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Joseph Mogul

@joseph-mogul.bsky.social
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Writer, organizer and independent journalist. Newsletter: hereandtogether.substack.com Story tips: josephmogul@proton.me

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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In part nine of Ten Reasons to Resist AI, I wrote about AI and media/misinformation, covering the proliferation of AI deepfakes and uncovering the alliance between Big Tech and corporate media.
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AI and the Compounding Misinformation Crises
Making sense of the media's disastrous AI response
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In the eighth installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI,” I wrote about AI and education, covering the education institutions — from public school systems to private universities — enthusiastically adopting AI products in the classroom.
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Degenerative AI Does Not Belong in Schools
The question of AI in education merits a one-word answer: No
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In the seventh installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI,” I covered AI and art/music. I wrote about the cultural implications of AI image and sound generators, and how they debase the labor of artists and musicians.
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The AI Art Conspiracy
Why we’re force-fed AI slop
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ten ways to resist AI #6: There is a growing movement to enact government policy regulating AI chatbots. California recently became the first state to regulate predatory AI companion behaviors. Now, companies must implement safety features like age verification and publicize self-harm protocols.
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Big Tech Has Blood on Its Hands
The many ways AI puts our health in peril
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ten ways to resist AI #5: AI resistance is inextricable from the movements for police and prison abolition. Addressing individual bias of cops and prosecutors does not alter the essential function of carceral systems — putting humans in cages. The same may be said for algorithms.
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How AI Exacerbates Racism
The abolitionist imperative of AI resistance
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In the fifth installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI," I wrote about how AI systems trained on large swaths of the internet mirror racist attitudes found in abundance online, and how the algorithmization of society — from court sentencing to hiring decisions — exacerbates systematic racism.
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How AI Exacerbates Racism
The abolitionist imperative of AI resistance
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ten (un)fun facts about AI #4: Many of the AI-surveillance systems used by Trump’s DHS at the U.S.-Mexico border were first approved by the Biden administration under the guise of “reasonable” criminal enforcement.
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AI is a Force Multiplier in Policing and Surveillance
From license plate readers to facial recognition, AI-powered surveillance is perilous to all
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ten ways to resist AI $4: Dystopian surveillance tech is animating resistance across the U.S. Organizers developed a digital resource called DeFlock, sourcing info on the locations of ALPRs and helping local communities build public pressure campaigns against municipalities with Flock contracts.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"[W]hen a country commiting a genocide clad in uniforms bearing the Star of David repeatedly claims that it acts at the behest of all Jews ... this conflation muddles the line of complicity."
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Prism @prismreports.org · 07/07/2026
“Supremacy makes us less safe. Whether it’s the idea that we are the most vulnerable or we are the chosen ones … we are all less safe.” The Cuban & Jewish diasporas are fighting against the weaponization of their collective traumas, report @joseph-mogul.bsky.social & @alexmar.bsky.social.
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The Cubans and Jews fighting against weaponization of trauma
Some members of the Cuban and Jewish diasporas have used their painful histories to gain power in U.S. politics and advance imperialism. But many are pushing back
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the fourth installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left” I wrote about three AI surveillance tools used by federal and local police. Check it out!
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AI is a Force Multiplier in Policing and Surveillance
From license plate readers to facial recognition, AI-powered surveillance is perilous to all
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ten (un)fun facts about AI #3: Google, the company known for its former motto “don’t be evil,” backtracked on its 2018 pledge not to provide AI technology to militaries. Now, they work with the IDF and the Pentagon — just one instance of tech companies violating their previously stated guardrails.
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ten ways to resist AI #3: Local campaigns under the banner “Purge Palantir” emerged this year, pressuring Congress members to return donations from Palantir and businesses to drop Palantir contracts.
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The Anatomy of an AI “Kill List”
For militaries, AI solves the problem of humanity
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In part three of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left,” I wrote about AI and militarism. Through a case study on Palantir “kill lists” I discuss Big Tech’s quest to automate war, and what it means for the future of the antiwar movement.
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The Anatomy of an AI “Kill List”
For militaries, AI solves the problem of humanity
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ten ways to resist AI #2: As corporations attempt to introduce AI into more and more industries, unions are the most important frontline of resistance to AI. Leading organizations on this front include the Luddite Lab, The Tech Workers Coalition and No Tech for Apartheid. Read more here!
