Slingshot Collective 2017 Organizer Cheat Sheet

All of the info from the Slingshot 2017 Organizer without the calendar. Learn more at https://slingshot.tao.ca/

This zine includes the following writings from the 2017 Organizer:

• TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF: TIPS FOR FEELING BETTER 
  
• TEARING DOWN THE WALLS WE CARRY INSIDE
  
• TAKING DOWN RAPE CULTURE ONE HEART AT A TIME
  
• NOT ANOTHER DAMN MEETING: GUIDE TO COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING
  
• HELP PRISONERS ESCAPE: WRITING INCARCERATED COMRADES
  
• KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: TIPS FOR DEALING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
  
• JAIL SUPPORT 101: SUPPORTING INCARCERATED COMRADES BEFORE AND AFTER AN ACTION OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
  

From Slingshot:

The world is suffering from information overload—a constant barrage of distraction, seduction, and ultimately fear and despair that makes it harder to see the big picture, plan long-term, or just breathe the air and live your life. The constant speed up and centralization of data, money, and power favors authoritarian power-grabs and makes homegrown do-it-yourself alternatives seem invisible and impossible. The system loves it when everyone feels scared, hopeless, and resigned, because that means the system wants us to think that our only options are the bad choices that it offers. We need to struggle for other options: neither fear-based violent authoritarianism nor hum drum economic servitude as a worker and a consumer. 

Being part of the resistance—creating alternatives to the top down dehumanizing system—isn’t a burden or a lot of work. It is the secret to happiness and being fully alive, awake, and engaged with other and ourselves. Living within the system is boring—we demand a world filled with music, creativity, playfulness, and spontaneity. In this world of hate, fear, violence, greed, and arrogance, acting with love, generosity, and tenderness is resistance. 

When we focus on making life meaningful and taking care of others around us and the earth, the sense that the world is so totally out of control doesn’t go away, but it becomes contextualized with the reality that each of us is actually experiencing. Our lives aren’t all great all the time, but they aren’t apocalyptic either. The looming sense that the world is ending is robbing us of our ability to see that we’re still here now and what we’re doing in this moment is what really matters. 

— Slingshot 2017