Ep 386 starts by addressing Mayday Strong strike plans. A one day strike can feel bold but without follow up change little. This episode starts by asking about Mayday’s call for “no work, no school, no shopping”: Can the plan pull people from symbolic protest into sustained resistance that escalates over time to  build sufficient power to stop Trump’s agenda and challenge the institutions that train us to compete instead of act together? After making the case for Mayday Strong, the episode suggests those who want a practical next step might wish to consult the site, allofusdirectory.org, to find organizations by issue and location suited to their topics of interest so activist energy conitnues to climbs after the date on the calendar passes.

Then we turn to chapter twenty nine of The Wind Cries Freedom. It takes up   a deceptively simple agenda, to plant the seeds of the future in the present. It argues that the choices we make now, how we fund projects, how we structure our work, how we make decisions, and how we communicate our aims, determine what kind of society we can really build. As examples, we dig into why ad funded media quietly buys you bosses, why clickbait and surveillance aren’t side effects but business models, and why “people-run social media” without ads or spying is both necessary and hard because adoption and internal dynamics can make or break the best intentions. 

From there we consider alternative media redesign with equitable pay and balanced jobs, hospitals as battlegrounds over the role of owners, doctors, and nurses, self management in all our endeavors, and “non reformist reform struggles” that don’t only patch today but also open doors to tomorrow. To close we explore courts, prisons, and policing through a lens of rehabilitation, rights, and redesigned incentives instead of vengeance and profit to argue for systems that resolve conflict without creating domination. 

The book the excerpts have been drawn from, The Wind Cries Freedom, will be available soon. I hope you will visit windcriesfreedom.org to get an advance look. And I hope you will help the book reach its preferred audience when the time comes. 

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