Activism in the Shadow of Cognitive Biases and Confirmation Bias
Discover how cognitive biases and confirmation bias affect social activism. This article sheds light on the challenges faced by activists in the digital age, analyzing the case of Adam Pustelnik and emphasizing the importance of accurate information interpretation in the fight against disinformation.
Public Participation
The Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs empower people with the rights to access information, participate in decision-making in environmental matters and to seek justice. They are the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy.
>> https://unece.org/environmental-policy-1/public-participation
At the April 29 protest at #UTAustin, I witnessed the police wheeling a zip-tied arrestee in a office chair. The police apparently smacked his head while dragging him out of the encampment:
> The blanket suspension of student protesters casts “serious doubt on the University’s respect for the rule-of-law values that we teach,” 54 law professors wrote.
My friend and fellow Implement of Destruction @connor_dylan put together a really solid piece of reporting around the Georgia bail fund criminalization bill, its origins, its failings, and what you can do about it. This is great community journalism coming out of New Ellijay TV.
Has anyone come across a Google doc/list of all the #vc firms that are buying single family homes in the US and ruining the current and future #housing market for literally everyone? Asking for a friend...
I doubt there's a google list. You'd have to subscribe to the state (or county) PVA and do a search by name for owners of properties and sort the list to see who owns the most. The subscriptions are not free, btw. And that's a sh!tload of counties to subscribe to...
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.
@thepoliticalcat - I mean the post isn't about you hanging out with kids. The post is about not excluding people from organising spaces because of their age.
The idea that youth are inherently dangerous to older folks is harmful. Any of the things you describe can be an issue with being around anyone of any age.
For those if you with an interest in transnational activism (and prepared to delve through academic research), here's an interesting piece exploring how Tax Justice Network have become a significant player in global tax affairs.
Len Seabrooke & Duncan Wigan suggest TJN began by using 'identity switching' to build others' confidence in their work/analysis before then moving to 'identity fixing' to consolidate that reputation, once built, over time.
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