Waging Empathy
@wagingempathy.bsky.social
Ruining capitalism’s day by insisting that people and ecologies matter more than money
Banner: “You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” ~ James Baldwin
Banner: “You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” ~ James Baldwin
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Waging Empathy
@wagingempathy.bsky.social
· Nov 16
When you actively speak non-violence, an oppressive regime or society will put violence *into your mouth* and then punish you harshly for it.
It happens over and over. Because otherwise, what is to object to? And that endangers the continuation of *their* violence
Recognize and resist this tactic
It happens over and over. Because otherwise, what is to object to? And that endangers the continuation of *their* violence
Recognize and resist this tactic
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Good news, Bluesky: We’re almost there! We’re now less than $2,000 away from reaching our year-end fundraising goal! Every donation matters. Your support:
1️⃣ Provides incarcerated writers with access to training and resources to develop their skills.
1️⃣ Provides incarcerated writers with access to training and resources to develop their skills.
December 30, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Good news, Bluesky: We’re almost there! We’re now less than $2,000 away from reaching our year-end fundraising goal! Every donation matters. Your support:
1️⃣ Provides incarcerated writers with access to training and resources to develop their skills.
1️⃣ Provides incarcerated writers with access to training and resources to develop their skills.
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2️⃣ Amplifies their voices beyond the walls through our platform, reaching audiences nationwide.
3️⃣ Drives momentum for systemic change, shifting narratives and perspectives.
3️⃣ Drives momentum for systemic change, shifting narratives and perspectives.
December 30, 2024 at 4:05 PM
2️⃣ Amplifies their voices beyond the walls through our platform, reaching audiences nationwide.
3️⃣ Drives momentum for systemic change, shifting narratives and perspectives.
3️⃣ Drives momentum for systemic change, shifting narratives and perspectives.
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Tomorrow is the last day of our campaign—your support can help us reach the finish line!
Donate | Prison Journalism Project
Prison Journalism Project is supported by people like you. Support Prison Journalism Project today.
prisonjournalismproject.fundjournalism.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Tomorrow is the last day of our campaign—your support can help us reach the finish line!
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Last year, an incarcerated writer shared his daily prison routine. It's one of the top stories on our website.
Take a look ⤵️
Take a look ⤵️
My Daily Prison Routine
Keeping a regular schedule helps you stay level behind bars. Here’s a breakdown of my routine at an Arizona prison.
prisonjournalismproject.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Last year, an incarcerated writer shared his daily prison routine. It's one of the top stories on our website.
Take a look ⤵️
Take a look ⤵️
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Amid surging enrollment in college courses offered at Green Haven Correctional Facility, one of the newest programs celebrates its first graduating class.
In a NY Prison, a First of Its Kind College Graduation
The ceremony at Green Haven Correctional Facility handed out degrees — and hope.
prisonjournalismproject.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Amid surging enrollment in college courses offered at Green Haven Correctional Facility, one of the newest programs celebrates its first graduating class.
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This year, Prison Journalism Project and Tulsa, Oklahoma-based nonprofit Poetic Justice ran an 11-week Summer of Journalism program to train writers at two facilities for incarcerated women. The women in the program launched 2 newspapers.
Newspaper project amplifies voices of female inmates at Eddie Warrior, Mabel Basset
Female inmates from Eddie Warrior and Mable Basset Correctional Center to publish a newspaper with the help of Poetic Justice and Prison Journalism Project.
tulsaworld.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:25 PM
This year, Prison Journalism Project and Tulsa, Oklahoma-based nonprofit Poetic Justice ran an 11-week Summer of Journalism program to train writers at two facilities for incarcerated women. The women in the program launched 2 newspapers.
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"What I have to say matters and is important, and I believe people would want to know." --an incarcerated writer
December 30, 2024 at 4:27 PM
"What I have to say matters and is important, and I believe people would want to know." --an incarcerated writer
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As you all know: Whether it's $10, $100, $1,000, or $10,000, every donation makes a difference. Your support amplifies voices that need to be heard. Every dollar you contribute helps bring these powerful stories to life.
Donate | Prison Journalism Project
Prison Journalism Project is supported by people like you. Support Prison Journalism Project today.
prisonjournalismproject.fundjournalism.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:28 PM
As you all know: Whether it's $10, $100, $1,000, or $10,000, every donation makes a difference. Your support amplifies voices that need to be heard. Every dollar you contribute helps bring these powerful stories to life.
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Check out this piece by Poetic Justice about Prison Journalism Project and our recent summer journalism program partnership.
Prison Journalism — Poetic Justice
Poetic Justice partnered with the national nonprofit Prison Journalism Project to bring journalism workshops to Eddie Warrior and Mabel Bassett Correctional Centers in Oklahoma.
www.poeticjustice.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Check out this piece by Poetic Justice about Prison Journalism Project and our recent summer journalism program partnership.
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How I Survived My First Day in Prison is one of most read stories of 2024.
How I Survived My First Day in Prison
Prison is an unpredictable and scary place. I saw a man stabbed and got beat up in a fight. But I also proved I was not to be bullied.
prisonjournalismproject.org
December 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
How I Survived My First Day in Prison is one of most read stories of 2024.
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Cleveland Clinic: “New research unravels connection between rheumatoid arthritis, long COVID and bone pain to bone loss”
“SARS-CoV-2 triggers bone inflammation and breakdown, especially in individuals with autoimmune diseases”
www.lerner.ccf.org/news/article...
