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  1. Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right rule was a dark time for social movements in Brazil.

    Since Lula’s return to power, housing activists have had a renewed role not just in the streets but in setting government policy.
    jacobin.com/2026/04/brazil-lul

    #left #LeftWing #leftist #LulaDaSilva #Lula2026 #Democracy #SocialJustice #SocialMovement #MTST #Housing #HomelessWorkersMovement #brazil

  2. Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right rule was a dark time for social movements in Brazil.

    Since Lula’s return to power, housing activists have had a renewed role not just in the streets but in setting government policy.
    jacobin.com/2026/04/brazil-lul

    #left #LeftWing #leftist #LulaDaSilva #Lula2026 #Democracy #SocialJustice #SocialMovement #MTST #Housing #HomelessWorkersMovement #brazil

  3. Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right rule was a dark time for social movements in Brazil.

    Since Lula’s return to power, housing activists have had a renewed role not just in the streets but in setting government policy.
    jacobin.com/2026/04/brazil-lul

    #left #LeftWing #leftist #LulaDaSilva #Lula2026 #Democracy #SocialJustice #SocialMovement #MTST #Housing #HomelessWorkersMovement #brazil

  4. Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right rule was a dark time for social movements in Brazil.

    Since Lula’s return to power, housing activists have had a renewed role not just in the streets but in setting government policy.
    jacobin.com/2026/04/brazil-lul

    #left #LeftWing #leftist #LulaDaSilva #Lula2026 #Democracy #SocialJustice #SocialMovement #MTST #Housing #HomelessWorkersMovement #brazil

  5. Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right rule was a dark time for social movements in Brazil.

    Since Lula’s return to power, housing activists have had a renewed role not just in the streets but in setting government policy.
    jacobin.com/2026/04/brazil-lul

    #left #LeftWing #leftist #LulaDaSilva #Lula2026 #Democracy #SocialJustice #SocialMovement #MTST #Housing #HomelessWorkersMovement #brazil

  6. I'm a part of the growing #POC #SocialMovement to #decolonize #NatureOutings. I work with 18 different BC #nonprofits actively working towards more #decolonization of their public programs 👊💚☘️
    I'll update here, on this important #DecolonizeYourMind efforts in nature group outings as we work with developing more educational programs for the public 👍💗

  7. Yesterday I met with these orgs:

    - my workers' union [Forbundet Styrke Ung](ung.styrke.no/)
    - @attacnorge
    - @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge (smultringokonomi.no/)

    And met with folks of these orgs
    - Co-operative book café [Rosa Bøker](rosabok.no/)
    - NTUC vistors' centre [Folkets Hjørne](lo.no/folketshjorne/)
    - @hackeriet

    The wonderful @jhamre let me spend the night, and we had delightful discussions around the yummy breakfast table.

    Today I met with these orgs:
    - political party roedt.no
    - youth political party rodungdom.no
    - @attacnorge
    - participatory festival karlsoyfestivalen.no

    These next few days I want to make an effort to meet with these orgs:

    Norway:
    - network of political orgs landbruksalliansen.no
    - solidarity committe latinamerika-gruppene.no (planned)
    - patient org pkinorge.no
    - political party mdg.no
    - political party sv.no (planned)
    - political party arbeiderpartiet.no
    - my workers' union styrke.no
    - NTUC lo.no
    - workers' union elogit.no (planned)
    - @XR_Norway (planned)
    - the hosting collective I'm a part of datakollektivet.no (planned)
    - national security bureau nsm.no
    - @efn
    - consumer council forbrukerradet.no
    - workers' union tekna.no

    Sweden:
    - workers' co-op digidemlab.org (half-planned)
    - workers' co-op greenheart.coop
    - workers' co-op doop.coop
    - @konstellationen (planned)
    - @solidariacenter
    - @SAC_Syndikalisterna

    If you find yourself or someone you know on this list without a meeting planned, please help facilitate our meeting.

    If you know someone who should be met, please let me know.

    If you find a planned meeting which you'd like to join, let me know and I'll see what can be done.

    Knowledge to few is power. Knowledge to many is liberation. Let's organize a broad anti-fascist coalition to migrate our movements away from big tech; to co-operatively run free/libre/open source software!

