#systemchange

[fluidsberlin]

125 Jahre Bertolt Brecht #bertoltbrecht #riseup #aufstehen #kakistokratie #nogroko #nopag #acab #fridaysforfuture #systemchange #rojava #freeassange #amigohome #workersforfuture #hambigehtweiter #lifefornature #brecht #besatzungsmachtusa #theatre #fckqanon #theater #notonato #nopolgnrw #implantfiles #fckthelandofthefree #goethe #fcknzs #fcknato #fckcps #heinrichheine #fckafd https://www.instagram.com/p/ComaMdtM9bV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[haresheranga]

It's driven by contacts, not by systems!

[aloisgauinger]

Reposted from @artistsforfuture.at Die Aktionen von Klimaaktivist*innen der “Letzte Generation/Last Generation” in österreichischen Museen haben medial zu zahlreichen, teils heftigen Reaktionen geführt. Wenn diese Art von Aktivismus unserer Ansicht nach etwas Positives bewirkt hat, dann, dass über die drohende Klimakatastrophe aufrüttelnd berichtet und darüber in einer breiten Öffentlichkeit diskutiert wird. Die ARTISTS FOR FUTURE AUSTRIA haben in den drei Jahren ihres Bestehens zahlreiche künstlerische Aktionen zu vielen Aspekten der Klimakrise durchgeführt, bei denen sie inhaltlich Stellung beziehen und das TUN! im JETZT! anstoßen (siehe diverse Posts und unter www.artistsforfuture.at). Bei all unseren Aktionen war die mediale Berichterstattung bisher allerdings nur minimal. Es erstaunt daher nicht, dass einige Klimaaktivist*innen provokative und verstörende Aktionsformen suchen, in der Hoffnung, damit mehr öffentliche Resonanz zu bewirken. Museen, Kunst- und Ausstellungshallen sind wichtige Orte der gesellschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung – auch was Klimagerechtigkeit, (Arten-)Vielfalt und Zukunft betrifft! Wir begrüßen die Bereitschaft vieler dieser Institutionen engagiert zu einem Change!-Diskurs beizutragen, durch Information, Perspektivenentwicklung und sinnliche Erfahrung komplexer Problematiken. Artists for Future (Austria) werden weiter kreative Ausdrucksformen nutzen, um zur Vermeidung/Minderung einer absehbaren Klimakatastrophe beizutragen. Mehr Zukunft, weniger CO2! ACT NOW! ACT SMART! 📸 AnaMaria Heigl für Artists for Future Austria #climatejustice #artistsforfutureaustria #statement #safetheplanet #climateaction #systemchange (hier: Letzte Generation AT) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6BJQZMyi4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ryandjaxon]

Strike is on the horizon. Join workers nationwide, standing together for:

Economic justice

Racial equality

Climate action

Labor rights

One day, we'll stop. And demand a better world for all. #GeneralStrike #Solidarity #SystemChange

[nagy-bari]

middle europe ex-eastern block about 3 years older but hooo boi does it resonate. the aftermath of soviet block terror is still here only with a greenwash over the older communist propaganda. (not gonna go into actual day to day political problems just the fear aspect of things - so feel free to skip, also ramble warning)

TL;DR

The feeling is universal - the wish to act, to move, to start something but being petrified/frozen to act by old rules/tales of horror - the solution is personal. find a reason to move even if. find something you think is worth risking that horror. find the true value in ideals, movements, ideas, dreams. being without practice is just the stating point. yeah, we will make a bit of a fool of ourselves but if you wish to be someone involved find the reasons that moves you. out of discomfort zones, out of old habits. if these are people the better. talk, debate, if you can in person the better, start small then grow out, etc etc.

Realising this part of our past is still just the starting point. good journey on ahead.

(just make sure you are really up to debate, to listen to the other so sleep before hand and rest well - personal experience - no matter how true what you say it hurts others if you say it with desperation.)

where to start.

- parents who grew up to a family blacklisted by the Communist Party learned: to keep to yourself and hope at least your thoughts are free in your own head, never spoken out, never made into action, because those actions (aftermath of a failed revolution) were hell on earth.

