Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱

RE: @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall detention camp failed yesterday, so people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees F: https://jerseyvindicator.org/2026/07/02/air-conditioning-fails-at-delaney-hall-as-heat-wave-leaves-detainees-struggling-to-breathe/

Fascination for the #guillotine comes from a revenge urge.

"Often, all it takes to be able to cease to hate a person is to succeed in making it impossible for him to pose any kind of threat to you.
[…]
"The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they’ve done is regarded as embarrassing—for them to have to sit in assemblies in which no one listens to them, to go on living among us without any special privileges in full awareness of the harm they have done. If we fantasize about anything, let us fantasize about making our movements so strong that we will hardly have to kill anyone to overthrow the state and abolish capitalism. This is more becoming of our dignity as partisans of liberation."

https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too

#stateViolence #grievability #revolution #anarchism #entitlement

The First Conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels is underway this week in Santa Marta, Colombia.

At recent climate COPs, fossil fuel lobbying has prevented governments from even reaffirming commitments to transition away from fossil fuels. Frustration over failing to endorse this basic step has led to the Santa Marta conference. Background: https://theconversation.com/heres-what-to-expect-from-the-first-conference-on-transitioning-away-from-fossil-fuels-280894

The world’s first fossil fuel phaseout conference "is not trying to replace the COP process. It is trying to do what the COP process has so far been structurally unable to do: create a dedicated political space for the managed decline of fossil fuels." https://archive.ph/qovbb#selection-5227.108-5227.308

#fossilFuels #GHG #economy #energyTransition #SantaMarta #Colombia #oilAndGas #energy

In the first 15 days of a possible legislature from Sunday 7th July :
- revoke the pension shift reform,
- revoke the unemployment insurance reform,
- raise the minimum wage to €1,600 net,
- increase housing benefits by 10%,
- a moratorium on megabassines,
- ban less-lethal launchers and mutilating grenades,
- Kanaky New Caledonia: abandon the constitutional reform,
- recognise the State of @palestine@a.gup.pe
- declare an embargo on arms deliveries to israel.

Full text of the "Contrat de législature" (in fr): https://www.off-investigation.fr/la-gauche-propose-un-contrat-de-legislature/

#NouveauFrontPopulaire #FrontPopulaire #FRPol #France #elections #législatives #TheLeft #coalition #taxes #wages #Europe #WarOnGaza #Palestine #decolonial

Common decency wins elections if exasperated. But going against something does not go far. Building an alternative is the real work.

"It is by no means a given that this mobilization against the far rights is likely to be repeated. Citizens sensed the threat and warded it off with their vote. But they still need proof to trust those who represent this sentiment. It is not granted that voters will find that proof. Now let's give it to them."

(it) https://ilmanifesto.it/una-sconfitta-non-ancora-una-vittoria

#politics #italy #Hungary #Orban #Magyar #Europe #liberals #elections

Christopher Harborne’s fortune derives largely from his investment in Tether, a cryptocurrency.

Christopher Harborne was and still is the largest individual shareholder in British defence company QinetiQ.

Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal: https://www.thenerve.news/p/harborne-receipts-boris-johnson-christopher-harborne-gift-flights-ukraine-nigel-farage

Harborne is suing the WSJ for reporting on his ownership of Tether.

Harborne is also suing former Reform deputy, Ben Habib. Habib claimed Harborne gave Farage & Johnson £1m each to fix the 2019 general election that provoked Brexit: https://www.thenerve.news/p/christopher-harborne-investigation-nigel-farage-2019-election-deal-rupert-lowe-boris-johnson-donor

#corruption #bribes #UKPol #UK #BorisJohnson #weapons #Harborne

The British government supports fossil-based economy, thus making the southern parts of the world unliveable.

The British government expresses cruelty for brown inbound people: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mahmood-reforms-asylum-system-modern-slavery-claims-b3005837.html

"The French protests over the killing of Nahel Merzouk have not changed the brutal policing of Black and Arab youth in the banlieues.

"The BRAV-M has not been dismantled. The police Alliance has not had its grip on power broken. The far right still threatens to break through the firewall.

"We can ask why more people aren't doing more, and how do we organize and break through the complacency that defines white American culture.

"I'm not sure I would be looking to Western European neocolonial powers for shining examples though.

"We don't need to look to France or the Netherlands for a resistance blueprint, we have Black and indigenous radical resistance movements here in the US with an unbroken 500+ year history.

"We really need to center whiteness less and learn to develop some humility and solidarity."

Wrote @chadloder@kolektiva.social on 2026-04-09 at Bluesky

#whiteness #militancy #France #resistance #coloniality

At the same time :

• the Israelis are killing people in the West Bank ;
• the State is rolling out its plans to urbanise exclusively for Jews. An objective is for the common state to annex the West Bank.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/israels-escalating-west-bank-assault-is-part-of-a-larger-plan-to-split-the-territory-in-two/ @israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe 🧵

#oneState #camps #refugees #Jenin #Tulkarem #IsraelPalestine #Palestine #IsraelApartheid #Zionism #WestBank #OPT #OccupiedTerritories #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #JewishSupremacy