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"There is no end to what a living world will demand of you."

Friendly reminder to be careful with how you use this platform: https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1349453849455710209?s=20

Over a week after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, police have made less than 100 arrests.

By contrast—on J20, the day Trump was inaugurated, DC police arrested 234 people for the crime of wearing black in the vicinity of confrontational protests.

Most of those arrested for storming the Capitol have been charged with negligible misdemeanors.

All of the arrestees from the mass arrest at Trump's inauguration were immediately charged with felonies. The vast majority of them faced a minimum of 8 felonies each.

We're not calling for more charges against the fascists who invaded the Capitol. We know that whatever the cops do to their friends, they will do to us ten times worse.

The point is—the police and the justice system exist to repress us, not to protect us. We organize against fascists ourselves because we know that the state will always side with them.

It's worth reading about the J20 court case to see the lengths the state will go to repress us—and how we can defeat them.

https://cwc.im/J20legal

Protests against police murder break out in Belgium

If a cop or an agent knocks; best practices for those in the US.

This is now a Ruth Wilson Gilmore girl’s channel https://twitter.com/rwgilmoregirls/status/1350674192388263937?s=21

Good morning! Please share this channel with your networks and encourage your friends to follow our updates. We will be monitoring the situations in several cities today.

Many cities have increased police presence and some cities are expecting fash rallies. If you see something message @RUSTContactBot with verifiable information on traffic closures or hot spots to avoid.

Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Marie brown (if you appreciate the genius of this book, and you can, consider supporting her)

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ad0d247af209613040b9ceb/t/5db5a44b0e6ba42da976cce7/1572185168567/brown+2017-Emergent+Strategy+full+book.pdf

"I know of no activist, revolutionary, or theorist relevant to the movement today who advocates only the use of violent tactics and opposes any usage of tactics that could not be called violent. We are advocates of a diversity of tactics, meaning effective combinations drawn from a full range of tactics that might lead to liberation from all the components of this oppressive system: white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and the state. We believe that tactics should be chosen to fit the particular situation, not drawn from a preconceived moral code. We also tend to believe that means are reflected in the ends, and would not want to act in a way that invariably would lead to dictatorship or some other form of society that does not respect life and freedom. As such, we can more accurately be described as proponents of revolutionary or militant activism than as proponents of violence."

https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state

Since Telegram is deleting RUST and other non-violent Leftist community rooms in what appears to be retaliation against the mass reporting of the far right "Terrorgram" channels, the admins will be working on create a new network on a more decentralized platform. Please follow the Twitter account @NetworkRust for updates.