if you love #youthliberation and you live in #chicago, this talk may be for you. if you don't, i don't know what to tell you ;)
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The Ecology of Freedom, For Kids
https://open.substack.com/pub/diseco/p/the-ecology-of-freedom-for-kids
> An Exciting Long-Term Project
#Substack #SocialEcology #KidLit #YouthLiberation #Bookchin #TheEcologyOfFreedom #Project #Theory
I agree with everything in this thread you might be interested in youth liberation
Children being property of their parents is a historically recent idea although in some cultures they weren't even seen as people but the modern western conception of children being absolutely subserviant to their parents is a product of the nuclear family which is a product of capitalism and patriarchy
20m video essay intro to youth liberation by andrewism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBDcpW9S_I
@libertyotf I don't care if you call yourself an anarchist or a pacifist if youre opposed to liberation of non-humans, children, lgbtqia, disabled people, neurodivergent people, bipoc, women or any other oppressed group I will regret to have forgotten here then I don't care its the peoples boot on my or my comrades necks I will metaphorically burn down your democratic straight conversion therapy union
#Anarchism #Speciesism #Sanism #Neurodivergent #BIPOC #Feminism #Intersectionalism #LGBTQIA #YouthLiberation #Pacifism
I don't believe in so-called parental rights. What I believe in are youth rights. Neither the government nor parents have the right to tell youth what to do. #youth #youthlib #youthliberation #parentalrights #communism #socialism #anarchism
"The young represent the originary exploited class. As far back as the historical record goes in the West, the bodies and labor of children were viewed as belonging to adults."
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#TrustKids #Childism #DestroyAdultSupremacy #YouthLiberation #ChildLabor #ChildAutonomy #Autonomy
The Oppression of Children
video of Lundy Bancroft talking (no other images/visual information) about adultism and children's rights. March 5th 2023
(only auto-generated CC)
33:04 min
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nonee_Fmw5U&list=PLIsZnBtnbM0FyKtkW_SEmFEuLHiU-ev_w&index=16&pp=iAQB
#adultism #children #childrensRights #YouthLiberation #therapy #EmotionalHealing #InnerChild #vounseling #LundyBancroft #pln #PeakLivingNetwork
#YouthLiberation ppl, what are your thoughts on school teachers? Is there any way one can be a good one? As a beginner teacher, within the system of involuntary schooling I find it very hard to balance the needs of different children. I don't mind them being rude towards me, it's fair, I am aware I regrettably do represent the system. I don't want to be using the tools of punishment (negative points) and so far I have refused to do it, but other children are now asking me to be doing it when others are too loud and make it harder for the quiet to learn, or when they taunt others.
I don't want to ba some kind of a damn policeman. What would be the answer? Is becoming a teacher also a universally unethical choice, just like seemingly every other thing in this world?
the UK government has slipped another bill to destroy childrens rights and digital privacy under the radar
It's called the "Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill"
It will force every child with an NHS number to have a single unique identifier id across platforms, without consent from neither children nor parents.
It will have sensitive information such as health and education records linked to it, which would make leaks highly dangerous, and these could potentially be used for police profiling.
It's currently in the house of lords
Here's what you can do about it:
If you're British, sign this petition:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722377
And don't shut up about this!! The more ppl that know, the better.
#uk #ukpolitics #DigitalID #digitalrights #childrensrights #youthliberation #onlineprivacy #OnlineSafetyAct #dataprivacy #politics #activism #privacy #dataprotection #ukgovernment
Defend The Detainees From Mendiola
Anonymous Submission to Jersey Counter-Info
In solidarity with the people of the Philippines, NJ and international antifascists must stand together and support the ongoing anti-corruption uprising and the youth leading the charge. More can be read about what is happening in the Philippines here.
Currently the government is fiercely repressing the majority youth led movement and imprisoning them, threatening them with lengthy prison sentences in an effort to squash their actions and the uprising. In addition, the state is trying to block the youths’ access to lawyers and violating their civil rights.
While the youth and their supporters are combating state repression on the ground, the need for funds to support legal costs and aid for the families of the imprisoned youth is only growing.
International antifascists can support the uprising and the youth experiencing intense state repression by donating directly to the following PayPal and Ko-fi accounts.
Solidarity to all fighting against the state!
#Antifascist #general #international #MutualAid #news #PrisonSupportPrisonAbolition #solidarity #YouthLiberation
“Is there anyone you need to let know that you're going up with us?”
A sullen glance to the side.
“Your friends? Won't they miss you?”
The kid shook her head, still not meeting Annalise's eye.
Annalise and Wren shared a glance over her head.
“It's just a couple days,” Wren said.
Annalise nodded back.
“I'm… going to run real quick back to the canteen,” Todd said. “Forgot to pick up some.... emberberries.”
Annalise managed to somehow not roll her eyes as Todd quickly hid the notepad and pen he'd been gesturing with behind his back just as Brook turned around. Emberberries didn’t even grow on this side of the mountains, and they weren’t in season anyway.
The kid narrowed her eyes at him. He grinned.
“Just get going,” Wren laughed.
Todd turned his grin on Wren, then slipped away to grab a bike from the bike station for the short ride back to Sparrow Ridge to leave a note on the community board about the whereabouts of their young companion. She was welcome to come with them, but it really was best to let someone know when you were going up. If for no other reason than a rescue crew would know how many they were searching for, in a worst case scenario.
Annalise didn’t have the heart to try to convince the kid go back to the village to tell them herself, and it looked like neither did Todd or Wren. Todd’s note would have to do.
