Forwarded from OTAS: operational thinking against the state
What is ‘brinksmanship’?
Brinksmanship is the art of pushing policy or military/political maneuvering to the edge of war or “to the brink” of some other acute crisis without actually escalating to war or some other acute crisis in order to gain leverage or score other political/economic gains.
Also see: game of chicken, saber rattling, etc.
Brinksmanship is the art of pushing policy or military/political maneuvering to the edge of war or “to the brink” of some other acute crisis without actually escalating to war or some other acute crisis in order to gain leverage or score other political/economic gains.
Also see: game of chicken, saber rattling, etc.
Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Curious why new labor struggles haven't really taken off, despite the conditions being so ripe for them?
Last month, the graduate worker strike at Columbia University was the biggest strike in the US. But to make the strike possible, they first had to confront and overthrow the union bureaucracy from within:
https://cwc.im/ColumbiaStrike
Last month, the graduate worker strike at Columbia University was the biggest strike in the US. But to make the strike possible, they first had to confront and overthrow the union bureaucracy from within:
https://cwc.im/ColumbiaStrike
Forwarded from Seditionist Distribution
Forwarded from Inhabit
David_Graeber,_David_Wengrow_The_Dawn_of_Everything_A_New_History.epub
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David Graeber’s final book, in collaboration with archeologist David Wengrow, is an intellectual event with profound implications for everyone organizing for a revolutionary transformation of human life.
The work is a systematic demystification of any narrative of human pre-history that seeks to point to an “origin of inequality,” whether that origin is taken as a fall from prior egalitarian social relationships or as a necessary step in the progress of humanity to organize at larger scales.
Grounded in evidence from anthropology and archeology in recent decades, The Dawn of Everything shatters both popular and academic assumptions about determinism in the human condition, and provides a new framework for understanding the centrality of freedom in the human experience.
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The work is a systematic demystification of any narrative of human pre-history that seeks to point to an “origin of inequality,” whether that origin is taken as a fall from prior egalitarian social relationships or as a necessary step in the progress of humanity to organize at larger scales.
Grounded in evidence from anthropology and archeology in recent decades, The Dawn of Everything shatters both popular and academic assumptions about determinism in the human condition, and provides a new framework for understanding the centrality of freedom in the human experience.
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Forwarded from Building Autonomy Ⓐ
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"A pastor is leading the charge of reclaiming an abandoned school and creating a community-and-trades center on the east side of Indianapolis."
"With 40,000 square feet of space and dozens of rooms in the building, The Evolve Education Center is slated to be a technologically advanced facility with office space, conference rooms, a beauty and barbershop, a podcast room, music production space, a youth center, a senior space, HVAC and trades room, and a day care room. The center is also intending to offer trainings, resources, and more. Eighty five percent of the planned rooms came directly from community input."
Full story + video from Unicorn Riot: https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/evolve-education-center-abandoned-indianapolis-school-reclaimed/
"With 40,000 square feet of space and dozens of rooms in the building, The Evolve Education Center is slated to be a technologically advanced facility with office space, conference rooms, a beauty and barbershop, a podcast room, music production space, a youth center, a senior space, HVAC and trades room, and a day care room. The center is also intending to offer trainings, resources, and more. Eighty five percent of the planned rooms came directly from community input."
Full story + video from Unicorn Riot: https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/evolve-education-center-abandoned-indianapolis-school-reclaimed/
Forwarded from Defend the Forest - Atlanta
It's Going Down
#StopCopCity: Join Us In the Atlanta Forest!
Call to support the ongoing resistance in so-called Atlanta and Stop Cop City! For background information on the struggle, go here. The time is now! This is a call from some of us living in the...
Forwarded from Building Autonomy Ⓐ
Mutual aid experiments have exploded over the past few years. This month, Partisan Gardens shares conversations with Nikola Garcia after his recent piece on the Farmworker Caravan in @readinhabit's Territories as well as about the inspiring Farmworker Caravan in California:
https://wfhb.org/public-affairs/january-2022-the-farmworker-caravan/
https://twitter.com/PartisanGardens/status/1487511066372358146
https://wfhb.org/public-affairs/january-2022-the-farmworker-caravan/
https://twitter.com/PartisanGardens/status/1487511066372358146
Forwarded from Building Autonomy Ⓐ
"The US Government has an Internet Kill Switch and it's None of Your Business:" https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-us-government-has-an-internet-killswitch-and-its-none-of-your-business/212749/
https://twitter.com/TweetyMctwat/status/1487944357101588494
https://twitter.com/TweetyMctwat/status/1487944357101588494