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  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoMusic@lemmy.world•Manu Chao & Santa Fe Klan - Solamente (Official Music Video)English
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    4 days ago

    Awesome collab!

    Thanks for sharing it with us!

    Letras:

    Solamente (part. Santa Fe Klan) - Manu Chao:

    1. Solamente una vez
    2. Solamente una vez
    1. Mi lucha, que es volver y volver a empezar
    2. Renacer cada día
    3. Solamente una vez
    4. Y dejarme llevar hasta el remanecer
    1. Ya se fue Navidad
    2. Se fueron las flores, también el invierno
    3. Y yo con soledad
    4. En esta ciudad, se parece al infierno
    1. ¿Cuándo será que volverá
    2. La primavera?
    3. ¿Cuándo será que volverá
    4. O grande amor?
    1. Soy como la noche y tú como el día
    2. Yo soy oscuro y tú eres poesía
    3. Soy como la noche y tú como el día
    4. Yo soy oscuro y tú eres poesía
    1. Mi lucha, que es volver y volver a soñar
    2. Recaer cada día
    3. Solamente una vez
    4. Y volverme a estrellar frente al amanecer
    5. Solamente una vez
    1. ¿Cuándo, cuándo, cuándo
    2. Regresarás a pintar mis días grises?
    3. Solamente una vez
    4. ¿Cuándo, cuándo, cuándo
    5. Regresarás a pintar mis días grises?
    1. ¿Cuándo será que volverá
    2. La primavera?
    3. ¿Cuándo será que volverá
    4. O grande amor?
    1. Mi lucha, que es volver y volver a empezar
    2. Renacer cada día
    3. Solamente una vez
    4. Y dejarme llevar hasta el desfallecer
    1. El cielo nublado, el barrio pintado
    2. La luna me alumbra, todo está apagado
    3. Extraño el pasado, el futuro planeado
    4. La muerte no duerme, está bien comprobado
    1. ¿Cuándo será que volverá
    2. La primavera?
    3. ¿Cuándo será que volverá
    4. O grande amor?
    5. Solamente una vez
    1. ¿Cuándo, cuándo, cuándo
    2. Regresarás a pintar mis días grises?
    3. Solamente una vez
    4. ¿Cuándo, cuándo, cuándo
    5. Regresarás a pintar mis días grises?
    1. Solamente una vez
    2. Solamente una vez
    1. Para todos los barrios de todo el mundo
    2. Manu Chao con la Santa Fe
    3. Solamente una vez
    4. Somos la Santa, carnal
    5. Dímelo, Camilo
    6. Solamente una vez
    7. México, Manu Chao
    8. Solamente una vez[1]

    English Lyrics[2]

    1. [1] https://www.letras.com/manu-chao/solamente-part-santa-fe-klan/ ↩︎

    2. [2] https://lyricsfa.com/manu-chao-solamente-lyrics-english-translation/ ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoMusic@lemmy.world•KNEECAP feat MOZEY - THE RECAPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Catchy, thanks for sharing it with us!

    [Intro]

    1. There’s a little bit of breaking news to bring you
    2. And that is that counter terrorism police will investigate the rap trio, Kneecap[1]

    [Chorus]

    1. Nah, nah, nah
    2. Imithe le fada
    3. It’s Kneecap, the recap;
    4. Ríthe Bhéal Feirste
    5. Nah, nah, nah
    6. Imithe le fada
    7. Ar chrónaigh sibh Provaí, Móglaí Bap agus Mo Chara

    Annotation:

    This line nods to reports of Kneecap being investigated by UK counter-terrorism police, likely due to their politically charged lyrics and republican imagery. It’s a tongue-in-cheek jab at the state’s overreaction to dissenting voices in art, highlighting how their music is seen as threatening enough to warrant surveillance.

    1. [1] https://genius.com/Kneecap-the-recap-bootleg-version-lyrics ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoVideos@lemmy.ml•Will Zohran Empower or Betray the Working Class? (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
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    4 days ago

    This is not FUD; you need to rewatch the video a second time. Unless you are just replying to post titles, I can’t help you there.

