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“The future of political freedom is on trial in North Texas.” For @_aequa_ Radio episode #47, we heard from Elisabet Westby, one of the many organizers supporting the Prairieland Defendants — a group of people arrested and unjustly tried as terrorists in North Texas for having organized a standard-issue noise demonstration against ICE, outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas last July. Head to @dfwsupportcommittee to find the link to their support campaign. Since their arrests last July — some were not even at the demo — all but one of the defendants have been “held on multi-million dollar bails and enduring horrific conditions. The accusations of the government are absurd, and the police response has been extreme, making it obvious that this is part of an effort to criminalize dissent along with the other high profile cases in Spokane, Portland, and Illinois. It has repeatedly been used by the Trump administration and its allies as an example of violence by ‘antifa’.” (quoting their website) In a federal trial held in my hometown of Fort Worth, Texas in March, 8 defendants were found guilty of counts including riot, providing material support to t3rr0r1sts, use of explosives and more. Thank you to Elisabet for taking the time to share about the defendants and their experiences, abuses of power by the trial judge, propaganda being sowed by the state, and why the fate of the Prairieland Defendants should concern anyone wanting to raise their voices or push back against the current administration of the so-called U.S. Of course we can draw direct tactical parallels to the treatment of @theulm5 political prisoners whose trial began last week here in Germany — im their case being denied basic rights and fair treatment for daring to resist genocide. Wherever you are, if you are not on the front lines of resisting these murderous regimes, please do what you can to support those who are there and their families and loved ones. If you can’t donate, letters are a great way to support, and both groups have instructions for how to write the defendants letters of support on their websites.

⏰ Final call! Apply by Monday, March 23rd! 🫀 Countercultures of Care is a 10-month practice community for group facilitators, educators, supervisors and others who operate in roles in which politicized facilitation is needed. It will be a space to both deepen our capacities and share mutual support. Includes monthly 2-hour group session, plus two 1:1 coaching sessions with @_s_a_r_j_ during the programme period. Staring March 25th, runs through December, summer break in August. “We believe in caring for each other as a form of cultural rebellion. We believe in the need to foster a counterculture of care — a politics larger than any siloed issue, one that can challenge dehumanization and the erasure of atrocity while allowing us to hold on to each other and our humanity amid disasters daily and acute.” - Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba, “Let This Radicalize You” This is for you if... 🐚 you’re often negotiating needs, preferences and opinions between different people in collective settings. 🐚 you use (or want to use) facilitation as a liberatory practice, in work that aims to move us all closer to collective liberation. 🐚 you believe we must cultivate communities rooted in care to transform violent systems. Some themes we’ll explore together: 🌱 power-critical facilitation 🌱 trauma-responsive practices 🌱 embodiment and somatics 🌱 group decision-making (consensus etc.) 🌱 designing for collaboration and participation 🌱 meaning-making and the power of outliers 🌱 facilitated peer-support sessions to work on our toughest case studies 🌱 practice-and-feedback session What you can expect: 🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness 🏴‍☠️ Politicized facilitation that strives to be consent-based, trauma-responsive, power- and difference-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :) 🪷 Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few. 🧮 Sliding scale pricing. Unfortunately all the free/soli spots are taken for this round. Very open to barter proposals!

“In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer, from her book Gathering Moss 🧭 Personal Compass is a four-month practice community for a small, committed cohort to move from “What do I care about?” to the first steps of putting those values into practice in a sustainable way, explored in a temporary community of care. This fresh-for-2026-realities redesign of the much-loved Life Architecture series is starting in just two weeks! Some questions we’ll explore: ❓ What are my personal ethics and intentions? ❓ How do I currently spend my precious life energy, and how might I want to shift that? ❓ Which movements for change are calling me, and how might I show up for them sustainably? ❓ What are my gifts? What capacities do I want and need to grow to bring those gift to bear for myself and my communities? What’s a regenerative plan to put all these dreams into action? This is for you if... 🫀 You can feel the acceleration of collapse of the world as we know it, and you’re feeling scared, tired, or overwhelmed as a result. ...you care deeply about creating a better world, but are struggling to put that love into action in a consistent way. 🫀 You fear burnout or have experienced it while trying to live your values. 🫀 You’re open to connecting with likeminded cuties in a closely-held peer-support practice space. What you can expect: 🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness in equal measure 🌱 Facilitation that is politicized, consent-based, trauma-responsive, class-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :) ⭐️ Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few. 🏴‍☠️ A guided path from squishy “whys” through to an action plan Deadline to apply March 19th!

