Jeroen Robbe
@jeroenrobbe.bsky.social
Organizer, Campaign Strategist & Activist Trainer. Collective Liberation with a focus on Climate Justice and Border Abolition.
Facilitation / Popular Education / Theatre of the Oppressed. Paulo Freire geek. :-)
Facilitation / Popular Education / Theatre of the Oppressed. Paulo Freire geek. :-)
So true: one off mobilizations, short-lived protest camp sites or even short campaigns contribute to build movements as they show defiance and politicize new people, but the real task is in absorbing the momentum in efforts for long-term power building. That involves people joining organizations.
When people talk about wanting to see more people in the streets, I honestly think about the Palestine solidarity marches of the last year. We had so many people in the streets, but no real leverage. I'm not saying symbolic action is bad, bc it's not, but it's not a strategic plan either.
March 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
So true: one off mobilizations, short-lived protest camp sites or even short campaigns contribute to build movements as they show defiance and politicize new people, but the real task is in absorbing the momentum in efforts for long-term power building. That involves people joining organizations.
With everything happening, it's very normal to feel overwhelmed and start to panic. If you do, slow down. Find others. Come together. Share your fears AND your dreams. Cultivate active hope, while you also mourn. Take some more time. Reflect. Strategize. Organize. Only when you fight, you can win.
March 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
With everything happening, it's very normal to feel overwhelmed and start to panic. If you do, slow down. Find others. Come together. Share your fears AND your dreams. Cultivate active hope, while you also mourn. Take some more time. Reflect. Strategize. Organize. Only when you fight, you can win.
Bernie's back in the game! Bernie Sanders is a much better strategist than any formal leader of the Democratic Party. His approach has been rooted in:
🗣️ a powerful counter narrative
🏗️ building scalable movement infrastructure
🎯 strategic focus
✨ combining a strong "no" with a "hell yeah"
🗣️ a powerful counter narrative
🏗️ building scalable movement infrastructure
🎯 strategic focus
✨ combining a strong "no" with a "hell yeah"
February 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Bernie's back in the game! Bernie Sanders is a much better strategist than any formal leader of the Democratic Party. His approach has been rooted in:
🗣️ a powerful counter narrative
🏗️ building scalable movement infrastructure
🎯 strategic focus
✨ combining a strong "no" with a "hell yeah"
🗣️ a powerful counter narrative
🏗️ building scalable movement infrastructure
🎯 strategic focus
✨ combining a strong "no" with a "hell yeah"
Myles Horton (Highlander): I like to think I have two eyes. I try to see with one eye where people are. If I can get hold of that, this is where I start. So I look at them with my other eye and say to myself, how do I start moving them to where I know they can be. #Strategy #Organizing #PeoplePower
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Myles Horton (Highlander): I like to think I have two eyes. I try to see with one eye where people are. If I can get hold of that, this is where I start. So I look at them with my other eye and say to myself, how do I start moving them to where I know they can be. #Strategy #Organizing #PeoplePower
Kwame Ture started off as a brilliant organizer with SNCC during the civil rights era. Afterwards he belonged to many organizations. In fact he never was without affiliation. He said: “I have not known any great person who did not belong to an organization”. Make sure you find yours to build power!
February 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Kwame Ture started off as a brilliant organizer with SNCC during the civil rights era. Afterwards he belonged to many organizations. In fact he never was without affiliation. He said: “I have not known any great person who did not belong to an organization”. Make sure you find yours to build power!
Reposted by Jeroen Robbe
Komend weekend in Amsterdam. Het 2.Dh5 festival is een plek om ideeën uit te wisselen over grass-roots campagnes, tactieken en actiemethodes die onze idealen van een vrije en solidaire samenleving dichterbij brengen. www.2dh5.nl
2.Dh5 | Festival voor wereldversleutelaars
Het jaarlijkse 2.Dh5 festival keert terug naar Amsterdam in de Ru Paré voor haar negentiende editie op 1 en 2 maart 2025. Meer dan ooit hebben we behoefte aan gemeenschap, steun en wederzijdse hulp.
www.2dh5.nl
February 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Komend weekend in Amsterdam. Het 2.Dh5 festival is een plek om ideeën uit te wisselen over grass-roots campagnes, tactieken en actiemethodes die onze idealen van een vrije en solidaire samenleving dichterbij brengen. www.2dh5.nl
What's the first thing to do during dark times? Make sure to get in formation and find an organization that could serve as your political home. It doesn't need to be perfect, just good enough for now. Good enough to build community, to resist and to practice solidarity.
#Organizing #Resistance
#Organizing #Resistance
February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What's the first thing to do during dark times? Make sure to get in formation and find an organization that could serve as your political home. It doesn't need to be perfect, just good enough for now. Good enough to build community, to resist and to practice solidarity.
