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Municipalism Learning Series @municipalists.bsky.social · May 29

Did you miss our recent panel discussion on base building, featuring Kamau Franklin, Belinda Rodriguez and Maria Fernanda Cabello?

Watch the video and check out this beautiful sketchnote by artist Michelle Sayles at: municipalism.org/base-building

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Treesong @treesong.bsky.social · Dec 28

Here's my first blog post in response to the 2024 election in the U.S.

I've supported municipalism for years. Now that fascism is on the rise in the U.S. and beyond, municipalism is more important than ever.

Let's meet in our local communities to support mutual aid efforts & build power together.

Resist fascism by embracing municipalism

Municipalism is a movement rooted in the practice of self-governance at the municipal level.

treesong.org

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Jan 31

#Sketchnotes from the @municipalists.bsky.social most recent webinar on Community Defense strategies that we can practice in our local communities right now. Watch this and sign up for the next webinar in the series 'Building Power in Place' here:https://municipalism.org/community-defense/

Sketchnote of the Community Defense webinar, as part of the Building Power in Place series. Hosted by the Municipalism Learning Series with the Solidarity Research Center.

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Nov 26

Imagining 50 Years from Now

Leading up to the election, I worked with Dollars & Sense magazine to help visualize a future of people-centered U.S. and global economies for their featured roundtable. This collection of essays was the centerpiece of their 50th Anniversary issue. Subscribe to Dollars…

Imagining 50 Years from Now

Leading up to the election, I worked with Dollars & Sense magazine to help visualize a future of people-centered U.S. and global economies for their featured roundtable. This collection of essays was the centerpiece of their 50th Anniversary issue. Subscribe to Dollars & Sense to read these excellent commentaries in their November/December 2024 print edition: Looking Forward by Looking Back by…

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Nov 24

And if you’re wondering “What’s a Peer Respite?" check out this video explainer:
youtu.be/9x8h3LvEB04?...

Afiya House (full version)

YouTube video by Wildflower Alliance

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Nov 24

Help Wildflower Alliance launch the first LGBTQ+ Peer Respite in the world, right in central Massachusetts: wildfloweralliance.org/donations/lg...

#PeerSupport #LGBTQ #QueerMentalHealthMatters #PeerRespite

LGTBQIA+ Peer Respite Start-Up

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Mar 5

ICYMI - Watch the Intercommunalism panel discussion featuring @kamaufranklin.bsky.social @kazzy.bsky.social, Ericka Huggins and James Tracy! youtu.be/fo8zQqlx5_Y?...

Sketchnote for the Municipalism Learning Series panel on Intercommunalism. Portraits of the speakers: Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party), Kazembe Balagun (Solidarity Research Center), James Tracy (co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists), and Kamau Franklin (Community Movement Builders. Highlights from Black Panther's 10 Point Program: "We want an end to the robbery by capitalism...Education that teaches true history... An end to police brutality... Immediate end to all wars... People's community control of modern technology." (From 1972 and still true). Community survival programs were a blueprint for self-governance. Solidarity in the face of horror. The educator must be educated. Black life as zone of hyper-exploitation. How to develop the bigger we? Liberated territories are particularly important for black organizers in the U.S. Tech can combat corporate framing of our struggles. Strategy for local roots. How do we promote political education for autonomy and solidarity?

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Dec 31

[Headlines from Gaza, December 30th, 2023]
#FreePalestine

Comic panel showing breaking news from Gaza on December 30, 2023, source: Al Jazeera. Headlines: UN Aid Agency Targeted in Gaza; US Government complicit in war crimes; Biden bypasses congress on weapons sales to Israel; Netanyahu vows to continue war for months. Headlines from Gaza point to the terrors of a second Nakba - the catastrophe of that first attempted erasure in 1948. Children die buried in rubble daily. One Israeli military analyst claims: "All civilians in Gaza are terrorists and should be punished". Including babies. These words are genocidal. (Source: Eliyahu Yossian). Protestors carry signs that read: "Ceasefire now; End Palestine Holocaust; Stop Bombing Children".

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Dec 8

Not a single #Vermont lawmaker has signed on to the #ceasefire resolution yet. Shame on Bernie Sanders for the lack of leadership on what's happening in #Gaza.

I am grateful to Wafic Faour for sharing his story: www.reckon.news/justice/2023...
#CeasefireNow #FreePalestine

PERSPECTIVES: Palestinians will not be safe anywhere until we have justice everywhere

I call my family members in Palestine every single day to make sure they are safe. When three Palestinian college students were shot just 15 miles from my home, I started receiving calls from them. Th...

www.reckon.news

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Dec 3

Support this series by donating to the Solidarity Research Center. Through the learning series, they're helping to build the social and political foundation of solidarity economies via radical municipalism. Learn more at: yvonnegraphy.com/birthdayfund...

Yvonne’s Birthday Fundraiser

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Dec 3

Watch this #Municipalism Learning Series conversation on the power of assemblies to pre-figure democratic revival: municipalism.org/2023/11/10/a...

#Sketchnotes #Municipalism #OWS #BattleOfSeattle

Assembly sketchnotes on the 24th anniversary of the battle of seattle. Speakers: Michael Hardt (Co-author of Assembly); Marisa Holmes (Occupy Wall Street); Edgar Franks (Familias Unidas por la Justicia); Denzel Caldwell (Black Nashville Assembly).

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Half Sour Comix @halfsour.bsky.social · Nov 30

Tune in for this afternoon's conversation on the power of peoples assemblies, hosted by the Municipalism Learning Series! Register at Municipalism.org

Graphic for "Assembly" - a panel discussion. November 30 at 4pm ET.

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