What I do:

Building software at kivi.software.

Making films at listening.pictures.

Consulting for non-profits.

Built university websites for fredonia.edu, from 2006-2025.

Also worked in software systems, design, and journalism: linkedin.com/in/jwoolson.

Folding paper cranes (折鶴).

Staying 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

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ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུ

What I find interesting:

Dr. Patch Adams' lifelong love revolution, shifting 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.

Bahia Shehab a thousand times No! (لا). 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, 2025 No Kings, Fredonia NY

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

Teachers I'm grateful for:

my wife, Laura

our children, Lux & Fran

my parents, Faith & Art

my siblings, Jeremy & Chandra

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

Sadako Sasaki

Ray Fadden

Moses Shongo

Oren Lyons

Willard & Laura Gaeddert

John Woolman

Mevlanã Jalãl ad-Din 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

Katherine Gun

Daniel & Philip Berrigan

Antonio Gramsci

Laura Poitras

Chris Hedges

John Francis

Joanna Macy

Dahr Jamail

Mario Savio

Rev. Billy

The Yes Men

Pete Seeger

Utah Phillips

Ammon Hennacy

Dr. Patch Adams

Marshall Rosenberg

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Bill Moyers

Amy Goodman

Arundhati Roy

Peter Gzowski

Naomi Klein

Heather Cox Richardson

Timothy Snyder

Jason Stanley

Mark Bray

Howard Zinn

Noam Chomsky

Marc Elias

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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

Wendell Berry

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Tara Cullis & David Suzuki

Joey Santore

Jay Ingram

Clair Patterson

Richard Feynman

Carl Sagan

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Randall Munroe (xkcd.com)

Buckminster Fuller (trim tab)

Ray & Charles Eames

Lella & Massimo Vignelli

Edward Tufte

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William Gibson

Neal Stephenson

Ursula K. Le Guin

David Brin

Isaac Asimov

Frank Herbert

Douglas Adams

Richard Bach

Robert Fulghum

Dr. Leonard Shlain

Tiffany Shlain

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Monty Python

The Frantics

Tom Lehrer

Fred ‘Mr.’ Rogers

Laurie Anderson

Spalding Gray

Marina Abramović

Wim Wenders

Werner Herzog

Agnès Varda

Hayao Miyazaki

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Anaïs Mitchell

Nina Simone

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 (UU), Tibetan Buddhists…

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

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