    #organizing #socialMovement #digitalIndependence #norgeSkifter #allheimen #coops #workers #cooperative #freeSoftware #openSource #antifascism #anarchism #democracy #fedihelp

  8. Yesterday I met with these orgs:

    - my workers' union [Forbundet Styrke Ung](ung.styrke.no/)
    - @attacnorge
    - @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge (smultringokonomi.no/)

    And met with folks of these orgs
    - Co-operative book café [Rosa Bøker](rosabok.no/)
    - NTUC vistors' centre [Folkets Hjørne](lo.no/folketshjorne/)
    - @hackeriet

    The wonderful @jhamre let me spend the night, and we had delightful discussions around the yummy breakfast table.

    Today I met with these orgs:
    - political party roedt.no
    - youth political party rodungdom.no
    - @attacnorge
    - participatory festival karlsoyfestivalen.no

    These next few days I want to make an effort to meet with these orgs:

    Norway:
    - network of political orgs landbruksalliansen.no
    - solidarity committe latinamerika-gruppene.no (planned)
    - patient org pkinorge.no
    - political party mdg.no
    - political party sv.no (planned)
    - political party arbeiderpartiet.no
    - my workers' union styrke.no
    - NTUC lo.no
    - workers' union elogit.no (planned)
    - @XR_Norway (planned)
    - the hosting collective I'm a part of datakollektivet.no (planned)
    - national security bureau nsm.no
    - @efn
    - consumer council forbrukerradet.no
    - workers' union tekna.no

    Sweden:
    - workers' co-op digidemlab.org (half-planned)
    - workers' co-op greenheart.coop
    - workers' co-op doop.coop
    - @konstellationen (planned)
    - @solidariacenter
    - @SAC_Syndikalisterna

    If you find yourself or someone you know on this list without a meeting planned, please help facilitate our meeting.

    If you know someone who should be met, please let me know.

    If you find a planned meeting which you'd like to join, let me know and I'll see what can be done.

    Knowledge to few is power. Knowledge to many is liberation. Let's organize a broad anti-fascist coalition to migrate our movements away from big tech; to co-operatively run free/libre/open source software!

    #organizing #socialMovement #digitalIndependence #norgeSkifter #allheimen #coops #workers #cooperative #freeSoftware #openSource #antifascism #anarchism #democracy #fedihelp

  9. Yesterday I met with these orgs:

    - my workers' union [Forbundet Styrke Ung](ung.styrke.no/)
    - @attacnorge
    - @nettverket_smultringkonomi_norge (smultringokonomi.no/)

    And met with folks of these orgs
    - Co-operative book café [Rosa Bøker](rosabok.no/)
    - NTUC vistors' centre [Folkets Hjørne](lo.no/folketshjorne/)
    - @hackeriet

    The wonderful @jhamre let me spend the night, and we had delightful discussions around the yummy breakfast table.

    Today I met with these orgs:
    - political party roedt.no
    - youth political party rodungdom.no
    - @attacnorge
    - participatory festival karlsoyfestivalen.no

    These next few days I want to make an effort to meet with these orgs:

    Norway:
    - network of political orgs landbruksalliansen.no
    - solidarity committe latinamerika-gruppene.no (planned)
    - patient org pkinorge.no
    - political party mdg.no
    - political party sv.no (planned)
    - political party arbeiderpartiet.no
    - my workers' union styrke.no
    - NTUC lo.no
    - workers' union elogit.no (planned)
    - @XR_Norway (planned)
    - the hosting collective I'm a part of datakollektivet.no (planned)
    - national security bureau nsm.no
    - @efn
    - consumer council forbrukerradet.no
    - workers' union tekna.no

    Sweden:
    - workers' co-op digidemlab.org (half-planned)
    - workers' co-op greenheart.coop
    - workers' co-op doop.coop
    - @konstellationen (planned)
    - @solidariacenter
    - @SAC_Syndikalisterna

    If you find yourself or someone you know on this list without a meeting planned, please help facilitate our meeting.

    If you know someone who should be met, please let me know.

    If you find a planned meeting which you'd like to join, let me know and I'll see what can be done.

