· @Reddebrek
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Juggling With Eggs · @JugglingWithEggs
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In a week’s time on Wed 1st Feb, many (perhaps the vast majority of) UK schools will be closed due to going on . The Tory line is that this will unfairly inconvenience parents and employers, while harming children’s education.

In on this day there will be a big rally of the trade unions through the city centre. How many parents will take the opportunity to educate their children about the value of and on this day?

#PoliticalProtest #Tradeunions #norwich #strike #teachers

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Joanna Mendelssohn · @oldlillipilli
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watoday.com.au/national/wester
People who only think of art as money don’t understand that artists like Frederick McCubbin & Arthur Streeton painted the Australian bush because they loved it. Their sympathy was with conservationists, not the destroyers

#australianart #PoliticalProtest

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ · @dredmorbius
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Is There Any Point to Protesting?

... In “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work” (Verso), a book published in 2015, then updated and reissued this past year for reasons likely to be clear to anyone who has opened a newspaper, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams question the power of marches, protests, and other acts of what they call “folk politics.” These methods, they say, are more habit than solution. Protest is too fleeting. It ignores the structural nature of problems in a modern world. “The folk-political injunction is to reduce complexity down to a human scale,” they write. This impulse promotes authenticity-mongering, reasoning through individual stories (also a journalistic tic), and a general inability to think systemically about change. In the immediate sense, a movement such as Occupy wilted because police in riot gear chased protesters out of their spaces. But, really, the authors insist, its methods sank it from the start by channelling the righteous sentiments of those involved over the mechanisms of real progress....

newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08

#NickSrnicek #AlexWilliams #InventingTheFuture #postcapitalism #PoliticalProtest #PoliticalChange

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