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Forwarded from Strike Force
Strike at Rikers
200 detainees at the Robert N Davoren Center on Rikers Island in NYC have been on a hunger strike for 7 days. Conditions at the facility have been deteriorating for years, and the recent Covid-19 surge has brought conditions to a breaking point. An ineffectual "quarantine" means that detainees have no access to recreation and spend much of their time locked in their cells. A major staffing crisis and ongoing sickout among COs (up to 1/3 of the whole staff calls in sick on some days) have led to more service cuts. Some units reported having their commissary visits cut. The heating system in many units is also failing and violence (both between detainees and from COs) has skyrocketed.
In this article, David Campbell, a former political prisoner at Rikers, reflects on how challenging it is to organize collective action at Rikers, and why the current strike is a huge deal.
https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/01/14/rikers-strike-david-campbell/
200 detainees at the Robert N Davoren Center on Rikers Island in NYC have been on a hunger strike for 7 days. Conditions at the facility have been deteriorating for years, and the recent Covid-19 surge has brought conditions to a breaking point. An ineffectual "quarantine" means that detainees have no access to recreation and spend much of their time locked in their cells. A major staffing crisis and ongoing sickout among COs (up to 1/3 of the whole staff calls in sick on some days) have led to more service cuts. Some units reported having their commissary visits cut. The heating system in many units is also failing and violence (both between detainees and from COs) has skyrocketed.
In this article, David Campbell, a former political prisoner at Rikers, reflects on how challenging it is to organize collective action at Rikers, and why the current strike is a huge deal.
https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/01/14/rikers-strike-david-campbell/
New York Focus
I Know What It Means to Strike at Rikers
I helped organize a strike at Rikers during the first wave. Those striking now are not to be ignored.
Forwarded from Inhabit
forage food in the winter too https://practicalselfreliance.com/winter-foraging
Practical Self Reliance
Winter Foraging in Cold Climates: 50+ Wild Foods in the Snow
Winter foraging in cold climates made easy. Find over 50 wild foods you can safely identify, harvest, and enjoyβeven when the ground is covered in snow.
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Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
When Cutting Class Is a Matter of Life and Death
https://cwc.im/Walkouts2022
The wave of student walkouts looming around the US is the front line of the fight against a future in which human life is held cheap and we take mass casualties for granted.
Solidarity to the students. π΄
https://cwc.im/Walkouts2022
The wave of student walkouts looming around the US is the front line of the fight against a future in which human life is held cheap and we take mass casualties for granted.
Solidarity to the students. π΄
Forwarded from Building Autonomy βΆ
Twitter
PM Press
This long-anticipated anthology details the foundations behind the successful campaigns of @CooperationJXN & their implications nationally & internationally. Updated and expanded with 80% new material edited by Kali Akuno & Matt Meyer. Learn more at tinyurl.com/JRRKS
Forwarded from Inhabit
New Territories is live, ft. Patagonia revolt, Climate Resilience exercise, Dawn of Everything reading group, & more π
https://territories.substack.com/p/vision
https://territories.substack.com/p/vision
Substack
Vision
A new year for building power together
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this outfit has a pretty legit advanced looking design too. where our back-engineering geniuses at? π
https://jbrailriders.com/frequently-asked-questions/
https://jbrailriders.com/frequently-asked-questions/
Good shit here: https://twitter.com/bcrwtweets/status/1480657439276077068
Twitter
BCRW
The last of the workshop series, Building Capacity for Mutual Aid, is coming up on 1/20 with @deanspade facilitating: How do we bring new people into our mutual aid groups, plug them in meaningfully, and help them feel co-stewardship of the work? eventbrβ¦
Forwarded from Revolutionary Toolbox
Murray_Bookchin_The_Ecology_of_Freedom_1982.pdf
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THE ECOLOGY OF FREEDOM: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
by Murray Bookchin, 1982
"A hierarchical mentality fosters the renunciation of the pleasures of life. It justifies toil, guilt, and sacrifice by the "inferiors," and pleasure and the indulgent gratification of virtually every caprice by their "superiors." [...] This mentality permeates our [psyches]βnot merely as capitalism but as the vast history of hierarchical society from its inception. Unless we explore this history, which lives actively within us like earlier phases of our individual lives, we will never be free of its hold. [...] We may eliminate classes and exploitation, but we will not be spared from the trammels of hierarchy and domination. We may exorcise the spirit of gain and accumulation from our psyches, but we will still be burdened by gnawing guilt, renunciation, and a subtle belief in the "vices" of sensousness."
Source: Libcom (Link)
#book #document #anarchism #history #discussion #link
by Murray Bookchin, 1982
"A hierarchical mentality fosters the renunciation of the pleasures of life. It justifies toil, guilt, and sacrifice by the "inferiors," and pleasure and the indulgent gratification of virtually every caprice by their "superiors." [...] This mentality permeates our [psyches]βnot merely as capitalism but as the vast history of hierarchical society from its inception. Unless we explore this history, which lives actively within us like earlier phases of our individual lives, we will never be free of its hold. [...] We may eliminate classes and exploitation, but we will not be spared from the trammels of hierarchy and domination. We may exorcise the spirit of gain and accumulation from our psyches, but we will still be burdened by gnawing guilt, renunciation, and a subtle belief in the "vices" of sensousness."
Source: Libcom (Link)
#book #document #anarchism #history #discussion #link