Political Memes
- Corporate Complicity in Violence is Violence
Q: What are divestment and exclusion targets?
A: The BDS movement works to pressure governments, institutions, investment funds, city councils, etc. to exclude from procurement contracts and investments and to divest from, as the case may be, as many complicit companies as practical, especially arms companies and banks.
Intel is one of several divestment and exclusion targets listed for complicity in genocide by the BNC.
- #BDS 🇵🇸
- https://electronicintifada.net/content/sodastream-treats-us-slaves-says-palestinian-factory-worker/12441
- https://electronicintifada.net/content/new-sodastream-factory-could-help-destroy-bedouin-agriculture/13182
- https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide
- https://bdsmovement.net/news/%E2%80%9Csodastream-still-subject-boycott%E2%80%9D
- Careful mate... That foreignor wants your memes!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15160668
> Careful mate... That foreignor wants your meme!
- No. That can't be it.
>Are protesters upset after watching Israel nonstop slaughter thousands of children for the last 6 months???
>No. That can't be it. They're all just secretly anti-semitic or something.
- George Washington University encampment...
source: https://x.com/jmcmaster29/status/1786588095162335328
- Corporate Greed is causing the new mass extinction
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15214951
> cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3180083 > > > Corporate Greed is the new Asteroid
- I'm happy for y'all, but also extremely jealous.
Any practical advice is welcome.
Edit: After some research, the path seems to be basically this:
- Get state residents to contact their delegates asking them to draft and/or support a constitutional amendment that gives citizens power to submit ballot initiatives (that's what we do not currently have in our state constitution).
- The legislature has to pass it by 2/3 in order for it to appear on the ballot (governor does not need to sign it for it to appear on the ballot)
- A simple majority of voters (> 50%) would have to vote "yes" on the proposed amendment on election day.
Sounds easy enough, but the last 4 ballot initiatives (all legislatively sponsored) were basically power grabs (thankfully none of them passed). Still, going to see if I can maybe get the ball rolling and channel my jealousy of other states into something productive.