[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, toots … you name it]
[Videos]
It’s Revolution or Death – Part 1 : Short Term Investments [kolektiva.media] – “Just in time for the COP29 summit, where a group of self-congratulatory world leaders will meet in Baku, Azerbaijan for photo-ops, catered meals, and of course discussion of climate goals that they don’t intend to meet, subMedia, in collaboration with Peter Gelderloos, is pleased to release part one of a three part series: It’s Revolution or Death.” – Narrated by Peter Gelderloos.
The Redefining of Antisemitism | Gianmarco Soresi – Nails it.
[Music]
Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy – Whenever there is a sign of activity, after so many years of silence, all BoC fans get giddy in anticipation what it might mean, me included.
[Podcasts]
The Great Barrington Cabinet Versus the Administrative State [death panel] – “Beatrice and Artie discuss the impact that some of Trump’s most recent picks to lead major federal agencies will have on the state of welfare programs and healthcare in the US, and why the whole slate of names should be raising as much alarm as Trump’s pick of RFK. We walk through how Dr. Oz stands to personally benefit from privatizing Medicare, what anti-vaxxer Dave Weldon could easily do as head of the CDC, why Jay Bhattacharya at NIH and Marty Makary at FDA could harm the future of long covid research, and more.” Beatrice and Artie sorting through the clown car of health nominations of the incoming 🤮 administration.
Abortion Beyond The State (with Jex Blackmore, ACAB24) [final straw] – “This week, we’re sharing a presentation entitled “Abortion Beyond The State” by Jex Blackmore and Hydra Mutual Aid Fund, recorded at the 2024 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC.” If the bleeps get on your nerves, here’s a version without any.
Out-Organizing Antisemitism with Ben Lorber and Shane Burley [the final straw] – “A recent conversation we had with the Ben Lorber and Shane Burley, co-authors of the recently published book, Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. For the hour we discuss the roots of antisemitism in the West, pushing back on Zionism in the midst of the genocidal war on Palestinians, a rebirth of Bundism and addressing antisemitism in left spaces.” I recently read their book, Safety Through Solidarity, and i can recommend it.
George Gilder and the Birth of Right-Wing Silicon Valley [in bed with the right] – “Stanford researcher Becca Lewis talks Moira and Adrian through the life and influence of George Gilder, who started out as a standard anti-feminist and then reinvented himself as an evangelist for Silicon Valley, supply-side economics … and also anti-feminism.” Gilder often gets forgotten when we talk about the right-wing bent of all these tech assholes.
[Toot Threads]
[Pandemic Roundup]
Pandemic Roundup: November 28, 2024
Pandemic Roundup: November 21, 2024
Pandemic Roundup: November 14, 2024
Pandemic Roundup: November 7, 2024
Thanks to Violet for her tireless efforts in COVID communication. If you can, support their work on Patreon. Their book The Covid Sanity Handbook is out now. Reading it atm and it’s fantastic. Order it anywhere.
[The Must Read[s] This Month]
The Second Trump Administration: Medicaid, Austerity, and the Fight for Survival Beyond the State | Beatrice Adler-Bolton [substack] – “The state is not a benevolent entity that will save us out of the goodness of its heart—it is not an empathetic being but a system designed to chew up the vulnerable and spit us out. And if we are to survive the coming onslaught of the state’s war on the poor, we need to build the power we need together, outside of state structures, to sustain our survival and work towards liberation. Instead of directing our limited energy and capacity toward a state apparatus built to exclude, we must organize outside and against it.” The state was always headed in this direction, so far in incremental steps, whereas now it might turn into an avalanche. I so hope that now we can focus our work on building robust, sustained and sustainable mutual aid and communal care networks. The absurdity is that the right-wing libertarians who want to dismantle the state, obviously for eugenic, white supremacist, capitalist reasons, actually count on our self-organizational efforts and skills. That part is not new. But this time our aim will hopefully take a more big picture view. Let us create these intersectional networks as a pre-figurative praxis, with the long term aim of building a federated, feminist, inclusive and horizontal (and i am sure there are more attributes) world, that we know can exist.
Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism [igd] – “As Christofascism takes the reins of US power, thereby impacting the whole of this continent and the globe, it should be abundantly clear at this point that appealing to the state—any state—is a losing strategy. The world had already lost when the “choice” this November was between two versions of fascism. We offer up this sampler of ideas, encouraging you to think and act for yourselves, with each other, as precisely the only winning strategy.” I love this list, but in more general terms, we see a lot of these at the moment, and for me they are jumping ahead. It is still the time to feel the rage and grief before getting all up on the moral high ground again.
Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID [the sick times] – “For those of us with severe Long COVID, exclusion from live music represents a profound loss of humanity. This disconnection feeds into my daily despair; in medical terms, my depersonalization/derealization. Having hoped this crisis would push us closer to communism than complacency, I feel whiplash, what Naomi Klein calls “political vertigo.” Millions of Americans with Long COVID have disappeared from the workforce. Data on the underground music scene are unavailable. It’s hard to count ghosts. I’ve wanted to ask: Have you noticed that some of us are gone? Do you ever miss us?” This text speaks to me in such a profound way, that i could have picked any number of quotes. But this particular excerpt has made me cry. Do my activist friends even notice that i am no longer there, do they ever miss me? And sadly i do know the answer. It’s hard no. And that almost kills me. Discarded because old and now also sick.
Let’s Get Started | Vicky Osterweil [substack] – “Once again for the kids in the back: You’ve already done autonomous organizing. The thing is, organizing is simple. A lot of it is easy. It’s often really fun. Organizing is getting together with other people to do something cool you all want to do. That’s it. It’s one of the most basic, everyday things we do in our lives. Gathering people together to complete a project. Everything that scales out or gets more complicated or becomes conflictual from there emerges from the process, as we confront problems, barriers or questions that come up as we move forward doing the thing.” Similar to above, sure, yes, totally, we now will need to start organizing. But don’t jump feeling them emotions.
[Articles English]
The far right grows through “disaster fantasies” [pluralistic] – “Prepping is what happens when you are consumed by the fantasy of a terrible omnicrisis that you can solve, personally. It’s an individualistic fantasy, and that makes it inherently neoliberal. Neoliberalism’s mind-zap is to convince us all that our only role in society is as an individual (“There is no such thing as society” – M. Thatcher). If we have a workplace problem, we must bargain with our bosses, and if we lose, our choices are to quit or eat shit. Under no circumstances should we solve labor disputes through a union, especially not one that wins strong legal protections for workers and then holds the government’s feet to the fire.” I have many critiques of prepping, this is a good summary.
About the Film [chronically radical – disabled and political] – “A voyage to different spaces of disability resistance and activism. How can we as disabled people struggle for a good life for everyone? The film accompanies politically engaged chronically ill, d/Deaf, neurodivergent, disabled… people, and invites us to join the struggle. Our protagonists fight for many different causes, and resist exclusion in broader society as well as in political movements.” The first showing has a great mask policy etc. but it’s in Cologne and not hybrid. But they promised that they will soon stream the documentary online, or in a hybrid setting. Can’t wait.
Masks Off | Jess McAllen [baffler] – “The reality is that I’m a black, disabled person, wearing a mask in public. I’ve always been marked, they told me. I feel like this is maybe the first time that white people are fearful of being criminalized for something.” One of the problems with mask bans—even with concessions—is that it puts an awful lot of trust in those enforcing the bans not to abuse their power.” The only thing you can trust is that cops will use mask band to further discriminate against black, poc, trans, lgbt, left-wing activists etc.
Five Years On: A Covid Retrospective | Nate Bear [substack] – “What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that no-strings cash payments saw child poverty in America plunge to record lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that found homes for people sleeping on the street. We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity, that the reflection demanded by a pandemic opened up spaces for us to consider truly radical and permanent change. Remember build back better? There really was a sense that the coronavirus, as we all knew it then, could be the catalyst for a better word. It couldn’t last because of capitalism.” There was a moment back then that held a lot of promise. But then we lost the disinformation battle and anarchists failed to lead by example.
