I'm looking for British artists - ideally from marginal backgrounds, including BIPOC, disabled, working class, queer etc, who work on the environment and climate from an activist perspective. If can think of any names (or if that describes you!) please do let me know.
And boost for visibility please - thank you all kindly
When I was in Wellington, New Zealand, I was entranced by their unusual crosswalk icons. I asked my new friends there about them. I was told a story about a drag performer and activist by the name of Carmen Rupe. She was a trans woman who was also Māori (native people of NZ).
"After gathering evidence from the UK, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, UN special rapporteur Michel Forst said the repression faced by peaceful environmental activists was a major threat to #democracy & #humanrights.
"The environmental emergency that we are collectively facing and that scientists have been documenting for decades cannot be addressed if those raising the alarm and demanding action are criminalised for it."
Millions of Texans are suffering from long #COVID and you might be surprised to learn that many of them are young and formerly healthy. Studies show that the more often you get infected, the more likely you are to have lingering, potentially life-changing #health effects.
Look for it in print in @TexasObserver magazine now, and online later this month.
Kanaka Maoli nationalists are extremely controversial.
Anti-Zionists are extremely controversial.
Queer radicals are extremely controversial.
Marxists are extremely controversial.
Corporate media pointedly ignore all of them.
But those media love to cover Jordan Peterson and other reactionary hacks (including neo-Nazis). They don't provide that coverage because the subjects are controversial (see above). It happens because corporate media have an affinity for regressive ideas and a vested class interest in promoting them. By conditioning debate around spectacle, with a cast of smug and unlikable protagonists, reporters and pundits can ignore economic and racial injustice, even as they gesture at disapproval of the provocateurs they cover. (You disapprove of Peterson? Great! Maybe start ignoring him?)
Don't let reporters and pundits absolve themselves of introducing awful people to wide audiences by hiding behind sensationalism. The world has tons of controversial thinkers who are also insightful and compassionate. Arbiters of the newsworthy don't want to cover them. And they wouldn't be allowed to, anyway.
Pay attention to all that is missing from corporate media rather than assessing what they offer. The real story, as always, exists in the systematic absence of certain narratives.
My friend is joining mastodon and needs some accounts to follow. Need some suggestions for accounts that focus on #activism#lgbtq#books#education and just accounts y'all really like!
Public meeting spaces at libraries in almost every major city in #Texas, and many smaller ones, saw 'Brave Books' events this weekend, which promoted this extremist publisher's storybooks under the guise of freedom of speech. The events were supported by Citizens Defending Freedom, aka 'Moms for Liberty in Suits' which is simultaneously seeking to ban 100s of books in #FortWorth.
"Girls aren’t fearless. Girls are terrified. And their activism isn’t naive. It’s not “innocent.” It’s the reasoned result of the stomach-churning awareness that girls can’t count on someone else to save them...
I think there needs to be a better understanding about the difference between “armchair activist,” and “digital activist,” which is often how one side of a war (#Ukraine and #Palestine for example) remain relevant, as people dedicate their time to always making mention of them. I’ve been in the streets, the lobby, the decision/board/campaign room, and in the digital room and every single space is required to fight injustice. #activism
“We don’t live in a country where there is a consensus about what is harmful to children, so how could the government determine what’s appropriate for every kid?”
As a primarily online-based educational #activist focused on areas of #SocialJustice#ClimateJustice, etc, I fear I often sound "whiny" when trying to explain the utter demoralization of digital platforms / social media giants / #Google
After all, isn't the cause more important?
This passage from @pluralistic 's lecture on #enshittification finally put into words what I've been grappling with.
And validates how very vital the fight for an open internet is.
Pro Tip: Organizing spaces should be intergenerational. There should be children and elders around. Nothing good comes from a bunch of 20 - 40 year old's sitting in a room thinking they know everything. Don't operate in an echo-chamber.
Activists are performing flyer drops from parking garages and other structures near the road closures at #sxsw this week to protest the sponsorship of war profiteers.
I'm working on an activism campaign kicking off next week opposing some bad internet bills in the US -- here's the magazine I just set up. Once things get going, we'll be sharing links there including information and actions people can take....
Thoughts on doing activism on kbin or Lemmy?
I'm working on an activism campaign kicking off next week opposing some bad internet bills in the US -- here's the magazine I just set up. Once things get going, we'll be sharing links there including information and actions people can take....