@Akwe

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I’m Akwe Amosu, part of a project, the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights (@strengthandsolidarity) that supports human rights leaders to do more powerful work. I host a podcast here: https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/. Also poet.
AkweDec 1, 2022
Maurice Mitchell calls this essay "a love letter to organising." It's a call to understand the nature of what divides activists and weakens groups who need to build power together. You may find things to disagree with but it's a vital and urgent conversation for activists, and for organisations and movements fighting for rights and justice. Appearing simultaneously in The Forge, Convergence and Non Profit Quarterly. https://convergencemag.com/articles/building-resilient-organizations-toward-joy-and-durable-power-in-a-time-of-crisis/
#humanrights #organizing #socialmovements
Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis

To effectively contend with racist, authoritarian forces, our work must be as powerful as possible. Maurice Mitchell unpacks the problems our organizations and movements face…

Convergence
AkweNov 30, 2022
iDPINov 30, 2022

Why do social movements organizing online that spawn huge protests so rarely create radical change like movements of the past? Gal Beckerman argues that it's all about The Quiet Before, a sustained discourse where activists can organize and deliberate about how to enact the change they want to see. This week on Reimagining, @[email protected] and Gal walk us through Gal's new book about the history of radical movements.

https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/gal-beckerman-the-quiet-before/

65 This One Weird Trick for a Changing Society with Gal Beckerman - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure

Why do social movements organizing online that spawn huge protests so rarely create radical change like movements of the past? Gal Beckerman argues that it's all about The Quiet Before, a sustained discourse where activists can organize and deliberate about how to enact the change they want to see. This week on Reimagining, Gal walks us through his new book, a history of radical movements.

Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
AkweNov 30, 2022
Marta PardaviNov 30, 2022
RT @RechargeRARE
#ourRAREpeople are cheering all women #humanrightsdefenders today on the International Day for Women Human Rights Defenders 💪
AkweNov 30, 2022
bhalomanushNov 30, 2022

Today is a day to reread a favorite #Tranströmer poem.

#poetry

AkweNov 28, 2022
Global VoicesNov 28, 2022
Undertones: Twitter is a double-edged sword for the Global South
https://globalvoices.org/2022/11/28/undertones-twitter-is-a-double-edged-sword-for-the-global-south/
Undertones: Twitter is a double-edged sword for the Global South

Twitter’s slow or sudden collapse may particularly hit countries with high levels of censorship, disinformation, and political instability.

Global Voices
AkweNov 27, 2022
Conrad Hackett Nov 26, 2022

US: About a third of Black adults (32%) say they worry every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/20/safety-concerns-were-top-of-mind-for-many-black-americans-before-buffalo-shooting/ #PewResearch #BlackMastodon @sociology @politicalscience

Safety concerns were top of mind for many Black Americans before Buffalo shooting

32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.

Pew Research Center
AkweNov 25, 2022
Vicki ZieglerNov 24, 2022

"Convenience stores in Mountain Time
save scowls of the old west for strangers.
It's a little boring; the Stephen King towns are all alike.
I don't know how these ones will end,
but we've seen *Poltergeist*."

#TodaysPoem #poetry #VerseThursday
Settlers' Effects by Tolu Oloruntoba (@tolu) from The Junta of Happenstance (2021 Palimpsest Press) https://bit.ly/3mqBqKl

THE JUNTA OF HAPPENSTANCE, Tolu Oloruntoba - Palimpsest Press

Winner 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner 2021 Governor General Literary Award for Poetry Buy The Junta of Happenstance now

Palimpsest Press
AkweNov 22, 2022
SiNov 8, 2022

This literature clock is the most wonderful thing I’ve seen in a long time. Checking the time becomes a moment of pure joy 😍

https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com

Literature Clock

AkweNov 21, 2022
Health Justice Initiative -HJINov 21, 2022

We are the Health Justice Initiative.

#a2m #healthjustice #medicineaccess #IP #TRIPS #vaccineEquity #a2medicines

www.healthjusticeinitiative.org.za

AkweNov 21, 2022
_convergencemagNov 20, 2022

How can we stop an authoritarian takeover in the US?

@ericachenoweth and Zoe Marks talk with Convergence editor Marcy Rein in a new interview co-published with our friends at the Forge.

https://convergencemag.com/articles/organizing-against-autocracy-in-the-us-erica-chenoweth-and-zoe-marks/

Organizing Against Autocracy in the US: Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks

Authoritarian takeover in the US is not inevitable—but preventing it will require imagination, commitment, and a united democratic alliance like we haven’t experienced before.

Convergence