Ben Lockwood, PhD
Ecologist & Geographer @ ecosystems.psu.edu | Writer | Editor of @briefecology.bsky.social & @rottingleafmag.bsky.social | DSA Organizer
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- China is dominating renewable energy production while the EU fumbles around with carbon credit scams and the US is actively fighting its own climate scientists. It’s not hard to see who is actually planning for the future, and who is going to get left behind.
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- Aside from environmental exploitation, a capitalist economy also makes it impossible to plan for the ecological crises it creates. What is profitable today will always take precedence over what is logical for tomorrow.
- Exhibit number ten thousand on why capitalism can't solve climate change (or any other crisis it creates)
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDIT'S HAPPENING
- If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp
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- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDEpstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDNo need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDThousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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- We may have messed around and made an *actual* magazine
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- Indie publishers: I am once again looking for ecofiction books to read and possible review in @briefecology.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you have a new or upcoming title that you think would be a good fit!
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDThere is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhD"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDIn solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
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- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDoh my god dude www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/s/O...
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDnow hold on just one minute. when I signed on to work for a creepy right-wing surveillance company named after seeing stones used by the dark lord Sauron to manipulate and control others in an attempt to enslave the free people of middle earth I had no idea we might do some evil.
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDSCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...
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- I mean, when your entire political ideology rejects the concept of collective responsibility and action, getting out organized is kind of baked in
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- The moderate position is impeaching trump, disbanding his entire cabinet, and holding a special election by popular vote to determine the interim government until the 2026 and 2028 elections.
- These go so hard
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDThis administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDthey're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
- The reason that this fascist regime will ultimately fail is that the world they want to build is not worth living in. When faced with that calculus, there is no amount of violence that can press the people into submission.
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDI think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
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- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDKare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDIt's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- Is there anything more insulting than law enforcement officials telling a community to “calm down” after they just witnessed one of their own be executed by said law enforcement?
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
- The environmental movement must also be a labor movement. The labor movement must also be an environmental movement. There is no other way to stop the dual exploitation of workers and the planet that now threatens the survival of society itself.
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDA coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDFrom a friend in Minneapolis, just now:
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- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDNot exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
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- The Minnesota general strike is on! Give ‘em hell, comrades ✊
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- Reposted by Ben Lockwood, PhDToday is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike. You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
