Why Celebrities Aren't Speaking Up About Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone- For the last eight months people have been expressing frustration and confusion about the reluctance of celebrities to use their immense platforms to speak out against the US-backed
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
For the last eight months people have been expressing frustration and confusion about the reluctance of celebrities to use their immense platforms to speak out against the US-backed slaughter in Gaza. But it’s not really a mystery why this happens: celebrities are reluctant to criticize the US-centralized empire because they benefit from it directly.
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https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/why-celebrities-arent-speaking-up-about-gaza
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
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Caitlin,
Please investigate Direct Democracy as a tool to rein in zionism, militarism and the Pentagon.
DD is a political reform tool that is promoted by the Foreign Policy Alliance, a Houston antiwar group.
For details I suggest you acquire a copy of “Let the People Rule”, by prof. John Matsusaka. He heads the Initiative and Referendum Institute at USC.
Websites:
www.iandrinstitute.org
www.johnmatsusaka.com
Peacemakers can use local ballot measures, both binding and non binding, to change the national conversation about American foreign policy. I have seen DD used successfully many times on local matters.
And the Nuclear Freeze movement used it to great effect in the 1980s.
Progressive historian Lawrence Wittner is an expert on that episode. See:
Interview - Lawrence Wittner - Confronting the Bomb
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsH-cWX5eOQ
“What Activists Can Learn from the Nuclear Freeze Movement
”https://hnn.us/articles/1636.html (2003?)
“The Nuclear Freeze and It’s impact” (2010)
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010_12/LookingBack
A younger historian of the movement is Henry Marr who released “Freeze! The Grassroots movement to halt the Arms race” in 2021:
https://www.amazon.com/Freeze-Grassroots-Movement-Halt-Arms/dp/1501760882/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38IWLGWENJAFB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6c-KsOp4qDWq2_LiQDWmlg.FWsxWTvwG9KDjx1HYBiX2SotDUB-NS54dJrtJn8jWaM&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E2%80%9CFreeze%21+The+Grassroots+movement+to+halt+the+Arms+race%E2%80%9D&qid=1716852099&sprefix=freeze+the+grassroots+movement+to+halt+the+arms+race+%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1
I have more information on this tactic if you are interested.
Barry Klein
2207 Hardy Street
Houston, TX 77026
713-224-4144
ForeignPolicyAlliance.org
Check out our Take Action page.
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DIRECT DEMOCRACY
Please investigate Direct Democracy as a tool to rein in militarism and the Pentagon.
DD is a political reform tool that is promoted by the Foreign Policy Alliance, a Houston antiwar group.
For details I suggest you acquire a copy of “Let the People Rule”, by prof. John Matsusaka. He heads the Initiative and Referendum Institute at USC.
Websites: www.iandrinstitute.org/www.johnmatsusaka.com/
Peacemakers can use local ballot measures, both binding and non binding, to change the national conversation about American foreign policy. I have seen DD used successfully many times on local matters.
And the Nuclear Freeze movement used it to great effect in the 1980s.Progressive historian Lawrence Wittner is an expert on that episode. See:
Interview - Lawrence Wittner - Confronting the Bomb
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsH-cWX5eOQ
“What Activists Can Learn from the Nuclear Freeze Movement”https://hnn.us/articles/1636.html (2003?)
“The Nuclear Freeze and It’s impact” (2010)https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010_12/LookingBack
A younger historian of the movement is Henry Marr who released “Freeze! The Grassroots movement to halt the Arms race” in 2021:https://www.amazon.com/Freeze-Grassroots-Movement-Halt-Arms/dp/1501760882/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38IWLGWENJAFB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6c-KsOp4qDWq2_LiQDWmlg.FWsxWTvwG9KDjx1HYBiX2SotDUB-NS54dJrtJn8jWaM&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E2%80%9CFreeze%21+The+Grassroots+movement+to+halt+the+Arms+race%E2%80%9D&qid=1716852099&sprefix=freeze+the+grassroots+movement+to+halt+the+arms+race+%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1
Barry Klein
2207 Hardy StreetHouston, TX 77026
713-224-4144
ForeignPolicyAlliance.org
Check out our Take Action page.