#usa #israel #palestine #lebanon : #war / #gaza / #protest / #ngo / #jvp

„Join us as we take #collectiveaction to demand an #armsembargo to Israel, immediate end to the #genocide, a lasting #ceasefire and an end to Israeli #siege, #apartheid, #occupation, and #oppression of Palestinians and Lebanon.“

https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration

A collective called Everyone Hates Elon has recently become an online sensation thanks to posters it plastered all over London of the world's richest man saluting while driving his "swasticar" with the words "Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds." @THR spoke to the group's anonymous spokespeople about what they're hoping to achieve.

https://flip.it/gcaIfM

Too many goddamn people I know: I'm scared and overwhelmed. I feel powerless. I wish there was something I could do.

Me: Start using Signal.

TMGPIK: I mean something that doesn't involve me changing habits.

I swear to FUCK, people!

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The #USA's racist #history says this 1933 scene in #Michigan is bad

But what's happening is good

A #bank has foreclosed on a #farmer and put their #farm up for #auction. #Neighbors have come to bid penny amounts to win the farm and return it

It was called a #pennyAuction

The nooses are a threat to high bidders. Others roam the crowd with axe handles

#CollectiveAction, #Community, #MutualAid

Against #financial #predation, #corporate #greed

We lost this as a country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_auction_(foreclosure)

Americans are taught #FDR was the hero of the #GreatDepression. For one historian, that’s erasure
Interview with historian Dana Frank

In a new book, What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times, #DanaFrank tells stories of the people who ‘made history happen’ through organizing and mutual aid

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Lauren Aratani in New York

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/05/dana-frank-great-depression?CMP=share_btn_url

#history #USPolitics #politics #LaborMovement #CollectiveAction
#press

Cruel and ineffective policies and the culture of inaction from neoliberal governments often leave people to fend for themselves.

#FluConf2025 has a dedicated track for Solidarity Networks and Community Health, through which we aim to promote bottom-up efforts to organize our own social safety nets.

We want to hear from people raising awareness about policy vacuums, building coalitions between adjacent camps, and working at the margins to address underserved demographics. Share your stories about public infrastructure, mutual aid, boycotts, unionization, strikes, legal defense, debt-forgiveness, and other forms of collective action.

How are you countering misinformation about public health topics? How do we build resilience in our communities and welcome newcomers? How can we take care of each other in the wake of wars, climate disasters, lgbtq persecution, and unnecessary poverty.

Apply up until midnight, January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)

https://fluconf.online/apply/

With the amount of time I spend reading Wikipedia articles, Anarcho-Syndicalism has caught my attention. I've come to see that it aligns with my views on decentralization, workers’ rights, no bosses, and no hierarchy telling anyone what to do. It’s all about workers organizing and managing things themselves.

Anarcho-syndicalism is built on three key ideas: solidarity, direct action, and self-management. It emphasizes workers standing together, taking action without relying on politicians, and running things collectively through democratic unions.

Rudolf Rocker, a major figure in this movement, dedicated his life to organizing workers and promoting these principles. He believed in solidarity across communities and showed how workers could take control of their own lives through collective action. He was also a member of the International Workers Association #IWAAIT https://www.iwa-ait.org

- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism

#Solarpunk started out as a speculative fiction genre. Now it informs #sustainable architecture and design

By Nicola Heath, April 6, 2024

"Solarpunk is a futurist movement that began in speculative fiction and sci-fi films and has since spread to architecture and design. Practitioners envision a clean and green future built on principles of #sustainability, #SocialJustice, and #CollectiveAction."

Read more:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-07/solarpunk-design-architecture-sustainable-future/103667452

#TransgenderDayofRemembrance 2024: #Reflection and #Hope

Bricki, the #founder of #TransVitae and a 55-year-old #trans #woman, shares her #journey, emphasizing the importance of #hope and #collectiveaction. The #article examines alarming #statistics, #personalstories, and practical ways #allies can #support the #Trans #community.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TDOR #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Transphobia #SayHisName #SayHerName #SayTheirNames

https://www.transvitae.com/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2024-reflection-and-hope/

Join Us for the ABL Roundtable Series 2024!

Mark your calendars: August 6th, 15:00-16:00 GMT
Featuring @FerRacimo on ethical publishing & degrowing academia through collective action.

Don’t miss out! Tune in LIVE:
https://www.youtube.com/live/heGiHE4ndW8

Don't leave your horrible and unfair workplace. Unionize it and make it a proper and healthy workplace.
#union #labor #solidarity #strike #organize #collectiveaction

Would it surprise you if I told you that our supposedly "collective" resistance to addressing climate catastrophe is pretty much a bullshit propaganda narrative being deployed in the service of the capitalists who're murdering our biosphere and us with it? As a recent Global Climate Survey of 130,000 people in 125 countries reveals - the truth is people all around the world care just as much about dying on a boiling planet as you do:

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/02/youre-probably-underestimating-the-willingness-of-your-fellow-citizens-to-act-on-climate/

This is one of those stories where I think the numbers speak for themselves, so let's just quote them:

"The survey revealed that worldwide, 86% of people believe that people in their country should try to fight global warming, and 89% believe that their government should do more on the issue.

What’s more, an estimated 69% of the global population is willing to contribute 1% of their household income to stop climate change, a figure roughly congruent with the estimated cost of effective climate action. The proportion of people willing to contribute 1% varies across countries, but is greater than half in 114 of 125 countries and greater than two-thirds in 81 of 125."

Of course, if you're asking me, I think we should skip the mass 1% of household income donations and wring the money necessary to solve these problems out of the rich people and corporations who are overwhelmingly responsible for global warming and our already-ongoing climate catastrophe. With that having been noted however, it's time to stop letting people with a vested interest in boiling the planet for profit (and the media outlets they own,) tell us that nothing can be done because folks just don't care about the impending heat-death of our shared habitat. They're lying to you, and everyday people all over the world are just as worried and determined to address the problem as you are.

The question that remains I guess is what are we going to do about it - because our leaders and the capitalists who buy and sell them every day, sure don't seem interested in helping us save the planet, and the human species that lives on it.