I was shocked that there was not a single book by Emma Goldman in my local public library.

So I looked her up, and came across this 1919 work I hadn't seen before.

DEPORTATION - Its Meaning and Menace

It seems deportation without due process to gulags overseas is as American as apple pie.

#EmmaGoldman #Books #Anarchy #USHistory

“Don’t fight back against the fascists, you’ll just give them an excuse to crack down on us” reflects a catastrophic misunderstanding of what fascism is or what motivates them to act.

Been a while since I’ve been on here. A lot of you have followed me since then, thank you for that!!

@Silenus guillotines meme and pics of Stalin photoshopped into smoking weed

Twitter was never a healthy "public square" for most of us. Let's not rewrite history while eulogizing the hellsite.
Twitter was a frightening battleground where we managed barely to claw out an uneasy existence amidst the worst violent neo-Nazi extremists who constantly published our home addresses, threatened our kids' lives, and sent hordes of racist trolls into our mentions.
The same principles that allowed us to survive uneasily on Twitter will be required here in the #fediverse. Community defense, thoughtful pressure on moderation policies, and eternal vigilance.
There are no safe spaces but those we make safe through constant effort. We keep us safe.

What the fuck is up Denny’s?

The colonizer did not simply design an education system. They designed an education especially to destroy Indigenous cultures, value systems and appearance.

—Linda Tuhiwai Smith

The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1

@hakan_geijer overseer?

The Fash love to try to push in with violence and then just post fancams for hours when they get stopped.

@InTheFlesh five bean chili all the way

@greyson goals

The Billionaire and the Anarchists

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBought

We trace Twitter from its grassroots origins as a protest tool for activists to Elon Musk's acquisition—sketching a history of the capitalist takeover of the internet in microcosm in order to strategize for the future.

Hello, this is a smattering of preludes which may constitute an #introduction .

I’m the queer “Chinese-American” anarchist artist (poet/writer/painter, illustrator, experimental animator/filmmaker/amateur researcher/figure skater/ really just an aspiring renaissance person) known as “airidescence”.

I hope to share some of my art and revolutionary spark here. You can follow me here or on other platforms @airidescence

@disint it isn’t inherently compatible. I think this is highly dependent on what is meant by the term “religion.” In antiquity, the root word religiō was understood as an individual virtue in mundane contexts; never as doctrine, practice, or actual source of knowledge. In general, religiō referred to broad social obligations towards anything — what anarchists would simply call “mutual aid.” There is no word for religion outside of western culture, so applying it to Buddhism is a category error. There was no concept of separation of “religious” and mundane experience as there is in the west. The closest equivalent term is “dharma,” which itself suffers the indeterminacy of translation, but approximately is the “way of life” harmonious with cosmic order / phenomena / truth. But this is not some mandate by a God, simply what Kropotkin would call “a factor of evolution.”

my friend 1000 miles away hit me up this morning and asked me if they could vent bc they were stressed out. I’m like, sure. they tell me they’re about to drive a couple states and many hours away to help a mama and her three babies escape a monstrously awful situation, and they’re wary of doing this alone and on cold medicine after a 7 hour drive during a pandemic. you know, reasonable, but they don’t want to leave this family in this situation. planning this sort of thing is delicate and volatile. but this is what they do.

so they’re just venting, right? but I’m like whoa whoa wait, where? I got people around there—good people, solid people. I’m thinking of a few people.

so I talk to some people and they’re like yeah you can connect us with your friend, and also here’s this other person who may be able to help.

and suddenly my friend’s venting is becoming pretty physically productive.

this reminded me of a situation a couple years ago where a friend in one place hit me up and said that some comrades from another place were in trouble in my city—people I’d never met. they’d run afoul of some pigs, and really needed some help. on the pretext of nothing more than the word "comrade" coming from someone I trusted, we all ended up that day in another friend’s apartment, now with a new friend having a terrible time, and were able to provide support. we’re still in touch. they came to help out with the hurricanes later that year.

then I think about this blog post I’d read around that time. some fascist or other writing a warning to his fellow fash that he wouldn’t count us out in a civil conflict. that they take it as a given they’d win, and he thought that was a dangerous mistake.

