#StopDeath

[golivefest]

How to Stop Death with... NICKI MINAJ

via lyrics from PINK FRIDAY 2

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1. "Love Me Enough" by NICKI MINAJ (feat. Monica & Keyshia Cole) inspires us to protect black women & create a world w/o police via our survivor fund 💜

2. in #GagCity 'you receive a mansion, car & canned goods' NICKI MINAJ inspires us to raise #reparations for free homes + fresh food 🌻

3. & 4. "Last Time i Saw You" by NICKI MINAJ inspires us to tap in with each other daily via #After12 💜🔊

5. & 6. 'Stay in your Tory lane, bitch' NICKI inspires us to 🅱️uild utopia w/o police* Join the #YCAconvo 🔊

7. 'ion fw horses since Christopher Reeves' NICKI inspires us to reshare our Utopian Canon~* essay "How noname killed the revolution" #YCAharm 💜

8. NICKI MINAJ: 'there's a river that i go to & it heals me' Pop culture is a utopian network xoxo #mtvxo 🌐

9. "Just The Memories." by NICKI MINAJ inspires us to #GoLive 🥳 to #STOPDEATH 🖐🏿

10. Gag City visualizes utopia* Whites! RSVP to build free homes for black people today* #BLKPWR 🖤

11. 'tell em i'm inhaling funny' NICKI inspires us to #StayHome & end the virus via the #COVIDstrike ⬛

12. #NICKIparty 🦄🥳 (2024)

How does NICKI MINAJ inspire you? Leave a message or tag us in a post to be featured in the Utopian Canon~*

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[kanyefestworld]

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[rmochoa]

"Sentirse en el límite. Toda la vida en la mano y dar un paso más, trascender, con un gesto mover al universo, con una palabra cualquiera, dar nuevo curso a la historia.... sentir que el mañana no existe, que hoy no existe, que ayer es ilusión y, sin embargo, estar en el mundo, ser el tiempo mismo, hacer que todas las cosas existan, aún las IMPOSIBLES" 🇻🇪 LI BERT TAD Estoy y estaré siempre cogido de sus manos construyendo desde donde puedo para ser libres... #venezuela #sosvenezuela #mipais #tupais #nuestropais #prayforvenezuela #justpray #sentimiento #libertad #freedom #stop #stopdeath #please #help #resistencia #resistenciavzla (en Venezuela)

[deboramenozzi]

#shantiom #stayhuman #prayforpeace #prayforahimsa 📿 #london #bruxelles #aleppo #syria #palestine #tibet 📿#stopviolence #stophate #stopdeath #prayforbrussels #prayforlondon #prayforinjured #prayfordeath #prayfortheworld #nohate #goodvibes

[memeulousfan]

Maybe if we comment #stopdeath we can all become immortal

[tumblingxelian]

#StopDeath at #CalaisBorder - Sign the Petition! http://chn.ge/2mQIVef via @ChangeAUS

[golivefest]

How to Stop Death with... KANYE WEST

via lyrics #mtvxo 🌐

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1. 'hopefully Alice Johnson will inspire men' KANYE inspires us to protect black women & create a world w/o police via our survivor fund 💜

2. 'we tryna buy back our 40 acres' KANYE inspires us to raise #reparations for free homes + fresh food 🌻

3. & 4. "i Thought About Killing You" KANYE inspires us to tap in with each other daily via #After12 💜🔊

5. & 6. 'time 2 break down all da prisons!' KANYE inspires us to 🅱️uild utopia w/o police* Join the #YCAconvo 🔊

7. 'u should quit ya job 2 this!' KANYE supports workers! Sign our new petition for a #GeneralStrike

8. 'money is being made when a mom cries' KANYE inspires us to #GoLive 🥳 to #STOPDEATH 🖐🏿

9. KANYE: 'u got the Power 2 let power go?' Whites! RSVP to build free homes for black people today 🖤

10. "we building cities" check out how KANYE inspired our #reparations platform & crop plan! #BLKPWR 🖤

11. 'throw on a mask, no COVID' YE inspires us to #StayHome & end the virus via the #COVIDstrike ⬛

12. #KANYEfest 🕊️🥳 (2024)

How does KANYE WEST inspire you? Leave a message or tag us in a post to be featured in the Utopian Canon~*