#Organizing #Resistance
#Organizing #Resistance
Frederick Douglass: "All concessions (...) have been born of earnest struggle (...) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
>>> The EU wants to put profit ahead again of people and planet. We better get in formation for another round of struggle to make them rethink
>>> The EU wants to put profit ahead again of people and planet. We better get in formation for another round of struggle to make them rethink
The @ec.europa.eu has revealed its gameplan for the coming years and it looks like Climate Ambition will be the biggest loser 🚨
Some of our takeaways:👇
friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
Some of our takeaways:👇
friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
February 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Frederick Douglass: "All concessions (...) have been born of earnest struggle (...) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
>>> The EU wants to put profit ahead again of people and planet. We better get in formation for another round of struggle to make them rethink
>>> The EU wants to put profit ahead again of people and planet. We better get in formation for another round of struggle to make them rethink
Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
More of this pointed ridicule, please.
February 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Jeroen Robbe
🚨 Back to protest mode
Tomorrow, @ec.europa.eu will announce #Omnibus, but we've seen the leaked text: it's a direct assault on the EU sustainability framework & dramatic for the #CSDDD
It's not simplification, but full-scale deregulation designed to dismantle corporate accountability
#NoToOmnibus
Tomorrow, @ec.europa.eu will announce #Omnibus, but we've seen the leaked text: it's a direct assault on the EU sustainability framework & dramatic for the #CSDDD
It's not simplification, but full-scale deregulation designed to dismantle corporate accountability
#NoToOmnibus
February 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨 Back to protest mode
Tomorrow, @ec.europa.eu will announce #Omnibus, but we've seen the leaked text: it's a direct assault on the EU sustainability framework & dramatic for the #CSDDD
It's not simplification, but full-scale deregulation designed to dismantle corporate accountability
#NoToOmnibus
Tomorrow, @ec.europa.eu will announce #Omnibus, but we've seen the leaked text: it's a direct assault on the EU sustainability framework & dramatic for the #CSDDD
It's not simplification, but full-scale deregulation designed to dismantle corporate accountability
#NoToOmnibus
This is true for anyone anywhere involved in the fight for justice and against the far-right: you don't fight back the bullies by playing softball. We need to build power around a strong counter narrative, rooted in widely shared values. A narrative that envisions big wins for the many, not the few.
“Farage is doing well because he’s pushing for a massive shake up to the system.
We need to counter that by pushing for an even bigger shake up – by redistributing wealth, investing in communities, and tackling the climate crisis," says Zak.
Read: wcwd.substack.com/p/no-growth-...
We need to counter that by pushing for an even bigger shake up – by redistributing wealth, investing in communities, and tackling the climate crisis," says Zak.
Read: wcwd.substack.com/p/no-growth-...
"No Growth on a Dead Planet"
Green New Deal Rising are fighting Labour's climate betrayal using the power of community, playful disruption, and collective joy.
wcwd.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is true for anyone anywhere involved in the fight for justice and against the far-right: you don't fight back the bullies by playing softball. We need to build power around a strong counter narrative, rooted in widely shared values. A narrative that envisions big wins for the many, not the few.
The current "slash-and-burn" deregulation efforts by the European Commission are part of a wider effort to overwhelm progressives and the broader civil society. Using the momentum of a shift towards the right (also in the European Parliament), it's a class war from above - against people and planet.
🔴 Live right now!
We're in front of the @ec.europa.eu again urging decisionmakers to end the #Omnibus frenzy ➕ stick to their promise to #HoldBizAccountable.
This is not about cutting red tape. It's deregulation at the expense of people and climate.
#ProtectCSDDD #NoToOmnibus
We're in front of the @ec.europa.eu again urging decisionmakers to end the #Omnibus frenzy ➕ stick to their promise to #HoldBizAccountable.
This is not about cutting red tape. It's deregulation at the expense of people and climate.
#ProtectCSDDD #NoToOmnibus
February 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The current "slash-and-burn" deregulation efforts by the European Commission are part of a wider effort to overwhelm progressives and the broader civil society. Using the momentum of a shift towards the right (also in the European Parliament), it's a class war from above - against people and planet.
Will the real internationalists please stand up? If the far-right outgrows the left in terms of international networking, then we have a real problem. While we need strong, locally anchored organizing efforts, let us invest in building more space for international solidarity and mutual learning too!
February 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Will the real internationalists please stand up? If the far-right outgrows the left in terms of international networking, then we have a real problem. While we need strong, locally anchored organizing efforts, let us invest in building more space for international solidarity and mutual learning too!
Humor en satire zijn effective wapens in de strijd met autoritaire regimes en de 1%. Ze laten ook toe om de strijd om het verhaal te voeren.
Fijn dat @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social enkele van de toppers in dit veld aan het woord laat.
#BeautifulTrouble #Hoax #CreativeActivism
Fijn dat @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social enkele van de toppers in dit veld aan het woord laat.
