In Person Activism
- How to Get Startedall-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io How to Get Started
Like many other anarchists, one of my favorite phrases is "the thing to do is to start" but I don't often suggest a specific thing to begin doing. Of course, you know best what your life and your community needs, what you want to do. But sometimes our imaginations and
- Wanted: Poll workers. Must love democracy.stateline.org Wanted: Poll workers. Must love democracy. • Stateline
This week, a coalition of election officials, businesses, and civic engagement, religious and veterans groups will make a national push to encourage hundreds of thousands of Americans to serve as poll workers in November’s election.
- Why Protest Works—Even When It‘s Unpopularwww.yesmagazine.org Why Protest Works—Even When It‘s Unpopular
High-profile, disruptive protests can lead to increased polarization—but often still yield increased public support for the protest’s goals, even if the tactics are criticized.
- Climate Action Campaign | San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeleswww.climateactioncampaign.org Climate Change Organization | Climate Action Campaign | San Diego
Climate Action Campaign is the leading climate advocacy organization in San Diego and Orange County. Our mission is simple: stop the climate crisis.
- Learning from Organizers – Lorraine Lammediacoop.ca Learning from Organizers – Lorraine Lam
As part of Toronto’s Shelter and Housing Justice Network (SHJN), Lorraine Lam is active in struggles related to housing, homelessness, and poverty. She connects her commitment to social justice to growing up in a church setting, saying, "It was there that I learned a lot of the values around what it...
- Fair Fight: Fighting Voter Suppression & Protecting Voting Rightswww.fairfight.com Fair Fight: Fighting Voter Suppression & Protecting Voting Rights
Fair Fight Action is a Georgia-based non-profit that fights for free and fair elections. We fight against voter suppression, expose anti-voter policies, work to protect and expand voting rights, engage individual voters at a grassroots level, support pro-voter candidates and convene civic engagemen...
- Announcing Project 2025: Resistance Initiativeswww.radical-guide.com Announcing Project 2025: Resistance Initiatives
The launch Project 2025: Resistance Initiatives. This initiative is a direct response to the critical threats posed by Project 2025 to our democracy, individual freedoms, and social justice.
- Beach cleans aren't just good for the sea—they can boost mental health and encourage better behaviorphys.org Beach cleans aren't just good for the sea—they can boost mental health and encourage better behavior
I love exploring the shoreline. I wander along my local Devon beach at least once a week, and my curiosity is naturally pulled to the high water line. I enjoy discovering pretty shells but also the rubbish that the sea has washed in. The colors, shapes and sizes of this human-made waste stand out fr...
- Help in the heat wave: ‘A Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound’ – RANGE Mediarangemedia.co Help in the heat wave: ‘A Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound’ – RANGE Media
Unhoused people have found official support during the Spokane heat wave inadequate, so some have decided to offer support themselves.
> Unhoused people have found official support during heat waves inadequate, so some have decided to offer support themselves.
- Mutual Aid Hubwww.mutualaidhub.org Mutual Aid Hub
Find Mutual Aid Networks and other community self-support projects near you. Join these important efforts, offer resources, or submit needs requests.
- A Short and Incomplete Guide For New Activistsmargaretkilljoy.substack.com A Short and Incomplete Guide For New Activists
or: how to get started by getting started
- Extinction Rebellion announces mass occupation as general election result called, declaring "we need to upgrade our democracy, not just change the government" - [UK]extinctionrebellion.uk Extinction Rebellion announces mass occupation as general election result called, declaring "we need to upgrade our democracy, not just change the government" - Extinction Rebellion UK
Extinction Rebellion has responded to the general election result by inviting people to join Upgrade Democracy - a three day mass occupation of a high-profile location from Friday 30 August to Sunday 1 September. As the result of the UK General Election is declared, our response is clear: it’s the s...
- Feed The Need – DontComply.com [Texas]
Note: Initially linked to Christian Organization with similar program name in Texas, but caught the error and corrected the link.
- The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing voteswww.nature.com The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes
Demonstrations are on the rise, and scientists are revealing which types work best.
- Get Involved | Extinction Rebellionrebellion.global Get Involved | Extinction Rebellion
We need you - whoever you are, however much time you can give - to build a powerful movement and change the path we are on before it's too late.
- Veterans for Peace march to Washington, D.C.www.workers.org Veterans for Peace march to Washington, D.C.
Veterans taking part in an anti-war walk from Maine to Washington, D.C., stopped in Philadelphia on June 14-15. The Peace Walk 2024 began May 7 in Ogunquit, Maine, and will conclude around July 4 or 5 at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. Under the general theme “Silence the Drums of War,” part
- Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charitiesssir.org Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities (SSIR)
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
- Get involved – Just Stop Oil (UK)juststopoil.org Get involved – Just Stop Oil
This is how to get involved. 1. Events 2. training 3. action! 4. Volunteer! 1. Come and join the community Come to a Welcome Talk online or an Event in person. These talks take an unflinching look at the state we’re in, what we’re doing about it and how we will win. Otherwise, you can
- Surveillance Defense for Campus Protestswww.eff.org Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests
The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the...
- Jury finds Just Stop Oil supporters not guilty in petrol pump casejuststopoil.org Jury finds Just Stop Oil supporters not guilty in petrol pump case – Just Stop Oil
In a unanimous verdict delivered today by a jury at Guildford Crown Court, Just Stop Oil supporters Nathan McGovern, Rosa Sharkey, and Louis Hawkins were found not guilty of causing criminal damage exceeding £5,000. [1] During the trial, Judge Sellers ruled that none of the defence’s three arguments...
