given to properly organised groups of squatters with credit offered to recover abandoned buildings. Any private owners of residential or commercial property that do not make good use of their property will have it confiscated after 3 months.
Controlled flooding should be carried out in vulnerable areas with appropriate compensation to farmers and landowners. The new land should be used either for recreation or as a wildlife reserve.
All newly built sites should incorporate public transport links appropriate to the particular site.
The centre of all towns and cities with populations over 100,000 (or whatever appropriate figure) are to be pedestrianised, with vehicle access given only to residents and business access. These reduce both emissions and lower accident numbers, combined with the reduction in commuting (see above) will lower also particulate levels, leading to a decrease in asthma, bronchitis and other lung diseases.
Brownfield sites not converted into new housing or parkland should be turned into city farms, all city farms should be twinned with local primary and secondary schools. All local shops and supermarkets should be sourced primarily by local farms, with incentives given to farmers to use organic rather than artificial inputs, natural rather than artificial pesticides.
There should be a ban on further out of town shopping development.


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Besides pumpkin flavored everything and a wardrobe that's entirely earth toned, fall brings us one of our favorite things all year: football. Maybe you only watch football for your boyfriend's sake or maybe you've grown up tossing around the pigskin, but either way you're most likely watching at least a few games this season. If you're heading to the game to tailgate or watching from your flatscreen, you obviously need to figure out your football beauty look.
Due to men not understanding and/or caring about most of the beauty trends that come about (if anyone knows a man who prefers his ladies with bejeweled eyebrows, please let us know), it's best to stick with classic choices on days when you know you'll be surrounded by people who care about the men on the field, not how great your ombre looks in the stands. In the interest of keeping up to trend but classic all at once, we've put together some of the best boy-friendly beauty looks for tailgating the game this weekend.
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Black & WhitePosted by T.Collins Logan on
In school
I always struggled
with multiple choice questions
those black-and-white options
never sufficient
– whether two, five or seven –
because so much seemed in-between
so much life in the shadows
rich earth full of endless microbes
and squirming worms.
But this world pares through pairing
excluding, dismissing, casting out
while darkness seethes
and Light blinds
until – all too soon – we turn away.
What is the sacred movement
of the unseen?
Waves across eons
heating inner spaces
bringing forth life
despite the Night:
I do not believe the Universe
was a snap decision!
So why do we rush in
to pound such lovely,
uniquely-shaped pegs
into ill-fitting holes?
I see the blisters and blood
across my palms
from force of willful effort
and I think: "I am an idiot,"
still struggling with those
multiple choice questions
still stumbling, not knowing
if it is truly dark
or I have trapped my heart
in the cold comfort
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The yellow leaves crunched under my shoes as I trudged towards the institute. A great many trees, but no shade. How strange. Lugging my laptop bag, I looked up at the sky, or rather where the sky should've been, and all I could notice was a bleached white canvas that dazzled me blind for a few moments. I wore my retro sun-glasses through which I managed to spot three little black specks on the canvas far above. Three large birds of prey doing the rounds, hoping to chance upon some small dehydrated poor thing.
At this moment, I was passing by a bungalow that always fills my heart with a heavy silence. It seems to be abandoned for many years now. The distressed nameplate reads M.A. Koreishi, followed by the house number and the name of the road. Like every other day, I peeked in. The car, once white, was still there, covered in cobwebs and a great many old and decayed leaves. The windows of the house were grey and dusty, some broken by the neighbourhood kids during a game of cricket. Some old clothes hung on the clothesline in the balcony upstairs. The family must have left in a hurry. Or maybe one day, while out on their morning walk, they must've wandered too far and decided never to come back again. What if they had been witness to some terrible tragedy – disease, abduction, or the riots? Ok. I chided myself. Enough now, really.
It was definitely getting hotter and I still had to walk about 300 meters more. You can do it, you can do it! Just an incy wincy bit more. I must admit, it was difficult to focus on the gates of the institute when the asphalt of the ground you were walking on was ready to melt. Even the sweat on my forehead evaporated within seconds. It was like facing a giant turbojet blowdryer at its maximum power. A tiny voice inside me chirped happily. Not too many days till I make my way to cooler climes. Charged with this thought, I raced to the gate with a street dog chasing me madly. I was there, at long last. A peacock looked at me quizically on the path. I caught a breath, smiled at the silly pompous bird and made my way to the lab.


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The Cutest Puppy
Gizmo was born on December 20, 2015. She is very tiny compare to my other two chihuahuas. She loves playing with her brother and sister and loves taking long naps with mommy. She loves her daddy too and loves when he plays catch with her. She is a caramel color.
Monster is a loveable long-haired chihuahua. He loves his mini tennis balls and running around in his Michigan hoodie. Though he loves his dog food, he can't help but rasing his big ears at you and planting kissed all over your face to try and get a little nibble of people food. He loves ear rubs and meeting new dogs! Send me love!
We got Newton at a no-kill shelter, he was going to be put down at the Humane Society before the shelter rescued him. Now he is our baby. He loves to fetch the ball, be held like a baby, and prance around the cat, Igor. We love him so much although recently he's been going kind of mental by chasing his collar's reflection around the house. He is very sweet and we are so happy to have him in our family.
CHiCHi. My LIttle Munchkin
He's almost a year old now. Born on May 26th, 09. Just a day before Cujo passed away. He loves to play, and cause trouble. He likes to run around and play with other dogs, hunt for ants, be bad, and just chill around. He has such a weird personality, I can't even describe it. I'll just say he's a little clown.


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