Kind: Notes

Attended a webinar discussion with Grassroots Liberation this afternoon

they’re a network of social/ecological justice centres organising in the informal settlements in Nairobi. Working for collective power and economy from below in the face of broken healthcare, education systems, unemployment, police violence, disappearances, extrajudicial killings, state apathy and NGOism. Inspired by democratic confederalism and organising in Rojava.

international solidarity here
https://www.gofundme.com/f/grassroots-liberation-project

Off to the #parkrun #parkwalk

Community-based, volunteer organised, local 5k run or jog or walk every Saturday morning. They’re all over the world.

https://www.parkrun.org.uk/

Read this article: [[First and Third World Ecosocialisms]].

Looks at some recent debate around ecosocialism. Specifically Matt Huber and Kai Heron. Finds merit and issue in both.

Pro with Huber: goal of appeal to the working class. Issue with Huber: usual problems with ecomodernism.

Pro with Heron: Anti-imperialism. Issue with Heron: Third Worldism, I think – i.e. the idea that working class in ‘First World’ are not part of an international proletariat.

https://spectrejournal.com/first-and-third-world-ecosocialisms/

I had a good time at the local Repair Cafe this evening. It felt really busy. No-one brought any IT stuff this time. But I pitched in with some internet searching on a puzzling leaf blower repair. And then right at the end I helped a punter get an intransigent screw out a garden broom. Win!

#repair

Any recommended #MOOC on left-things such as #socialism #communism #anarchism #ecosocialism #SocialEcology #degrowth #STS ?

Anything in that kind of area, really.

(If not… we should make some)

Sunday = chores day = podcasts day.

I listened to [[Organising or campaigning: how to mobilise for radical change?]] earlier.

Enjoyed it. On overlaps and differences of organising, mobilising, campaigning, civil disobedience. The need for an ecology of all of them. The need to be embedded. How the digital can support.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1250759/11625913-organising-or-campaigning-how-to-mobilise-for-radical-change

Read [[The Stack as an Integrative Model of Global Capitalism]]. Dense but useful and payoff with a call-to-action at the end.

"As far as "communication power" is a central means of coordination and control, it is significant to "reprogram communication networks" by building a "communication society as a society of the commons""

"Technology appropriation and the establishment of commons-based platforms for social provisioning seem to be a potential counter-hegemonic response."

Alright!

Also germane to think how the artwork of Emory Douglas and The Black Panther paper got the party to places where they might not otherwise have reached.

I watched The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and The Weather Underground documentaries. Almost hard to comprehend what a powder keg the 60s and 70s were in America. The cold-blooded murder of Fred Hampton is truly shocking… words fail.

Reflecting that in 1976 The Lucas Plan was put together by factory workers to counter proposed job cuts. It was based on notions of socially useful production and included things like heat pumps, wind turbines, energy efficient houses. In 1976!