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This how-to guide was written by an organizer with the group FlockOff! Ithaca, which successfully pressured two municipal governments in Upstate New York to end contracts with Flock Safety. In addition to the full online how-to guide, download a printable (or digital) zine, too! Flock Safety is a mass surveillance tech company that makes automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology. Municipalities across the U.S. have adopted Flock contracts to surveil their communities.

How do we live in an age of disaster? That’s the provocation put forth in the new book “Compassion in Crisis.” With engaging prompts, concise checklists, and heartfelt guidance, co-authors Kailea Loften and Kate Weiner lead readers in building and sustaining durable mutual aid networks for rapid response in the face of disaster while underscoring preparedness as a constant, communal practice.

More than a year ago, a donkey cart wound its way through heaps of rubble in Gaza. Three young men brushed ash from burned book covers and stacked salvaged volumes onto the cart, racing to save them from Israeli airstrikes and neighbors trying to burn them for fuel, unable to access cooking fuel due to the Israeli blockade. Omar Hamad, 30, is a pharmacy graduate who never stopped being a reader. He has helped collect and preserve more than 5,500 books since 2025.

For 25 years, NewStories has been supporting communities that have faced the unimaginable, total loss from disaster—those who don’t want to rebuild the old normal, but are ready to co-create something that affirms life, reciprocity, and interdependence. They call this approach, Re-Storying Disaster.

Remembering the Future is tapping into ancestral wisdom to inform the co-creation of a world that prioritizes the wellbeing of human and non-human life for the next seven generations and beyond. Artists are the culture—they invite us to question, reimagine, and shape our present and future economy. The influence and wealth they infuse into society is undeniable, yet too often underappreciated. Society values the product more than the process or the artist’s humanity.

Maputo, Mozambique Isaura Matola (pictured above), a widow and mother of four, wakes up every day at 5 a.m., before sunrise, to begin collecting recyclable waste at the Hulene landfill on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. After losing her job as a domestic worker in 2023, Matola faced unsuccessful attempts to secure other employment. Waste sorting at the landfill became her only viable option.

On March 4, 2026, the Ithaca Common Council in Ithaca, New York, U.S., voted to non-renew its contract with Flock Safety. Flock, among other things, is a vendor of fixed-location automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems. You may have seen them pop up in your city or county in the past couple of years, as they have become a popular surveillance tool for many law enforcement agencies.

Welcome to the second edition of the Library of Things Toolkit. This expanded guide will help you plan, start, and grow a Library of Things in your community. Libraries of Things (often called LoTs) are community-based systems that allow people to borrow, share, and collectively steward physical resources.

Welcome to the second edition of the Library of Things Toolkit. This expanded guide will help you plan, start, and grow a Library of Things in your community.

Explore events that bring people together to share ideas, resources, and solutions for stronger, more connected communities.