#redistribution

[feckcops]

Meet the Robin Hood-style activists ‘shoplifting’ for food banks

“Activists are ‘shoplifting’ from supermarket shelves and dumping the proceeds straight into the stores’ food bank bins in a ‘redistributive action’ to protest the cost of living and the climate crisis.

“Xander Cloudsley, 29, a community food co-ordinator and member of This Is Rigged, the campaign group behind the actions, said: ‘In my job, I’ve seen the lived reality of the cost of living crisis […] while corporate giants like Tesco are boasting astonishing profits year in and year out. I’m taking action because this disparity is sickening and profoundly unfair.’

“The protest comes as food bank usage – already prevalent following austerity – has surged alongside spiralling inflation ...

“The top three supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda – have taken advantage of increased food costs and doubled their profits to £3.32bn in 2021, up 97% on 2019. Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham has called this ‘greedflation’ – something supermarket bosses deny ...

“The group’s ‘Robin Hood’ supermarket action was inspired by British farmers who took milk off supermarket shelves in 2015 to protest the low prices they were getting paid for their produce, and by the French energy workers who send cheap electricity to schools, hospitals and working class communities.”

[theadaptableeducator]

Towards Sustainable Societies: Gandhi's Insights on Challenging Dominant Systems and Embracing Alternative Paths

Drawing on Gandhi’s philosophies, we can explore the interconnectedness and unsustainability of colonialism, nationalism, imperialism, and capitalism, and propose sustainable alternatives. Colonialism: Gandhi vehemently opposed colonialism, seeing it as the exploitation and domination of one group over another. Colonialism disrupts local economies, cultures, and governance systems, often for the…

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day - Less is More

Today’s Book of the Day is Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, written by Jason Hickel in 2021 and published by Windmill Books. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, professor, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His research focuses on global political economy, inequality, and ecological economics. Less is More, by Jason Hickel I have chosen this book because…

[philosophybitmaps]

[d-tronaustin]

[chrisengel]

The modern war on human fears, whether directed against natural or artificial disasters, seems to result in the social redistribution of fears, rather than their quantitative reduction. Zygmunt Bauman

[jackoshadows]

[offcampusstillnerdy]

Nothing at all to stop UK doing stuff like this. Let's get on with it, shall we?

Use tax dollars to feed children/students who, by law, have to attend schools.

[thoughtportal]

[tenth-sentence]

Under a redistribution of control, Tony Walton was responsible for returns from business in Europe as well as the Americas division and David Morgan for the Asia-Pacific group, including New Zealand.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[lordgodjehovahsway]

Joshua 12: The Kings That God Delivered Into The Israelites To Defeat And Conquer

1 These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:

2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.

He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge—from the middle of the gorge—to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead. 

3 He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

4 And the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

5 He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maakah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

6 Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession.

7 Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their lands as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions. 

8 The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev. These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:

9 the king of Jericho one

the king of Ai (near Bethel) one

10 the king of Jerusalem one

the king of Hebron one

11 the king of Jarmuth one

the king of Lachish one

12 the king of Eglon one

the king of Gezer one

13 the king of Debir one

the king of Geder one

14 the king of Hormah one

the king of Arad one

15 the king of Libnah one

the king of Adullam one

16 the king of Makkedah one

the king of Bethel one

17 the king of Tappuah one

the king of Hepher one

18 the king of Aphek one

the king of Lasharon one

19 the king of Madon one

the king of Hazor one

20 the king of Shimron Meron one

the king of Akshaph one

21 the king of Taanach one

the king of Megiddo one

22 the king of Kedesh one

the king of Jokneam in Carmel one

23 the king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor) one

the king of Goyim in Gilgal one

24 the king of Tirzah one

thirty-one kings in all.

[teachanarchy]

Public Policy in the US | Power and Politics in US Government 29 of 30 |...

[august-chun]

There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled.

Like, telling someone you love them.

Or giving your money away, all of it.

Your heart is beating, isn’t it?

You’re not in chains, are you?

There is nothing more pathetic than caution

when headlong might save a life,

even, possibly, your own.

- Mary Oliver

[russia-libertaire]

Peasants' revolt

'Peasants, though not directly affected by Bloody Sunday, were nevertheless profoundly stirred and outraged by the spectacle of the autocracy acting in a way which was both ineffective (the Japanese war) and in breach of God's law. The "little father" had proved to be not only impotent but also evil: both pravda and vlast (authority) had been undermined. They felt that it should be both possible and right to make the political system more responsive to them. Over the next couple of years they tried various devices: petitioning the authorities, withholding their labor from landlord estates, electing delegates first of all to a Peasant Congress, then to the State Duma, and even taking the law completely into their own hands, seizing the landlord's animals, tools, and seeds, driving him out of the manor house, and burning it down. Different tactics were employed at different times and places according to circumstance. Peasants seem to have been completely pragmatic about the means they used: their paramount concern was to put into effect their own concept of how land should be owned and villages governed.'

Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking

[aurianneor]

Housing

Why is housing so expensive, whether to buy or rent? Why are people forced to pay when "the right to housing is a human right." With limited financial means, it's hard to find affordable, good-quality housing. (https://www.humanrights.ch/fr/nouvelles/droit-humain-logement)

In the cities, prices have skyrocketed. They have become inaccessible to part of the population. And the countryside is emptying out because there are no public services or means of subsistence (no jobs). (Map of average prices per m² per municipality for house and apartment sales in 2020: https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/reuses/carte-des-prix-moyens-au-m2-par-commune-des-ventes-de-maisons-et-dappartements-en-2020/) Yet property owners and sellers don't produce wealth. They collect it from others. Employers have to raise wages to keep up with housing costs. In order to pay, employees have to cut back on other expenses , even though they are the ones producing the wealth. The number of meals served at the "restos du coeur" is exploding, as are requests for social housing.

The state's response is to pay ever more to build housing, and governments all over the world are defiscalising housing production to implore homeowners to build more. These owners are the ones who pay the lowest taxes. Real estate is the goose that lays the golden egg for property owners, and a financial drain on the rest of us, who pay twice. What's more, as people are forced to live further and further away from their place of work, this creates fatigue and pollution, as well as additional costs due to fuel prices. And in exchange, people are living in housing that is in poor condition, too small and built of concrete with no soundproofing. These buildings are rapidly falling into disrepair and they pollute. They're not built for the well-being of living, but to maximize profits.

In the same way as in the food sector, we need to stop subsidizing local residents so that they can then pay the subsidies directly to the owners. That's like giving public money to landlords! We need to control prices to house people. In the 70s, in the West, people paid off their homes in 10 years. We also need to restore efficient public services throughout the country: roads, hospitals, police, swimming pools, schools and so on. Last but not least, there must be farmers in the countryside. Before the Second World War, 40% of the population worked on farms. We need to stop using machines and chemicals to compensate for labor that could be used in the fields. We need fair purchase prices for farmers using organic permaculture. In all industrialized countries, farmers employ illegal immigrants under very poor conditions in order to cope.

We need a universal basic income. Today, without work there is no sustenance and no dignity. We have regulations that create "bullshit jobs", as David Graeber puts it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs). People are forced to live in the city. Instead, we need people in the countryside to create healthy food, which is also a human right (https://www.humanrights.ch/fr/pfi/fondamentaux/en-bref/couverture-minimum-vital/droit-a-lalimentation/). In wartime, when the men were soldiers, the country ran on the labor of women and the elderly. With robotization, there's even less need for manpower. (In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Other_Essays). We need to redistribute wealth instead of concentrating it in the hands of the richest.

Le combat d’une lanceuse d’alerte contre les dérives de la défiscalisation locative - Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2019/02/12/le-combat-d-une-lanceuse-d-alerte-contre-les-derives-de-la-defiscalisation-locative_5422456_1653578.html

Crise du logement - Le Devoir: https://www.ledevoir.com/crise-du-logement

POINT DE VUE. « L’avenir des villes dépend de plus en plus de l’avenir des campagnes »- Ouest France: https://www.ouest-france.fr/reflexion/point-de-vue/point-de-vue-lavenir-des-villes-depend-de-plus-en-plus-de-lavenir-des-campagnes-5f7cff50-7d93-11ee-9e40-5131acac1bc0

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4-day workweek: https://www.aurianneor.org/4-day-workweek-2/

Le goût et la santé: https://www.aurianneor.org/le-gout-et-la-sante-savoir-lire-les-etiquettes/

“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do”: https://www.aurianneor.org/it-doesnt-make-sense-to-hire-smart-people-and/

“I once calculated that I did about one thousand hours of work in the three years I was at Oxford-an average of an hour a day. I am not proud of this lack of work. I’m just describing my attitude at the time, shared by most of my fellow students”: https://www.aurianneor.org/i-once-calculated-that-i-did-about-one-thousand/

Basic Income is possible: https://www.aurianneor.org/basic-income-is-possible-the-instrument-of/

I moved out: https://www.aurianneor.org/i-moved-out/

Stop the all-concrete approach: https://www.aurianneor.org/stop-the-all-concrete-approach/

Fair trade and organic farming: https://www.aurianneor.org/fair-trade-and-organic-farming/

Ecoterrorism: https://www.aurianneor.org/ecoterrorism/

How can we win back trust?: https://www.aurianneor.org/how-can-we-win-back-trust/

Freedom and coexistence: https://www.aurianneor.org/freedom-and-coexistence/

Humiliated by the Republic: https://www.aurianneor.org/humiliated-by-the-republic/

Restricting personal wealth: https://www.aurianneor.org/restricting-personal-wealth/

Cut out the middleman: https://www.aurianneor.org/cut-out-the-middleman/

Organic mass production has no future: https://www.aurianneor.org/organic-mass-production-has-no-future/

Isolation phonique: https://www.aurianneor.org/isolation-phonique-le-silence-est-dor-et-comme/

Rob the poor to feed the rich: https://www.aurianneor.org/rob-the-poor-to-feed-the-rich/

Le logement: https://www.aurianneor.org/le-logement/