Improving People or only Tech? @freeschool@qoto.org

#Spirit in #Life / #Work ##Job
Without keeping the spirit of things between people in life, then life is just animated / moving but empty inside and measurably doesn't get better (without meaning).
- #FreeSchool

Leave your apartment and the city !

"I was done living alone in my small city apartment and life was slipping through my fingers." #quote

#Nature #Elements + #Eco #Community not #City #Context

#Damanhur #Spiritual #Community #Working #Together

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=10Yqy0TKRPU&t=0m39s

"We really put high value on action and really being able to realise the dreams that you have and make them something that you can touch" #quote #video

- 7 years of living in an eco village

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=10Yqy0TKRPU&t=6m.41s

...continued...

Because if you only dream about something or only have ideas and don't really incarnate them then you can't really see that another way is possible... that you're really serious about something..."

"Coming from the city I never really put my hands into the dirt".

“The limits of my language _and culture_ mean the limits of my world.”

- Philosopher Ludwig
Wittgenstein #quote [ + I've added personally inside the _underlines_ ]

#Quote #Book "...that social glitch that happens when you’re about to pass someone on the sidewalk, but neither of you can tell which side the other wants to walk on, so when the moment comes you both do that jerky little stutter-step thing that somehow, miraculously, always
manages to resolve itself.

Or when you’re sitting in a chair and someone walks behind you, and you scoot forward to give them room to pass even when you don’t need to, just to acknowledge their existence

📖 Stand out of our Light
https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/111166976738638119

https://old.reddit.com/ if the new doesn't work

or whatever it is today (pay-gated or ad-gated or account-gated who cares etc)

Twitter / Nitter filter
https://twiiit.com/ by @chris

Tech giveth and Tech taketh away. #FreeSchool #quote

(and the opposite for #tech #adverts !)

NOTIFICATIONS ON ! 🔔
Post if I follow you and I'll see it !

Remember most people don't see what you write (even when they follow you and 100's so 🔔 is need for selected people)

#War is so strange when you live through what you read in school again.

#Lesson in #Life #Relived

Good People + Talking Circles

How to keep good people good, when all that is around is mostly the bad?

From 22nd July tweet from "Plan B Earth"

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/PlanB_earth/status/1815495770641993862#m

on OccupyLondon feed

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/OccupyLondon?cursor=DAABCgABGTXOE-U__-gKAAIZMuW8CpYgLwgAAwAAAAIAAA

"...new Home Secretary is to consider repealing Tory anti-protest (and anti-human-rights) laws.

Second, the pressure mounts from the public.

More than 700 lawyers, celebrities and artists have called for an urgent meeting with the attorney-general to address the “injustice” of the historic sentences handed to five environmental activists for peaceful protest."

Info here:
defendourjuries.org/wtf/

#Authoritarian #Laws #Lawyers
#UK #Law #Reversed ? #HumanRights

#Help ❓ Anyone got Twitter account and want to help me send a message (I want to ask a Twitter person to get Mastodon account or say why I'm contacting them)...

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/RogerHallamCS21

I'm now thinking #Protest is NOT the way - when they simply use the actions for more cameras etc...

And people don't really care - so it's little influence on them -

THEY NEED PROPER WORKED OUT SOLUTIONS - A to Z not protest A - B and then letting system know and giving signals for them to tighten up security.

Bosses etc and Gov don't change - they only tighten up.

My solutions so far involve human to human talking and really more personal progress while minimal #protest UNTIL you figure about A B C D E F G really like #chess.

No use doing anything big to be arrested unless it's delay tactics (so I might entertain those that delayed a flight of migrants or stopped a bulldozer by locking on)

STOPPING DESTRUCTION YES,
not sure about rest !

#Protest #Deeper #Design & #Implementation

#Emoji #Question 🍋 ❓

- Can you create and add emoji ?

➕ Emoji I would like add are:

Fruit like... Apricot ..... plum (no emoji !)

- Who can I message on Mastodon to get an emoji added to Mastodon?

#Seeds to #Trees Keep the seeds of fruit! 🍎

Even with 'bad' fruit on the floor you can make trees from collecting see and planting casually like I did.

So I did it! Got a tree 🌴

I was collecting the hundreds there usually for a grandma that she had under her tree, and instead of throwing it out somewhere I put in a quiet heap of soil and let the roulette wheel of time spin (more time more chance and needs the different weather combinations for the seed to decide to grow)... I didn't want to do the fridge way of Stratification so lazy or not I gave the sees a chance outside...

