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Saturday, October 17, 2026

Kiki and Carmelo – Under the Night Sky

Something very special this evening for “music night” at The Wild Reed. . . . It’s “Under the Night Sky,” a 2007 concert featuring English singer Kiki Dee and her long-time musical collaborator, guitar virtuoso Carmelo Luggeri.

The “classy duo”’s near two-hour set includes reworked versions of Kiki’s classic 1970’s hits “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” “Amoureuse,” and “I’ve Got the Music in Me,” as well as acoustic covers of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” and Tom Petty’s “Learning to Fly.”

Recorded at the historic Bray Film Studios, the performance also features Claire Finnimore on viola and Annabel Lamb on backing vocals. . . Enjoy!

For more of Kiki Dee at The Wild Reed, see:
• Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri
• “A Classy Duo”
• Music Legend Kiki Dee: “I’m a Down-to-Earth Person”
• Classic Kiki
• Celebrating Kiki
• Deeper Understandings
• Celebrating the Proverbial “Soulman”
• The End Is Not the End
• Amoureuse
• A Classic Duet Turns 50
• Elton and Kiki: Together Again
• Honoring the Darkness While Remembering the Light
• The Light of This New Year’s Day

Related Off-site Link:
Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri’s Official Website
Kiki Dee’s Forward Motion – The Strange Brew (August 2023).

A Spirited Exchange on Voting

Earlier this month I posted the following on Facebook, noting that “Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine recently shared that he did not vote for Kamala Harris in 2024, and liberals within the Democratic Party are having a meltdown.”

I also shared this related quote by my friend Adam.

If you’re surprised that Tom Morello didn’t vote for Kamala-freakin’-Harris then you’re in the exact same category as people who thought [Bruce Springsteen’s] “Born in the USA” was a patriotic song. What evidence has Morello EVER given you to think he votes for genocide?

A liberal friend of mine, Rebecca, responded . . .

I deeply respect you, Michael Bayly and I struggle with this. Elections are never liberation. They are about harm reduction. I am someone who has done a fair amount of work against the genocide in Palestine. I care deeply about it. And I care about access to reproductive health care and queer and trans people and immigrants and climate justice and . . . By voting for a third party candidate or not voting, the white Christian nationalist movement was able to take control of all three branches of government and cause a lot of damage and authortarian take over.

I responded with the following:

Rebecca, I deeply respect you too and all the incredible work you do in relation to so many justice and peace issues. I just want to note that there’s something you said in your comment that is not supported by the data. It’s the claim that voting for a third party candidate enabled “the white Christian nationalist movement to take control of all three branches of government” in 2024. In actuality, if every left-leaning third party vote was given to Kamala Harris, she still would have lost to Trump. I really think the blaming and shaming energy directed to third party voters is both misdirected and misguided. Our criticism should, first and foremost, be directed to candidates like Harris who very intentionally chose not to do what we all knew needed to be done re. Gaza so as to earn the necessary number of votes to defeat Trump. The Democratic establishment goes to great lengths to smear third party candidates and voters rather than take responsibility for their own bad decisions and failures. I believe this is one reason for why the party is at its all-time lowest approval rating.

In support of what I said, I shared this graphic:

Another friend, Christopher, chimed in . . .

Throwing away a vote has never led to less genocide.

To which I said:

Christopher, nor has voting for the corporatist/oligarchic duolopy. . . . Also, what might be considered a “wasted vote” for one person, could for another be a vote of profound meaning and conscience. . . . I think expending time and energy blaming and shaming voters is what's actually a complete waste. Wouldn’t it be better to use that energy to shift candidates’ policies and positions so that they actually earn the votes needed to defeat their opponents?

Christopher responded with the following:

Yes, it is appropriate to use energy to shift policies and positions. I’ve been doing it professionally for most of my adult life. But little things like Medicare, Medicaid, the right for gays to marry, health insurance for children, and more came from supporting the candidate that was marginally better on the ballot rather than naively pretending someone on Putin’s payroll would be unicorn to fix America’s problems.

