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refugees, speak out! Show more

Kick Out Zwarte Piet (KOZP) begon gisteren met een crowdfundingscampagne ter ondersteuning van rechtszaken en acties tegen de racistische karikatuur. Het streefbedrag van de campagne, die eindigt op 9 augustus, is 10.000 euro. KOZP is een samenwerkingsverband van diverse organisaties dat de afgelopen jaren steeds protesten heeft georganiseerd bij de nationale intocht. Help mee in de strijd voor een Sinterklaasfeest zonder racisme en doneer ook! Lees verder: doorbraak.eu/steun-kozp-ook-fi

Belgium, human rights Show more

"As projects get older, they tend to move away from the benevolent dictatorship model and toward more openly democratic systems. This is not necessarily out of dissatisfaction with a particular BD. It's simply that group-based governance is more "evolutionarily stable", to borrow a biological metaphor. Whenever a benevolent dictator steps down, or attempts to spread decision-making responsibility more evenly, it is an opportunity for the group to settle on a new, non-dictatorial system — establish a constitution, as it were. The group may not take this opportunity the first time, or the second, but eventually they will; once they do, the decision is unlikely ever to be reversed. Common sense explains why: if a group of N people were to vest one person with special power, it would mean that N - 1 people were each agreeing to decrease their individual influence. People usually don't want to do that. Even if they did, the resulting dictatorship would still be conditional: the group anointed the BD, clearly the group could depose the BD. Therefore, once a project has moved from leadership by a charismatic individual to a more formal, group-based system, it rarely moves back."

https://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html

This episode, we air some audio from the #ItsGoingDown podcast from #OccupyICEPDX and an interview w a supporter of the #J20 arrestees about where the trial stands, how it's moved and how to help.

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org

chaos.social/media/-oehecU8rjh

**How Monopoly Was Invented to Demonstrate the Evils of Capitalism**

"The game’s little-known inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would no doubt have made herself go directly to jail if she’d lived to know just how influential today’s twisted version of her game has turned out to be. ‘Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, …"

feeds.feedblitz.com/~/55571737

#bot

Britpol, but actually USpol could do with some of this.

…what men deserve.
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved ? Will you punish us for that ? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate ? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

New article on Ravotr:

A serious public transport strike in the Netherlands
ravotr.nl/2018/07/01/public-tr

toot!

The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks! :blobaww:

However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out :blobcry:

This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.

So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:

switching.social/unofficial-ko

Any feedback very welcome.

#eBook #eBooks #Books #DRM

It's Going Down: **Four New Zines About Struggles in Mexico**

"IGD is excited to introduce four new English-language zines about various struggles in Mexico. Below is a brief summary of each with links to PDFs in the available formats. The zines are also available in IGD’s library. Wild and Criminal: Anthology of Prison Chronicles A collection of writings, reflections, and poe…"

itsgoingdown.org/zines-struggl

news, catalonia/spain Show more

Weer een artikeltje op Ravotr

Over stakingen, een burgemeesterschap en een noodzakelijk Verhaal
ravotr.nl/2018/06/29/stakingen

Toot! :)

In 2017 liep er een nieuwe club mee met de Rotterdamse Pride Walk die zich de Dutch GayServatives noemt. Hun logo? Een Nederlandse vlag met een roze driehoek en een betonschaar (verwijzing naar de mishandeling van het homoseksuele koppel Ronnie en Jasper in Arnhem). Hun slogans? “Wel homo, geen mietje“ en “Liever pepperspray dan een genderneutrale wc“. Lees verder: doorbraak.eu/rotterdam-pride-n