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Beautiful Trouble
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Global network of #Troublemakers using creative tactics to #RESIST. Check out our suite of tools & trainings & join the community! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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Beautiful trouble brought wins internationally in 2024. Take a look at this list from @nvintl.bsky.social nonviolencenews.org/2024/12/21/3...
January 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Beautiful trouble brought wins internationally. Take a look at this list from @nvintl.bsky.social nonviolencenews.org/2024/12/21/3...
January 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Imagine an economy that allows us to love each other!

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#farming #food #ocean #justice #landtrust #education #cooperative #technology #health #nature #theater
December 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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📣 New in the Beautiful Trouble Toolbox: V-Formation 🌟

Just like geese rotate leadership in flight, this strategy encourages activists to share burdens, rotate roles, and prioritize rest without guilt.

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#activism
Inspired by NAture Sustaining Movement How can movements soar for the long haul? Look to the sky! Migratory bird show us the way! Parable of the choir A choir sings a note impossibly long because singers drop out to breathe yet the note continues. Activism can be like that: we must take turns to rest, so the fight lives on. Migratory Birds wisdom In a V-formation rotate leadership sharing the hardest roles and allowing rest. Together, they travel 70% farther than flying solo. Teamwork in flight!
December 9, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Principle: Making the invisible visible.

Activists (From 2018) with locked arms and signs reading "Sanctuary for All" and "No Raids No Ban No Wall" block a driveway at a rally against ICE in SFO.

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#immigration #fightingback #nobannowall
November 10, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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🌿 Where Olive Trees Weep offers a powerful glimpse into the resilience of the Palestinian people under occupation, exploring loss, trauma, & justice.

🎥 Watch until November: bit.ly/beautifuloli...

Stand for justice for Palestine ✊🏽 #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #OliveTrees
October 3, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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🚨🚨 *SHARE WIDELY - HOW TO KIBBUTZ ENCAMPMENT GUIDE* - a group of activists almost on day 100 of their encampment at the home of US Secretary of State Blinken, have worked with organizers around the world to help them navigate the “how”. #FreePalestine bit.ly/KibbutzGuide
May 2, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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At the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, South African freedom fighters and hackers created an encrypted communication network that connected the leadership in exile with operatives in South Africa.
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April 5, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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Our journey towards a better world can—and often should—be a nurturing and joyful experience! Find pleasure in the process, as adrienne maree brown said: “Feeling good is not frivolous. It is freedom.”

Learn about the revolutionary force of joy: beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...
March 24, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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We must be willing to recognize and shift our own obsolete mindsets and abandon all constants. If we truly want to change the world, we must recognize that change is the only constant.

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#Activism #justice
It’s not just the status quo that needs to change, but the status quo inside our own heads. How can we expect to change the world without also changing how we change the world?
March 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Beautiful Trouble takes many forms.

Tactic: Culture Jamming
A cultural intervention that alters a brand or meme to make a subversive political point.

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#ceasefirenow #freepalestine
March 8, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Replacing cops with mimes is the level of abolition we wish to see in the world. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...
March 3, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Keep showing up in the streets to #shutitdown4palestine, calling for #ceasefirenow and to #freepalestine.

Fight for our collective future.
March 3, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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The purpose of the Get Up, Rise Up direct action fund is to support activists globally to shift power through strategic nonviolent direct actions, awarding small grants to actions calling for ceasefire, and those targeting the fossil fuel industry. beautifultrouble.org/directaction
March 1, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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In 2015, students occupied over 200 schools in São Paulo to protest the governor’s plan to close schools, forcing him to reverse course, and igniting a wave of student resistance across the country.

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February 22, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Is the glass half full, half empty?

The glass is half full and half empty.

We need hard-headed realism and full-hearted idealism to change the world.

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February 16, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Hanging a banner off a building or structure makes for great media coverage, alerting the broad public to an issue or campaign. It’s also a good way to frame or contextualize an upcoming action.

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February 13, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Bertolt Brecht's genius lies in using innovative theatrical techniques to "make the familiar strange," sparking a social analysis and critical response from the audience. beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool...
February 2, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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Need a training, strategic support, or an injection of creative energy?

Our seasoned trainers are standing by! We offer everything from introductory webinars to week-long intensives in a highly experiential framework rooted in popular education.

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January 28, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Political action that is carefully and thoughtfully designed and executed to cause a reaction or response from a targeted audience? That is making love!

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January 11, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Happy New Years, troublemaker comrades. See you in the streets.
January 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Troublemakers, now is the time to enjoy rest and rejuvenation as we reflect on the past year, thinking deeply about the past, the present, and the actions needed to bring to life a society built on care, compassion, and softness.

Together, we will win.
December 22, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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Do you dream about the possibilities of App Flooding in activism? We do. bit.ly/AppFlooding
December 15, 2023 at 2:52 PM
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Join us, today on Wishful Wednesday—which is when you make it past Giving Tuesday and realize that you have a $1K match to match with a donation to make it all possible!

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November 29, 2023 at 7:51 PM
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When repression makes protest too risky, turn ordinary acts — driving slowly, clapping, wearing black, or laughing — into protests, thereby ridiculing the authorities and forcing them into a decision dilemma.
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Card for the Beautiful Trouble strategy card deck on top of sparkly fabric. The top of the card is light blue with the words "If protest is made illegal, make daily life a protest" in white. Beneath those words is a graphic of a person in a hijab, driving a car with the words #Women2Drive on the front of the car. Beneath the car is a graphic of a justice scale in white against a blue background with the following words to the right: "When repression makes protest too risky, turn ordinary acts - driving slowly, clapping, wearing black, or laughing -- into protests, thereby ridiculing the authorities and forcing them into a decision dilemma. At the bottom of the card is a light blue ribbon and the word "principle" in white.
November 20, 2023 at 9:43 PM