    TIL

    FUD is an acronym for “Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt” and is commonly used in the cryptocurrency community as a short way to describe negative information about a blockchain based currency or asset.

    Stop spreading FUD about Bitcoin.[1]

    Here ya go:

    Timestamps:

    1. (0:00) Intro
    2. (5:04) What does Mamdani’s victory mean?
    3. (9:43) Fighting strategy
    4. (13:19) Making NY a wonderful place for “all”
    5. (22:14) Mamdani’s record
    6. (26:51) Who will take Mamdani down?
    7. (33:56) How will he use his platform?
    8. (37:18) What can he expect?
    9. (43:59) Mamdani in the age of Trump
    10. (50:06) Mamdani’s role models
    11. (52:50) Kshama’s run for Congress
    12. (1:00:06) Outro

    Generated Summary:

    Main Topic:

    The video discusses Zohran Mamdani’s primary election victory in the New York City mayoral race as a self-described democratic socialist and what it portends for the Democratic Party and the working class. It also examines the challenges he will face from the billionaire class, the Democratic establishment, and Zionist groups, and how he can overcome them.

    Key Points:

    • Mamdani’s Victory: His win is seen as a rebuke of the Zionist lobby and a boost for working-class people, demonstrating that campaigns focused on issues like a $30 minimum wage, rent freeze, and free transit can succeed.
    • Democratic Party Opposition: The Democratic Party establishment is largely silent or antagonistic towards Mamdani, signaling potential sabotage of his campaign.
    • Fighting Strategy: Kshama Sawant emphasizes the need for a “fighting strategy” rooted in class war, building mass movements, and challenging the power of billionaires and corporations. She argues against trying to appease the ruling class or blurring class lines.
    • Importance of Class Consciousness: Sawant stresses the importance of clarifying the nature of capitalism and its representatives to the working class.
    • Lessons from Seattle: Sawant draws on her experience in Seattle, where she fought for a $15 minimum wage and a tax on big businesses, highlighting the need for adversarial tactics and mass mobilization.
    • Challenges Ahead: Mamdani will face significant opposition from Zionist groups, the Democratic Party, and the billionaire class, who will pour money into campaigns to defeat him.
    • Critique of Mamdani’s Approach: Sawant expresses skepticism about Mamdani’s approach, particularly his statements about working with Governor Kathy Hochul and improving the quality of life for billionaires. She argues that he needs to directly challenge the Democratic establishment and mobilize working-class people.
    • New York DSA’s Record: Sawant criticizes the New York DSA’s record in the State Legislature, arguing that they have not won victories commensurate with their number of elected officials. She also points out that Mamdani ran unopposed in his last two elections, which she sees as a sign that he is not a significant threat to the ruling class.
    • Defeating Trumpism: Sawant argues that working-class solidarity around class-based demands is essential to defeat Trumpism and right-wing populism.

    Highlights:

    • Bill Aman’s vow to spend “hundreds of millions of dollars” to defeat Mamdani.
    • Sawant’s description of capitalism as a “zero-sum game.”
    • Sawant’s call for Mamdani to organize rallies and marches to mobilize working-class people.
    • Sawant’s critique of AOC as a “poster child for careerism.”
    • Sawant’s emphasis on the need for revolutionary politics to win meaningful reforms.
    • Sawant’s analysis of how the Democratic Party uses identity politics to divide the working class.
    • Sawant’s argument that the Democratic Party and the Labor leadership have betrayed the interests of the working class.

    1. [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FUD ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Videos@lemmy.world•Tucker Carlson says he doesn't own a computer
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    4 days ago

    Generated Summary:

    This video discusses Tucker Carlson’s theories regarding the ongoing cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein case by the DOJ.

    Main Topic: Potential reasons behind the DOJ’s alleged cover-up of the Epstein case.

