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Have gotten a lot of emails regarding pdfs of some recent/potentially relevant zines I've worked so wanted to share some links to printable/readable versions of them in a thread:
May the Antagonism Generalize
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Derek Chauvin being found guilty did nothing to prevent the murder of Tyre Nichols. The cops who murdered Tyre Nichols being found guilty (if that even happens) will do nothing to stop the next police murder. It must be open antagonism against all police or it all stays the same.
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Just saw someone refer to ACAB as "first world chauvinism" and I'm gonna say again that a lot of people who call themselves radicals simply do not hate the police (both in specific iteration and generally) anywhere near enough. Wannabe manager/bureaucrat/cop fuck heads all of ya.
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PSL and similar orgs have done so much damage to people's ability to conduct their own risk assessment it's terrifying. The number of people I've heard IRL who were "trained" by PSL demand that those taking risky action actively communicate their plan to the whole crowd is wild.
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From Utica to Cleveland, either it all goes or it all stays the same
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The number of self-described Communists (and anarchists to a lesser extent) who espouse "post revolution" fantasies that still include the specialization of labor just demonstrates how deeply engrained the capitalist mode of production is in our world.
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Please don't let the cops murdering one of the Atlanta forest defenders become a defacto argument of violent vs nonviolent resistance. Power to those who resist the world of police and prisons including, if not especially, those doing so violently.
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Beyond time for these vests to be met with the same posture we meet actual police. Every one of these fucks embodies the same love of authority that pigs get high on. They like feeling important and being about to dictate others' actions. Fuck that and fuck them. Cops is cops.
NEW: 'March on DNC 2024' Protest Marshals Block Protesters From Approaching DNC Venue
As several thousand protesters took the streets of Chicago on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), an extended melee occurred as dozens of protest marshals physically
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I promise you, the first time you're stabbed in the back by your union will be the last time you see them as anything other than another institution vying for managerial power over working people. The second you push for a world beyond their control, they mark you an enemy.
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There is a consistent trend of action in which the most militant actors face intense physical/legal/social repression and then the wannabe managers (often draped radical language/ephemera) swoop in to profit off that repression and fully sell out the militants.
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Anarchists need to just start doing anarchist shit on these campuses and trust that the students who are actually about it will find them. We wouldn't wait for permission to antagonize a police station or prison, and universities are just as much a piece the death machines.
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Some local folks are organizing (in the loosest sense of the word) a "Weekend of Distroing Shit" and we're encouraging those in other cities/towns to join us that weekend in being lovable public nuisances. Pics below offer context for the flyer, please share together off twitter.
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Stop fucking watching your friends get jumped by pigs and DO SOMETHING, especially when you outnumber the cops 10 to 1.
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Aight I take back what I've said about demands. These are good demands.
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"The University,Too, Must be Destroyed"
A brief collection of loosely connected thoughts on the importance of framing the university (American context) as an antagonist to be destroyed,
To read:
To print:
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You either recognize the state apparatus for what it is, a death machine that will continually reproduce a world of genocidal violence, or you're blinded by the possibility that if only the right people are managing the genocidal levers the machine of death could be a good thing.
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How did we get to the point where self-described radicals genuinely believe that police secretly want riotous action to spread, that they want more people to directly fight them? These people genuinely believe that deference to/collaboration with the state is actually subversive.
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Every day is becomes clearer and clearer who actually learned from the 2020 uprising (or previous more localized revolts) and who only "learned" from the counterinsurgency that followed.
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If anyone finds info on how to write to them and/or info on their bail situation please share
27-year-old Caleb Freestone and 23-year-old Amber Smith-Stewart have been indicted on federal charges for attacking anti-abortion facilities in Florida over the course of three months, including this Archdiocese of Miami Office of Respect Life facility in Hollywood, Florida.
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I'll say it till I'm dead and in the ground, too many self described radicals don't hate the police nearly enough to actually live differently and too many more actively desire to embody the role of police, just in a different coat of paint.
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It's perpetually disheartening how the majority of anarchists (and an even larger majority of the general populace) have fully bought into the framing of existing "post-covid" without really sitting with the fatalist ableism inherent to that framing.