In response I said:

Christopher, the incremental changes you cite re. healthcare still leave millions uninsured or underinsured. It’s not surprising then that polls show that Americans’ faith in both corporatist parties is at an all-time low. More and more people are recognizing that an incremental approach that ameliorates people’s suffering at the hands of a profoundly dysfunctional and unjust political and economic system needs to be replaced by a bold and radical approach that transforms this system so that this suffering is eradicated, not managed. There are people, movements, and parties dedicated to such a transformative approach but they are intentionally (and undemocratically) shut out of the current political arrangement by both corporatist/oligarchic parties. All manner of propaganda is also hurled their way, as you demonstrate with your reference to “someone on Putin’s payroll.” The incremental / “lesser evil” / “harm reduction” approach has brought us to where we are today. Moreover it has moved the Overton window ever rightwards so that the Democratic Party is now firmly a center right party and the Republican Party has gone full-on fascist. I've come to the conclusion that a progressive third party is no longer an option but an imperative. For quite some time now it is toward the building of such a party that I am compelled to expend my time, energy and money. That doesn't mean I haven't supported progressive Democratic candidates; I have – Bernie, Marianne Williamson, Nina Turner, Omar Fateh, Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed and others. But in practically every case the campaigns of these candidates have been sabotaged by the DNC. The sad reality is that for every Mamdani there are 500 corporatist Democrats and thus practically no chance of the much-needed transformative change ever being realized. Of course, there are some who say that it’s a “privileged” position to strive for transformative change rather than stick with the incremental approach. I’d argue the opposite. The privileged position is held by those who have the resources to endure the long drawn-out time frame of the incremental approach as opposed to the many others who need immediate transformative change to simply survive, let alone thrive. Again, neither corporatist/oligarchic party is willing to advocate, let alone legislate such transformative change. . . . It’s time to dump the duopoly.

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

THE STATE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
• Oliver Kornetzke’s Epic Takedown of the Liberal Tactic of Blaming and Shaming Leftists
• The Time for Illusions Is Over: Henry Giroux on the Democratic Party
• Ashley Stevens: Quote of the Day – August 18, 2026
• “Our Country Right Now Is At a Crossroads”
• Abdul El-Sayed: The Disruptor Michigan (and the Country) Needs
• Scotty T. Reid on James Clyburn as a “Defender of the Political Establishment and Its Policies of Oppression”
• Mike Figueredo on the “Political Malpractice” of the Democratic Party
• David Norton: “The Democratic Party Serves Capital, Not You”
• Mike Figueredo: “Elected Democrats Have No Real Interest in Doing What the Base Wants”
• Ted Rall: Democrats Are Not “the Left”
• Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• Adam Bates on the Team Blue / Kamala “I Told Ya So” Smugness Tour
• When the “Blue Wave” Is a “Blue Crackdown”
• The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour
• Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• Democrat Talk on the Eve of Trump’s Return
• When Democrats Undermine Democracy
• A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy
• “We Must Challenge the Entire System”
• Marianne Williamson: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is Not Enough to Win”
• Nick Cruse: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is the Privileged Position”
• Will Democrats Never Learn?
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

THE RISE OF FASCISM IN THE U.S.
• George Conway: The Trump Administration Is a “Criminal Organization”
• Mark Greene on How ICE Is a Weapon of the Epstein Class
• Tommy J. Housman on Reactions to the “Defining Image” of Trump’s America
• James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”
• An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”
• The “Creeping Fascism of Trump’s America”: A View from Australia
• Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”
• Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”
• Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025
• Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America
• James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”
• Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”
• Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”
• “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025

THE GREEN PARTY
• Butch Ware on Why Third Parties Are Crucial
• Campaigning With the Green Party
• With the Green Party at Twin Cities Pride
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026
• “Green Wave 2026 is Global”
• MPR’s Major (But Unsurprising) Failure
• “It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”
• Something to Think About – December 8, 2024
• The Green Party’s Jill Stein and Butch Ware Give Their First Post-Election Interview
• “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• We’re Witnessing a Liberal Meltdown Over Jill Stein
• The “Green Smoothie” Option
• Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Butch Ware in Minneapolis
• Butch Ware: “I’m Not Here as a Spoiler”
• Jill Stein: “Americans Deserve Choices”
• Elise Labott on How Third Parties Can Revitalize Democracy
• Third Parties and the Historical Record
• Something to Think About – August 15, 2024
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election
• Cornel West: “The Next Step Is a Green Step, a Progressive Step”
• Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is a “Historic Collaboration” in the Making? (2016)
• Voting Green: Hope Over Fear

Friday, October 16, 2026

Standing Together in Minnesota

I’ll be at work during the following times (though I may take the 23rd off for my birthday!). But just let me say that it is community-focused initiatives like this that make me proud to be a Minnesotan.

