"We have been taught to believe that if we help someone else, we lose something, that putting others first somehow hurts us. In my experience and research, it is the opposite."
The unions are organising for a Women's day of action for pay equity on Saturday September 20th. 💪
There will be events across the country.
Join us!
Women's Day of Action: Rise up for Pay Equity
https://www.together.org.nz/women_s_day_of_action
If you struggle understanding the link between #Palestine and #ClimateAction, or why #intersectionality is the key to humanity's survival, here is a great #ElPais article about the #NativeAmerican tribe that shut down #AlligatorAlcatraz.
Some of this will make your blood boil (the T-shirt sellers for one). But if you look deeper, it shows why the only way out for all of us is deep #solidarity: not because it's ethical but because it works.
If you struggle understanding the link between #Palestine and #ClimateAction, or why #intersectionality is the key to humanity's survival, here is a great #ElPais article about the #NativeAmerican tribe that shut down #AlligatorAlcatraz.
Some of this will make your blood boil (the T-shirt sellers for one). But if you look deeper, it shows why the only way out for all of us is deep #solidarity: not because it's ethical but because it works.
Folks, @micr0 is the creator and maintainer of altbot@fuzzies.wtf and tldr@fuzzies.wtf, arguably two of the most useful #Fediverse bots I've ever seen, utilizing a locally run, low-power #LLM server operated with #privacy and #transparency primarily in mind.
If I wasn't already living off of charity, I would gladly donate to this cause. So instead, I'm asking everyone who is willing and able, please visit the post below and consider donating to help micr0 continue to provide two immensely powerful and helpful services for #inclusion and #accessibility. They deserve to at least break even on their bills for such (imho) important work.
Additionally, I encourage everyone to follow one or both bots (I'm not tagging them in the post to avoid triggering another loop like I did the last time) if you are overly-verbose like myself and need a concise, abridged version of my babblings, or don't have the spoons to write alt text for images AND videos.
Folks, @micr0 is the creator and maintainer of altbot@fuzzies.wtf and tldr@fuzzies.wtf, arguably two of the most useful #Fediverse bots I've ever seen, utilizing a locally run, low-power #LLM server operated with #privacy and #transparency primarily in mind.
If I wasn't already living off of charity, I would gladly donate to this cause. So instead, I'm asking everyone who is willing and able, please visit the post below and consider donating to help micr0 continue to provide two immensely powerful and helpful services for #inclusion and #accessibility. They deserve to at least break even on their bills for such (imho) important work.
Additionally, I encourage everyone to follow one or both bots (I'm not tagging them in the post to avoid triggering another loop like I did the last time) if you are overly-verbose like myself and need a concise, abridged version of my babblings, or don't have the spoons to write alt text for images AND videos.
“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
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Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Instagram page: ‘We are outraged by the decision made to silence The Mary Wallopers yesterday at Victorious. As a band we cannot cosign political censorship and will therefore be boycotting the festival today.’
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Rock band The Academic have also pulled out of the festival, saying they could not ‘in good conscience’ perform at ‘a festival that silences free speech’. Irish band Cliffords said they ‘refuse to play if we are to be censored for showing our support to the people of Palestine’.
#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #solidarity #israel #genocide #victoriousFestival
Happy Nicola and Bart day, for those who celebrate! 
Joan Baez - Here's to you, Nicola and Bart
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7oday_Fc-Gc
Big News! 🎉
We’re honored to share that A Red Road to the West Bank has been awarded a 2025 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, presented by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and @anarchistagency
This support will help us continue developing our documentary, which connects the struggles of Indigenous peoples in North America and Palestine against settler colonialism, displacement, and erasure.
Co-directed by Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas, a Kanien’kehá:ka activist and filmmaker, and Franklin López, Puerto Rican filmmaker and founder of subMedia, this project is both a film and an organizing tool — a resource for solidarity, resistance, and education.
We are also deeply honored to share this recognition alongside so many incredible projects, including Mainline’s The Process is the Punishment podcast on the ATL 61 RICO trials, The Dugout, a Black anarchist podcast reshaping radical history, and All Damn Night, a documentary chronicling resistance to Florida’s abortion ban.
After many grant rejections, it feels powerful to know we can always count on anarchists to have our backs. Our first official grant comes from two incredible anarchist organizations — and that means a lot.
That said, we are still in great need of funding to finish this important project. If you’d like to support us directly, you can donate here: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad
We’re grateful to the IAS and Agency for recognizing the urgency of this work, and to all of you who have stood with us on this journey so far.
Big News! 🎉
We’re honored to share that A Red Road to the West Bank has been awarded a 2025 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant, presented by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and @anarchistagency
This support will help us continue developing our documentary, which connects the struggles of Indigenous peoples in North America and Palestine against settler colonialism, displacement, and erasure.