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This continued use of "child" and "children" as insult is wild when I've seen literal teenagers exhibit a better understanding of police (and their violence) than whatever this "adult" bullshit is. The police are killing regardless of what happens at any of these protests.
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Until we hit the point where people are willing to intervene whenever cops put their hands on someone and shit burns relentlessly whenever cops kill we accept a world in which the violence in this story (a child being pinned to the ground and shot) is routine.
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6/28/2024: Very graphic case in NY State where Utica PD just murdered a 13-year-old Asian boy yesterday. Foot chase, 2 cops on top of him, third one point blank executed him. Cops claim they thought he had a gun. Story+bystander video linked below.
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The obsession orgs have with being able to "claim a victory" too often means quitting before actually pushing the situation to the point where any material effect is even possible. If a ship leaves port with weapons on board, even if fewer than desired, there is no victory.
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Local encampment updates:
The maoists have been accused of being anarchists for having sharing he "six lessons from previous occupations" infographic (which was apparently info counter to the decisions made in a "consensus process" this morning)
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On Guns
I expect discomfort and disagreement but these thoughts have been weighing heavily so they were put to words. I only ask you engage, though I hope you find some meaning in doing so, and I hope you share with others who may as well.
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And that's why the peace police are so insidious. Even more than their acute function as police in the context of specific protests, they actively prevent the generalization of skills of resistance. They defend resistance as spectacle, preventing its manifestation in daily life.
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All of this cultivates a protest "participant" who is little more than a passive observer, chanting what they're told, following the lead of others, unable to make decisions for themselves, intentionally prevented from developing the skills of risk assessment and taking action.
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Revolt generalizes or it dies. All police, all prisons, all border walls are mechanisms by which genocide is (re)produced, and therefore are worthwhile points of intervention for those who desire an end to this world of death machines. Solidarity has to mean localizing struggle.
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Stepping back from my cynicism for a second: One of the most worthwhile ways anarchists can interact with university organizing spaces is to offer off ramps from "student organizing" to more autonomous organizing through making genuine connections with folks there who want that.
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Rule of thumb is that it only takes about 10 seconds of blocking all lanes of a highway during rush hour for traffic to back up about a mile. You don't even need to hold space for hours to cause considerable disruption. Drop a banner, block for five minutes, head somewhere else.
JUST IN: Pro-Palestinian Protesters block highway and entrance to Chicago O'Hare International Airport..
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They repeat the myth that they offer "safety" as opposed to the "agitators" who invite the violence of police into the "community", which can only make sense if you have never actually taken an antagonistic posture (either by choice or by force) to police and their violence.
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Have little expectation of PSL, but if you would call someone a comrade and will stand in a crowd of hundreds just watching a handful of cops drag someone away you should be fucking embarrassed. For the hundredth fucking time: Don't Film, Act
Pepper spray deployed as police make arrests outside Union Station in DC
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Can't wait for PSL to claim that their massive waste of money, time, and energy was a huge success because the police arrested and pepper sprayed people. Stop telling everyone to go to DC and maybe actually confront the way your locale is part of genocidal machines.
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I can't stand crimethinc for a myriad of reasons I don't talk about on here, but their response to Aaron Bushnell's self immolation betrays a total lack of analysis of the stakes of the present moment, the anti-militarism content of his act, and death as part of autonomy.
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Saw one of the folks arrested the other night was Jeremy Hammond (for allegedly painting a circle-a on a cop car). Regardless of whether you feel anarchists should be at the DNC, dude's barely off parole (after years in prison) and still showing out which is pretty inspiring.
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I genuinely believe a lot of these encampments are sitting on a knifes edge of being very cool or incredibly boring/counterinsurgent.
But any encampment that fails to unsettle the framework of "student" as having a unique claim to campus antagonism/action is cooked.
Local encampment updates:
The maoists have been accused of being anarchists for having sharing he "six lessons from previous occupations" infographic (which was apparently info counter to the decisions made in a "consensus process" this morning)
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If you find affinity with the police of other countries rather than people with whom you may share a struggle for another way of living your project will never be revolutionary beyond changing who pulls the levers of the existent machines. Go write another thread glorifying work.
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At some point folks are going to have to realize that legality and morality are meaningless arguments in the face of state retaliation. The state will criminalize ANYTHING that actually undermines its incentives. If you are a threat they will put you in prison or kill you.
