#grassroot movements

[zankalony]

Empowering Change: 5 Ways to Positively Impact Your Local Community

Discover the potential of collective effort and learn how to create a lasting impact within your community. Introduction Our communities play a crucial role in shaping our lives, experiences, and well-being. They are the foundation of our support systems and provide us with connections and resources that contribute to our personal growth. As a result, it’s essential to engage in initiatives…

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#civic participation #community collaboration #community development #community engagement #community improvement #community outreach #community resources #community support #dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1897 #grassroot movements #inclusivity and diversity #local businesses #local initiatives #neighborhood events #neighborhood improvement #public spaces #social cohesion #sustainable communities #volunteer opportunities

[etz-ashashiyot]

Friendly reminder that A Land for All is an excellent organization that is still, even now, working to create an equitable resolution to the conflict. Please check them out:

I also strongly recommend reading through their full proposal here.

#i/p #המצב™️ #jumblr #tbh anyone looking for my ''real stance'' (thanks to that anon for that one 🙄) needn't look further than this #it's led by Israelis and Palestinians who are - may I remind you - the ones currently in danger and who have to live with any solution #and personally nothing I or anyone else in the diaspora can come up with will be better than localized grassroots movements #so I prefer to cede the floor to the people with the rockets actually pointed at them 👍 #this also has joint leadership and joint buy-in #and enjoys support from both left and right sides of the political spectrum #which means there's *real* buy-in #I'm sure there will be bumps and rough spots and things that need to be figured out over time #but IY“H Inshallah we will see the day this cooperation wins out

[humanerrers]

with all the breath in my body, with all the hope in my heart, with all the resilience in my spirit

i am standing with them from across the ocean

may they mold this future into being

#i/p #on creating change and not just outrage #on creating change and not just despair #on creating change and not just reactionary defensiveness #standing together is a grassroots movement in i/p working to create the political will for a just future #in this unimaginably dark moment #I am sending them light AND MONEY

[vibinwiththefrogs]

I would really like somehow someway to put my education in agriculture towards a social movement -- in food sovereignty and sustainable systems, and things like that. But honestly I have no clue how to do so. Where I am agriculture is very dominated by more privileged white farmers that can afford technological and chemical solutions to problems, and so conventional ag is the dominant system. Everything I've read thus far makes it sound like the only way to influence that group of people is to establish a farm myself and have them come around eventually by proving I'm not insane (and proving that I make a profit), which would require personal capital that I simply don't have and couldn't get for years (if even, in this economy). There is a city nearby but it doesn't have an urban agriculture movement like a lot of major cities do, as far as I'm aware at least.

Idk, I've been spending a lot of time frustrated at the existing possibilities of what I can do where I am with my degree, that maybe I haven't been thinking and learning outside the box enough. I think I'm going to move towards learning more about grassroots movements and organizations and being a good community member. I feel that might reveal a door I can't see right now.

#rambling #if anyone has resources on community building and grassroots movements i would love u so much #but I'm going to look around myself as well #agriculture #agroecology #food sovereignty #it doesn't help that I'm an introvert but I'm determined to wedge myself in somewhere

[wachinyeya]

How one neighborhood in Colombia is tackling climate change at the community level https://one.npr.org/i/1228839451:1228839452

In Colombia's second-largest city, rainy season floods and dry season fires are now a fact of life. As reporter Jorge Valencia found, local residents are grappling with those and other effects of climate change by taking matters into their own hands.

#climate change #climate solutions #columbia #community organizing #clean water #water treatment #dignity #good news #science #environmentalism #grassroots movements #indigenous people #community activism

[dailyanarchistposts]

#riot #small farms #solarpunk #small farm movement #community building #practical anarchy #practical anarchism #anarchist society #practical #revolution #anarchism #daily posts #communism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #late stage capitalism #organization #grassroots #grass roots #anarchists #libraries #leftism #social issues #economy #economics #climate change #climate crisis #climate #ecology #anarchy works

[junawer]

🔴Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (RNN): — The BDS National Committee's Statement on Armed Resistance Contradicts Our People's Legitimacy in Practicing Resistance and Ignores Consensus

We have followed the stance presented in the statement (https://bdsmovement.net/Supporting-Student-Led-Solidarity-Mobilizations-In-Their-Demands) by the "BDS National Committee" (BNC), (https://web.archive.org/web/20221103111937/https://jisrcollective.com/pages/a-tactic-not-a-trademark.html) issued in English, regarding the required stance on armed resistance by solidarity movements with our people.

We in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reject the call made in the statement and appreciate all the positions, forces, and individuals expressing their support for Palestinian resistance in facing the genocidal and colonial zionist war.