#BeautifulTrouble #Hoax #CreativeActivism
February 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Humor en satire zijn effective wapens in de strijd met autoritaire regimes en de 1%. Ze laten ook toe om de strijd om het verhaal te voeren.
Fijn dat @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social enkele van de toppers in dit veld aan het woord laat.
#BeautifulTrouble #Hoax #CreativeActivism
Fijn dat @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social enkele van de toppers in dit veld aan het woord laat.
#BeautifulTrouble #Hoax #CreativeActivism
Reposted by Jeroen Robbe
Cool, thanks! And for who prefers to read, the text is also fully available to read online on the History is a Weapon website:
www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon2/peda...
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www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon2/peda...
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere | Contents
www.historyisaweapon.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Cool, thanks! And for who prefers to read, the text is also fully available to read online on the History is a Weapon website:
www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon2/peda...
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www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon2/peda...
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Reposted by Jeroen Robbe
Here's a link to the audiobook on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NzK...
Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Audiobook)
YouTube video by willow
www.youtube.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Here's a link to the audiobook on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NzK...
Reposted by Jeroen Robbe
The Progressive International is hiring an Arab World Coordinator.
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Coordinator: Arab World and The Hague Group for Palestine
The Progressive International is recruiting a coordinator as (1) Arab World Regional Lead, and (2) Program Support for The Hague Group for Palestine — to manage organizational expansion, campaigns,…
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February 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Progressive International is hiring an Arab World Coordinator.
Apply now.
Apply now.
Unsurprisingly the increase of repression of social movements follows the increasing grip of the (far) right on politics. A tendency we see everywhere. Activists in several European countries are faced with increasing harsh consequences. More than ever: an injury to one is an injury to all.
🚨 BREAKING: SOUTHWARK 8 TRIAL BEGINS TODAY
⚖️ 8 Just Stop Oil supporters charged with conspiracy to cause a public nuisance begin their 6 week trial at Southwark Crown Court.
⚖️ 8 Just Stop Oil supporters charged with conspiracy to cause a public nuisance begin their 6 week trial at Southwark Crown Court.
February 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Unsurprisingly the increase of repression of social movements follows the increasing grip of the (far) right on politics. A tendency we see everywhere. Activists in several European countries are faced with increasing harsh consequences. More than ever: an injury to one is an injury to all.
Fascism is fascism is fascism. It's not that hard. Even when fascists get voted into power, they're still fascists.
February 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Fascism is fascism is fascism. It's not that hard. Even when fascists get voted into power, they're still fascists.
✅democracy
🟩capitalism
It's more than a choice you make in the voting booth. We enable the one or the other every day by the many choices we make: how we relate to each other, how we make collective decisions, how we resist the vultures...
#capitalism #democracy #corporatetakeover
🟩capitalism
It's more than a choice you make in the voting booth. We enable the one or the other every day by the many choices we make: how we relate to each other, how we make collective decisions, how we resist the vultures...
#capitalism #democracy #corporatetakeover
February 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
✅democracy
🟩capitalism
It's more than a choice you make in the voting booth. We enable the one or the other every day by the many choices we make: how we relate to each other, how we make collective decisions, how we resist the vultures...
#capitalism #democracy #corporatetakeover
🟩capitalism
It's more than a choice you make in the voting booth. We enable the one or the other every day by the many choices we make: how we relate to each other, how we make collective decisions, how we resist the vultures...
#capitalism #democracy #corporatetakeover
Je kan niet bestrijden, wat je niet kent. Een goede analyse van het nieuwe asiel en migratiebeleid. Er zal veel en slim weerwerk nodig zijn om de schade zelfs maar te beperken.
Een wat langere analyse over asiel en migratiebeleid van Arizona van mijn hand.
“Blijkbaar moeten we vandaag Arizona vieren omdat ze een ongelijkheidsproject nastreeft. “There’s something rotten in the state of Belgium”.”
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...
“Blijkbaar moeten we vandaag Arizona vieren omdat ze een ongelijkheidsproject nastreeft. “There’s something rotten in the state of Belgium”.”
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...
Het strengste asiel- en migratiebeleid ooit uitgelegd - DeWereldMorgen.be
In het uitgebreid dossier 'De plannen van de regering De Wever' analyseren we het federale regeerakkoord tot op het bot. In dit artikel gaat migratie expert Pascal Debruynem dieper in op "het strengst...
www.dewereldmorgen.be
February 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Je kan niet bestrijden, wat je niet kent. Een goede analyse van het nieuwe asiel en migratiebeleid. Er zal veel en slim weerwerk nodig zijn om de schade zelfs maar te beperken.
No better way to start my journey on Bluesky than with this reminder: political education will be key to build stronger movements for justice and collective liberation. Reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire is a great place to start! #PoliticalEducation #Organize #PauloFreire
February 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
No better way to start my journey on Bluesky than with this reminder: political education will be key to build stronger movements for justice and collective liberation. Reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire is a great place to start! #PoliticalEducation #Organize #PauloFreire