Welcome to Dispatch #32! This is our last Dispatch for 2025, and what a year it has been! We’d like to spend some time reflecting on all the amazing stories we’ve shared this year. Below we have links to our favorites, but we would love to hear what have been your favorites too! (Please tell us in a comment on the web article!)
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Why: An ongoing hunger strike by political prisoners from the Filton 24 (a group arrested and held for their Pro-Palestine advocacy) has reached a critical point with several strikers needing urgent medical care. Check the toolkit (linked above) for ways to support whether you are in our outside the UK. If you are in the UK, be sure to call your MP to sign EDM 2386 and email them!
Why: Generative AI has already wiped out millions of jobs and threatens the livelihoods of artists around the world. With the technology evolving so quickly, creators need to come together, get on the same page, and leverage our collective power. Without robust guardrails and shared standards, this rapid, uncoordinated deployment threatens to devalue creative labor, erode our trust in what we see and hear, and undermine human creativity itself. Organized by Creators Coalition on AI
Why: The games industry’s has had a history of complicity in normalising the presence of the military–and even in the development of military technology–that has gone on for too long! Whether it be through the racist, militaristic content of the games themselves, having military recruiters at eSports events, or games being developed as military training simulators, there is a deep connection between games and genocide that needs to be broken. Organized by NoGamesForGenocide
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