What are you building? If you’re political, if you’re organizing, the main question is: what are you building?
Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The City in the Forest
Reinventing Resistance for an Age of Climate Crisis and Police Militarization
https://cwc.im/CityintheForest
Since April 2021, police abolitionists and environmentalists have been engaged in a furious struggle to prevent the destruction of a precious stretch of forest in Atlanta, Georgia, where the government aims to build a police training compound and facilitate the construction of a giant soundstage for the film industry. In the following analysis, participants in the movement chronicle a year of action, charting the movement’s victories and setbacks and exploring the strategies that inform it. This campaign represents a crucial effort to chart new paths forward in the wake of the George Floyd Rebellion, linking the defense of the land that sustains us with the struggle against police.
Reinventing Resistance for an Age of Climate Crisis and Police Militarization
https://cwc.im/CityintheForest
Since April 2021, police abolitionists and environmentalists have been engaged in a furious struggle to prevent the destruction of a precious stretch of forest in Atlanta, Georgia, where the government aims to build a police training compound and facilitate the construction of a giant soundstage for the film industry. In the following analysis, participants in the movement chronicle a year of action, charting the movement’s victories and setbacks and exploring the strategies that inform it. This campaign represents a crucial effort to chart new paths forward in the wake of the George Floyd Rebellion, linking the defense of the land that sustains us with the struggle against police.
Forwarded from /r/latestagecapitalism
“Landlords are parasites of the working class” sticker seen in Philadelphia
https://redd.it/u747hz
@r_latestagecapitalism
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Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
We've almost finished restocking everything we lost in the fire!
We have the reprints in of our book From Democracy to Freedom:
https://store.crimethinc.com/products/from-democracy-to-freedom
In an increasingly authoritarian world, it's easy to imagine that the alternative to authoritarianism is simply "more democracy." But in both state structures and social movements, the institutions of democratic governance preserve the instruments through which authoritarians wield power. This book traces democracy from its classical origins to its current ascendancy, exploring the difference between government and self-determination.
We have the reprints in of our book From Democracy to Freedom:
https://store.crimethinc.com/products/from-democracy-to-freedom
In an increasingly authoritarian world, it's easy to imagine that the alternative to authoritarianism is simply "more democracy." But in both state structures and social movements, the institutions of democratic governance preserve the instruments through which authoritarians wield power. This book traces democracy from its classical origins to its current ascendancy, exploring the difference between government and self-determination.
Forwarded from Inhabit
Rest In Peace Wynn Bruce
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/us/politics/climate-activist-self-immolation-supreme-court.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/us/politics/climate-activist-self-immolation-supreme-court.html
NY Times
Climate Activist Dies After Setting Himself on Fire at Supreme Court
A friend described the actions of Wynn Bruce, of Boulder, Colo., as “a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.”
Forwarded from Inhabit
Twitter
The_Final_Straw
@PeterGelderloos speaks about his latest book, “The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies For Ecological Revolution From Below” (@PlutoPress). We talk about anti-colonialism, autonomous infrastructure, being rooted in place, science & imagination. thefi…
Forwarded from Revolutionary Toolbox
Zapata-Peter-Newell.pdf
6.5 MB
Zapata of Mexico
by Peter Newell, 1997
"A detailed look at one of the most iconic rebels in history: Emiliano Zapata by Peter E Newell. Chronicles the development of the Mexican revolution in southern Mexico." —Libcom
"...Ten years after he took up arms to defend the campesinos of his home state of Morelos, Zapata was assassinated by government emissaries in 1919. But his murder did not silence Zapata's Liberation Army of the South. Instead, cries of Viva Zapata emboldened the Zapatistas in their struggle to win back control of ancestral community lands..."
Source: Libcom (Link)
#document #history #international #book #link
by Peter Newell, 1997
"A detailed look at one of the most iconic rebels in history: Emiliano Zapata by Peter E Newell. Chronicles the development of the Mexican revolution in southern Mexico." —Libcom
"...Ten years after he took up arms to defend the campesinos of his home state of Morelos, Zapata was assassinated by government emissaries in 1919. But his murder did not silence Zapata's Liberation Army of the South. Instead, cries of Viva Zapata emboldened the Zapatistas in their struggle to win back control of ancestral community lands..."
Source: Libcom (Link)
#document #history #international #book #link
Forwarded from Revolutionary Toolbox
abolition is the future
by @nicthepainter
"we talk a lot of about changing the prison system, but the system is working for the people it benefits, the people who designed it, specifically white people. Angela Davis in her book “are prisons obsolete” says,
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages”. The answer is not more cages, the answer is abolition."
Source: @nicthepainter (Dumpor/Instagram)
leftist lasagna (Telegram)
#media #propaganda #link
by @nicthepainter
"we talk a lot of about changing the prison system, but the system is working for the people it benefits, the people who designed it, specifically white people. Angela Davis in her book “are prisons obsolete” says,
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages”. The answer is not more cages, the answer is abolition."
Source: @nicthepainter (Dumpor/Instagram)
leftist lasagna (Telegram)
#media #propaganda #link
Huge W!!! https://twitter.com/AutonomousATL/status/1519734430130225154?s=20&t=NdzfP8ucXFyTJ8LOF6Pohg
Twitter
Autonomous News: Atlanta
Reeves Young - the contractor that the APF had selected to build #CopCity - has officially backed down from the project due to popular resistance. They finally listened to the people of Atlanta, who demand #NoCopCity! stopreevesyoung.com/blog/