Gentrification of London, home of global dirty money
Just realised how many years since this album (https://diasp.eu/posts/5118058), but listening recently reminded of a verse:
...living here in a fishbowl, gentrified now, no longer a shithole...
Picture says it all
#uk #london #battersea #gentrification #corruption #china #russia #finance #property #wealth #assets
Incredible ocean-view estate within easy reach of Tokyo
Traditional Japanese gardens, Koi pond, & original tea house
Views of Atami town and the glimmering waters of Sagami Bay
Effortless harmony throughout the entire property
#Tokyo #Kyoto #japan #atami #estate #Sagami #realestate #luxury #juwai #home #japanese #art #rollsroyce #immobilierswiss #rollsroycephantoms #property #auction
when it's not done on a #public platform? The 1st Amendment protects the right of #Free #Speech on #public #property, but not on #commercial property. Of course, I have seen small #protests held inside of #stores, but when protesters are ejected from these places, no one calls it censorship.
Against #Enclosure: The #Commonwealth Men
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/10/21/against-enclosure-the-commonwealth-men/
#IanAngus #angus #CapitalVersusCommons #capitalism #agriculture #england #robbingthesoil #systematic #theft #communal #property #privatization #food #farming #history #inequality #class #rich #poor #metabolicrift #protestant #reformers
In 1924, a flourishing beach resort for Black people along the Southern California coast was seized by the local city government through eminent domain.
The stated reason was to build a park, but historical records show the resort was shut down because the resort's owners and its patrons were Black.
Now, an effort to return what is known as Bruce's Beach to the descendants of its original owners — and make amends for a historical wrong — is poised to become reality.
The California Legislature gave its final approval Thursday night to a bill that would let Los Angeles County officials give Bruce's Beach back to the family that owned it nearly a century ago. ...
#Race #Racism #California #ManhattanBeach #BrucesBeach #property #ownership #justice
With regards to #medical #mandates, "#Vaccine passports" &/or "#lockdowns" in the #USA please see:
14th Amendment, Section 1, Due Process Clause in conjunction with Washington v. Harper (1990) & Cruzan v. Director Missouri Department of #Health (1990).
14th Amendment, Section 1:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the #jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any #law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of #citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of #life, #liberty, or #property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xiv/clauses/701
Washington v. Harper (1990)
"The forcible #injection of medication into a nonconsenting person's body represents a substantial interference with that person's #liberty."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_v._Harper
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/494/210/
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990)
"[a competent person has a] constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruzan_v._Director,_Missouri_Department_of_Health
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/497/261/
Article 6 of the US Constitution in conjunction with The International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights Article 1 Section 1, Article 7 & Article 12 Section 1. The USA signed the #ICCPR October 1977 & #ratified it in June 1992.
US #Constitution, Article 6:
"...all #Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the #Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the #Judges in every State shall be bound thereby..."
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-6/
ICCPR Article 1 Section 1:
"All peoples have the #right of self-determination. By #virtue of that right they freely determine their #political status and freely pursue their #economic, #social & #cultural development."
ICCPR Article 7:
"No one shall be subjected to #torture or to #cruel, #inhuman or degrading #treatment or #punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free #consent to #medical or #scientific #experimentation."
ICCPR Article 12 Section 1:
"Everyone #lawfully within the #territory of a #State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and #freedom to choose his residence."
The USA is a ratified signatory #nation of the ICCPR and has a #legal obligation to abide by the Articles within the #treaty.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx
#Origins of #capitalist #agriculture: In two great waves of #social #change, #landlords and capitalist #farmers “conquered the field for capitalist agriculture, #incorporated the #soil into #capital, and created for the #urban #industries the necessary supplies of #free and #rightless #proletarians.”
#IanAngus #angus #robbingthesoil #systematic #theft #communal #property #food #farming #history #inequality #class #metabolicrift #agrarian #capitalism #ketts #rebellion #tudor #england #enclosure #depopulation #rural #life #land #karlmarx #marx
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/08/01/robbing-the-soil-1-commons-and-classes-before-capitalism
“The #soil is the great #connector of #lives…. Without #proper #care for it we can have no #community, because without proper care for it we can have no #life.” #WendellBerry
#MetabolicRifts #IanAngus #robbingthesoil #commons #classes #capitalism #progress #agriculture #food #farming #history #degradation #environment #ecosocialism #fields #pastures #farmers #workers #land #property #inequality #class #karlmarx #marx
https://mises.org/wire/governments-are-failing-their-most-basic-duties-while-promising-free-stuff
Some people criticize the nature of humankind. For them, their fellow men are too "greedy". But why is this the case?
A biological development has some kind of purpose. This can be observed by looking at finches, documented by Darwin.
Generally nature develops only traits, which are vital for survival. Darwin observed different finches having different beaks for different enviroments and therefore, different nutrition sources.
What I want to say by this i shte following: A certain enviroment changes preconditions for the "nature" of it's inhabitants.
It is known, that we live on a planet with limited resources. This requires the concept of property. If something is scarce, somebody is going to homestead it and turn it into his property.
