#Organizers Condemn '#AntiDemocratic' #RICO Charges Against #CopCity #Protesters
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop-city-rico-charges

‘We Have a Right to Put It on the Ballot’: How #Organizers Are Defending Direct #Democracy;
@boltsmag invited three organizers in #Arkansas, #Idaho, and #Ohio for a roundtable to discuss the attacks on ballot initiatives they are each fighting in their states, and lessons they’ve learned.
https://boltsmag.org/direct-democracy-roundtable-ohio-arkansas-idaho

Y’all! My first audio piece for a national outlet is now available!

Hear from amazing #organizers pushing back against anti-trans bills in #Louisiana

“Agitation to a System: Trans Resistance in Louisiana” https://www.radioproject.org/2023/07/agitation-to-a-system-trans-resistance-in-louisiana/

#journalism #transHope #transRights

LEGAL SUPPORT GUIDE FOR PORTUGAL (IN ENGLISH)

There is a new #guide for #actions and building #legal #support for them. This is the English version of the Portuguese original and is meant to support #activists and #organizers in Portugal.

Check here: fermento-pt.org/manual-de-apoio-legal/

#Atlanta #Police Arrest #Organizers of #BailFund for #CopCity #Protesters
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/
Part of a brutal crackdown on dissent against #thepolice training facility, the #SWAT raid and charges against the #protest bail fund are unprecedented.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/atlanta-solidarity-fund-organizers-granted-bond/

#Atlanta Solidarity Fund #Organizers Granted #Bond

By Sean Summers, #UnicornRiot June 2, 2023

According to the #Atlanta #Community Press #Collective, “The National #Bail #fund has now taken temporary responsibility for carrying out bail #support in place of the Atlanta #Solidarity Fund while the #organizers of #ASF face targeted ‘political #repression.’” #Donate here.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/atlantasolidarity

Today in Labor History June 1, 1981: Two Filipino longshore labor organizers, Domingo & Viernes, were assassinated in Seattle, Washington on orders of U.S.-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1986, as a result of ongoing protests, President Ronald Reagan told Marcos to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled to Hawaii aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule, with an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), with 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Today, their son, Bong Bong Marcos, rules over the Philippines, with Sara Duterte as his vice-president, daughter of the brutal previous president, Rodrigo Duterte, who has been linked to the death-squad murders of over 1,400 alleged drug dealers and street children.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #union #seattle #philippines #filipino #DeathSquads #assassination #Marcos #Duterte #organizers #dictator

The state is charging them with charity fraud, money laundering, because they've been bailing out protesters. Just disgusting, Atlanta.
#cop #city #protester #killed #organizers #targeted by #Atlanta #GOP #prosecutor #police #state #military #zone https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1179427542/atlanta-copy-city-arrests

Can Guaranteed #Income Protect Against #Gentrification?
https://nextcity.org/features/can-guaranteed-income-protect-against-gentrification
In #Louisville, community #organizers are betting that a guaranteed income program will reduce community #violence in disinvested #neighborhoods – and prevent displacement of residents.

Fascism Is Rising, But It Does Not Have to Be Our Future

Fascism won’t be defeated with reactive organizing.

It’s critical for organizers to understand that these attacks are being fueled, supported and strategized by fascist movements.

Organizers must know how fascism works to develop proactive organizing strategies before fascists utilize chaos, fear and violence to freeze leftists into submission.

#fascism #Organizers

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fascism-is-rising-but-it-does-not-have-to-be-our-future/

#Organizers call on #Biden to fill #districtcourt vacancies with #LGBTQIA+ judges
https://prismreports.org/2023/05/02/biden-fill-court-vacancies-lgbtqia-judges/

150 young #organizers from the #US travel to #Cuba defying the #blockade
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/04/26/150-young-organizers-from-the-us-travel-to-cuba-defying-the-blockade/

Organisational culture toolkit

This toolkit is a guide to identifying what’s happening with your culture - what’s going well, where that comes from and how can you have more of that, and what are the elements you don’t want, why have they arisen, and how can you create change.

Check out this toolkit for #organizers in #socialmovements , by the New Economy Organisers Network.

https://www.neweconomyorganisers.org/work/support-resources/toolkits

ACTION LOGIC

Your #action should speak for itself. Its inner logic should be obvious to the outside eye. When a protest has good action logic, its dramatic challenge to power tells a clear and compelling story.

Here is another essential piece from the Beautiful Trouble's toolbox for #socialmovement #organizers .

https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/action-logic

Judge Tells #Starbucks: You Can't Fire #Union #Organizers
Nationwide Federal Order Bars @Starbucks From Firing #Workers for Union Activity
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/02/judge-tells-starbucks-you-cant-fire-union
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/starbucks-handed-nationwide-order-to-stop-firing-union-activists
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3864043-judge-issues-nationwide-order-barring-starbucks-from-firing-union-supporters/

Today's #resource for #socialmovement #organizers is the #checklist on how to set up a #media #team for our #events or #actions . Check it out here:

https://www.fermento-pt.org/checklist-for-setting-up-a-media-team-for-actions-and-events/

How US abortion organisers are learning from Honduran activists
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/19/how-us-abortion-organisers-are-learning-from-honduran-activists
Also, reading this book is helpful: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-kaplan/the-story-of-jane/
#Honduras #Abortion #Organizers #Jane

My quest for the "perfect day planner" continues.

This week I switched to an A5 day planner with refillable pages. No go.

The pages are too small and the line spacing is too large, so I don't have enough room on the page for my organizing style.

The "perfect" system for me would be ~A5 sized, and use heavyweight, refillable Seyes lined paper.

In the meantime, I'm back to my Tru Red Medium Ruled Notebook. One notebook ~(80 pages) lasts me ~3 months.

#organizers #paper #notebooks

Yes, #Elon is the #evil villain. Nothing you hear should surprise you anymore.

"#Tesla Inc. #terminated dozens of employees Wednesday at its plant in Buffalo, New York, one day after Autopilot workers at the facility announced a #union campaign, #organizers said in a complaint."