- other parents favored by the Communist Party learned to serve in order to stay in that favor - to become the eyes of the party, to spy on neighbours and collegues etc. so their kids will have it better. so their kids are offered a safe job to start out. etc. these people learned to serve into the terror and fear-control. for a questionable benefit. cause the party needed scapegoats sometimes, the image needed to be uphold and you never knew when past  failings of your lives were dragged out and damned you.

- the generation that saw the end of the soviet union believed that now things will change. they believed that now we’re our own rulers, that the damned capitalist ideals and the rotten indiviualism we learned about will be as sweet and as liberating as we dreamed of.

- but the damage on how people regard each other was already done. you either don’t trust someone because you fear they work for someone with power and will make your life a living hell if they don’t like you, or you fear that your past will come back and people will want retribution for it.

- country specific horror: never really sorted out what to do with individuals who were in power and still hold power, before and after the end of the Soviet Union. Cause let me tell you it’s a mess. but it’s not strictly into topic, so i digress.

- parents generation grew up under a horror-comedy show of communist government and learned to survive one way or another. stealing cigarettes and causing mayhem was probably still in their life but there was also a little edge to it, if you dared to do it to someone from the communist party or an frowned upon intellectual - enemy of the state. if you did it to their kids or if their kids pranked you. they grew up with a second nature to everything they still hold to these days (some. others now seemed to forget everything and chase a dream to cope with what we have) a hidden language of politics that will make or break your life if you know how to play it, a dangerous reading that can cost you your whole social existential status or more.

- my generation was born into said ‘freedom’ after ‘the systemchange’ but nobody really was ready on how to deal with it. the parents at that time were too drunk on supposed freedom granted by capitalism that they didn’t really made sure to end the terror or stop the mechanics of it still running. social interactions were laced with a bit of a skeptical non-acts, noone really cleaned up after the soviets here. we were born into a world full of new hopes and huge dreams built on fantasies with old habits of ‘don’t talk about this or that’ and ‘better not to aggravate people and just blend in’ and ‘ respect has nothing to do with obedience’ and ‘please just don’t act up, and keep a low profile’ and ‘it’s better to be tolerated than to confront a controversial subject or oppinion’ and the simplest version of it all (and the most dragged out reason still in use) ‘your religion and political standpoint is not suited for social debate, it concerns noone, you need not to answer to any questions about it’

-only that my generation was the one also growing up in the 2008 economic crisis where all those dreams of new ways and colored glasses of the wonderful west and capitalisms started to crack and crash down. and the panic resoluted in old practices, the don’t trust anyone and every man for their own if you want to succeed because if people hear event he beginning of ‘commun’ they have a viceral knee-jerk reaction of NO, not again, anything but that - even to the better parts of it. and we were left alone to figure out what to learn and what to forget.

- right now my country has a strange standpoint on communities and participation and activisms and such. the last year was full of protests started by students (15-18 years old) and before this universities tried to step up and tell people that hey, maybe turning everything formerly owned by the country- the state - into something that can be given out to indiviuals like personal property is not the way a country will thrive. that maybe if the law is that you have to be a student till you are 16 and the country will provide an opportunity to learn till then, underpaying and overworking the teachers is not the way to do it. that maybe forcing obviously idiotic laws is not the way to prove how free we are now.

- and here i am with my over a quater of century behind my tiny feet and i cannot gather the courage to go out and march with them for a better tomorrow. i hate crowds and hate conflicts, i wish to see what is so different from those terror days with my two eyes but i fear that if i go i’ll only see confirmation that nothing has changed. that our generation is at the same starter point as those who learned to speak double, to play the hidden political game. and i don’t want to play that game.

- what we learned was that if something is never found out, it may be for the best. thankfully my parents never tracked my phones, i only got it to inform them where i need to be picked up, or if an afternoon class was canceled. i roamed the internet quiet freely (scorched my brain a bit without filters but thank god i’m really picky) and the only thing my parents told me was not to share my pictures with anyone or my name or my adress etc etc.

- till university most of my experience was positive when it came to building contacts on the internet and then building them further offline. so i’m lucky to be still picky i guess. but it comes mostly from the sole fact that i use a whole different language online. i use english - but my offline reality is built and lived by a whole other logic and culture.

- i learned self-confidence from being online and how to be a little liar about oh so many important things. so here’s the catch. if pressed i would say i’m trying my best to be an intellectual. hate it or not it comes with the first step: critical thinking and approach of topics. Constructive criticism. Trying to find the real value of things and reasons and habits and traditions and then sorting them and keeping them etc.