“We believe in caring for each other as a form of cultural rebellion. We believe in the need to foster a counterculture of care — a politics larger than any siloed issue, one that can challenge dehumanization and the erasure of atrocity while allowing us to hold on to each other and our humanity amid disasters daily and acute.” - @kellyhayeswrites & Mariame Kaba, “Let This Radicalize You” 🫀 Countercultures of Care is a 10-month practice community for group facilitators, educators, supervisors and others who operate in roles in which politicized facilitation is needed. It will be a space to both deepen our capacities and share mutual support. Includes monthly 2-hour group session, plus two 1:1 coaching sesions with @_s_a_r_j_ during the programme period. Staring March 25th, runs through December, summer break in August. This is for you if... 🐚...you’re often negotiating needs, preferences and opinions between different people in collective settings. 🐚...you use (or want to use) facilitation as a liberatory practice, in work that aims to move us all closer to collective liberation. 🐚...you believe we must cultivate communities rooted in care to transform violent systems. Some themes we’ll explore together: 🌱 power-critical facilitation 🌱 trauma-responsive practices 🌱 embodiment and somatics 🌱 group decision-making (consensus etc.) 🌱 designing for collaboration and participation 🌱 meaning-making and the power of outliers 🌱 facilitated peer-support sessions to work on our toughest case studies 🌱 practice-and-feedback session What you can expect: 🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness 🏴‍☠️ Politicized facilitation that strives to be consent-based, trauma-responsive, power- and difference-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :) 🪷 Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few. 🧮 Sliding scale with some free spots avail. ⏰ Apply by March 23rd!

“In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.” - @robinwallkimmerer , from her book Gathering Moss 🧭 Personal Compass is a four-month practice community for a small, committed cohort to move from “What do I care about?” to the next steps of putting those values into practice in a sustainable way, explored in a temporary community of care. This fresh-for-2026-realities redesign of the much-loved Life Architecture series is starting in just two weeks, on March 22nd! Some questions we’ll explore: ❓ What are my personal ethics and intentions? ❓ How do I currently spend my precious life energy, and how might I want to shift that? ❓ Which movements for change are calling me, and how might I show up for them sustainably? ❓ What are my gifts? What capacities do I want and need to grow to bring those gift to bear for myself and my communities? What’s a regenerative plan to put all these dreams into action? This is for you if... 🫀 You can feel the acceleration of collapse of the world as we know it, and you’re feeling scared, tired, or overwhelmed as a result. 🫀you care deeply about creating a better world, but are struggling to put that love into action in a consistent way. 🫀 You fear burnout or have experienced it while trying to live your values. 🫀 You’re open to connecting with likeminded cuties in a closely-held peer-support practice space. What you can expect: 🤡 A space that welcomes both your cynicism and your earnestness in equal measure 🌱 Facilitation that is politicized, consent-based, trauma-responsive, class-conscious, inclusion-oriented — and also doesn’t take itself too seriously :) ⭐️ Activities for different body-minds: reflections, conversations, creative practices, guided meditations, movement, to name a few. 🏴‍☠️ A guided path from squishy “whys” through to an action plan Deadline to apply March 19th!

I C E O U T! The 45th episode of aequa Radio which aired February 18th was an attempt to witness, honor and amplify the ongoing community defense work of those on the ground in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Turtle Island (so-called U.S.), where since the end of last year, federal agents have been sent to terrorize and kidnap the locals. In response, the good people of Minneapolis and St. Paul have been building rapid response and mutual aid networks to protect and care for their at-risk neighbors. Even as it may seem to some that these efforts have sprung from the ground, they are rooted in deep and long histories of organizing, in particular the ongoing work of Black Lives Matter + Movement for Black Lives organizers before, during and since the 2020 uprisings after the murder of George Floyd. May listening help us all to channel the fire 🔥 needed to show up with such courage and conviction in our own contexts. As always, don’t just listen! Get Involved! 📣 SUPPORT the people most impacted by surveillance and deportation threat in your communities. May 9th the EU will vote on a new mass deportation law. Let your lawmakers know that you won’t stand for it. To sign the petition, search for “2025-12-no-deporation-petition-EN” on your non-Goog search engine of choice! 💸 DONATE to support local anti-deportation and safe harbour organizing in Minnesota or near you! Link to mutual aid campaigns for at-risk Minnesota residents can be found on the show page for this episode. The episode folds in from-the-ground updates from: @smittenkittenmn (the spicy shop doing more for Minnesotans than local gov 🍆) @lavishmack @riseindigenous @sahanjournal @djaddmpls @thenyic @resistancerevivalchorus @callen_isgay @singingresistancetc @aaronflarin_ @quadzillahikes @onehandpolitics @indigenous.tv @jennybpotter @strawberrius @citycasttwincities @brasssolidarity @margaretkilljoy And loads of great music — full tracklist available on the buymusic.club link in the bi-o. ——— image by Lorie Shaull shows drummers furiously playing at The Commons, “ICE Out of MN” protest in Jan 2026 — licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 Sharealike Int’l license

