Here's a new video on Woodbine's mutual aid organizing efforts, made by and with our volunteers. Shot this summer and fall, the video showcases our food pant...

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They say it's the end of the world. We say it's the beginning of the next. *** Amid omnipresent confusion and catastrophe, idiots and conmen are at the helm. Tech billionaires prey on the future while the ground gives way beneath our feet. Every day reminds us that the world is on fire.

Episode 5 of We Interrupt This Program: HEALTH AUTONOMY by Woodbine Collective Our inability to care for ourselves is an impediment to revolution. We are tied to a Healthcare system that extracts our bodies from the larger physical reality. We no longer know how to ask nature for help. Most of us cannot perform basic first aid. We think that mental health requires formal therapy. Disease is individualized while wellness is commodified. Contemporary systems of ‘care’ require us to struggle alone to perpetuate capitalist economies. But capitalist Healthcare cannot address the world's most urgent issues. How will its institutions help us to adapt to a world without clean water? To live after the icecaps melt? To inhabit crisis? In the wake of superstorms and economic collapse, it seems clear that we have to learn to help ourselves. Health Autonomy means to refuse isolation and nihilism. It means to act now to find each other and share practices of care for collective wellness. Since early 2016, The Woodbine Health Autonomy group has hosted skill shares on basic first aid, disaster response, traditional Chinese medicines, and urban herbal medicines. They’ve also started a podcast, helped curate an international health festival, and greatly expanded their network to develop models for fostering a new way of life. ‘We need the elders who healed our wounds for decades, the medics who cleared our eyes in the streets, and those of us who have no formal health training at all to come together and grow the collective care we desperately need.’ About the producers: Woodbine Collective cultivates a spirit against the end of the world. Driven by the recognition that power needs to be built and organized, the collective houses several groups working together to build a life in common. To contact the video team message begin@woodbine.space. http://www.woodbine.website

On the Eve of 2016, we need a resolution capable of confronting the crisis we face, and making a future worth fighting for. "A Resolution" looks back on the crisis and confusion of 2015: climate change-driven wildfires, droughts, and storms; ISIS and their attacks in Paris, Beirut, and Ankara; bankrupt political leaders at COP21 debating how fast to kill the world; and an ever growing number of people murdered by police across American cities. As times grow darker, as despair and hopelessness grow in tandem with stupidity and horror, people everywhere are searching for vision and direction. "A Resolution" points to the sparks that are creating a new light in the growing darkness: the revolutionary wave that spread from Tunis to New York; the Kurdish freedom struggle and the war against ISIS in Rojava; the riots and blockades sparked by the killings of Mike Brown and Eric Garner; and the retooling and remaking of life with “civilization starter kits” and “removing the dust” from indigenous knowledges and practices. “We, the people who work every day, who think we ‘don’t have time’ - we are the only ones who can do this,” said a Woodbine co-founder. “No one’s going to do this for us—no politician, no technological innovation, no international agreement. If we want a different future, we are going to have to make it, from where we are and in every place.” As people worldwide are taking stock, looking backwards to 2015 and forward to 2016, "A Resolution" shows that amidst growing catastrophe, the only real future is the one we’ll make. Woodbine is a hub for building autonomy in the Anthropocene. Our mission is to grow collective material and organizational capacities and build revolution in the 21st century. With a workshop, library, kitchen, and meeting space, we focus on efforts to self-organize, connect, create infrastructures, and develop individual and collective efficacy. Subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, German, Japanese, French, Finnish, Greek, Turkish, Italian, and more... For more information: http://woodbine.nyc // http://www.facebook.com/woodbine.nyc

America! Mike Brown Tamir Rice Akai Gurley Daniel Levitt Kimani Grey Remi Fraisse Sean Bell Eric Garner ERIC GARNER Mike Brown Mike Brown They want us to forget. Every day there's so much input, some new crisis, some new information, some new screen. Another man or woman killed by the police, and then a sale, what Taylor Swift is doing, what Pharrell said. We could spend our whole lives swiping from one thing to the next, always forgetting, forgetting what happened the day before, forgetting what moved us. And we could die this way, never doing justice to our lives, never doing justice to each other, to the death of a friend, to that of a stranger. A life lived on our knees is not a life at all. We have seen the cycle repeat itself: a man or woman is harassed or killed by the police, riots happen, and all available means are brought to bear to reestablish order, to bring us back to the same old thing. This cycle can seem insurmountable, but it's not. Since August, the people of Ferguson have shown us what it means to reclaim our lives, and to act at in a way adequate to the situation. And since November 24, when we began blocking highways and bridges in 170 cities and confronting the police from New York to Cleveland, Denver to Detroit, Oakland to Atlanta, America as a whole has begun to reclaim its dignity. The blockades and demonstrations now happening everywhere for Eric Garner are not just an intensification of this process, they are a sign that, together, we have reached a higher level, the unveiling of a simple truth that began in 2011: alone, I can't breathe, but together, we can. The time has come to draw a line in the sand. We can decide which way to go, we can take back our lives. We can decide how to live without police, and the pathetic form of survival that they are trying to keep together. We only have to give ourselves the means to do so. This is what some Anons meant when they called "to the good people of Ferguson, take heart – and take your streets. Occupy every square inch of your city." Do we go back home, and give up? Or do we decide, once and for all, to put an end to this? It's up to us to decide which way to go, and to give ourselves the ability to do it. From here in New York, we call on everyone, everywhere, to keep blocking everything and to start occupying everything. Create zones of autonomy, free of the police and organized by the people who make them up. Reconnect what we feel and what we think, with what we do and how we live. Assemble the material means to give ourselves time and space, to continue, to persist. Follow that which makes us powerful, overcome what makes us weak. Fight now to live now, build now to go forward now. No more waiting. No more fear. Let's take over.