#italy #israel #palestine : #gaza / #genocide / #culture / #art / #biennale / #protest / #collectiveaction

»“The sound of drones is so heavy and present on a daily basis in Gaza,” artist C. Caycedo told ARTnews after the action. The song and the humming were meant “to bring to the Biennale a little bit of the reality that people in Gaza suffer every day, and resist every day.”

Another artist-participant (…) told (…) “The Biennale is normalizing …

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-main-show-artists-protest-israel-pavilion-1234783975/

Good Idea: Think about whats next

https://storytelling.greenpeace.org/story/2189/five-lessons-for-imagining-the-future/

Critique and dismantling are necessary but not sufficient. At some point movements need to switch from identifying what is wrong to actually picturing what comes next -- and that turns out to be a skill most people have not practiced. Five practical principles from workshops run with 50+ activists and community leaders:

1. Imagine without self-imposed limits. Change that seemed impossible has happened within years, sometimes weeks. Do not pre-censor ideas by how realistic they feel.
2. Imagine with others. Collective visioning produces more resilient ideas than individual ones, and builds the relationships that make action possible.
3. Create psychologically safe spaces for new ideas. Incomplete and imperfect ideas need room to exist before they can be refined. Ridicule kills them early.
4. Practice regularly. Imagination is a muscle. Draw, write, say things out loud. The goal is consistency, not a perfect manifesto on the first try.
5. Act with intention. The future is not fixed. Speaking up about a different possibility is itself an act that gives others permission to do the same.

Thanks to our friends @activacy

#CollectiveAction #SystemsChange #Activism #Community #Imagination #Building #Futures #solarpunk

RE: https://aus.social/@maudenificent/116497054975696244

'Hundreds of workers walked off the job together.
The movement would swell to 800 at its height, and they would not return for three years. It remains the longest strike in Australian history'

#ausPol #history #collectiveAction #union #strike

Time for the next #DIday the first Sunday of every month. See the German events here: https://events.diday.org/ (Mobilizon)

Meanwhile you can check the switch recipes: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes and find yourself a decent challenge for the coming month.

If you help people to join the fedi, here's Everything to join the #Fediverse nicely listed and linked, https://linksta.cc/@jointhefediverse

#DigitalAutonomy #VamonosJuntas #CollectiveAction

Happy Earth Day, Earthlings!

Today is Earth Day. If you were born before 1965 or so, you probably remember a time when there was no such thing. It was a time of smoky bars, trash littering the roadsides, choking smog, and Superfund sites masquerading as playgrounds, among other things. Rivers regularly caught on fire.

The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969

“The river was a scary little thing,” Donovan says. “There was a general rule that if you fell in, God forbid, you would go immediately to the hospital.”

And then publicity turned what was just the latest in a long line of “oops, the water’s on fire” stories into the seed of a new movement. The first Earth Day took place in 1970. The Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970. The idea that maybe we didn’t have to live in a toxic stew of pollution and dangerous chemicals slowly began to take hold. Crazy, I know!

Are there still plenty of places we could improve? Of course. But we’ve come a long way, and our successes are proof that we can take the next step, and the next. 

Today, and every day. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOg-9d2WAw

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It's time to create our Solarpunk reality 🌱

#CollectiveAction #SolarPunk #kanaskis