We understand that right now many socialists feel despair. That's what Keir Starmer & his anti-democratic cabal want.
But the politics of nihilism brings us nowhere. Our focus should always be on building socialist institutions & organisations - the collective.
Witnesses 2 yesterdays RCMP raid on Gidimt’en camp,like Forest pictured here, say RCMP swooped in w the search warrant. Forest says he saw an RCMP punch a male land defender in head when he couldn’t get cuffs on him. Warrant 4 a petty crime RCMP have no proof land defenders did.
@thisisamistak19 i completely disagree. communal sovereignty (from the state) depends on individual sovereignty (freedom? the basis of anarchism). centering changing peoples minds takes energy away from actually creating change/resisting the state’s hegemony.
@thisisamistak19 i’m not saying not to critique hierarchy. you can organize communal sovereignty without identifying as an anarchist. organizing your community isn’t an abstract ideal it’s a material process to improve peoples lives. you can act against authority without identifying as anarchist
The cops need to get the fuck off the yintah and get the fuck out of the DTES. We are paying for the displacement of sovereign Indigenous people and our unhoused neighbours with our tax dollars while simultaneously being told necessary solutions are too expensive or unreasonable.
We should talk more about creating ad-hoc, secure, and highly mobile communication networks where we can still share information while bypassing these draconian measures. It's not just TikTok, but any sites the US government deems a threat.
🚨🧵"The smell out here is choking the sh*t out of me," Kalamazoo MI resident says while HACKING LUNGS OUT from toxic gas coming out of Graphic Packaging paper mill. GPI has polluted this poor, Black neighborhood for YEARS. MI has stonewalled residents & hit GPI w/ fines.
THREAD. Many progressives are not paying enough attention to what is happening with Cop City in Atlanta. The level of state violence against local people organizing to protect an essential forest from becoming a training center for militarized cops is escalating.