Jonathan H. Woolson
Web Developer, Software Engineer, and Filmmaker in Fredonia, New York
What I do:
Building software at ArxLibrys.com.
Making films at Listening.Pictures.
Consulting on digital archives and websites for NYC museums: TibetanMuseum.org & MoRUSnyc.org.
Staying curious, caring for all my relations, folding paper cranes (折鶴), and building 915MHz (ISM band) LoRa Mesh nodes. Oh, and ISO 8601 dates make me happy.
What I've done:
Built university websites with Drupal CMS for SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia.edu, from 2006-2025.
Worked in journalism, design, software, and publishing: JWoolson.com/Resume
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
Why?
For all my relations,
A value change for survival.
I am because we are.
No one is disposable.
Everyone eats, with shelter, healthcare, education, autonomy, and dignity for all.
No exceptions.
Water is life.
All water is connected.
We are water.
What I find interesting:
All my relations.
Learning how to form resilient, cooperative, durable, humane systems.
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
1991 “Value Change for Survival” – from the United Nations Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival
2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Powers of Ten (1977) by Ray & Charles Eames
Dr. Patch Adams' grandmother revolution, from power-over to power-with.
David Logan's five stages of tribal development:
Stage 5: 2% - Life's Great
Stage 4: 22% - We're Great Together
Stage 3: 48% - I'm Great and You're Not
Stage 2: 25% - My Life Sucks
Stage 1: 2% - Life Sucks
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.
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 / Red Earth Women’s Alliance / 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, 2025, No Kings, Fredonia NY
2026, 2025, 2013, Nuke-Free Cattaraugus Creek Walk, at Onöndowa'ga:' Honöëja:de' / Seneca Nation, Irving, NY
My teachers:
All my relations
My wife and our children
My parents and my siblings
Grandmother Margery Busck Weierbach / Mormor
Grandmother Twylah Nitsch / Yeh-weh-node
Grandmother ChoQosh Au'ho'oh
International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge
Great Peacemaker & Jikonsaseh & Hiawatha
Dr. Oren Lyons / Joagquisho
Ray Fadden / Tehanetorens
Moses Shongo / Ho-non-da-a-suh
John Francis / Planetwalker
Peace Pilgrim
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Lǎozǐ (Lao Tzu) / 老子
Jun-san Yasuda / 安田 淳
Sadako Sasaki / 佐々木 禎子
Akio Matsumura / 松村 晃男
Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi / الرومي
John Woolman
Willard & Laura Gaeddert
Johanna Alper
Arland D. Williams Jr.
Purgatorius unio (K-Pg ±66Mya)
Vasily Arkhipov (±1962)
Stanislav Petrov (±1983)
S. Brian Willson, Greta Thunberg, Bonnie & John Raines, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Marc Elias, Rev. Mariann Budde, Antonio Gramsci, Francesca Albanese, Laura Poitras, Chris Hedges, Joanna Macy, Dahr Jamail, Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, Ammon Hennacy, Dr. Patch Adams, Rev. Billy, The Yes Men
Amy Goodman, Arundhati Roy, Peter Gzowski, Naomi Klein, Gil Durán, Heather Cox Richardson, Erica Chenoweth, Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Mark Bray, Howard Zinn
Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Donella & Dennis Meadows, Francis Moore-Lappé, Dave Pollard, Richard Heinberg, James Hansen, Lester Brown, Guy McPherson
Buckminster Fuller, Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Douglas Hofstadter, Randall Munroe (xkcd.com), Dr. Leonard Shlain, Linus Torvalds, Brewster Kahle, Edward Tufte, Robert Fulghum, Ani DiFranco, Tom Lehrer, The Frantics, Monty Python, Douglas Adams…
…Wonko the Sane…
…and oh, so many other ne'er-do-wells and assorted riff-raff.
Spoilers, sweetie…
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