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The Hidden Labor Implications of AI Proliferation
How AI disempowers workers
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In the second installment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI," I wrote about AI and labor, examining discourse about projected job replacement, while honing in on the under-discussed topics of “ghost labor” and worker surveillance. hereandtogether.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
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The Hidden Labor Implications of AI Proliferation
How AI disempowers workers
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ten (un)fun facts about AI: #1 One application of AI that works as intended is digital software that identifies fossil fuel reserves and makes extraction more efficient. AI models developed by Google, Amazon and Microsoft locate previously inaccessible deposits of oil and gas for Exxon and Chevron.
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Generative AI is Degenerative for Our Planet
Everything you need to know about AI and the environment
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ten ways to resist AI #1: While the environmental consequences of AI are grim, we are not powerless in the face of these behemoths. Across the U.S., communities are rising up against those looming figures in their backyards, unplugging data centers.
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In the first instalment of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left” I wrote about the catastrophic environmental consequences of AI data centers, both atmospheric and local.
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Generative AI is Degenerative for Our Planet
Everything you need to know about AI and the environment
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
One way of understanding AI is that it is an intensifier of all things. The efficient processing of information is a potent form of power, currently harnessed by the ruling class of tech billionaires.
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I am beyond excited to launch a new series called Ten Reasons to Resist AI: A series of AI explainers for the left. You can read the series intro here! hereandtogether.substack.com/p/ten-reason...
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Ten Reasons to Resist AI
A series of AI explainers for the left
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/05/2026
The New School student senate unanimously voted to sanction "Hillel at The New School" following ties to a program which sent students to serve and assist a foreign military, the Israel Defense Forces. Further investigation found multiple potential violations of international law.
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New School Student Senate Sanctions Hillel Over Program With Israeli Military
Hillel has come under fire for coordinating programs that send students to Israel to volunteer with the military.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When ICE began terrorizing entire neighborhoods in the Twin Cities, mutual aid organizers who support unhoused people banded together to respond. Read the full story from Joseph Mogul on The Progressive. progressive.org/magazine/the... #Minneapolis #Activism #Community
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The Revolutionary Neighborliness of Minneapolis
When ICE began terrorizing entire neighborhoods in the Twin Cities, mutual aid organizers who support unhoused people banded together to respond.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/04/2026
Elbit also developed border surveillance systems crucial to the maintenance of Israeli apartheid, and repressive immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border, where the DHS awarded Elbit with $23.9 million to install surveillance towers in 2023.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/04/2026
Elbit Systems supplies the Israeli military with weapons such as MPR 500 bombs, which are specifically designed for “densely populated urban warfare.”
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/04/2026
Protestors showered the floor of a Capital One offices in Manhattan with blood stained money, demanding the bank end loans to Elbit Systems, days before a $90 million loan is due to expire. Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, is one of most complicit actors in Israel’s genocide.
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Protest Targets Capital One to Demand Bank Ends Loans to Israeli Weapons Company
Activists are urging the bank to not extend additional credit to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/04/2026
Protesters with a coalition of 18 movement organizations block the entrance to Senators Chuck Schumer’s and Kirsten Gillibrand’s offices, chanting: “Fund people, not bombs,” as the Senate is poised to vote on resolutions that would block over $650 million in weapons sales to Israel.
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Mass Action Targets Schumer and Gillibrand Ahead of Senate Vote on Israel Aid
The Senate is poised to vote on resolutions that would block over $650 million in weapons sales to Israel.
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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early-twentieth-century institution. progressive.org/latest/the-b...
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The Bund Is Back
In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early twentieth century institution.
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Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 01/04/2026
So much Bundism. Thanks to Joseph Mogul & @theprogressivemag.bsky.social for letting us share our thoughts and for lifting up the great Bundist organizing happening around the world.
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The Bund Is Back
In a handful of cities across the United States and Europe, Jewish socialists are reviving a storied early twentieth century institution.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/03/2026
After 17 months of campaigning, Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard won its first victory, setting its sights on the future. buff.ly/q1jEj28
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Inside the Grassroots Campaign That Pushed a Drone Company Out of Brooklyn
After 17 months of campaigning, Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard won its first victory, setting its sights on the future.
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Incredibly thorough reporting. A thousand thanks for this
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Check out my latest feature with @truthout.org!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/02/2026
> My first reaction was: This should be illegal, the way you can’t have a massive subway ad for cigarettes. — “Sarah,” co-founder of stopfriend.com
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
“As tech giants force-feed AI inevitability marketing and trumpet the technology’s supposed benefits to society, a robust AI-resistance movement has emerged in response.”
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A burgeoning AI boycott plasters the NYC subway
New Yorkers began vandalizing ads for dystopian AI products bombarding the city last fall, sparking a larger movement of AI rejection
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
‼️AI‼️ is‼️not‼️your‼️friend‼️ Trust me, I wrote all about it. Check out my latest feature with @prismreports.org !
