During the 1970s oil crisis, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 realized car dependency was a trap and built world-class bike infrastructure.
The US 🇺🇸 just invented "Right on Red" to supposedly save gas and accepted the pedestrian casualties.
Two approaches, two very different outcomes.
A new NJB video. 👇
“This is the second time in less than a year that diplomacy was betrayed by the Americans.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei slammed the US for once again launching an attack against his country while negotiating with it.
theonion.com/this-war-wil...
Hannah Spencer WINS
GREENS WIN!
[ID] Manchester Green Party graphic showing the election result in Gorton and Denton. Greens win. Hannah Spencer elected. Greens won with 41%. Reform lost in second on 29%. Labour way behind in third on 29%
I agree: "Labour sources said the party had not been forgiven by many of its Muslim voters for its stance on Gaza – an issue capitalised on by the Greens in the Manchester side of the constituency."
"Hannah the plumber" MP @greenparty.org.uk
“Gaza has not been forgotten or forgiven,” said a Labour councillor in the constituency. “Lots of us are now worried for our seats”. @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cars in red at top with silhouette of person on a bike - below in blue is a white car from the top giving off smoke. Play off of Jaws movie poster
In cities everywhere.
Democracy and Popular Struggle.
Michael Parenti 1989 youtu.be/xbkeZUUGw54?...
Michael Parenti on the US overthrowing governments if their economic model didn't directly benefit the US interests.
IT. IS. ALWAYS. ABOUT. THE. OIL🛢
Michael Parenti
#EndUSImperialism
#NoWarForOil
#CapitalismIsTheProblem
I'll leave this right here 👇
Michael Parenti on the extraction of wealth from the so-called "Third World" by Western Capitalism.
Strike vote
Sammy Davis Jr. living his best life on the streets of Amsterdam
5 lane road with no drivers/ It's with a very heavy heart that we will be removing this pilot road, just not enough people driving on it. We encourage you to write an email to your councillor about future road opportunities. Please check our website for alternative car routes.
We’re so sorry.
Magazine cover featuring a painting of the Brooklyn Bridge with a sole bicyclist riding on the elevated path. The sky is orange and pink.
A Bicyclist on His Way to Brooklyn
New Yorker magazine cover
December 4, 2000
Artist: Jean-Jacques Sempe
This is brilliant.
![Advertising poster promoting cycling for transport featuring four people in a row on bikes. At the top the text says, "You'd be better on a bicycle", and then in a bubble it says "Still [emphasized with big, red, italicized letters] the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vpdxcialxa6j5s7yh5g5jhf/bafkreihcp247ahol26isqxpjmh54kczqp6ieyycvhakzjug6ysgeqndpb4)
Advertising poster promoting cycling for transport featuring four people in a row on bikes. At the top the text says, "You'd be better on a bicycle", and then in a bubble it says "Still [emphasized with big, red, italicized letters] the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about."
It says it all
“This administration is desperate to distract from the reality that these service members have impeccable records and that there is no reason whatsoever to separate them from military service,” attorney Shannon Minter told The Advocate.
DC Statehood is a voting rights issue.
DC Statehood is a racial justice issue.
DC Statehood is a gun safety issue.
DC Statehood is a reproductive justice issue.
#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply.
Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."
Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...
FAIR’s new study of the New York Times' front-page coverage of trans issues found:
• Trans people were 11% of sources in trans-focused stories, down from 19% in our 2023 study.
• Three of 13 trans-focused stories had no trans sources.
fair.org/home/nyt-les...
