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“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.” — Dalai Lama

#Crisis #ClimateChange #USA #EU #News #Democrats #MAGA #Fascism #Healthcare #Democracy #Security #Greed #Oligarchy #GrassRoots #CivilRights @MaryAustinBooks @benroyce

https://eirenicon.org/take-action-resources-to-fight-for-rights-freedom-and-the-future/

Creating a grass roots movement, organizing people. We've forgotten E Pluribus Unum, the strength of union and community
#WhatNext #DNCFail
#Grassroots #EPluribusUnum
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/26/not-me-us/#the-people-no

#Amtrak #CEO’s Ouster Makes the #Grassroots Fight For #Rail More Urgent

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/25/amtrak-ceos-ouster-makes-the-grassroots-fight-for-rail-more-urgent

From MorePerfectUnion IG. Had to share this as #valeriecosta proves each and everyone of us can make a huge difference. #teslatakedown #TeslaProtests #muskrat #trumpcoup #TrumpFascism #AOC #grassroots #unionstrong #usa2025 #TrumpPurge #trump2

Over 600,000 people in #Washington are #uninsured, and many more are underinsured. Whole Washington is pushing for a single-payer #healthcare system to guarantee everyone access to care.

This year, two bills have the most support, with 11 Senate co-sponsors and 17 in the House. The #grassroots campaign is gaining momentum, especially after COVID revealed healthcare #inequality. The goal is to create a model for nationwide change. But it all depends on public pressure.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inside-the-campaign-to-win-universal-healthcare-in-washington-state/

Sign up for the #TeslaTakeDown Mass Mobilizing Call!

When: Wed 3/19, 8:30pm ET
Register: fftf.link/march19
What: Experts, leaders, #grassroots #protest organizers discuss the campaign & a major day of action!
Who: We’ll be joined by Rep. #JasmineCrockett (TX-D)…but that’s not all!

“Rep. #Crockett isn’t our only special guest…We aren’t supposed to Say Anything just yet, but this call is going to be an Excellent Adventure that you won’t want to miss.”

#Advocacy #Resist @teslatakedown

We're working on the next #Adelaide Solarpunk Newsletter
- What do you want to see in the next edition?
- What could you put in it? We are especially looking for people to try their hand at local community journalism, no experience required, just tell the stories of your community!
- Also looking for local events, success stories, community announcements, and visual or written art

Please reply or message us to get involved!

https://www.newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/the-power-of-the-people-does-not

The #Power of the #People Does Not Reside in #DC
People Power United is a #grassroots group of over 200,000+ members in all 50 states

..."So, how do we fight back?
We organize. We mobilize. We build people's Power in every city and every state. If DC will not stand up for democracy, then we, the people, must. We need 10 million+ people in the streets—protesting, rallying, shutting down business as usual with work stoppages, boycotts, an"...

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

https://runforsomething.net

#grassroots #grasstoorsorg #runforsomething #supportlocal #uspol

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.

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

"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/

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