Since the beginning of times, the average human being has strived for more resources and therefore more property. Goods are an means to an end- survival. And what is supposed to be wrong about the goal, not only to survive, but also to satisfy other wants and needs the individual has or plans to have?
It is suffice to say, that the wealth of one is always criticized by the one, who owns less.
What the poorer person blends out is, that the wealth of his neighbour will only improve the wealth of the society as a whole, either by direct spending (consumption) or by indirect spending (saving). Greed leads people to naturally want more, than they have, it is the strival for prosperity and the foundation of hard and smart labour.
Long-term profit is just an indicator for a supplier in how good he serves human needs and wants, it is his worth to society. In a free market, the consumer is the lord over the capitalist and directs his production process by his vote.
Why do some criticize those, who have to serve you, in order to accumulate more capital for themselves?
Nobody can live without the consumption of resources and by this, goods. Therefore it is almost hypocritical to criticize others for your own behauviour- and nature.
https://vimeo.com/228216038
watch this absurdity
[T]he solution to America’s housing crisis, both politically and technically, comes down to three coequal priorities that I call the Three S’s: Supply, Stability, and Subsidy....
[A]ll indispensable ingredients in the affordable city recipe book... One without the others will not bring true affordability and stability to a community—certainly not to all who need and deserve it. Nor can we simply enact the strongest possible intervention for one goal without considering its impacts on the others. Often, the most aggressive solution to one problem will undermine the best response to another.
Book: https://islandpress.org/books/affordable-city
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854819
#housing #homelessness #property #PublicOwnership #ShanePhillips #TheAffordableCity #books #BookReivews #BigProblems
by Brian Ward
Source: https://newpol.org/issue_post/are-you-a-settler/
We have an urgent need to bring the fight against Native oppression into all the #economic and #social struggles of today. And that means grasping, as clearly and firmly as possible, that the struggle for Native liberation means keeping the question of land rights central.
Understanding the history and ongoing process of Settler-colonialism adds to our understanding of capitalism, while ignoring it perpetuates the erasure from #history of Native peoples and their resistance to that process.
Hundreds of different social organizations existed on Turtle Island prior to the arrival of capitalist markets, but one common feature was that most #Indigenous Nations treated the land as something held in common. The idea of nonhuman life being someone’s “private #property” was almost literally unthinkable.
Writing in the Communist Manifesto in 1848, Karl #Marx said, “The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.” From an Indigenous perspective, that expanding market transformed abundance into scarcity.
Exploitation, expropriation, and extraction of the land’s riches created #wealth for those colonizing land and enforcing their claim to it by violence. Marx’s term for this process as it had occurred in Europe is usually called “primitive accumulation,” although it might be better translated as “primary” or “original” #accumulation.
"The historical process of primitive accumulation thus refers to the violent transformation of noncapitalist forms of life into capitalist ones."
With a wider perspective, we see that what the textbooks recall as Manifest Destiny was really capitalist accumulation through colonial #expansion—taking the particular form of the settler republic. (Other examples include #Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and #Israel.)
Land grants, and the willful misreading of treaties as real estate transactions, to paraphrase Vine Deloria, were central to the growth of the United States as a continental and then global imperial power, central to waging war at ever-greater scales.
Settlers are a tool, but capital is the system that drives this process and ultimately benefits. This is an important point to clarify, for capitalism is always ready to abandon a tool when it has served its purpose and create a new one, as need be.
Estes defines settler-colonialism as the specific form of colonialism whereby an imperial power seizes Native territory, eliminates the original people by force, and resettles the land with a foreign, invading population.
As treaties are broken and #resources are extracted on Indigenous land, it’s important to know that two-thirds of uranium, one-third of low-sulfur coal, as well as major hydroelectric, oil, and natural gas reserves are located in Indigenous communities.
“According to a 2002 report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), white settlers own 96 percent of private agricultural lands in the United States, and 98 percent of all U.S. private lands overall.”
The Bureau of Indian Affairs argued how the flooding of Indigenous land would speed up termination and force Indigenous people into the capitalist economy
... that most Indigenous communities in the area relied on the “free goods of Nature,” such as hunting, trapping, and gathering. Forcing them to rely on a cash income is what Marxists, if not the Bureau of Indian Affairs, would call #proletarianization.
The project of stealing indigenous land remains fundamental to the United States and its success. Settler-colonialism and its ideological companion of Manifest Destiny are baked into the development of the United States much like slavery and racism and cannot be extracted without completely overhauling the entire system
I would argue that a future decolonized Turtle Island is looking toward a #socialist #society that puts forward Indigenous self-determination and liberation and counters racism, white supremacy, settler-colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism
The #Indian and Metis movement must focus primarily on the destruction of #imperialism and on the process of decolonization. There is no longer any question of where the native struggle should pursue a capitalist or socialist path of development. Liberation can take place only within a true socialist society.
We will not succeed in slowing, let alone stopping, #climate #change and #devastation, and in having clean air, water, and land unless we stand for Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and the enforcement of treaties. If we do not have a left that understands this and puts the question of land, imperialism, and conquest at its center we will perpetuate the same old song of class reductionism. Indigenous liberation is about liberation for all.
