Multitudes

Like so many of you, we’re saddened to hear that elder Eric Huntley - archivist, community activist and campaigner - has departed. 🤍🕊️ Eric was one of the people we interviewed in 2021 for our podcast series ‘The Oral Tradition’, a part of the Black Digital Archiving project. Eric and his wife, Jessica Huntley (who passed in 2013), were foundational members of the Black radical education movement and campaigns in the UK from the 60s onward. They were founding members of the Caribbean Education and Community Workers Association, the Black Parents Movement, set up the Joint Workshop Action Committee and were organisers of the 1981 Black People’s Day of Action March and Supplementary School Movement. A lot of the work we do at Multitudes follows in the radical Black tradition of people like Eric and Jessica. We’re spending today revisiting his episode and honouring both of their memories. May he rest in power. ✊🏽 Thank you for everything, Eric. 🙏🏽✨ 🔗: blackdigitalarchives.org/podcast/eric-huntley #erichuntley

It’s that time of year again! We don’t know about you, but we just wanna stay in bed, eat food and pamper ourselves all day! In light of this, we are inviting you to join us for our stay-at-home 1 COURSE DISCOURSE online on the 20th Nov! It’s free, we provide the takeaways, it is BSL interpreted and we are offering ‘Thank you' gifts to attendees! Limited spaces. Registration link in the bio! More details below: 1. “What is it?” The ‘1 Course Discourse’ is us inviting you, our community, to come, break bread and have a heart to heart with us. Our Living Archives is for Black Disabled Women & Gender Expansive People. And we want it to be guided by community - so we need your input and expertise! 2. Let us explain… We want to understand how to approach building out the archives and our activities, in a loving way that feels aligned. We can’t do that without you. In fact, we refuse to do it without you! The evening will give you a chance to help shape the organisation’s events, archival offerings, future structures and communal healing practices. This charity is always meant to be for US and by US. 3. Our Goals? -To co-create a thematic Living Archive of, for and with Disabled Black Women and Gender Expansive People (BWGEP) - starting with the ‘Black Disabled Grief project’! -To facilitate free wellbeing, educational & leisure events, workshops -To conduct insider-led, vital research on Disabled BWGEP populations -To empower Disabled BWGEP to enter higher education and research 4. OLA NEEDS YOU! IT’S ABOUT CULTURE. IT’S ABOUT HISTORY. IT’S ABOUT INTRA-COMMUNAL HEALING. IT’S ABOUT BUILDING LOVING FUTURES. We’re trying to build towards lasting impact! For this event we’re offering you BSL Interpretation, free food, thank you gifts, games & of course… space to talk that talk! What else do you need in order to be able join us on the 20th Nov? 5“. I’m DOWN! Now what?!” To attend, just register using the link in our bio! At registration, you will have options to tell us: 1. How you would like to receive your meal and 2. How you would like to receive your thank you gift! Registration link in bio 😁 Alt text in comments.

Image description: Bold, high-contrast text on a textured background. In the top right corner is the instagram handle “@no_name_sound_ ” . In Orange and bold capital letters is the heading which reads “SOCIAL JUSTICE SOUND SYSTEMS FOR ALL” . Beneath it “no.name.sound” is written in cursive and there are three drawings. On the left, a speaker system with three horns coming out of the top. In the centre a hand holding three megaphones with two speakers positioned beneath it, and on the right five stick figures with raised arms holding megaphones. AN OPEN INVITATION TO MEET, DISCUSS AND DESIGN A PORTABLE SOUND SYSTEM LENDING SCHEME FOR LONDON Hello we are a collective of sound system operators and social justice workers, designing a sound system lending scheme for London-based groups - and we need your help! We want to create a sustainable and accessible scheme, led by Global Majority Groups, created for us and by us. We're inviting all those interested to get in touch via our registration form so we can begin planning next steps. NO technical knowledge is required - just bring your questions, ideas, existing skillsets, and energy• We aim to shape this thing together. This project is supported by Multitudes as part of the Small Acts of Commoning programme. We have access to some resources including financial, and we would love to learn together how best to use them. PLEASE SEE THE SIGN-UP FORM (QR) FOR MORE INFORMATION. AND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PERSONALLY GET INVOLVED BUT KNOW SOMEONE WHO MIGHT, PLEASE SHARE THIS INVITATION - ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE WHO DON'T USE SOCIAL MEDIA. WITH LOVE..• no. name. sound

