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On February 23 1991, Indian Security Forces the twin villages of Kunan Poshpora, located in Kashmir’s Kupwara district, to conduct a search operation after being fired on by militants. Once inside the village, the male residents were taken away from their homes, while the forces searched the village. It is alleged that the men from the security forces raped the women of the village. It is alleged that more than 100 women were raped by the search party, including a pregnant woman who gave birth to a baby with a fractured arm, and a deaf and dumb girl.

Today, as we mark thirty years since the mass rape, India Against Fascism will post a series of videos, books and articles about the incident that is forever imbibed in the memory of Kashmiris, and serves as a gruesome reminder of human rights violations by the Indian Security Forces in the state.

Our education system is so deeply flawed it's outrageous.

This video is really worth watching.

https://youtu.be/fe-SZ_FPZew

The text in the meme above is taken from the following pamphlet by the chad Errico Malatesta:
Anarchy

It is the best short introduction to anarchism. Give it a read:
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/Errico-malatesta-anarchy

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

— Buckminster Fuller,
The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine (30 March 1970), p. 30

“Politics is policy. What policy should you follow in view of the idea that there isn’t enough to go around — the power of the few, or the needs of the many? Political economy is based on misassumptions at the time of Thomas Malthus, when the British Empire was formed after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, when the British gained dominance of all the world’s lines of supply. At that time, the data showed that humanity was increasing its numbers at a geometrical rate and increasing its life support at only an arithmetical rate, so that the majority of humans would have to go through life in great want and pain, because there was not enough to go around. That’s the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there’s not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest.

“But we can do so much now, with so little, that we can take care of everybody. That’s why the idea of scarcity is all wrong. Up to now, the world of politics doesn’t know that. That’s why all nations are dependent on armaments, why we have the arms race. People can’t see the invisible doing more with less. The politicians still say that it’s you or me, and that’s why they go for the gun.”


— BUCKMINSTER FULLER

“The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt. The young world finds that it costs $50 million to buy the presidency, $20 million to buy a senatorship, $2 million to become a representative. It’s obviously corrupt. When a president like Reagan can go in and force his program through the Congress, it is because he can threaten its members with a comeuppance, threaten to get back at them in the elections. It’s absolutely corrupt. So the young world has no faith whatsoever in the political system. They don’t want to vote. They consider it contaminating to vote.”

— Buckminster Fuller

“Patents are a powerful way of controlling know-how, but the know-how itself is what they care about. They monopolize know-how by taking on all the educated people, all the scientists and technologists.

“But the word ownership has no meaning whatsoever. You can’t own information. There’s nothing you can own. You can seize the land if you want to, and say, “Is there anybody says this isn’t mine?” That doesn’t mean that it belongs to you. There’s no deed from God to anything. One of the things that’s going to come out in the laundry in the next decade is that there’s no such thing as ownership. There are custodianships, natural custodianships such as the father or mother of their child. But no ownership.”


— BUCKMINSTER FULLER

“There is no scarcity. Forty-one million people are dying of starvation each day around the world and there is plenty of food for all of them. We lack a marketing system. All we have is this game of money, how to acquire things. And that’s the problem. It isn’t working.”

— Buckminster Fuller



Fuller said this about half a century ago. Even then it was an underestimated figure, and now even more. About a billion people are starving. However, what he said is still true.
There's plenty for everyone. We have enough food to feed 11 billion people, whereas the world population is only 7.5 billion. But still, 1 billion people are starving…
Capitalism!

“I have made a great differentiation between wealth and money. Money is not wealth. Wealth is the technological ability to protect, nurture, and support the needs of life. Money is only a means of exchanging items of real wealth. Those who make money with money deliberately keep it scarce. There is ample wealth right now, but people have been too involved in the game of making money with money. There is such incredible avarice. They have loaned their money out all over the place at enormous usury terms, and they’re not collecting. Now they need even more money to play their game. They are completely disconnecting money from wealth. The system is destroying itself. Nature will not go along with that which is not true.”

— BUCKMINSTER FULLER