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The Response: Direct action for Palestine with Mohamed Shehk
On today’s episode of The Response Podcast, we brought on Mohamed Shehk, Campaigns Director for Critical Resistance and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center here in the San Francisco Bay...
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Infrastructure Apartheid to Liberatory Infrastructures with Dr. Maya...
“Infrastructure Apartheid to Liberatory Infrastructures” – this phrase highlights a fundamental shift in our framing of both harms and solutions, respectively, from individual and direct, to systemic...
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How to shop for the holidays (using Amazon alternatives!)
If you’re looking to shop early this holiday season, you’re not alone. Ongoing supply chain and logistic issues brought on by the pandemic have many big box retailers encouraging consumers to shop...
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Artisans Cooperative: An Etsy alternative, owned and run by artists and makers
We have all experienced it: Some organization or service starts out good — or great, even — and then as time goes on, either costs and fees go up, or quality declines. In the context of a dominant...
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The Response: Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats and Edget Betru
“This is a critical moment in history. We face multiple crises: environmental, growing social, economic, and political divides, and a slide toward fascism, economic instability, and war. There is an...
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Introducing the Emergency Battery Network Toolkit!
In the wake of blackouts, natural disasters, and catastrophes, we need solidarity more than ever. Vibrant and organized communities are the foundation of people-centered responses to the climate...
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The Response: SolidarityWorks with Gabbie Barnes, Rachel Kinbar and Ida Aronson
For our final episode of The Response this year, we interviewed three mutual aid organizers from Orlando, FL, Hartford, CT, and Bvlbancha (aka New Orleans, LA). Gabbie Barnes is the founder of FREE...
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Can we Bend the Curve? What is it Going to Take?
Towards Cooperative Commonwealth: Transition in a Perilous Century Registration Open System Change, not Climate Change, is a common refrain among climate justice activists. It makes sense. My...
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Best of Shareable 2023 | Reader’s Digest
As the year ends, we’re looking back on our favorite stories of 2023. We can all draw inspiration from the regular people who are creating cultures of solidarity and abundance in their communities. In...
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Introducing Shareable’s 2024 Library of Things Fellows
In July, Shareable announced SolidarityWorks, a new virtual community lab for social change, and the Library of Things Co-Lab, our first “deep dive” co-lab. Today, we are excited to introduce you to...
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How to become a lawyer without going to law school
This How To Guide was originally published on November 26, 2013. The article has been significantly edited to include updated information for 2024. Here’s a fun fact: Abraham Lincoln didn’t go to law...
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Facing the heat: Disaster management in the age of climate crisis with...
For our first episode of 2024, we interviewed noted disasterologist and previous guest, Dr. Samantha Montano. We discuss the impact of climate change on disasters and the need for better disaster...
View ArticleHow to start a mutual aid network
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it caused cataclysms that cascaded throughout healthcare, public transport, delivery services, and food systems. In doing so, it laid bare an ugly truth of the U.S....
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New report: The State of Libraries of Things 2024
Libraries of Things (often called LoTs) are a form of community infrastructure designed for sharing all kinds of stuff. LoTs hold true to the traditional mechanics of a library while pushing borrowing...
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How to start a bike kitchen
A bike kitchen is a place for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible, build community, and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes....
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How to organize a successful skillshare
A skillshare is the quintessential Sharing Economy creation. It’s a simple concept: People gather in a large space like a school or community center and teach each other classes on topics they’re...
View ArticleMutual Aid groups urge Congressional investigation of financial surveillance...
In dedication to safeguarding digital privacy and community solidarity, Shareable has joined a coalition of over 25 mutual aid organizations, steered by digital rights champions Fight for the Future...
View ArticleIntentional Community and Capitalism
Challenges and strategies for anti-capitalist community design (part 1) Capitalism isn’t just an economic system we live inside. It is a culture that lives inside of us. It influences our psychology,...
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Surveillance and Reproductive Justice with Rafa Kidvai
On this episode of The Response, we get to the heart of reproductive justice with Rafa Kidvai, director of the Repro Legal Defense Fund at If/When/How. The RLDF champions the rights and freedoms of...
View ArticleThe Economics of Intentional Communities
Challenges and strategies for anti-capitalist community design (part 2) This is the second part in a three part series on intentional communities and capitalism by Sky Blue. Read the first part. The...
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