Online info sessions on 📆 Monday, March 2nd, 18:30 and 19:30 CET for two new community learning-and-action series that start in March. You can join both, or just log in for the info session that is most relevant for you. @_s_a_r_j_ will be hanging out in the same zoom link with a small break between sessions. 18:30 CET 🧭 Personal Compass (online, starts March 22) a redesign of the much-loved Life Architecture community learning series, this fresh-for-2026 realities is a four-month practice community about orienting our lives towards what we really care about and the worlds we are longing for 19:30 CET 🫀Countercultures of Care (online, starts March 25) the goal is to assemble a small and committed cohort of facilitators, would-be facilitators and those who work in collective contexts — all of whom want to deepen and sharpen their facilitation knowledge and skills in service of collective liberation Hope to see you there! Leeenk in the usual spot. ➡️ 1️⃣ image shows folks on a zoom call gallery grid, holding up scribbly illustrations that cover their faces. @_s_a_r_j_ in the top row giving instructions in a white hat and black hoodie. 2️⃣ image shows a circlular sign on top of a triangular one, against a sunsetting sky with port city horizon at the bottom. text info for Personal Compass 3️⃣ image shows a housing row seen through colored glass window panes, with a sprightly plant in forground of bottom right corner. text info for Countercultures of Care

Burnout and collective organizing too often go hand-in-hand. What practices can we call into our collective work to help us distribute labor and care based on the variable and varying needs and capacities within our group, and stay connected to our intentions and ethics even when times get tough(er)? 📆 This Sunday, February 22nd, @Resource e.V. in Neukölln 📆 In this conversation-based interactive workshop, we will explore together tools, strategies and frameworks for working together more sustainably, ongoingly. In this context, the word “sustainable” is connected to ideas of being embodied, strategic, grounded-in-lineage, collapse-aware, compassionate and planning for the long fight. We will see what emerges in conversation based on lived experiences in the room, and @sarj will also share a collection of better practices from their own experience working in and with collectives through their Collective Compass facilitation work. The conversation will be facilitated in English, and we can explore whisper translation options once we see the needs and offers available in the room. This workshop is for anyone who works, lives or organizes in collective structures, especially within political movement or cultural contexts. (Or for people who want to work in collective structures, but don’t know how to start.) Fundamentally, it’s for folks who believe another world is possible, and are doing what they can in their contexts to bring that world into being — both on a systemic level, and also in our interpersonal relationships. Registration 🔗 in the place it goes. Sliding scale with some free spots still avail. 📸 ℹ️ wind-blown grassy prairie with a river and sunset in the far back. on top is white text, a sketch of a moon and some stars, and the description text for the event (included above)

The February 2026 episode of aequa Radio on @refugeworldwide featured @solisur_berlin , discussing community as resistance for those organizing in solidarity with Abya Yala* here in Germany. SoliSur is a a self-organized internationalist, anticolonial, transfeminist migrant group from Abya Yala and the diaspora. Members @whyana_ and @mar.lou.kir joined us live in the Refuge studio to share about how the collective are building community, organizing workshops, and taking direct action in the struggle against the advance of the right-wing and the criminalization of migration in Abya Yala and Germany, as well as anti-extractivist struggles and their colonial relationship. They also brought along an absolutely banging musical selection, complete with with the liberation histories these musics sit within. Don’t miss it! Find the archive of the show in the usual spot ➡️ *one indigenous name for so-called Latin America 📻 DON’T JUST LISTEN — GET INVOLVED! 📻 📲 FOLLOW @solisur_berlin and support their work. 📣 GET LOUD at upcoming solidarity demonstrations in your area. 💚 SUPPORT the people most impacted in your communities. 💿 BUY MUSIC from the artists featured on the show. Tracklists linked in the usual spot. ℹ️ image shows a light purple frame with the show info in black text (“aequa Radio with SoliSur, with Sarj, Wed 21 Jan, 14:00-16:00 CET refugeworldwide.com”). The featured image in the middle shows a red flag with the image “América Invertida” by Joaquín Torres García, which depicts an illustrated map of so-called “South America” that is turned upside down from the standard depiction, putting the south of the continent on the top of the map, framed by a sun, moon and stars. The image also shows the SoliSur logo: the name as text with a queer flag superimposed beneath.

