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OpEd - No, I'm Not Going to #NoKings This Time
And neither should you

A Declining Democracy
Mar 18, 2026

Excerpt: "What does toppling the #oligarchy mean? It means boycotting the media, goods, and services they use to extract wealth from the rest of us. (See the #TeslaTakedown as a great example.) It means #activism to get state legislatures to enact #WealthTaxes. It means lobbying state legislatures to increase income taxes on the top 10% of earners. It means electing Governors and Mayors who adopt a #Mamdani / #AOC-like platform to alleviate the financial burdens of average workers/citizens. It means rejecting corporate centrism and any of their candidates, local or federal, who accepts money from PACs, particularly those that have effectively paralyzed representatives from voting against Israel or the NRA. It also means creating the networks that protect the most vulnerable: the undocumented, women who are being persecuted for exercising bodily autonomy or receiving life-saving medical care, and anyone, frankly, who isn’t white or Christian.

"So, where does one start? First, send an email to the No Kings organizers at [email protected] and explain why you won’t be joining this time or at any time in the future until they adopt a strategy with teeth:

- Protests must occur on weekdays and for multiple days at a time and to call it a #GeneralStrike.

- To use their clout to call for union leaders to have their union membership strike in solidarity.

- To call for their sponsors to contribute to a strike fund for non-union, hourly wage participants, offsetting the financial burden of participating in these actions.

- To have specific demands for our government:

* Remove and Prosecute Trump for his criminality, particularly as it relates to the sex-trafficking and rape of minors

* Abolish ICE

* Audit the 2024 election, restore voting systems where breaches have occurred, and implement federal voting rights statutes to ensure every voter is heard and every vote counted

* Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment across all 50 states, codifying women’s rights to vote, have equal pay, and access to reproductive health care.

* Adopt Medicare for All.

"Now, there is a #MayDay general strike being organized by the #UAW, but it’s being planned for 2028 which seems awfully far away and too late. I’m sure the idea was to do some union saber-rattling in the lead up to the 2028 Presidential election. However, the time to show some critical mass is right now, not two years from now, after heaven knows how much more crap this Administration will inflict or how much more suffering Americans will endure. No Kings has the numbers; why not just consolidate and do it sooner? "

Read more:
https://democracydecline.substack.com/p/no-im-not-going-to-no-kings-this

#NoKings3 #Resistance #USPol

Watching #QuestionTime from two weeks ago. Many issues raised with #wealthTaxes - principally capital flight, collection, and reduced investment when wealth is taxed. The figures from Adam Smith Institute on rich leaving UK due to taxes quoted.

I’d be interested to know the detail from wealth tax advocates such as Richard Murphy & Gary Stevenson to address these criticisms.

I've just signed this petition in response to the UK government's cynical decision to cut the international development budget to fund an increase in military spending. https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/dont-cut-aid-tax-wealth #Ukraine #wealthtaxes #UKLabour #shorttermism

'#InsatiableGreed': Richest 1% Have Already Burned Through Their #CarbonLimit for 2025

"The #SuperRich continue to squander humanity's chances with their lavish lifestyles, polluting stock portfolios and pernicious political influence. This is theft—pure and simple."

Jake Johnson, Jan 10, 2025

"An #Oxfam analysis published Friday shows that the richest 1% of the global population has already blown through its global carbon budget for 2025—just 10 days into the New Year. The figures, which arrive amid catastrophic fires in Los Angeles that may turn out to be the costliest in U.S. history, highlight the disproportionate role of the #UltraWealthy in fueling a #ClimateEmergency that is causing devastation around the world.

"Oxfam calculates that in order to keep critical climate goals in reach, each person on Earth must have a CO2 footprint of roughly 2.1 tons per year or less. On average, each person in the global 1% is burning through 76 tons of planet-warning carbon dioxide annually—or 0.209 per day—meaning it took them just over a week to reach their CO2 limit for the year.

"By contrast, the average person in the poorest 50% of humanity has an annual carbon footprint of 0.7 tons per year—well within the 2.1-ton budget compatible with a livable future.

"'The future of our planet is hanging by a thread,' Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International's climate change policy lead, said in a statement Friday. 'The margin for action is razor-thin, yet the super-rich continue to squander humanity's chances with their lavish lifestyles, polluting stock portfolios and pernicious political influence.'

"'This is theft—pure and simple―a tiny few robbing billions of people of their future to feed their insatiable greed,' Dabi added.

"'Rich polluters must be made to pay for the havoc they're wreaking on our planet.'

"Oxfam's new analysis came as the @CopernicusEU Climate Change Service confirmed that 2024 was the hottest year on record and 'the first calendar year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above its #PreIndustrial level.'

"'All of the internationally produced global temperature datasets show that 2024 was the hottest year since records began in 1850,' Copernicus director Carlo Buontempo said in a statement. 'Humanity is in charge of its own destiny, but how we respond to the climate challenge should be based on evidence. The future is in our hands—swift and decisive action can still alter the trajectory of our future climate.'

"Oxfam called on governments to move urgently to curb the emissions of the rich, including by implementing #WealthTaxes, banning #PrivateJets and #Superyachts, and imposing strict new regulations on #polluting companies.

"'Governments need to stop pandering to the richest,' Dabi said Friday. 'Rich polluters must be made to pay for the havoc they're wreaking on our planet. Tax them, curb their emissions, and ban their excessive indulgences—private jets, superyachts, and the like. Leaders who fail to act are effectively choosing complicity in a crisis that threatens the lives of billions.'"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/rich-carbon-limit
#EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #CorporateGreed #TechBros #CEOSeason

"trillions of $ have been used to support corporations during the pandemic & to support military spending. Now people are being asked to endure austerity...when they are suffering a cost-of-living crisis." #WealthTaxes #WindfallTaxes
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/01/austerity-2023-will-fuel-protests/ via @[email protected]

I live in Portland, OR, USA with my partner and 2 kids. I met my partner #SwingDancing and #BluesDancing, and I'm hoping to get back to those as the pandemic eases up.

We need denser buildings to free people from driving, #LandTaxes and #WealthTaxes to focus resources on people and projects that need it, and #SystemsThinking to make lasting changes. #TipYourServer to help with that last one.

I'm looking forward to following interesting people here.

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