UPDATE: Here are some photos from this afternoon's gatherings of support outside of mosques in the Twin Cities. They were posted online this evening by ISAIAH.

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• This Is the Moment We “Start Fighting Like Hell”
• Brenna Zeimet: Quote of the Day – October 9, 2026
• On July 4th, Two Very Different Marches
• “The Fascist Fist Is Tightening Because It Knows That It Is Losing Its Grasp on Us”
• Greg Ketter: A Valiant Minnesotan
• The “Power, Peril and Importance” of What’s Happening in Minnesota
• Quote of the Day – February 23, 2026
• The North Remembers
• Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• More Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• A Luminous Celebration of Light, Love and Community
• Honoring Renée Good and the “Astonishing Surge of Courage” of Minneapolis
• Bruce Springsteen and the Streets of Minneapolis in the Winter of ’26
• Adam Serwer on How “Every Social Theory Undergirding Trumpism Has Been Broken on the Steel of Minnesotan Resolve”
• Honoring Alex Pretti
• “ICE Out!”: The Minnesota General Strike – 1/23/26
• Why Minnesota?
• Doing What We Can to Stop Unjust Arrests of Immigrants
• Photo of the Day – December 5, 2025
• Omar Fateh: Quote of the Day – December 4, 2025
• Demanding Justice and Embodying Compassion for Separated Families (2019)
• “What We’re Seeing Here Is a Tipping Point” (2018)
• “It Is All Connected” (2017)
• 2000+ Take to the Streets of Minneapolis to Express Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees (2017)
• Fasting, Praying, and Walking for Immigration Reform (2007)
• May Day 2007

Related Off-site Link:
• Minnesota Neighbors Film Project (2026)

Thursday, October 15, 2026

This Is the Moment We “Start Fighting Like Hell”

Writes Julia Conley:

“I have rarely wanted to be wrong more,” said one journalist Wednesday night after The Wall Street Journal confirmed what many supporters of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar had suspected: that the Department of Homeland Security’s raid on her home this week was part of an investigation that is ultimately aimed at deporting her.

The Journal reported that U.S. officials confirmed the Trump administration aims to revoke Omar’s (D-Minn.) citizenship, which she obtained in 2000, five years after she arrived in the U.S. with her family from a refugee camp in Kenya. Omar is originally from Somalia, and President Donald Trump has made Somali Americans a key target of his mass deportation agenda and his racist attacks on immigrant communities.

Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seized Omar’s passport, cellphone, personal computers, and notebooks, according to The Wall Street Journal, when they searched her home in Washington, DC.

Authorities have also issued more than a dozen subpoenas and are seeking testimony from people including Omar’s family members before a grand jury.

A Justice Department official told the WSJ that the agency plans to build its case on allegations that Omar lied about her age when she became a citizen.

Federal investigators have been examining whether Omar’s father, who died in 2020, altered her age to say she was 17 instead of 18 on immigration paperwork when he applied for citizenship. Doing so would have allowed Omar to acquire citizenship through her father.

The congresswoman, who is currently running for a fifth term, has previously denied committing immigration fraud, which Vice President JD Vance has openly accused her of. Other Republican elected officials have explicitly attacked Omar for her criticism of Israel and for being a Muslim, with Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) calling her a “terrorist.”

Trump has suggested the progressive lawmaker should be deported for “always complaining” and has called to “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility.”

Journalist Peter Sterne said Wednesday evening that “many on the left suspected” the administration was attempting to deport Omar, “but it’s still wild to see the WSJ confirm it.”

Dylan Williams of the Center for International Policy emphasized that the raid and investigation – carried out just weeks before the midterm elections and as Americans are already voting, though the Justice Department typically does not take actions against candidates just before an election – are “an attempt by the Trump administration to stir up its flagging base ahead of elections that are going to be brutal for them.”

“Nonetheless, we need to fight this fascist, un-American abuse of power, hold those responsible accountable, and stand with Ilhan Omar,” said Williams.

[. . .] New York state Assembly Member Diana Moreno (D-36) said of the WSJ’s reporting, “This is either the breaking point of our democracy or the moment we start fighting like hell to win back this country from the authoritarian demons in the White House. I stand with Ilhan Omar.”

– Julia Conley
Excerpted from “Omar Raid and Investigation Aimed at
Deporting Congresswoman, Officials Say”
Common Dreams
October 15, 2026

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Something to Think About . . .

