#collectiveaction — Public Fediverse posts

Last Sunday, I had the privilege to see Attenborough's "Our Story" in the Artis Planetarium. The experience nudged me on an intertwined train of thought.

The short film is a quick overview of the rise of our species - how we grew from an animal trying to survive to a powerful collective that exerts vast influence over the planet that birthed us. It was a lovely way to celebrate Attenborough's 100th birthday, as one of the treasured people of mankind. His message of hope drew a parallel between how we saved the great whales from almost certain extinction through shared global effort, and our power to make a difference as long as we work together. We, he says, are living in one of the most important historical times. And indeed, our times will be regarded as some of the most important in history books hundreds of years from now... Assuming we'll have the liberty of open science.

A day before the screening, I witnessed something that rhymed with Attenborough's message. The inauguration of Hungary's new democratic government, led by Péter Magyar, took place in Budapest, the first after years of Viktor Orbán's authoritarian rule, which had systematically dismantled judicial independence, press freedom, civil society and committed countless other crimes.

A few very powerful moments happened in Parliament last Saturday. Hungary's new sovereignty was established through the uncompromising affirmation of democracy. The building of transparent and independent accountability mechanisms was explained, and the perpetrators of the sunsetting kleptocratic regime were literally looked in the eye and brutally shamed before an entire nation and the world. (You should watch the various ceremonies and discussions online if you have the time.) Most importantly though, the new prime minister called on Hungarian citizens to watch their political servants, work towards common goals despite the polarising scars that divide and conquer tactics left on the social fibre, and to look for the best in each other. This triangle of active ethics is essential, and I will come back to it.

Attenborough's call for collective care for our Mother Earth is the most important message of our lifetime. Hungary's citizens demonstrated the truth of this message and what collective will can do.

But the real work begins now.

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#DavidAttenborough #ClimateAction #Hungary #Democracy #CollectiveAction

Time for the next #DIday the first Sunday of every month. See the German events here: https://events.diday.org/ (Mobilizon)

Meanwhile you can check the switch recipes: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes and find yourself a decent challenge for the coming month.

If you help people to join the fedi, here's Everything to join the #Fediverse nicely listed and linked, https://linksta.cc/@jointhefediverse

#DigitalAutonomy #VamonosJuntas #CollectiveAction

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/

Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/

I'm kinda militant in my active #decolonization ways. Not like militant in hurting people ways - the cops/government/sellout fucking enablers hold the ongoing shitbucket awards/monopolies on that kinda inhumane crap.
I mean militant in planning ahead, being well organized, being strategic/tactical & forming mini regional resistance action groups/volunteer civilian armies - working in solidarity, in urban & more remote/non-urban places. Every single person doing their part 👊❤️

#AnarchistNetwork #AnarchoSocialist #PeopleHelpingPeople #BeTheChange #Solidarity #EverydayAnarchist #GrowHumanity #CollectiveAction #CaremongeringArmy

I'm kinda militant in my active #decolonization ways. Not like militant in hurting people ways - the cops/government/sellout fucking enablers hold the ongoing shitbucket awards/monopolies on that kinda inhumane crap.
I mean militant in planning ahead, being well organized, being strategic/tactical & forming mini regional resistance action groups/volunteer civilian armies - working in solidarity, in urban & more remote/non-urban places. Every single person doing their part 👊❤️

#AnarchistNetwork #AnarchoSocialist #PeopleHelpingPeople #BeTheChange #Solidarity #EverydayAnarchist #GrowHumanity #CollectiveAction #CaremongeringArmy

I'm kinda militant in my active #decolonization ways. Not like militant in hurting people ways - the cops/government/sellout fucking enablers hold the ongoing shitbucket awards/monopolies on that kinda inhumane crap.
I mean militant in planning ahead, being well organized, being strategic/tactical & forming mini regional resistance action groups/volunteer civilian armies - working in solidarity, in urban & more remote/non-urban places. Every single person doing their part 👊❤️

#AnarchistNetwork #AnarchoSocialist #PeopleHelpingPeople #BeTheChange #Solidarity #EverydayAnarchist #GrowHumanity #CollectiveAction #CaremongeringArmy

I'm kinda militant in my active #decolonization ways. Not like militant in hurting people ways - the cops/government/sellout fucking enablers hold the ongoing shitbucket awards/monopolies on that kinda inhumane crap.
I mean militant in planning ahead, being well organized, being strategic/tactical & forming mini regional resistance action groups/volunteer civilian armies - working in solidarity, in urban & more remote/non-urban places. Every single person doing their part 👊❤️

#AnarchistNetwork #AnarchoSocialist #PeopleHelpingPeople #BeTheChange #Solidarity #EverydayAnarchist #GrowHumanity #CollectiveAction #CaremongeringArmy

I'm kinda militant in my active #decolonization ways. Not like militant in hurting people ways - the cops/government/sellout fucking enablers hold the ongoing shitbucket awards/monopolies on that kinda inhumane crap.
I mean militant in planning ahead, being well organized, being strategic/tactical & forming mini regional resistance action groups/volunteer civilian armies - working in solidarity, in urban & more remote/non-urban places. Every single person doing their part 👊❤️

#AnarchistNetwork #AnarchoSocialist #PeopleHelpingPeople #BeTheChange #Solidarity #EverydayAnarchist #GrowHumanity #CollectiveAction #CaremongeringArmy

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

#Grassroots engagement to build up a stronger, localized, #MutualAssistance network.

