Class Self-Defense
for a Data-Driven
Climate Economy.
You’re not trying to “win” against capitalism. You’re trying to make it less lethal—and less efficient at sorting people into ruin. That is winnable.
01
Immediate Actions
OBJECTIVE: Stop self-incrimination. Improve documentation. Panic reduction.
01.1 // System Literacy Workshops
What: 2-hour sessions in libraries/union halls.
- Housing screening reality
- Insurance investigations 101
- Credit scoring & hardship flags
01.2 // Evidence Kits
What: Physical folders + Digital hygiene guides.
- Metadata hygiene checklists
- "What NOT to document" protocols
- Crisis checklists
01.3 // Paperwork Triage
What: Post-disaster volunteer deployments.
Reconstructing records and filing hardship requests immediately after events to prevent administrative failure.
01.4 // Surveillance Clinics
What: OPSEC for daily life.
Training people to stop wrecking their own cases via social media or careless digital footprints.
02
Structural Actions
OBJECTIVE: Change power relationships. Aggregate risk data.
Community Risk Mapping
Overlay insurance quotes + coverage exclusions with hazard data. Patterns break denial narratives.
Collective Negotiation
Don't negotiate alone. Present mitigation proof and aggregated data as a strata/council block.
Bulk Mitigation
Group buys for ember guards, flood barriers, and drainage. Reduces real risk -> Real premium impacts.
Worker Climate Compacts
Informal agreements to share heat documentation and coordinate disclosures. Mutual backup.
03
Power Building
OBJECTIVE: Permanent terrain change. Institutional memory.
Risk Justice Observatory
Open-source dataset of premiums vs income. Makes insurers legible without illegal exposure.
Data Trusts
Locally controlled data pools for class action groundwork. Communities must counterbalance capital's hoard.
Parallel Infrastructure
Tool libraries, emergency housing networks, cooling centres. Reduce dependence on failing institutions.
Internal Rules of Engagement
- -> No one acts alone.
- -> Documentation beats testimony.
- -> Collective patterns beat personal stories.
- -> Calm always beats confrontation.
- -> Never out-perform your own OPSEC.
- -> Survival first, ideology second.