Welcome to Dispatch #27! This week let’s explore an overall strategy for social change that we can all align behind, how Serbian students used satire to overthrow their dictator, an artist helping activists around the world get more creative, new resources, and more!
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Easy Actions to Take
Why: Google & YouTube has accepted over $40 million to run Israeli propaganda on Youtube and other Google products. Google workers with No Tech for Apartheid call on the public to support internal organizing efforts by mass-reporting and flooding Google’s internal reporting systems. You can report the ads in the following languages (based on where the ads are currently targeted geographically): English, Spanish, Arabic, Polish, German, Turkish, and Italian! Organized by NoTechForApartheid
Why: Urgent intervention needed to prevent the demolition of the Youth of Sumud Centre in At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta. The Jerusalem District Court has ordered demolition within 15 days. Organized by Newscord
Why: Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, the US has given more than $30 billion in taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel to enable its atrocities. By introducing this bill, Members of Congress are proactively trying to block the Trump administration from delivering major US weapons to Israel–bombs, tank rounds, and artillery shells–which it has used in its mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza.
Little (Movement) Wins
Looking for actual effective ways to push back against attacks on the people and ideas you care about? Our friends at the Center for Artistic Activism are hosting a free workshop, Anti-Authoritarian Artistic Activism: What We Can Learn & Do, to help you boost your political effectiveness when under authoritarian control.
It's a 60-minute, fast-paced workshop designed to give you some creative tools and inspiring ideas from other movements in history so you can effectively level up your activism, because authoritarianism doesn’t stand a chance against collective joy, stubborn hope, some humor, and a little weirdness.
🗓 Wed, Oct 15 @ 3pm US Eastern Time on Zoom
How Serbians Weaponized Satire
Activist History
