In this episode of Act Out! we discuss some of the winners on tax day. Spoiler alert: it's not you and me.
From billions on bombs to cents on toilet paper, we look at how human rights violations here and overseas fuels the machine.
Next, an angle on the gun debate you won't hear discussed primarily because it could and would unite us more than divide us. scott crow joins us to talk about his latest book and the tools of resistance and building from yesterday to today.
In my country, Switzerland, we have a lots of guns turning around, easy to buy, easy to hold.
When they reach 18 years old, swiss males have obligation to go to army and have obligation to accept receiving our national glory, a FASS-90, an assault rifle. At the end of the army period, they come back home with there war weapon and usually hide it under there bed, in a cupboard behind there collection of shirts or in the seller with there collection of bottles of wines.
I let you guess this is a huge problem, as precarity and mental disorders are rising inside the swiss population.
The fact is that swiss people are mainly using there weapons against themselves, to commit suicide.
It is like when they have to vote for an initiative, swiss people always commits suicide.
The people from my country must probably be sado-maso, always voting against there own interests.
Thanks for your journal, I'm following your channel since now, and will upvote and resteem your posts if I enjoyed like today.
Thierry
Thanks Thierry - it sounds like maybe Switzerland is suffering from some of the same issues as the U.S. Economies are failing, climate is changing, opportunities are waning meanwhile we don't have support systems in place - neither on a community level nor on a broader political level. I see the beginning of this in Sweden as well (where I grew up).
Thanks for the post! Here's the full interview with scott, by the way: I felt the same way for a long time. Until I started reading about the Black Panthers and Zapatistas a few years ago, I was staunchly anti-gun. But the nuance and proof of history just doesn't jibe with that flat and simple stance.
Will make a separate post for the full interview but here's a link to the YT video:
you have much better chance of being killed by your own government after it implements gun control than any criminal or war or terrorist.
Is there a push in Switzerland for more gun control or are the Swiss secretly running the world and plotting to disarm everyone else?
Lol! Yes, there is a push to regulate guns in Switzeland but owning a gun is part of the swiss DNA. Switzerland does not only produce watches, chocolate and victorinox knifes, they keep producing firearms and war weapons and they do export these weapons to countries in war.....but, we are "Neutral". The swiss militaro-industrial complex has a long time friendship with the USA and Israel, developing all kind of special weapons and drones with Tshahal, welcoming there top guns pilotes in our swiss Alps for training before bombing Gaza. We could not be more neutral. We are not anymore the country of Heidi and her grandfather. Glysophates are everywhere (thanks to Mosanto), we have the oldest nuclear power plants on earth. Our trains are not on time anymore, my country took a bad direction since the rise of neoliberalism.
For a better understanding of global weapons trafficking, I invite you to watch the excellent biographic movie about the life of Viktor Bout :
"Lord of War" with Nicolas Cage.
You can easily download it as a torrent.
Have a nice day
PS. I have renounced to own a gun myself, my blood is much to hot, I can not guarantee self control
I've seen that one, perhaps my favorite Nicolas Cage movie. I would never watch a movie for free myself, that would be wrong. You should check this out you might get a kick out of it
Very much appreciated your interview with Scott Crow and his perspectives on guns. Think I'll get his book and share ideas with people I know. Has been such a hot topic, I have to admit I've been a bit silent in my very left-leaning, anti-gun community while my thoughts have been more about the gun culture, video games, generation of lost boys, etc as Scott mentions.
I felt the same way for a long time. Until I started reading about the Black Panthers and Zapatistas a few years ago, I was staunchly anti-gun. But the nuance and proof of history just doesn't jibe with that flat and simple stance.
Will make a separate post for the full interview but here's a link to the YT video:
Yes, I'm a history teacher and know how the Panthers used guns in their movement and how doing so was necessary for their cause. Pretty powerful to watch (on old footage) Panther members cocking their rifles when police were arresting/pulling over a Black man (a way to prevent abuse of power).
Also, I have been following a group of African-American professors who are against banning guns for these very reasons. Could become martial law and then what would happen? Becomes much easier with an unarmed nation. Look at how the militarized police went into places like Ferguson, a town with a population of about 20,000 with tanks rolling down the streets!
I had collected youtube video's to show my students after that event and shortly after all videos were gone from the Internet and my youtube wiped of all videos, subscriptions and history. Some of these videos were made by young teens living in Ferguson at the time who said they were all hiding in their houses and didn't know who the rioters were--said they were actors. Might sound a bit like conspiracy theory, but I'd be considered pretty normal by many, and the fact that my youtube account was altered underlines the truth for me.
Keep revealing the truth, Eleanor!
Here's the gun debate:
The Left - "Ban semi-auto guns! "
Free Americans - "No."
My rights are not up for debate. Make a plan to come take it by force or shut up.
watch the interview.
They will just send you a letter saying you are a felon now.
"There weren't mass shootings before the 80s"
ROFL, great premise, how did you come up with that one?
The gun debate is a distraction from the pills causing these shooting sprees.