reading recommendations by the r/antiwork subreddit

"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