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion

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This is NOT casual testing.

✔️ Use the app daily
5 minutes minimum (2 weeks straight App Store Requirement)

✔️ Share real feedback

✔️ Help shape something built for the community

Be part of building something that matters !

👉 Sign up for Beta Testing:
https://forms.gle/17wkKq72insXYGNPA

Let’s build this together. 💪

#3mpwrApp #InjuredWorkers #DisabilitySupport #BetaTesting #AppLaunch #BuiltFromExperience #AccessibilityMatters #CollectiveAction

🏴 "Survival of the Organized: Critical Reflections on #Organizing and #MutualAid" 🤝
This article by @blackrose_rosanegra #BRRN explores the importance of mutual aid in #SocialMovements and positions it as a tactic within broader organizing strategies for #SystemChange
📖 Read it here: https://www.blackrosefed.org/survival-organized-mutual-aid-2025
🎧 Or listen here: https://anarchistessays.podbean.com/e/essay-107-alexandria-h-juan-verala-luz-charles-w-survival-of-the-organized-critical-reflections-on-organizing-and-mutual-aid
#CollectiveAction #MassOrganizing ✊ #ClassStruggle #SocialJustice #Anarchism #Especifismo

My fantasy is to have enough money I could launch a quit capitalism collective. We'd just work on dogfooding alternative systems full-time. Launch non-quantified value currency and business models, transparent and regenerative supply chain systems, community reinvestment and antifragile feedback loops…
#antiCapitalism #nonquant #SemanticCurrency #collectiveAction

#Earth4All #Argentina: Young people confront today’s challenges through debate

At a time when social and environmental crises are deepening, this initiative shows that young people are not just aware of the challenges—they are ready to lead the transformation. The real challenge is to listen to them and make room for their voices in the creation of truly transformative public policies.

5 June 2025

"On 9 May, young people between the ages of 18 and 30 gathered simultaneously in #Córdoba, #BuenosAires, and #Tucumán to take part in the workshop 'Understanding the present to build the future we want,' part of the Earth4All Argentina National Engagement Strategy led by the #ClubOfRome – Argentinian Chapter.

"Organised in collaboration with #FundaciónAlimentaris and #JóvenesPorElClima, the workshop was part of the participatory process of the National Participation Program (NEP), an initiative aimed at gathering diagnostics, experiences, and proposals from local communities to influence public policy. Its goal is to collectively adapt the international Earth4All model to local realities. The model warns of the urgent need to move away from the current path, described as '#TooLittleTooLate,' and to move toward a '#GiantLeap' centred on #social and #EnvironmentalJustice. This transformative agenda is structured around five turnarounds: #EradicatingPoverty, #ReducingInequality, #EmpoweringWomen, transforming #FoodSystems, and driving the energy transition.

"The workshop brought together university students from the host cities, #grassroots and #EnvironmentalActivists, and civically engaged youth eager to influence #LocalPolicies and practices. Facilitated by Jóvenes por el Clima, the event was organized around two main dynamics: first, introducing the foundations and challenges of the Earth4All model; and second, mapping specific local issues and working in thematic groups aligned with the model’s five pillars, with the aim of #CoCreating concrete proposals grounded in the experiences and voices of #YoungPeople."

Learn more:
https://earth4all.life/news/earth4all-argentina-young-people-confront-todays-challenges-through-debate/

#SolarPunkSunday #LtG #Activism #SocialJustice #CollectiveAction #CollectiveLearning #StartLocal #Collaboration

#Earth4All #Argentina: Young people confront today’s challenges through debate

At a time when social and environmental crises are deepening, this initiative shows that young people are not just aware of the challenges—they are ready to lead the transformation. The real challenge is to listen to them and make room for their voices in the creation of truly transformative public policies.

5 June 2025

"On 9 May, young people between the ages of 18 and 30 gathered simultaneously in #Córdoba, #BuenosAires, and #Tucumán to take part in the workshop 'Understanding the present to build the future we want,' part of the Earth4All Argentina National Engagement Strategy led by the #ClubOfRome – Argentinian Chapter.

"Organised in collaboration with #FundaciónAlimentaris and #JóvenesPorElClima, the workshop was part of the participatory process of the National Participation Program (NEP), an initiative aimed at gathering diagnostics, experiences, and proposals from local communities to influence public policy. Its goal is to collectively adapt the international Earth4All model to local realities. The model warns of the urgent need to move away from the current path, described as '#TooLittleTooLate,' and to move toward a '#GiantLeap' centred on #social and #EnvironmentalJustice. This transformative agenda is structured around five turnarounds: #EradicatingPoverty, #ReducingInequality, #EmpoweringWomen, transforming #FoodSystems, and driving the energy transition.

