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intersectionalpraxis · 2 months

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#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #current events #celebrity culture #taylor swift #indigenous solidarity #solidarity #social commentary #social change #systemic change #end the genocide #end the occupation #tiktok video #tiktok

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eligatovolador · 4 months

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all i want for xmas is a FREE FALASTEEN

and a FREE CONGO, SUDAN, P.R., HAWAI'I, etc.

all our struggles are connected. and we must work together to win.

been offline building networks of community care and organizing. will continue doing this as sustainably as i can, brick by brick.

if you're paying attention to what's happening in the world and feel powerless, please remember that you're not. people have worked together to change their conditions on this earth for millennia, and despite increased surveillance and suppression, they will continue doing so until the very end. love ya.

#free palestine #free gaza #free congo #free drc #free sudan #free puerto rico #free hawaii #free haiti #cop city #stop cop city #marwan makhoul #social change #agitate educate organize #flint michigan #flint still has no clean water

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nickysfacts · 3 months

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian Socialist!

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victusinveritas · 19 days

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#the eclipse #labor #the revolution #social change #charts

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theuntouchableredmoon · 5 months

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green-elf-magicks · 5 months

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Image description: an animation of the Palestinian flag waves while lettering changes in sync with the audio. The audio reads: “I know it's easy to fall into despair & lose hope. To feel like nobody is listening…And like there's nothing you can do. But here are FOUR things we can do to help. Number 1: Take breaks as needed for rest & recovery. The systems of oppression want us to get tired and give up. Which is why community care & self care is extremely important, so that we can stay strong and keep fighting. Number 2: Continue to participate in targeted boycotts and follow the leadership of the BDS Movement while doing so. Number 3: Keep organizing & resisting in any ways you're able. This could mean marching, educating, making resistance art, posting, commenting, starting signal groups & discords, & learning about other protest methods. Number 4: Continue to amplify as many Palestinian voices as you can. Screenshot the next image and follow those creators on Instagram.”

Instagram Accounts To Follow to Center Palestinians

News:

Resist News Network: t.me/PalestineResist

@almayadeen.tv @mintpress @eye.on.palestine @thecradlemedia @qudsnen @redstreamnet @anat.international @byplestia @landpalestine @hatem.h.rawagh @theimeu @mondoweiss @issaamro @obaddar

Care & Resources:

@psychology_spa @gigistherapyworld @the.poc.therapist @rim.abdellatif @arabicwords_0 @decolonize_the_classroom

Mutual Aid

@gazamutialaid @palestiniansocialfund @medicalaidpalestine

Culture and Art:

@khrarif @bisan1210 @oldpalestine @palpostersarchive @documentingpalestine @sanaamoussaofficial @hareth_palestine @yazanabosalamah @zagoutheba @cravingpalestine

Content:

@electronicintifada @metras_global @metraswebsite @papestinian.story.48 @refugeechronicles @yazankhanfer @koufiyeh_hamra @kombaz.ps @key48return @arabsofcanada @eid_yara @ahmedhijazee @motaz_azaiza @ali_nassam @salma_shurrab @jenanmatari @muna.elkurd15 @ladimakhatib @ahmedeldin @munahawwa

Community:

@wolpalestine @healing.our.homeland @samidounnetwork @palestinianyouthmovement

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reflective-leaf · 7 months

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The Climate Movement Needs Your Creativity, Not Your Guilt

(This is an annotated transcript of the TEDx talk I gave in April 2023. It’s 10 minutes long. I’d suggest watching it first and then coming here for supporting materials.)

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Does climate action feel impossible?

When I was a kid, I was interested in everything. I’d need about 10 careers to do it all. So I got out my green and blue markers and made a calendar to keep track of which job I’d have on which day of the week. On Monday, I’d be a scientist, on Tuesday, a painter. Friday — some kind of explorer, because I loved nature documentaries. I related to how animals seemed fascinated by whatever was right in front of them.

Every documentary ended with a reminder that these animals needed our help, and all the ways they were threatened by human activity. I couldn’t believe no one had managed to do something about this. But I figured I would know how when I grew up.

So, though I kept changing my mind about what I would be, the one constant was that it would have something to do with climate and conservation.

Years later, I was working as an engineer and plugging away at my art and writing. I didn’t tell anyone about my master plan to connect it all to climate, but I hadn’t forgotten it. I kept looking for ways to make my engineering work overlap with climate science or renewables.

Still, I avoided climate news. I didn’t need to hear over and over that climate change REALLY WAS real to motivate me to take action. I didn’t need to see a picture of an animal choking on plastic; I already had the master plan. Meanwhile, I kept circling climate action from a distance without taking the plunge.

But that changed in 2020. The United Nations issued a report giving us a deadline of 2030 to make steep emissions cuts.

Taking action couldn’t stay theoretical and future tense any longer. So I dove into the research to catch up on what I had missed. And I started — tentatively — talking to people about climate change and my intentions.

