"In moments of disaster, our communities will be abandoned by the powers that be. We must demonstrate that our ability to self-govern is better at meeting our needs than the corporations’ or state’s supposed mandate to govern. And we must not just govern under the existing structures; rather, we me must remake the shape of governance to be more democratic and ecologically responsive – from the state house to the workplace to the blocks where we live.

For too long the people who live and care for the places they call home have been intentionally dispossessed of the decision making power to govern their home. In moments of disaster this unjust power dynamic of the Extractive Economy leads to harmful, unaccountable decision making that doesn’t put the wellbeing of people and the land at the forefront of recovery. It sets up the same oppressive systems of power to lead not just the recovery efforts, but the economy and infrastructure that is built in the disaster’s wake."

https://movementgeneration.org/transition-is-inevitable-justice-is-not-a-critical-framework-for-just-recovery/

#Anarchy #Anarchism #MutualAid #MutualAidDisasterRelief #CommunitySelfDefense #EmergencyPreparedness

Are you ready to start organizing or supporting local mutual aid disaster relief? So many emergency preparedness and response programs are being cut, at a time when disasters are on the rise and will continue to worsen indefinitely. If no one else will save us, why don't we try working together to save each other?

"Those on leave include all of the employees of a national disaster response program..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/doge-cost-americorps-community-service.html

#MutualAid #CommunitySelfDefense #EmergencyPreparedness #DisasterRelief

After white supremacists repeatedly target a Black community in Ohio, the community takes appropriate measures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGG8PVEKcU

#LincolnHeights, #CommunitySelfDefense, #WeProtectUs

Free Palestine.

Black lives matter.

Trans lives matter.

Unhoused people matter.

No human being is illegal.

Let's keep learning and practicing how to directly take care of each other, in relationship with each other, so that eventually the government will have a lot less power to harm us. Because we can't vote racism and capitalism away.

#MutualAid is #CommunitySelfDefense

Obligatory Anarcho101 Thread of threads.

In order to "not be that *reply* guy" sealioning out of ignorance when inserting yourself into interanarcho convos, I invite you kindly to do some reading.

Obviously I need to mention https://theanarchistlibrary.org/ by @theanarchistlibrary.org or @library and if you are in need of some litt that is copy*right* pRoTEcTED https://annas-archive.org/ is the link you need to bookmark, a world of litt is at your fingertips.

As mentioned, if you ain't an anarchist, or are what we *affectionaly* call an anarkiddie, or are just dabbling with the idea, before interjecting into Anarcho conversations you may want to read your way through those threads instead of coming in them with the same old "bUt If yOu aBolIsh tHe sTate wE'll gEt bAck tO wARlorDS?", "If wE dOnT hAve cOpS wHo Will pRotecT uS fRoM cRimiNals", or regurgitating your preconceptions about what constitutes: " #HumanNature ".

This thread of threads, covers a lot of those preconceptions.
Sorry if I sound bitter, I just don't have @HeavenlyPossum's patience (for Realz IDK how you do it, same goes for some of my dear moots here who have shown remarkable patience in the face of such asinine replies)

@RD4Anarchy is doing an amazing job of archiving and sourcing 101's with a dedication that can only be commended: https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/110357255122736031

@HeavenlyPossum is a surprisingly patient individual who should use the block button more often (be warned I don't have their patience)
They have a thread of threads which are a great intro into the basics and then more, give it a read:
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110016655952719317

While we're at it, in another vein @RiotLinguistics publishes extremely on point Zines which you should def read.

Also @AnarchoNinaWrites // @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes does an amazing job of repeating the same obvious things you libs can't and won't ever hear. (Don't get in their mention unless you did the reading. And if you are picking a fight in their mentions, untag them, she fucking hates that and has enough on her plate!)

