Kafka, you would have loved Meta Business interface

Another ~10% said there's nothing going on where they live. That's possible, yet unlikely. Let's assume there's actually nothing, what options does the internet offer for impactful political organizing?

Many national or international organizations and movements often employ digital systems for organizing and can benefit from online volunteers with no specific experience or skill.

One common example are systems to handle 1-on-1s, onboarding, training, outreach, or phone banking. Every serious organization has an infrastructure to engage people directly, either to grow their ranks, convince them to vote or take a specific action. These are in part automated through tools like ActionNetwork, but often involve an army of volunteers spending their evenings on the phone or in a call.

Contributing remotely becomes very easy, as long as you have a decent internet connection.

Like for the previous advice, start by googling. This time though, focus on bigger organizations with a national or international scope. Usually they offer weekly or monthly onboarding calls for newcomers like you. If they don't, it's a sign they have no active commitment to grow their ranks and probably will have no space for you anyway. During the onboarding call, be proactive in sharing you would like to contribute remotely and ask if there are specific roles you can take.


#orgschool

You might not like it, but this is how theory is made

We out here, stridulating off key

Nature is healing

Intermezzo Musicale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr9HXteXT2s

Me: Good morning everypup! ^^ welcome to our daily engineering standup UwU

My boss: Lola are you joining us today from some kind of.. cage? And is that a collar you're wearing?

Me: It's my kennel! Lets talk Q3 updates.

Something very confusing for new people is the difference between "activist" and "organizers", which are often mixed up by external observers for a variety of reasons. Nonetheless, they constitute two very different approaches to political impact.

There's no single definitive way to draw the line that distinguishes the two, but let's try to get an intuition.

Activist = focused on action, as the name implies
Organizer = focused on systems, services, and large-scale relationships

Activist = concerned with the public sphere, culture, opinions, and expression
Organizer = focused on material gains, capacity-building, construction of power

Activist = unstable exponential short-term growth
Organizer = stable linear long-term growth

Activist = impact on the individuals (change of opinions, awareness, Overton window)
Organizer = impact on power structures (institutions, productive systems, laws, dual power)

No approach is better than the other: they are different and complementary tools for different problems. Failure happens when you use the wrong tool for the job: if you call a strike as an activist, it's unlikely you will have any impact. If you want to change social norms around a certain issue with an organizer mindset, it will take you decades.

When you approach an organization, it is important to contextualize which approach they follow, either intentionally or by imitation. Make sure it fits what you want to do and that the approach makes sense for the change they want to create.

#orgschool

"Colpirne 100 per educarne 1" è sicuramente una strategia inefficiente, ma vuoi mettere quanto è più divertente? E poi quell'1 superstite si comporterà da dio

Intermezzo Musicale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUHJbqi-Y1M

You want to write code faster? Back in my days we didn't need no clanker-brained vibecoding. We always had a tool to write code faster: it's called "fucking learn touch typing, you libcuck".

Normalize gatekeeping clankers from joining your events

"Communist and anarchist symbolism, such as the red star and the circle-A, date back to this period and also have Masonic origin. The star, which hosts an endless charge of esoteric meanings in both the Hermetic and Pythagorean traditions, had been adopted in the 18th century (some say 17th) by Freemasons to symbolize the Second Degree of membership in their association – that of Comrade (Compañero and Camarade in my sources). Among socialists, it was first used by members of the Memphite lodges and then the IWA. Regarding the Circle–A, early versions like the 19th century logo of the Spanish locale of the IWA are clearly composed of the compass, level and plumbline of Masonic iconography, the only innovation being that the compass and level are arranged to form the letter A inside of a circle.

Over time these symbols have developed a new complement of meanings – many 21st century anarchists don’t even know that the star used by communists, anarchists and Zapatistas alike is the pagan pentagram, and are not reminded of the mathematical perfection of cosmogony when they behold it, just as they do not necessarily realize there is a genealogical link between the (neo)pagan Mayday celebration and today’s anarchist Mayday marches. In the 19th century, however, these symbolic associations were well known by those involved, and their adoption reflected how much they resonated with mystical and historical weight. Even Bakunin, while he rejected the personal God of his Russian orthodox childhood, put forward a pantheistic revolutionism. In a letter to his sister (1836) he wrote, “Let religion become the basis and reality of your life and your actions, but let it be the pure and single–minded religion of divine reason and divine love... [I]f religion and an inner life appear in us, then we become conscious of our strength, for we feel that God is within us, that same God who creates a new world, a world of absolute freedom and absolute love... that is our aim” Occult Features of Anarchism - by Erica Lagalisse