#abetterworldispossible — Public Fediverse posts
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So, my reason for participating / hosting #Hashtag events like #SolarPunkSunday and #FirstFridayArtWalk is to highlight other folks. Sure, I post some stuff as well. But the way I see it, like #WhatMagazineOnline, it's a communal experience and a way of #BuildingCommunity . Because... We sure as hell need to #UniteAgainstTheRight (and #Colonialism and #Capitalism), right now! We are running out of time, folks.
#ABetterWorldIsPossible #GiantLeap #GiantLeapScenario #Resistance #AntiImperialism #AntiCapitalism #AntiColonialism #Decolonize #Resist
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Non-Fiction Trilogy of sorts - "#TheLimitsToGrowth; #PowerLimitsAndProspectsForHumanSurvival; and #EarthForAllASurvivalGuideForHumanity.
So, my copy of "The Limits To Growth" is a first edition from 1972, which I bought in a used book store in 1980. Whoever owned it before ("Denison") highlighted a bunch of stuff (the old school highlighters that don't fade), and put zig-zag lines around this paragraph: "In any finite system there must be constraints that can act to stop exponential growth. These constraints are negative feedback loops. The negative loops become stronger and stronger as growth approches the ultimate limit, or carrying capacity, of the system's environment. Finally, the negative loops balance or dominate the positive ones, and growth comes to an end. In the world system the negative feedback loops involve such processes as pollution of the environment, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and famine."
Fast forward to 2021, where one of the Limits To Growth authors, #DennisMeadows, describes #RichardHeinberg's "Power - Limits And Prospects for Human Survival" as "a powerful new way of understanding the historic rise and probable fall of our species. It is an impressive, sweeping, and thought-provoking narrative." Heinberg talks about how we got to where we are today (lots of history), but also offers solutions (like #Agroecology and #Degrowth).
Finally, "#EarthForAll - A Survival Guide For Humanity" -- which was a report to the #ClubOfRome, and a 50 year follow-up to Limits To Growth. This book is where I learned about the #GiantLeapScenario that we so need to survive as a species on a viable planet.
Limits To Growth influenced my thinking at a young age. "Power" explains how we went wrong, and "Earth For All" gives me hope for the future.
#Bookstodon #AmReading #History #DeGrowth #PowerStructures #ABetterWorldIsPossible #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #GiantLeap
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For next week's #SolarPunkSunday I *hope* to finish up the #SolarPunk jobs list, and will tackle #NaturalHerbicides and #NaturalPesticides (because, pests...!) And, of course, whatever other SolarPunk-related topics that folks want to highlight. Thanks to everyone who participated!
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#Cuba #LiftTheBlockade #Socialism is the free society, when it is not under siege by #imperialists. #ABetterWorldIsPossible. A better world is already here, if we would just let it be. m.youtube.com/watch?v=INRM...
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#Cuba #LiftTheBlockade #Socialism is the free society, when it is not under siege by #imperialists. #ABetterWorldIsPossible. A better world is already here, if we would just let it be. m.youtube.com/watch?v=INRM...
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Alrighty then...! That was another great #SolarPunkSunday! A shout-out to @MaQuest , @BrambleBearGrrrauwling , @jblue , and everyone who used the hashtag and boosted posts! Next week, I hope to show off some #soap pics from today's #soapmaking session, and I'll plan on posting about #DIY #HouseholdCleaners, making #SuetCakes and other treats for our feathered friends, and also focus on #SolarPunk around the world! And of course, #RepairCafes, #LibraryOfThings, #Rewilding, and other related topics! Let's keep doing and sharing for #ABetterFuture! #ABetterWorldIsPossible !
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Next up, @CrimethInc ! One of my go-to websites!
"What Is #Crimethink?
Crimethink is everything that evades control: the daydream in the classroom, the renegade breaking ranks, the spray-painted walls that continue to speak even under martial law. It is the persistent sense that things could be otherwise, that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the prevailing social order. In a world optimized for administration, everything that cannot be classified or displayed on a screen is crimethink. It is the spirit of rebellion without which freedom is literally unthinkable.
What Is CrimethInc.?CrimethInc. is a #RebelAlliance — a secret society pledged to the propagation of crimethink. It is a think tank producing ideas and action, a sphinx posing questions fatal to the superstitions of our age.
CrimethInc. is a banner for anonymous collective action. It is not a membership organization, but a mouthpiece for longings that extend throughout the population at large. Anyone can be CrimethInc. — it could be your next-door neighbor or the person sitting beside you on the bus. You and your friends already constitute an affinity group, the organizational model best suited to guerrilla tactics, ready to go into action against all the forces that threaten your freedom.