"The workshop brought together university students from the host cities, #grassroots and #EnvironmentalActivists, and civically engaged youth eager to influence #LocalPolicies and practices. Facilitated by Jóvenes por el Clima, the event was organized around two main dynamics: first, introducing the foundations and challenges of the Earth4All model; and second, mapping specific local issues and working in thematic groups aligned with the model’s five pillars, with the aim of #CoCreating concrete proposals grounded in the experiences and voices of #YoungPeople."

Learn more:
https://earth4all.life/news/earth4all-argentina-young-people-confront-todays-challenges-through-debate/

#SolarPunkSunday #LtG #Activism #SocialJustice #CollectiveAction #CollectiveLearning #StartLocal #Collaboration

#Earth4All #Argentina: Young people confront today’s challenges through debate

At a time when social and environmental crises are deepening, this initiative shows that young people are not just aware of the challenges—they are ready to lead the transformation. The real challenge is to listen to them and make room for their voices in the creation of truly transformative public policies.

5 June 2025

"On 9 May, young people between the ages of 18 and 30 gathered simultaneously in #Córdoba, #BuenosAires, and #Tucumán to take part in the workshop 'Understanding the present to build the future we want,' part of the Earth4All Argentina National Engagement Strategy led by the #ClubOfRome – Argentinian Chapter.

"Organised in collaboration with #FundaciónAlimentaris and #JóvenesPorElClima, the workshop was part of the participatory process of the National Participation Program (NEP), an initiative aimed at gathering diagnostics, experiences, and proposals from local communities to influence public policy. Its goal is to collectively adapt the international Earth4All model to local realities. The model warns of the urgent need to move away from the current path, described as '#TooLittleTooLate,' and to move toward a '#GiantLeap' centred on #social and #EnvironmentalJustice. This transformative agenda is structured around five turnarounds: #EradicatingPoverty, #ReducingInequality, #EmpoweringWomen, transforming #FoodSystems, and driving the energy transition.

"The workshop brought together university students from the host cities, #grassroots and #EnvironmentalActivists, and civically engaged youth eager to influence #LocalPolicies and practices. Facilitated by Jóvenes por el Clima, the event was organized around two main dynamics: first, introducing the foundations and challenges of the Earth4All model; and second, mapping specific local issues and working in thematic groups aligned with the model’s five pillars, with the aim of #CoCreating concrete proposals grounded in the experiences and voices of #YoungPeople."

Learn more:
https://earth4all.life/news/earth4all-argentina-young-people-confront-todays-challenges-through-debate/

#SolarPunkSunday #LtG #Activism #SocialJustice #CollectiveAction #CollectiveLearning #StartLocal #Collaboration

#Earth4All #Argentina: Young people confront today’s challenges through debate

At a time when social and environmental crises are deepening, this initiative shows that young people are not just aware of the challenges—they are ready to lead the transformation. The real challenge is to listen to them and make room for their voices in the creation of truly transformative public policies.

5 June 2025

"On 9 May, young people between the ages of 18 and 30 gathered simultaneously in #Córdoba, #BuenosAires, and #Tucumán to take part in the workshop 'Understanding the present to build the future we want,' part of the Earth4All Argentina National Engagement Strategy led by the #ClubOfRome – Argentinian Chapter.

"Organised in collaboration with #FundaciónAlimentaris and #JóvenesPorElClima, the workshop was part of the participatory process of the National Participation Program (NEP), an initiative aimed at gathering diagnostics, experiences, and proposals from local communities to influence public policy. Its goal is to collectively adapt the international Earth4All model to local realities. The model warns of the urgent need to move away from the current path, described as '#TooLittleTooLate,' and to move toward a '#GiantLeap' centred on #social and #EnvironmentalJustice. This transformative agenda is structured around five turnarounds: #EradicatingPoverty, #ReducingInequality, #EmpoweringWomen, transforming #FoodSystems, and driving the energy transition.

"The workshop brought together university students from the host cities, #grassroots and #EnvironmentalActivists, and civically engaged youth eager to influence #LocalPolicies and practices. Facilitated by Jóvenes por el Clima, the event was organized around two main dynamics: first, introducing the foundations and challenges of the Earth4All model; and second, mapping specific local issues and working in thematic groups aligned with the model’s five pillars, with the aim of #CoCreating concrete proposals grounded in the experiences and voices of #YoungPeople."

Learn more:
https://earth4all.life/news/earth4all-argentina-young-people-confront-todays-challenges-through-debate/

#SolarPunkSunday #LtG #Activism #SocialJustice #CollectiveAction #CollectiveLearning #StartLocal #Collaboration

#Earth4All #Argentina: Young people confront today’s challenges through debate

At a time when social and environmental crises are deepening, this initiative shows that young people are not just aware of the challenges—they are ready to lead the transformation. The real challenge is to listen to them and make room for their voices in the creation of truly transformative public policies.

