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A standard Ask Me Anything post.
A request post -- (What is the format and why should I make a request post?)
A gauging interest post -- (What is this?)
What is an AmA?
AmA’s or “Ask Me Anything” began on the old internet, originally AOL chatrooms, later followed by Slashdot. They are crowdsourced interviews where the interviewee first makes a post describing who they are and what they do. Commenters then leave questions and can vote on other questions according to which they would like to see answered.
The interviewee can then go through and reply to the questions they find interesting, and easily see those questions the internet is dying to have the answer too. Questions will be a mixture of radical, serious and lighthearted resulting in the kind of interview you won’t get elsewhere.
What Topics Are Allowed?
Anyone can do an Ask Me Anything. The topic of the AmA must meet the rules below, and in some cases you must provide proof of the claims you are making. Ask Me Anything topics fall into two categories:
Something that plays a central role in your life. The prime example of this is a person's job; posts about someone's occupation are almost always allowed. A person's topic should be something that they know thoroughly and is important to them; this gives them more to discuss and a more thorough background in the field.
A truly interesting and unique event. An example would be "I organised a protest against x." It's an activity that doesn't play a central role in someone's life but is so uncommon that many users would not have experiences of their own to relate to it.
AmAs should NOT be about:
Mutual-Aid and Crowd Funding - AmA submitters that include any aid or funding campaign must be eligible for an AmA without the campaign for it to be allowed. Additionally, the focus of the AmA must not be the campaign -- those posts would be more appropriate in the mutual-aid community. Posts about suicide.
Other Restrictions:
Giveaways are not permitted on AmA. Contests and giveaways already running on a third party site prior to the AmA are acceptable
Proof
Proof in the case of public figures or orgs may be a social media post on an official account. For other topics it may be a proof image. This does not always have to be included in the post at the time of posting and it may be discussed with the moderators and provided privately. We will ALWAYS respect your complete privacy.
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Do you know about the ChunkaLuta project? It’s mainly the Marx Madness podcast and @chunkaluta1973 on twitter atm, but they technically have a network started. You should consider a collaboration if you haven’t already.
I'm not familiar with it. I'll check it out!
We have a gofundme here that we passed 2 of 3 major goals on already and we are trying to fund another 10k for a comrade's wheelchair replacement. The project is building a home for some elders and a meeting hall for the traditional government of Pine Ridge (as opposed to the imposed neo-Colonial IRA governments), as well as purchasing land for growing hemp for in-community clothing production and more, and the truck and logistics required for the construction.
An affiliated group is also running a coat and winter supply drive for adults and children especially as Pine Ridge Reservation has one of the harshest winters in the lower 48 and many are without electricity. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lakota-families-stay-warm-through-winter
For a TL;DR of what Chunka Luta is, we are a network of affiliated platforms and individuals acting as a forum for organizers/communists from all over to coordinate and assist each others' on the ground organizing with the intent of creating a high level platform connecting the many movements on the continent together.
The official Twitter presence is @ChunkaLutaOrg now and we also have a link tree: https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork