You’ve already gotten good answers so I just wanted to reply that I indeed wasn’t joking.
You can have decentralized planning. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
Decentralization doesn’t mean you can’t have organization, communication or coordination.
What do you think makes it hard to combine planning, decentralization and democracy?
Living in Europe this is fairly easy te remember. None of the choices are great, but they definitely exist.
Installing something like Linux Mint or Ubuntu is fairly easy. The hardest part is probably creating the install media and that’s not particularly hard ei her.
If you don’t rely on specific software (like Adobe), using Linux is a good idea. I’d still advice not to mess with a computer you rely on and wait until you have sufficient time to troubleshoot something. Even if nothing goes wrong a new OS can still take a little getting used to.
It doesn’t respond to what’s going on around me, but bone-conduction headphones do help me stay focused and can be used when interacting with others if you don’t make the music too loud.
My local anarchist collective has already decided to donate and is currently looking at how we can do additional fundraising.
I hate nationalism very much and would love to have a more global hub to learn about the important political subjects that dont crop up that much in French (my local one) or US media. Sadly, I never see such a thing. National communities are a bad solution but to a very real problem, which is that global themed communities end up being US ones.
This strikes me as they key point. While I seriously doubt any community based on where I live (Belgium) would be very active, it would be really cool to have conversations about things happening near (or near-ish) me or about region-specific subjects.
The example you give about immigration is a really good one, since the challenges with the EU’s border regime are meaningfully different to what the US is facing.
No idea what the best way to approach this.
Country-specific communities chafe ideologically and might just not be active enough to be worthwhile. Language-centric ones make some sense, but run the risk of seeing the same problem as English ones (namely, being mostly centered on discussion about the largest or most culturally dominant nation state using that language). It’d also (potentially) divide countries that aren’t linguistically monolithic.
This book can’t be recommended enough.
If you’re an experienced activist you’ll probably know a lot of what it says already, but it’ll do so in language that helps you teach it to newer people looking to get involved.