Mobilisation against the “Labour Law” reducing employees' social rights. Place Denfert-Rochereau, Paris, France, April 2016.
📷 Emmanuel Veneau #AmbulationsPhotographiques #AsTheDaysGoBy #AuFilDesJours
#photography #photographie #SocialMovement #MouvementSocial #BlackAndWhite #NoirEtBlanc

International Migrants Rights Day. Solidarity torchlight march, Auch, France, December 2022.
📷 Emmanuel Veneau #AmbulationsPhotographiques #AsTheDaysGoBy #AuFilDesJours
#photography #photographie #SocialMovement #MouvementSocial #BlackAndWhite #NoirEtBlanc
👤 CCM32 ; RESF32

I'm currently #reading Stanislav Vysotsky's book "American #Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism". It's a great work of #sociology that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to truly understand the #SocialMovement.

In a moment when #Trump thinks you can designate an idea like #antifascism as a "domestic terrorist organization" (?!), we should heed Vysotsky's words: "It bears repeating that if you are anti-anti-fascist, you’re just a #fascist."

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Bald sind die @datenspuren & ich freue mich, mit zwei Beiträgen dabei zu sein! Einer mit @HonkHase

https://katika-kuehnreich.com/blog/2025/09/11/vortraege-auf-den-datenspuren/

Packt euren Humor + all eure Fragen und Lösungen ein & wir sehen uns!
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Soon the #Datenspuren in #Dresden will start

I'm excited to be there with two talks, one in English

So - grab your humour & all your ideas for an #antifascist future & let us meet!

https://katika-kuehnreich.com/en/2025/09/11/two-talks-at-datenspuren-conference-in-dresden/

#TechBros #Nachaltigkeit #KI #AI #tech #socialmovement #Resistance #Cybernetics

Mobilisation to defend the Garros schools. Auch, France, January 2011.
📷 Emmanuel Veneau #AmbulationsPhotographiques #AsTheDaysGoBy #AuFilDesJours
#photography #photographie #SocialMovement #MouvementSocial #BlackAndWhite #NoirEtBlanc

Hey fediverse. I am new here - #introduction. #anarchist #queer #feminist - exploring #art #reads and peepz, #music and #movies, #gossip and #nerdy stuff. #remembrance #education #holocaust #socialmovement

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🌐 🔊 July 23 is an Important Date❗
Read why in the link:

"..the release of the most anticipated advisory opinion scheduled to be delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ)"

"Themes of climate justice in litigation, negotiation, and social movements are deeply interconnected, rather than isolated from one another. Youth, who are active across all these spheres, often serve as key advocates, thereby reshaping governance dynamics in the process"

#Environment #Climate #Youth
#SocialMovement #Legal #activism
https://theconversation.com/how-young-people-have-taken-climate-justice-to-the-worlds-international-courts-261033?

This time round, you and all else knew what you did
On thy hallowed ground you did it to innocent women and kids
Killing the healers, bringers of meals, picking from millions Lavender list
This dirty business got affiliates – billions flipping their lids
You've given free cover for villainy
cynically mimicking giving a shit
Just listen the rhythm and pitch – this isn’t a killable switch
We all have horrible feelings when we see the clip or image
What we see are bodies in ditches and those living with scant a stitch
Unforgiven inhumanity under the visible hand of the rich
Which is a situation of extreme intolerability
For any that feel empathically
For many it strains their sanity
A sick capitulation to necroeconomics politically
Anyone with a family
Feels heavy with this I guarantee
In whispered conversations in our cynical killing facilities
“They’re shelling tents with artillery?
Civilian death probability”
Airburst detonation imminent after attack on a bakery
“This is illegitimate
This targets no military”
This gives an indication that you feel some vulnerability
because the militant in your vicinity
isn’t ignorant to your complicity
And every mandem, stan on the gram and their nan can’t stand the depravity
Willing your guillotine still but you living a life limited by gravity

#bars #140bpm #gaza #FreePalestine #necropolitics #songs #poetry #lyrics #politcs #SocialMovement #ProtestChant #BreakTheSiege #Madleen #FreedomFlotilla

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #socialmovement / #ceasefire / #peace

„Who We Are

“It’s Time” is a coalition of over 60 peacebuilding and shared society organizations, working together with determination and courage to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a political agreement that will ensure both peoples' right to self-determination and secure lives.“
https://www.timeisnow.co.il/english

Making sure y'all saw this CfP for the Special Issue on Digital Communication in Social Movements.