    Key Points:

    • Theory 1 (Dismissed): Trump’s involvement. Carlson dismisses this theory, stating he doesn’t believe Trump is the type to be involved in such activities and that the Biden administration would have leaked any incriminating evidence against Trump.
    • Theory 2 (Favored): Intelligence services (US and Israeli) are at the center of the story and are being protected.
    • Carlson cites historical examples of the CIA covering up pedophilia cases within its ranks to protect “sources and methods.”
    • He suggests that intelligence agencies might be involved in the Epstein case and are being shielded from exposure.

    Highlights:

    • Carlson explicitly states he believes the most obvious explanation for the cover-up is the protection of US and Israeli intelligence services.
    • He highlights the CIA’s past actions of covering up internal pedophilia cases to protect their operations.
    • Carlson jokingly mentions avoiding computers to prevent potential issues related to child pornography.
  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOPtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..." — George Orwell, *1984*
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    6 days ago

    I’m sorry but the more people are involved in decision making the worse a company runs. That’s also true of governments but in governments that’s kind of a feature not a bug.

    I think we are taught to believe that we need to be ruled by corporate hierarchy so as to function efficiently to maximize profits, but when profits and shareholders are not the primary goal, humans can work well together without falling apart.

    Cooperatives are what they are explaining. Democracy at Work is a source I enjoy; I included information below.

    I think there are better solutions like pegging it to inflation and regional cost of living.

    I agree!

    But childcare for example is very iffy to me, I’d rather have the government pay a salary to one of the parents (or even both?) until the kids are of school age than have government funded child care so that the parents can spend all day working. Seems like enabling the worst parts of capitalism.

    I agree as well!

    Great points and explanations, thanks for taking the time to explain them to me in simple terms!

    About Co-ops

    “By democratizing workplaces, worker co-ops can give shape to a real, daily democracy on a society-wide basis.” - Richard Wolff

    We believe cooperatives (and specifically worker co-ops) are a critical component to realizing a more sustainable, equitable, and democratic future. Read more to learn why.

    What is a cooperative?

    A co-op is a business that is owned and self-managed by its members with the principle of “one person, one vote.” There is no boss, CEO, or Board of Directors who can make decisions by themselves and for their own personal benefit. Co-ops are people-centered, and are driven to create sustainable enterprises and long-term stability for all involved in them.

    The values that form the base of any cooperative are self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity. The management structures and day-to-day operations are designed according to the needs and desires of the co-op members and can vary greatly.

    There are many types of cooperatives:

    1. Worker Co-op: A business that is owned and controlled by the workers, who together decide the business operations, strategic directions, profit distributions, etc. – Examples: Equal Exchange, Cooperative Home Care Associates
    2. Consumer Co-op: Owned by members who direct the co-op to purchase the goods or services they need, ensuring better availability, and more. This model is often seen in groceries, electrical distribution, childcare, banking, and housing. – Examples: UW Credit Union, REI
    3. Producer Co-op: Producers of a product band together to have a greater market share. Members are usually businesses themselves, not individuals, and such co-ops are often seen in agriculture. – Examples: Dairy Farmers of America, Ocean Spray
    4. Purchasing Co-op: Purchasers of a product band together to improve their purchasing power. Members are usually businesses themselves, not individuals. – Examples: ACE Hardware, Independent Pharmacy Cooperative
    5. Multi-Stakeholder Co-op: Owned and controlled by a mix of members and workers. – Examples: Weaver Street Market, Boisaco Inc.

    Cooperatives are not a new idea. Today, the International Cooperative Association’s research shows that “at least 12% of humanity is a cooperator of any of the 3 million cooperatives on earth.”[1]

    Edit:

    1. Added missing source [1]

    1. [1] https://www.democracyatwork.info/about_co_ops ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOPtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..." — George Orwell, *1984*
    1·
    6 days ago

    I agree!

    Yes, the right-left spectrum is always used as a divide-and-conquer strategy to keep the working class fighting each other instead of uniting and forcing politicians to push for populist policy like the two lists below:

    We won’t agree on 100% of our views, but we may agree on some of these points.