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They claim risk is something you can predetermine and visibly embody through a colored bandana which tells others if you'll run when the police tell you or that you'll bravely sit down and wait to be arrested. Risk is never contextual, bravery never contagious. Stick to your role
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Every week another fucking snuff film is released with directorial credit to xyz police department in Everytown USA. Solidarity with distant struggle means nothing if we cannot recognize the police here, in our own locales, as a vector of genocidal violence in and of themselves.
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I'm talking about the "what job do you want after the revolution" type of discussions. We're so constrained in what we are able to believe possible that even the fantasies of so called "radicals" reproduce the existent world.
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While I prefer the updated title "Expropriate, Use, Destroy" to this original title, I'm not looking forward to the uncritical swell of "everyone needs to get armed/join a leftist gun club" discourse so gonna throw this stick of dynamite back out there:
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There are a lot of pit falls to student organizing, most of which stem from the inability of students and those who support them to recognize the necessity of destroying the concept of "student as protected class" or better yet destroying the category of "student" altogether.
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If you turn your back to police in order to dictate to the crowd, you're more them than us and you'll get what's coming too.
At some point people need to recognize that conflict with police is not only unavoidable but necessary if anything is to meaningfully change.
@DallasAntiWar
APD prevented the march from turning right on 7th. Protest marshals quickly intervened to separate protesters from the quickly formed police line.
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Even if the cop was shot at first, who gives a fuck. It's total war on the police or it's nothing. Don't throw those risking the most under the bus so you can claim some abstract moral high ground.
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If the police are not present at your demonstration you must find a way to make use of that slack otherwise you've simply given them the night off with no cost. They need to suffer cost when they're present AND when they aren't.
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I find that "Are you an Anarchist" Graeber essay to be frustrating because it frames anarchy as an innate feeling/belief rather than an intentional way of existing/negating/building particular ways of relating. Its target audience is those who are almost certainly not anarchists.
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Anarchists (and apparently maoists) have been told that this encampment isn't "a place for people to experiment with their anarchist ideals just because they disagree with a decision made by group consensus",which, as far as I'm aware, is a paradox given what consensus means?
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Acting as though disclosure of university financial ties to Israel (explicit or through weapons manufacturers/etc) is an inherent step towards divestment is the same trap as believing more body cams will stop cops from killing.
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I just want to shake these people and ask "what the fuck do you think prison is?"
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Loudest voices doubled down on the importance of listening to "student organizers" who supposedly know this terrain much better than everyone else, even if some who disagree with them may also my students. Pure coincidence, those "student organizers" aren't keen on escalation.
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There is no anti-colonialism without being against the police, against courts and prisons, against borders. Any politic/person which claims to be anti-colonial but does not explicitly undermine state violence in totality is selling you something.
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Anarchists in the US need to get better at understanding prison not only as a system to be undermined, but as a focal point of conflict in and of itself. So many are already forced to understand this by being there, yet many on the outside only engage in the abstract.
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University students will call themselves the vanguard and chant for "Intifada, revolution" then say actions like wheat pasting and graffiti are "too risky" or "might draw blame on our organization" and I'm gonna lose my god damn mind.
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"The exhausted are exhausted because they sell the hours of their lives to survive their lives, then they use the hours they haven't sold to get their lives ready for selling, and the hours after that to do the same for others they love"
Anne Boyer, The Undying
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Design is not my strong suit but until something else comes along these get the point across . They were created for 8.5 x 11 so just put em in a doc and print.
Share with friends and get them to make something better.
If someone doesn't help me find one I will be compelled to design something and we will all regret that.
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With fall semesters getting going, this makes great decor to leave on any table in a dining hall, library, classroom, etc. If your university has a student paper it's also fun to stick zines in the the distribution boxes.
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It all goes or it all stays the same
It all goes or it all stays the same
It all goes or it all stays the same
It all goes or it all stays the same
It all goes or it all stays the same
It all goes or it all stays the same
It all goes or it all stays the same
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I know this probably doesn't seem important but if you've ever considered a tabling project (zine, poster, supplies, etc distro) I feel that now is a really great time to make that happen. Tabling publicly contributes to the refusal to cede visual space back to "normalcy".
