Today is a re-release about HOPE because it still feels really important.

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Mutual aid is natural. Individualism is manufactured. Let's get back to our roots and tear down the walls that individualism has built.

In the words of Open Democracy Net, mutual aid resolves issues …

The fundamental constitutional protections of due process and equal protection embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to every person, regardless of immigration status.

Know your rights…

FACT: Immigrants are 60% LESS likely to commit a crime than an American born citizen. It's been studied for decades and immigrants make our community + nation SAFER, not more dangerous.

FACT: Immigra…

We don't often hear stories of non-violent resistance, today we explore the influential "white-rose campaign" used in 1942 to resist Nazi Germany.

Today's source: https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/co…

Dealing with eco-anxiety is easier with the UPSTREAM method, as introduced by Karen Magruder.

Understanding + compassion

Participating

Self-talk

Trauma (processing)

Reduce isolation

Ecotherapy

Acts of self…

Optimism is the only thing that works — but only if we don’t assume that progress is inevitable.

Hannah Richie's article for Vox: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23622511/climate-doomerism-optimism…

1. Understand how doom filled headlines aim to manipulate you.
2. Focus on the science, and on the fact that scientists see a path forward.
3. Take action, because the future you make possible when you act is o…

7 RULES on Approaching Authoritarian Supporters

What if your neighbor, friend or family member supports the authoritarian regime?

Rule 1

Don’t look down on them, don’t patronize them, even if you know w…

What to expect under an authoritarian regime:

1. Democratic election through fear mongering.

2. They will divide + rule.

3. They will subjugate media outlets to create a propaganda machine.

4. They will …

Doomerism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't think there's hope, you won't take the action towards a more hopeful future. It's in our best interests to become the "right" kind of optimists.

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"In an era whose sense of the human psyche is dominated by entertainment and consumerism and by therapy culture—the personal and private are most often emphasized to the exclusion of almost everythin…

"If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way" - Rebecca Solnit

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Contrary to widespread belief, there is not an increase in crime after disasters. In fact, the opposite is true. After every disaster, there is an increase in prosocial behavior. These myths perpetua…

Hypernormalization: Pretending everything is fine, when it is obviously NOT fine. The goal is to keep us overwhelmed and confused and disengaged. Resist your apathy. Resist in any way you can. Join a…

"The constant generation of novel and fantastic apocalyptic scenarios serves to extend the horizon for the arrival of the hellish conditions contained in dystopia - if oppression is a nebulous but ev…

The dystopia isn’t coming, it’s been here, and we’re finally starting to see it. Fictional dystopias are not imaginative horrors - they are reframed versions of lived experiences for marginalized com…

"We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest." - Tim Wu

THE SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/ty…

"The burnt out don't need more alone time." - Ayesha Khan Ph.D.

"A world where we are isolated is a world where it is easier to pit us against each other." - Luke Allen

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Capitalism + consumer culture has taught us that independence = success, but what if our culture is wrong? What if community's inconveniences are less cumbersome than the inconveniences that come fro…