- extremes are everywhere. ‘the loud minority’ - as it comes up often in arguments. people will shout the most absurd shit you’ve ever heard and believe it at the moment and the day after and you’ll just wonder if the world has gone mad. yes and no. it did and will do and always is going mad, cause this is the game itself. the game that now supposedly does not come with terror or living hell as a consequence. it’s the basic problem of standing into a conflict. of taking a side. of expressing yourself.

- i guess our generation learned to express quite well. the problem is the taking action. here the main problem is the ‘why should i bother, if nothing will ever change’. out there in the west you tell me it’s the old stories of fabricated horror. i’m not sure all of those were lies. but i’m in no position to tell otherwise. here we learned that ideologies will make simple people into the cruelest of devils and sadistic horrohfreaks. and sometimes both sides turns into the same monsters. and history will always show how seemingly opposites are the same fucking monster over and over again. but we’ve also seen what it takes to face them. sometimes you die, sometimes you’re threatened or tortured or blackmailed. but the decision is there to act. and if you do you probably have a good reason. cause you are running into danger you know bigger than you. so either everone was a big baffon idiot who went against the Comminist party or they had something/someone to do it for.

- we have no idea how to build communities cause the only real one, where you did not felt threatened was (hopefully) your family and that’s just a completely different thing. the way our parents lived was built on communities they had while learning. the profession they choose heavily determined their circle of friends and contacts. plus the contacts from family friends and old associates. i cannot tell you about the mechanics of the State Party under the Soviet era, cause my family was more on the blacklist side of things.

- nuclear family does not have to be inheritly bad (or good. it’s built on the hope of two normal thinking grown up deciding together and acting on it. it has a lot to go awful. takes a little only. like having no real idea what you sign up for.) having siblings does help you learn to compromise and live with people you may not understand all the time. i’m not sure what people bring up as argument for or against families but i’m grateful to have experienced it, even if i do not plan on starting one (as of yet. it’s also economically easier in a family so who knows)

- sex, sexuality and all this stuff is personal and would love to keep it that way, cause really it concerns you and the person you share it with. i might be a prude here but sometimes it’s just not that interesting and people who are hung up on other’s sexual activites and interest are just the worst of nosy people and you can tell them that. setting up boundaries is just another useful part of social interactions. but i guess ya’ll know that already.

if you powered thought all of this ramble (whoever you might be, sitting in the void) thank you. from the middle of europe, someone trying really hard to find something to live for, act for etc i trully thank your attention. trying to build connections and communities is a hard task, trying to find your worldview is a hard task. thank you for your time and eyes following my rambling thoughts. and if you take away anything from this at all - don’t give up. the world is too curious to shut ourselves in. all the jokes are out there.

here's my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I'm 22 years old)

The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it's the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent's car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be "What if I get kidnapped" or "My parents are just trying to keep me safe"

This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don't have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents' knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they're on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were "tee hee we could get in trouble isn't this so fun and daring" in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are "If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent's car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks."

Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that's how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn't uncommon. It's wrong, but it's not uncommon.

[girltakecare]

Man stahl mir Geld, von dessen Existenz ich nichts wusste und nun verschenke ich es, obwohl ich nicht weiß, wo es ist

#Marktinformation an Banken und etwaige andere Unternehmen#der Systemchange Ich habe heute etwas Wichtiges entschieden, was ich gerne hier teilen möchte, denn es reicht mir mit dem Identitätsdiebstahl. Ich möchte wieder Herren meiner Daten werden. Ich stifte sämtliche Guthaben, die sich heute, am 27.05.2024 noch auf Konten der rds energies GmbH oder Tochterfirnen befinden oder unter meinen Daten…

[green2stayecomarketing]

#Sustainability ♻️ #IndependentMedia 🗞️🖥️🎙️ #ChildrenOfGaza 👦👶👧🇵🇸 #SWD 🕸️ #G2S 🌿 #BountyNews ⛵ *Update "History Is Being Made ,The beginning of #SystemChange⌛🏁🌏 #Sydney 🦘#Palestine 🇵🇸 #THENEWECONOMY 💲

[street--art--pics]

© by Street.Art.Pics, Germany, Kiel, 2021.

