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Social media's a surveillance hellscape, the internet's an AI nightmare, & our Signal threads? Insecure!

In the context of rising criminalization & authoritarianism, communities of resistance need to build our own communication networks. So join this half-day interactive skill share!

🗓️ Oct 10
⏰ 1-5pm ET / 10am-2pm PT
📍 Zoom

To register, see the linktree in our bio or visit bit.ly/infopowerskillshare SKILL SHARE Building Informational Power to Resist Authoritarianism Zines • Mesh networks • Community archiving • Prison radio • Signal safety OCT 10 • 1-5PM ET • ZOOM REGISTER NOW bit.ly/infopowerskillshare by @lewispants

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Me, my mom @rsimkinsmcc, my absurdly hot boifriend and @richardblais !!! All in Key West having the best end of summer blow out EVER with big thanks to @schoonerappledore and @fourflamingoskeywest for such a sweet time ♥️♥️♥️ by @lewispants

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On NPR, SCOTUS, Transphobia & “Journalistic Objectivity” — featuring the brilliant @lewispants

Clarification: LRW was let go by Marketplace/American Public Media, which is not NPR, though Marketplace is broadcast on MANY NPR stations & Lewis writes in THE VIEW FROM SOMEWHERE about encountering these same issues at NPR affiliate WBEZ in Chicago (as have I).

but make no mistake:

NPR national sets the tone of what is acceptable to be broadcast on NPR affiliate stations, so even shows produced by APM or by NPR member stations work to make sure they can be broadcast by NPR, which affects who is hired and fired (and not hired and not fired). by @lewispants

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4 months ago

Our basement studio is available for summer or fall rental, it’s an amazing space with its own entrance and bathroom that has been used for theater, summer camp, photography, screen print, banner making, soap making, and is awaiting your next project! It’s about 700 square foot with good light and street parking. I would most like to find multiple projects or artists with short or medium term needs to share the space. We live upstairs so prefer friendly cool chill people. Bonus pig and chicken cuteness on your way in!!! DM with questions or ideas! by @lewispants

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Happy Monday! Our annual grassroots fundraiser just went live, and we’ve already raised 23% of our goal!

This week, we’ll be sharing thoughts from folks within Press On’s network on why you should donate to us. We are forever grateful for their support and hope we can earn yours. Donate to Press On at givebutter.com/fundsolidarity to help us reach our $8,000 goal by June 5! #LinkInBio

First up is Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants (he/they/ze), one of our co-founders who currently works as an Abolition Journalism Fellow at Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim, a movement resource hub building toward a world free of criminalization, policing, punishment, and violence:

“We desperately need movement journalism right now, and we need more of it and for it to be really good, deep, and digestible.

Press On is one of the only organizations devoted exclusively to that: they are developing the idea of movement journalism, and the practice, but most importantly, they are directly supporting the people doing this work.

It's a beautiful community with a clear vision for how to actually interrupt the assault on our humanity and liberation through media. This is a small but mighty organization that I am so proud to be a part of!”

[Image description: Photo of Lewis Raven Wallace, a genderqueer individual with gray hair and bushy eyebrows, sitting on the ground and grinning with his arm around a large black pig named Dogwood.] by @lewispants

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RESCHEDULED! Now happening June 18th!

Writers, editors, journalists, communications people and the like are all welcome to this online discussion! See the linktree in our bio to register.

• What is the effect of surveillance and criminalization on our work as media makers?
• What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities?
• What tools and strategies can we use to make sound decisions about safety, support, and transparency with sources and communities in a context of increasing criminalization?
• How can we make decisions collaboratively about platform, format, and risk in our work? Resistance Lab: Making & Distributing Media Under Surveillance Register at bit.ly/JournalistsMeetupReg Thursday, June 18th 3PM-5PM ET Online by @lewispants

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Writers, editors, journalists, communications people and the like are all welcome to this online discussion happening June 2! See the linktree in our bio to register.

• What is the effect of surveillance and criminalization on our work as media makers?
• What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities?
• What tools and strategies can we use to make sound decisions about safety, support, and transparency with sources and communities in a context of increasing criminalization?
• How can we make decisions collaboratively about platform, format, and risk in our work? Resistance Lab: Making & Distributing Media Under Surveillance Register at bit.ly/JournalistsMeetupReg Tuesday, June 2nd 3PM-5PM ET Online by @lewispants

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If you’re a journalist, mediamaker, editor, or J-school student, and you care about how stories shape power, this is for you!

Join a virtual conversation with our Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace and author Anita Varma on her new book, Solidarity in Journalism: How Ethical Reporting Fights for Social Justice.

📅 Date: Tuesday, April 14
🕠 Time: 5:30–6:30 PM ET
See the linktree in our bio to register! tuesday April 14 5:30PM - 6:30PM ET SOLIDARITY IN JOURNALISM Join a virtual discussion with author Anita Varma on her new book by @lewispants

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7 months ago

American politics teaches us to approach things as an individual. @Lewispants Raven Wallace asks what that mindset might be costing us.

In this episode of #TheContext, the journalist and Radical Unlearning author challenges the idea that democracy is purely personal and recommends that if we want a healthier public life, we may need to relearn what it means to belong to one another. by @lewispants

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Authoritarianism relies on people staying locked inside old assumptions.

As a journalist and author of Radical Unlearning, Lewis Raven Wallace (@lewispants) offers a hopeful perspective on this week's episode of #TheContext. People can change, and democracy depends on that possibility.

Tune in today: https://bit.ly/GetTheContext by @lewispants

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7 months ago

Party people, I'm excited to announce this event below with my dear friend Lewis
who always makes me feel like hope is possible even in terrible times. In this dynamic 90-minute session, movement journalist Lewis Raven Wallace and black feminist performance artist Gabrielle Civil join forces to explore how we might put ritual poetics and unlearning into conversation to transform our communities. Drawing on the synergy between Wallace’s latest book "Radical Unlearning" and my forthcoming book "the holiness of myself released" (on ritual poetics), this event will include reading, performance, and a brief writing workshop. Participants will be inspired and encouraged to explore their own relationships to unlearning, poetics, and ritual in times of political transformation. All welcome. Free and open. ✨ by @lewispants

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Lewis Raven Wallace, abolition journalism fellow with Interrupting Criminalization, joins us on #TheContext to talk about the power of deep listening, asking better questions, and how to actually have conversations that make real change possible. by @lewispants

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