"Ultimately, we cannot blame the Democrats for everything. We are the ones who failed to build movements powerful enough to survive their efforts to suppress us. We are the ones who are as yet unprepared to stop Trump from deporting millions of people and channeling billions of dollars more to billionaires and the security apparatus of the state."
"It’s senseless to have police randomly shooting people to enforce a $2.90 fare. The subways should be free, as they chiefly serve to put working-class people at the disposal of capitalist profiteers in the first place"
"Occupy Homes or Occupy Our Homes is part of the Occupy movement which attempts to prevent the foreclosure of people's homes. Protesters delay foreclosures by camping out on the foreclosed property. They also stage protests at the banks responsible for the ongoing foreclosure crisis, sometimes blocking their entrances."
"The Occupy movement was an international populist socio-political movement that expressed opposition to social and economic inequality and to the perceived lack of real democracy around the world...
The first Occupy protest to receive widespread attention, Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park, Lower Manhattan, began on 17 September 2011. By 9 October, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 951 cities across 82 countries, and in over 600 communities in the United States."
This is a good, concise history of the legal attempts to keep anarchists out of the USA and the beginnings of the Free Speech movement that formed to defend them.
Julia Rose Kraut also has a full length book that I'd like to read called "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States"
"These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again."
(On Eden Ahbez's "Nature Boy")
Zoe Baker traces historical meanings of the word proletariat and it uses by 19th century socialists.
A recording of Zoe reading the essay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxpfpXF_es
Today I learned that Shepard Fairey designed the Soviet-style Mozilla poster/mascot.
"So that was the time that I somehow convinced a multi-billion dollar corporation to give away the source code to their flagship product and re-brand it using propaganda art by the world's most notorious graffiti artist." -jwz
"Jesse Stewart survived from ad revenues on YouTube, but fame came at a cost"
"From Soapy Smith in the 1880s to James Hogue in the 2020s, scammers are a staple of Colorado."
"Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. A teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization."
"In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss."
"Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation does not collect these data."
I thought it could be interesting to discuss some what-ifs, trying to imagine what the future of technology will look like in the face of this strong global anti-democratic trend. What technologies will we all be asked to make and what concessions will be forced upon us?
"The Uihleins have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most extreme right-wing politicians and movements in the United States."
Crypto For The Homeless is a non-profit that uses cryptocurrency to reimburse volunteers who deliver supplies and food to homeless and houseless humans around the world.
Listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sfnwFV92XY
"This form of Christianity with no justice and no compassion must be rejected. It’s not worth preserving and it is not liberative, prophetic, and Christ-centered to emancipate Black people and people of color in this nation. Its basic premise is the denial of Black humanity and dignity, and Black rights and future possibilities in this society."
"Dolge is an anarchist, an atheist and a communist." – Judge Hardin
Somehow I have never heard of Alfred Dolge -- an inventor of musical instruments and an industrial-socialist who built a utopian town in New York around a felt factory. This audio program by Dave Hilowitz tells the story of the the rise and fall of Dolgeville.
I didn't listen to this whole thing (almost 6 hours!) but it seems comprehensive!
Here's a link to my own AT hike in 2011/2012:
https://mretc.net/~cris/AT2011/
Good 2018 talk by Cory Doctorow on the impossibility of crypto-anarchy (or at least of crypto-anarchy alone).
This is the article where I first learned about Kurt Steiner
"I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept under their desk. If you look at a list of financially successful people from the software industry, I'll bet you get a very different view of what kind of sleep habits and office hours are successful than the one presented here."
I met this guy on my 2013 Colorado Trail thru hike when he was doing a section he skipped. He also has a good journal of his Northville-Placid Trail thru hike (https://trailjournals.com/journal/entry/477698)
"Over 40 people delayed the sweeping of a South Dallas homeless encampment on Friday morning, blocking off the camp with their bodies and cars. Some were armed with rifles."
"We are abolitionists fighting for the rights of unhoused people through mutual aid and direct action."
an essay on nostalgia
On the JIS ghost characters
video essay comparing EZLN to anarchist thought of Magon.
good guys FIF
I found this helpful for an aran sweater I'm about to start
For almost 40 years Ken Smith has shunned conventional life and lived without electricity or running water in a hand-made log cabin on the banks of a remote loch in the Scottish Highlands.
This blogger took a tour of the ecovillage founded by Gabriel of Urantia (who I've written about previously: https://americancynic.net/log/2012/6/7/gabriel_of_urantia/). It looks pretty nice.
An interview with the Russian anarchists who run antijob.net