"In October 2015, a building called La Morada (The Residence) was opened in a working-class neighborhood of Madrid. This was the first node in a network of social and cultural centers directly managed by Podemos. The 460 square-meter space allowed the neighborhood’s residents to come and have a drink at the bar, attend cultural events and photography exhibitions, settle down for a few hours in a co-working space or a room with Wi-Fi access, buy products in the official Podemos shop, attend public debates and film screenings and, finally, hold Podemos circle or local association meetings."

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/podemos-party-social-movement-pablo-iglesias/

A bit US-centric but still quite useful

you can also listen to this article if you're busy ^^

https://newrepublic.com/article/155999/loneliness-resistance-protester

"Seemingly disparate efforts by state lawmakers were all connected as part of an elaborate legal strategy devised by a coalition of Christian Right groups."

https://truthout.org/articles/a-christian-nationalist-group-is-quietly-shaping-bills-for-state-legislatures/

"Old-fashioned socialism, it turns out, is the “good old thing” best suited for combating the “bad new things” of modern capitalism. Corbyn and Sanders upended their respective parties precisely by holding on to socialism even when it was desperately unfashionable to do so. They were able to do so because they understood, as the Italian novelist Giuseppe Lampedusa put it, “Because things are the way they are, they cannot stay the way they are.”"

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/third-way-democratic-socialism-tony-blair-bill-clinton-uk/

"Franklin already knew he was being monitored; he had been followed by unmarked cars for years, and he often confronted police and livestreamed the exchanges with his phone when he saw them watching him. But the extent of the surveillance revealed in the documents surprised even him: Some memos listed people’s height and weight, Social Security numbers, and in one case details of an individual’s mental health history. And Franklin realized when he learned of the joint intelligence briefs that a new neighbor who had told him that he looked familiar had been receiving the memos police had written on him and distributed widely."

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/20/political-surveillance-police-activists-tennessee/

#podcast

I decided to compile a list (that will also be published on the list of Pantopia Daily's musts) of some podcasts you might enjoy:

ChapoTrapHouse
David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan

On the topic of Queer, 2 short ones (they're 6 episodes each. They're kind of OT but I can't recommend them enough):
- Moonface, in which a young gay man wants to come out to his mom but can't because they don't speak the same language
- Gay Future, a satirical narrative sci-fi comedy series in which a totalitarian government rules over what’s left of North America to spread its insidious gay agenda

I might update the list in the future, so if you have something to suggest please use @pantopiafeedbackbot

Hey guys! We've done this once before, and it seemed to have helped out, but this time around a friend of the network, and a hardworking syndicalist, ran into a bit of trouble. Dude needs help. Let's show him what some good old fashioned direct action and mutual aid can do! Send him whatever you can spare, he will definitely appreciate every penny!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-branden-get-a-new-car