I want other young people to understand that if the extent of your radical action is posting “eat the rich!” on social media and waiting for somebody to tell you a revolution has started, nothing will change and you’ll get arrested in the Third Red Scare and that’ll be it
And most importantly, joinradical groups in your area. Strength is found in numbers and none of us can change the world alone. If you need help finding your local movement, DM me and I’ll look around for you so you can start getting stuff done
Feed the people. People can’t–won’t– strike, protest, go against the bosses, sit in, down, or out, show up for community actions, marches or any other damn thing, and they won’t put thier jobs or homes or freedom or ability to feed and house thier kids in jepoardy unless you can answer the question “How are we going to eat?”
You’ve got to have an alternative. People need to eat and live and meet thier needs and the needs of the people they are responsible for. People have to come together and get each other taken care of and fed. Otherwise the only people who show up are the ones who can afford to. And since the group of people who both have resources-time, emotional, financial, transportation, etc and want to show up and change the system–is fairly small, and not growing fast…. That’s not enough people for a revolution.
Learn consensus. Build community with people. Talk to the humans around you and figure out what they need and how to organize people to meet that need. People aren’t going to show up and be told what they need. If you–if we–want a different system, we have to show up and show–not tell-people how they can meet each other’s needs.
and if your sole contribution is gatekeeping and infighting, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. turn outward. look for opportunities to help. DO SOME WORK.
“Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other[1] come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.[citation needed]
Unlike those who promote more-consensual community building, community organizers generally assume that social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in order to generate collective power for the powerless. Community organizing has as a core goal the generation of durablepower for an organization representing the community, allowing it to influence key decision-makers on a range of issues over time. In the ideal, for example, this can get community-organizing groups a place at the table before important decisions are made.[2] Community organizers work with and develop new local leaders, facilitating coalitions and assisting in the development of campaigns.”
“Community building is a field of practices directed toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a regional area (such as a neighborhood) or with a common interest. It is sometimes encompassed under the field of community development.
A wide variety of practices can be utilized for community building, ranging from simple events like potlucks and small book clubs, to larger–scale efforts such as mass festivals and building construction projects that involve local participants rather than outside contractors.
Activists engaged in community building efforts in industrialized nations see the apparent loss of community in these societies as a key cause of social disintegration and the emergence of many harmful behaviors. They may see building community as a means to increase social justice, individual well-being and reduce negative impacts of otherwise disconnected individuals.”
Community-building and the Environment
“Community building efforts organize around toxic waste, environmental health, and environmental justice. Prior emphases on conservation, preservation, endangered species, rainforest destruction, ozone depletion, and other national global concerns often had no salience for local communities, and such emphases kept the environmental movement a largely middle class and upper middle class movement. (Brown) Groups may be as influential as the United Nations [10] or as small and local as neighborhoods. The Natural Resources Defense Council lists many publicly organized community-building groups created to decrease the ecological footprint and reduce the environmental impact that humans have.[11]”
These wiki are not exhaustive, just a starting point.
“Our short-term goals are to get folks home for the holidays”
• There are more African American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations in India, Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Finland, Israel and England, combined.
• Ziegler, a PhD recipient now based in Oakland, explains that a July tweet proposing the app idea gained traction, inspiring him to pursue the concept in a real way.
• While Appolition.us is another towering extension of Ziegler’s contributions towards aiding marginalized people, he knows it’s a small step towards bringing light and hope to the trying effects mass incarceration presents.
I need to quit my job ASAP - I am in constant danger in my workplace
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I’m Arie I guess and in the 5 months that I’ve been working retail in one of the busiest locations in town, I’ve experienced so much sexual harassment & many actual assaults. Last month, there were 4 major incidents (one that resulted in an arrest on the property, which my workplace is taking to court) within 2 weeks. You can read more about my experiences in this link (CW for harassment & assault, as well as stalking).
Besides being very afraid and piling new trauma on top of my cptsd, the work itself has become detrimental to my physical health on account of my disability.
Tldr: I experience constant sexual harassment at work, I am unsafe every day that I work, and my job is detrimental to my mental & physical disabilities. I need help getting a laptop both to learn things I need to qualify for a safer, healthier job, and to actually be able to apply for jobs.
To be extra clear, I need help to be able to do it in the shortest amount of time possible, not for it to be bought for me!
My goal is $200, I’ll stop accepting donations if I get more than $300. I can manage the rest.
I am not accepting donations of more than $10, for guilt reasons, they will be sent back.
You can buy tarot or astrology readings, both of which I’ve been doing for a long time (link to astrology blog), they won’t be expensive. I can also make astrology moodboards/aesthetics. Please note I can only take on a few projects at a time.
The holidays sucked me dry of money and, now that I’m back in my apartment, I barely have anything to eat now! I could REALLY use some help living in 2019! Commissions are always open, I sell adopts and ychs, and I have a patreon if you’d like to support me full time! I’ll be posting there soon so keep an eye out.
Please please PLEASE help me out! If it’s any consolation, I’m a gay/trans disabled man who works minimum wage! I really do need the help!!
When white lgbt people try to draw parallels between the n word and queer, they expose how little they know about Black culture and Black political thought. Yes Black people have reclaimed the n word but that wasn’t some unanimous decision there’s still fierce debate about its usage that isn’t cleanly cut along class, gender, age, sexuality. There are many overlapping experiences that shape how when and why an indivual Black person would use the n word. This means that people could come from the same neighborhood have similar backgrounds and come to two wildly different relationships with that word.
There’s been Black People who say “I don’t like to use it to describe myself or others” and then I don’t say it to or around them out of respect. Y’all can’t seem to do that at all. White people just stop invoking Black people and our shit when it’s clear you most intimate interaction with a Black person was asking that one Black girl in class if you could borrow a pencil.
im really honestly sick of every slur being compared to the n-word because it really REALLY is so specific and unique in its reclamation and history and culture surrounding it. its really wild bc white lgbt use it as a basis for lgbt slur usage without knowing anything about it, but i also see the same thing with nonblack ppl and the way they try to interact with their racial slurs and twist it into being the n word 2 point oh.
i mean i remember having class room debates almost EVERY month in my (almost entirely) black school about whether white people should say it and about whether black people should say it and about whether its degrading or empowering. and its STILL a conversation being had over and over again so its so funny that ppl would try and say “arguing abt the q-slur is dumb bc nobody would do that abt the n word” because CLEARLY they never had to sit next to an old head at the bus stop lecture them about how young ppl are going to jail and being shot bc they say nigger too much.
im just really sick of everything being compared to it bc legitimately i dont think any slur has had the same usage/reclamation/cutural impact so im not sure why ppl decided to use it as the basis for all slur discourse
Why have even more porn blogs followed me this website is so …
