#Foraging #animals often steal from each other. Here, Gupte et al. show in an eco-evolutionary model how such #kleptoparasitism affects #movementStrategy #evolution and resource-exploitation patterns!
Now available on the ahead of print page: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725394
I'm re-reading Maurice Mitchell, in the wake of yet another organization making most of the mistakes he writes about:
"Arguing for doing away with political vehicles without offering a viable replacement demonstrates a lack of a power analysis. The most organized forces can leverage crisis, so how can our movements win in moments of crisis if we relinquish our organized vehicles?…what does it mean to unilaterally disarm?"
https://forgeorganizing.org/article/building-resilient-organizations
4. Accordingly, movement voices should be sure that their current focus stays on what students and other outraged Tennesseans can do *RIGHT NOW* with their anger, energy, and passion. With their bodies and their time.
Which above all is steal the stage provided by the TN Capitol and other politicians' spaces in #Tennessee.
#MovementStrategy #NashvilleWalkout
3. It will be a long time before there is another legislative election in Tennessee — November 2024. And a key constituency in this fight, high school students, largely cannot vote.
Like Civil Rights protesters, their power is not primarily electoral, but the power to shame, disrupt, catalyze, and electrify others.
Soft launching a new social impact film & strategy company with amazing collaborators THE UNQUIET COLLECTIVE!
We are hosting Unquiet90 sessions in early 2023;
A 90 minute group zoom call for filmmakers, artists, writers and podcasters to ask the Unquiet Collective anything about impact producing, distribution strategy, media strategy, duty of care, collaborative filmmaking and more.
The agenda will be defined by participants' needs and can cover impact producing 101, partnership building, non-theatrical distribution, impact revenue possibilities, education materials and release strategy and will be based on a range of case studies from our archives.
We will leave significant time to respond to your much welcomed curly and curious questions which we believe everyone can benefit from hearing the answers to!
This is also a chance to meet and connect with others interested in impact producing and social justice media, art and film projects.
https://unquiet.com.au/unquiet90
We offer two solidarity tickets per session to First Nations and low income filmmakers, please email us directly to book these. [email protected]
#SocialImpact #Documentary #ImpactProducing #MovementStrategy #ChangeMaking
American Naturalist
Anirvan Chatterjee
Carwil Bjork-James
Alex Kelly