Northern Action

Welcome!

We are a chapter of Indivisible located in northern MN. We provide tech support and skill sharing to progressive activists and organizations.

At our core we are publishers & activists. We collaborate, resonate & help distribute your message through digital & analogue channels. We hold regular skill share gatherings.

Guiding principles

• build simple solutions
• demystify tech
• embrace a minimalist aesthetic
• center accessibility
• model & teach reusable, mappable skills
• build tech that supports content and communications
• build with a plan b & c in mind: build redundance into the system
• build multi-threaded channels of communication
• be agile, adaptive and flexible to meet a rapidly changing world
• build affordable solutions
• be multi-modal in nature: embrace channels that span face-to-face, print, web, email
• facilitate fluid, rapid transition between personal data (like email addresses) and anonymous, transferable points of contact
• center an ongoing skill share that respects people's very busy schedules in these overwhelming times
• choose to archive rather than erase
• remember that we are writing history ::: resonate & amplify the now but also record history in the making ::: record stories & shape the narrative
• center text-first in written communications. Images are great. Posters are colorful means to promote events but make it a priority to also provide text information outside the frozen image.
• liberate content: apply formattting & styling & platform specifics as a final part of the publishing process think of content as data : a reusable core resource
• build libraries not advertising brands
• build hypertext, relational, interlinked information environments that encourage traversal ::: that empower exploration and deep dive opportunities
• facilitate quick, easy access to a rapidly shifting news and action landscape. couple brief summaries with "learn more" and "take action" links to source information and calls to action
• encourage open source, creative commons, duplication ::: make it easy for others to copy our content
• keep learning together in a rapidly changing technology landscape with all its promise & its perils