Timeline: 8.3.25 abstract; 7.8.25 full paper; end of year publication.

#AI #TextasData #ImageAsData #SocialMovement #ScienceRocks

https://journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement/view/179

"There is no example yet of a non-violent #socialmovement delivering an epochal transfer of power from the obscenely wealthy few to the many. Yet this #transition is the only way to prevent #runawayclimate and #socialbreakdown - which will themselves bring terrible violence."

https://theecologist.org/2025/feb/10/rupture

The TDG Essay

Are you ready to start building a new democracy?

Here's the intro:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=30&id=12

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#socialmovement

The #GulabiGang’s #Feminist Vigilantism: Violence and Articulation within a #SocialMovement

by Jerin Jacob, Posted on February 1, 2019

"'Yes, we fight rapists with lathis (bamboo sticks). If we find the culprit, we thrash him black and blue so he dare not attempt to do wrong to any girl or a woman again,' brags #SampatDeviPal, founder of the #PinkSariGang, popularly known as the Gulabi Gang. Rooted in one of the poorest and most populated villages of Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh, north India, this all woman group prides in its collective identity as vigilantes and are literally, wielding sticks and fighting for women’s equality and liberty in the area.

"The inhabitants of Bundelkhand have to, on a daily basis, struggle against infertility of local lands, extreme poverty, illiteracy, frequent droughts, a corrupt judicial system and an oppressive and deeply hierarchical caste system on one hand and frequent incidences of rape, child marriage, domestic abuse, dowry deaths. etc on the other. What started as a one-time saving action wherein Sampat Pal Devi rounded up a few women and along with them, beat up a neighbor who abused his wife, has now grown into a feisty network of rebellious women across over eleven districts of India’s largest province, Uttar Pradesh, each honing a stick, ready to follow and deliver Sampat Devi’s alternate model of justice. With the vision to ‘protect the powerless from abuse and fight corruption’, the gang and its agenda found resonance with much of India’s population, where reports of sex crimes, domestic violence and gang rapes blighted the smooth functioning of the society.

"Every marginalized community in India faces some kind of violence or the other. However, women who hail from a lower caste face a heightened version of this marginalization. 'Baichi jat' or 'all women constitute a caste' best describes the status of women in marginalized communities. Caste movements and women’s movements have hitherto come into being in the Indian scenario, but this is the first time that a movement for women from the lower caste is coming to the fore.

"In this case, we see that women’s vigilantism has successfully proved to be an effective and temporary strategy to combat localized instances of gender violence. However, feminist scholarship throws light upon reasons why this sort of agency in resisting patriarchal forms of culture doesn’t fit into the long-term principles of feminist action. These instances of retributive ghettoizing and attacking the perpetrators does posit us with a moral and ethical predicament as to how far are they permanently justifiable in the eyes of the law and order set in place by society.

"Nevertheless, the Gulabi gang and its collective acts of aggression have managed to foster new feminist linkages for these women, allowing them options of social and physical mobility which were hitherto inaccessible.

"Through the various activities and issues the gang takes up, we can reach a consensus that marginalized women who have utilized such organized forms of violence in order to gain justice, actually find themselves walking the thin line between legally punishable and socially acceptable action. Atreyee Sen argues that such women’s groups that function outside the legal system ultimately end up adopting a language of politics and pacifism in order to gain legitimacy and credibility as a social movement. One can observe that female vigilantism, in disempowered communities, attains a credible space when examined through the lens of ‘ethical violence’ and other related understandings of proportionate punishment for crimes against women. Sen, quotes Shanti, a member of the gang since 2007, 'In all the time that I have been with the gang, we only beat people, we have never murdered anyone'.

