There are parallels between the cultural and political climate of the 1970s and current global conditions. However, we feel that an important difference is in the absence of a massive counter-cultural movement for change. We face many of the same problems: large-scale ideological wars, energy crises, environmental devastation, destructive global capitalism and more. The hopeful quality of these books encourages us in developing a movement of our own, in the form of how-to manuals with the explicit intent of building a new society of optimistic resistance.

Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.

Basically a collection of other people's collections of stuff that isn't normally collected or can't be shown off easily. Examples: Childhood Graffiti From Antique Sources; Fake Parking Tickets; People Documenting Anti-War Protesters; Bibles Stolen From Hotels.

The point of the webring is to start a community of web curators. We don't just to link to any old websites, we link to sites we think are good. Sites we love, sites we use, sites that are true treasures. Unearthing these gems from the muck of the wider internet and sharing them with others adds real value to the world.

The concept is simple.... Follow any of the tag accounts, which corresponds to a hashtag, and you will get copies of posts as they appear around the fediverse, straight to your own timeline.

Instead of random Latin filler text, get random Carl Sagan filler text!