""Being effective in activism, you don't need to be upset, stressed out, and have an adrenaline response for you to be caring," Cassidy says. "This is the whole pipeline of fascism: sucking people into shame and fear cycles and trying to take power over the situation. Things can be gentle even in the middle of all of this. And you can still be effective.""
""If there's a natural disaster, it's good for that too," Poulard says. "But it's perfect for the situation that we're in right now, where you have people you might not want to join a conversation.""
Organizers and makers are building decentralized mesh networks and portable router nodes to enable private, resilient communication across New York. Workshops and zines distribute practical instructions for embedding small router nodes into phone cases for immediate, on-the-go connectivity. Community members also prepare hardware for protests by creating solar power banks to charge devices and running hands-on, joy-focused workshops that teach technical tinkering through LED modification. Those efforts prioritize accessibility, habit-building, and approaches that combine care, creativity, and preparedness to support activism and disaster-response scenarios without relying on centralized infrastructure.
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