Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Inspire civic engagement in your classroom and community with Resisterhood! Today we're highlighting Dr. Jean Gearon, one of the subjects of our new documentary Resisterhood.

Jean is the great-granddaughter of one of the original Suffragists in the United States. Jean founded a grassroots political group that's involved in local and state politics, as well as the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) — the same battle Jean’s great-grandmother fought more than 100 years ago.

Teach about grassroots organizing and activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, gender equity and civic engagement with Resisterhood! For grades 10-12, higher ed and adult learning. It's great for campus screenings and community education!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/resisterhood/

@education @film @histodons

#Education#Civics#CivicEngagement#CivicParticipation#Democracy#Activism#Grassroots#Homeschooling#SocialStudies#USHistory#Histodons
Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Inspire civic engagement in your classroom and community with Resisterhood! Today we're highlighting Dr. Jean Gearon, one of the subjects of our new documentary Resisterhood.

Jean is the great-granddaughter of one of the original Suffragists in the United States. Jean founded a grassroots political group that's involved in local and state politics, as well as the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) — the same battle Jean’s great-grandmother fought more than 100 years ago.

Teach about grassroots organizing and activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, gender equity and civic engagement with Resisterhood! For grades 10-12, higher ed and adult learning. It's great for campus screenings and community education!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/resisterhood/

@education @film @histodons

#Education#Civics#CivicEngagement#CivicParticipation#Democracy#Activism#Grassroots#Homeschooling#SocialStudies#USHistory#Histodons
pmonks (330ppm)
@pmonks@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Just in case I know anyone in Columbia County, Georgia, please consider my friend Howard for County Commissioner in the upcoming special election. He’s a great bloke who got fed up with local politics and decided to do something about it.

https://hojo4coco.com

Boosts, especially by those in #ColumbiaCounty or #Georgia more widely, greatly appreciated.

#GA#SpecialElection#USPol#Grassroots#Politics
pmonks (330ppm)
@pmonks@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Just in case I know anyone in Columbia County, Georgia, please consider my friend Howard for County Commissioner in the upcoming special election. He’s a great bloke who got fed up with local politics and decided to do something about it.

https://hojo4coco.com

Boosts, especially by those in #ColumbiaCounty or #Georgia more widely, greatly appreciated.

#GA#SpecialElection#USPol#Grassroots#Politics
witchescauldron
@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

The current media system is stacked against us. It’s rigged, exclusive, and hostile to alternatives.

That’s why we need the Open Media Network.

Because without an open, trust-based infrastructure for communication and coordination, we’re just shouting into silos.

Let’s build something different.
Let’s make history — together.

#OMN #4opens #metadata #trustnetworks #openweb #anarchism #postcapitalism #decentralization#DIYtech #commons #grassroots#foss #geekproblem #dotcons#KISS
witchescauldron
@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

The current media system is stacked against us. It’s rigged, exclusive, and hostile to alternatives.

That’s why we need the Open Media Network.

Because without an open, trust-based infrastructure for communication and coordination, we’re just shouting into silos.

Let’s build something different.
Let’s make history — together.

#OMN #4opens #metadata #trustnetworks #openweb #anarchism #postcapitalism #decentralization#DIYtech #commons #grassroots#foss #geekproblem #dotcons#KISS
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

⁂ Article

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

⁂ Article

What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

⁂ Article

The roadblocks to change: #StupidIndividualism and the #Deathcult that breeds it

If you’ve ever tried to build something radical, collective, and actually useful, you’ve run into these forces. They’re not just annoying. They’re dangerous, structural, and they always show up. This post is about naming those, calling them what they are, and understanding how they’re entangled in the wider problem:

A culture that valorizes individualism, feeds on careerism, and bows to the false “common sense” of the neoliberal #deathcult.

The #NGO agenda: Careerism in activist […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

⁂ Article

The roadblocks to change: #StupidIndividualism and the #Deathcult that breeds it

If you’ve ever tried to build something radical, collective, and actually useful, you’ve run into these forces. They’re not just annoying. They’re dangerous, structural, and they always show up. This post is about naming those, calling them what they are, and understanding how they’re entangled in the wider problem:

A culture that valorizes individualism, feeds on careerism, and bows to the false “common sense” of the neoliberal #deathcult.

The #NGO agenda: Careerism in activist […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

⁂ Article

Theory and Practice in Activism

There’s a common confusion pushed by well-meaning #fashernistas, about how change actually happens. They love theory. They love to talk about change. But when it comes to doing, things go sideways. Why? Because good horizontalists know: theory must emerge from practice, not the other way around.

At the root of radical practice is #DIY culture. We don’t wait for perfect theory or academic approval. We get our hands dirty. We try things, we fail, we try again. Through this, we build […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

⁂ Article

Theory and Practice in Activism

There’s a common confusion pushed by well-meaning #fashernistas, about how change actually happens. They love theory. They love to talk about change. But when it comes to doing, things go sideways. Why? Because good horizontalists know: theory must emerge from practice, not the other way around.

At the root of radical practice is #DIY culture. We don’t wait for perfect theory or academic approval. We get our hands dirty. We try things, we fail, we try again. Through this, we build […]
ebrum
@ebrum@mastodont.cat  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Activistes del fedivers, necessito #consell !

Sabeu d'alguna guia, llibre, tutorial o curs per activistes sobre com mantenir una organització? Espais segurs, protocols en cas de (sospites) d'assetjament, intereseccionalitat aplicada, etc. Com més pràctic i específic, millor. Tots els recursos que he trobat sobre el tema són molt genèrics. Gràcies!

S'agraeixen boosts :)

#activism
ebrum
@ebrum@mastodont.cat replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Fedi activists, I'm in need of #advice

Looking for guides, tutorials, books, courses for activists about organising. Particularly, about safe spaces, dealing with harassment or suspitions, applied intersectionality, etc. The more practical and specific, the better. All resources I've found are too generic and I'm having a hard time applying them to my org. Thanks!

Boosts welcome :)

#activism #grassroots #mutualaid #safespace
Danny Boling ☮️
@IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A new #iPhone app, ICEBlock, allows users to anonymously report real-time sightings of ICE activity, similar to Waze.

#ICE officials have condemned the app, stating it endangers officers due to a recent 500% increase in assaults against them. [ #fuckICEfuck_face]

The app's developer says ICEBlock is a #grassroots effort to inform #communities about ICE operations and help #people avoid confrontations.

#ICEBlock app alerts users of nearby ICE sightings
https://www.foxla.com/news/iceblock-app-ice-sightings

#USpol#IAmDB
Danny Boling ☮️
@IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

A new #iPhone app, ICEBlock, allows users to anonymously report real-time sightings of ICE activity, similar to Waze.

#ICE officials have condemned the app, stating it endangers officers due to a recent 500% increase in assaults against them. [ #fuckICEfuck_face]

The app's developer says ICEBlock is a #grassroots effort to inform #communities about ICE operations and help #people avoid confrontations.

#ICEBlock app alerts users of nearby ICE sightings
https://www.foxla.com/news/iceblock-app-ice-sightings

#USpol#IAmDB
Neurofrontiers
@neurofrontiers@neuromatch.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

For the past month, I’ve watched in horror the unrelenting attacks on science and scientific institutions in the US: grants frozen, databases deleted, basic words banned, decades of progress undone overnight. And while the US is by far an extreme case, research budgets in other countries are also being reduced (or they weren’t that high to begin with). Plus, the rise of far-right extremism seems to be happening almost everywhere.

But what I’ve also seen during this time are incredible community efforts to back up data, to build decentralized infrastructure, to push back against these attacks wherever possible. And in the context of human health, it got me thinking: medical research already neglects portions of the population, so if traditional institutions won’t prioritize our health anyway, why don’t we?

What if we built a decentralized, citizen-driven research initiative, an open-source database to track and analyze health data from diverse populations across borders? A kind of bootleg science, resilient against institutional neglect and political suppression.

This is a very unbaked, maybe desperate and idealistic thought more than a plan. I have no clue where to start from, or if something similar already exists. But I’d love to hear what people think. Does this sound stupid/impossible/doable? All of the above?

#science #academia #neuroscience #health#BootlegScience #grassroots#CitizenScience