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A burgeoning AI boycott plasters the NYC subway
New Yorkers began vandalizing ads for dystopian AI products bombarding the city last fall, sparking a larger movement of AI rejection
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I don’t usually do policy analysis, but the new National Defense Authorization Act demands our attention. Specifically, section 1706 which legally binds the United States to fill any gap in Israel’s weapons arsenal caused by international arms embargoes through domestic manufacturing. Read below!
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Another favorite quote from an OAK airport worker, Talia Rose: “This genocide that we are all witnessing through our social media screens, there’s a piece of that right here.”
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I reported a story about the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo for Mondoweiss. It’s a tremendous campaign with real potential to stunt the supply chain to Israel and set a national precedent for local action. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/geno...
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‘Genocide is not an Oakland value:’ inside Oakland’s grassroots campaign to end military shipments to Israel
Oakland International Airport has become a key hub for transporting military cargo to Israel during the Gaza genocide. Now, over 30 groups and thousands of Oakland residents have come together in the ...
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Election day is upon us in NYC, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. Here's my take on electoralism in this political moment:
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Against Obdurate Leftist Anti-Electoralism
Zohran Mamdani is not your savior, but he doesn’t have to be your enemy
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It is necessary for racial capitalism to misdirect the rage it produces, lest people turn their fury towards capital itself. Unrighteous rage is a politically expedient tool. I wrote about it: hereandtogether.substack.com/p/unrighteou...
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Unrighteous Rage
Maybe rage is a feeling some people don’t experience. I'm not one of them.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 06/09/2025
"Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard organizes weekly noise demos and pickets, demanding the eviction of two companies." "Easy Aerial, an autonomous drone manufacturer, and Crye Precision, a tactical gear company." "[S]pineless genocide profiteers." #NewYork #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
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Activists and residents are banding together to force companies complicit in the Gaza genocide out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Most New Yorkers are not aware companies contributing to the Gaza genocide operate in their backyard, but at least two are housed in the city-operated Brooklyn Navy Yard. Now, activists and local…
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I wrote a story about the Jewish underground press in the Warsaw Ghetto, how they were systematically targeted by Nazis, and why this historical analogy can guide our understanding of Israel’s penchant for assassinating Palestinian journalists in Gaza. hereandtogether.substack.com/p/the-nazis-...
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The Nazis Targeted Journalists Too
A warning for what comes next in Gaza
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
To billionaire Robert Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, it’s the outraged public who have gone too far, not the ICE agents kidnapping our neighbors. hereandtogether.substack.com/p/stop-calli...
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"Stop Calling ICE the Gestapo," says Billionaire's Foundation
Oh and shut up about Israel too
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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 10/07/2025
For 18 days, six members of @jvp-chicago.bsky.social led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.
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No ordinary solidarity — inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza
For 18 days, six members of JVP-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 04/03/2025
Indigenous & rural organizers in Minnesota prioritize clean water over ‘green’ nickel mine, Joseph Mogul reports. With the Trump administration back in office, local organizing to protect water & uphold the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe’s treaty rights is paramount. prismreports.org/2025/03/03/m...
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Organizers in Minnesota put clean water before ‘green’ nickel mine
For Indigenous and rural organizers, protecting water and upholding the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe’s treaty rights is paramount
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Check out my most recent article with Prism Reports about Indigenous and rural organizers resisting the Talon Metals-Rio Tinto nickel mine in Northern Minnesota, and how Trump changes things. Huge thank you to everybody I spoke to for the story and to the Prism editorial team!
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
QOTW #4: “I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once the hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.” - James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I’m excited to launch a new series, titled: “Greenwashing Unearthed.” Through biweekly case studies, it will investigate the deployment of greenwashing, coalescing in a clear picture: greenwashing has become a core tactic of empire. hereandtogether.substack.com/p/introducin...
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Introducing: Greenwashing Unearthed
A series about how greenwashing has become a core tactic of empire
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
What’s a term used by people on the left that you don’t fully understand and would appreciate a layman’s terms analysis of?
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Joseph Mogul @joseph-mogul.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Great article by Truthout on El Salvador overturning a mining ban approved unanimously in 2017. truthout.org/articles/el-... Under the guidance of far-right President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s legislature overwhelmingly voted to overturn a metallic mining ban.
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El Salvador Legislature Overturns Historic Metal Mining Ban
Water defenders called the move “the biggest attack on water, health and life in El Salvador.”…
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