The Lions' Den

Rampant Lion, by Jason Carswell.
Lions are popular with the Canadian Trucker 2022 Freedom Convoy, Christian groups, Brave browser, and countless other Freedom-related events, logos, merchandise, and other symbols.

Unfinished Scottish rampant lion painting, by Jason Carswell.

The Lions' Den - Windsor Media Projects & Freedom Underground, is a collaboration and creative space for animation, arts, audio-video, bricolage, classes, creatives, editing, events, lectures, meetings, newsletters, podcasts, productions, recordings, screenings, workshops, etc.

History

For a few years from late 2021 to 2023, the Green Room Organization of Windsor (also known as G.R.O.W.) was a freedom-minded social activity community center in Windsor, Ontario. Since then freedom folks met in parks, Tim Hortons, at Brown's Lounge, and at Emma's and others' homes.

The Windsor/Essex Freedom Movement (WEFreedom.ca) has been needing/wanting a community center, meeting place, and creative production studio for years. Located in the heart of downtown Windsor, and first discussed in February of 2025, the go ahead was granted in September of 2025, and steps are underway to renovate and evolve the 34'x17' main space into a multi-functional creative, event, and utility space.

Vincent Cease came up with "The Lions' Den", Jason Carswell came up with "Freedom Underground", and the space is two doors up from from the Windsor Centre for Film, Digital Media & the Creative Arts, more easily unofficially called the "Windsor Media Centre", which has been slowly undergoing renovations for years - thus our nearby now-active space will also be known as the Windsor Media Projects in association with Projex.Wiki and the soon-to-be-designed WindsorMediaProjects.ca WordPress site (that will be free of all the "freedom" stuff on Projex.Wiki).

Development

• The Lions' Den / Name origins - Ideas on what to call the space.
• The Lions' Den / Management plans - Organizing and setting up. - In progress.
• The Lions' Den / Space renovations - Fixing up the space. - In progress.

Potential motto?:

• "libertatem civitatis" in Latin means "freedom community" (according to Google Translate)
• "semper communitatis libertatem" in Latin means "always community freedom" (according to Google Translate)

Projects

At The Lions' Den we hope to continue developing and producing many projects - some included in this partial list...

• arts, bricolage, crafts, DIY, and maker culture
• audio, music, video, and writing productions, recording, editing
• Television series pitches
• The LeverMind Variety Show
  • Santa Libertas
• WEFreedom Wednesday Night Meetings

  7pm on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday Night of every month.

  Focus: Action & Communications & Organizing

  • local - regional - national - global
  • local newsletters
    • South-Western Ontario calendar and newsletter, primarily outlined in August, 2023.
• WEFreedom education
  • classes (pending)
    • Arts, Media production, Photography
    • Computing 1 basics
    • Computing 2 wikis
    • Computing 3 advanced for autonomy, security, privacy, technology alternatives
    • Computing 4 Linux
    • Economic alternatives, agorism, and crypto
    • Food, cooking, and nutrition
    • Gardening
    • Health and natural remedies
    • Introduction to alternatives
  • lectures, presentations, talks
  • screenings
• WEFreedom resources
  • community networks, help locals, info management, organizing, volunteerism
• WEFreedom / Social events

Production and event recording space

More soon.

See also

• Look there's a lion. Oh my God. It's a lion.