5 June 2025

"On 9 May, young people between the ages of 18 and 30 gathered simultaneously in #Córdoba, #BuenosAires, and #Tucumán to take part in the workshop 'Understanding the present to build the future we want,' part of the Earth4All Argentina National Engagement Strategy led by the #ClubOfRome – Argentinian Chapter.

"Organised in collaboration with #FundaciónAlimentaris and #JóvenesPorElClima, the workshop was part of the participatory process of the National Participation Program (NEP), an initiative aimed at gathering diagnostics, experiences, and proposals from local communities to influence public policy. Its goal is to collectively adapt the international Earth4All model to local realities. The model warns of the urgent need to move away from the current path, described as '#TooLittleTooLate,' and to move toward a '#GiantLeap' centred on #social and #EnvironmentalJustice. This transformative agenda is structured around five turnarounds: #EradicatingPoverty, #ReducingInequality, #EmpoweringWomen, transforming #FoodSystems, and driving the energy transition.

"The workshop brought together university students from the host cities, #grassroots and #EnvironmentalActivists, and civically engaged youth eager to influence #LocalPolicies and practices. Facilitated by Jóvenes por el Clima, the event was organized around two main dynamics: first, introducing the foundations and challenges of the Earth4All model; and second, mapping specific local issues and working in thematic groups aligned with the model’s five pillars, with the aim of #CoCreating concrete proposals grounded in the experiences and voices of #YoungPeople."

Learn more:
https://earth4all.life/news/earth4all-argentina-young-people-confront-todays-challenges-through-debate/

#SolarPunkSunday #LtG #Activism #SocialJustice #CollectiveAction #CollectiveLearning #StartLocal #Collaboration

#India - Seeds of #Resistance for #FoodSovereignty

April 2017

Excerpt: "Community action-reflection-action processes to identify and analyse the forces that obstruct food sovereignty, and evolve collective transformative actions for food sovereignty is a core practice of our movement. Community food sovereignty plans have emerged as a critical expression of political action.

"Life cycles amongst #adivasi communities, and agriculture cycles in small #farmer peasant and pastoralist communities, along with communities’ indigenous knowledge, provide a framework for the plans. The plans include: democratic governance of resources-land, water, forests, territories, biodiversity, seeds, breeds and knowledge; nurturing life in our soils and growing, consuming and sharing healthy diverse and culturally appropriate food agro-ecologically, asserting seed and animal breed sovereignty through saving and exchange of local seeds and breeds between food farmers; reciprocal systems of sharing labour, knowledge and produce; strengthening local food markets that connect producers and consumers, leading to the diversification and revival of food crops. The alliance enables members to share and exchange seeds across regions, particularly accessing seeds that have disappeared from their region, which they wish to revive. Social justice is central to the idea of food sovereignty, and hence breaking the unjust structures of caste, class and patriarchy are core elements of the movement.

"Intergenerational learning and sharing of knowledge between community elders and youth is an essential strategy. Youth learn from community elders, particularly women, accompanying them as they collect diverse tubers, herbs, fruits and seeds, learning about how to process and store produce, save seeds, establish community seed banks and learn to craft and use local agriculture implements.

"Celebrating the diversity of food, through local festivals, song, dance, theatre, community cooking and other cultural actions, linked to the life cycles and seasonal agricultural calendars, enhance our practice. Campaigns, jatras and food sovereignty summits, community action research on specific questions, sharing our experiences and concerns through mainstream media, popular and academic journals, are other critical strategies to nurture solidarity and collective actions for food sovereignty."

Read more:
https://www.leisaindia.org/seeds-of-resistance-for-food-sovereignty/

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedsOfResistance #FoodSovereignty #GenerationalKnowledge #KnowledgeSharing #TraditionalAgriculture #CollectiveAction #CollectiveLearning #SeedBanks #SeedSaving #BioDiversity #FoodIsLife #Agroecology

"This solution-creating solution simultaneously addresses all the challenges our species and planet are currently facing, in ways that also better meet the needs of individuals so that humanity can, for the first time in history, create a world that truly works for everyone. Are we ready? " https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/solutions-that-create-solutions/

#SolutionsThatCreateSolutions #GlobalImpact #FutureOfHumanity #CollectiveAction #PositiveChange #RegenerativeFuture #CreateABetterWorld #SystemsThinking #HumanPotential

Eco-village living and construction, global transformation and volunteer work aren't for everyone. For those who do want these things though, here is an option. Could a global cooperative of eco-villages help write the next positive chapter in the ever evolving human story? We think it can.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/one-community-membership/

#EcoVillageLife #CommunityLiving #RegenerativeCommunities #GlobalCooperation #SustainableFuture #IntentionalCommunities #VolunteerForChange #CollectiveAction #BetterWorldTogether

Creating a world that works for everyone. Idealistic dream that will never happen or achievable future whose time has come?

