From bike protests against extraction in Uganda, to ppls tribunals confronting #EACOP linked corporate abuse, organizers have been building powerful local resistance rooted in #climatejustice! Here are some of the actions supported through the GURU direct action fund! #StopEACOP #KickPollutersOut

Here we go! A force of 3K+ #StopEACOP organizers are sending a rallying cry for coordinated resistance to confront #fossilfuel corps, extractive multinational companies & the systems that sustain them for #GlobalWeekofAction docs.google.com/document/d/1... #KickPollutersOut #ClimateJustice

Beautiful trouble brought wins internationally in 2024. Take a look at this list from @nvintl.bsky.social nonviolencenews.org/2024/12/21/3...

What if the solutions to our greatest challenges were already all around us? This idea comes from a simple yet radical belief that the wisdom to transform our world already exists in our communities. beautifultrouble.org/dispatches/t...

What a fantastic resource by a beloved org. Check it out y’all!

Imagine an economy that allows us to love each other! Start reading what is possible now: orbooks.com/catalog/beau... #farming #food #ocean #justice #landtrust #education #cooperative #technology #health #nature #theater

And the third is from the crew at @beautifultrouble.bsky.social, working hard to bring strategic solutions to your troublemaking. www.youtube.com/@BeautifulTr...

📣 New in the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox: V-Formation 🌟 Just like geese rotate leadership in flight, this strategy encourages activists to share burdens, rotate roles, and prioritize rest without guilt. ✨ Read more: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool... #activism

People will scribble in a box for any number of reasons—misinformation, advertising, bigotry, fantasies of power—regardless of whether it is actually in their best interests. It is what we do every day that determines what kind of society we live in, not how people vote every two or four years.

Principle: Making the invisible visible. Activists (From 2018) with locked arms and signs reading "Sanctuary for All" and "No Raids No Ban No Wall" block a driveway at a rally against ICE in SFO. Learn more: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool... #immigration #fightingback #nobannowall

"For millennia, Indigenous cultures have prioritized joy-based artistic practices—and science is finally catching up... So what happens when people are denied artistic expression?" #joy #indigenous #resistance www.yesmagazine.org/health-happi...

🌿 Where Olive Trees Weep offers a powerful glimpse into the resilience of the Palestinian people under occupation, exploring loss, trauma, & justice. 🎥 Watch until November: bit.ly/beautifuloli... Stand for justice for Palestine ✊🏽 #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #OliveTrees

🎉📚 Join us to celebrate the launch of Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation! 🌍✨ From food sovereignty to energy democracy — and across the globe — this book is an essential resource for anyone working toward a solidarity economy. 🌾💪🌍 www.eventbrite.com/e/or-books-l...

Want to learn more about revolutionary nonviolence? Delve into the concept, learn about the dialogue among radicals, and build unity around a shared commitment to revolutionary social transformation through mass civil resistance. #activist #beautifultrouble beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

Clear action logic is key to ensuring your message is clearly understood. 📢 Think about the lunch counter sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement. By sitting at segregated counters, they were highlighting the injustice of segregation clearly and powerfully. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

🔎 New investigation 🔎 Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed Israeli Firm “Cobwebs” Linked to 2020 Protests, Provides Monitoring Services to Homeland Security for Tracking Dissenters

"The past two decades have marked the rise of a “new gilded age” of capitalist accumulation. Foundations currently hoard upward of $1.5 trillion." The next time you are denied a grant, ask the funder why they insist on hoarding wealth. portside.org/2024-06-14/w...

Happy Mother’s Day (USA observed today)! And all the ways we might go about mothering in this broken world. We are thinking today about the origin of this holiday in the USA, a day for women to work together to end war. May it be so in our lifetimes. ❤️🙏🌹 #mothersday peacealliance.org/history-of-m...

🚨🚨 *SHARE WIDELY - HOW TO KIBBUTZ ENCAMPMENT GUIDE* - a group of activists almost on day 100 of their encampment at the home of US Secretary of State Blinken, have worked with organizers around the world to help them navigate the “how”. #FreePalestine bit.ly/KibbutzGuide

“Because corporate greed doesn’t recognize borders, neither should our solidarity.” UAW President Shawn Fain on building worker power—everywhere: inthesetimes.com/article/may-...