[golivefest]

How to Stop Death with... JADEN

via lyrics #mtvxo 🌐

1. 'reading bell hooks' JADEN inspires us to protect black women & create a world w/o police via our survivor fund 💜

2. 'we was running from da feds in da garden' JADEN inspires us to raise #reparations for free homes + fresh food 🌻

3. & 4. 'question 4 the youth, is the world venomous 2 u?' JADEN reminds us to 🅱️uild utopia w/o police* Join the #YCAconvo 🔊

5. & 6. JADEN: 'fuck Monsanto!' Whites! RSVP to build free homes for black people today #BLKPWR 🖤

7. 'the government is trying to fucking kill us' JADEN inspires us to #GoLive 🥳 to #STOPDEATH 🖐🏿

8. 'big drip in Africa this year just like i did in Flint' JADEN inspires us to tap in with each other daily via #After12 💜🔊

9. Today's Memory, JADEN: 'since 2012 i been the coolest' Today's Question is: how were you building utopia in 2012? 🎉

10. CTV3 era JADEN visuals are a perfect representation of utopia

11. "Cabin Fever" by JADEN inspires us to #StayHome & end the virus via #COVIDstrike ⬛

12. Also building utopia via #JADENjam 💐🥳

*How does JADEN inspire you? Leave a message or tag us in a post to be featured in the Utopian Canon~*

[golivefest]

How to Stop Death with... M.I.A.

via music videos #mtvxo 🌐

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1. "Swords" by M.I.A. inspires us to protect black women

2. Raising #reparations for free homes + fresh food inspired by "FRANCHISE." by TRAVIS SCOTT x YOUNG THUG x M.I.A.

3 & 4. BAD GIRLS." by M.I.A. inspires us to 🅱️uild utopia w/o police!

5 & 6. "BORN FREE." by M.I.A. inspires us to prevent genocide via tapping in w/ #GOLIVEfest 🖐🏿🥳

7. "BORDERS." by M.I.A. inspires us to boycott borders #GOLIVEfest 🖐🏿🥳

8. "COME WALK WITH ME." by M.I.A. inspires us to #GoLive 🥳 and #STOPDEATH 🖐🏿 via tapping in daily

9. "SUNSHOWERS." by M.I.A. is Today's Memory bc it inspires us to prevent genocide

10. "PAPER PLANES." by M.I.A. is Today's Visual bc it reminds us Pop culture is a utopian network xoxo

11. "P.O.W.A" by M.I.A. inspires us to #StayHome & end the virus

12. also building utopia inspired by M.I.A. via the #MAYAbanger 🔫🥳 on 79th, 4/20

[golivefest]

Educators! Utopian service learning

Go Live Fest via the #After12 💜🔊 worksheet

Check out our southside service learning platform so your students can tap in w/ how they build utopia!

Let us know what inspires you to go live! How are you healing, growing, connecting & celebrating?

Go Live Fest is the fifth PERFORM/TRANSFORM festival. Our utopian platform has been featured in Chicago Sun-Times, Southside Weekly, the Hyde Park Herald & more. We've worked with Chicago Public Schools + run an award winning farming program with a free food forest on the Southside.

We can help with digital workshops (Pay What You Want). For students who are still working on solutions they can use our platform for inspiration. Our festival's #HEAL hashtag supports a transformative justice fund & discussion circle, #GROW connects to the aforementioned food forest we previously started via After School Matters workshops. #CONNECT is inspired by student activism to end COVID-19 meanwhile our #CELEBRATE hashtag involves anything creative or based in the arts. Visit our About page & Guide for more info.

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Utopian Canon~* #1

via #GOLIVEfest 🖐🏿🥳

Years ago we set out to build utopia inspired by Beyoncé's Lemonade. We had the skills + the network to make her, our, collective dream a reality. Now we tap in everyday with lives, projects & all manner of creation. This is the Utopian Canon~*

Read: How i Stop Death with... Beyoncé

#HEAL 💜

Thank you to those who've lent their community voices to our utopian platform over the years, we're grateful to feature you here. These comments are from petition signers supporting our #YCAconvo 🔊 & survivor fund.

We'll be using our past partner F12 Network's What To Do When Harm Occurs zine to refer to during our Open Conversation on Malcolm London & Protecting Black Women. For those who have yet to attend a workshop, you can find it for free here.