The Front considers that clearly expressing support for our people's right in Gaza does not contradict the call to end the genocide and support resistance in all its forms, including revolutionary armed struggle.

The Front noted that boycott committees spread worldwide, especially in Europe and the Americas, are a broad movement involving all Palestinian institutions, supporters of the Palestinian people, and solidarity committees. They are not linked to the BNC in Ramallah and do not take orders or decisions from it.

The Front emphasized that the justifications of the BNC in Ramallah and its call for silence on armed resistance in Western countries are inaccurate positions and far from reality, because the Palestinian presence and solidarity movements with the Palestinian people are all targeted by the allies of the zionist entity, accused of "anti-Semitism" regardless of whether they adopt this slogan or that.

The Front concluded its statement by noting that attempts by some parties to neutralize the adherence to the slogan of armed resistance weaken the Palestinian national struggle and the legitimacy of armed resistance fighting on the soil of the homeland. It ignores the support and consensus of millions of supporters worldwide for this struggle, method, and slogan. Palestinian armed resistance and resistance factions in the region have become an icon and source of inspiration for all free people globally. The slogan "From the river to the sea… Palestine will be free" has become the central slogan echoed by revolutionaries worldwide.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department May 16, 2024

All Jisr Collective articles: https://web.archive.org/web/20220928215639mp_/https://jisrcollective.com/index.html

#you don't need the bds national committee to do your own bds movement or tell you what to put on your boycott list #trust pflp and rnn and principled grassroots movements #not ngos #the jisr article is quite long but worth the time #palestine #bnc #bds national committee #bds #pflp #jisr collective #it's so insidious how bds/bnc keeps pushing the apartheid narrative which is rejected by nizar banat and others #it even condemned palestine action and then celebrated the win of pal.act without mentioning them lmao anything that works the bnc condemns

[praxis-newsletter]

Please share far and wide.

#Gaza #Palestine #Evacuation #Operation Olive Branch 🫒 #Operation Olive Branch #Grassroots #Grassroots Movement #Movement #Movements #Activism #Resource #Mutual aid #Current events #Palestinian genocide

[andromedasummer]

can one of you f1 girlies become a journalist and interview the drivers who refused to take a knee because they wanted to fight racism in a different way/disagreed with how blm went about seeking justice and ask them, now that nearly 3 years have passed since the may protests, what steps they've taken to educate themselves on racism? what actions they've taken to improve things for people of colour within formula one/motorsports as a whole? or how they've gone about promoting racial equity in their own country?

#f1 #formula one #its been long enough surely they must have made some headway? right? (: ? #no those dumb fucking black and white anti racism videos dont count because their vagueness allowed #for them to be co-opted by white people who believe racism exists and that the whole of blm/equality movements are racist to them #from what ive seen literally only lewis has taken action to set up foundations and research groups focusing #on improving racial diversity at both grassroots and professional levels #others have given lip service but genuinely if another driver has been helpful in fighting racism in motorsports do mention #it would be a very very pleasant surprise #because the whole we race as one movement was very much image control #it was always going to be down to lewis and the other poc in the sport like zhou or yuki to fight against the unique and #insidious racism they face in the sport. ultimately the others won't because while racism is a problem they have #and causes problems for others. they see it as a problem they're not responsible for solving #and im sure most of them genuinely truly dont think theyre racist. dont know how their actions can enforce racism #but lewis has stood there and explained over and over again both behind closed doors and tv screens #and at a certain point that continued refusal to listen or engage becomes active and malicious ignorance #and that makes you racist. whether they believe that of themselves or not.

[thepeopleinpower]

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#free palestine #anti genocide #free gaza #palestine will be free #occupied palestine #boycott for palestine #boycott divest sanction #boycott israel #boycott disney #boycott starbucks #divestment #intersectional activism #grassroots movements #grassroots activism #gaza genocide #jews for palestine #i stand with palestine

[alwaysbewoke]

#ella josephine baker #ella baker #civil rights activist #human rights advocate #grassroots organizing #leadership philosophy #mentorship #student nonviolent coordinating committee (sncc) #w. e. b. du bois #thurgood marshall #a. philip randolph #martin luther king jr. #diane nash #stokely carmichael #bob moses #radical democracy #social justice #racial equality #gender equality #civil rights movement

[dotshaft]

This is pretty indicative of the general sentiment in the notes of that post.

