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Supporting African artists with practical assistance in these harsh economic times 🎨 | Rooted in kindness, community, and mutual aid, we provide creatives with support to navigate life’s challenges. #ArtistsLivelihoods
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The best way to prepare and fight is not always to read a endless daily stream of information that makes you feel overwhelmed and hopeless.

Read books about resistance to fascism. Develop a strategy. Do local work and build a strong community around yourself.

We are going to need it.
November 11, 2024 at 11:36 PM
We'd appreciate a boost. We're new to the platform. Please see our Pinned post on our mutual aid initiative to get supplies to artists (especially mom creatives) on our side of the world (South Africa) some food and essentials for the holidays season.
November 10, 2024 at 7:44 AM
We seem to share same passions. We're new here - greetings from South Africa.
November 10, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Please help boost our newly launched mutual aid campaign! ❤️
November 10, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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HELL YEAH. If you're millennial or Gen Z, you should def reach out to Run for Something, they're great: runforsomething.net
Run for Something
Run for Something recruits and supports talented, passionate young people who will advocate for progressive values now and for the next 30 years, with the ultimate goal of building a progressive bench...
runforsomething.net
November 8, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Organizing how-to 🌈
Will be doing a bit of a hands on DIY #Bluesky event here in Wellington,NZ early/mid December for any interested peeps that want to know about setting up and running personal or community infrastructure.

Will be a part of a broader week long micro-symposium envisioning of tech futures

Deets TBC
November 8, 2024 at 6:02 PM