Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Craftivism was coined in 2003 by Betsy Greer. I always say Craftivism is like punk music. Under that punk umbrella label you’ve got the Talking Heads, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and they all sound completely different but they’re all under that banner. So you could say Craftivism is anything that links craft with activism.
I’ve learned first hand about what activism burn out feels like.
Important lessons can and should be learned in our struggles to defend the land and commons from what took place and continues to take place in Bolivia.
From Mandela to MLK to McKibben, history offers lessons aplenty for climate activists
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination….is a collective which…"aims at opening spaces…and bringing artists and activists together to…co-create more creative forms of …civil disobedience".
Why I’m a hypocrite / Orlov: Extinct—Extincter—Extinctest / Big Ag’s Fight for Twitter Credibility
Detailed summary of this important new book on how to combat climate change.
Fundamentally, we have to “hospice what’s left of the system we’re leaving behind, while planting the seeds for the future we’re building.”
In building a movement, finding common ground is paramount. A movement can progress with the aid of constructive criticism, but it is imperative that this criticism be accompanied by genuine effort to understand and learn from one another, and recognition of each party’s value to the movement.
Rebuilding the commons in an economically-divided, violence-scarred neighborhood.
A danger with any movement is its potential to fragment into factions once it reaches a certain size – with the various factions competing instead of collaborating – and the potential emergence of a dominant faction that drowns out competing worldviews, theories of change, and tactics.
Review of "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate" by Naomi Klein.