Last but not least @rechelon publish their essays on https://humaniterations.net/ it includes an Anarchism 101 category.
Besides that, KYLR, one of their (and other unnamed Anarchafeminists accomplices) most recent publications may clear a lot of misunderstanding if you are a "progressive" identify as a "liberal" or generally speaking are new to this whole "Anarchism thing".

@rechelon also maintains a github of #Zines going back decades, most of them are worth a read and not necessarily easy to find: https://github.com/rechelon/zine_library you may want to fire up that VPN of yours and get yourself a copy!

While we're at it @hakan_geijer has published a lot of very useful zines, Riot medicine may just save your life, and if you need an intro to #opsec, they are your person.

Obviously if you don't already you should follow the peeps I mentioned, the same goes for the #MutualAid and #Begpost hashtags, donate if you can and boost when you can't.

Finally if you are the kinda person who can't deal with text, albeit it's many issues the following documentary (link in french OV and for the english subbed version see the second link -this is the one and only time you'll see me use national flags) is still a good place to start getting acquainted with our (common yet erased) history:
🏴🇫🇷🏴 Ni Dieu Ni Maître - une histoire de l'Anarchisme -
Via peertube/antopie VF:
https://video.antopie.org/w/p/rfSecbgF1sxJ1rimqQun6C?playlistPosition=1
🏴🇬🇧🏴No gods No Masters - A history of Anarchism - Documentary (parts 1-3 English with NL/SE subtitles, the rest in the OV French with English subtitles) via archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/NoGodsNoMasters2

Anyhow, take care of one another, wear a mask, practice mutual aid, kylr, be they, do crimes (and never, ever post about the later)

#NoGodsNoMasters #NoGodsNoMastersAHistoryOfAnarchism #Anarchism #Documentary #Documentaire #Docu #NiDieuxNiMaitres #NiDieuNiMaitreUneHistoireDeLAnarchisme #Anarchisme #Reportage #Histoire #History #Arte #HistoryChannel #Mastodon4Harris #Mastodon5Harris #Elections #Electoralism #Theory #Praxis #Antifa #161 #AFA #AntifascistischeAktion #SiamoTuttiAntifascisti #Anticapitalism #Anticapitalisme #PostLeft #161 #1312 #CommunitySelfdefense
#SolidarityMeansAttack
#CommunitySelfDefence #CommunitySelfdefenceMeansAttack #CommunitySelfdefenseMeansAttack #ActionDirecte #DirectAction #DirekteAktion #TotalLiberation #TotalLiberationNow #YouthLiberation #Anarchy101 #Anarchism101
#Zines #Anarcho101 #Anarchism #HumanNature #TAL #TheAnarchistLibrary #piracy #AnnasArchive #Kylr #Respawn

If you are not prepared to defend yourself (or actively supporting those who can) and your community from these assholes, or you think that the Police WILL defend at risk communities, you are setting yourself and your people up for harm and failure.

#Leftist #CommunitySelfDefense #ArmedMinorities

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent

Interview with Prof. Kehinde Andrews about recent (and not so recent) events in the UK:

I really would have been surprised if [right-wing thugs] had come through London or Birmingham. I got a WhatsApp message saying they were coming through Handsworth in Birmingham, where it’s 80% ethnic minority, and I just knew that was never going to happen.

Look, maybe they planned it and then they were cowards, but I just think they were never going to follow through. Realistically you can’t do an English Defence League march through someone else’s neighbourhood! They’d just get a kicking. Cowardice is a huge part of these British KKK types, pick people off when they feel strong, they’re not going to take on a whole community like that.

Let me add as well, and I think this is something that’s been hugely underplayed in mainstream discussions, that it’s actually because there was so much racial violence in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s – when I was at school, we’d see National Front signs in people’s windows – precisely because of this racial violence and history, Black and Brown communities rallied together to defend themselves.

And so because there’s a history of us defending ourselves, that’s why these far-right racists aren’t going to be coming back to these predominantly Black and Brown areas, where they know they can’t win. It’s not just coincidental, it’s part of our resistance to racism in this country, and it’s a story that’s underplayed. It’s community self-defence which has stopped National Front, English Defence League and all these other incursions.

