human_dude's activism @human_dude@activism.openworlds.info

Not mine but sharing this Zine by @radicalresilienc@todon.nl
Caring Movements - Chronic Illness and Activism

They explore questions like:
What attitudes&behaviours towards health&care do we carry over from mainstream culture?
What hinders people with illness from taking part in our movements?
How can we make our movements more inclusive&move towards more of a culture of caring?

https://radicalresilience.noblogs.org/files/2019/09/Caring_Movements_ZIN_web_090419.pdf

Yesterday I was a demo where there were counter-protestors. The racist/fascist counter-protestors at anti-racism demonstrations are known to get violent and some events have even been called off because they were expected to come too.
There wasn't a lot of them and thankfully I didn't even see them. When we left the host told everyone to be sure to walk away in groups, not alone, because they could still be there.

I'm glad it all went well, and I'm really glad I went.

We're organizing a climate march in March in [my city].
It seems like no one has done anything yet, which means one thing, which I'm more and more beginning to realize: It is up to us, to me, up to the young people. If we want it we have to do it ourselves.

This is slightly scary and overwhelming, but also so fucking empowering.
In the end this thing is going to be started and organized by a bunch of weird people in their early twenties.

Went to a meeting about setting up a local Citizen's Assembly. It's not something my group and I can realize any time soon but the idea is amazing. Especially on national scale as long as nations are a thing.

Citizen's Assemblies are the future of democracy, beyond electoral politics.

We hung posters on many bicycle routes into the city centre.
People who rode by really did not care. We even hung at a bus stop where there was a guy who looked at us.

All part of the campaign to spread awareness of the impending climate disasters.

So yesterday I went out to chalk on the ground as a thing against Black Friday. (We also had chalk spray which should stay visible for a while and feels like doing graffiti)
It's not as big as what I see on here all the time. The idea was that the people could not get around climate change and exploitation on that day, and I think a lot of people did see our messages.

Planning to do more things soon.

"The only plans we have are plans for global suicide."

Sometimes I just want to give up, like i'm not quite sure if resistance is futile or fertile.
But not trying isn't going to change anything for sure.
If there's a 1% chance we can make it, I guess we just have to put all of our efforts there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSE5ubpKhg&feature=youtu.be

I wanna thank @VrijeBond and Anarhcistische Groep Nijmegen for this cool guide on #consensus decision making.
I think it's going to help me a lot :)

This is in Dutch, but for anyone working with groups, go learn about consensus decision making and do it!
https://issuu.com/vrijebond/docs/consensus_besluitvorming

I'm thinking of migrating to a more casual chit-chatty instance🤔
Or perhaps make a second account for that on another instance?