it's #WorldDayAgainstCyberCensorship and did you know that you can help keep people safer—people like freedom fighters, political dissidents, journalists, and regular people simply seeking medical information or services, like abortions, HRT, sex ed, therapy, or psychiatric medications—by becoming a @torproject Snowflake?

you can even run it in your browser or on your phone via @guardianproject's Orbot app

here's an explainer by @eff:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship

if not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere

https://privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-now-when/

Mutual aid. Organizing. Sharing, contextualizing, and making meaning of news and health information to counter propaganda and information overload. The use cases for alternative social networks – not controlled by techbro white supremacist CEO's working with their cronies in authoritarian governments – practically write themselves in today's world. And with so many talented social scientists, designers, systems thinkers, and developers directly impacted by DOGE, MAGA, et al, there are a lot of people with the right skills for these new networks to make rapid progress.

The good news is there's a lot of promising work happening in the decentralized social media ecosystems known as the fediverses ("federated universes") and the ATmosphere (a fediverse built on Bluesky's AT protocol), including DAIR-tube, Blacksky, the #FreeFediverse, and more.

Still, as promising as these efforts are, there's still a long ways to go.

RE: "On Organizing"

A superb overview of organising. The article contains a well of knowledge and references, and starts strong with evidence that non-violent revolutions have a higher success rate than violent ones.

https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-lifeisasacredtext-com-organize

for everyone's sake, when it comes to protests / demos / actions, please:

• wear a mask

• cover your face and any identifying marks (hair color, tattoos, piercings, body mods, logos)

• avoid arrest by any means necessary (so long as it doesn't jeopardize the safety of others)

• scrub faces from imagery (stills, footage)

• refuse to boost posts that include sensitive information about anyone involved (names, neighborhood, address, place of work), including visible identifying marks in imagery (faces, tattoos)

If you want to get a group of people to do something you don't need to ask who is not interested. You can just ask who wants to do it and organize among them.

You don't need votes if you aren't using hierarchy to force everyone to be involved

I updated this post again. I added in information on necrosecurity, which is what was used during Covid19 to spread disinformation about Covid and normalize mass death of vulnerable populations as a "public good."

I added in other harmful actions DOGE-TrumpoMusk has done and the consequences of those actions. This includes the incoming firings to SSA, which can have a devastating effect on vulnerable populations and the services we use.

I then updated the action items and organized them better:

https://reshapingreality.org/2025/02/05/what-were-up-against-and-where-to-go-from-here/

Organizing on decentralized social networks (1 / N)

The Nexus of Privacy is planning a series of online discussions and video/phone calls focusing on organizing on decentralized social networks. There's a range of topics to cover, including looking at the tradeoffs between the different platforms for different use cases, brainstorming how organizers can leverage these platforms, easy ways to start exploring, and ways for groups to move as a whole.

https://privacy.thenexus.today/organizing-on-decentralized-social-networks/ has a CryptPad survey (as well as a link to a version using Google Forms if you prefer that)

Or if you prefer, here are a couple of polls along with open questions, that cover some of the key information

So I really want to know how people are going to care for disabled folks in their communities going forward.

Are you going to include us?

Are you going to ask what our needs are and help us meet those needs?

Are you going to listen to us and always ask for our consent before you do Anything to assist us?

Are you going to make your events and activities accessible?

It's not enough to just make it physically accessible. Just because there's a ramp doesn't mean it's actually accessible.

To be fully accessible, you need to consider:

1. Physical Space -- Safety such as Air Filtration devices and mask wearing due to the fact most disabled folks are immuno-compromised. (Masks also are anti-fascist and make it harder to identify if the mask is a simply color like black or white). Are the doors easily opened without need of pushing or pulling? Ramps? Spaced out chairs, so wheelchairs can fit neatly into a spot instead of being relegated to back of room?

2. Digital space -- is there captions, transcripts, ASL translators? Are these easy to access? Is there a place transcripts are saved so those who run-out of energy and must leave earlier can read the transcripts in full?

3. Information space -- is there ways to contact one another and access documents that are easy to find? Is the documents set up for screenreaders to easily read? Are transcripts readily available and free of emojis and symbols to avoid tripping up screenreaders?

4. Transportation space -- is there places to park for us to easily exit vehicles? Are there people willing to pick us up and possibly leave earlier if we are unable to stay the entire time due to health? Are there people assigned roles to assist disabled folks who ask for help reaching the event?

5. Justice space -- are disabled people included in the organizing of the event? Are you utilizing the talents we offer? Are we included in the speaker line-up if there is one? Are you including Black or Indigenous Disabled people? Are you utilizing a diverse group of people's talents?

6. Sensory space -- does the event have a designated quiet area for people to go if overwhelmed so that they can recover and return to the main event? Is fragrances heavily discouraged to avoid triggering asthmatic attacks or allergic reactions? Is there simple-to-eat, gluten-free, and/or vegan options for those with dietary restrictions or texture issues?

Seriously, do the above and not only have you made your event/activity inclusive for disabled people, but you've also opened it up for all people who may need similar things but don't think they are allowed to ask for it.

If we aren't inclusive and accessible in our fight for liberation, then we are not engaging in liberation. We're just repeating oppressive tactics on our most vulnerable.

So really think hard about these questions. Talk it over with your organization, group, friends. Go over them slowly - don't rush this.

And please try not to leave disabled folks to die and rot again. We're just as important and worthy of life as any of you.

Thanks for reading. Good day

"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action.

The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them."

https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/

#authoritarian and #fascist #resistance #guides :

#Organizing and #Protest #resources. Intro 1/3.

Focus: organizing against the #musk / #trump #coup in the #unitedstates .

Organizing is broad topic, but starting with protest resources, they include #civilrights orgs , funds for logistics and defense of protestors, as well as advice.

The #ACLU is a start. Read over their Know Your Rights guide at https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights

Their action page is also a good start: https://www.aclu.org/action