The Case for Resistance : What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight [crimethinc] – “All of us would probably rather be doing something other than scrambling to prevent fascism from taking hold. We need to find ways to keep this work interesting to us and to everyone else who will have to do it—ways to keep our spirits up and to develop the kind of character that will sustain us through periods of hardship. Try to organize a concrete victory early on, however small.” Yes, sure, but don’t forget the rage.
A feminist utopianism [substack] – “In the aftermath, historically, of moments of radical possibility, we see time and time again a retrenchment and a re-alignment of binary sex opposition. We see a re-assertion of gender primacy—the rather false, unnecessary notion that some radical feminisms have taken up in the past, that the primary division or contradiction in human populations is gender. Which I just reject, completely.” This is a helpful interview with Sophie Lewis about among other topics the anti-trans roots of the 4B movement.
Francesca Albanese: This Is Genocide [jacobin] – “This is why I say that this is a genocide that is being conducted not just because of ideological hatred transformed into a political doctrine, as has happened through the dehumanization of “the other” in other genocides; this genocide has been committed because of the land, for the land. Israel wants the land without the Palestinians. And for the Palestinians, staying on the land is part of who they are as a people. This is why I call it genocide as colonial erasure.” ✊
Declining Birth Rates Are a Good Thing, Actually | Antonio Melonio [substack] – “It’s no wonder fewer people are choosing to have children. And instead of lamenting this trend, we should embrace it as a sign of progress — a sign that humanity is finally confronting the limits of its own existence. A primal biological reaction to worsening external factors perhaps? The more educated a populace, the fewer children they have — oh, why could that be?” I find it impressive how Antonio argues here, without falling into the obvious trap. To blame overpopulation for our problems has long been the domain of ecofascism. But the relevant questions raised here show how that line is starting to shift. Whereas the fascists now verged towards birtherism, longtermism, whateverism, or however else they call their cooky, speculative theories. Which has resulted in men like Musk approaching women at parties with the “pick up”-line “do you want me to inseminate you?” or that russian telegram dude bragging that he has fathered over 100 children. Longtermism is a perverted doomsday cult, screaming “apres nous le deluge”, while dressing up as a somehow noble philosophical stance. In reality the only purpose it serves is to relieve rich assholes from the actual blame and the responsibility they do have, to address the existing social and economic problems. But instead they take this “long view”, to settle on mars etc pp. blah blah, in order to justify to themselves how filthy rich they have become.
Where Do We Find Power? | Starhawk [substack] – “Together with others, we can use our solidarity to build the resistance, and refuse to cooperate with repression. Timothy Snyder, expert on the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, says “Do not obey in advance”. It’s easy to be intimidated by the sheer force of power-over, but when we resist, we often find that power is not as absolute as it appears. There are many ways we can slow the onslaught.” Yes yes, kumbaya and all that, but don’t forget the rage.
Hu huh, huh, hhhh, let that sink in.. huh huhhh hhh – “Dammit Butthead, where is everyone? you said X was the place to be.” Best meme re: so-called “US” elections.
The Mushroom Color Atlas [ditto] – “The Mushroom Color Atlas is a resource and reference for everyone curious about mushrooms and the beautiful and subtle colors derived from dyeing with mushrooms. But it is also the start of a journey and a point of departure, introducing you to the kaleidoscopic fungi kingdom and our connection to it.” 🍄
October 2024 Global Climate Report [ncei] – “October 2024 was the second warmest October on record for the globe in NOAA’s 175-year record. The October global surface temperature was 1.32°C (2.38°F) above the 20th-century average of 14.0°C (57.2°F). This is 0.05°C (0.09°F) less than the record warm October of 2023. October 2024 marked the 48th consecutive October with global temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th-century average. The global land-only October temperature was the warmest on record at 2.18°C (3.92°F) above average, 0.03°C (0.05°F) warmer than the previous record set in 2023.” Hrmph is this still fine gulp.
Our Best Option for Defending Ourselves From Trump’s Second Term Is Each Other [truthout] – “Now is the moment to turn toward the most solid thing we actually have — each other. Can you imagine hundreds or thousands of people showing up to physically prevent evictions, like the flying squadrons, sometimes called “black bugs,” that protected 77,000 households in New York City in the early 1930’s through direct action? Can you imagine if we could free our people from jails and prisons, rather than begging for their captors to let them out? (I am especially thinking about this after North Carolina failed to evacuate prisoners during Hurricane Helene.) Can you imagine if we made and distributed our own medicines — including hormones for trans people, abortion drugs, insulin and antibiotics — so that we weren’t dependent on systems that stigmatize, criminalize and profit off our health needs? Can you imagine if blocking highways and deportation buses, shutting down airports, stopping police sweeps of homeless encampments, stopping ICE raids, and shutting down arms manufacturers were not things we just did for a number of hours, but as commitments over a lifetime? To succeed, we need way more people to show up to take these courageous actions. In the meantime, every attempt at bold action is a useful training ground as we develop these tactics and bring new people into the struggle.” Dean Spade appeals to our power of imagination. Never wrong, but don’t forget the rage.
The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests [wired] – “Due to doxxing, those who advocate for Palestinian freedom have been fired from their jobs and even received threats to their safety,” Kunins-Berkowitz said. “People should have the right to cover their faces, be it for religious purposes or to protect themselves from illness.” This article has its flaws, but it is quite a relief to read this in wired.
Health Communism: A Reading Guide (Part One, Introduction) [blindarchive] – “There is a guide for each chapter, once they are all posted here on Blind Archive, I will release the full guide as a PDF. Each chapter guide contains four parts, a summary, a section breaking down a few key ideas and themes from the chapter in more depth, a concluding reflection, and, finally, a section with discussion questions / writing prompts followed by definitions of key terms from the chapter. This can be used for individual or group study, and can be read before or after reading the chapter.” The book Health Communism is a must-read. It now will come with a Reading Guide.
DeFlock – ALPR Database – “Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are cameras that capture images of all passing license plates, storing details like the car’s location, date, and time. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.” Map showing a shocking amount of license plate readers in certain areas.
On Being Loudly, Publicly Wrong | Vicky Osterweil [acab] – “We are going to have to move, to organize, to take care of one another, to act against the fascism that is and has been already here, not just because we’ll lose if we don’t, but because regardless of what happens, for those of us who survive, that fighting will have been the best antidote for despair.” I admit, when i read Vicky being so very wrong in said article, it gave me some hope, and hope can be a good or a bad thing.
The Rape Culture Election [in these times] – “It’s no coincidence that the same party stripping women’s ownership of our bodies supports a rapist; bodily autonomy includes the right to refuse sex just as much as it does the right to make health-care decisions about our own wombs. It’s part of the same struggle, and the refutation of that struggle is part of the same vile assertion of possession. You don’t own your body; they do; your body, their choice.” That’s one of the many messages that are so fucked up, Trump winning is a victory for rape culture. I am so glad to no longer live in the so-called “US”.
How to Organize an Assembly : Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism [crimethinc] – “There are times when people who have kept to themselves, counting on politicians and specialists to solve their problems, suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. Perhaps a hurricane has just torn through the state, or a demagogue has just won reelection on an explicitly fascist electoral platform. For many people, this is one of those moments right now. But how do we connect with them—or at least connect them with each other? One answer is to host an open assembly.” A guide for our times. Now let’s start a neighborhood assembly. (But no one has time for it, because of their bullshit jobs and having to pay off rent and their debts)
The Story of Sakinah Ahad Shannon, an Early Hero of Abortion Liberation [the nation] – “During its four years as an underground provider, the Abortion Counseling Service provided roughly 3,000 abortions annually. It comprised an ever-changing number of 20 to 25 volunteers and some paid workers. The Service originally connected people seeking abortions with real doctors, and some men who claimed to be doctors who could do the procedures, but later the women of Jane learned to do the procedures as a way to ensure that they could care for more women and provide holistic, educational experiences.” One of the Jane Collective heroes.