Recently during an #After12 💜🔊 worksheet, our Daily Memory featured an interview with one of the women our program raises funds for. #YCAharm 💜

Read: 10 Questions Before We Build Utopia with... Tarnynon O!

#GROW 👨🏿‍🌾

Shoutout to our supporters Chicago Public Schools, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago & more for helping us raise #reparations. Our Food Sovereignty Award-winning #reparations program is 55% funded for its next order of free homes 👨🏿‍🌾🌻

Whites! Give reparations here: tinyurl.com/lbgcreparations · 🌻

Thank you for ending homelessness! RSVP! We're also proud to highlight a classic interview from our utopian platform, via Let's Build Garden City! 🌻Check out our interview supporting fresh food with Nick Lucas of AUA (Advocates for Urban Agriculture)!

Read: How to Make a Million Selling Your Crops with... Eric Rodriguez of IMAN (Inner-City Muslim Action Network)!

#CONNECT ⬛🌐

Thank you for helping us reach our next petition goal for the #COVIDstrike ⬛

Read: How i Stop Death with... My Uncle Jimmy

We've been honoring Cydney Edwards via featuring tributes to the poet & educator. UW-Madison recently held an event in her memory. Thank you to Cydney for your support. 🖤

We’re honoring Aerin Cooper via featuring tributes to the artist & performer. We previously started student gardens in her memory. 🖤

We honor Orb Box via featuring tributes to the dancer & artist. Feel free to tag us with any tributes to amplify. Do you remember Orb Box @ Perform/Transform? 🖤

#CELEBRATE 🎉

Revisit our classic interview with Adventuretime showrunner Jesse Moynihan. #mtvxo 🌐

Thanks again to the Nicki Minaj fans who supported the #YCA survivor fund in Jan / Feb! This was our biggest bump since starting it after our original petition!

Read: 10 Questions Before We Build Utopia with... Frsh Waters!

These are the first two BEYONCÉ essays that were key to kicking off utopia followed by our last one, celebrating KiD CuDi. Thank you for tapping in to build utopia w/ us. 🖐🏿🥳 Stay tuned for our monthly recaps via the Go Live Fest tumblr & we'll see you this summer for Utopian Canon~* #2

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How are you building utopia? How does pop culture inspire you? Tag us in a post to be featured in the Utopian Canon~*

[golivefest]

How i Stop Death with... KiD CuDi

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KiD CuDi helps me protect black women + create a world w/o cops when i'm reminded of how he stood up for CASSIE when she called out DIDDY. He inspires us to share our survivor fund for black women harmed by artist/activists & our latest #YCAconvo 🔊 for public accountability 💜

KiD CuDi inspires to raise #reparations for free homes + fresh food in space when i hear him using afrofuturism in his art. i love to promote our future project #lbgc2 👨🏿‍🚀🌻 where following us building Garden City!s all over the earth, we'll expand utopia onto other planets as well!

KiD CuDi helps me tap in w/ folks to transcend money & borders via his timeless classics like "REVOFEV." His style of dress & fashionable sampling liberates us from oppressive systems. The overview effect implied in his cosmic pop rap connects everyone who hears it via #BLKPWR 🖤

KiD CuDi inspires me to #GoLive 🥳 to #STOPDEATH 🖐🏿 via celebrating (with) his art in our food forest every year during the #CUDIrave 🌚🥳 His iconic videos for "FREQUENCY." & "SURFIN." (also featuring #GOLIVEfest 🖐🏿🥳 honorees JADEN & WILLOW SMITH) depict utopian life perfectly!

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How i Stop Death with... BEYONCÉ

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Beyoncé helps me protect black women in a world w/o cops by connecting me to the most important people in my life via her radical art: the women. My cousins & mom go to her shows & do her TikToks, i've watched her at my grandma's taking over the Super Bowl. It all informs my work.

BEYONCÉ inspires me to raise #reparations for free homes + fresh food every time i post a pic of our program teaching a kid on the southside to make seed bombs, from a day i needed her album The Gift as encouragement to set up at my block party. We planted food w/ my cousins too!