Congrats you've got the same take as anti-vaxxers

#the scientists are corrupt only me and my grassroots movement know the REAL science

[ottogatto]

The Revolution That Is Changing Architecture:

Although it fails to talk about implementing as many green spaces and trees as possible everywhere in cities, I believe it's a complementary solution. And I won't say that classical/traditional architecture is the only solution against "modern" buildings, but we definitely need buildings that feel more alive, not the simplist, concrete, grey, box-shaped buildings we see sprouting everywhere. It's important against the climate crisis and for our mental wellbeing.

#architecture #the aesthetic city #grassroot movement #architecture uprising #green spaces #nature #trees #less grey more green #traditional architecture #climate crisis #green city #Youtube

[beacon-lamp]

hello tumblr user beacon-lamp did i ever tell you you were one of the people to indirectly indoctrinate me into the dsmp to hermitcraft pipeline

hallo tumblr user tabzanite thank you i take great pride in my contribution to the dsmp -> hermitcraft pipeline back in 2020-2021

#tabz #hallo tabz i hope ur having a good week <3 #two years ago i was solo-carrying this pipeline on my back in late 2020 #oh how far we have come #ty for the askkk :) #i was literally just making powerpoints for anyone who would listen after every mcc begging people to go watch hermitcraft #truly a grassroots movement integrating the two fandoms to form a more cohesive mcytblr community #'back in my day hermitblr and dsmpblr were two seperate communities and i Worked to bring people together through hermitcraft propaganda' #'ok grandma lets get you to bed'

[surrealisticduvet]

someone with that kind of intensity

Summary: Paul comes over to John and Yoko's after a rough day during the Get Back sessions and partakes in what has been dubbed the ot3 fetish fic

#kind of a close your eyes and hit post kinda moment #i can't bear to put this in the tag here it'll be a grassroots movement fic asdfjdsgk #it Is the greatest thing i've written. though.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Let us learn from our past struggles, in the USA and in Malaysia. May Day should be an occasion to reflect not jubilate, to engage not agonize, to demand not relent, and to organise, not complain. We need systemic change that can guarantee equality, fraternity, self-management and socialisation of the commonwealth, guided by a bottom–up approach to decision making. We need a labour movement that is multicultural and international, feminist, active in urban and rural struggles, and that prizes reason over superstition, justice over hierarchy, self-management over state power, international solidarity over nationalism. We need to fight for a universal human community, not parochialism and separatism. The organisational power and strategic location of the Malaysian union movement provides an excellent point of departure for building this counter-movement. This is our appeal and message as we celebrate this May Day, on the eve of dark days in which the storm clouds gather over humanity – but in which the light of hope of a better future can break through, if we arm ourselves with the correct ideas and approaches. May Day began as an example of globalisation-from-below. Let us rally to it. Let us take back its original vision: liberty, equality, unity.

May Day, popularly known as international workers day, started with a historic fight for decent working hours that culminated in the execution of four trade unionists in Chicago, United States, in November 1887. This was a decisive moment in the struggle for a just society through militant trade unionism. May Day was globalised from 1889 by the workers’ movement, being held in China from 1919, and in Malaysia from 1921. Today it remains a key day of reference – but its roots and aims are often forgotten.

May Day commemorations can be a platform to harness the power of the working class and poor into a counter-movement for social protection and changed society. Ordinary people worldwide face ecological problems, economic crisis, massive unemployment, low wages, denials of right to freedom of association, vulnerable, informal work and sub-contracting, suffering as immigrants– all in the context of destructive market competition and the rule of self-serving politicians and bosses.

Solutions do not lie in reformed capitalism or in the free market: the problems humanity faces have gotten worse. Capitalism adversely affects working class communities and their livelihoods; states act to enforce these horrors with laws and guns.

In Malaysia, this destruction is manifested in an ecological crisis expressed in disasters such as flooding that displaces tens of thousands, police brutality against picketing workers (like the National Union of Tobacco Industry), and a massive gap between rich and poor, powerful and powerless. Unions need to be central to the fight to win social protection floors, decent conditions and a better future for the Malaysian working family.

This article draws attention to the alternative: the “anarchist” ethos of firstly, building a working and poor people’s counter-culture to unravel the dominant class culture in society; and secondly, building a counter-power from below, that draws its energy from the trade unions and workers, the unemployed, the poor and the peasantry (small farmers), to fight to change the world for the better.

Let us start by looking at what the “Chicago Martyrs” died for – and then at the historical role and the future potential of Malaysian trade unions in the fight for justice and equality.

#Malaysia #May Day #social movements #labor #Malaysian politics #anarchism #resistance #autonomy #revolution #community building #practical anarchism #anarchist society #practical #anarchy #daily posts #communism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #late stage capitalism #organization #grassroots #grass roots #anarchists #libraries #leftism #social issues #economics #anarchy works #environmentalism #environment