### **Heat Strikes FAQ** #### **What are the Heat Strikes?** The Heat Strikes are a grassroots, non-hierarchical movement focused on addressing climate change and disaster resilience. They use mutual aid camps, direct action, and creative organizing tactics to build local, self-sustaining communities while demonstrating solutions to the climate crisis. Originating in 2026, the movement gained momentum in 2027, with widespread participation through "Full Moon Strikes" and seasonal swarms like the "Solstice Swarms." #### **How do the Heat Strikes work?** Heat Strikes operate through decentralized, swarm-based organizing principles. They emphasize open participation, prefigurative action, and voluntary collaboration. The movement uses public spaces, often repurposing baseball diamonds and other communal areas, as hubs for mutual aid, skill-sharing, and collaborative problem-solving. Key activities include: - **Mutual aid**: Providing free food, water, and shelter. - **Education and action**: Hosting workshops, teach-ins, and climate-focused direct action. - **Design challenges**: Exploring how to meet community needs without reliance on fossil fuels or centralized infrastructure. #### **What is a Full Moon Strike?** Full Moon Strikes are monthly gatherings in public spaces where communities come together to build mutual aid infrastructure, discuss local issues, and conduct drills for disaster preparedness. These events serve as both community-building exercises and practice runs for real emergencies. #### **What is a Solstice Swarm?** A Solstice Swarm is a large-scale Heat Strike action timed with seasonal solstices. These events involve setting up mutual aid camps in urban areas, often powered by solar energy and designed to operate off-grid. The camps showcase sustainable systems while fostering collaboration across diverse communities. #### **Why do Heat Strikes use public spaces like baseball diamonds?** Baseball diamonds offer open, accessible areas for community gatherings. Heat Strikes creatively integrate these spaces by turning fences into message boards and projection surfaces, creating hubs for information exchange and collective action. #### **Are the Heat Strikes non-violent?** Yes. Heat Strikes are grounded in principles of strategic nonviolence and civil resistance. The movement draws inspiration from historical movements like Occupy Sandy, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, and international pro-democracy movements. #### **How can someone participate?** Anyone can participate by joining a local Heat Strike, organizing one in their community, or contributing resources and skills. The movement is open and inclusive, welcoming people from all backgrounds and skill levels. #### **What are the long-term goals of the Heat Strikes?** - Build resilient, distributed systems that meet basic human needs for all. - Foster local and global collaboration to address systemic climate and social challenges. - Inspire widespread adoption of regenerative infrastructure and mutual aid practices. #### **What do I have to believe to be part of the Heat Strikes?** - "I don't want my neighbors to die in the next heatwave." --- For additional resources, see: - [[Prefigurative Action]] - [[Swinging for the Fences]] - [[Mutual Aid Disaster Relief]] - [[Adversarial Tensegrity]]