Brainstorming post

[sathari]

In addition to the master post of ideas and suggestions, on the encouragement of one of our wonderful mods tassosss, I'm offering up a brainstorming post for batting ideas back and forth--- things we've done that seem to be effective, ideas we have, especially for making activism easier in general... and, because of the fannish spirit of this comm, any ideas for activism/tools/etc. that you've gotten from fiction and other media? Or for that matter any stories/art/music/other creations that inspire and support your activism that you want to share?

Comments

[redbird]

Thank you. A bunch of Americans are trying to screw the rest of us Americans, and the rest of the world, so this is not just an American fight.

[tielan]

Most internationals who are looking at this comm understand pretty well that it's not all of America, even when we rant about "stupid Americans, what have you done?" (There's an automatic #notallAmericans clause in there, rather like any statement to which some dudebro is going to add #notallmen. If it's not your fault - ie. you voted for Hillary and the Dems - then the disclaimer doesn't apply.)

And as I said above: your politics and society is the most televised and broadcast in the world. Chances are, we'll know more about your politics and your general society than we'd know about the pockets of our own cultures. That makes you extremely influential, and when your president and government normalises such anti-humanitarian behaviour against its own citizens, it affects everyone.