– Source: The Conscious Observer

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Shining On
• Being the Light
• A Light That Will Always Shine
• How the Light Comes
• Until the Light Returns
• “There’s Light in Love, You See”
• Light and Dark: “Both Holy, Both Life-Giving”
• Photo of the Day – December 30, 2011
• Photo of the Day – October 21, 2010
• Photo of the Day – October 19, 2010
• Living From the Heart
• A Gift for the Soul
• “And Sweetest – in the Gale – Is Heard”
• The Smile

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Andy Shallal Reflects on the “Paradigm-Shifting” Film, NAZA

Once in a while, a film comes that shifts the paradigm, offering a shattering new lens to a conflict that has been around as long as I have lived. As the genocide of Palestinians continues unabated, now stretching into a third year (though many would argue that it has been nearly eight decades), it is easy to succumb to helplessness. Yet, paradoxically, I have never been more hopeful.

The tide is turning. You can feel it. You can hear it. You can see it. Like a tsunami rumbling deep beneath the ocean floor, the rumble is growing closer to the shore. We see it when an influencer’s commentary goes viral. You see it when a high-profile ally steps forward. And when congressional candidates shift the political discourse. Change is always far too slow, but what seemed entirely impossible yesterday suddenly feels inevitable.

You also see it with films like NAZA, a documentary by two Israeli directors. Shot in a dark film noir style, it features shadowy figures on a Tel Aviv rooftop delivering a message that most of us probably already knew. The interviewees are IDF intelligence personnel operating from military headquarters. Their mandate is simple: identify targets and pass them up the chain of command for execution.

What is most terrifying (and telling) about the film, however, is the subjects’ complete lack of remorse about their work. To them its a job. Their targets are digitally detached. They execute their orders from the comfort of an office building in Tel Aviv less than an hour's drive from Gaza.

It reminded me of the type of disconnect in The Zone of Interest, where Nazi commanders lived idyllic lives directly adjacent to the human ovens of Auschwitz. These Israelis mirror this type of existence. They casually discuss inventing AI programs to “track” and “eliminate” human targets. In their mechanical calculus, their algorithmic parameters allow for tens, if not hundreds, of deaths under the cold classification of NAZA, the Hebrew military term for “collateral damage”, with program names like “Where’s Daddy” and “Lavender.”

Over time, this eerily mechanized detachment has stripped them of their humanity. One interviewee even mentions studying clinical psychology during their off-hours. Tragically, these men and women do not represent a fringe, they reflect the mainstream of Israeli society today and the inescapable warning that the ultimate casualty is our shared humanity.

– Andy Shallal
via social media
October 13, 2026

Season of Descent

The following article by Tahverlee Anglen was first published in the October/November 2026 issue of The Edge magazine, a publication that serves as a “community for higher consciousness” in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

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The Season of Descent

By Tahverlee Anglen

The Edge Magazine
October-November 2026

The sun slowly fades, the cool temperatures roll into our energy like a long-forgotten hug, and the earth prepares for its long season of rest. Regardless of where you are located [in the northern hemisphere], there is a shift that happens as the year begins to turn inward. The earth’s energy changes and moves into a period of rest. A period of tending to its roots. A time to replenish after months of outward motion of continually reaching higher toward the sun.

I spend significant portions of my year on what I call “full systems firing” energy. I am creating, teaching, writing, traveling, holding space, and continually bringing ideas into form. I love the seasons of my life when the energy is moving outward and everything feels alive with possibility. There is something intoxicating about watching the seeds you planted begin to grow. But we cannot stay in the season of growth forever. Working with the return of the dark nights is a powerful way to recharge and rebuild your own resources.

For a long time, I struggled with that. Slowing down felt like I was losing momentum. Resting meant I wasn’t creating. Turning inward felt like a wet blanket on my exciting life and spiritual growth. So much of our world celebrates what we produce and accomplish. Even in our spiritual practices we continually look for the next “big” thing to do to get to the next stage. We want the next awakening, the next manifestation, or the next level of understanding. We are always reaching for something. But nature does not do this.

The trees need to slow their growth and shed their leaves. The plants need a break to allow their roots to flourish. The planet needs the inward time to replenish, to descend. So too with us. We need breaks from reaching towards the sun so as to take our energy downward and inward.

There is something sacred about pulling your energy inward as the nights get longer, and focus on tending to your own roots, your own soul, and pause. The descent is the place where we strengthen our fortitude and gather energy.