‘We need Psychologists… but please don’t psychologise Long Covid’ [bps] – “As a therapist, I want to stress that LC has a clear physiological basis, requiring medical input and much more research to begin to address the physical basis of this condition. However, I do think that therapy practitioners have a role in assisting LC patients in coming to terms with the grief and anger they may be feeling as a result not only of developing LC, but also due to the lack of an adequate response to the pandemic which has resulted in lack of appropriate treatments.” I wish i had a doctor or even therapist like this person. But they don’t seem to exist here. Or do they?
Never Again Means Never Again [dnamerch] – “All income generated via the sale of items from this collection (after production costs) will be donated to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate via the ‘International Safety Fund’ of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). Additional information can be found here and here. The IFJ is the global umbrella union for workers in the news and media sector.” I am not a huge fan of the design, but great cause.
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism [open culture] – “1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
7. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.” Check 14 times. It’s back.
A Little Help for the Non-Voter | Peter Gelderloos [substack] – “Whether we are voting or not, we know that we keep us safe. We know that the only way to guarantee access to abortions, hormones, and gender affirming care is to organize it ourselves, whether its legally or illegally. We know that the only way to keep ourselves safe from white supremacists and transphobes, whether they’re wearing badges or hoods, is to arm ourselves, to train, to understand operational security, and to learn surveillance and countersurveillance. We know that the most effective responses to so-called natural disasters come not from the government nor from humanitarian agencies but from our neighbors and from total strangers practicing mutual aid; that to become even more resilient for the next disaster, the best strategy isn’t some political party, it’s building up stashes of food, water, first aid, and tools, establishing relationships of solidarity globally and in our neighborhoods, and planning for collective survival.” I am not sure man, i think i would have voted, because sometimes it is about harm reduction. But his logic is coherent.
Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals [propublica] – “In states with abortion bans, such patients are sometimes bounced between hospitals like “hot potatoes,” with health care providers reluctant to participate in treatment that could attract a prosecutor, doctors told ProPublica. In some cases, medical teams are wasting precious time debating legalities and creating documentation, preparing for the possibility that they’ll need to explain their actions to a jury and judge.” We will hear about so many more cases like this one.
[Articles German/French]
Covid et Sida : mutualiser les luttes pour la santé publique [renversé] – “Si comparaison n’est pas raison, le fait de souligner les points de convergence entre Sida et Covid permet de retenir l’importance d’une lutte communautaire contre la hiérarchisation des vies, pour la défense d’une santé publique préventive, orientée patient·es/soins, et en faveur d’une médecine fondée sur des preuves scientifiquement produites et validées. Les deux luttes démontrent amplement qu’il faut sortir de la représentation de la santé comme un capital individuel à préserver, seul·e, et la penser comme une interdépendance qui nécessite une attention collective. Comme l’a dit Gwen Fauchois, militante de l’autodéfense sanitaire et ex vice-présidente d’Act Up Paris, lors d’une conférence en septembre 2024 : « La base, c’est que ni les institutions de pouvoir, ni les oppositions ne répondront à nos exigences sans y être obligées. La base, c’est que sans auto-organisation populaire des concerné·es, nous confions à l’État la définition des politiques de soin. Et que celui-ci développe un capitalisme sanitaire quand nous voulons une politique de production de soin. » La santé de chacun·e est la santé de toustes.” A nuanced look at the comparison between COVID and AIDS, where it is problematic and in what aspect it can be helpful.
Vergewaltigungsprozess in Frankreich: «Die Scham muss die Seite wechseln» [woz] – “Der Prozess um Gisèle Pelicot hat Frankreich aufgewühlt. Ihr Mut wird ins kollektive Gedächtnis des Landes eingehen – und könnte strafrechtliche Reformen vorantreiben.” Shame needs to change sides.
