Tag: activism

What the powerholders do. Task: Maintain the status quo. Keep the issue out of sight and off the table. Control information. Deny the issue exists. Create myths and threats. Discredit the opposition. Appear to take action. Make minor reforms. Co-opt the opposition. From Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan.

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What the powerholders do and what the social movement needs to do.

2024-10-31

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Why Stanford for the pandemic denier convention?

2024-10-26

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Screenshot of Mike Hoerger’s twitter posts.

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Hyping for Godot.

2024-08-20

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Kite in sky over Scranton Pennsylvania USA

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Information alone is not enough. The levers of power don’t work themselves.

2024-08-05

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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The problem of busy work activism.

2024-07-30

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Jessica Misfire

So let’s logic this out. If the baddies can pay endless money to promote influencers to repeat lies with massive botnets & troll farms. How well can regular folks compete on that landscape?

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Accelerationist apocalyptic hopium is a trick

2024-04-30

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SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL Strategic Services Field Manual No. 3 Office of Strategic Services Washington, D.C. 17 January 1944 - Image is of typewriter typeset pages describing tactics for sabotage in office settings.

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Sabotage works best when it looks like incompetence.

2024-03-19

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Red Flags for Disruption Perpetual brainstorming Sessions that do not lead to any specific goal or next step. Strategy meetings that merely function as historic type critiques in the contemporary. Lots of “first date” type meetings with people, not a lot of follow-ups. Investing time & energy in actions at the wrong level or directed at inappropriate targets Sending comments to an agency or civil servant, outside a comment period or recognized process. Suggestions to contact elected representatives in a state you don’t live in. Boosting and promoting items and activities that are incongruent with the group’s current goals. Engaging in “food fight” controversy that goes nowhere and may serve to boost opposition framing. Disruptors or chaos agents Ingratiate themselves with leaders, key people, or governing committee members. Disrespectful exchanges with others, including overt verbal abuse or more subtle belittling Engages in gaslighting or tone policing. Disparages the already agreed upon projects of the group or criticizes activism generally. Remains mysterious in relevant ways that raise questions. References grandiose plans or extremely unrealistic goals. Talks of violence

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Red Flags for Disruption

2024-01-19

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The image is the deep fried meme of Garfield the cartoon cat’s head and underneath it is the caption You are not immune to propaganda.

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Don’t miss the message because social media incentivizes us to prioritize rage over action and change.

2024-01-03

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Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee November 2023 by Chloe

Why is it that I have to continually ask about safety precautions when I need healthcare?

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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They may hate you, but they love each other.

2023-10-27

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Public comment at PA DEP environmental justice meeting

Public comment at a public meeting of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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Shitposting into a void

2023-10-03

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The Internet of Fakes — PR Tactics, Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, Botnets, Influencers, Operatives, & Chaos Agents

2023-09-14

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Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up.

2023-08-08

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Elite Panic.

2023-07-13

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Wastewater data is valuable infrastructure

2023-04-09

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Socialism for me but not for thee. The Elite Panic of Star Trek’s Prime Directive.

2023-04-01

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Seek protection from noise and spiraling gloom

2023-02-16

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Jessica Burn Notice

2023-01-22

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