Everyone says, “There is no Planet B.” The proverb says, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Today, with the coronavirus lockdown worldwide, I say:
We are looking at US, Planet B!
(Planet on hands icon from Dribbble.com[1])
(Planet on hands icon from Dribbble.com[1])
350.org missed a whole planet when they looked at Planet Earth as coming up digital only! Top image, 350.org says, “There is no Planet B.” The title of the article that links to it is, “Community Care Is Greater Than The Coronavirus[2]” Sadly, my dear 350.org; considering community care as you enumerate it, you are pessimistic while I am optimistic, seeing clearly:
Stay at home, think and see clearly how
Digital Community Care leads to a New Earth, Planet B!
Digital Community Care leads to a New Earth, Planet B!
Actually, right after that point of giving up on Planet B, 350.org came up with “5 ways to keep organizing to stop the climate crisis whilst supporting your community as authorities work to contain this pandemic.”
350.org failed to realize that their 5 ways will help bring about Planet B!
(1) Take care of yourself and others.
350.org says: “The world is reacting fast to the coronavirus with huge creativity, solidarity and care… Thousands of mutual aid projects have sprung up around the world. We encourage you to find ways to support your community…”
350.org says: “The world is reacting fast to the coronavirus with huge creativity, solidarity and care… Thousands of mutual aid projects have sprung up around the world. We encourage you to find ways to support your community…”
(2) Take Action!
While at home, take digital action “to show your social solidarity with others around the world.” Like: “Stay updated on ways to support just and people-centered solutions to inequity and crises like climate breakdown and coronavirus.”
While at home, take digital action “to show your social solidarity with others around the world.” Like: “Stay updated on ways to support just and people-centered solutions to inequity and crises like climate breakdown and coronavirus.”
(3) (Practice) Creative Tactics.
Like: “Create and share art – Hold an online contest for supporters to make art with key messages. Encourage people to display the art in their windows, workplaces or on their cars and find other ways to let it speak to the world.” And “Check out this virtual protest in the Philippines using photo wands, where organizers projected images of would-be March participants who couldn’t attend for security reasons.” We Filipinos are creatives when we need to be!
Like: “Create and share art – Hold an online contest for supporters to make art with key messages. Encourage people to display the art in their windows, workplaces or on their cars and find other ways to let it speak to the world.” And “Check out this virtual protest in the Philippines using photo wands, where organizers projected images of would-be March participants who couldn’t attend for security reasons.” We Filipinos are creatives when we need to be!
(4) Share your ideas!
“Join the conversation on social media to share your own ideas and show social solidarity with others. Post in Facebook thread, post in Twitter thread, comment on Instagram.”
“Join the conversation on social media to share your own ideas and show social solidarity with others. Post in Facebook thread, post in Twitter thread, comment on Instagram.”
(5) Skill up!
Look at online resources. “With extra time stuck indoors, now could be the perfect time to learn more about lots of topics…” including “digital storytelling or how to talk to give good media interviews.” And yes, you can “practice online community organizing for both coronavirus community care and other issues you care about.”
Look at online resources. “With extra time stuck indoors, now could be the perfect time to learn more about lots of topics…” including “digital storytelling or how to talk to give good media interviews.” And yes, you can “practice online community organizing for both coronavirus community care and other issues you care about.”
On 12 March 2020, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave a performance – to an empty concert hall[3]! It was “very, very unsettling,” said Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. But the performance was livestreamed, and the comments “were all so beautiful," Nézet-Séguin says. "I just see it as another manifestation of the need to feel part of a community when we share great art together."
Stay at home, stay digital and keep sharing:
That is how to bring about Planet B!@517
That is how to bring about Planet B!@517
[1] https://dribbble.com/shots/9069082-save-the-earth-Not-planet-B
[2] https://350.org/coronavirus-organizing/
[3] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/817760744/this-is-why-we-play-amid-pandemic-philadelphia-orchestra-livestreams-beethoven
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