BEYONCÉ inspires me to transcend money & borders via our utopian platform... we setout in 2016 after she dropped Lemonade to build the utopia she envisioned with our work. From an essay to stickers to a social media game to five festivals & a #COVIDstrike ⬛ Beyhive did that!

BEYONCÉ inspires me to #GoLive 🥳 to #STOPDEATH 🖐🏿 every day via our hashtag / annual event #BEYONCÉbowl 🐝🥳. This year we're launching the best version of our platform yet, with a revival of video updates, health blogs, and personal essays like these for us to build utopia with!

[golivefest]

Utopian Canon~* #1 (Jan / Feb)

We’re honoring Orb Box via featuring tributes to the dancer & artist. Feel free to tag us with any tributes to amplify. We'll share in the first issue of the Utopian Canon~* (3/1)

Thank you to Orb for your support. 💜

#BLKPWR 🖤 #HEAL 💜

Do you remember Orb Box @ Perform/Transform?

Help us protect black women + create a world w/o police* Survivor fund #YCAharm 💜 Open convo #YCAconvo 🔊

Shoutout to our supporters Chicago Public Schools, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago & more for helping us raise #reparations. Our Food Sovereignty Award-winning #reparations program is 55% funded for its next order of free homes 👨🏿‍🌾🌻

Whites! Give reparations here: tinyurl.com/lbgcreparations · 🌻

Thank you for ending homelessness! RSVP!

We're also proud to highlight a classic interview from our utopian platform, via Let's Build Garden City! 🌻Check out our interview supporting fresh food with Nick Lucas of AUA (Advocates for Urban Agriculture)!

Thank you utopians for helping amplify the #COVIDstrike ⬛ to end the virus. Our petition hit a new goal, once we get 500 signatures we'll start a fb event! 🌐

Share our brand new #After12 💜🔊 daily worksheet Master thread & our thread for preventing genocide. They help all folks interested in building utopia tap in daily with our platform to protect women, raise #reparations, organize & celebrate! 🖐🏿🥳

Thanks again to the Nicki Minaj fans who supported the #YCA survivor fund in Jan / Feb! This was our biggest bump since starting it after our original petition! 🎉 Revisit our classic Q&A w/ PIVOT GANG member Frsh Waters. #mtvxo 🌐

Also shoutout to these friends of the festival:

Chance the Rapper teased new music from his upcoming album! Check out October's Utopian Canon~* for another shoutout!

Legendary artist/activist, fellow #nomoneynoborders champion & Perform/Transform festival participant + organizer Adam Gottlieb released a new song dedicated to preventing genocide. Press play: "Marching Vigil Song (for Gaza)"

Finally, our host + just released a compilation of collaborations, BF² (BIGGEST FLIPS, vol. 2). Many of the folks featured are crucial to our utopian platform! He's posting the Behind-the-Scenes pieces he promised us for the tape's tracks! 🎶🔥

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How are you building utopia? How does pop culture inspire you? Leave a message or tag us in a post to be featured in the Utopian Canon~*

[golivefest]

How to Stop Death with... DRAKE

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1. 'domestic abuse, that man is not a man 4u' DRAKE inspires us to protect black women & create a world w/o police via our survivor fund 💜

2. 'i'm in ya girl ear planting seeds like a Grow-Op' DRAKE inspires us to raise #reparations for free homes + fresh food 🌻

3. & 4. DRAKE: 'if i don't share the wealth then how tf we supposed 2 grow?' Whites! RSVP to build free homes for black people today #BLKPWR 🖤

5. & 6. 'all the cops r still hanging out at the donut shops!' DRAKE reminds us to 🅱️uild utopia w/o police* Join the #YCAconvo 🔊

7. 'i'll use a grammy as a doorstop' DRAKE inspires us to #GoLive 🥳 to #STOPDEATH 🖐🏿

8. "Club Paradise" by DRAKE inspires us to tap in with each other daily via #After12 💜🔊

9. DRAKE: 'who did i leave behind?' Today's Question is: who would you like to tap in w/ via utopia in 2024? 🎉

10. The "Life is Good" video by DRAKE supports workers! Sign our new petition for a #GeneralStrike

11. "Toosie Slide" by DRAKE inspires us to #StayHome & end the virus via #COVIDstrike ⬛

12. Also building utopia via #DRAKEathon 🦉🥳

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