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Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Justin Mcaffee: “We have to stop pretending that liberation can be downloaded, that systems of domination will be swayed by tweets or softened by petitions or even protest alone. We need to be willing to withdraw our consent from the machine—not just ideologically, but physically. To divest from the comforts that keep us complicit. To refuse the roles we’ve been assigned. To take risks—calculated, strategic, and communal. Because the ruling order survives not only on our labor, but on our fear.”

How are you withdrawing consent from the machine? Divesting from complicity? Taking risks to create a collapse resilience world founded on compassion and justice for all?✋🐾🌍💚

Image shows a plastic bin full of shelf-stable vegan foods that can be eaten in an emergency. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Stock a Portable Food Bin.

Stock a portable food bin for when you have to evacuate fast. Ours has vegan, shelf-stable foods--granola, dried fruit, nuts, pouched meals--enough for 4 days for 2. Keep an inventory inside & expiration dates in your calendar to swap items out. Stock foods you actually like & do one for your pets.

Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by David Graeber: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.”

The systems causing collapse aren’t inevitable. We can build interspecies communities rooted in liberation, care, justice, and interdependence.

Let’s make something better—together. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows storage containers full of food in a freezer. One of the containers has a smiley face. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Get a Second Freezer.

Even w/ little money or space, a second freezer can be a powerful #CollapseResilience tool. Our chest freezer doubles as a prep space/drying rack and lets us save money, cut waste, eat better & store food for security, mutual aid, or barter.

What does food resilience look like for you?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Jo Lorenz: Every successful movement in history happened because people talked to each other face-to-face, built trust, created networks of care and resistance that no algorithm could infiltrate.

Building strong relationships is some of the hardest & most vital work for cultivating collapse resilience & creating a world that centers the wellbeing of people, animals & the planet. Finding common ground, leading w/ curiosity & practicing grace help us grow communities of transformation.

This one was a tough one for us, but we've been paid streaming-free for some time now, and can't imagine going back. Yet another way to take back our power and hit the greedy corps where it hurts them.

Image is old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Audre Lorde: “To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it.”

When Audre Lorde wrote this, she was talking to Black people about their role in actively working for liberation. Her powerful words are relevant to all of us striving to defeat fasc1sm and build mutual aid and #CollapseResilience.

No one is coming to save us. It’s up to us.✋🐾🌍💚

Image has a logo of a person reading under a tree with the words “Collapse Fiction” on the foliage. Background image is devastated buildings with a lone tree. Foreground is the cover of the book Tilt by Emma Pattee.

I read a lot of #CollapseFiction —it’s oddly soothing (some people stay kind even in chaos) & full of survival lessons. I’ll start sharing my favorites. First up: Tilt by Emma Pattee—a gripping, realistic look at “The Big One” hitting Portland. If you read it, tell me what you think! ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚 📘

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Where have you found nooks and crannies to store essentials for Collapse Resilience?

Portlanders are committed to continuing to welcome our neighbors, care for our communities, and join together to peacefully stand up to abuses of power.

Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote from Sharon Astyk: This is what collapse looks like. You are going to have to go to work, unless you lose your job. Money is still going to exist, and you won't have any. There will still be people doing fine while you are suffering unimaginably. Some of them will help you. Some of them will think you deserve it. Most will just keep going about their business, because it isn't them.

#CollapseResilience means not just going about our business.

We can’t control the systems of collapse, but we can control our choices and how we show up for each other. And we can build better systems founded on compassion, justice, mutual aid, and solidarity for all beings. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

Image shows containers of applesauce with a couple of apples on top of them.

We’ve been making & freezing applesauce & freezing other produce we’ve grown or gotten for free. #CollapseResilience means making the most of the food around us. Even w/o a garden, you can find neighbors, gleaning groups, or community gardens sharing abundance. Freezing food = food security.

Image shows two hands holding medications. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Stock Extra Meds for Your Whole Family

Stable access to essential medications is becoming more uncertain. Fascist policies strip away healthcare protections. Tariffs, climate chaos & corruption disrupt global supply chains.

