Grassroots organizing
Activist Handbook

https://activisthandbook.org/organising

we explain how to get started with grassroots organizing. Our toolkit explains how to build a movement by looking at successful examples.

In this bonus episode, Ariel talks with Brooklin Wallis, Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for Kitchener Centre in the upcoming snap Ontario Election. This isn’t an endorsement, but a discussion that hopes to prod solarpunk talking points into the realm of politics. Brooklin even describes herself as someone with solarpunk leanings! How does that reconcile with participation in the democratic system in Ontario, Canada? What are her solarpunk goals?

https://youtu.be/0n6kFtb7DuA

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #DirectDemocracy #SolarpunkPolitics #BonusContent @OntarioNDP @ontario #ONDP #NDP #BrooklinWallis #GrassrootsOrganizing #ClimatePolicy #HousingCrisis

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

This startup that I'm a part of wants to change how grassroots organizing happens, funds, and makes a difference.

We have a survey that we'd love you all to fill out if you're interested in making a difference in how the US and the World is run.

https://ourpublicassembly.com/survey/

I fear I will be saying this over and over again in the coming weeks but this is the one and only post I will make.
Many people are hurt, angry, and scared right now. These feelings have their place and are understandable but I ask you all to use these feelings as motivation to get involved in your communities.
Theres alot of work to do regardless of who got voted in and I ask you all to find out how to start.

Upset that a felon is going it be president while felons lose their right to vote?
Look into prisoner justice organizations, learn about prison abolition and restorative justice practices.

Scared about the future of queer people in your life?
Support local queer organizers - learn our history and who to learn from (hint: its bipoc, poor, disabled, and multiply marginalized queer people). Make practical change and stop watering down our politics, histories, and needs to appease liberal politics (they will not pick you, and if they do they will do so in the name of oppressing your people).

Considering fleeing the country for your safety?
Now is the time to look into Immigrant justice organizations and the needs they have. You are considering becoming one, so support the ones currently in your community and in the one you end up in, given you leave.

Feeling hopeless?
Get organized, meet people, learn how real change is made and the ways you can participate. Change doesnt come from election day, it comes every day before and after that.
#uspol #uspolitics #leftist #hopepunk #getinvolved #organizeyourcommunity #grassroots #grassrootsorganizing #uselection #solarpunk

This is a startup that I'm involved with. We're trying to gauge interest in what we're building. Could you take a moment to click through and take the survey?

I'd really appreciate it!

https://ourpublicassembly.com/updates/please-help-us-by-taking-our-interest-survey/

The community food centre: Using relational spaces to transform deep stories and shift public will

Syma Habib

#FoodJustice #FoodSecurity #PovertyReduction #CommunityDevelopment #GrassrootsOrganizing #Decolonization #FoodSystems #Indigenous #Advocacy #PublicWill

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/538

Time to move

Spring is officially here, and it's time to leave the apartment behind and move to the garden for a few months Toes in the grass, here I come!

Downside: I'll be playing some tunes tonight between 20-22 at BumZen, just before @s0ftcorecollective , but my USBs have disappeared in one of the boxes

It's the launch of the radikal.social server - come!

These are bad times for the "Pantsuit Nation x Supermajority" group on #Facebook. I hope that they migrate to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse.

@pantsuitnation
@grassroots
@organizing
@communitybased
@politics
@nptech
#PantsuitNation
#ProgressivePolitics
#USpolitics
#GrassrootsOrganizing
#OnlineCommunity
#OnlineOrganizing
#OnlineActivism
#OnlineAdvocacy
#SocialMedia