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A difficult thing to navigate from the outside of student actions is that those taking part in militant action one moment can also be part of counterinsurgency the next. I guarantee some encampment organizers are flexing organizational authority to limit militancy of others.
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If an occupation is to die, make it burn. There must be a real, tangible cost for every person a cop dares to lay their hands on. Every attempted arrest needs to become more costly than the last. Every act of repression must incur risk, or they'll continue to do as they please.
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People positioning themselves as managers of revolt will claim that "actionable demands" are necessary for successful movements because they frame success in terms of the number of "victories" (however shallow) they can claim in order to bolster their image as a vanguard
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Mark your calendars and spread the word:
3rd annual WEEKEND OF DISTROING SHIT July 12th through the 14th.
Fire up your printers or scrape together spare change with your friends and run to your local library to print out a hefty stack of your favorite zines.
More info below!
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We're so back baby
Essay: Steal weapons from fascists and the state, use them towards libratory means, destroy them with the rest of commodity form
Leftist gun twitter: This is indistinguishable from liberal gun control
You're talking about rights and calling me the liberal?
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I strongly feel that it's worthwhile for (at least some) anarchists to prioritize projects that create "points of encounter" between people and manifestations of antagonism to the existent, to have projects that take up physical and visual space whenever and wherever we can.
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Some really great thoughts shared by folks at Durham Prison Letters that I highly recommend checking out and passing around, especially for folks newer to more autonomous action.
If anyone can help with alt text that'd be greatly appreciated
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I promise you, the cops who all quit their jobs in the wake of 2020 citing mental distress were not secretly hoping to get bowled over in a riot. You were just too busy trying to play at home detective to unmask "agitators" you missed the actual uprising.
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These brave police actually WANTED to get hit with a microwave so they could prove how strong they were. Believe it or not, when I cop takes a brick to the dome they're able to incorporate the brick into their physiology to become even stronger. They're just superhuman like that.
LA cops get hit with a... microwave?
Via @/chip_nooo lnstagram Live
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If you're interested in throwing up any of these (8.5 by 11) stickers in your town and can help cover shipping cost (even if only part), hit me up and I'll get you a stack as soon as I can. Even if you can't cover shipping hit me up and I'll try to fundraise to get them to you.
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As graduations approach, would be cool to see this wheatpasted in every university town. There is no path towards freedom, for Palestine or for anyone else, that does not run through the destruction of the police.
Life must be more than something to cling to. Act free, be free.
"We call for more actions to avenge Palestinians and the brutalized students at PSU and beyond! Let ten million cop cars burn!
-Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade"
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The nonchalance with which a judge is willing to send a person to a cage juxtaposed with the absolute shock at how said person may physically resist being sent to a cage should make clear what a judge is and why they should not know peace.
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I find it grating when those in the "US" speak as though we're in a current of never-before-seen militancy when we have yet to come anywhere near the level of open conflict with the existent world that many of us embodied four years ago. Stop claiming it as fact and MAKE IT TRUE.
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One of the biggest limits in organizing on/around college campuses is the inability of students to break with the idea of "student as protected class". Even otherwise radical people fall back into the language of safety, accompanied by making demands of campus admin/police.
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I don't give a shit about the corny-ness of the anarcho-brat flag when the police continue to kill daily, bombs continue to fall on Gaza, unhoused encampments continue to be swept with impunity and all these self described revolutionaries want is to play parade security.
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For those who desire the the end, full stop, of the death machines (rather than to be their new managers) we have to constantly agitate against these fucking grifters and against the management of revolt altogether. The summer hasn't even started and we have to make sure it does.
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A fixation on the need for "structure" in resistance, to me, betrays a reactive posture clinging to the desire for a prescriptive "path to revolution" the simply does not exist. This will always put you on the side of counterinsurgency when others push further than your comfort.
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There is no way I believe you actually experienced the fire of May/June 2020 (or its riotous reverberations) if you say shit like "cops are so brave and powerful and want you to fight back".
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Time is a flat circle and y'all are still calling the sabotage of weapons manufacturers "magical thinking" 9 months into a live-streamed genocide. Maybe the guns you have acquired could help you find a way to make that thinking a little less magical.