This week’s #CollapseResilience Challenge: stock extra medications for yourself, your kids & your pets. 🧵 (1/2)

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

A new data analysis of media coverage shows that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a key source of climate emissions. Shifting to plant-based agriculture is one of the most important individual & systemic choices we can make for #CollapseResilience.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Image shows an old-growth forest with a graphic of a tree branch toward the top. The text is a quote by Hannah Arendt: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

Fascists want us to believe empathy is weakness. But empathy is resistance + liberation. The US's foundation of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, & speciesism normalize cruelty. Let’s build interspecies communities of care + mutual aid as a strike against cruelty & domination. ✋🐾🌍💚

Image shows an old-growth tree, with a line drawing of a tree branch on top. The text is a quote by Nafeez Ahmed: Collapse is not a singular event but a systemic transition where interlinked ecological, energy, economic, and political crises converge, leading to the unraveling of existing structures.

Collapse isn’t one sudden event. It’s the breakdown of systems built on capitalism, white supremacy & endless extraction. The ecological destruction, violence, political chaos & economic hardships are all connected. Resilience means rejecting those systems + creating new ones based on mutual care.

Image shows flash drives. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Gather and Store Important Docs.

#CollapseResilience Challenge: Keep key documents (IDs, medical records, insurance, financial info, pet info, etc.) stored in both print + digital forms, in multiple safe places. Have them ready for when you need them. Search online for credible lists of what to store.✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Image shows jars of frozen black and garbanzo beans and tomato sauce.

Cooking beans from scratch + making homegrown tomato sauce + freezing them = steps toward
✅Building #CollapseResilience
✅Saving money
✅Relying less on vulnerable systems
✅Living our values.

What resilience steps are you taking in your kitchen?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

The Good German and the Good American Or, What Fascism is Doing to Americans

"Let us remind ourselves of the lessons of the good German. To sit there and avert one’s eyes. To pretend to one’s self that 'everything will be OK,' ...To cheerily smile, even as the Gestapos check papers, the men with guns patrol the streets, and the dictator shakes in a more demented...fury."

Image shows a neighborhood map with pin points on it. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Map Out Nearby Water Sources

💧#CollapseResilience Challenge: map nearby surface water sources in your neighborhood—streams, lakes, swimming pools, water features, water heaters. Always filter + sanitize before drinking. Small steps now build survival + community strength later. ✋ 🐾 🌍💚

Image shows a bucket toilet, an extra bucket, and a package of wood shavings. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Build a Hygiene Kit.

Your #CollapseResilience Challenge: Build a simple hygiene kit for when systems fail.🚽Include:

🪣 5-gal buckets + lids
💺 Toilet seat
🌲 Shavings to cover waste/odor
🧼 Soap + sanitizer
🧻 TP or other eco-friendly wipes
🧤 Gloves + trash/compost bags

#CollapseResilience means remembering: our economic, healthcare, food, transportation & other systems aren’t set in stone. They were built—and can be rebuilt.

We can choose cooperation, care, and community over profit + exploitation.

Let's start with our daily choices.✋ 🐾 🌍💚

Image shows a forest. Text says: Speak Up for the Roadless Rule.

🌲Protecting forests & other ecosystems is vital for #CollapseResilience.

The USDA is trying to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, which currently protects ~45 million acres of our most wild & intact forests from new road-building, logging, mining & other destructive industrial development. 🧵(1/2)

Image shows the tree from CRC’s logo, and a quote by Jenny Brown: “We can become prisoners of our earliest indoctrinations or we can choose to look critically at our assumptions and align our lives with our values.”

Collapse prep often assumes animals exist to be used. But oppression of animals, people, & planet is the same system. True #CollapseResilience means rejecting exploitation & embracing animals as interspecies partners in creating a future rooted in justice, care, and survival for all. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚

The authoritarian-white supremacist-Christian nationalist-greedy billionaire block is consolidating power & stripping our rights & actual lives.

What can we do? Author Sharon Astyk offers practical action “to make your community as hard to occupy and control by the fascists as possible."🧵 (1/3)