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/creating-utopia-on-earth/

#CreatingABetterWorld #ForTheHighestGood #GlobalCommunity #SustainableFuture #BetterWorldStartsWithYou #CollectiveAction #PositiveChange #ConsciousLiving #VisionForHumanity #UtopiaMindset

The largest #UK #tradeunion Unite is officially taking a stand on #Palestine, as its council voted to support #workers who "refuse to build, handle or transport weapons destined for #Israel". This was only possible through tireless campaigning from members, as the #workers4Pal movement is spreading. While joining a #union is always a good idea, #collectiveaction is not reserved to #unions, as proved by mass walk-outs of DJs & artists from #festivals in protest of #KKR or #Barclays sponsorship ✊🏽

We can all make a difference! Every person brings unique skills and perspectives to building a sustainable future. One Community creates spaces where diverse talents unite for the highest good of all people and our planet.

https://onecommunityglobal.org/

#MakeADifference #UniqueSkills #DiverseTalents #SustainableFuture #CommunityBuilding #HighestGood #CollectiveAction #EveryPersonMatters

Contesting through food
Tracking hunger strikes in carceral food systems

Julie Courchesne
Amanda Wilson

#Canada #CanadianPrisons #CarceralFood #FoodSystems #CollectiveAction #HungerStrikes #PrisonFood #PrisonerSolidarity #Punishment #Resistance

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/694

Contesting through food
Tracking hunger strikes in carceral food systems

Julie Courchesne
Amanda Wilson

#Canada #CanadianPrisons #CarceralFood #FoodSystems #CollectiveAction #HungerStrikes #PrisonFood #PrisonerSolidarity #Punishment #Resistance

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/694

Our latest preprint validates two low-cost global #risk reduction stimuli .

An infographic and a text message improved #antibiotic decisions in ways that could reduce existential risks of #AntimicrobialResistance.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d2pc4_v1

Oilivia Parlow was a great advisee!

#AMR #xRisk #CogSci #Medicine #Edu #SciComm #GlobalHealth #bioethics #HealthPsychology #HealthEconomics #Pharmacy #CollectiveAction #nudge

Our commitment remains steady🌱 #collectiveaction #together #movingforward #élection
https://kolektiva.media/w/4mGEQbbBEhfo8x6bwnr6WR

"Support A Radical Guide: https://www.radical-guide.com/ways-to-support/"

🌱 #collectiveaction #together #movingforward #élection

East and Gulf Coast #dockworkers suspended their strike after securing a tentative agreement with shipping companies, which includes a 62% wage increase over six years, reflecting a hard-fought struggle against corporate greed.

This is a significant victory for the dockworkers and a testament to the power of collective action.

#strike #collectiveaction #union #ILA #USMX

https://www.commondreams.org/news/dockworkers-suspend-strike

#23daystocelebrateOpenEducation

#day22
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💥The Network of Open Organisations (#NOO) launched their digital presence

Since 2019, 15 groundbreaking global open organizations and education visionaries have collaborated as the Network of Open Orgs.

View it here 👉 https://bit.ly/NetOpenOrgs

#collectiveaction #openadvocacy #openknowledge #openeducation #oer #educationchange #accessibleeducation

"WITCH was more of an idea-in-action than an organization. Founded in 1968 by a group of radical women in New York City who wanted to do guerilla theater, covens rose and fell around the country as opportunities to do zap actions presented themselves.
The first action was a hex of Wall Street on Halloween, the annual religious festival of the druidic witches. Spooked, the stock market promptly dropped."

https://www.jofreeman.com/photos/witch.html

W.I.T.C.H. reappeared in Portland following Trump's ascension in 2017.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/witch-is-back/

Let's keep hexing, brujas. Let's praxis witchcraft.

#activism #hex #protest #witchery #witchcraft #witch #witches #CollectiveAction #leftist #leftism #spooktober

#AI #GenerativeAI #CreativeLabour #CollectiveAction: "Perhaps the most important lesson to be learnt from the digital revolution is how important it continues to be for knowledge producers and the creative industries to stand together and act collaboratively and collectively to establish a fair deal for creativity. Technology companies can wield extraordinary resources of money and power to assure the best outcomes for their business models, and are unlikely to be defeated by a single courageous campaign or campaigner. A united front is needed to ensure protections now and in the future; as the capabilities of artificial intelligence improve, new challenges will emerge, but ensuring copyright works will help put in place foundational protections for writers and help establish some boundaries for big tech companies and the technologies they bring to market.

No technology is inevitable. Artificial intelligence won’t replace humanity, but it is likely to change the nature of some jobs and many business models; these are not godlike entities, but human structures and processes. As such, the immediate challenge is not to be overcome by fear of AI or its mythical capabilities, but to deliver collective action that ensures human intelligence and creative labour is not subsumed by short-term commercial concerns."

https://rachelcoldicutt.medium.com/can-machines-read-ceec966fec42

Recently published in "#Climate and #Development".