#UK #racism #antifascism #fascism #CommunitySelfDefense #CommunitySelfDefence #EDL #NationalFront

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-riots-black-history-kehinde-andrews/

"Le documentaire est connu, malheureusement il est très lissé, tres flous et n'explique pas vrmt bien

C une porte d'entrée mais malheureusement c bcp de cliché d'approximation et de romantisme 😬

En plus le type qui a fait le docus c un fils de, un fils d'anarchistes, pas un anarchiste lui même

Lui c un petit bourgeois qui surfe sur la vie de son père pour faire cool"

- @heyla

Bref, si vous êtes pas encore Anars (mais qui êtes vous? que faites vous et dans quelle etagère? On est en 2024, faut se bouger là!): Regardez Ni dieux Ni maîtres!

🏴🇫🇷🏴 Ni Dieu Ni Maître - une histoire de l'Anarchisme -
Via peertube/antopie VF:

https://video.antopie.org/w/p/rfSecbgF1sxJ1rimqQun6C?playlistPosition=1

🏴🇬🇧🏴No gods No Masters - A history of Anarchism - Documentary (parts 1-3 English with NL/SE subtitles, the rest in the OV French with English subtitles) via archive.org

https://archive.org/details/NoGodsNoMasters2

#NoGodsNoMasters #NoGodsNoMastersAHistoryOfAnarchism #Anarchism #Documentary #Documentaire #Docu #NiDieuxNiMaitres #NiDieuNiMaitreUneHistoireDeLAnarchisme #Anarchisme #Reportage #Histoire #History #Arte #HistoryChannel #Mastodon4Harris #Mastodon5Harris #Elections #Electoralism #Theory #Praxis #Antifa #161 #AFA #AntifascistischeAktion #SiamoTuttiAntifascisti #Anticapitalism #Anticapitalisme #PostLeft #CommunitySelfdefense #CommunitySelfDefence #CommunitySelfdefenceMeansAttack #CommunitySelfdefenseMeansAttack #ActionDirecte #DirectAction #TotalLiberation #TotalLiberationNow #YouthLiberation #Anarchy101 #Anarchism101

Fighting the racists in Bristol: Only we can protect our communities

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/06/fighting-the-racists-in-bristol-only-we-can-protect-our-communities/

#CommunitySelfDefense #Fascism #Bristol

If you need MORE reasons to be worried about the world and to be prepared for LOTS of shit people a year ago said was imaginary:

Under the Supreme Court decision, a President can:
1. order the military to take any act, and that is a Core Duty of the presidency, so the President CANNOT be ever be prosecuted for that act.
2. Order the Justice Department not to investigate nor prosecute ANYTHING or ANYONE and never be criminally charged for that, and no one can overrule him because..
3. The President can remove, arguably via any means he wishes, anyone operating under the Executive Branch as that is a Core Power of the presidency.

With these three aspects of the ruling a President can literally kill, be bribed, ORDER people to kill, prevent prosecution, literally anything and the only check on their powers...is Congress and the ability to Impeach....and the President can just order anyone who tries killed.

This is no longer fantasy or hyperbole, this is Settled LAW in the US.

Plant a garden. Get equipped. Build a community. Train. Build parallel power like the Panthers taught us.

May the Gods have mercy on us all.

#Politics #Law #CommunitySelfDefense

The #SocialistRifleAssociation should be the best place to know how to handle guns and to defend yourself.

Join the #SRA:

Membership: (https://socialistra.org/membership/)

Website: (https://socialistra.org)

#Community #EmpowerThePeople #TransRightsAreHumanRights #SelfDefense #CommunitySelfDefense

“It is still happening here.”

