What's so Wild about Fermentation?
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
Fermentation Troubleshooting Q & A
Upcoming Workshops and Demonstrations
Fermentation & Food Internet Resources
Fermentation and Social Change
Fermentation and Social Change
Social change is another form of fermentation. Ideas ferment, as they spread and mutate and inspire movements for change. The Oxford English Dictionary offers as the second definition of ferment: “The state of being excited by emotion or passion, agitation, excitement. . . . a state of agitation tending to bring about a purer, more wholesome, or more stable condition of things.” The word ferment derives from the Latin fervere, “to boil.” Fervor and fervent are other words from the same root. Fermenting liquids bubble just like boiling liquids. Excited people can channel the same intensity, and use it to create change.
Social change doesn't happen online. Use these links to find allies, then find them in the flesh, build community, and use your whole body to create change, not just your fingers.
Read "my tale of zero tolerance," my account of being part of a mass arrest in New York City during the Republican National Convention in 2004.
Email links to websites you like that belong here to sandorkraut@wildfermentation.com.
Activist Kiosk: Large directory of activism links from infoshop.org.
Adbusters: Anti-consumerist marketing subversion.
ACT UP NY: The original AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, which I was part of when I lived in New York. Info on current issues and actions, as well as great archives.
ACT UP Philadelphia: A fierce ACT UP chapter still fighting back.
American Friends Service Committee: Peace and social justice activism, founded by Quakers.
American Civil Liberties Union: Resources for defending against infringements on free speech.
Beehive Collective: A Maine collective producing excellent political posters for use as organizing tools.
Biodevastation: Organizing against biodevastation and for biojustice.
Colours of Resistance: Anti-racist resources and links.
Critical Mass: Bicycle Activism.
Critical Resistance: Working to abolish the "prison-industrial complex".
Earth First!: Direct Action to prevent environmental destruction.
Environmental Justice Resource Center:
Federation of Intentional Communities: Maintains a directory of intentional communities and resources for experiments in community living.
Freedom and Accuracy in Reporting: Media watchdog with excellent alternative media and media criticism links.
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: Resources for countering homophobia.
Gay Shame: "The radical alternative to consumerist 'pride' crap."
Gender Identity 101: A transgender primer.
Global Issues: An impressive compilation of more than 5,000 articles and essays on global trade, human rights, enviromental issues, geopolitics, and more, selected by someone named Anup Shah, Indian-born, British-educated, living in the U.S.
Hemlock Society: Death with dignity; promoting end-of-life choice.
Highlander Research and Education Center: A 70 year old Tennessee institution, supporting radical social and economic justice movements.
Howard Zinn: Website of readings and links created by the author of the classic People's History of the United States.
Immigrant and Refugee Rights: A national network for protecting the rights of immigrants and refugees.
Indymedia: Grassroots activist news service.
International Foundation for Gender Equality: Resources for transgendered people.
Internet Anarchist University: Anarchist primer, readings, and links from infoshop.org.
Labor Net: "Global online community for a democratic, independent labor union."
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund: Legal support for people who challenge homophobia through the courts.
Masturbate for Peace: "Using self-love to end conflict."
Medical Marijuana: Resources from the medical marijuana patients who wrote California's Proposition 215, with lots of links.
Multinational Monitor: Keeping an eye on corporate power.
National Abortion Rights Action League: Pro-choice.
National Lawyers Guild: A network of radical lawyers.
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: C'mon already.
NOCIRC: National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
Not in Our Name: Against the war in Iraq.
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance: Organizing to stop nuclear weapons production.
RuralGay.com: Networking for lgbt folks in rural areas.
SOA Watch: Organizing to close the School of the Americas, the U.S. government's terrorist training camp.
Starhawk: This popular pagan writer is a dedicated activist, and her website is full of her insighful political essays and activist links.
Tom Paine.com: "A Public Interest Journal" full of independent perspectives on world events and links.
Treatment Action Campaign: Working to make HIV drugs accessible to people with AIDS in Africa and Asia.
White Privilege: Anti-racist resources compiled by the Monkeyfist Collective.
Email links to websites you like that belong here to sandorkraut@wildfermentation.com.