"#CollectiveAction by #community groups: solutions for #ClimateChange or different players in the same game?"
https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2149254

Co-authors:
Luke J. Matthews, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Michelle Scobie, Laura E. R. Peters, Unni Gopinathan, Anuszka Mosurska, Katy Davis, Sonja Myhre, Saskia Hirsch, and Eija Meriläinen.

#Toco #Trinidad #TrinidadAndTobago #TrinidadTobago #Sitka #Alaska

Recently published in "#Climate and #Development".

"#CollectiveAction by #community groups: solutions for #ClimateChange or different players in the same game?"
https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2149254

Co-authors:
Luke J. Matthews, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Michelle Scobie, Laura E. R. Peters, Unni Gopinathan, Anuszka Mosurska, Katy Davis, Sonja Myhre, Saskia Hirsch, and Eija Meriläinen.

#Toco #Trinidad #TrinidadAndTobago #TrinidadTobago #Sitka #Alaska

Recently published in "#Climate and #Development".

"#CollectiveAction by #community groups: solutions for #ClimateChange or different players in the same game?"
https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2149254

Co-authors:
Luke J. Matthews, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Michelle Scobie, Laura E. R. Peters, Unni Gopinathan, Anuszka Mosurska, Katy Davis, Sonja Myhre, Saskia Hirsch, and Eija Meriläinen.

#Toco #Trinidad #TrinidadAndTobago #TrinidadTobago #Sitka #Alaska

Recently published in "#Climate and #Development".

"#CollectiveAction by #community groups: solutions for #ClimateChange or different players in the same game?"
https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2149254

Co-authors:
Luke J. Matthews, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Michelle Scobie, Laura E. R. Peters, Unni Gopinathan, Anuszka Mosurska, Katy Davis, Sonja Myhre, Saskia Hirsch, and Eija Meriläinen.

#Toco #Trinidad #TrinidadAndTobago #TrinidadTobago #Sitka #Alaska

A video of my recent talk on #EthicalPublishing - part of the @PeerCommunityIn webinar series - is now available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLgGSNq0Wk

I talk about the rise of #profiteering commercial publishing via manufactured prestige, its detrimental effects on #academia, the emergence of #diamondOA alternatives, & forms of #CollectiveAction we can use to take power back, including the #StopElsevier campaign: https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #Activism #DirectAction

Learnt enough? Use that knowledge for good! The #StopElsevier website includes a ton of resources for taking #action & exposing their activities, including a ready-made reply to an #Elsevier editor explaining why you're denying to #PeerReview for their corporation. You can also post this reply in social media, to send a collective signal to others that it's not ok to give labor away to those contributing to the climate crisis. 3/n

#OpenScience #OpenData #CollectiveAction #OpenSource #OpenAccess

Part 2

A fractal is something that is shaped the same way on the outside and on the inside. When you look at it from far away, it has a shape. And when you look at it really close, it's made up of millions of pieces that have that same shape. There are some fractals in nature. Many plants like ferns, succulents, pine cones, and even some broccoli have a spiral shape that is a fractal. Lots of things made by water, like snowflakes and rivers, have a fractal shape. Trees can be fractals too. Their shape follows the same rules from trunk to root, branch to stem, and even the veins in leaves.

When I thought about NeoLiberation, I thought about Fractals. I thought about fractals because whether it was the hospital or the classroom, the group home or the community, the rules were the same. The rules that say "you cannot be here unless you act a certain way, are shaped a certain way, look a certain way".

If you lived in a state hospital, they said you were institutionalized, because you lived in an institution. Abolishing state hospitals was called "deinstitutionalization". What really happened was that many people were moved from large institutions to smaller ones. This was called "transinstitutionalization". Many of the rules were the same in these smaller homes. You still weren't in charge of your life. It was like a fractal.

Many people talked about "inclusion" as a way to make sure disabled people were together with non disabled people in the community. It was supposed to be a movement to change society so that disabled people wouldn't be kept out anymore. Instead, what often happened, was society stayed the same, and instead an "inclusion program" became one where they would work to change the disabled person so that they would "fit in". The rules stayed the same. Inclusion became like a fractal.

But remember how I said there were things in nature that were fractals? Those were beautiful things. Why are the fractals in this story so ugly?

It's because the fractal isn't the institution or neoliberalism. The fractal is us. Social relations follow fractal rules. Activist scholar Adrienne Maree Brown has also used fractals to describe social movements—“what we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system” (2017, 41).

There's something else about fractals you need to know.

The rules can be changed.

And when the rule of a fractal changes, it changes the whole shape. Inside and out. Big and small.

So neoliberalism is a rule set that makes us build ugly, violent, deadly fractals.

What rules make us build beautiful, gentle, life giving fractals?

