#OtD 16 Sep 1923 in Japan, Itō Noe and her lover Ōsugi Sakae, both worker activists, anarchists and free love advocates, were arrested by Tokyo police. They were beaten and strangled to death in their cells, then dumped in a well https://t.co/xL2Dyh2oSe
#OtD 16 Sep 1965 1200 mostly Mexican farm workers voted to join a strike of predominantly Filipine grape farm workers in Delano, California for the federal minimum wage. Holding out for five years, they eventually won https://t.co/de7kkeOZG5
#OtD 16 Sep 1874 (or 1873) Mexican anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón was born in an Indigenous Mazatec community in Oaxaca. He was one of the major thinkers of and activists in the Mexican revolution https://t.co/e8cFfZzsSl
It still bothers me that North American (A)s (at least the anglophone ones) are largely ignorant of the Mexican Revolution and anarchists' role in it. Highly recommend Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader.
In Alligator Alcatraz, detainees were being punished with something called “the box” an enclosed space in which they were shackled and left outdoors for hours, exposed to the heat and mosquitoes. There’s now a photos. Amnesty International determined this constituted torture.
Stg I am at the point to where I will probably write something called
The Conspiracy to Mediate Sociality Through Screens and Lenses: How Screens Attack Cognition and Attention and Lenses Criminalize and Spectacularize.
@EcoTechBro Does the division of people into intelligent/unintelligent, aware/unaware, educated/uneducated or skilled/unskilled necessitate the responsiblity to labor or teach others? For me personally the answer is yes but in an effort to flatten those divisions based on autonomy. 2/2
@EcoTechBro I agree. To me need satisfaction is imperative. Agency is complicated by disciplinarity, "intelligence", and the isms. For example, should workers continue to labor for what they are disciplined within and for, just because they have done it so long? 1/2
@EcoTechBro I agree. I can see an argument that the laborer is necessarily an exclusionary category because of the necessity to be disciplined in labor and how racism/ableism/patriarchy exclude populations of people that would be invested in revolution i.e. community. However I think 1/2
“Police and prison abolitionism emerged from the 2020 uprising” quite honestly where I stopped reading because not only is this not true (Jericho Movement has been around since at least the 90s) it also proves that this crakkker engages with the BRT out of fetishization
There are many things I appreciate and respect about BRRN when it comes to their organizing approach, but one understated aspect of their contribution to anarchism in the USA is their dedication to forming connections with anarchists all over the world, especially Latin America.