And I got wave after wave of bad news. It wasn’t just the tight deadlines, scale of changes needed, and years of deadlock.

It was also the confusing responses I was getting in my conversations about climate change. I’d bring up something I found fascinating, people’s faces would drop. The’d say “Yeah… I should be doing more.” And the conversation stopped there.

We’d all finally grown up! and I was ready to jump into the master plan, but I hadn’t factored in when I was 10 that no one would want to jump with me.

And it was 2020, and the air in California was full of wildfire smoke — a constant reminder of what was at stake.

Defeatism had hijacked the climate conversation and it was everywhere.

Eventually, the gloom shifted just enough for me to start wondering. Maybe we were all so bummed because we couldn’t see through the haze. We’ve all been peppered with directives — reduce, reuse, recycle. Drive less. Fly less. Turn off lights. Don’t buy plastic.

And we try, pushing against a system that wasn’t set up for any of that. But we don’t have a clear picture of how this helps.

We may have a vague idea of our individual reductions adding up to collective reductions — but then, every single one of us would have to cut our individual emissions by over half, and then to zero. We can’t imagine the effort it would take to scale up our reductions by that much. And convincing every single human to do the same? Impossible.

This picture doesn’t add up because it requires us all to be perfect. And worse, it makes us feel like we are failing, every single day.

But let me paint you a different picture. If change could only happen with 100% participation and perfection, change would never happen. But I think we can all agree that sometimes change does happen, even positive change. So — how?

For one thing, you can move society in a positive direction without being perfect. Think of it like electric current. We are the electrons.

When we imagine current flowing through a wire, we might imagine an orderly stream of electrons all moving in the same direction.

But actually, even before the current starts, the electrons are moving — randomly, at high speeds, in all directions.

And when we apply a voltage to create current, it still looks like they’re moving at random, except there’s a change you can only see when you look at the wire as a whole.

Each electron shifts its velocity a tiny bit, all in the same direction. You don’t need perfect electrons to create current.

Society is a bit more complicated than electric current. Still, it doesn’t matter that we aren’t each moving in a perfectly sustainable direction as long as our changes line up. And more importantly, pick up speed.

So what’s the voltage that directs us? I called it “the system,” and what I mean is the way all the organizations that touch our lives are set up — what they prioritize and where they get their materials.

We are constantly pushing against the system while trying to influence “our” consumption. What if we tried influencing the system instead?

So how do systems change? I found the answer in one of my math textbooks. Transformation builds under the surface as ideas brew, minds change, and small clusters of supporters gather — all while progress appears to be slow or non-existent, until suddenly, the support reaches a critical mass, and the system transforms rapidly in an emergent process.

Nearly every social movement that succeeded followed this pattern of slow, then all at once. To get to that point, a certain percentage of people need to participate (estimated variously as 3.5%, to 25%), but importantly, it’s not 100%.

So don’t think of the climate movement as something you’re guilted into. You can choose to be one of the 25% who become early adopters of change.

And you don’t have to worry about the people you can’t convince. They will change when the system changes because that comes first.

Changing the system requires creativity. The first act of creativity is to imagine the possible paths to transformation.

The second act of creativity is to imagine where you can fit into that picture. Old ideas need to be replaced by new ones — about everything from technology to our day-to-day lives. The new ideas spread through you.

To make that happen, ask yourself these three questions.

One. What is a movement you want to throw your weight behind? Pick a trend or organization that’s already building, and that you can help accelerate. You can be another piece of its critical mass.

Two. What’s a practical obstacle that’s been keeping you from participating? Anything from not knowing what a word means, to having trouble deciding where to volunteer.

If you have this obstacle, others do too. So brainstorming a solution will help more than just you. That obstacle doesn’t stand a chance against your formidable skills at creative problem solving!

Question Three. What social circles that you’re already a part of, can you share your solutions and experiences with? Sharing in the circles where you can be heard is how your solutions amplify and ripple outward.

We’re facing unprecedented challenges, so our imaginations need to be nimble — zipping like a hummingbird — from the big picture, to our immediate surroundings. From where we’re starting from — to where we want to get to.

We can’t be nimble like this if we’re stuck in guilt and perfectionism, and gazing endlessly within our own homes and wallets at all the things we’re doing wrong.

No movement in history has been made up of perfect people, so stop worrying about the ways you’re not perfect. Perfect people are not required.

Instead, think of all the ways your creativity could accelerate us in the right direction.

If you haven’t already, check out the recording of my TEDx talk! And you can hit ‘like’ on the video if you want to help get the YouTube algorithm to distribute it.

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violottie · 4 days

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to defeat it, we must know the evil we are fighting.