Huey P. Newton (2019) teaches us three key things —that “everything is in a constant state of change” (193), that we must act as if our action have direct consequences on other people and the world, and that to do this you must always be thinking about how your actions change the world and that the world is always changing. To act in Solidarity with others is working together to help each other even when they are not like you, or even when they cannot help you in return. It is understanding that you have to respect someone in order to help them.

Fractals can also be people working as collective agents of change. Justice is created in collective action because it is impossible to do justice if you decide what it is for other people. Each action either keeps or changes the fractal rules. We are always at step zero in a new world and must act with the understanding that each moment is a practice of worldbuilding.

I will finish this summary by telling three stories about how disabled community can show us how to build new worlds by making new fractal rules.

Story A: Ames and Oli live on opposite sides of the country. Separated by thousands of miles, they are connected digitally and spiritually by shared experiences.

Ames: Hey

Oli: Hey!

Ames: Tag yourself, I’m executive dysfunction.

Oli: lol mood

Ames: yeah. But I really need to eat.

--incoming video call from Oli--

Ames: “Ha. Why did you call me?”

Oli: “Because we both need to eat. Let’s make lunch together.”

Ames and Oli are both neurodivergent and struggle with executive function—those cognitive processes that help you get from goal to action. Though their connection is “only” digital, this networked connection is no less real. Together, they can yoke their movements, “borrowing praxis” (Asasumasu 2015) and giving each other mutual care. By feeding themselves, they feed each other.

Story B: Every day, we check the board. We look for the names, the hospitals, the room numbers. We build the phone scripts. This one needs access to their AAC. That one needs the staff to follow the correct plan of care. That one over there needs dozens of angry phone calls to badger an admin into releasing a patient back to their community, instead of the home. The system, #BreakoutBot,6 looks up the admin phone numbers. The text messages go out. Like dandelion seeds. Thousands of angry, tired, loving crips dial in. “We are not disposable. Let my people go.

Story C: They got tired of the Zoom rooms long ago. Everyone said no, no you have to stay connected. Though they missed each other’s company dearly, they missed the absence of migraines more. It’s not that video calls aren’t “good enough” compared to other conversations…It’s just that…maybe the talking was never actually the point.

Instead, they exchange envelopes. No, not letters. They gave up words long ago. Exhausting things, words. Instead, they send crushed flowers, an interesting stone, papers etched with the skin of damp twigs…What does it mean when you send a flower and they send a stone? Well it’s not just the flower, and it’s not just the stone. The flower was purple, with white and blue too. The stone has sparkles, flint quartz, and lapis lazuli. The twigs were from the creek, where other stones were found. Maybe next week, they’ll exchange things that are round. For one it was a reminder that the earth makes beauty. For another a testament that the earth holds memory. The meanings are co-constructed, the practice collaborative. This, too, is conversation.

I will end this abruptly, because that is a very autistic thing to do. The point is this. We make the rules. We can edit all the fractals. Together.

https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/33181/28261

#Fractals #ColiberationLab #TechJustice #DisabilityJustice #CripTechnoscience #Inclusion #Institutionalization #Neoliberalism #NeoLiberation #CollectiveAction

Summary of "Six Ways of Looking at Fractal Mechanics"

This is in two parts. Yes. Even on Kolektiva where we have 10k characters.

This essay was very hard to write. Many people read it before it was finally published. Reviewers, people who read work before it is published and suggest changes, did not like my first draft. I wrote and rewrote this paper many times. I like it, in the end. But I am sorry that it is just as difficult to understand as it was to finish. I am going to try to summarize this one in plain language. I will probably have to try again when I am better at plain language writing.

One of the hardest parts about writing this paper was how often people wanted me to change the order. Another hard part was how academics do not like it when you write like an artist instead of a scholar. I am not saying that my writing is good art. But I wrote it almost like a poem, and I did this on purpose. Sometimes I think the fact that I was writing artistically is what made the reviewers so confused.

This will be both a plain language summary and a plain language story about why I wrote this paper, and how I wrote it.

These next parts are the parts that are the most like a poem. These are the parts I wrote because I wanted to help the reader to feel the things I felt. To be uncomfortable, sad, angry, but also to laugh. These were also the parts I wrote first. I first wrote these parts in the spring of 2018. The paper was not published until the fall of 2021.

Scene 1: The young women stand by their posters in the gallery. They are standing between a poster on the legacy of the sheltered workshop and the resistance of the disability community to one side and, on the other, a poster by undergraduate special education students about barriers to service access for “Adults with ASD.” Their own posters are of themselves. Their portraits, smiling. Their bullet points, describing. Their futures, absent. They stand, uncannily still, eyes deflected—on display. They have been included. They know, now that they are here, that they are here to be observed—not to be witnessed.