Sticker: 🐸🐣🐘🐨🦊 SYSTEM CHANGE

NOT CLIMATE CHANGE!

#urbanart #streetart #streetartpics #Sticker #Aufkleber #Label #streetartphotography #ilovestreetart #streetarteverwhere #streetartphoto #artinthestreets #urbanwalls #streetartpic #Laternenaufkleber #urbanstyle #urbanexploration #lanternsticker #ilovestickers #streetartstickers #stickerkiel #aufkleberKiel #kielsticker #systemchange #animalrights #notclimatechange #noborders

[emerjett]

within the system

I am a climate justice activist advocating for system change, a transitional dismantling of capitalistic, consumerist, anthropocentric, wealth-favoring, unjust, unsustainable (in general) society. But I say this as someone completely within the system. Don't get me wrong, I do have bipolar disorder ii manifesting as cyclical depression, I am Chinese American and don't take traditional pronouns (he/any btw, even though I'm basically cisgender and straight), I am introverted and a little awkward sometimes, but even with all of that I am situated exactly in the center of the system.

I am a student at Harvard

Harvard says it's an institution with a lot of diversity. Which is true. First generation college students, people from all races and backgrounds, learning together to be global leaders. Sounds fantastic. But then I hear things:

Almost half of [the Class of 2025] — 45.1 percent — reported that their parents make a combined annual income of more than $125,000 — nearly twice the median household income in the U.S. — Harvard Crimson

Additionally, while Harvard has helped educate hundreds of thousands of global leaders, many of which who have done the world a whole lot of good, it also has a whole lot of bad history. Women weren't fully integrated into Harvard until late in the 20th century. People like Henry Kissinger were educated here. Harvard was slow at divesting from South African apartheid, slow at divesting from fossil fuels, slow at all these things despite being the wealthiest and most powerful academic institution in the world.

Yet as a climate and social justice activist, it feels so strange, yet important being a part of this community. I attended a talk by Professor Cornell William Brooks, former CEO of the NAACP. He told us we could

advocate from the position of people outside the system within the system

And that is exactly what I want to continue to reflect on. I'll end this piece here, but I have so many more thoughts on this, and things to learn from communities outside of the system. For one, I live in the United States, which has its fingerprints EVERYWHERE throughout the world whether through corporations or the military. I'm also relatively well connected within the youth climate movement, all things that just make me want to make passing on resources, facilitating change from within, and help create this just future for black people, Latinx, poor folk, animals, nature, indigenous people, Asians (broadly HAHA that word is so confusing), neurodivergent folk, the disabled, (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) and everyone else. From within, we can bring people from the outside into spheres of influence, we can share contacts (like people who are Harvard alumni for me) and resources, and so much more. Learning and acting on how we can advocate within the system is a key part to changing the system for all.

[michaellart]

Wer mit der Essenz der Kunst spielt, weiß, dass sie einer der besten Lehrmeister des Lebens ist. Michaell Magrutsche: Die Gunst der Kunst - Mit neuem Kunstbewusstsein die Begeisterung für Kunst wecken. https://bit.ly/gunstderkunst Amazon.de #Kunstbewustsein #Kunstessenz #Michaellart #Kunstdiskurs #Kunst #German #Deutsch #Systemchange #querdenken #greatmindshift #innovationinaction https://www.instagram.com/p/COk_kvVlNgI/?igshid=vcbdq0n95e6l

[igigisaggi]

Follow the Gigi Saggi Dance Band. Dance Music for Earthly Survival:  https://www.instagram.com/gigisaggidancebd/ https://gigisaggidanceband.github.io/

[aloisgauinger]

