Artemis Bear

The award-winning East Quay community and arts space that the Onion Collective created in Watchet, Somerset, which is a place I have had deep connection to for thirty years.

I’m over the moon to share that I’m starting a new contract as Freelance Researcher at Onion Collective, on a piece of work exploring the potential for a further phase of Hope for Alternative Futures work. The incredible blogs from the first part of this work are here: medium.com/onioncollect...

@jonatack.bsky.social just getting around to listening to your two parter on Indoctrination. I would like to draw your attention to a UK education movement that is in line with your ideas - challenging Steiner nonsense, supporting relationships and critical thinking: www.thegardenbristol.org

All I want for Christmas is the abolition of the imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy

I used to post this every year on Facebook but I've been away for almost a year now. It took me longer than I'd care to admit to give up searching the web so I had to log in again to get it. I don't miss it. Anyway, hope you enjoy my seasonal offering ... 🎄

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I’m sharing a stall with Circle-A on Sat, I’ll have books and information about a more relational and liberatory approach to education ✨

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe you need society as it is” Ivan Illich

My first ever lino print ✨

Real learning is personally meaningful, contextualised and relational.

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society

There’s nothing feminist about prioritising capitalism over your children ✨

Can’t wait! ✨

What Adults Can Learn from Young People about Transformational Governance Written by Artemis Bear

Children’s rights are a system change issue! I was commissioned by the Transformational Governance Collective to write this piece about What Adult’s Can Learn from Young People About Transformational Governance: medium.com/transformati...

I don’t agree because not all societies through history have been as hierarchical and competitive as ours. In fact most have not. Schooling - not to be conflated with education - is a relatively new and I suspect short-lived failed experiment. Children can and usually do learn as part of society.

Open Letter “An Urgent Call to the Heads of Academia in Israel” by the “Black Flag" Action Group

Open letter by Israeli academics.

“This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”

“School co-opts and corrupts the idea of learning - actually limiting the opportunities elsewhere for real learning in young people’s lives.” School is a Crime Scene by The R.Y.S.E. 🔥

I understand your reluctance and don’t use the term lightly. I think you’re in a country that looks after its vulnerable better than here in the UK, where life expectancy and socioeconomic factors are linked to the point where I don’t think it’s exaggeration.

Schooling is hidden eugenics, plain and simple, especially when combined with the removal of social safety nets. I say this as a teacher and education expert. If we want a freer and fairer world with a habitable climate we must abolish it.

Just started running again but to make it more fun I’m going to make the title of each completed Strava activity a political message ✨

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New book haul from Page of Swords radical book cafe at the Mazi Project in Bedminster this afternoon ✨

Don’t believe the teachers - there’s nothing wrong with your child but school trauma! #abolishschools

Standardised testing plus removal of social safety nets is a eugenics project. School is driving authoritarianism and making people think it is both necessary and inevitable.

That’s what I was thinking. Telling everyone to vote Labour instead of Green and now sticking your nose into the business of Greens like you weren’t detracting from the real left at the election, and like the Overton window doesn’t exist. Stings a bit tbh.

I don’t know how this man can sleep at night. He has blood on his hands. What a nasty piece of work.

Ha! If you want to know why the courts aren’t delivering justice in any meaningful way, you have to look at judges. The courts are cesspits of unexamined privilege.

“The education caregivers are convinced is necessary for a child to succeed is only necessary to perpetuate the trade economy.” @heathermarsh.bsky.social in Binding Chaos

Schooling is the backbone of global capitalism ✨

The last year and a half in Gaza is a strong enough reason to dismantle the entire US-led western empire. The Gaza holocaust could end tomorrow and it would still be reason enough. All the empire's other worldwide abuses could have never happened and it'd still be reason enough.

“We must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is motivated to see them for [their] education.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society

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Also though, @carladenyer.bsky.social is a really, genuinely good egg and if anyone can have a positive impact on this utterly broken system it’s her.

I prefer to use my energy to build new systems but the Green Party are the least worst option within the current one. They are never going to be able to achieve anything, no party can, because the vested interests are too strong. They *might* have a part to play in hospicing that system though.

Schooling is a governance issue because that’s where we come to understand our culture. For most of us that’s where we learn that authoritarianism is the only possible “natural” way of organising and that people must be controlled for anything worthwhile to happen.