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Toronto protests impending death of Sneaky Dee's with graffiti and cartoon dongs
The revived plan to redevelop Toronto's beloved Sneaky Dee's with a condo tower has stirred up strong emotions among the dive bar's loyal patrons. And while some are pleading with City Hall and organizing grassroots campaigns to halt the planned change, others are letting their anger boil over for all to see.An application fi...
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2026/06/toronto-protests-death-sneaky-dees/

HoosLeft w/ Scott Aaron Rogers 1d ago

Indiana's grassroots are (slowly) coming together to push back against the TOXIC capitalist oligarchs who've been funding both parties. Those officials funded by big money will not save us - so WE must save ourselves!

#IndianaPolitics #Grassroots #FightTheOlgicarchy

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christen 💻 🎨📍 san francisco 1d ago

the only way to prevent co-optation is for our orgs to be #grassroots & #marxist. our analysis is one of few things moneyed interests can't co-opt.

if you're a creative person that's a part of this discussion on signal, discord, or somewhere on the fediverse, dm me -- i'd like to join 👀 #ai #socialism #scientificsocialism

Wendy 3d ago

Five gardeners and a soldier, all on one Tuesday. This is what we do here — we open the wound, then we tend it, and no billionaire owns a single syllable of it. This thing runs entirely on the people who chip in. If today's words held you up, if they dropped your shoulders a half-inch you didn't authorize, click one of our advertisers before you close the tab. That tap costs you nothing and it keeps the lights on here. It isn't transactional — it's mutual aid, root to root through soil that feeds you anyway. Hold us up back.
https://twp.ai/4hsAkU
#MutualAid #IndependentMedia #SupportWriters #Substack #Community #Solidarity #Resistance #Newsletter #Journalism #Queer #Care #Grassroots

Ms. Que Banh 3d ago

Picking up more paint/markers to make new #StopBillC22 #Canada #protest signs.
I'll be waving them at highway overpasses around South #VancouverIsland ✊️✌️❤️

#TakeInitiative #DoSomething #BCpoli #CDNPoli #TakeAction #Grassroots #FuckTheGovernment #GovernmentOverreach #Demoncracy #NoDemocracy #Dissent #RiseUp

witchescauldron 4d ago

Assumption: the world is fucked.

The “fluffy” path, in general, is not changing or challenging the systems driving this mess. Too often it ends up managing decline, softening the language, or directly selling us out while pretending to help.

Proposal: do something that actually challenges power.

Cooperation does not have to be neat, managerial, or centrally controlled. Healthy grassroots organising is often messy as well as orderly, and that mess can be a strength rather than a weakness.

We need living processes, not polished branding exercises. I’ve already posted many links on the messy #OGB governance project as one practical example of this path.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #grassroots

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witchescauldron 5d ago

@gert @mrg

In what context?

This is what a #OMN is a collection of nodes, think of a #openweb #grassroots #DIY atavism fiendly Fediverse that was much less focused on copying #dotcons in ethical'ish ways... it's a very simple and #nothingnew path.

#OMN (Open Media Network)5d ago

Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess

This story is about the ideology that won. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, two politicians on either side of the Atlantic didn’t only win elections, they reshaped what people came to accept as “common sense.” Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States did not invent capitalism’s worst tendencies, but they gave them state power, institutional infrastructure, and ideological legitimacy. What they built was not simply a set of policies, it was a social […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/thatcher-reagan-were-the-wrecking-crew-how-we-pushed-the-current-mess/

Iron Man Records May 28

Bewdley's Becky Hill hails role of grassroots venues ahead of Worcester show https://buff.ly/alr8Rr0 #music #musicians #grassroots

Martin Kubler 🎲 Ⓐ 🏴 Ⓥ May 27

Historically, even modest challenges to hierarchy have often been treated as dangerous ideas.

My latest post explores the overlap between anarchism and Quakerism beyond the stereotypes: consensus, participation, conscience, mutual aid, and distrust of concentrated power.

New post: https://www.martinkubler.com/hierarchy-conscience-participation/

#Anarchism #Quakers #Consensus #Grassroots #SocialJustice #PoliticalThought #MutualAid #FriendsOnTheFediverse

Hierarchy, conscience, and the politics of participation

Most people hear the word anarchism and picture chaos: burning cars, black masks, and violence without direction.\\ Most people hear Quakerism and picture s...

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