You're complaining that a tiny website designed for anonymously sharing news articles and memes is mostly sharing news articles and memes anonymously.

What you want is not found online.

Currently @silence7 is basicly filling this instance with some life. Thanks for that btw. I would like to read stuff like that and if you see some please post it here. I might like to read it. The issue is that this is a small community and it is kind of hard to find the good stuff. Thats just how it is.

What you're looking for is to get organized. You won't find that on an online forum. Join a local anarchist or vegan organization, or hell even a labor union. Read books to help decolonize your mind and support your local indigenous action groups. Bring the fight to the politicians and the robber barons that are destroying the planet in the name of exponential and unending growth. There's a lot one can do to help fight, but none of that happens here on an (honestly) obscure internet forum.

a place for people who get shit done, people who wanna change themselves and their immediate communities.

Sounds like what you're looking for is people to meet with, organize and do actions. Locally, offline.

I think that's generally the way to go.

I think you're right. Posting on social media has become a distraction from activism. All the news also lead/contribute to activism burnout. I think twitter and co are the best thing that could ever have happened to the big corporations and governments who want to keep their power. People post there and think that that's activism, while it achieves next to nothing.

But on the other hand, it also might be the only thing burned-out people CAN do if they don't feel like street activism. Also it gives motivation to some.

The term for what you're looking for is "organizing," which is much harder and involved than "activism" (as defined when contasted to each other). It's also much more durable, and packs a hell of a punch.

I walked away from an Occupy rally once when all I could get from anyone, as to what the plan of action was, "TAKE IT TO THE STREETS."

Exhausting.

What do you mean with your last paragraph? Leave the articles to them?

I'd be happy to share more about that, but it mostly takes organizing. And that means getting people together. Some zoom maybe, but a lot of in-person activism. Showing up at city council meetings. Talking with people you know, and getting them to join you.

You can join an organized group but the reality is that most communities don't have one, and you'll need to start it up.

I agree, OP. There ought to be rather than news boards, more boards on Activism, Direct Action. I don't actually know what activism can do for climate change in the U.S. right now. But if there was a community that non-stop posted Laws, Bills, and really substantial changes, and also activist news like stories about Greta that would be a start?

There's an organization called Strong Towns that talks about how to organize bike lane and other urbanist proposals for American towns. I wonder if that is our way in to activism on climate change.

There are also orgs. that check the receipts on companies that are polluting and those that aren't, companies that are greenwashing with carbon credits and carbon offsets. We could get a real climate boycott list made, and make demands about what those other companies need to do.

The Green Infrastructure act or whatever in America is written in such a way that it makes sense for every new factory or tower building to take advantage of totally renewable energy. They will if communities make them, otherwise fossil fuel lobbyists will slow down this progress.

I have heard very strong dogma saying asking people to be vegan for climate reasons is gatekeeping, but I wonder if this is a way in. If good rhetoric can be made, good cookbooks sent their way - perhaps this would activate liberals.

Overall Solarpunk as a movement is super dreamy and makes persuasive art and design for climate-robust city and town design. Seeing solarpunk art really helped click it into place in my brain that the way we design the world is exacerbating the problem.

I guess what I'm saying is community boards are better suited to collaborative content creation than news. We can do activism by making persuasive art and rhetoric on and offline, and we can highlight rallies and marches just as quickly as we can highlight news.

I pretty much agree with this - I like reading the news and knowing what's going on, but it seems like the action is the missing piece, more so than the news about how fucked everything is.

So to me, one thing I think would be very effective is just a monthly subscription which builds up a pool of money, which goes as campaign contributions (coupled with outreach / voting recommendations for voters / other activism) to people who are enacting the regulations that we need to have happen.

That's not meant to say that direct protest / communication of what's going on like you see in this sub / individual actions aren't substantial, but I think action towards changing the governments' policies is one of the most effective ways to make positive change, and sadly in the current environment that means money.

I mean there are other communities for activism on this instance. I don't think it's crazy that this one has turned towards discussing news. I think if you're looking for direct activism you may be better off in a community like !solarpunk@slrpnk.net