Jonathan Woolson

Web Developer, Consultant, and Filmmaker in Fredonia, New York

Jonathan Woolson

Web Developer, Consultant, and Filmmaker in Fredonia, New York

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Occupation:

I'm a web professional emeritus from the State University of New York at Fredonia, fredonia.edu.

Now, I build web things for non-profits, and make films at www.listening.pictures.

Interests:

Folding paper cranes.

Deeply curious about many ideas and perspectives: list of my favorite TED Talks with a talk by Scott McCloud on his method to find out what MAY be:

1. Learn from everyone.
2. Follow no one.
3. Watch for patterns.
4. Work like hell.

Perspectives:

Quaker and Buddhist teachings inform my anti-fascist, pacifist views. I am opposed to acts and threats of violence. To constrain coercion by the powerful, our society must include everyone.

Always have been.
Always will be antifa.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 ally.

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ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ

Activism:

  • 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 Four Directions / All Nations March, Denver CO
  • 2006 World Can’t Wait, NYC
  • 2011 Occupy Fredonia NY & Occupy Buffalo NY
  • 2012 Occupy Congress DC
  • 2014 U.N. People's Climate March NYC
  • 2019, 2018 Women's March, Buffalo NY
  • 2025, 2013 Nuke-Free Cattaraugus Creek Walk
  • 2025 No Kings, Portland Maine
  • 2025 No Kings, Buffalo NY
  • 2025 No Kings, Olean NY

I am grateful to ALL of my teachers:

  • my wife Laura
  • our children, Lux & Francesca
  • my parents, Faith & Arthur
  • my in-laws, Tricia & Winston
  • my siblings, Chandra & Jeremy
  • my grandmother “Mor Mor” Margery E. Busck Weierbach
  • Grandmother Twylah Nitsch
  • Grandmother ChoQosh Au'ho'oh
  • International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
  • Ray Fadden
  • Oren Lyons
  • Miguel Sague, Jr.
  • Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge
  • Buddhists
  • Unitarian Universalists
  • YFNA Quakers
  • John Woolman
  • Willard & Laura Gaeddert
  • The Lapp Family
  • Stanislav Petrov
  • Vasili Arkhipov
  • Peace Pilgrim
  • Thích Nhất Hạnh
  • Jun-san Yasuda
  • Rumi
  • O-sensei Ueshiba
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Kahlil Gibran
  • Gary Snyder
  • Marshall Rosenberg
  • Richard Bach
  • Robert Fulghum
  • Buckminster Fuller
  • Charles & Ray Eames
  • Leonard Shlain
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Carl Sagan
  • Brian Willson
  • Mario Savio
  • Bonnie & John Raines, Keith Forsyth, William Davidon
  • Tim DeChristopher
  • Daniel Ellsberg
  • Edward Snowden
  • Laura Poitras
  • Chris Hedges
  • Amy Goodman
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Howard Zinn
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Ammon Hennacy
  • Utah Phillips
  • Dr. Patch Adams
  • Naomi Klein
  • John Francis
  • Scott McCloud
  • David Logan
  • Richard Feynman
  • Randall Munroe (xkcd.com)
  • Raj Patel
  • Francis Moore-Lappe
  • Joanna Macy
  • Dahr Jamail
  • Dave Pollard
  • Jason Box
  • Derrick Jensen
  • Richard Heinberg
  • James Hansen
  • Lester Brown
  • Guy McPherson
  • George Monbiot
  • Donella & Dennis Meadows
  • Peter Gzowski
  • Jay Ingram
  • Tara Cullis & David Suzuki
  • Severn Cullis-Suzuki
  • Greta Thunberg
  • Toby Hemenway
  • Joey Santore
  • Bill Hicks
  • W. Kamau Bell
  • Josh Johnson
  • Laurie Anderson
  • Spalding Gray
  • Marina Abramović
  • 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
  • Tom Lehrer
  • Massimo & Lella Vignelli
  • Edward Tufte
  • Robert Doherty
  • Don Weinhart
  • Tom Lacagnina
  • Fred Tschida
  • Bill Parry
  • Joe Davis
  • Diane Clark & Bill Moran
  • Marv Bjurlin
  • Tina Rausa
  • Chris Benton
  • Allen & Marjorie Benton
  • Cathy Hunt & Mick Griffin
  • Ron Peterson & Sally Lawson
  • Steve Taylor
  • Bob Holland & Dorothy Foigelman
  • Taylor & Mary Pancoast
  • John & Sue Siskar
  • Maggie Ruckman
  • Fred ‘Ferd’ Larson
  • Dadie Sedota
  • Pat Stokes
  • Angelique X. Grady Irvin & Bob Irvin
  • Deane Miner & Amy Pyrka
  • Daniel Murphy, Jr.
  • Peet Sasaki
  • Lee Gorton & Jaeson Paul
  • Laticia Scutella & Dave “Team Cahill” Cahill
  • Jonathan Charles
  • David Faulkenberry
  • Cassie Smith
  • Paul Ford
  • Joy Patterson
  • Genevieve Sawyer
  • Laurissa Vibhuti
  • Sarah Hamilton
  • Averil & Emma Dubois
  • Jean, Leslee, Beth & Jackie Goodman
  • Bruce Kincheloe
  • Eric Kaiser
  • Bura Virgil Lawson
  • Sarah Ewalt
  • Cindy Laun
  • Jamie Hurt
  • Greg Swingle
  • Glenn Wahl
  • Shazad Mohammed
  • Peter & Tricia Tucker
  • Patty Herkey & Jo Ann Brenner
  • Erin Ehman
  • Andrea Wasiura
  • Craig Garaas-Johnson
  • Lori & Rob Deemer
  • Michelle & Melanie Sudyn
  • Richard Prince
  • Michael Barone
  • Paul Jackino
  • Brandon Perdomo
  • Janey Wagner
  • Jessamine, Jeremy & all the Daly-Griffins

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

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  • Work
    • www.Listening.Pictures
  • Education
    • Alfred University, 1991
    • Fredonia High School, 1987
    • Rainbow School, 1983