We wrapped up our three-day course for civil society practitioners, Facilitating Dialogue in Times of Rupture, which became our flagship learning event of the year. The course brought together hosts, activists and community leaders with working backgrounds in affected geographies — including Palestine, Syria, India, Ukraine and Russia — creating a rare, diverse learning cohort shaped not only by expertise, but by lived experience of oppression, displacement and resistance. A big thank you to all the participants, as well as to our partners and co-hosts Alice Priori (CitizensLab e.V. ), Sarj Lynch (aequa), Rafia Shahnaz, arjunraj, Samira Iraki.

Our course “Facilitating Dialogue in Times of Rupture” is coming up on October 16 and we’re excited to introduce the hosts and facilitators of the course. Check it out and get registered if it takes your fancy! ➨ Sarj Lynch is a Berlin-based facilitator, participation designer, community care organiser and co-initiator of aequa, a community for social equity, solidarity and mutual support. ➨ Alice Priori is an activist, community and process facilitator, Art of Hosting practitioner and dancer. Alice is the co-founder and coordinator of the CitizensLab, a Berlin-based NGO exploring regenerative approaches to democracy and social transformation. ➨ Rafia Shahnaz is a queer migrant of colour from Pakistan whose trauma-informed facilitation blends lived experience with somatic, creative and therapeutic practices to create spaces where transformation and self-awareness can unfold. ➨ arjunraj is a filmmaker, multi-modal researcher, artist and pedagogue currently working as a Research Associate at University of Hamburg, Germany. arjunraj has been developing a collaborative storytelling methodology. ➨ Samira Iraki is a a solution-focused coach working with a diversity-oriented, value- and resource-oriented approach; she is also a co-founder of the Palestinian Feminist Archiv Berlin.

I’m trying to learn to live less linearly, but in terms of calendars and timelines, there are a few “upcoming” bits I’ve had the honor of dreaming up together with some very courageous, principled, experienced and inspired co-creators, from whom I have already learned so much. You, too, could be so lucky to learn with them and your peers, if you sign up for one of these. 😉 As ever, these are participatory, conversation-based, practice-heavy workshops — not lectures! So come prepared to connect and share from your own experiences, learnings and challenges. If you have questions, feel free to write. And yes, please screenshot and share! ~*~*~*~*~*~ 1. BIG BEEF & BEYOND: Transformative approaches to addressing harm in our communities 🎡 Part of @90milartschool 📆 4 consecutive monday evenings, starting oct 13th ⚖️ Sliding scale pricing with some solidarity spots avail 🫀 Co-created with hilarious genius @thespiraltimes 🖍 Redesigned since last time — now 3 training sessions and 1 peer-support put-it-into-practice session (but we will practice throughout, don’t worry!) ~*~*~*~*~*~ 2. FACILITATING GROUPS IN TIMES OF RUPTURE: Reclaiming facilitation as a radical relational practice 🎡 Offered by @csfberlin 📆 3-day immersion workshop, oct 16/17/18 ⚖️ Sliding scale pricing with some scholarship spots avail 🫀 Co-created with systems-change baddie Alice Priori @alrebelde from @citizenslab.berlin 🖍 With workshops from arjunraj + @samira_iraki , plus one more guest I am very excited to announce soon! a note on “dialogue”: here we don’t mean truth-flattening diplomacy. we’re exploring tools to build the mass movements needed to topple empire, to grow coalitions that can withstand the pressures of accelerating collapse, and hold us together with fierce love against all the forces that would divide us. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ I’ll spiral back soon to tell what’s been moving in/through me these last months, including the trip that took me to the north of Sápmi (Tromsø), where I witnessed the aurora borealis — just starting to peek from behind these mountains at dusk. 🌅 Show up now however you can bbs! All our liberation struggles are connected!