- Become A Radical Fundraiser - A Radical Guidewww.radical-guide.com Become A Radical Fundraiser
Join the community of a radical fundraisers and help support radical projects worldwide.
- Cyclists rally, calling for safer streets in Scarboroughtoronto.citynews.ca Cyclists rally, calling for safer streets in Scarborough
A staff report set to go before the city's Infrastructure and Environment Committee on Tuesday shows that the completion date projected to be 2027 or later.
- Where does the compost go? A town hall mystery
As composting enthusiasts who want to build a project around compost, we had been intrigued about the waste ever since the council had announced their new bio waste collection program and advertised everywhere for people in town to collect and deliver theirs. They handed out buckets, a few containers appeared in two neighbourhoods, and it had something to do with the sustainable development goals.
But no composting facility anywhere in the council, so we asked around and finally got hold of the right person. Found out the waste is carried a hundred kilometers away to a huge central facility, once a week.
Now we need to find out if they let us do better than that?
- Annual Chaotic-Anarchist Gathering #2 May 30 – June 3, 2024 Hambacher Forest North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
We want anarchy. We want freedom and autonomy for everyone, without domination. We want the overthrow of the existing order. We want social revolution.
This hasn’t changed since the last ACAT gathering. Among other topics, the following was discussed last year: Whether intermediary/specific struggles are still a valid proposal under current conditions and/or if we would need them now more than ever; faced with dystopian conditions, in what way we can intervene in social struggles (and whether we want to); the recuperation of anti-authoritarian struggles by authoritarians (based on the experience of the Appelist takeover on the ZAD in Nantes, France); the digital enclosure and its discontents (based on the case of the comrade Boris in France and the struggle there against the global expansion of the digital open-air prison); the history of the insurrectionary method; war; and patriarchy in its techno-industrial form.
This year we will come together again, to meet each other face to face without screens. In big and small groups, with new faces and old acquaintances, and friends. With the experience from last year, we have decided to limit discussions to three thematic days, with only two prepared discussions each day. (Spontaneous discussions can be proposed and started again all the time).
The themes will be:
- International Solidarity
- Extractivism
- War
The meeting will take place in the Hambacher Forest. Days of discussion will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Arrival days are Wednesday the 29th and Thursday the 30th and departure day is Monday the 3rd of June.
Bring your distros!
There will be food provided. Tents, sleeping bags, and mats have to be brought. Please write us if you don’t want to sleep in a tent, there will be alternatives (which don’t include climbing), but this options will be provided first and foremost to people who need them to be able to participate in the gathering.
For contacting us or if you have any other questions:
acat [äd] supernormal.net find pgp-key here
A detailed program, as well an explanation for how to get there and other info will be published here at the beginning of May
All anarchists, wild hearts, free spirits, subversives, and rebels who recognize themselves in this invitation are welcome.
Nevertheless – and with the experience from last year – we want to add a small disclaimer, for those who should maybe think about if they really want to come:
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People who expect moderated discussions, talking lists, and other social-cybernetic modalities. You can associate yourself under such conditions for small group discussions if you want to do this, but most discussions won’t be like this.
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People who expect an awareness team for a discussion weekend. There won’t be any.
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People who expect partying and drug consumption. There are many possibilities for this all the time, a discussion gathering in a forest is maybe not the space for this.
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People who, when it comes to the question of war, endorse anarchists joining the ranks of (proto-)state formations or want to (morally) pressure anarchists to take the side of this or that state (or even fight for them), please stay away from this gathering.
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- How to diplomatically handle car drivers who use their horns to demand cyclists make room for them
In this case I operate on the assumption car drivers are inherently good people. So when I am cycling in the middle of the lane (when the lane is too narrow for safe sharing), and they are behind me hitting their horn, I give them the benefit of the doubt as to whether they are being a malicious prick.
So I stop the bicycle, get off look around, check my pockets, and if their window is open I ask “did I drop something?” Because surely they would not use their horn to demand that I move to the side so they can pass me unsafely. Surely they are kindly signalling to me that my backpack is open, or that something fell from my bicycle.
Every single time, I never manage to discover that anything was lost or out of place.. but I continue to give drivers the benefit of the doubt every time.
- Climate activists take over 200 Shell billboardswww.bbc.com Climate activists take over 200 Shell billboards
Brandalism targets advertisements promoting the oil giant's sponsorship of British Cycling.
- TANC: Tenant And Neighborhood Councilsbaytanc.com Home » tanc
Tenant and Neighborhood Councils is a member-run autonomous tenant union in the San Francisco Bay Area. We encourage all tenants of private landlords, unhoused people, and public housing residents, to join us in organizing councils. Existing avenues for combating rising rents, slumlord behavior, and...
- How to rent a Kayak for free and help the environmentyt.artemislena.eu Kayaking for the Environment / GreenKayak
Here is my journey to clean up environment using kayaks. I've joined GreenKayak to clean up Copenhagen canal and also to explore the city. It's interesting that the city seems so clean, yet when you in the water you find a lot of rubbish. Green Kayak gives you a kayak absolutely for free for 2 hours...
https://www.greenkayak.org/
