This Solarpunk Action Week exploded, outnumbering last year’s by at least a factor of ten! I never imagined it’d get this big - I suppose it’s all thanks to @poblacht-na-n-oibrithe‘s knack for spreading information, being a professional meme queen
The actions I’ve seen this week have been fantastic! Tons of people getting food planted, learning new skills, building things, reducing waste, spreading information, taking direct action, and getting organized. I’m unbelievably proud of and inspired by every single one of you. And there have been several people saying they’re going to carry the momentum of last week through for another week, month, or even season of solarpunk activism - that’s outstanding!!! I can’t wait to see what you all accomplish!
If you want to keep up with/support the mods between Action Weeks, here’s our info:
The next Action Week will be happening around 6 months from now (exact dates TBA), to correspond with planting season in the southern hemisphere. Those of you in the northern hemisphere are still encouraged to participate - we’ll have lots of info on how to collect and preserve your harvests, start winter crops, and preserve your soil between growing seasons, as well as tons of non-plant-related actions
Your mission from now until then is to organize. I want to see you show up for the next Action Week with a crew, ready to get stuff done together! Individualistic skillbuilding is great, but we can’t change the world working alone - we need to strengthen our communities!
A great place to start right now is with local COVID-19 response mutual aid networks. There are already hundreds of groups like that popping up all over the world, plus plenty of resources to start your own if there’s not already one in your area. This is vital work, the kind of stuff the state can’t or won’t do - we need all hands on deck to get these networks running and help them build into something even greater when we come out the other side
If that’s not enough for you, though, here’s a list of great initiatives to get involved with (just to get you started):
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On this day, 9 April 1914, Basque anarchist, feminist and civil war fighter Casilda Hernaez was born. Becoming a militant as a teenager, she was first jailed for inciting a strike in an all-female workplace, then was later jailed for 29 years for distributing radical media and possessing explosives.
Released under the Republic, she joined an anarchist militia during the civil war until women were shamefully banned from the fighting, then helped defend her union buildings from attacks by Communist Party forces in the 1937 May Days.
She survived the war and moved to France, helping the French and Spanish resistance.
In this podcast, we tell the story of the Spanish civil war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/spanish-civil-war-podcast/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1396635443854935/?type=3
