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“…Extinction Rebellion speakers should stop using “hippy” language because it is watering down the message about climate change, supporters of the group have said….”
When the funds start to flow, these advertising links will be useful
I’ll start with Dissent Magazine since they have actual prices which gives an idea on costs
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/dissent-ad-rate-sheet-updated-2019.pdf
Truthdig also shows prices
Another print and online magazine is In These Times
http://inthesetimes.com/advertise/
Counterpunch
If you are interested in placing an advertisement on the CounterPunch website, Becky Grant becky@counerpunch.org.Alternet
https://www.alternet.org/advertise-with-alternet/
https://www.alternet.org/contact/Not for me to say but I think any web ad lay-out should be designed to promote both the WSPUS and the SPC and if you also decide on print issues, maybe just devoted to the WSPUS
But perhaps you could undertake the role of translating or double-checking translations and while on your web travels, post a few links.
I know you do a lot more activity that ten-minutes a month, Marcos, but the project needs your help. 😀
Our blog constantly tries to connect fellow-workers to realities and tries it little bit. It already posted this on the report.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/04/us-venezuelan-sanctions-war-crime.html
Activists who took part in the Extinction Rebellion protests have announced they will stand in the European elections on a “climate emergency” ticket.
Under the name Climate Emergency Independents, nine candidates will stand in the 23 May polls – seven in London and two in south-west England region.XR said it had signed up 30,000 new backers or volunteers in the past two weeks and raised almost £200,000, mostly in donations of between £10 and £50, reaching a total of £365,000 since January.
Robbo -“It would also be useful to provide a direct link to the WSPUS”
It did link to their website if you clicked underlined “Workers Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS) ”
Also the WSM web-page provided a list of companion parties URLs to their websites that any visitor could click on to take you to their home-pages. (But it is about time it was fully fixed)
At the author bit, it describes me as a SPGB member, provides my personal e-mail for anybody who wishes to make contact, and it also has links to SOYMB and Socialist Courier blogs, and again that broken WSM blog. I forgot they did that using the details I gave from a submission from a few years ago.
New writers can decide their own description and what links to use.
As I said, I fretted that too much promotion and it would be considered as if i was simply spamming. So made it appeal to curiosity rather than some heavy theoretical PhD.
I have done an explanatory article for DV on impossibilism’s attitude to reformism to expand on this article which refers to it and again name recognition is the purpose but without seeming putting a party-line but more as an educational motive. I’ll send next week.
Also working on something debunking cooperatives for a lot later on…no wish to flood them. Softly softly, catchee the monkey
Imposs1904 – No I thought up the title…the article seemed to sound very much like a resurrection when I read over it., reflects my doom and gloom general personality…If it was for the Australian Party i’d titled it “risen from the grave”
I was also going for the pity angle if you see in the pleading intro I sent them to give them a guilt complex about flouting the memory of dead socialists if they declined to publish.
A handy guide if you thinking of sending articles to any website. Some though are far too elitist for people like me…no credibility or professorships to my name
ZJW, I’m well aware of Jack London’s racist white supremacist attitudes. I have posted about it on our blog.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-great-white-hope.html
But very few know that side of him and are more acquainted with the Iron Heel image.
As I explained, I was attempting to gain attention and his connection and name-dropping was the bait I hoped to hook an audience. Needless to say I also did not enter into a debate about our differences with Pannekoek.
But maybe as you infer it might turn out to have been a miscalculation. If so, my apologies.
I’m hoping to do a short follow-up on Impossibilism but websites such as DV are not keen to be seen as promoting particular party-lines.
Here is a history of the quote and all its variations.
Quote Origin: The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them
Maybe the truth of the matter is that capitalists will first sell us the t-shirt
Nearer at home in Northern Ireland
Abortion is banned even in cases of rape or fatal foetal abnormality.
A 12-year-old rape victim who had to travel to Britain for an abortion accompanied by the police told to seize “the products of conception” for evidence.
The American website, Dissident Voice have posted an article I just wrote on the WSPUS. It may prove useful to link to when commenting on other websites.
Some will take issue with the tone but I don’t think an openly partisan piece would have been published and my intention was to attract attention, not to issue a manifesto of the WSPUS ideas.
Here was my begging letter that accompanied it
“I wonder if this brief portrayal of the WSPUS might be of any use to you. It isn’t a blatant recruitment article but is shamelessy intended to attract attention to a socialist party which is sadly heading the same way as the De Leonist Socialist Labor Party went – towards oblivion It would be a great pity for this socialist organization to disappear like others of its kind e.g. the Proletarian Party. It would be regretful that the struggles and sacrifices of long-dead activists should have all been for nothing. The WSPUS still holds some, albeit limited, value as a reminder of America’s more vibrant and diverse Marxist past. And it would be a comradely act to help the WSPUS to survive, if only for a little bit longer”
Unfortunately, DV has no comments facility so reaction will not be able to be determined.
Biden reveals his puppeteers
“Hours after officially entering the 2020 Democratic presidential field Thursday morning, former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to head to the Philadelphia home of Comcast executive David Cohen for a big-dollar fundraiser that will reportedly be attended by Democratic lawmakers, the CEO of insurance giant Independence Blue Cross, and other high-powered party players.”
While the others speak at town hall meetings, Biden addresses his paymasters.
“The money’s important,” Biden reportedly said
Bad news yet again…can’t even go on a cruise to get away from it, not that I was intending one.
“The world’s oceans have become more stormy during the past three decades, according to the largest and most detailed study of its kind. The findings add to concerns that as the world gets hotter, extreme events such as storms and floods could become more frequent and more devastating in their impact…the observations were in line with predictions by climate models and from historical records that suggested that as the world got hotter, weather and storms became more extreme, although the relationship was complex and not fully understood…”
Capitalism co-opts everything, even its opponents.
Was it Marx or Lenin who said the capitalist would even sell you the rope to be used to hang him?
George Monbiot – Still talking the talk but never walking the walk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/capitalism-economic-system-survival-earth