“SARS-CoV-2 triggers bone inflammation and breakdown, especially in individuals with autoimmune diseases”
www.lerner.ccf.org/news/article...
New research unravels connection between rheumatoid arthritis, long COVID and bone pain to bone loss
Long COVID causes bone pain and bone loss in 25% of cases by triggering inflammation and immune responses, especially in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis.
www.lerner.ccf.org
December 30, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Cleveland Clinic: “New research unravels connection between rheumatoid arthritis, long COVID and bone pain to bone loss”
“SARS-CoV-2 triggers bone inflammation and breakdown, especially in individuals with autoimmune diseases”
www.lerner.ccf.org/news/article...
“SARS-CoV-2 triggers bone inflammation and breakdown, especially in individuals with autoimmune diseases”
www.lerner.ccf.org/news/article...
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@prisonculture.bsky.social is helping to run a New Year's Eve abortion funds 'online telethon'. Volunteers will be sharing their favorite songs and explaining why they love them, inviting people to donate. More in the post below.
Our usual activism hashtag: #DoSomething!
Our usual activism hashtag: #DoSomething!
December 30, 2024 at 2:11 PM
@prisonculture.bsky.social is helping to run a New Year's Eve abortion funds 'online telethon'. Volunteers will be sharing their favorite songs and explaining why they love them, inviting people to donate. More in the post below.
Our usual activism hashtag: #DoSomething!
Our usual activism hashtag: #DoSomething!
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Sounds like some kind of Socialism!
December 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Sounds like some kind of Socialism!
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I want to challenge everyone in 2025. Consider only posting news stories about local concerns, international news stories, nature, charities, education, healthcare, travel, safety, and human rights. Stop posting political news grabbing headlines for 30 days. Your entire outlook will change.
December 28, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I want to challenge everyone in 2025. Consider only posting news stories about local concerns, international news stories, nature, charities, education, healthcare, travel, safety, and human rights. Stop posting political news grabbing headlines for 30 days. Your entire outlook will change.
This is probably going to be a critical tactic for recognizing and resisting the incoming administration’s attacks on protestors and human rights/Civil Rights leaders:
When you actively speak non-violence, an oppressive regime or society will put violence *into your mouth* and then punish you harshly for it.
It happens over and over. Because otherwise, what is to object to? And that endangers the continuation of *their* violence
Recognize and resist this tactic
It happens over and over. Because otherwise, what is to object to? And that endangers the continuation of *their* violence
Recognize and resist this tactic
Meanwhile, on Twitter:
December 28, 2024 at 7:56 PM
This is probably going to be a critical tactic for recognizing and resisting the incoming administration’s attacks on protestors and human rights/Civil Rights leaders:
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the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:24 AM
the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG
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Erykah Badu said spelling is a spell.
Write it down on real paper with a real pencil with real intent and watch it get real. Spelling is a Spell. - eb
"The act of actually writing the thought with intent IS the first act that triggers the next movement. The strength is in the BELIEF"
#BlackSky
Write it down on real paper with a real pencil with real intent and watch it get real. Spelling is a Spell. - eb
"The act of actually writing the thought with intent IS the first act that triggers the next movement. The strength is in the BELIEF"
#BlackSky
December 13, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Erykah Badu said spelling is a spell.
Write it down on real paper with a real pencil with real intent and watch it get real. Spelling is a Spell. - eb
"The act of actually writing the thought with intent IS the first act that triggers the next movement. The strength is in the BELIEF"
#BlackSky
Write it down on real paper with a real pencil with real intent and watch it get real. Spelling is a Spell. - eb
"The act of actually writing the thought with intent IS the first act that triggers the next movement. The strength is in the BELIEF"
#BlackSky
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It was not lost on me today at the holiday art expo how many people co-opted language like #adoptables and #adopted as kitschy cutesy language for their purchased art pieces.
Can I go ONE PLACE where this shit we live is not thrown in my face like a joke or afterthought? Seriously. 🙄
#adoptees
It was not lost on me today at the holiday art expo how many people co-opted language like #adoptables and #adopted as kitschy cutesy language for their purchased art pieces.
Can I go ONE PLACE where this shit we live is not thrown in my face like a joke or afterthought? Seriously. 🙄
#adoptees
December 23, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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It was not lost on me today at the holiday art expo how many people co-opted language like #adoptables and #adopted as kitschy cutesy language for their purchased art pieces.
Can I go ONE PLACE where this shit we live is not thrown in my face like a joke or afterthought? Seriously. 🙄
#adoptees
It was not lost on me today at the holiday art expo how many people co-opted language like #adoptables and #adopted as kitschy cutesy language for their purchased art pieces.
Can I go ONE PLACE where this shit we live is not thrown in my face like a joke or afterthought? Seriously. 🙄
#adoptees
“Other struggling people aren’t the enemy.” ~ Nathan Monk
Starting a new thread for this by request.
Resist #scarcity doctrine- helping one person does not have to mean taking away from another.
Empathy is like love. The more you share it, the more you have to share
#evergreen
Resist #scarcity doctrine- helping one person does not have to mean taking away from another.
Empathy is like love. The more you share it, the more you have to share
#evergreen
December 22, 2024 at 5:08 PM
“Other struggling people aren’t the enemy.” ~ Nathan Monk
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Why I am fine with Eat the Rich:
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.
December 22, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Why I am fine with Eat the Rich:
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.
Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.