Family is not a happy place for many of us, and certainly for me.
So where does that instinct for care and generosity take shape in the absence of family? And how come some people manage to understand kindness into a wider realm, not just their immediate genetic relations.
As I watch this film, I'm thinking about how affection for your family should be a training ground for something much bigger. It shouldn't be the boundary.
#Food #Harvest 🍎 🌻 🍠 🍓 Video clips at this account worth following:
@ufwupdates or
hashtag #WeFeedYou
Low-paid workers who are #harvesting a lot of the food for everyone else and some comments by workers. Big respect. 🌴 🥦
Thank You.
DON'T HAVE FAMILY UNLESS YOU ACCEPT SLAVERY
"... she earns $32 per 900 lb bin. She's been doing this work for 14 years. She shares it's hard work, but it feeds her family. "
= DON'T HAVE FAMILY - you will have to work for whatever money and constantly less or more work for same money.
➡️ Original post + picture: https://union.place/@ufwupdates/113487565403313383
Lorena shared this pic from where she was harvesting apples in WA State. Filling these 900 lb bins full of fresh apples is hard work and she only earns $32/bin. She wishes farm workers had better labor protections as there is a lot of discrimination and intimidation. #WeFeedYou
"Trump voters, many of them, really just have no idea. They’re only now learning, and some of them still haven’t, that tariffs are taxes. They have no idea how much of their food supply comes from immigrants; they have no idea really what Trump is planning to do."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #economy #tariffs #immigrants #deportations #disinformation
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https://newrepublic.com/article/188346/transcript-paul-krugman-badly-trump-voters-scammed
If the Fediverse fails to organise itself, the future is #Fascism
" If we fail, the future is #fascism. "
- comment on #JustCollapse website (about #Climate etc)
https://justcollapse.org/2023/03/13/a-little-book-of-insurgent-planning/
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by ageingoptimist Nov 2023
As Homo selfishens breaches more planetary boundaries (climate #disruption being just one of those) the #results will show up not just via adverse #weather events but through serious# economic disruption. That will include worsening inflation, #supplychain problems, #crop# failures, and debt default. The result will be increasing inequality, #poverty and #crime.
Conventional economics will attempt to explain these in the usual hand-waving terms, and fail.
Angry #citizens will, as always, blame the incumbent #government. In #democracies this will lead to pointless lurching from left to right and back again, with – very likely – a gradual trend towards #autocracy. In non-democratic nations, it’ll lead to a rapid clampdown on human #rights and #dissent. The end result, in either case, is #dictatorship.
To that mix, add the increasing problem of mass #migration from #tropical states that are failing #economically as well as gradually becoming unlivable due to climate disruption, and we have the perfect recipe for #violent #unrest in coming #decades.
Any #planning for a viable future must surely take this into account and try to #educate the wider #public; if we do that we might ameliorate the worst of it.
If we fail, the future is #fascism.
If the Fediverse fails to organise itself, the future is #Fascism
" If we fail, the future is #fascism. "
- comment on #JustCollapse website (about #Climate etc)
https://justcollapse.org/2023/03/13/a-little-book-of-insurgent-planning/
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by ageingoptimist Nov 2023
As Homo selfishens breaches more planetary boundaries (climate #disruption being just one of those) the #results will show up not just via adverse #weather events but through serious# economic disruption. That will include worsening inflation, #supplychain problems, #crop# failures, and debt default. The result will be increasing inequality, #poverty and #crime.
Conventional economics will attempt to explain these in the usual hand-waving terms, and fail.
Angry #citizens will, as always, blame the incumbent #government. In #democracies this will lead to pointless lurching from left to right and back again, with – very likely – a gradual trend towards #autocracy. In non-democratic nations, it’ll lead to a rapid clampdown on human #rights and #dissent. The end result, in either case, is #dictatorship.
To that mix, add the increasing problem of mass #migration from #tropical states that are failing #economically as well as gradually becoming unlivable due to climate disruption, and we have the perfect recipe for #violent #unrest in coming #decades.
Any #planning for a viable future must surely take this into account and try to #educate the wider #public; if we do that we might ameliorate the worst of it.
If we fail, the future is #fascism.
