A liberal I used to listen to once said, "why would anyone listen to the anarchists?", and I gotta say, if you don't listen to anarchists you get authoritarianism. Every damn time

#trauma #childabuse #anxiety #depression #ptsd #cptsd #mentalhealth #mentalillness

apartheid states have no "right to exist." apartheid states committing genocide doubly so and must be dismantled.

@romancelandia @bookstodon

Every time an author states that borrowing from a library "steals" sales from them, I want to scream.

Publishers have indoctrinated authors against libraries, to authors' own detriment. Libraries buy your book, and if it gets popular, they buy more copies--but more, they introduce readers to your work, and those readers will spread the word, even if they don't buy your books themselves.

#Libraries are unpaid marketing. Be thankful.

#ReadingRant

Wonderfully succinct description of the current era of #capitalism not wanting too much #democracy - from "How will capitalism end" by Wolfgang Streek

#StopBeingaBully

#StopBullying

Bullying Kills!

I learn that the JSTOR digital journal library is now feeding articles into the automated plagiarism text generators under the pretense of "empower[ing] people to deepen and expand their research".

I did not agree to that.

Nor did my colleagues or my PhD advisors whose publications are being scraped.

The publication agreements were for free use _ with proper attribution _.

@DemocracyMattersALot

I'll keep saying this till I'm blue in the face:

Oligarchs want Trump.
Oligarchs own mass media.
Media produces only what their owners want.
It's not clicks or ratings. It's not both-sidesism. It's the desire of billionaires for power.

How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature

From California to Maine, land is being given back to #NativeAmerican tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using #TraditionalKnowledge, from how to support #wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.

By Jim Robbins • June 3, 2021

"Now the [Salish and Kootenai] tribes are managing the range’s #bison and are also helping, through co-management, to manage bison that leave #YellowstoneNationalPark to graze on U.S. Forest Service land. Their Native American management approach is steeped in the close, almost familial, relationship with the animal that once provided food, clothes, shelter — virtually everything their people needed.

"'We treat the buffalo with less stress, and handle them with more respect,' said Tom McDonald, Fish and Wildlife Division Manager for the tribes and a tribal member. The tribes, he noted, recognize the importance of bison family groups and have allowed them to stay together. “That was a paradigm shift from what we call the ranching rodeo type mentality here, where they were storming the buffalo and stampeding animals. It was really kind of a violent, stressful affair.'

"In #California, a land trust recently transferred 1,199 acres of #redwood forest and prairie to the #EsselenTribe.

"There is a burgeoning movement these days to repatriate some culturally and ecologically important lands back to their former owners, the Indigenous people and local communities who once lived there, and to otherwise accommodate their perspective and participation in the management of the land and its wildlife and plants.

"Throughout the United States, land has been or is being transferred to tribes or is being co-managed with their help. In California, a land trust recently transferred 1,199 acres of redwood forest and prairie to the Esselen tribe, and in Maine, the Five Tribes of the #WabanakiConfederacy recently reacquired a 150-acre island with the help of land trusts. Other recent land transfers to tribes with the goal of conservation have taken place in #Oregon, #NewYork and other states.

"The use of Indigenous management styles that evolved over many centuries of cultures immersed in nature — formally called Traditional Ecological Knowledge (#TEK) — is increasingly seen by conservationists as synergistic with the global campaign to protect #biodiversity and to manage nature in a way that hedges against #ClimateChange.

"The #NatureConservancy, for example, one of the world’s largest conservation organizations, has institutionalized the transfer of ecologically important land with its Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Program in both the U.S. and globally."

Read more:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-returning-lands-to-native-tribes-is-helping-protect-nature

#Landback #Rewilding #IndigenousKnowledge #RestoreNature #Salish #Kootenai #Wabanaki #WabanakiAlliance

https://crimethinc.com/2024/07/11/why-stop-at-biden-the-center-cannot-hold

Biden’s refusal to step aside is a microcosm of an entire civilization at an impasse. We all know that industrial capitalism is accelerating climate change along with mass extinctions and ecological collapse, but we keep delegating our agency to representatives who answer to the corporations and don’t give a damn about us. We know that entrusting our future to a ruling class that consists of some of the most self-serving people on the planet is not going to make us safe, but we keep voting for them and working for them and buying their wares. We know that burying our heads in the sand is not going to work out for us, but we’re terrified by the prospect of having to recognize ourselves as the ones who must bring about change through our own actions.

“Fascism is always born of a provincial spirit, a lack of knowledge of real problems and the rejection of people, whether out of laziness, prejudice, greed or ignorance, to give their lives a deeper meaning.” Even worse, they boast of their ignorance and seek success for themselves or their group through presumption, baseless assertions and a false display of good qualities, rather than appealing to true ability, experience or cultural reflection.
Fascism cannot be fought if we don’t recognize that it is simply the stupid, pathetic, frustrated side of ourselves that we should be ashamed of. "

Federico Fellini: In conversation with Natalia Ginzburg.

Why people shouldn't talk to me in the grocery store. The fellow behind me made a comment while I placed the separator between our groceries. "If we use more of these at the borders, we wouldn't have a problem with immigrants." I responded with, "I'm sorry, but the way I see it, we are all humans here on Earth who should help each other and the planet." That shut him right TF up. Good!