    Knowledge to few is power. Knowledge to many is liberation. Let's organize a broad anti-fascist coalition to migrate our movements away from big tech; to co-operatively run free/libre/open source software!

  10. Floating gardens, #CleanEnergy, and #CommunityFirst: Why '#solarpunk' #architecture gives us #ClimateOptimism

    Dec 12, 2025

    "Imagine floating towers teeming with lush greenery that look out over clean waterways overflowing with wildlife. As you glance down, you realize pedestrians outnumber cars — which fly on renewable energy — and people mill about in community gardens and meeting spaces as plants and solar panels alike drink in sunlight.

    "Welcome to the dream world of a 'solarpunk' city.

    "Solarpunk is derived from #cyberpunk, a genre of speculative fiction that was coined by author #BruceBethke in 1983 with the release of his sci-fi short story of the same name, which follows a group of young #RebelHackers.

    "From there, cyberpunk spawned a slew of futuristic aesthetics, ideals, and stories. But solarpunk — a term which first sprang up online in 2008 — goes a step further than cyberpunk, and its fantastical subgenre steampunk, by encapsulating not just a style or genre, but an entire #SocialMovement.

    "#JaySpringett is the co-administrator of solarpunks.net, a website that curates articles, stories, and artwork that are representative of the movement. Spend a minute scrolling on the site and common themes will emerge: #rewilding efforts, #gardening methods, #rainwater harvesting, #VisibleMending practices, and so much more. [Hey, that sounds a lot like what we cover on #SolarPunkSundays!]

    " 'I have always considered solarpunk to be focused on the practical as opposed to the wishful thinking,' Springett told Built In, a Chicago software company. 'And it’s a discussion that’s becoming more and more prominent.' "

    Read more:
    goodgoodgood.co/articles/solar

    #SolarPunkSunday #Decentralize #BuildingCommunity

  11. Artificial Intelligence is a threat and a promise; as the world grapples with understanding its prospects and dangers, we invite you to join us in London on the 17th of November for a talk and open discussion to explore these questions and consider their implications for social movements.

    interregnum.ghost.io/artificia

    #AI #event #events #london #discussion #socialmovement #socialmovements #iww #iwwunion #wobblies

  12. This time round, you and all else knew what you did
    On thy hallowed ground you did it to innocent women and kids
    Killing the healers, bringers of meals, picking from millions Lavender list
    This dirty business got affiliates – billions flipping their lids
    You've given free cover for villainy
    cynically mimicking giving a shit
    Just listen the rhythm and pitch – this isn’t a killable switch
    We all have horrible feelings when we see the clip or image
    What we see are bodies in ditches and those living with scant a stitch
    Unforgiven inhumanity under the visible hand of the rich
    Which is a situation of extreme intolerability
    For any that feel empathically
    For many it strains their sanity
    A sick capitulation to necroeconomics politically
    Anyone with a family
    Feels heavy with this I guarantee
    In whispered conversations in our cynical killing facilities
    “They’re shelling tents with artillery?
    Civilian death probability”
    Airburst detonation imminent after attack on a bakery
    “This is illegitimate
    This targets no military”
    This gives an indication that you feel some vulnerability
    because the militant in your vicinity
    isn’t ignorant to your complicity
    And every mandem, stan on the gram and their nan can’t stand the depravity
    Willing your guillotine still but you living a life limited by gravity

    #bars #140bpm #gaza #FreePalestine #necropolitics #songs #poetry #lyrics #politcs #SocialMovement #ProtestChant #BreakTheSiege #Madleen #FreedomFlotilla

  13. The #GulabiGang’s #Feminist Vigilantism: Violence and Articulation within a #SocialMovement

    by Jerin Jacob, Posted on February 1, 2019

    "'Yes, we fight rapists with lathis (bamboo sticks). If we find the culprit, we thrash him black and blue so he dare not attempt to do wrong to any girl or a woman again,' brags #SampatDeviPal, founder of the #PinkSariGang, popularly known as the Gulabi Gang. Rooted in one of the poorest and most populated villages of Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh, north India, this all woman group prides in its collective identity as vigilantes and are literally, wielding sticks and fighting for women’s equality and liberty in the area.