I'm following the #FreeSchool ways from 1960s/1970s listed here:
[Watch] #NationalDayOfMourning 2024
#PlymouthMassachusetts, November 28, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/live/pdpBNKI31TA
#FreePalestine #FreeLeonardPeltier
#FreeGaza #WestBank #ClimateJustice
#DayOfMourning #NoDAPL
#LandBack #DefendTheSacred
#IndigenousClimateActivists #MMIWG
#TwoSpirits #NoPipelines
#LeaveItInTheGround
#ExtractiveMining
#NoMiningWithoutConsent
#WaterIsLife #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
#LoveYourMotherEarth #ResistWhiteSupremacy
#CorporateColonialism #Capitalism
#Capitalism vs #Fediverse
#FreeSchool
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i am once again asking for mobile operating systems to have a "lie" option next to "allow" and "deny" for permissions like location, notifications, files, camera, nearby devices, etc. that generates sensible garbage to poison tracking profiles
a global "lie" toggle that causes all but a few trusted apps to receive false information would also be nice, if you're going to a protest or a sensitive medical appointment
wouldn't do much if your os vendor was an ad tech company (which is the case on pretty much everything but a linux or rooted android phone without google play services) but it would be a very cool feature for an android custom rom to add at the very least
#privacy
Acknowledging - We are part of the problem and part of the solution...
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
-- Malcolm X
To monotonously live the mouldy hours of the ordinary people, the submissive, the accommodated, a life of convenience, is not living, it is only vegetating and carrying around an amorphous mass of flesh and bones. To life one should give the exquisite elevation of the rebellion of the arms and the mind.
-- Severino Di Giovanni
Our governments have fails us.... We need to do things ourselves - We cannot fail our younger generation in the same way...
#Quote #Human #Circles #Healing
Our #governments have failed us,
Our #businesses have failed us,
Our #media have failed us,
We are the last institution that cannot afford to fail our younger generation.
(*We = Individuals / Public)
https://pol1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=lS3yXmS16S0&t=34m44s
From #Video FINDING MEANING in the Unfolding #video
(link auto-starts at 33.44mins)
Meeting was around a #Book #TeachingAtTwilight ➡️ https://ahmedafzaal.com/
Related to multi-speaker topics were:
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Freedom. All things towards #Freedom.
Communication pioneer (only as most people don't do it at any depth)
#FreeSchool = #Notes #Quotes (extracts / gems) from great #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites from all around the world towards
TOGETHER & MORE OFTEN DIRECTLY (who else is going to do it?).
#FreeSchool hashtag shows examples what this is about... and can check anytime.
Overall: Moving From Shorter to Deeper intelligence and more Caring thoughts...
( More below if you're able )
#DIY Care (because nobody else is going to as best as you do for those around) - #Caring IS our main #Politics / #Politics and "System" (not a system of cheating each other but caring and what Capitalism is cutting out - this is what we need to put back in and teach to those willing).
#Degrowth / PostGrowth
#WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
#CaringEconomy / #CareEconomy / #Partnerism
"Free School" is a term for a movement born from the 1960's / 70's using educational living & learning practice towards #Caring & #DIY with all others (all at the same time - not an after-thought or specialism in 1 field or person who is a #compartmentalised person ignoring others in other fields). Caring to involves more things, increasingly aiming towards everything...
Posts are 1-line #Notes and #Quotes that links all other things (it's all relative).
Long comments use CW to shorten post vertically and add a 'show more' button to reveal more text if you want it. Long posts might seem bad but it's giving chance to more connection and understanding.
All things towards #Freedom (life moving from Shorter to Deeper thought).
Freedom doesn't come from short-depth lifestyles / short lines of text / ignoring / #inaction. Not less communication between lovers of similar things. MORE!)
#FreeSchool = Learning Together 🔁
#FreeSchool = Working Together 🔁 (eventually + I do Free work for Freedom.
#FreeSchool = Co-Operating & #DIY Solutions 🔁
See My #FreeSchool (Hashtag) for latest examples anytime. Or keep open and refresh from time to time:
https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool
#FreeSchool ➡ Increment Talking + Peacefully solve everything.
TLDR - Inaction = Fascism
Trust comes from "slowly but surely"... Doesn't have to be all-in, but peace doesn't come from one-way short messaging on 'social' Mastodon either - collecting memes and cats only is limited!
Remember we need develop better humans as well as 'develop' code on computers etc.
☮ Peace needs more... even to save all types of cats!
Get in touch - I'm someone that cares for everything because it's all human-related...
Human #chats welcome - I using #Jitsi audio chat which uses JUST browser (ANY PLATFORM + 2minutes to enter !)
(i.e. no-install / no account / no google / instant / privacy-respecting / safe-enough, etc!) Really the best out there - any platform / device! Instant audio chat !
Just ask for a link and prepare a few topics!
#AltText used (when I remember).
FREE WORK - I do free audio and video editing (anything considered - just ask).
Again - Creating Trust needs a bit of trust given "slowly but surely"... not all-in... being relaxed about it... but has to be more - 'working' like a 2nd job towards peace because your job isn't going to do it / it's now allow by State to get there! War increases prices etc ☮
So do "peace" as a side-job like it was your real job in the world, parallel to the Capitalism (Trap) you (we) were born into. We have to accept that and fight out of that and not be comfortable in it.
Heart and Soul all the way.