US-Wahlen: Medienherrschaft der Techmilliardäre [woz] – “Das ungefilterte und unkontrollierte Selfpublishing, von Facebook über Substack bis zu den monetarisierten Posts auf X, entspringt den Grundprämissen des Silicon Valley. Dieses hat dadurch auch den Verfall der Medien mit nationaler Ausstrahlung stark beschleunigt. Viele der etablierten Medien, an denen sich Musk in seinen Posts über die «legacy media» abarbeitet, gehören längst seinen Mitmilliardären, die diesen Herbst mit einer ähnlichen Schamlosigkeit wie Musk den Daumen auf die Waage drückten. Die US-Amerikaner:innen leben in einem Informationssystem, das diese wenigen Megareichen für sie geschaffen haben.” Adrian Daub! Enough said.
Hinter der Gewalt [54books] – “Das Konzept von sichereren Orten oder Safe Spaces ist natürlich Quatsch. Als könnten trans Menschen nicht transfeindlich sein. Als wäre meine eigene internalisierte Transmisogynie nicht auch schon anderen transweiblichen Personen entgegengeschlagen. Als würden diese sichereren Orte überhaupt allen Menschen offenstehen, die sie dringend brauchen. Meistens sind die sogenannten Safe Spaces vor allem weiß und akademisch, in den seltensten Fällen sehe ich dort Menschen, die arm oder obdachlos sind, die Sexarbeit machen oder sich keinen Cocktail für 10€ leisten können.” This person was violently attacked on the street and reflects on it with a lot of nuance.
„Auf den Bäumen um zu Träumen“: Geschichten aus dem Danni [wald statt asphalt – “In „Auf den Bäumen um zu träumen“ tauchen wir ein in die faszinierende Welt des Dannenröder Waldes, wo Menschen, die tief mit der Natur verbunden sind, ihre Liebe zum Wald und ihre Entschlossenheit zum Widerstand gegen die Zerstörung zeigen. Durch lebendige Erzählungen und bewegende persönliche Geschichten erleben wir den Kampf gegen den Bau der A49, die Besetzung des Waldes und die Kraft des Zusammenhalts. Mit Humor, Emotion und Klarheit schildern die Autor*innen das Leben in den Baumhausdörfern, den Widerstand gegen die Räumung und den nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung. Der Wald lebt – in ihren Geschichten und in uns allen!” Solidarity with the occupiers.
[Older articles, still great]
How to be hopeless | Carlos Maza – The video essay became so relevant again.
Dada: The Original Art Rebels documentary (2016) – If you need a good laugh.
Veganism: Why Not [the anarchist library] – “The almost systematic presence of misinformation in specifically vegan circles indicates a religious quality to veganism. Many vegans consistenly formulate their lifestyle as part of a dedicated struggle for liberation, but those who are exempt from the critique of dogmatism should still be asked why they choose to create common ground with those vegans who are moralistic and manipulative.” I wonder how many people, who rip into Peter Gelderloos for not being a vegan, have actually read this fantastic article.
The Movement We Need | Starhawk [substack] – “The right wing, in contrast, has been growing so swiftly and successfully in recent years, in part because it accepts and affirms people’s worst impulses. They say it’s fine to be racist, sexist, to say the unsayable, think the unthinkable. They give full range to greed, resentment, anger, blame: all of those emotions that most religious and social movements have for centuries been trying to get people to transcend. To put it crudely, I might say that the right makes bad people feel good about themselves, while the left is skilled at making good people feel bad about themselves. Or, to put it in a bit more hopeful framework, we might say there are no good people or bad people: there are only people, with good and bad impulses. But the right makes people feel good about their worst impulses, while the left often makes people feel inadequate and bad about even their best impulses and acts.” Starhawk is publishing her latest book on her substack. This is chapter one of five so far.
R.I.P.
And too many in Libanon, Gaza, Ukraine and all the other wars.
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