🍉 We are now out of consultation slots! 🍉 We are amazed by the many responses we've been getting in response to our post about migrating from Wix. When we made our call out to boycott the platform we did it with grassroots groups in mind. We didn't expect our post to reach such a wide audience. While we can't provide detailed support to everyone who reached out (we're a really small co-op), we are determined to help as many people as we can to dump Wix. We've put together a guide on migrating from Wix to Squarespace (link in bio). This guidance is made primarily for personal sites. We will continue our work with grassroots movement groups to divest from digital tools that support the ongoing settler-colonialism and genocide of Palestinians and other oppressed peoples. #freepalestine #boycottwix #notechforapartheid

🚫 Is your website built with Wix? 🚫 Wix is a website builder software company based in Tel-Aviv and openly supports Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. If you currently use Wix and would like to learn what a migration would entail, we're offering free consultations on how this might be done and what costs might be involved specific to your site. Get in touch at hi[@]multitudes.coop Link to further evidence on Wix’s complicity in Israeli apartheid: /ireland/2023/10/24/internal-wix-chat-encouraged-staff-to-support-israels-narrative-in-hamas-conflict/ #freepalestine #boycottwix #boycottisrael #ceasefirenow

It has never been more important to centre the voices of Palestinians and their experiences of settler colonialism and apartheid under Israeli occupation. In 2022, the amazing @skindeepmag launched a series exploring Palestinian lives and their dreams for a future free of subjugation and oppression, focusing on queerness, Blackness and incarceration. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their fight for freedom and justice. #freepalestine, today, tomorrow and forever. /seasons/palestine-ways-of-being Alt text: Palestinians of different ages stand strong together with fists raised. Set against a backdrop of the skyline of Gaza, along with the imposed barbed wire border being pushed open by the Palestinian resistance. The word 'Gaza' appears across the image in Arabic text. Image credit: @ahlan.my.darlings

Saraswathi Subbaraman and Ashoka Finley, co-founders of Hypha, reached out to Multitudes to help develop Hypha’s new platform and help it enter a new phase in its development 🌱 #Blackdesign #Justdesign #DesignJustice #BlackDesigners #GraphicDesign #ResponsibleTech #Coop #Cooperative #climateChange #ClimateJustice

Kinfolk Network contacted us after a year of deep organisational work, ready to step back into the world and shine 🌼💅🏽

Max Gerber, the head of product of Law Centres Network (LCN), approached Multitudes to work on the 2022 edition of LCN's yearly conference. With just a few days of availability in our schedule and their conference around the corner, we had to be fast and efficient 👩🏾‍💻✨

The @blackdigitalarchiving project is a collaborative community tech project stewarded by Multitudes. We worked with artists and archivists from the Black community to explore the challenges and opportunities for digitisation of archival material on Black histories. #BlackArchives #BlackArchivesInTheUK #BlackHistory #BlackStories #BlackDigitalArchiving #TheOralTradition #TheOralTraditionPodcast #Blackdesign #Justdesign #DesignJustice #BlackDesigners #GraphicDesign #ResponsibleTech #Coop #Cooperative

A project close to our hearts is Africans in the Diaspora, part of the Africa programme at Thousand Currents. @_africansinthediaspora supports a network of partners all working in solidarity with other Africans to address the challenges of climate justice, food sovereignty and alternative economies. The result of our collaboration was a brand identity and other design assets to facilitate the pooling of knowledge, skills and financial resources across diasporic Africans and programme partners. Follow AiD and support their amazing work! #AiD #AfricansInTheDiaspora #ThousandsCurrents #FoodSovereignty #ClimateJustice #AlternativeEconomies #Solidarity #Blackdesign #Justdesign #DesignJustice #BlackDesigners #GraphicDesign #ResponsibleTech #Coop #Cooperative

In Dec 2021, @paidtopollute , a campaign by Uplift, took the UK government to court. Multitudes worked with Uplift to centre the stories of the claimants in the case, while amplifying the issues of legal and economic support for continued fossil fuel extraction in the UK. Support their case by signing the petition and donating on paidtopollute.org.uk #PaidToPollute #MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #Environment #Blackdesign #Justdesign #DesignJustice #BlackDesigners #GraphicDesign #ResponsibleTech #Coop #Cooperative