The Anarchist Anti-Gun Manifesto is circulating again. It’s worth taking a look at our response to the “expropriate, use, destroy” strategy, which is below. This strategy is magical thinking for the world we live in. And as always, defensive tools are necessary but not sufficient
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If you have the ability, now is definitely a moment where reportbacks from demos can be pretty important in helping folks elsewhere (and yourself) learn and move differently going forward. Between the friends of the IDF gala and the failure to block the boat, we need to learn.
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A big part of my memory of what motivated me during 2020 was the "sure your city's doing cool stuff but check this shit out" energy everywhere that kept us going out night after night looking for ways to expand antagonisms and push beyond our comfort zones. This feels like that.
Cal Poly Humboldt students have taken multiple buildings 🔥
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Anti-work continues to be the clearest litmus test for if someone desires simply to be the new manager of the slaughterhouse.
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My back hurts and I'm out of paper/ink but these should be on their way to NYC by this afternoon. Thanks to the folks who reached out willing to help pass em along.
Gonna restock supplies ASAP so if a spread like this would be useful for something happening near you, reach out!
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At the end of the day, the universities are "defended" by both their own (and surrounding) police so violently because they are so integral to the reproduction of this world of death machines. There is no path towards a life worth living the does not destroy the university.
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It feels important to note that the Memphis police chief, Davis, is the former chief of the Durham, NC PD. She was brought in after DPD murdered 17yo Chuy Huerta to signal a "shift in police culture". Her entire persona is built around being a "progressive" chief. Fuck this shit.
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Many major cities are struggling to recruit police (hence Atlanta PD doing recruiting events as far as NYC). Many of those who quit have specifically cited distress from the riots of 2020 and from experienced hostility . Maybe they're not afraid of YOU, fix that.
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Just got this via email. Always cool to see shit in the wild.
If you ever catch a poster or zine or anything I've worked on out in the world let me know (just do your best to wipe metadata of any photos)!
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I promise you, if a general strike materializes and moves beyond the realm of making demands for better wages towards an actual threat to capital, the union heads (no matter how radical their rhetoric) will be part of the counterinsurgency. Best to organize with this in mind.
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The false declarations of victory do nothing to dispense of the criticism that for many groups, this moment is nothing but an opportunity to cynically ramp up recruitment drives and build their visibility. "We" really do need to start calling for autonomous blocs at these demos.
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Feel like it's important to convey to younger folks that the blessed "st Paul principles" were an attempt at compromising with lib/lib-left factions within coalitions such that said factions didn't immediately throw militants to the cops.
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Settler colonialism isn't an act of a "rogue state". Genocide doesn't emerge out of nothing. We exist in daily life that constantly (re)produces the relations of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, state-formation to which genocidal violence is inherent.
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Was talking with a friend last night about how it has become the "correct" take in student organizing spaces to think police are "bad" but they don't HATE the police nearly enough to actually reckon with the necessity of their destruction. It's morality over analysis/desire.
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All jokes aside, in an era where the vast majority of us can't afford to hold down brick and mortar infoshops, I think tabling/distro projects are incredibly important to break the visual mundanity of daily life and offer physical spaces (however transient) for people to meet.
There should be at least one distro project for every 4.75 anarchists in a town/city. Trust me, I did the math. This is the golden ratio.
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I generally believe that most people, anarchists included, are deeply influenced by both media spectacle and the actions of those around them. So it isn't surprising when nearly all institutions of power seek to invisiblize covid that most people assume it is no longer a concern.
It's perpetually disheartening how the majority of anarchists (and an even larger majority of the general populace) have fully bought into the framing of existing "post-covid" without really sitting with the fatalist ableism inherent to that framing.
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At least the anarcho brat flag was carried by someone trying to break through to the actual fucking event people were claiming to want to disrupt. I'll take corny but willing to fight over whatever the fuck these yellow vests are every fucking day.
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Fuck anyone who dictates you can't die because you'd be depriving them of access to you. What an absolute horseshit framework.
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"Debord was a grown ass man in '68"
I remind myself while folding zines on the necessity of conflict with police and the destruction of the university at the request of "students" who will call me a provocateur as soon as those ideas are put into practice in their vicinity.
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