ID: Sirry Alang, PhD (she/her) @ProfAlang posts:
Three things your oppressors demand from you:
1.Politeness
2.Respect
3.Gratitude
Three things that won't end your oppression:
1.Politeness
2.Respect
3.Gratitude
ID: At the top left is text: "I'm doing my stuff everyone else's stuff can fuck off". On the right is a line drawing of several people tending to and admiring flowering plants so tall they need a ladder to reach their tops. In the bottom left corner Ruby is crouching down next to a small flower growing directly from the ground, and smiling.
Credit: Rubyetc
Imagine being able to successfully convince yourself that the existence of defences, and conflict, between neighbouring indigenous nations, is equivalent, to the point of nullifying, sailing around the globe genociding and enslaving its population as you go, for profit.
White supremacy is a hell of a drug.
Flowchart says "punch the Nazi", nowhere does it say "once" or "stop" Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Yup. If I actually want to read an article and it isn't a site I already know isn't too bad, I'll right click copy the link and put it in the archive machine to get to a readable version of it. I really don't think they can blame us at this point for not wanting to click every shitty clickbait headline, nor is it necessarily a bad thing that people aren't (especially people who don't use adblock and just accept cookies to make the shit go away. With the quality of reporting on most of these sites, they're definitely not getting a good deal)
ID: a simple flowchart titled "Should I Punch This Nazi?". At the top is the question "Is the Nazi within punching distance?" two arrows lead to "Yes" and "No". "Yes" has an arrow leading to "Punch the Nazi". "No" has an arrow to "Move closer" and from that back up to "Is the Nazi within punching distance?"
True, though you generally expect that going in. Definitely wasn't expecting an increasing number of photos to just not be there.
Great scroll until you reach the 1930's and start getting more and more "Image restricted due to copyright" and have to start clicking through to external sites. I will bookmark it though, for a day when I can be bothered to open each photo individually.
weβll give you a pass.
I don't need your pass, my point is perfectly clear, you've contributed nothing to the conversation
How does one do community?
Depends on the community, I know nothing about who you are, where you're from, what kind of area you live in (a city block, a small town neighbourhood, and a rural village all have their own different challenges), or what the people around you could use help with.
First of all try to figure out if you're able to provide anything others could benefit from - time? Money? Equipment? The means to move people or property? Are you an educator? Am advocate? A tinkerer? A builder? A cook? A carer? A writer? An artist? Are you too poor/overworked/disabled and feel like there's nothing you can currently help with? Whatever the case, there is value to your being part of the community and contributing from your lived experience.
Then try and form relationships with the people around you, and from there learn how you might be able to help. Depending on your community there might be an online group, a newsletter or zine, a community centre, a place of worship, a pub - all are likely to have some leads to people already active in the community who you can join, or at the very least learn from about what's going on locally, and go from there.
The point is to build solidarity and class (and other injustice) consciousness, and to show people through actions that we are stronger together.
Maybe give some of these a read:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ronald-a-young-anarchist-agitation-community-building
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-full
https://www.anarchy.no/horizon1.html
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works
You're just repeating the meme.
They are all bad, they are all part of the problems we face globally, and whatabouting "them" to avoid facing criticism of "us" only serves those in power by deflecting criticism of them.
Only if you don't know what communism is : a stateless, classless, moneyless society.
Calling something that isn't that communism doesn't magically make it that, just like calling something (national) socialism doesn't make it that.
So please, do explain how massive corporations as an extension of the state fit in to actual communism. (I won't wait)
Yup, it's mostly greenwashing to distract people from the need for any real action (abolishing capitalism, for starters).
ID: colourful bubble text: "hop in we're going to protect trans kids!". Between the words are Richard Scarry characters driving and riding in their individual vehicles: a worm in an apple car, a pig in a corn car with a non-binary flag waving at the back, a mouse in a rainbow coloured pencil car, a pig in a hotdog car, a mouse in a pickled cucumber car with a trans flag waving at the back, a cat on a bicycle with a progress flag waving at the back, and finally a small animal I can't identify, maybe a gecko or cricket in a crayon car.
ID: photo of two friends looking at a phone together, laughing, above is text: "Hitting "delete" after reading the first sentence of an entire essay that some bigoted potato took the time to write in my comments."
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ID: A poster in 3 segments, 2 at the top and one bellow:
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The text "if we wait for the government it will be too late" above a drawing of 4 people meeting in an airconditioned building. One is Grey and is smiling and showing love to the others, saying "I love you guys!". The 3 others are red, who is smoking a cigar, green holding a bag of cash, and yellow wearing a top hat represent gas oil and coal respectively.
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The text "if we act as individuals it will be too little" above a drawing of a person in a small but flourishing garden, they are holding up an apple they got from one of their trees, saying " Such... beauty!" with sparkly eyes. Beyond their fence to the left is an incoming tsunami, to the right are a field and trees on fire with bellowing smoke.
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The text "if we act as communities it might just be enough" above a drawing of several groups of people outside. From left to right, there are 3 people standing around a produce table that has a sign above it saying "crop swap on today!", next to it is a small cabinet marked "seed library". On the ground in the centre foreground are an adult and 3 children sitting around a campfire, the kids listening intently, the adult has the Australian Aboriginal flag on their shirt. Behind them are an adult and child getting a pizza out of an outdoor oven. To the right is a stall with a sign above it saying "refugees welcome", in front of it are two adults, one is wearing a head scarf and is holding a baby. In front of the stall are 4 rows of crops growing from the ground.
Quote by Rob Hopkins in "From what is to what if"
Credit: @brenna-quinlan
ID: photo of a yellow woodchipper with text: "Technology has advanced a long way since the French revolution"
ID: close up photo of a hand trying to put a square peg, representing ethics, in to a round hole, representing capitalism
ID: Text on a trans flag themed background:
I want to see trans people get old and go grey.
I want to see trans people retire.
I want to see T4T couples celebrating 50 years together.
I want to see trans grandparents and great grandparents.
I want to see trans people live long, happy lives.
ID: Photo of a brick that has had the trans flag drawn on to it, text around it says "embrace tradition"
ID: 4 panels:
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A self righteous person holds their hand up and says "Violence is never the solution."
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Stephie replies with a smile "Oh! So you agree that we shouldn't give weapons to the police?"
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She adds "And that we should dismantle the army?"
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Stephie is now right up behind the other person, looking angry, saying "Or did you mean that violence is only a solution when it helps maintain the status quo?". The other person looks deeply uncomfortable.
Credit: Sophie Labelle
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In case anyone else wants to have a look:
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
The Bolshevik Myth
Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism
E: I was finding the pdf a little hard to read, so updated the links