"Deniz Kandiyoti in her essay ‘Bargaining with Patriarchy’, talks about the abstract notion of patriarchy as seen in contemporary feminist theory. She takes up a systematic and comparative examination of women’s strategies in coping with different forms of patriarchy. She says that while different forms of patriarchy assign women ‘distinct rules of the game’, women have to traditionally come up with a novel set of strategies for both active and passive resistance, ie women in different locations, spatially and culturally, have to make different kinds of patriarchal bargains to deal with the situations they are in. This study of hers leads her to opine that an analysis of different forms of resistance reflects a culturally and geographically grounded understanding of various patriarchal systems."

Read more (archived version):
https://web.archive.org/web/20230922235058/https://www.onefuturecollective.org/the-gulabi-gangs-feminist-vigilantism-violence-and-articulation-within-a-social-movement/

#InternetArchive #Patriarchy #ToxicMasculinity #GirlsFightBack #GulabiGangs #FeministVigilantism #WomenFightBack

« Every vital social movement immediately begins to generate art-songs, poetry, posters, murals, novels-an outpouring of the creativity that people will create from even the smallest crumbs of hope. »

― Aurora Levins Morales

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/733648807411236864/every-vital-social-movement-immediately-begins-to

#quotes #AuroraLevinsMorales #art #arts #SocialMovement #creativity #hope

« Every vital social movement immediately begins to generate art-songs, poetry, posters, murals, novels-an outpouring of the creativity that people will create from even the smallest crumbs of hope. »

― Aurora Levins Morales

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/733648807411236864/every-vital-social-movement-immediately-begins-to

#quotes #AuroraLevinsMorales #art #arts #SocialMovement #creativity #hope

https://gofund.me/eef5c6f4 #Activism #SocialJustice #Equality #HumanRights #CommunityAction #Empowerment #ChangeMakers #SocialImpact #Revolution #StandUp #VoiceOfThePeople #ClimateAction #YouthEmpowerment #JusticeForAll #Equity #CivicEngagement #Grassroots #SocialChange #FightForJustice #GlobalJustice #Advocacy #CivilRights #SocialMovement #RightsForAll #EmpowerThroughAction #ActivistArt #FutureIsNow #SpeakUp #Inclusivity #ProgressiveChange #Underground #Vote #KamalaHarris

Of possible interest. On a cynical angle, I remember reading somewhere how the #RealOwners often let protests happen as a safety valve. Let people get it out of their systems, then go back to business as usual. YMMV.

>Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-protests-and-social-movements-sway-voters-not-really-except-for-one

#SocialMedia #SocialMovement #protest

It's clear that #SocialMovement organizing benefits from the presence of supportive #PoliticalOpportunities. The impact of individual-level characteristics like social #trust, organizational membership, and political #ideology upon #protest potential, was moderated by opportunities like regime durability and empowerment #rights. Read/download my multi-level analysis, drawn from 43 countries in the #WorldValuesSurvey here:

https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:58991/

Unitary rally “to enforce the results of the ballot boxes” and call for the creation of local collectives against the Far Right. Millau, France, July 2024.
📷 Emmanuel Veneau (cc by-nc-sa) #AmbulationsPhotographiques #Newscast
#photography #election #CivicLife #SocialMovement

We adopted the slogan ‘Nothing for us without us!’ from the disabled movement in the United Kingdom. We adopted the phrase ‘grassroots urban planning’ from comrades in the urban movement in Brazil. This is why Ashraf Cassiem, the leader of the militant Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign developed the slogan ‘We are poor not stupid!’.

https://abahlali.org/node/17769/

#Abahlali #shackdwellers #directaction #generalassembly #housingcrisis #landlords #rent #socialmovement