“C’mon,” Wren said to Brook, “if you’re going to go up with us, we gotta show you the ropes—literally.”
That got a small smile from her. Wren shot Annalise a triumphant grin. Annalise did roll her eyes this time, which only made Wren smile more brightly.
As Annalise watched them step up into the cabin, she remembered her first day on the dirigible, years ago. It had been Hollis and Mylie who had shown her around. Wren had already been on the crew, but Todd had not yet joined them.
Now, Mylie was happily ensconced in the village of Foxflower, their destination today. She facilitated the local repair cafe, as dedicated to helping keep all the small particulars of village life in running order as she had been to maintaining the Abounding Kestrel. Wren did that for the Kestrel, now.
Hollis had died years ago, their long life at its natural end, not too many years after they had shown Annalise how to run the navigation board. She thought of them every time she engaged it and pointed the Kestrel toward their next destination.
Years before Annalise had been born, Hollis and their comrades from several villages had worked to bring a dirigible to the region, and for decades now a crew had regularly taken to the skies between the villages dotted around the mountains. The villages were separated by rocky terrain and rivers too rapid to easily navigate, but the Kestrel was able to bring food, supplies, and sometimes people between them.
Runners could make the trek between villages with information and occasionally small goods—a tradition with both cultural significance as a practice and practical importance as a contingency. And folks did journey on foot to visit or to relocate from time to time, though it was a substantial undertaking. For quickly bringing a load of cargo, there was nothing like a dirigible, Annalise mused as she finished loading in the cargo for this journey.
When Annalise made her way into the cabin, she saw Brook perched on the edge of a jump seat, attention rapt on everything Wren was saying as they explained the workings of the Kestrel. Annalise wondered if the crew of the Kestrel would soon be considering a new regular crew member, or if this was just a temporary respite from whatever in the village was troubling the kid.
Whatever it was, Annalise didn’t think it was that bad. Brook was not traumatized, as far as she could tell, and Wren—who had one of the best senses for people Annalise had ever encountered—didn’t seem to think so, either. Annalise wasn’t going to worry. It was likely a spat. And while Annalise thought the direct approach to conflict resolution was the best approach, if the kid needed a couple of days away to clear her head, there was nothing wrong with that.
Annalise joined Wren and Brook to show Brook the navigation board, to her delight. She picked it up readily, and Annalise had to take a moment to quietly cherish just how right it felt to be passing on to someone else the knowledge she had received from Hollis, even if it would be used only for this journey.
As they were just finishing up with how to read the radar output, Todd bounded into the cabin. They all glanced up at him.
“Ran into some friends of yours in the village,” Todd said, trying and failing to affect a casual tone.
The kid bristled.
“They gave me this,” Todd said easily, holding out a folded piece of paper. “It’s for you.”
Brook seemed to want to hold onto her scowl, but she couldn’t keep an expression of wide-eyed trepidation off her face as she looked at the slip of paper in Todd’s hand. Todd held it forward for her with a gentle smile.
The kid stood up and gingerly took the note. She curled into herself as she held it open and started to read, but by the time she looked up from it, her shoulders had lowered and she was standing with more ease. There was the faintest flush high on her cheekbones, and she blinked a few times as she looked out the broad front window toward Sparrow Ridge.
“Still coming with us?” Wren asked.
The kid nodded, still looking away.
“Yeah,” she said softly, almost to herself. Turning and meeting Wren’s eye she added, with more certainty, “Yeah, I’m still going. But then I think I’m coming back.”
#solarPunk #solarpunkSunday #solarpunkFiction #youthLiberation #familyAbolition #anarchism #dirigible #flashFiction
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Just highlighting this awesome youth-run micropress, which just started hosting events <3 https://www.instagram.com/p/DGMSVa5y_yb/?img_index=1
@thechildanditsenemies podcast -
"David From Queer Satanic on Power Dynamics, Anarchy, and Satanism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuV0cZSUdMQ
#TheChildAndItsEnemies #podcasts #satanism #anarchism #YouthLiberation #tcaie #cults #AbusiveOrganizations #Youtube
adults when #youthliberation or #unschooling is mentioned: "what is that 🤷♀️"
adults in every other interaction: *makes it clear, based on their interpersonal issues, people-pleasing, and low self-esteem, that they needed youth liberation as teenagers*
besties i'm going to try to post on social media for once, in ways that aren't promotional. that being said, what do yall want to see from this account? let me know in the comments!
#trans #queer #anarchist #youthliberation #neurodivergent #feral #voidpunk
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about kids. I mentioned elimination communication and talked a bit about the fact that we left the US because cars decrease the ability of kids to be independent.
There are a few interesting connections there. Both are expressions of youth liberation. Babies don't actually want to use diapers, so forcing them to use diapers is actually pretty oppressive. But capitalism both forces people to force their children to use them, and erased the cultural knowledge that there was a way of doing things before diapers. This creates the whole problem of potty training and delays their ability to be independent. Diaper companies have pushed that age as high as 4 for a lot of kids.
Cars make it impossible for older kids to make a lot of their own decisions around transit, thus forcing them to rely on their parents.
Both of these exist to sell products that don't actually need to exist. But the real interesting thing is how diapers are almost a metaphor for car culture right now. People didn't want cars. They fought against cars and car infrastructure, but car companies destroyed mass transit and crushed resistance. Now it's time to get out of cars, and we're stuck. Humanity is shitting it's pants because it's learned to be OK with the feeling.
My kids are both potty trained now. My oldest learned to pedal her bike on her own a couple of day ago. She's starting on her own road to freedom. I hope we can create a free society for all kids some day.
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