This scene is about something upsetting I saw at a meeting where disabled college students were presenting research. It became very clear that the students with physical and sensory disabilities had been allowed to conduct research projects, but the students with cognitive disabilities were only allowed to make posters about themselves. You could tell that they understood they had been treated differently, and that they didn't know they were going to be treated differently until they came to the meeting. There were also non disabled students presenting their research. This could have been a nice example of inclusion, except the non disabled students' research projects were about people with disabilities. Disabled students were included, but not respected.

Scene 2: He enters the auditorium. His body, familiarly unruly, comfortingly uncanny. I am entangled with cables, cursing the projector blustering about absent conference IT staff. His access needs are well known. His AAC is not a surprise. But the conference would not provide tech support, and he has been included. Equity is not justice.

This scene is about a meeting I went to where a non speaking person was presenting his work. There were ramps in the room, but no support for hooking his computer voice up to the speakers. He was included, but not supported.

Scene 3: We begin our panel. A strategic, calculated, and artful assault on the state of special education and education technology. We neuroqueer crip critics, masterful if uncanny orators, stand opposite a rookery of nonplussed vultures—special educators and their brood, here to observe autism “in the wild.” Our own people, our crip people, absent. We have been included.

This scene is about a time when I presented my work at a meeting with my friends. I was so excited to have my first chance to present my work in front of other disabled people. But most of them did not come. Some other session was more interesting to them. Instead, the people who came were mostly special education teachers. We felt like zoo animals. The only people that wanted to see us were people that wanted to compare us to their textbooks. We were included, but not loved.

Scene 4: We sit in the back of the ballroom. We pass notes like cheeky school children. We are in Autistic Space. Noises spill from his sinuses, filling the rafters on opalescent waves—sonorous, sublime. “Shhh,” they turn their vulture necks. Craning to see. Who dares to (neuro)queer this crip time? No Tourette’s, no unruly bodies. They only want us here if we can be quiet. Apparently, we are not includable.

In this scene, I was so excited to get to talk to my friend. My nonspeaking friend. To get to talk to him in his way - with pen and paper and screeches. But the only disabled people that belong at the meeting are the ones with quiet bodies. We were included, but not wanted.

These things happened at a meeting that was supposed to be run by disabled people, for disabled people. But when I was there, so many bad things happened to me and my friends. I was very disappointed, because the meeting was all about liberation, but I watched as disabled people hurt other disabled people. People were celebrating their power while disempowering others.

This is sometimes called "neoliberalism". To be neoliberal, or to do neoliberalism, is to say you are helping someone when you are only helping yourself. Specifically, it is to say you are doing something good for someone, but you are actually supporting the same system that harms that person in the first place.

Here are some examples. The Best Buddies program is a neoliberal program. It is a neoliberal program because it says it is a program to help people with intellectual disability find friends. To do this, the best buddies program signs up non disabled people who want to do charity work by being a friend to disabled people. But that's not friendship. It's pitty. So best buddies pretends to give you a friend while supporting the society that believes you can't make friends any other way.

The sheltered workshop is a neoliberal program. Sheltered workshops are neoliberal, because they say they are going to give disabled people a job, but really they are giving the disabled person a boring task for less than minimum wage. They give you a pretend job, like Best Buddies gives you a pretend friend. They support a society that believes you cannot do good work to support your community.

Many of the college programs for people with intellectual disability are neoliberal programs. They are neoliberal because they pretend you are going to college but they are really controlling what classes you can take and what you can study. They support a society that believes there are only certain things you can do with your life.

So I was very frustrated at this meeting because it was a neoliberal meeting. But it was even more frustrating because the people running it were disabled. I felt they should have known better. I joked that it was NeoLiberation. It was pretend liberation.

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The neoliberal machine has come for inclusion.

Always watching, surveilling, assaying—neoliberalism snatches up our resistances. Categorized, analyzed, defined, discretized. Labeled. Branded. Repackaged. Capitalized.

A radical movement becomes a social movement. A social movement becomes a policy. A policy becomes a program. A program becomes an industry.

“We will be inclusive,” You say. “We will be welcoming,” You say. “We will empower you,” You say. I say, “Who is We?”

Inclusion has a flaw, you see. One that Neoliberalism has found easy to exploit. A software vulnerability, or perhaps a feature. Inclusion, unfortunately, does not necessitate the abdication of power. You offer me a seat. But it is still your table.

We are empowered to conform. We are welcomed to be observed. We are liberated into a NeoliberalLiberation.

Thanks. I hate it.

—

This feeling that I was feeling, this feeling of NeoLiberation, reminds me of a feeling that Sarah Ahmed wrote about in her book "On Being Included" - she wrote about "that feeling of coming up against the same thing wherever you come up against it." (pg. 175)

As I sat with this feeling, and thought about the "sameness", or the repetition, of what was happening between these scenes, I remembered fractals.

See reply for part 2.

https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/33181/28261

#Fractals #ColiberationLab #TechJustice #DisabilityJustice #CripTechnoscience #Inclusion #Institutionalization #Neoliberalism #NeoLiberation #CollectiveAction

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