If we choose to spend this season with more time by candlelight without the glare of artificial light and put our screens away, we may just find that life will indeed carry on as it needs to, but our internal energy systems will replenish. A good practice to do once the sun goes down is to journal on what wisdom is waiting for you in the darkness. Ask yourself what parts of you were neglected while producing, achieving, and reaching outward. Doing this while in the quiet of the evening or longer, darker mornings, will support your time in the descent.

This is where the season of descent has changed me the most – just slowing down long enough to ask the questions and simply sit with what arises. Sometimes it’s just more rest. Sometimes it’s grief for what changed in the previous season. Sometimes I even discover a hidden treasure of an idea that was buried underneath the busyness of living. And sometimes the answer lies in just being willing to sit in the darkness, under a starry sky, and breathe it all in.

So as the light fades, let it remind you to descend too, to turn inward, to complete the season of outward momentum and take time to replenish your own roots. I promise there will be another season of reaching towards the light, but for now, be willing to see what grows in the dark.

– Tahverlee Anglen
The Edge
Oct./Nov. 2026

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Time to Go Inwards
• To Dream, to Feel, to Listen
• “This Autumn Land Is Dreaming”
• Brigit Anna McNeill on Hearing the Wild and Natural Call to Go Inwards
• Brigit Anna McNeill on “Winter’s Way”
• God Rest Us
• Allow Everything to Rest Right Now
• Stepping Out of Time and Resting Your Mind
• A Renewed Mind
• Autumn: Season of Transformation and Surrender
• Autumn’s “Wordless Message”
• Autumnal (and Rather Pagan) Thoughts on the Making of “All Things New”
• Thomas Moore on the Circling of Nature as the Best Way to Find Our Substance
• A Prayer of Anchoring
• Cultivating Stillness
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• October Vignettes (2024)
• October Vignettes (2023)
• October Afternoon
• An Autumn Walk Through the Neighborhood
• “Everything Is Saturated With the Sacred”
• The Prayer Tree . . . Aflame!

Image: Michael J. Bayly (Benson, MN – 10/11/26).

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Photo of the Day

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Stay Supple, Like a Reed
• The Sun in the Reeds
• The Wild Reeds of Diamond Lake
• The Wild Reeds of Wood Lake
• Photo of the Day – March 21, 2026
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 13, 2024
• The Now
• Photo of the Day – December 13, 2022
• Sunlight and Reeds
• Photo of the Day – January 26, 2017
• My Saaxiib Qurux Badan at Diamond Lake – March 29, 2019
• Photo of the Day – September 21, 2013
• Season of the Soul
• “Everything Is Saturated With the Sacred”
• The Oak and the Reed

Image: Michael J. Bayly (Delano, MN).

Quote of the Day

To those who are upset over Trump’s plan for a public execution, which news channel do you watch?

Cuz the news I watched showed this:

Not only have 74,000 Palestinians been publicly executed in the world’s first live-streamed genocide over the past three years, U.S. taxpayers all pay for Israel’s carnage. Both Biden and Trump took your tax dollars to pay for mass murder in Gaza.

Where was your loathing of barbarian behavior during this? Did you only develop it after Trump was elected?

– Lady Bunny
via social media
October 11, 2026

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Why the Establishment Wants Zack Polanski to Resign

Council Estate Media is a U.K.-based website and newsletter focusing on “working class politics and creeping authoritarianism.”

Earlier today it published the following on Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Polanski recently lost the Holborn and St Pancras by-election to Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali.

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The media is telling us today that 1 in 3 Brits think Zack Polanski should stand down as Green leader. This is an interesting way off saying 2 in 3 Brits do not think he should stand down!

He just got TEN TIMES more votes in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election than his party got under Caroline Lucas, so why are they pretending things are getting worse for the Greens?

Do you really think they’re concerned for the welfare of the party? Or do you think they’re more concerned that the Greens are finally influencing the country’s political direction? Answer honestly.

Prior to Polanski, the government only felt pressure from the right and that kept the conversation exactly where media moguls and billionaires want it to be.

Suddenly, Polanski shifted the conversation in the other direction, and instead of talking about how bad Muslims and immigrants are all the time, and how we couldn’t afford to do anything other than slash welfare, we were talking about the cost of living, issues that affect real people, and our government’s complicity in genocide.

Keir Starmer is a war criminal who had no answers to the problems people were facing. He offered only managed decline and contempt for workers. The moment we started having conversations that exposed that, his government collapsed.

