What I do:

Build software: kivi.software.

Make films: listening.pictures.

Consult for non-profits:
morusnyc.org and tibetanmuseum.org.

Built and managed university websites for fredonia.edu 2006-2025.

Worked in tech, marketing, and journalism: linkedin.com/in/jwoolson

Fold paper cranes (折鶴).

Stay curious.

Who I am:

Quaker and Buddhist teachings inform my pacifist, pro-democracy and anti-fascist views. I am opposed to acts of violence and coercive threats.

Always have been.
Always will be antifa.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 ally
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུ
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What I find interesting:

Dr. Patch Adams' love revolution, from “power over” to “power with”.

David Logan's five stages of tribal development.

Finite and Infinite Games (1986) by James Carse.

Scott McCloud's steps to discover what MAY be:
1. Learn from everyone.
2. Follow no one.
3. Watch for patterns.
4. Work like hell.

Bahia Shehab a thousand times No! ("لا" is pronounced "la"). The right to refuse.

My favorite TED Talks.

Places I've walked:

1982 World Peace March, Irving NY

1990 No War in Iraq, Buffalo NY & DC

1992 Indigenous People's Day, DC

1999 Stop Bombing Iraq, Berkeley CA

2003 All Nations Four Directions March, Denver CO

2006 World Can’t Wait, NYC

2011 Occupy Fredonia NY

2011 Occupy Buffalo NY

2012 Occupy Congress DC

2014 U.N. People's Climate March NYC

2019, 2018 Women's March, Buffalo NY

2025 No Kings, Portland ME

2025 No Kings, Buffalo NY

2025 No Kings, Olean NY

2026 No Kings, Fredonia NY

2026, 2025, 2013 Nuke-Free Cattaraugus Creek Walk, Ashford, NY

Teachers I'm grateful for:

my wife, Laura

our kids, Lux & Francesca

my parents, Faith & Arthur

my in-laws, Tricia & Winston

my siblings, Chandra & Jeremy

my grandmother “Mor Mor” Margery Busck Weierbach

Grandmother Twylah Nitsch

Grandmother ChoQosh Au'ho'oh

International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

Great Peacemaker

Peace Pilgrim

Jun-san Yasuda

Moses Shongo

Ray Fadden

Oren Lyons

John Woolman

Mevlanã Jalãl ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Kahlil Gibran

Edgar Cayce

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Purgatorius unio (K-Pg ±66Mya)

Stanislav Petrov

Vasili Arkhipov

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Brian Willson

Greta Thunberg

Bonnie & John Raines

Tim DeChristopher

Daniel Ellsberg

Edward Snowden

Laura Poitras

Chris Hedges

John Francis

Joanna Macy

Dahr Jamail

Mario Savio

Rev. Billy

The Yes Men

Marshall Rosenberg

Ammon Hennacy

Utah Phillips

Dr. Patch Adams

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Amy Goodman

Naomi Klein

Heather Cox Richardson

Timothy Snyder

Jason Stanley

Howard Zinn

Noam Chomsky

Peter Gzowski

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Raj Patel

Francis Moore-Lappe

Dave Pollard

Jason Box

Derrick Jensen

Richard Heinberg

James Hansen

Lester Brown

Guy McPherson

Donella & Dennis Meadows

Toby Hemenway

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Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Tara Cullis & David Suzuki

Jay Ingram

Joey Santore

Chris Gad

Carl Sagan

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dr. Leonard Shlain

Tiffany Shlain

Randall Munroe (xkcd.com)

Buckminster Fuller

Ray & Charles Eames

Lella & Massimo Vignelli

Edward Tufte

Clair Patterson

Richard Feynman

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William Gibson

Neal Stephenson

Ursula K. Le Guin

David Brin

Isaac Asimov

Kurt Vonnegut

Douglas Adams

C.S. Lewis

Richard Bach

Robert Fulghum

Monty Python

The Frantics

Tom Lehrer

Fred ‘Mr.’ Rogers

Laurie Anderson

Spalding Gray

Marina Abramović

Wim Wenders

Werner Herzog

Agnès Varda

Hayao Miyazaki

Anaïs Mitchell

Olivia Dean

Ani DiFranco

Michael Franti

Rhiannon Giddens

Carsie Blanton

Sweet Honey in the Rock

Nahko & Medicine for the People

Stan Rogers

Dan Berggren

Marlo Thomas

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Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge

Religious Society of Friends / Quakers / YFNA

Unitarian Universalists

Buddhists

Librarians

Archivists

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...and oh so many other ne'er-do-wells and assorted riff-raff.

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