Co-directed by Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas, a Kanien’kehá:ka activist and filmmaker, and Franklin López, Puerto Rican filmmaker and founder of subMedia, this project is both a film and an organizing tool — a resource for solidarity, resistance, and education.
We are also deeply honored to share this recognition alongside so many incredible projects, including Mainline’s The Process is the Punishment podcast on the ATL 61 RICO trials, The Dugout, a Black anarchist podcast reshaping radical history, and All Damn Night, a documentary chronicling resistance to Florida’s abortion ban.
After many grant rejections, it feels powerful to know we can always count on anarchists to have our backs. Our first official grant comes from two incredible anarchist organizations — and that means a lot.
That said, we are still in great need of funding to finish this important project. If you’d like to support us directly, you can donate here: https://amplifierfilms.ca/redroad
We’re grateful to the IAS and Agency for recognizing the urgency of this work, and to all of you who have stood with us on this journey so far.
🌱 Solidarity Platform Cooperativism in
Latin America Report - FLACSO, Ecuador; GIZ; Fairwork 2025
🌏 https://www.ctslab.org/2025/07/01/solidarity-platform-cooperativism-in-latin-america-report/
This report analyzes the development of Platform Cooperatives in Latin America, understanding them as an alternative to the dominant corporate model in the platform economy.
#cooperatives #platformeconomy #solidarity #latinamerica #coopcycle
Plasticine Action is a group of like-minded artists and concerned citizens, who want to be vocal against the rise in AI generated animation and art, and raise awareness of how AI is being used in an increasingly authoritarian manner.
“Plasticine Action” t-shirts fundraiser https://plasticineaction.com/
Medical Aid for Palestinians
https://www.map.org.uk/
Police Arrest “Plasticine Action” t-shirt wearing protester
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest
Plasticine Action is a group of like-minded artists and concerned citizens, who want to be vocal against the rise in AI generated animation and art, and raise awareness of how AI is being used in an increasingly authoritarian manner.
“Plasticine Action” t-shirts fundraiser https://plasticineaction.com/
Medical Aid for Palestinians
https://www.map.org.uk/
Police Arrest “Plasticine Action” t-shirt wearing protester
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest
“Activists who disrupt the flow of weapons to a genocidal regime may violate petty criminal statutes, but they uphold a far greater law and a more profound human imperative: to protect a people and culture from annihilation,” she wrote.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/uk-warns-sally-rooney-after-novelist-pledges-to-fund-palestine-action
#Directaction#Gaza #PalestineAction #solidarity #SallyRooney
With full support from the US government, 2 million people are being threatened with starvation, as the state of Israel continues to carry out the ongoing ethnic-cleansing of #Palestine.
We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups that are doing direct support and distribution of supplies, with easy links so you can boost, support, and amplify.
All of us can organize benefit events and show material solidarity with people in Gaza organizing to provide mutual aid.
Check out here: https://itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-on-how-to-support-mutual-aid-groups-in-palestine-as-humanitarian-crisis-deepens/
An interview with Anas Arafat from Plant the Land about the importance of emergency common assistance whilst working on longer-term solutions
When Juries of 12 randomly selected citizens have heard evidence of why people have taken #directaction to advance climate or racial justice, or to stop #genocide in #Gaza, they have repeatedly reached not guilty verdicts.
These verdicts are deeply embarrassing to the government and the arms and oil industries, contradicting the narrative that the public supports the ‘crackdown on protest’.
#DefendOurJuries#Famine#LiftTheBan #PalestineAction #solidarity
When Juries of 12 randomly selected citizens have heard evidence of why people have taken #directaction to advance climate or racial justice, or to stop #genocide in #Gaza, they have repeatedly reached not guilty verdicts.
These verdicts are deeply embarrassing to the government and the arms and oil industries, contradicting the narrative that the public supports the ‘crackdown on protest’.
#DefendOurJuries#Famine#LiftTheBan #PalestineAction #solidarity
Black August starts soon. Usually I have others to participate with me, but since I don’t, I’m calling on those of you out there to get together in your cohorts, do 100 of something everyday with me for the month of August, and tell me how its going for you. Burpees, push-ups, sit-ups, a mile run/walk, 100 of some exercise for 31 days with me, that’d be rad! The key is unity, solidarity, so try to do them at least with one other person. You can split things up and make 100 squats into 50, plus its more fun together, and that’s what its about, what we can do together!
Love, rage, and solidarity
— Malik
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/01/black-august/
Imagine the whole world to function like a library. https://librarysocialism.org/ #library #socialism #ecosocialism #degrowth #solarpunk #solidarity
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