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I'm very excited to have an essay in the new anthology "There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists", out now on AK Press! Join us for an online launch event on April 29th at 7pm ET. Register here: https://bit.ly/nothingsowhole

Willie Dunn put his music career at the service of supporting Indigenous land defence movements. I had the pleasure recently of speaking with Lawrence Dunn on The Rebel Beat about his late father's musical legacy & support of Indigenous struggles from James Bay to Kanaehsatake land defense of 1990.
Have a listen here! https://anchor.fm/rebelbeatradio/episodes/103-Pity-the-Country--The-Life-and-Legacy-of-Willie-Dunn-ev3uk8

Underneath the surface where the tubes are "planted" are a series of strings, the mycelia. They are activated when the tubes are put in place.

All going according to plan*, the inside of the installation will stream live this weekend when on-site visitors are guided through a ritual of connection.

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*tests have gone well but the internet is notoriously unreliable in this area, and there is no phone signal

Thinking of a "mark of the beast" vaccine tattoo - maybe like a biohazard symbol but made out of sixes

Inspiring event:
Exit to #Community: Designing #Crypto for #SocialGood:

Thursday, April 29, 2021
10-11 a.m. Mountain Time
Free webinar

This #webinar will feature #blockchain #platforms designing solutions that empower #communities to define #value and exchange on their own terms:

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/e2c-crypto-social-good

new book #OpenAccess #ArtisticMethods #ParticipatoryResearch #ParticipatoryDesign
#decolonizing

Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053408

Is it tea time now?

Kidding. Any time is tea time.

Fellas, is it boomer to double-click?

#OtD 14 Apr 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, a general strike was declared in protest against the declaration by the British military of a ‘Special Militarised Zone' in the area. The general strike saw the creation of the short-lived Limerick Soviet.

George Clinton created more jobs letting people freely sample "Atomic Dog" than our last four presidents.

Successful social democratic movements were built on cooperatives, unions and the party forming an intertwined ecosystem of mass membership organisations that provided tangible benefits in the everyday life of the ordinary people who participated in them.

My new article "Cooperatives can help explain the rise and fall of social democracy. They can also help revitalise it." on Mutual Interest, a free-to-read media #coop owned by the readers and the writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/04/how-co-ops-help-explain-and-reverse-the-rise-and-fall-of-social-democracy