There’s a special joy, a special sweetness, in the first real spring day, when you can throw off your coat and throw on your sneakers, and set off for a blissful walk past now-green grass, blossoms opening up their faces to the sun, and the tiniest of buds-leaves emerging from every tree branch. And you can carry along a book that just reached your mailbox—a book you wrote a blurb for long ago and are so thrilled that it has now finally sprung into the world—to find the perfect spot for a photo to later share here.

Of course you pick places overflowing with flowers, laying this book down among the purples and yellows—feeling the joy and sweetness of those colors.

For a brief time, fascism seems far away.

Spring holds promise. A river follows your footsteps and geese chatter happily nearby. This book holds possibilities—a time of wins. You flip through the pages, filled with not just an inspiring history made by everyday people but also so many rad images.

Then you glance up to a long wall covered in murals, including one to George Floyd, and are stopped in your tracks, noticing first the swastika x’d out—the remnants of antifascists here before you on these stolen Anishinaabeg lands—and then fascists who, for now, are getting the last word with “fuck antifa.”

It did happen here; it does happen here; it is happening now in what’s become everyday fascism.

You have nothing but a book and camera on you. They become the latest layer of antifascism, even if too little.

And suddenly you think back to when you listened to the It Did Happen Here podcast and couldn’t stop recommending it, knowing its lessons resonate for the present. But that was before the pandemic began, and along with the COVID virus, fascism has virulently spread into its own increasingly deadly pandemic.

You look down at the book version, It Did Happen Here: An Antiracist People’s History (published by @pmpress) and see a weapon for #CommunitySelfDefense that’s both sharper than ever and, absurdly, tragically, more necessary than when the editors asked you to pen a blurb about its relevance. There’s no joy or sweetness in that.

Still, if you want a world of #FlowersNotFascism, this book is essential reading.

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1467

Shavua tov: toward a good week, a blessed week, a week of joy, a week of fighting fascism in all of its forms.

#HavdalahAgainstHate
#FlamesAgainstFascism
#CandlesNotCops
#CommunitySelfDefense
#TryJewishAnarchismForLife
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon

(photos: #FuckNazis tag spotted on the frigid streets of Tio’tia:ke/Montreal; closeup of this evening’s Havdalah candle and its #BlessedFlame)

It’s doubly impossible tonight to lean into the practice of Shabbat as a time-space of inhabiting “the world to come,” the world we dream of and deserve—Jews and non-Jews alike.

For one, this is the first Shabbos in the new Jewish month of Adar, which holds out the notion that joy will increase. But what joy can one find in Christian fascists, neo-Nazis, and their fellow brethren calling for a “Day of Hate” against Jews tomorrow, on our Shabbat, with its joys?

And second, how is one to disengage from the world of work—as we’re “commanded”/invited by Shabbat—and instead rest in light of this? How is one to dwell in the sacred, leaving behind the profane, the common (like, say, the hegemony of Christian patriarchal white supremacy), for the 25 hours of Shabbes when a Day of Hate against Jews is unrestfully launched and thus there’s so much antifascist work to do, including community self-defense?

Of course, every day under fascism—and the United States is already there—is a day of hate, a day of targeting, a day of no rest for the weary antifascist.

Yet just as we rebels call for “days of action” to direct our love and solidarity toward the direct action of dismantling various forms of hierarchy and domination, the fascists are likely putting special effort into their Day of Hate. And even if their direct actions fall short of their aims, which include, as one flyer asserts, being “loud and clear” that “the one true enemy … is the Jew,” like our days of action, such moments can have many impacts, from visibility for a message to bolstering one’s ranks to causing a certain amount of trouble. And in this case, not the good kind—toward liberatory lives for all—but the kind that hurts and even kills people, and for sure is already paining Jews.

This Day of Hate isn’t “just” a Jewish concern—though please check in on and offer solidarity to your Jewish friends. Their conspiracy theories and genocidal fantasies tie us all together—all of us in fascism’s crosshairs. But so, too, should our common dream of a world to come—and without fascism.

