Jonathan Woolson
Software & Web Developer, Filmmaker & Archivist, and Emeritus Web Manager At SUNY Fredonia in Fredonia, New York
Jonathan Woolson
Software & Web Developer, Filmmaker & Archivist, and Emeritus Web Manager At SUNY Fredonia in Fredonia, New York
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.
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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