Reposted from @artistsforfuture.at Die Aktionen von Klimaaktivist*innen der “Letzte Generation/Last Generation” in österreichischen Museen haben medial zu zahlreichen, teils heftigen Reaktionen geführt. Wenn diese Art von Aktivismus unserer Ansicht nach etwas Positives bewirkt hat, dann, dass über die drohende Klimakatastrophe aufrüttelnd berichtet und darüber in einer breiten Öffentlichkeit diskutiert wird. Die ARTISTS FOR FUTURE AUSTRIA haben in den drei Jahren ihres Bestehens zahlreiche künstlerische Aktionen zu vielen Aspekten der Klimakrise durchgeführt, bei denen sie inhaltlich Stellung beziehen und das TUN! im JETZT! anstoßen (siehe diverse Posts und unter www.artistsforfuture.at). Bei all unseren Aktionen war die mediale Berichterstattung bisher allerdings nur minimal. Es erstaunt daher nicht, dass einige Klimaaktivist*innen provokative und verstörende Aktionsformen suchen, in der Hoffnung, damit mehr öffentliche Resonanz zu bewirken. Museen, Kunst- und Ausstellungshallen sind wichtige Orte der gesellschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung – auch was Klimagerechtigkeit, (Arten-)Vielfalt und Zukunft betrifft! Wir begrüßen die Bereitschaft vieler dieser Institutionen engagiert zu einem Change!-Diskurs beizutragen, durch Information, Perspektivenentwicklung und sinnliche Erfahrung komplexer Problematiken. Artists for Future (Austria) werden weiter kreative Ausdrucksformen nutzen, um zur Vermeidung/Minderung einer absehbaren Klimakatastrophe beizutragen. Mehr Zukunft, weniger CO2! ACT NOW! ACT SMART! 📸 AnaMaria Heigl für Artists for Future Austria #climatejustice #artistsforfutureaustria #statement #safetheplanet #climateaction #systemchange (hier: Letzte Generation AT) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6BIg2s-En/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[zhmahrukh987-blog]

[eco-modern-city]

What a shame 😭😭😭 . Follow ➡️ @eco_modern_city . #shameless #systemchange #savetheearth #love #lionking #amazon #lessplastic #instafashion #instagood #instalove #inspiration #car #cars #ferrari #luxury #lamborghini #airbus #starbucks #goodnight #globalwarmingisreal #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #greenearth #climatejustice #iran #iraq #canada #germany #france #italy https://www.instagram.com/p/B8-XnYGH53G/?igshid=iatcbddj3uyo

[afahomo]

individual change and system change, we need both and they can only exist together

individual change: consiousness, mindfullness, intentional living, (low waste), listening, empathy, politics, getting angry & connected with one's emotions, rebelling; connecting with earth, grounding oneself, growth, daring to imagine

system change: people coming together, listening, organizing, connecting, collective life, sharing, learning together, growing together, empathy and deep connection, understanding, action!!!!

the term low waste was created to recognize, that rather than driving to fullfill the impossible task to be a perfect individual (zero waste) and only focusing on that like it's the only purpose of life and something that can save us, we realize that there's power when we come together and that the bigger picture is beyond individuality. it's all connected of course, but the change that we need is out of our reach, if we act individually.

the term zero waste was created for businneses to stop purposefully overproducing and destroying brand new goods for profit, wasting and polluting, all for profit, but somehow it all got turned into individual choices. the focus went off the big corporations and the blame was placed on individuals. there are no ethical choices under capitalism, so we must change the system. to demand those who are struggling just to survive, the poor and the marginalized, to "consume ethically" is extremely privileged and violent. to place the blame on individuals and to act like we can solve the climate crisis by acting individually is completely disconnected with reality and only serving capitalism. rather than worrying about a plastic wrap on a ready-made meal and shaming someone for buying one, let's focus our energy and everything we got to collect what we need to build a completely new system. we need collective action and we need each other. we need climate justice.

going low waste and changing and growing as individuals in the process can help us connect with earth, ground ourselves and get an idea of what life beyond capitalism and consumption could be like. but the change that we really need happens when we the people come together, take care of each other and change the system.

[cafe-tschuesch]

🐢💨 #YallaHabibis! 👉 #CLIMATECHANGE is already there so come by fast for an #icedream made by a little company called #PaletasBerlin! 🍦🍦🍦 so #fuckOFFnestle and remember - we will need a #SYSTEMCHANGE to rescue this #bluePLANET so #wakeUP and start #YOURrevolution! 🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍 #tschüsch uP your berlinsummerday! 💦💦💦💦💦💦💦 #berlin #revolutionfood #icecreamberlin #veganberlin #veganicecreamberlin #NEUKÖLLNifornia #paletas #veganesEis #eisberlin #FuckNestle #NoNestle #GoVegan #RescueThisPlanet (hier: café tschüsch) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1tvJd4IaDH/?igshid=ucoh3iw4qani