Dear Screen-L participants: We hope you'll be able to attend our SCMS panel <http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/2017_conference/SCMS2017Program_norooms.pdf> on Wednesday night at 9pm - Collective Action in 2017: Responding to Hate, Disenfranchisement, and the Loss of the Commons (call below). We're gathering two-slide presentations from members and others who are engaged with projects to protect the commons. We hope to present them as time permits (perhaps as a quick slideshow and/or handouts). Please post a 250-800 word blog and/or link to your two-slide presentations with *Film International* here <http://filmint.nu/> (we'll present these time permitting). After the session the Re.framing Activism <http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/activistmedia/> website (see @re_activism <https://twitter.com/re_activism>) would like to publish a selection of the PDF versions of the slides - we'll let you know how to submit these for publication at the session. Looking forward to seeing you at the conference! Best wishes, Carol +++ Protecting the Commons in 2017: Responding to Hate, Disenfranchisement, and the Loss of the Civil Sphere Many of us are terrified by the rise in Islamophobia and other racisms, misogyny and homophobia, threats to the environment and increased possibilities for nuclear war, the rise of surveillance and the limits on freedom of speech and movement, demagoguery and the production of ignorance, and increasing income disparity, to name but a few. What can we do? What might be most effective? How can we remain engaged in the face of a frightening new normal? Should we march? Litigate and impeach? Unleash a “beautiful Twitter storm” of #swampyTrump? Visit Appalachia, the Rust Belt, D.C. and Silicon Valley (like in the Civil Rights Movement, sharing experiences face to face)? Connect through Facebook (with its false facts and siloed communities), prank, make art, forge connections with corporations and celebrities, make ads and media campaigns, enlist the wealthy and the powerful, or the religious or the poor? Concede on cherished issues? Hire lobbyists? Give money to causes and groups, like the ACLU, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club? Collectivize to launch a responsive academic journal? Does this moment call for new forms of identity and collectivity? ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]