Doctorow's latest strikes a chord that resonates with this week's SCOTUS decision: we live in hope of finding the right dictators, because we cannot imagine a world without dictators.

"The idea that monopolies are benevolent dictators has pervaded our economic tale for decades. Even today, critics who deplore Facebook and Google do so on the basis that they do not wield their power wisely (say, to stamp out harassment or disinformation). When confronted with the possibility of breaking up these companies or replacing them with smaller platforms, those critics recoil, insisting that without Big Tech's scale, no one will ever have the power to accomplish their goals"

@pluralistic The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/

Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

Ursula K. Le Guin: “For fuck sake, this was about defeating Capitalism, not about bringing back the divine right of kings.”

In other news...
#UrsulaKLeGuin’s home will become a writers residency

By HILLEL ITALIE
Updated 8:00 AM EDT, June 10, 2024

"Downes-Le Guin, who also serves as his mother’s literary executor, now hopes to give contemporary authors access to her old writing space. #LiteraryArts, a community nonprofit based in #PortlandOregon, announced Monday that Le Guin’s family had donated their three-story house for what will become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency.

"Le Guin, who died in 2018 at age 88, was a Berkeley, California, native who in her early 30s moved to Portland with her husband, Charles. Le Guin wrote such classics as 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed' in her home, mostly in a corner space that evolved from a nursery for her three children to a writing studio.

"'Our conversations with Ursula and her family began in 2017,' the executive director of Literary Arts, Andrew Proctor, said in a statement. 'She had a clear vision for her home to become a creative space for writers and a beacon for the broader literary community.'"

https://apnews.com/article/ursula-k-le-guin-home-writers-residency-8a119efb584b4446056c12405186f4fd

#Writers #ScienceFiction #LeGuin #LiteraryCommunity #Books

#WabanakiREACH Celebates #OralHistory Exhibit Opening with Gathering at #SipayikMuseum

wikhikonol: stories + photos at the Sipayik Museum, 59 Passamaquoddy Rd., #PleasantPoint, Maine. Exhibit runs June 20 through October at the Sipayik Museum, Point Pleasant Peninsula.

6 June 2024

SIPAYIK | PLEASANT POINT, ME (June 4, 2023)– "Wabanaki REACH has partnered with the Sipayik Museum to present wikhikonol, an oral history exhibit featuring #stories alongside #photography by #Wabanaki artists #NolanAltvater and #MayaAttean. The exhibit, which opens June 20 with a celebratory gathering, is part of Wabanaki REACH’s #truthtelling initiative Beyond the Claims– Stories from the Land & the Heart.

"Wabanaki REACH has recorded and preserved over forty personal oral history interviews from #Wabanaki and #Maine communities in hopes to illuminate the humanity behind the Maine Indian land claims era and demystify the #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct of 1980. The organization has been focusing its efforts on building an accessible archive of interviews, creating educational resources for the greater community, and making space for healing and truth-telling to happen.

"wikhikonol marks Wabanaki REACH’s second public offering related to the project following where the river widens, an original community-devised play performed on Indian Island last fall.

"wikhikonol features text and audio of stories that emerged in the interviews, complemented by photographs of Wabanakik and its people. Beyond the Claims is led by Wabanaki ways of being and knowing to further Wabanaki REACH’s crucial work of bringing truth, healing, and change to the #Dawnland.

"'Our intentions were to create a deeper understanding of the Maine Indian #LandClaims, a tumultuous period in tribal-state history that still impacts the Tribes today. We wanted to capture stories from people with lived experiences during this time, uplift stories that exemplify the Wabanaki people's unique relationship to their homelands, and create tools for learning and understanding so we can ultimately move toward a more just and understanding future together', said #MariaGirouard, Executive Director of Wabanaki REACH.

"Wikhikon is the #Passamaquoddy word originally used for #birchbark maps but now refers to book, image, map, or any written material. For this exhibit, it can be understood as a visual tool for storytelling that offers spaces for relations and understandings to emerge from the Land and from the people who are connected to it. It is a term that challenges and resists dominant, western understandings of stories and the Land and the relationships in which they attempt to force Wabanaki people into.

"Nolan Altvater said, 'This exhibit is a celebration of the myriad relations that Wabanaki people have with our homelands. The stories blur the lines between image and word while inviting the audience to critically think and learn with the literacies of our land beyond the claims of the settlement act'.

https://www.wabanakireach.org/press_release

#NativeAmericanHistory #WabanakiHistory #WabanakiAlliance #Maine

We told you, directly, that you know nothing about how to stop fascists and that your neoliberal ideology wasn't going to work. You said "naw, only WE can stop fascism." From Brussels to D.C. this is what you said.

So, how'd you "wise centrists" do?

Right

Don't blame folks you shut out of the decision making process for YOUR losses to assclown nazis. It's your world, you told us so, so many times. Well, look at what you've won?

All you folks are good at, is punching left and serving capital

#In100Years

I want to see a Solar Punk future with humans in harmony with the earth and their fellow humans.

#In100Years

I want Elysium organized as a commune.