Armando MC

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Community & Economic Development. Parent. Poet. Planner. Author of the A NEIGHBOR'S PRIMER TO ORGANIZING, ADVOCACY, AND THE URGENCY OF COMMUNITY (Out Now!) https://www.armando-mc.com/

Excerpt from Luke Kemp's GOLIATH'S CURSE, Chapter 1: Hobbes's Delusion, section titled 'Killing in the Name of Equality'. The notable excerpt reads: "Such strategies to keep would-be dominators in check included teasing, gossiping, shaming, ridicule, and even expulsion from the group. The most severe cases could result in death."

Cover of Luke Kemp's Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse.

Copy of A NEIGHBOR'S PRIMER TO ORGANIZING, ADVOCACY, AND THE URGENCY OF COMMUNITY with a sticky note on the cover. The sticky note has "100" written on it.

Armando standing in front of Mary Meuser Memorial Library

Flyer for Book Tour stop at Mary Meuser Library, Tuesday July 7 at 6:30pm

Blue pins on a regional map of eastern PA, with pins as north as Bangor, several in Easton, Bethlehem, and Allentown, and as far west as Kutztown.

Flyer for Local Author Book Talk at Mary Meuser Library on Tuesday, July 7 at 6:30pm

Out of Stock message from Strand Bookstore in NYC for A Neighbor's Primer to Organizing, Advocacy, and the Urgency of Community

Power map illustration from "A Neighbor 's Primer to Organizing, Advocacy, and the Urgency of Community" showing multiple fictional characters on a grid, the most notable for the purposes of this thread being "CM Loggins" and "NFL Hall of Famer Kenny Loggins Jr"

Cover of my book: A Neighbor's Primer to Organizing, Advocacy, and the Urgency of Community. Author: Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen

From left: Joel Atkinson, Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen, Charles Debski, and Udval Yun stand next to a foamboard sign of the cover of Armando's book- A Neighbor's Primer to Organizing, Advocacy, and the Urgency of Community

A blank power map foamboard in front of the cover of A Neighbor's Primer to Organizing, Advocacy, and the Urgency of Community

Three blue bookmarks with definitions of the following terms: Awakening Perspective of Power, Advocacy, Organizing, and Formal Power

Traffic sign reading "Starting June 13, plan ahead".

Wall graffiti saying "POPE SAYS NO TO AI"

Excerpt of Kelly Hayes's latest piece:
We don’t need more disorganizing efforts. We need organizing efforts.

We have a surplus of culture critics when we need more culture builders. Values, customs, behaviors, and ways of living are not produced by critique alone. They are produced through action, invention, repetition, and relational practice. So before posting a dunk or recording a TikTok, it’s worth asking what your contribution is meant to do: poison something, or enliven something?

Text from A Neighbor's Primer on Organizing, Advocacy, and the Urgency of Community. Text reads: "As anyone following the changes occurring within our government or on the international scale would rightfully conclude, a single election is insufficient to address the rolling crises currently underway. The forces that have taken hold of government are organized, coordinated, and committed to their generally aligned causes. So too must the responding movement be organized, coordinated, and committed, albeit to entirely different ends. The system as a whole has been broken from the inside out, and the sooner people realize this, the sooner we can intentionally begin the multigenerational work of restoration, renovation, or revolution."

Four panel comic between a brain and their person lying in bed.
Panel 1: Brain: "Is your book done?"
Panel 2: Person, eyes closed: "Yes, it's published"
Panel 3: Brain: "Did you market it?"
Panel 4: Person: *Eyes wide open*

Promo Image for the book launch of A Neighbor's Primer to Organizing, Advocacy, and the Urgency of Community. Features book cover, address for Book & Puppet Co, a robot reading a book, and headshots for author Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen and Easton-based organizer Colleen O'Neal

Warmbo the puppet staring off to the left with his mouth agape.

Warmbo, the next puppet president of the united states, staring into the void

Cover of "Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care" by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

His Warmbliness Warmbo I

(A puppet seemingly screaming into the void)

Excerpt of letter that states the following: "No United States ground forces were used in these strikes, and the mission was planned and executed in a manner designed to minimize civilian casualties, deter future attacks, and neutralize Iran's malign activities."

Flyer urging immediate action: Call the Bucks County Youth Center and Demand: Immediate Release of Detained Students Today. 215-340-8300

Bingo card showing a colored square for 67 (or "6-7")

Excerpt from Caruso's article that presents the Shapiro administration's response to advocates on information sharing with ICE:
" The administration has also said that “there are legitimate investigations” involving undocumented immigrants that “require immigration enforcement agencies to seek access to information contained in Commonwealth-run databases.” Even if the state added new restrictions, federal law enforcement officials might still be able to access this information through other databases or agencies, it added. "

Cover of Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba.

Excerpt from Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown's "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy". Highlighted text reads "In other words, the Republican Party gained control of two of the most powerful institutions in the world without receiving support from a majority of the American population in either case."

"As Kayali told us, the Israeli government’s definition of violence “contorts itself to repress any and all forms of our resistance.” Kayali explained that even during periods when it was not officially illegal to raise the Palestinian flag, nonstate actors enforce its prohibition by removing or destroying flags that are displayed in public and targeting those who carry them. She noted that this kind of delegated violence, as Ruth Wilson Gilmore would call it, is also occurring in the United States, where nonstate actors have been rallied to enact violence against the same communities targeted by state violence." -excerpt from Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Slightly closer shot of the Generational Cycle in America from the Generations book. Close up image shows that the GI generation was Civic in the "Great Power" cycle. In the following cycle, the corresponding Civic generation is the Millennial generation.

Graph from Generations: A History of America's Future that shows the Generational Cycle in America. The cycle generally has four parts- Idealist, Reactive, Civic, and Adaptive. Cycle is illustrated from the colonial period to what the authors call the "Millennial Cycle"

Nornan Rockwell's painting, Freedom of Speech (guy standing up speaking)

Flyer for an Open Mic night at Easton's Centre Square--Friday October 17, 2025 from 6:00-7:30pm

Screenshot of address highlighting a key line: But that's something I wouldn't realize until much later on, after years of expecting someone else to fix it. Until I realized I *was* the adult.

Confirmation page for submitting an election complaint through the PA Dept of State's website.

Paperback cover for the book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Excerpt from research that highlights the long time it can take for democratic reaction to autocratization to occur--often almost 10 years.

Excerpt from Generations that highlights the squandered opportunity for Boomers to meet a predicted 2020s crisis in a way that gives them the adoration of future generations, specifically Millennials.

Emergency Alert indicating a statewide 911 outage in PA.

Book cover for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Book Cover for Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by William Strauss & Neil Howe