(photo: hot pink and black “antifascist action” sticker seen on my #FuckFascism walk in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal today)

#WeMustOutliveThem
#CommunitySelfDefense
#BeTheGolemYouWantToSee
#SolidarityOnShabbat
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon

REGIST.ro is a collection of manuals, methods and tools for environmental community investigation. The resources can be used in the investigation of environmental aggressions, their public communication and the restoration of the memory of the spaces and people affected.

#CommunitySelfdefense

https://regist.ro/en

Two years ago, on January 6, extraparliamentary Christian fascists stormed the US Capitol, dressed up in an assortment of antisemitic, anti-Black, and racist “live-action role play” attire—looking both ridiculous, thuggish, and euphorically full-of-themselves in their attempted insurrection.

This January 6, in expensive suit-and-tie and other high-powered professional attire, surrounded by neatly dressed aids, and with no need to breach their own office building, the US Capitol, parliamentary Christian fascists are engaging in an attempted insurrection too—refusing to install a Speaker of the House until they have someone in their pocket.

If January 6, 2021, felt unnerving and even scary, this January 6, 2023, seems much more frightening. As antifascist organizing has demonstrated in the past, such as via efforts like Anti-Racist Action, and more recently, in support of drag shows, it’s possible to get fascists off the streets—the kinds of fascists that went to DC two Januarys ago. Our #CommunitySelfDefense works!

Not that they don’t reappear at times, and not that they aren’t dangerous and sometimes deadly (increasingly so these past two years). And not that they don’t have relations with some of the trappings of the state, like cops. Yet they don’t hold the levers of a world power, with its vast resources and vast apparatuses of state violence/might.

As has been long argued by some antifascists, and rightly so, we are in a three-way fight.

As part of that, we are also far, far past “the fascist creep.” Two January 6ths ago, fascist ran up the Capitol steps and climbed over fences, but then walked around the building taking selfies and confusedly occupying the Senate chambers, unsure what to do—other than pray to their white Christian male supremacist god. Now, fascist congresspeople, having won their race, are confidently in those legislative chambers (not to mention Supreme Court) as superpower powerbrokers.

All to say, suit-and-tie fascism may prove to be much more successful at insurrection, bringing down the state from within.

#FightFascism
#DeathToFascism
#WeMustOutliveThem

(photo: sticker by @municipaladhesives seen on stolen Anishinabeeg lands)

A list of 5,000 “antifa” accounts on Twitter has been circulating today, with the fascist aim of purging these voices—an eclectic mix including liberals and even some conservatives, but mostly made up of anarchistic folks of many genders, races, cultures, etc. The responses on our side—the side firmly against fascism—are varied, but overwhelmingly, there’s been palpable and tangible solidarity. That’s crucial. We’ll need more and more of that—fierce, empathetic, unflinching solidarity. Taking the side of antifascism, and sticking side by side together.

What struck me more than anything was the shift this seems to mark. From such “antifa” lists being shared on shadowy, “fringe” platforms, or ones that mostly attract fellow fascists, to now being mainstreamed on one of the world’s biggest and oft-turned-to news platforms, owned by one of the world’s wealthiest people. This, in turn, mirrors what increasingly feels like the mainstreaming of the most explicit, virulent, violence-inspiring racist, transphobic, anti-Black, antisemitic, misogynist, homophobic, etc., sentiments on purportedly/formerly liberal, progressive, and/or “neutral” platforms, whether in the form of Chapelle’s jokes on Saturday Night Live or the vacuous “condolence” statement by Biden after the Club Q murders.

When it becomes “controversial” or scary or dangerous in a society to say one is against fascism; when it becomes “common sense” to see and treat antifascists as scary or dangerous, or more plainly, the enemy to be eradicated—we are already in fascism. It is the sea in which we must swim, or sink, as antifascists, not some surface or even subterranean phenomenon now.

