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Search for a candidate (or two, or ten!) that inspires you and get involved with their campaign.

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#grassroots #grasstoorsorg #runforsomething #supportlocal #uspol

Amplify the message and spread this video. This is what the people want. Stand up. #buildtheresistance #impeachment #grassroots #algreen #goodtrouble #activism #standup #community #humanrights #amplify

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mqqonqjti5xtlvs76y2zjgok/post/3lhh7goi3rs2t

Looking for a way to creatively support queer/trans youth in the south? take a look at https://qords.org/!

We are a week-long radical sleep-away music camp for queer/trans youth ages 13-17 in #NorthCarolina!

Campers get to experience building queer community with peers & elders, & have a week to create a song(s) & perform it at the end-of-camp showcase! In between that, there are many workshops & fun activities!

We have a COVID-19 policy; with multiple testing sessions throughout camp, & mask requirements at various periods. (We are also reworking it so more can safely enjoy camp!)

There are plenty of ways to contribute, including...

-volunteering (we are especially looking out for nurses this year!)
-doing a workshop (examples we've had: zine-making, voice-training, local ecology, self-defense, & more!)
-spreading the word
-donating funds, supplies, or materials

We will be dropping camper & volunteer applications soon, so please follow us to stay updated. Or email us (in our bio) for any questions.

Put it in your diary:
#UBI4ME monthly community get together next Tuesday

Join us online
https://meet.jit.si/UBI4ME_Community_Event_March_2025
Tuesday, 4th March 2025
16:00 UTC (https://mytime.io/4pm/UTC)

Get to know our team and our vision and share your ideas around #UBI

For the past month, I’ve watched in horror the unrelenting attacks on science and scientific institutions in the US: grants frozen, databases deleted, basic words banned, decades of progress undone overnight. And while the US is by far an extreme case, research budgets in other countries are also being reduced (or they weren’t that high to begin with). Plus, the rise of far-right extremism seems to be happening almost everywhere.

But what I’ve also seen during this time are incredible community efforts to back up data, to build decentralized infrastructure, to push back against these attacks wherever possible. And in the context of human health, it got me thinking: medical research already neglects portions of the population, so if traditional institutions won’t prioritize our health anyway, why don’t we?

What if we built a decentralized, citizen-driven research initiative, an open-source database to track and analyze health data from diverse populations across borders? A kind of bootleg science, resilient against institutional neglect and political suppression.

This is a very unbaked, maybe desperate and idealistic thought more than a plan. I have no clue where to start from, or if something similar already exists. But I’d love to hear what people think. Does this sound stupid/impossible/doable? All of the above?

Friday when #Zelenskyy is here I can wear and wave a #ukraine flag and a #nato flag too.

I can go a day without leaving the farm and buy nothing on #Feb28

I can #standupforscience on 7 march

These are only beginnings not the end

Not once and done

beginning of resistance, growing into #bottomUp #grassroots #community weaving

The #tuskShutdown is not about efficiency
A primitive squawk-meter for #trump, saving nothing destroying a lot.
Terrorizing people far from dc.

Gdy pierwszoplanowe postacie Partii Demokratycznej w USA nagle zniknęły, nie widać przywództwa, Bernie Sanders jeździ po "czerwonych stanach" ze swoją opowieścią o potrzebie zatrzymania oligarchii i autorytaryzmu. I ludzie przychodzą na spotkania, bo nikt inny nie daje nadziei w tych trudnych dla nich czasach. Bernie wyrasta na lidera, mobilizuje jak zwykle ludzi #grassroots

Czytam komentarze o nim: "Tak, miał trochę racji we wszystkim przez cały czas..."
"Sanders był zbawieniem USA, ale my / oni (głównie DNC) całkowicie to spieprzyliśmy."

Cóż, jak trwoga, to do socjalisty bo liberałom jest niewygodnie teraz reagować...

FYI: Sanders nie należy do Partii. Jest niezależnym kongresmenem. Współpracuje z Demokratami od dawna. Ma 83 lata.

YouTube [EN]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3_ZwzXvgQ

Invidious [EN]
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=SD3_ZwzXvgQ

While Peter Dutton wines and dines his wealthy donors, ordinary Australians are struggling with rising rents, soaring bills, and a cost-of-living crisis. #remahformoreton #costofliving #peopleoverprofits #keepduttonout #grassroots #australianpolitics

How to #Organize Our Way Out of the #Trump #Musk #Putsch A plan to harness #grassroots energy—and to hold #Democratic leaders #accountable https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-to-organize-our-way-out-of-the-trump-musk-putsch/ #politics #government #congress #democracy

Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy

"It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.

Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025

"After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'

"'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.

"'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.

"The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.

"Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.

"#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.

"'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-donald-trump
#Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism

#hospital of #climatechange is #hospital of #grassroots.

"Folks can gain #knowledge, #hope, and #inspiration from lots of prior democracy and/or anti-colonial movements."

Rebecca Solnit in conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth about the power of people in dark times: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-nature-of-our-power-a-conversation-with-political-scientist-erica-chenoweth/

Chenoweth is leader of the Nonviolent Action Lab https://ash.harvard.edu/programs/nonviolent-action-lab/

If you want to help stop these fascists, but don't know where to start, @indivisibleteam has a great guide that breaks it all down clearly and simply

First and foremost, link up with a local group, there's a huge directory on their website, with groups in literally every state

Then it's all about strategic interventions to set us up to take back #Congress in 2026

https://indivisible.org/resource/guide?emci=717a7bc5-98f0-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=59377594-a6f0-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=1540655

Anyone over on #BlueSky who is following #50501Movement - can you please ask them to bridge their account to Mastodon so we can follow them as well!

Their handle is - @50501movement.bsky.social

Here's the direct link - https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social

Thank you in advance! Just trying to boost the #grassroots organizing going on over here!

Propaganda By #Democrats Is Still #Propaganda: The #Massachusetts #left cannot build a new #grassroots #movement for #democracy based on #blue falsehoods and misdirections. The latest Apparent Horizon column from @jasonpramas. https://horizonmass.news/2025/02/20/propaganda-by-democrats-is-still-propaganda/ #USAID #politics #analysis

"How can we foster emotional resilience in the face of ecological overshoot and the death of modernity? What role do art and storytelling play alongside science and data in responding to our collective human predicament? And how can we strengthen our communities and plant the seeds for a different way of life, starting in our own small corners of the world?"

Podcast: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-02-14/dougald-hine-reimagining-the-cultural-narrative-art-and-storytelling-for-systemic-change/