Is news really activism? Will this place be the change u wanna cause?
Is news really activism? Will this place be the change u wanna cause?
Yeah I get it, everything fucking sucks and sometimes we get a win. I've been here for 30 minutes tops and I can't remember half of the headlines I've read, can you? There's like no engagement on any of the posts here and there's probably a dozen aggregators that post the same shit you're looking at.
Shit that was written to nickel and dime you somehow, or lower down the food chain in an academic format for people actually paid to solve problems.
Leave the articles to the climate scientists and policy makers: This instance needs a place for people who get shit done, people who wanna change themselves and their immediate communities. We don't have enough of that, anywhere.
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I pretty much agree with this - I like reading the news and knowing what's going on, but it seems like the action is the missing piece, more so than the news about how fucked everything is.
So to me, one thing I think would be very effective is just a monthly subscription which builds up a pool of money, which goes as campaign contributions (coupled with outreach / voting recommendations for voters / other activism) to people who are enacting the regulations that we need to have happen.
That's not meant to say that direct protest / communication of what's going on like you see in this sub / individual actions aren't substantial, but I think action towards changing the governments' policies is one of the most effective ways to make positive change, and sadly in the current environment that means money.
If you are a member of such an organisation, please share your activities here and you can also try to do some fund-raising (in moderation) if you think that helps.
I am not but I'm happy to set it up - maybe like a Kickstarter to see if there's enough traction behind the idea, and if there's some seed money / interest, it'd be pretty easy to set up a nonprofit and a web site where people can subscribe + view details of where the money is going in terms of campaign contributions, and why.
Like I say I honestly think it'd be a pretty good approach. I imagine a pretty simple web site: Currently we're at $x per month, and the specific regulatory bills we're supporting are A, B, and C, and these are the candidates that are getting regular donations from us totaling $y per month out of our contributions because they're doing the good stuff. Want to join our contributions list? Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to raise so much money for your campaign? (I know that's actually a really miserable part of being in congress) Here's what you need to know. Want to donate? Click here. And so on. It's not complex.
I mean I am sure the concept of a recurring monthly donation to an organization that then advocates and contributes to candidates is not new. Maybe I'm reinventing the wheel lol. I feel like overall I'm a little late to the party in terms of activism against climate change; do you happen to know of good organizations like this that are already set up / already existing?
There are a lot of organizations but most communities don't have an active local chapter of any of them. What's needed is mostly not money, but time to talk with people you know, time to show up at local government meetings, time to recruit others, etc.