Whether Twitter survives or not isn’t the issue. It’s whether whole categories of us—all the beautiful, varied identities, traditions, and experiences, and their rich and frequently millennia-long practices of communal care, mutual aid, and life-giving rituals, that are represented on that list of 5,000—will survive Christian fascism in the States and other fascisms globally.

#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon, in all of its beautiful diversity of forms.

#FascismKills #FuckFascism #SmashFascism #CommunitySelfDefense #WeMustOutliveThem
#TowardAWorldWithoutFascism

(photo: #AntiAntiAntifa sticker seen in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal’s anarchist bookstore, 2021)

(Part 4 of 6): By way of celebrating my new book “Try Anarchism for Life” being in print and out in the world, and because I have a backlog of photos of circle As in the wild, plus to honor and thank the folks who took the time and care to write blurbs for this book, here’s a trifecta of what I hope are some beautiful expressions of anarchism: street art + the book’s cover + a blurb.

I’ve been thinking a lot—or more than I already do—about “tipping points, when phenomena palpably shift from bad to worse—such as, to my queer Jewish anarchist mind, proto-fascism tipping to fascism after the US midterms—and how those of us who are anarchists see train wrecks coming long before the train has even left the station and beautifully prepare all sorts of infrastructures of #Solidarity way ahead of time. Infrastructures of #MutualAid, #CommunitySelfDefense, #RebelliousMourning, and #FierceLove. It’s shattering my heart that we must increasingly use those infrastructures *merely* to try to lessen the genocidal impacts of Christian fascism here. Yet they are also, always, gesturing toward #AWorldWithoutFascism.

“‘Try Anarchism for Life’ is both a beautiful homage to the countless fragments of ephemeral resistance that constitute everyday antiauthoritarianism and a principled call to commit to stitching together those fragments of daily autonomy-making into flourishing lives of resistance. Paired with unique renditions of the classic circle A, Milstein’s poetic phrases endow age-old concepts like mutual aid and solidarity with renewed vitality and urgency.”

—Mark Bray, author of “Antifa,” “The Anarchist Inquisition,” and “Translating Anarchy”

Copies of the book are available from the publisher, @tangledwild, at www.tangledwilderness.org (for folks in and outside of the US too), @akpressdistro at www.akpress.org, or your favorite anarchist(ic) bookstore, and libraries.

(photos: the rock-solid strength of our circles, as portrayed on a sticker seen in mid-Oct at @defendatlantaforest; beautiful book cover, designed by @eff_charm with circle A by @landonsheely)

#TryAnarchismForLife
#TheBeautyOfOurCircle
#AnarchismOrFascism
#FuckFascism #FTP
#WeAreAllWeNeed
🖤💖🌿

On Arming Leftists and Queers and The Nature of Power

https://cohost.org/autogynamelia/post/398282-on-arming-leftists-a

https://autogynamelia.tumblr.com/post/701551807535710208/on-arming-leftists-and-queers-and-the-nature-of

#elmforkjohnbrowngunclub #guns #guncontrol #power #powerstructures #coerciveauthority #bigotry #oppression #marginalization #selfdefense #communityselfdefense #armqueers #armqueerpeople #armtranspeople #armleftists #acab #1312 #allcopsarebad #allcopsarebastards #anarchist #anarchism #anarchy #electoralpolitics #liberals #liberalism #democrats #homophobia #transmisogyny #transphobia

On Arming Leftists and Queers and The Nature of Power

https://cohost.org/autogynamelia/post/398282-on-arming-leftists-a

https://autogynamelia.tumblr.com/post/701551807535710208/on-arming-leftists-and-queers-and-the-nature-of

#elmforkjohnbrowngunclub #guns #guncontrol #power #powerstructures #coerciveauthority #bigotry #oppression #marginalization #selfdefense #communityselfdefense #armqueers #armqueerpeople #armtranspeople #armleftists #acab #1312 #allcopsarebad #allcopsarebastards #anarchist #anarchism #anarchy #electoralpolitics #liberals #liberalism #democrats #homophobia #transmisogyny #transphobia