CrimethInc. is an international network of aspiring #revolutionaries extending from #Kansas to #KualaLumpur. For over twenty years, we have published news, analysis, books, journals, posters, videos, podcasts, and a wide range of other resources — all copyright free, produced and distributed by volunteer labor, without reliance on external funding or market trends. We also coordinate speaking tours, debates, and various other public events. Though we rarely seek public recognition for our efforts, everything we do is informed by our participation in social movements.
CrimethInc. is a desperate venture. As this society lurches ever closer to annihilation, we are staking everything on the possibility that we could kick open the escape hatch to another future. Rather than competing for social capital or selling ourselves to the highest bidder, we have thrown ourselves completely into the struggle for a better world. We invite you to do the same."
#Resistance #Anarchists #IndependentMedia #ABetterWorldIsPossible #USPol #WorldPol
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Warum wir die Konferenz organisieren und du dabei sein solltest!
Weitere Infos folgen bald.Und morgen: Mobilität für Alle✨ Dafür kämpfen wir.
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"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.
https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/
#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible
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"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.
https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/
#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible
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"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.
https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/
#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible
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"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.
https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/
#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible
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"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.
https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/
#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls this UK policy "organised abandonment."
One of the many ways neoliberalism is the way to fascism.
https://mastodon.online/@Geri/114810432922104458
Here a podcast with Wilson Gilmore: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore
#OrganisedAbandonment #EducationalNeeds #neoliberalism #RuthWilsonGilmore #DeathPanel #podcast #UKpol #fascism #ABetterWorldIsPossible
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Just imagine what better things we could have been doing with all this money and knowhow spend on death-making:https://www.statista.com/chart/18417/global-weapons-exports/
#War #capitalism #ABetterWorldIsPossible #necrocapitalism #PeopleNotPofit #defenceIndustry #imagination
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Older white guy rants to me and a fem colleague about how the Ford government lets private long-term care coorprations/condo boards and landlords grift the living hell out of regular people, but prefaces his rant with, "and beleive me, I'm no socialist." I couldn't get a word in edge-wise, but I'd love to a have asked, "why not? And what do you want then?" I'm so glad that generally folks seem much more willing to use socialism and identify as a socialist (at least in the Anglo-Americas I experience) than they were even just 10 years ago, but encounters like these are bizzare. If you have a problem with private ownership of land, you really ought to have a problem with a socio-economic system that privileges just such an arrangement and trends, pretty well inevitability, towards (neo)liberalism and then the slide to fascism. Socialism (/anarchism/communism/communalism, etc.) is the alternative, friend.
#OnPoli #CanPoli #TheFords #Ford #QueensPark #WagTheDoug #PoliticalEconomics #Socialism #Housing #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis #Socialism #Communism #Communalism #Anarchism #DegrowthCommunism #Degrowth #TheCommons #ABetterWorldIsPossible
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Through the mailinglist of the Nib: Cartoonists for Palestine
"Comics have no walls nor borders, and the youngness of our medium represents an opportunity to reject the boundaries that were assigned to us. All around the world, in newspapers, magazines and on mobile phone screens, comics speak about the most important topics of the day. We are not powerless. Through comics, we can shape the narratives told about ourselves and our world—and in that way, we hope to provoke change.
Recent events are extreme, brutal, and shocking, but they are part of a continuum–the long ideological project of settler colonialism that requires the systematic denial and destruction of indigenous peoples. Now is the time to build something new and different."
https://cartoonistsforpalestine.org/
#cartoons #FreePalestine #EndColonialism #decolonization #ABetterWorldIsPossible #ArtMatters @palestine
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Sooooo, 98by30 then? Time to dissolve the nation states, unionise the corporations, turn them into massive coops, and expand autonomus mutual aid networks, methinks.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/climate-action-un-global-emissions-report
#ClimateCrisis #Environment #BiodiversityCrisis #UN #Earth #LifeOnEarth #ABetterWorldIsPossible #Anarchism #Socialism #Cooperatives #UnionPower #AntiState #NoGovernment #SolarPunk #50by30 #FridaysForFuture #ExtinctionRebellion
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Living with the virus means: “The basic advice still applies,” he says. “Wash your hands. Get vaccinated. Wear a mask. Avoiding crowds is probably the most important thing. If you have to be involved in group activities, have them either outdoors or in large, well-ventilated spaces. And wear your mask.”
Although this article is about the USA, a lot of this applies to European countries like the Netherlands as well : #LongCovid, #WearAMask , #ventilation , abandonment of at-risk groups, and the crisis in #healthcare .
#WeProtectUs #CovidIsNotOver #ABetterWorldIsPossible #OrganizedAbandonment