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Yes, I really hope we can build a long term movement.

We should look at the occupy movements and learn from that.

They came out extremely strong, lasted a bit, but then fizzled out. One of the main organizers wrote a book about lessons for future protest movements. The end of protest: a new playbook for revolution.

Also something inspiring about occupy is how they became a hurricane relief organization during hurricane Sandy. (Occupy Sandy).

We can learn from that too. What could make a movemrnt stronger in the age of climate change than to double as a mutual aid network for disaster relief? This could give the movement a sort of reason to exist for a longer duration, even if passions fizzle out at some point (which happens), the network could spring back into action each time a natural disaster strikes.

This sort of long term organizing is what is needed. Not a protest, but the fornation of a network dedicated to attacking the problem persistently over time, as well as assisting those endangered by its effects.

If we could become an organization that had representation in every city, those cells of people could be used to forward local transition strategies. And so on.

It could be so much more than a single protest.

I hope we can build something like that.

Jane Mayer, <em>Dark Money</em>

Nancy MacLean, <em>Democracy in Chains</em>

This is well-documented and reported. Please do some reading, specifically on John Olin and the Koch Brothers and James Buchanan and the neoliberal Mont Pelerin Society hostile takeover of higher education and public discourse in general. Even the Tea Party was astroturfed.

Yes, I really hope we can build a long term movement.

We should look at the occupy movements and learn from that.

They came out extremely strong, lasted a bit, but then fizzled out. One of the main organizers wrote a book about lessons for future protest movements. The end of protest: a new playbook for revolution.

Also something inspiring about occupy is how they became a hurricane relief organization during hurricane Sandy. (Occupy Sandy).

We can learn from that too. What could make a movemrnt stronger in the age of climate change than to double as a mutual aid network for disaster relief? This could give the movement a sort of reason to exist for a longer duration, even if passions fizzle out at some point (which happens), the network could spring back into action each time a natural disaster strikes.

This sort of long term organizing is what is needed. Not a protest, but the fornation of a network dedicated to attacking the problem persistently over time, as well as assisting those endangered by its effects.

If we could become an organization that had representation in every city, those cells of people could be used to forward local transition strategies. And so on.

It could be so much more than a single protest.

I hope we can build something like that.

I went fully vegetarian (mostly vegan apart from around 150g cheese per week), joined a local activist group, think about how to incorporate the topic into my unrelated thesis, actively avoid buying plastics and other packaging, more mindful useage of heating and ventilating. And I switched to Ecosia as my primary search engine. Works just as well.

I don't use cars, otherwise I would seek alternatives.

While I think these are good steps to take to increase our credibility, I don't see them as that important. It makes a small dent in the big picture.

But since we have so much to do and yet so little time, every single step helps. In itself and in spreading awareness, in supporting alternatives and so on.

Things everyone can do on a personal level to mitigate climate change:

• don't get children
• don't fly
• don't drive a car
• eat plant based

Nope, it’s worldwide. I’m trying to have as much coverage as possible. Good idea about Android - I don’t have a central website or anything so it’s hard to link to both in the same post. Anyway, right here is the Android app. ��

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link - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q8C9K2F

Yeah totally agreed.

XR is holding a couple local coordinator briefings online. I'm signed up for one - if you're passionate about this you should too. ES isn't organized on the local level yet, so if you help set up a local XR chapter and advocate for a Strike on September 27th you are...basically an ES local chapter.

They aren't different movements, there's agreement on the goals and the means to get there - so might as well grab the help they are giving.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/147f4d82abdf2852d746f627e8486654?link_id=2&amp;can_id=8e58bd027b5732471a32e69465837f83&amp;source=email-xr-us-updates&amp;email_referrer=email_459200&amp;email_subject=xr-us-updates

I ate dinner with Erica Chenoweth as a PoliSci undergrad, if she’s an establishment shill I’d be flabbergasted, everything about her screamed to me that she is an authentic researcher and a deeply committed political activist. I also went through their analyses in their groundbreaking book, and found their methodology was extremely robust and the data they collected was exhaustive. Erica and Maria are very well-respected in the field of conflict studies, too.

I haven’t found any type of reasonable scientific analysis going on in anarchist, communist, or antifa groups that shows that violence is more effective at achieving social change than non-violence, just weak counteraguments based in conspiracy theory, shifting goal posts, and attacking the legitimacy of authorities and experts. The real authority is the scientific method, and the book is conclusive in proving the power of non-violence through data. Violence can feel like it conveys power and control to a certain type of person, but it doesn’t actually, it tends to sabotage popular movements for social progress.