Exposing Christian Zionists 🚨🚨 Watch the full documentary on YouTube: part 1 and part 2 are out now

Exposing one zionazi at a time so we can dismantle this disgusting, cancerous ideology that’s taking over our world They’ve had you fooled into believing Muslims are savages, dangerous, killers- terrorists … What a bunch of absolute horseshit

It’s Christian Zio’s we need to dismantle and extinguish 🤯" from Rasha Naddaf-Whaits, 24/Apr/2024:

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blackswaneuroparedux · 9 months

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Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)(1958)

We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

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capricorn-0mnikorn · 4 months

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Immediately surrounding Mrs Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom she was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the Cottage, expressly arrived to amuse them. On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others. Charles and Mary also came in, of course, during their visit, and Mr Musgrove made a point of paying his respects to Lady Russell, and sat down close to her for ten minutes, talking with a very raised voice, but from the clamour of the children on his knees, generally in vain. It was a fine family-piece.

-- Persuasion, by Jane Austen (Chapter 15)*. Written in 1816, published December 20, 1817, with an 1818 copyright date.

This is Jane Austen describing a Christmas Present scene that Charles Dickens would describe as Christmas Past, in A Christmas Carol, just twenty-five years later.

And remember: in Dickens's novel, Scrooge represented the cultural norm of the day. And for a time scale in our own lives, 25 years ago was 1998.

Austen's novel centers around the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and how the influx of War Money was destined to change the structure of society. The Napoleonic Wars officially ended on November 20, 1815; there's an allusion to the signing of the peace treaty in overheard dialog at the end of the novel. Jane Austen died July 18, 1817, so it's not like she was writing about the changes in society with the advantage of hindsight.

The hindsight comes to us through Charles Dickens's later work.

It's sobering how quickly social norms can get "set in stone," especially when money and social hierarchy are in the mix.

*link goes to the Web e-text, at Project Gutenberg.

#persuasion #a christmas carol #social change #Jane Austen #Charles Dickens

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happywebdesign · 1 year

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marxism-leninism-meowism · 2 months

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you will not convince me that the current twitter drama over bisan and motaz is anything but an attempt to get people to turn against two people that have been our primary source of information out of gaza since the beginning of the genocide. there is no solid evidence backing up the claims made against them outside of one mistranslated video (as far as i can tell). it's manufactured outrage feeding off the internet's parasociality and...well, it's cancel culture. this is why cancel culture is bad—not because it makes right wingers mad that gen z doesn't like them, but because it's so fucking easy to use it to drive people apart and tear down social movements if they're all chomping at the bit to mass dogpile the most well-known activists in the movement.

honestly, i have had a suspicion nagging at me that the same thing happened with the claudia de la cruz situation, because it was incredibly suspicious how everyone jumped on her bandwagon and then suddenly she was cancelled and no one cared about her and her party anymore. like...the timing was concerning. and i don't know how to feel about it.

but my point is: we need to be careful about claims made against well-known activists in our movements. people are far too quick to toss out the most valuable people to the movement just because of a tweet that sparks a wildfire of rumors and debate; and even stuff that seems like solid evidence + long-winded essays of "proof" aren't infallible. we're in an extremely precarious place in the world right now, and the people who benefit from the system aren't just going to let us have our glorious revolution or whatever you think this is all leading to without major interference. and if you think you know how to spot that kind of interference, you're wrong. if you think you're smarter than it, you're wrong.

be careful. think critically. check your priorities.

#bearsys speaks #palestine #gaza #social justice #activism #socialism #communism #social change #leftist #leftism #anti capitalism #anti war #free palestine #bisan owda #motaz azaiza

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thatveganwhiterose · 1 year

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I love that on tumblr dot com, I’ll see people scream about “dismantling oppression” or “giving it to the man” or “you’re not immune to propaganda” or everyone’s favorite of “no ethical consumption under capitalism”, like y’all are about to start an anarchist-socialist movement.

But as soon as any thought or words are associated to specifically animal agriculture, these same people will do a 180 spin and start licking this massive, wealthy, dominating conglomerate’s boots and screeching lies.

If you can’t even think critically about why this is abhorrent and hypocritical behavior (and can’t be damned to examine how or if you can alter your own lifestyle to match what you supposedly say or believe), then how the fuck am I supposed to trust that you want to change anything?

How am I, or any good faith person practicing veganism, supposed to believe any of you are ready to make real change if you can’t even lessen how many burgers you fucking eat?

You people aren’t ready to do shit if all you can do is talk the talk but won’t walk the walk.

(And before anyone freaks out, veganism is literally about minimizing your usage of animals **as far as is practical and possible for your individual situation**. I won’t be responding to anyone about this because it’s just bad faith at this point, and I am done coddling people.)

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sparksinthenight · 6 months

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“you just want to divide us when we should be united!”

Look, those who have more than they need already divided us by having more than they need in a world where most people have less. I don’t believe in unity and solidarity between the comfortable and the directly disadvantaged. I believe in fighting the people who see us as less deserving than themselves.

#left wing #leftism #left #leftist #social justice #class war #capitalism #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #social change #equality #equal rights

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in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine · 5 months

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#revolution #protest #activism #social change #empowerment #resistance #liberation #uprising #upheaval #transformation #consciousness #awareness

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theuntouchableredmoon · 5 months

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