    Eleven Demands for Real Democracy:

    1. Fix big money in politics and government
    2. Healthcare for all
    3. A minimum standard of living for everyone
    4. End the wars
    5. Racial and criminal justice reform
    6. Respond to the climate emergency
    7. Reject censorship
    8. Immigration reform
    9. An election system we can trust
    10. Revamp taxation and funding
    11. Democratize the enterprise[1]

    What We Stand For:

    1.⁠ ⁠Fight the Rich! End the Billionaire Class & Their System

    2.⁠ ⁠Workers Need a Real Raise — $25/Hour Minimum Wage [Living Wage]

    3.⁠ ⁠Good Union Jobs for All

    4.⁠ ⁠Stop the Climate Catastrophe — Take Big Energy Corporations into Workers’ Ownership

    5.⁠ ⁠Fight Racism, Sexism & All Oppression

    6.⁠ ⁠Stop Mass Deportations

    7.⁠ ⁠Medicare for All & Quality Affordable Housing — Tax the Rich

    8.⁠ ⁠End the Genocal War on Gaza — No Military Aid, No Occupation

    9.⁠ ⁠Bring Down Trump, the Billionaires & Their Two Parties

    10.⁠ ⁠No More Sellouts — We Need a New Mass Party[2]

    1. [1] https://elevendemands.org/demands/ ↩︎

    2. [2] https://www.workersstrikeback.org/whatwestandfor ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOPtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..." — George Orwell, *1984*
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    6 days ago

    The problem with this quote, and things like Ur-fascism is they apply to both sides if you look at the full picture

    That is why it is called a duopoly; they both work against the working class while offering crumbs so as to keep us thinking that they fight for us.

    We need an independent (from the duopoly, oligarchy) working-class movement to address the systematic issues that continue to increase the struggles we all face.

    TIL

    “Ur-Fascism” or “Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt” is an essay authored by the Italian philosopher, novelist, and semiotician Umberto Eco. First published in 1995, this influential essay provides an analysis of fascism, a definition of fascism, and discusses the fundamental characteristics and traits of fascism. Drawing on Eco’s personal experiences growing up in Mussolini’s Italy and his extensive research on fascist movements, the essay offers his insights into the nature of fascism and its manifestations.

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOPtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..." — George Orwell, *1984*
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    6 days ago

    If only it was like the Black Panthers Rainbow Coalition, while showing off our 2nd Amendment rights.

    An independent (from the duopoly, oligarchy) working class movement.

    But we know what happens when we come together, class solidarity, as the working class while showing off our 2nd amendment rights.

    Throughout the late 1960s, the militant Black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.”

    The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.

    They also organized a march to the Capitol to draw attention to their cause of fighting against a government that sought to infringe on their right to bear arms. On May 2, 1967, 30 fully-armed Black Panthers occupied the California state Capitol. The demonstration was motivated by Republican Assemblyman Don Mulford’s bill to repeal the law allowing Californians to openly carry weapons, a direct response to the Black Panthers’ “police patrols.”

    The group of activists occupying the Capitol with fully loaded weapons on full display was an unforgettable sight. However, their demonstration backfired and the bill passed both the state Assembly and Senate, with support from the NRA. In addition to repealing open carry gun laws in California, Mulford made it illegal to take firearms into the Capitol. On July 28 it was signed into law by Governor Reagan, who later commented that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.

    In the 1920s and 1930s, the NRA supported restrictions on who could carry guns on the streets in order to decrease hostility towards European immigrants—who were known to openly carry weapons at the time—within the country. And after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, the NRA backed the Gun Control Act that passed the same year, which put substantial restrictions on the purchase of guns based on mental illness, drug addiction and age, among other factors.

