BUILD: Mutual Aid & Community

BUILD: Mutual Aid & Community

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UnitedSalseros
UnitedSalseros
Welcome to UnitedSalseros Centre for Latin Dance Training and Somatic Education Offering Salsa lessons, workshops and entertainment bookings in Toronto and the GTA, find out why UnitedSalseros has become one of the top and longest running salsa schools in Canada. Known for their high level of
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Best Night Out | Toronto | Lula Lounge
Best Night Out | Toronto | Lula Lounge
🕺💃🌴 Looking for a fun night out? Look no further than Lula Lounge - Toronto's most exciting live music venue & restaurant! 🎤 On Fridays & Saturdays, enjoy tropical dinner & cocktails, join the Free dance lesson, and try your moves with our live band & DJ. Dance to salsa, bachata, reggaeton & top 40! 🎵 And don't forget our Sunday - Thursday Drag brunch, jazz, hip hop & magic show - it's sure to be a night you won't forget! 🤩 So come on over and make some memories with us! 🤗
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Best Night Out | Toronto | Lula Lounge
Activate Toronto Stockyards | An Active Gaming Experience
Activate Toronto Stockyards | An Active Gaming Experience
Enter the game where you become the player in the world’s first active gaming facility. Jump, climb, problem-solve and laugh, as you and your friends move between challenges. Each dynamic game room has interactive technology that reacts in real time, ensuring an adrenaline-filled adventure
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Activate Toronto Stockyards | An Active Gaming Experience
Lecture: The Case Against Competition
Lecture: The Case Against Competition
NO CONTEST: A lecture by Dr. Alfie Kohn on competition. Dr. John has written books like “the Case against Competition” and “punished by rewards” where he mak...
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Lecture: The Case Against Competition
Nine years of Harper, nine years of attacks on unions
Nine years of Harper, nine years of attacks on unions
Chip in to keep stories like these coming, during this election — and beyond. Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that have been put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. “This government has been clear […]
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Nine years of Harper, nine years of attacks on unions
The Self-Improvement Lie
The Self-Improvement Lie

While there is *obvious value in being self directed and having personal goals, for anyone who has ever struggled in this current system knows that essentially in order to get out if any struggle, we must rely on others. In other words - to be our best selves we must depend on others.

Literally all of science and anthropology has proven that we are a communal species - at no point in human history have we *ever been some lone wolf organism.

Sure there are examples of ascetecism:

Men often historically require an inititiattion into manhood, to seperate from the "mother" archetype into men. which likely explains why our patriarchal dominant society favours capitalism and individualist libertarianism (in contrast to anarchist DIY ethos of self empowerment to better the community)

Figures like Buddha or Throroux isolating themselves to find a personal truth - but even in the classic Zen Buddhist "Ox Herding Pictures", eventually we must all return to "the market" aka, the Commons.

Keep in mind in both these examples this type ofn

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The Self-Improvement Lie
Cognitive bias cheat sheet. An organized list of cognitive biases because thinking is hard. | by Buster Benson | Medium
Cognitive bias cheat sheet. An organized list of cognitive biases because thinking is hard. | by Buster Benson | Medium
2022 update (1.7 million reads later 😱): The obsession that began with this post has turned into a book titled Why Are We Yelling? — The Art of Productive Disagreement, because it’s in disagreement…
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Cognitive bias cheat sheet. An organized list of cognitive biases because thinking is hard. | by Buster Benson | Medium