Undercurrent

Happening tomorrow!

A reminder that to register for this event 15.09.20 2pm, talking Community Wealth Building with Joe Guinan, contact [email protected] for your wee zúm link, otherwise you will be locked outside this island of wisdom drowning in a sea of ignorance....

Thanks to everyone for their interest in our Resilient Movement Building & Active Hope workshop series. As the series started last week we unfortunately cannot take any new participants. Send us a PM if you'd like to be added to our mailing list for future trainings and events.

Thanks to Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice - MERJ for their great Anti Racism and Climate Justice Training over the weekend. Lots of tools and learning to use with our groups here in Galway and further afield.
Making our groups actively anti racist is a process and integral to the fight for climate and environmental justice.

Workers organising with a greater vision, connecting struggles and demonstrating the kind of resistence that is needed.

Workers Seize the Shipyard That Built the Titanic, Plan to Make Renewable Energy There The closure of the last shipyard in Belfast would end centuries of ship building in the city. A group of workers are demanding the U.K. nationalize the yards.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~Buckminster Fuller

Clearly it is a both-and rather than an either-or, just as Joanna Macy’s three dimensions of the Great Turning: I) holding actions (non violent and not as depicted in the image on top), lI) building new systems, and III) seeing with new eyes (the picture on the bottom is a combination of II and III)

Why We Need Community To Stand In The New Story: https://www.facebook.com/CharlesEisensteinOfficial/videos/2355089078082975/

What we can do to heal the planet and in the process heal humanity:
https://www.facebook.com/regenerativecultures/videos/2303470936360751/

CREDIT for the Meme-image creation: Gábor Tóth

Added in response to some of the comments as this post keeps spreading:

Erica Chenoweth collected data on all major nonviolent and violent campaigns for the overthrow of a government or territorial liberation since 1900. She discovered no campaigns failed once they’d achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population—and lots of them succeeded with far less than that . Furthermore every single campaign that did surpass that 3.5% threshold was a nonviolent one.�

https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/?fbclid=IwAR1yl5gL5_7qlTlf4KP8APxe3hknOtDq6J4BhvMQe09eMfY6E5WJlqugXwE

Thanks to Anna Po***ck for sharing this talk with me.

This past weekend, Undercurrent took a Cooperative study trip up North. We spoke to Ali in Trademark Belfast and and Richard in Loveworks Cooperative, and dropped into Lúnasa for some dinner. It's always really inspiring to see and hear the stories of workers taking ownership of the workplace, and to challenge the typical hierarchical structure. This model exists and it succeeds.

Day one of United Conference with United Against Racism in Durres, Albania