    Ironically, it was the gun control laws that were put into effect against African-Americans and the Black Panthers that led “rural white conservatives” across the country to fear any restriction of their own guns, Winkler says. In less than a decade, the NRA would go from backing gun control regulations to inhibit groups they felt threatened by to refusing to support any gun control legislation at all.[1]

    1. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250627043451/https://www.history.com/articles/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act | https://www.history.com/articles/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act ↩︎

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.world•Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
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    6 days ago

    Related Links:

    1. https://odysee.com/@alltheworldsastage:0/Gaza-Doctors-Under-Attack---2025-Full-Documentary:4
    2. https://archive.ph/Q9nbm | https://zeteo.com/p/watch-now-gaza-doctors-under-attack
    3. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/gaza-doctors-under-attack
    4. https://www.basementfilms.co.uk/work/gaza-doctors-under-attack
    5. https://odysee.com/@BIOLOGÍA_y_CONCIENCIA:e/BBC-Gaza:b

    WATCH NOW: ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ – The Full Film They Didn’t Want You To See

    Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

    “We are in the theater, in the operating room, full darkness, no water, no electricity. But we have a hero, surgeons in Gaza.” – Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, 1974-2024

    It goes without saying that the livestreamed cruelty of Israel’s genocide has been indescribably shocking and painful to witness over the last 21 months. A particularly problematic and disturbing aspect of it has been around Gaza’s hospitals, targeting healthcare workers and the besieged Strip’s medical infrastructure at an unprecedented scale, and in clear violation of international law. Now, a new documentary, available in most countries across the globe exclusively here at Zeteo, takes you inside those hospitals to hear accounts from doctors there, on the ground, about the impossibility of saving lives in a Western-backed Israeli onslaught. It is a comprehensive investigation into the systematic targeting of Gaza’s healthcare system, including all 36 of its main hospitals, multiple times, and the killing of its doctors, nurses, and paramedics.

    ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack,’ produced by the award-winning Basement Films team that brought us last year’s Zeteo exclusive ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism,’ includes harrowing on-camera testimony from Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, who was arrested by the Israeli military in December 2023 and, according to a UN report, “subjected to sexual violence in an Israeli prison prior to his death in Israeli custody.”

    It also features shocking accounts of torture at the Israeli prison Sde Teiman from an anonymous Israeli doctor there, who accuses his fellow Israeli medics of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians held in detention.

    This was a film that the BBC had originally commissioned. However, after several delays, they decided, very controversially, not to publish it, issuing a statement saying they had “come to the conclusion that broadcasting this material risked creating a perception of partiality.” In a response, Basement Films, in a statement posted on Twitter/X, said, “The truth must be told… It’s a damning indictment that it is not possible under the national broadcaster’s current leadership.”

    The final film that you’re about to watch, above, is no longer a BBC film. It is ours.

    For the tens of thousands of you who are paid subscribers to Zeteo, we could not have acquired it without your support. In fact, it may have remained in the BBC archives forever, never to be seen or shared as widely as we can do so now. For those of you in the UK, you can watch it on Channel 4 – and we commend that British broadcaster for also stepping forth and allowing this to broadcast in the UK.

    Around 1,500 doctors, nurses and healthcare workers have been killed at home or in their workplaces in Gaza, a conservative estimate, and many have been illegally taken into Israel where they, their relatives, human rights groups, watchdogs, allege they have been tortured, and some of them killed. Attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers are prohibited under international law, but started almost the day after Hamas’s attacks on October 7, 2023 which killed 1,200 Israelis.

    Please note that this is not a Zeteo original documentary, like ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’ or ‘Who Killed Shireen?’ but one we acquired once it had been filmed, edited and finished, so as to share it with the world as fast as possible.

    We at Zeteo, as journalists, as a media organization that has vowed to uncover and share the truth and hold those in power to account, had one clear goal: to ensure this important documentary from Basement Films, dropped by the BBC, was released. We cannot say when this genocide will end, when the Western world will say ‘enough,’ but we take our responsibility seriously in making sure the public knows – and that no one forgets – what is happening. Thank you for supporting and joining us on this mission.

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