Many trees drop horrendous amounts of fruit - in this case a paint buckets worth and got 1 tree (and still time for the other see)

YIPPEEE! I've currently collected and eating more and spitting a buck also - funny way to plant eh?

Keep the seeds of fruit!

#Gardening #Plants #Planting #Free

Prison Sentences given for having Zoom calls... Tweet copy below

TLDR 1: 4 year prison sentences for merely participating in Zoom call to organise resistance to the carbon corrupted state...

TLDR 2: The judge barred them from explaining their motives to the jury,

#UK #Politics #State #Government

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/RobinBoardmanUK/status/1815618410820026445#m

Occupy London retweeted
Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn
Jul 23
Before this election, I asked successive Tory governments if they would create safe routes for asylum seekers. I did not receive an answer.

Yesterday, I asked a Labour government if it would create safe routes for asylum seekers. I did not receive an answer.
Occupy London retweeted
Robin Boardman
@RobinBoardmanUK
Jul 23
You Can't Lock Up The Truth

The prison sentences for my friends, the #WholeTruthFive, are a signal that democracy is crumbling in the UK. We must restore it or face fossil fuel fascism.

The democratic rule of law is failing in the UK. Increasing numbers of peaceful campaigners are being imprisoned while exercising their right to demonstrate, even as UK prisons overflow. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood warns of a “total breakdown of law and order” if action isn't taken. Yet, the Government plans to release violent criminals early due to overcrowding, while imprisoning peaceful protestors under the draconian Anti-Protest Bill. This is a gross injustice to our democracy.

Last week, the #WholeTruthFive recieved 4-5 year prison sentences for merely participating in Zoom call to organise resistance to the carbon corrupted state. The judge barred them from explaining their motives to the jury, despite the scientific consensus on the catastrophic consequences of continued fossil fuel use. We’re on track for 3-4 degrees Celsius of increased warming above the pre-industrial average by the end of the century. This would lead to a billion climate refugees, millions of excess deaths and the loss of ordered civil society (including democracy and the rule of law). When the five defendants tried to explain this to the jury, they were arrested and repeatedly imprisoned for contempt of court.

It is shocking to most UK citizens that if accused of a crime, they may find themselves in front of jury unable in their defence to explain their action, or why they acted as they did. Historically Juries have acted as a ‘democratic safety valve’ refusing to convict defendants when governments have passed bad or unjust laws. Right now in British Courts both of these important democratic rights are being eroded, defendants are being silenced and juries are being denied the whole truth of cases.

Such attempts to stifle democracy and peaceful dissent are increasingly common across the justice system. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders Michel Forst has expressed “grave concerns” about the UK’s severe crackdowns on environmental defenders. He reminded the UK government of its duty to facilitate the right to protest and noted that some disruption to society is to be expected.

It’s time to face the truth. Stop trying to lock it up.

Forst also issued a Letter of Allegation stating the UK may be breaching the Aarhus Convention, a international law which protects peaceful protestors from being penalised or harassed. Daniel Shaw, a former social worker with no prior convictions, exemplifies this. Held in prison for 113 days before trial and repeatedly denied bail, he was released with strict restrictions on seeing friends and attending protests.

Such repression has been building for years. The UN Rapporteur cited cases like a six-month prison sentence for a brief protest march and arrests for holding signs about jury rights, a principle enshrined in UK law since the 17th century.

Remember Xavi Gonzales-Trimmer? He took his life at age 21 amid fears of further, traumatising imprisonment for non-violent protest. Other protestors have been jailed for merely mentioning “climate change” and “fuel poverty” in court.

Others, like Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker spent years in prison for hanging a banner above the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. Decker is a German national and now faces deportation, which would separate him from his partner and step-children.

Why are such people being punished so harshly and banned from telling the whole truth about what is motivating their protests in court?

Well, in the past such evidence has convinced jury after jury that they should not be prosecuted.

In April 2021, protestors were acquitted of damaging Shell’s headquarters after arguing their actions were necessary and proportionate due to the company’s role in climate change. Similarly, others were acquitted of spraying fake blood on the Treasury after they highlighted to the jury the harm such financial institutions are doing by continuing to invest in fossil fuels.

Ordinary people recognize and respond to the truth when they hear it. The government's response is to silence them.

We must defend both the truth and the rights of those who speak it. Today I join 1000+ cultural figures, community leaders and experts to demand an urgent public meeting between Chris Packham and the new Attorney General, Richard Hermer KC, to discuss the UK adhering to its international commitments and more humane treatment of peaceful protestors.

Without peaceful protest and a fair trial, we have no democracy.

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