If it wasn’t for Polanski, we’d still be stuck with a prime minister who completely ignores the needs of ordinary people. We now have a prime minister in Andy Burnham who at least pretends to listen and who will make some concessions.

This is only happening because of Polanski’s leadership. If the Labour government returns to letting us down like it did under Starmer, the Greens are there to fill that void. Labour knows they can no longer afford to ignore our concerns.

The Greens are ensuring the people who aren’t supposed to have representation under neoliberalism are heard.

The last thing the establishment wants is for those voices to grow louder and turn into real power. They see Zack Polanski as a threat to the status quo in a way they don’t with any other political leader.

All of the politicians who’ve spent years letting us down are joining ranks with the media who’ve poisoned our political discourse to bring down one man. That should tell you everything you need to know about who is on your side.

– Council Estate Media
via social media
October 10, 2026

Related Off-site Links:
Labour Beats Greens to Win Holborn and St Pancras as Polanski Faces Call to Resign – BBC News (October 9, 2026).
Zack Polanski Signals Green Party Overhaul After Row Over Zionism Vote – Aletha Adu (The Guardian, October 11, 2026).
Yes, It’s Been a Tough Week for the Greens: But Don’t Lose Sight of How We’re Transforming British Politics – Zack Polanski (The Guardian, October 11, 2026).
After Holborn and St Pancras: Can the Green Party Still Influence U.K. Politics? – Jonathan Fenton-Harvey (The New Arab, October 13, 2026).
Zack Polanski Hits Back at Andy Burnham After PM Rules Out Deal With Greens – Kate Nicholson (HuffPost, October 14, 2026)>
“You're a Prime Minister Who Arms a Genocide and Locks Pensioners Up for Opposing It”: Zack Polanski Hits Back at Andy Burnham Over “Antisemitism” Row – Marco Suttie (The National, October 14, 2026)>
Watch Abdul El Sayed’s Stunning Response to Zionist – Novara Media (September 25, 2026).

UPDATES: The Truth About Zionism and Racism – Owen Jones (Owen Jones, October 11, 2026)
Fear Drives This Frenzied Attack on the Greens – Owen Jones (Zeteo U.K., October 16, 2026)
Jewish Author Benjamin Moser Confronts Unspoken History of Zionism – The Young Turks (October 17, 2026).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:

ZACK POLANSKI AND THE GREEN PARTY OF ENGLAND AND WALES
• How the Green Party Gained Power in the U.K.
• “Green Wave 2026 is Global”
• The Rational National’s Take on U.K. Green Party’s “Brilliant” New Ad
• Zack Polanski’s Christmas Message
• Zack Polanski’s Message of Hope
• “The Answer, Actually, Is Hope”

GREEN PARTY OF THE U.S.A.
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026
• Butch Ware on Why Third Parties Are Crucial
• Campaigning With the Green Party of Minnesota
• With the Green Party at Twin Cities Pride
• MPR’s Major (But Unsurprising) Failure
• Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
• Jill Stein on the Importance of the Green Party
• Dayvon Love: “You Actually Don’t Care Where Jill Stein Is”
• An Opportunity for Organizing Against Duopoly
• “It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”
• Something to Think About – December 8, 2024
• The Green Party’s Jill Stein and Butch Ware Give Their First Post-Election Interview
• “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”
• We’re Witnessing a Liberal Meltdown Over Jill Stein
• The “Green Smoothie” Option
• Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Butch Ware in Minneapolis
• Butch Ware: “I’m Not Here as a Spoiler”
• Jill Stein: “Americans Deserve Choices”
• Elise Labott on How Third Parties Can Revitalize Democracy
• Something to Think About – August 15, 2024
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election
• Cornel West: “The Next Step Is a Green Step, a Progressive Step”
• Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is a “Historic Collaboration” in the Making? (2016)
• Voting Green: Hope Over Fear

The Wild Reed

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Kiki and Carmelo – Under the Night Sky

A Spirited Exchange on Voting

Friday, October 16, 2026

Standing Together in Minnesota

Thursday, October 15, 2026

This Is the Moment We “Start Fighting Like Hell”

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Something to Think About . . .

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Andy Shallal Reflects on the “Paradigm-Shifting” Film, NAZA

Season of Descent

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Photo of the Day

Quote of the Day

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Why the Establishment Wants Zack Polanski to Resign

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