    "The inhabitants of Bundelkhand have to, on a daily basis, struggle against infertility of local lands, extreme poverty, illiteracy, frequent droughts, a corrupt judicial system and an oppressive and deeply hierarchical caste system on one hand and frequent incidences of rape, child marriage, domestic abuse, dowry deaths. etc on the other. What started as a one-time saving action wherein Sampat Pal Devi rounded up a few women and along with them, beat up a neighbor who abused his wife, has now grown into a feisty network of rebellious women across over eleven districts of India’s largest province, Uttar Pradesh, each honing a stick, ready to follow and deliver Sampat Devi’s alternate model of justice. With the vision to ‘protect the powerless from abuse and fight corruption’, the gang and its agenda found resonance with much of India’s population, where reports of sex crimes, domestic violence and gang rapes blighted the smooth functioning of the society.

    "Every marginalized community in India faces some kind of violence or the other. However, women who hail from a lower caste face a heightened version of this marginalization. 'Baichi jat' or 'all women constitute a caste' best describes the status of women in marginalized communities. Caste movements and women’s movements have hitherto come into being in the Indian scenario, but this is the first time that a movement for women from the lower caste is coming to the fore.

    "In this case, we see that women’s vigilantism has successfully proved to be an effective and temporary strategy to combat localized instances of gender violence. However, feminist scholarship throws light upon reasons why this sort of agency in resisting patriarchal forms of culture doesn’t fit into the long-term principles of feminist action. These instances of retributive ghettoizing and attacking the perpetrators does posit us with a moral and ethical predicament as to how far are they permanently justifiable in the eyes of the law and order set in place by society.

    "Nevertheless, the Gulabi gang and its collective acts of aggression have managed to foster new feminist linkages for these women, allowing them options of social and physical mobility which were hitherto inaccessible.

    "Through the various activities and issues the gang takes up, we can reach a consensus that marginalized women who have utilized such organized forms of violence in order to gain justice, actually find themselves walking the thin line between legally punishable and socially acceptable action. Atreyee Sen argues that such women’s groups that function outside the legal system ultimately end up adopting a language of politics and pacifism in order to gain legitimacy and credibility as a social movement. One can observe that female vigilantism, in disempowered communities, attains a credible space when examined through the lens of ‘ethical violence’ and other related understandings of proportionate punishment for crimes against women. Sen, quotes Shanti, a member of the gang since 2007, 'In all the time that I have been with the gang, we only beat people, we have never murdered anyone'.

    "Deniz Kandiyoti in her essay ‘Bargaining with Patriarchy’, talks about the abstract notion of patriarchy as seen in contemporary feminist theory. She takes up a systematic and comparative examination of women’s strategies in coping with different forms of patriarchy. She says that while different forms of patriarchy assign women ‘distinct rules of the game’, women have to traditionally come up with a novel set of strategies for both active and passive resistance, ie women in different locations, spatially and culturally, have to make different kinds of patriarchal bargains to deal with the situations they are in. This study of hers leads her to opine that an analysis of different forms of resistance reflects a culturally and geographically grounded understanding of various patriarchal systems."

    Read more (archived version):
    web.archive.org/web/2023092223

    #InternetArchive #Patriarchy #ToxicMasculinity #GirlsFightBack #GulabiGangs #FeministVigilantism #WomenFightBack

  14. Unitary rally “to enforce the results of the ballot boxes” and call for the creation of local collectives against the Far Right. Millau, France, July 2024.
    📷 Emmanuel Veneau (cc by-nc-sa) #AmbulationsPhotographiques #Newscast
    #photography #election #CivicLife #SocialMovement

  15. We adopted the slogan ‘Nothing for us without us!’ from the disabled movement in the United Kingdom. We adopted the phrase ‘grassroots urban planning’ from comrades in the urban movement in Brazil. This is why Ashraf Cassiem, the leader of the militant Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign developed the slogan ‘We are poor not stupid!’.

    abahlali.org/node/17769/

    #Abahlali #shackdwellers #directaction #generalassembly #housingcrisis #landlords #rent #socialmovement