What I do:

Building software at www.kivi.software.

Making films at www.listening.pictures.

Consulting on digital archives and websites for NYC museums: www.tibetanmuseum.org & www.morusnyc.org.

Folding paper cranes (折鶴) and building 915MHz Meshtastic LoRa nodes.

Staying curious and caring for all my relations.

What I've done:

Built university websites for SUNY Fredonia, www.fredonia.edu, from 2006-2025. Retired professional emeritus.

Worked in journalism, design, software, and publishing: www.linkedin.com/in/jwoolson.

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, and education.
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 in digital technology and permaculture gardens.

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Favorite TED Talks.

Dr. Patch Adams' grandmother revolution: shifting a society 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 Laura, an RN & acupuncturist

Our children, Lux and Francesca

My parents, Faith and Art Woolson

Grandmother Margery Busck Weierbach / Mor Mor

Grandmother Twylah Nitsch / Yeh-weh-node

Grandmother ChoQosh Au'ho'oh

International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge

Great Peacemaker / Skennenrahawi & Jikonsaseh & Hiawatha

Peace Pilgrim

Sojourner Truth

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

Dr. Oren Lyons / Joagquisho

Ray Fadden / Tehanetorens

Moses Shongo / Ho-non-da-a-suh

Agnes Williams

Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi / الرومي

John Woolman

Willard & Laura Gaeddert

Johanna Alper

Purgatorius unio (K-Pg ±66Mya)

Vasily Arkhipov (±1962)

Stanislav Petrov (±1983)

S. Brian Willson, Greta Thunberg, Bonnie & John Raines, Tim DeChristopher, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Jason Watson, Liz Oyer, Katharine Gun, Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner, Daniel & Philip Berrigan, Antonio Gramsci, Laura Poitras, Chris Hedges, John Francis, Starhawk, Matthew Fox, Joanna Macy, Dahr Jamail, Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, Ammon Hennacy, Dr. Patch Adams, Mario Savio, Rev. Billy, The Yes Men

Amy Goodman, Arundhati Roy, Peter Gzowski, Naomi Klein, Heather Cox Richardson, Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Mark Bray, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Geoffrey Hinton, Marc Elias, Marshall Rosenberg

Donella & Dennis Meadows, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, David Suzuki, Raj Patel, Francis Moore-Lappé, Dave Pollard, Richard Heinberg, James Hansen, Lester Brown, Guy McPherson, Derrick Jensen, Jason Box, Joey Santore, Toby Hemenway

Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Douglas Hofstadter, Abraham Maslow, Randall Munroe (xkcd.com), Buckminster Fuller, David Logan, Scott McCloud, James Carse, Betty Edwards, Jill Bolte Taylor, Iain McGilchrist, Dr. Leonard Shlain, Tiffany Shlain, Linus Torvalds, Edward Tufte, Ray & Charles Eames, Max Miedinger, Michael Talbot, Edgar Cayce

William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, David Brin, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Trina Paulus, Richard Bach, Robert Fulghum, Tom Stoppard, Douglas Adams

Monty Python, The Frantics, Tom Lehrer, Mr. Fred Rogers, Marlo Thomas, Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Marina Abramović, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Hayao Miyazaki

Ani DiFranco, Anaïs Mitchell, Nina Simone, Rhiannon Giddens, Carsie Blanton, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Michael Franti, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Stan Rogers, Wonko the Sane…

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

Spoilers, sweetie.
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