among the reasons he listed for this, the primary one repeated in different forms over and over and, to me reading this to "know [my] enemy", from the standpoint of, essentially, the person[s] being written about, it was pretty clear what he saw as our greatest advantage.

he said something like, the left won’t just build something. they’ll travel around and build more of the thing, and more importantly, they’ll hold trainings teaching other people to build the thing, they’ll write books about how to build the thing, they’ll make zines, they’ll hold teach ins, they’ll have study groups. they’ll replicate and connect and grow. he pointed to our survival programs, our mutual aid and rapid response networks, our fast turnaround on mobilization, our fundraising and relationship building.

this is what he saw as our greatest strength and their greatest weakness. and you know? that’s a smart fash. he wasn’t wrong.

but there’s also nothing that the right can do to address this weakness, because it is ultimately the weakness at the heart of their entire ideology, the weakness of their entire worldview, their lack of imagination, their individualism, their core identity. so, to address the weakness to the extent they would need to to accomplish a strength, they’d, by necessity, no longer be reactionaries at all. and they can’t do that.

what do we have that they don’t? solidarity. unity, even when there’s so many reasons to look around and feel like we don’t. even when there’s so much we could be doing better historically and now and always. we understand that we survive together, and we build our relationships and communities with that understanding. even when we fail. it’s still an attempt rooted in greater and greater understandings of that basic truth.

something else I was reading recently said that the right is a multi-generational operation, and the left isn’t so much, and that’s why they can handle failure better than we have, and why we see every moment as urgent almost to our detriment. and I don’t disagree with that. it was insightful, it was helpful to me, and I think it describes a lot of the attitudes on "our" side. but I also don’t think it’s the whole picture.

while we may certainly be less likely to have red and black diaper babies as a political bloc than say, evangelicals, and we don’t have the ruthlessness required to see raising an army of children as a good thing, that doesn’t mean we don’t understand ourselves in a multi-generational way. I think all the most insightful commies do. we understand that we are standing on foundations laid generations before us and that we are laying bricks for the next. we understand this is the work of history, and that we may not see it through to completion.

I think there’s so much defeatism on our side, and I get it, I’ve been pretty pessimistic at times, so take it from a fash who was scared enough to write an essay—don’t count us out.

and to that dude? good luck with your bunker in the woods, filled with beans and ammo. you’re fucked, you’re alone, you’re cut off and murderous of the only hope you have—other people. we’re all so very fucked, if we’re alone.

but we have solidarity.

mutual aid is, among many things, a factor in evolution, a verb, the natural inclination of any successful life form—it is also an inversion of logics and modalities of fascism. relationship building, community building, too. fascism, like the pit of capitalist realism it emerges from, thrives on fear and isolation and brokenness and desperation. it thrives when the people are without hope, and without connection.

and we have solidarity.

a lot of people ask me how we make xyz happen, and I so frequently get tongue tied around those kinds of questions because it’s so easy for me to say "I don’t know, it just happened", but that’s not true. what is true is that it happened because of connection, and an understanding of our inherent interdependence, and a commitment to collective care. that’s always, at heart, how it happened. just talk to people. build relationships. if you can’t do anything else where you are, you can do that. and you have no idea where they could take you, or what you may be able to do together.

solidarity is what we have that they can never have.

I figure a little introduction will be useful (going to use hashtags for visibility):

I’m an #anarchist with many adjective— #ADHD #queer #vegan #buddhist #posthumanist interested in the philosophy of race, gender, disability, and sexuality. I also study #existentialism, #phenomenology, and #hermeneutics. I consider myself a methodological pluralist / synthesis anarchist, recognizing the interdependence, complexity, and heterogeneity that is life — unity of diversity.

As my name suggests, I am committed to #TotalLiberation — whether racial, sexual, gender, animal, youth, disability, ecological, class, etc. I see all of these axes of domination, oppression, and exploitation to be many heads of the same hydra, hierarchy. They reinforce each other and cannot be fought separately.

@peoplescitycouncil @JTOWNACTION @stxchun yooo im also in LA!

Respect people, not beliefs