Revolution is building out from university quads and beyond Today is May Day, the International Workers’ Day of solidarity. Around the globe, students are rising in support of Palestine. beautifultrouble.org/dispatches/f...

Youth for Green Communities organized a University Day of Actions in 2023, in key locations in Uganda: Hoima and Kampala. Students from universities nationwide came together to raise their voices against the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline. beautifultrouble.org/dispatches/e...

Anyone who has been in any protest/demonstration in the USA in the past 20 years has witnessed the marshals and/or medics always clearing the way for anyone needing help or ambulances needing to get through.

At the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, South African freedom fighters and hackers created an encrypted communication network that connected the leadership in exile with operatives in South Africa. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

Our journey towards a better world can—and often should—be a nurturing and joyful experience! Find pleasure in the process, as adrienne maree brown said: “Feeling good is not frivolous. It is freedom.” Learn about the revolutionary force of joy: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

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Solidarity is a VERB. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m...

Are you an apocaloptomist?

Preserving Palestinian culture is an act of resistance. inthesetimes.com/article/digi...

We must be willing to recognize and shift our own obsolete mindsets and abandon all constants. If we truly want to change the world, we must recognize that change is the only constant. To learn more: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool... #Activism #justice

Beautiful Trouble takes many forms. Tactic: Culture Jamming A cultural intervention that alters a brand or meme to make a subversive political point. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool... #ceasefirenow #freepalestine

Today is International Women's Day—a commemoration born out of radical activist women organizing against capitalism. inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

In spite of the heaviness of the present moment, we are practicing the discipline of hope for a future filled with compassion and care. beautifultrouble.org/dispatches/d...

Replacing cops with mimes is the level of abolition we wish to see in the world. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

Keep showing up in the streets to #shutitdown4palestine, calling for #ceasefirenow and to #freepalestine. Fight for our collective future.

The purpose of the Get Up, Rise Up direct action fund is to support activists globally to shift power through strategic nonviolent direct actions, awarding small grants to actions calling for ceasefire, and those targeting the fossil fuel industry. beautifultrouble.org/directaction

TODAY IS THE DAY. Allow me to introduce you to my new book, "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life" (w/ beautiful illustrations). It's about democracy in our everyday internet-lives. And it's FREE to the internet from @ucpress.bsky.social: nathanschneider.info/govbook

Following the Myanmar coup last year, activists paid the ultimate price, igniting a powerful movement called "The Sling Streetwear," blending art & activism, uplifting oppressed voices, tackling crucial issues locally & worldwide. beautifultrouble.org/dispatches/t...

In 2015, students occupied over 200 schools in São Paulo to protest the governor’s plan to close schools, forcing him to reverse course, and igniting a wave of student resistance across the country. For the full story: beautifultrouble.org/too.../tool/...

Is the glass half full, half empty? The glass is half full and half empty. We need hard-headed realism and full-hearted idealism to change the world. Read more: bit.ly/pessimismthe...

Today is 21 years since February 15, 2003, the largest global coordinated protests against war. The US invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_Febr...

Hanging a banner off a building or structure makes for great media coverage, alerting the broad public to an issue or campaign. It’s also a good way to frame or contextualize an upcoming action. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

Reminder: Capitalism is a profit-driven economic system that, in spite of its supposed material benefits, is rooted in inequality, exploitation, dispossession, and environmental destruction. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

The actions of our peers are more likely to motivate us to act than either information or an appeal to fear. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

Bertolt Brecht's genius lies in using innovative theatrical techniques to "make the familiar strange," sparking a social analysis and critical response from the audience. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

“I think that many of us even celebrated it more than the officials themselves. Our dedication was total — day and night, rain and hunger — and after reaching the goal, it is a feeling of success.” wagingnonviolence.org/2024/01/indi...

Direct action is inherently risky. The point is to minimize the risk, not needlessly (or unilaterally) endanger your safety or that of the people around you by trying to prove that you are “hardcore.” #Activism #CeaseFireNow beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...

“If people are laughing, they are learning. True learning is a joy because it is an act of creation.” ― Tyson Yunkaporta

We are at a turning point: the International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must prevent genocide in Gaza. This unprecedented ruling brings us all closer to a ceasefire and a just peace for the people of Palestine and Israel. beautifultrouble.org/dispatches/m...

“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.” ― Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace