June 2012
11 posts
All Survivors Deserve Support: Activists Intervene... →
VANCOUVER - A small group of activists gathered at Second Beach in Stanley park Sunday to provide participants in Rape Relief’s Annual Walkathon with some alternative information highlighting the organization’s ongoing and outspoken exclusionary stance on trans women, sex workers, and substance use.
We had decided on maintaining a relatively low key presence at the event, recognizing that the...
The Work & Writing of Laurie Penny: Lie back and... →
penny-red:
The Jubilee is upon us. All hail the Hypnoqueen, who has certainly been alive for a very long time now. I don’t usually do links posts, but here’s a little topical no-not-that-sort-of-republican reading and viewing for you all before you head off to spend the double bank-holiday dressing your…
…and in typical Bank Holiday fashion, it’s pissing down. Not even a BBQ....
Chicago Factory Workers form Cooperative →
First, they occupied the factory to get their wages from the bosses that owned the machinery. Then, they occupied their factory to keep the second bosses from shutting down their machinery. And, now, they are on their way to owning and running the machinery.
The group of workers who occupied their Chicago factory in 2008 and again in 2012 incorporated a worker-run cooperative on May 30, 2012....
Socialist Assassin Pony: Talking about men's... →
anticapitalist:
letterstomycountry replied to your post: libertarians-and-stoya replied to your post:…
Gender stereotypes and the privileges they create affect men negatively as well: goodmenproject.com/ethi… You can frame it any way you want. But men need to engage this stuff as well.
I…
Still useful when arguing for feminism with a guy though. Typical response from a sexist guy would...
Maxine Holloway: PLEASE REPOST: New Kink.com... →
maxineholloway:
This past month a severe pay cut was given to the women who work at KinkLive.com. They needed to save money and they did it by taking it from the models. Instead of staying quiet and taking what they were willing to give us for our work - we united, stood up for ourselves and are taking…
Maxine - unionise, seriously. Best move - join the IWW. An injury to one is an...
Maxine Holloway: PLEASE REPOST: New Kink.com... →
maxineholloway:
This past month a severe pay cut was given to the women who work at KinkLive.com. They needed to save money and they did it by taking it from the models. Instead of staying quiet and taking what they were willing to give us for our work - we united, stood up for ourselves and are taking…
May 2012
25 posts
Mutualism sounds a lot like anarcho-capitalism to...
Not quite - it’s more like a pre-revolutionary anarchist response to Capitalism. Being realistic, and revolution being unlikely, mutualism gives ways to make fairly owned and run organisations. When there are enough powerful mutuals & cooperatives, able to do everything that a modern society deems necessary & so to not let such functions fall to corporations, when the change-over to...
A N T I F A ! (A): Communism and Syndicalism in... →
paintingarevolution:
So revolutionary anarchists have always advocated syndicalism (revolutionary working class struggle and organisation) as a tactic. Indeed, as part of my search I found a 1907 article by Kropotkin where he not only states that he considered the First International as syndicalist but also that…
C4SSdotORG: Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to... →
c4ss:
by Roderick T. Long
I want to talk about some of the main objections that have been given to libertarian anarchism and my attempts to answer them. But before I start giving objections and trying to answer them, there is no point in trying to answer objections to a view unless you have given some…
“Libertarian Anarchism” is redundant. I suspect you mean Capitalist...
“Those who perpetrated this atrocity must be identified and held to account, and...”
– Again, with no apparent sense of irony, Hillary Clinton condemns Syria massacre: Assad’s ‘rule by murder’ must end.
This is a random sampling of the last few months of the USG not ‘ruling by murder’ (honestly, it took a 3 minute search through my Instapaper).
NATO Airstrike Kills Six Afghan...
WikiLeaks: U.S. troops Handcuffed Children and... →
anticapitalist:
According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops willfully massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70′s and five children ages five and under.
McClatchy is reporting that the soldiers then called in an air strike on the house to cover up evidence of the killings.
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how to break out of a kettle →
Please reblog, share, tweet etc. Essential tactics.
Antisocial socialist: sciamachy replied to your... →
antisocial-socialist:
sciamachy replied to your post: Is it just me or is it disturbing that in a…
Yeah, I did kinda wonder how you could have superheroes in an anarchist society, & how you get round having extra abilities to preserve a non-hierarchical structure.
It wasn’t that (even though that’s…
Good point - I’d forgotten that bit.
Mandated paid maternity leave in countries around... →
lacigreen:
atheistme:
stfuconservatives:
other-stuff:
Afghanistan 90 days Algeria 14 weeks Angola 90 days Argentina 90 days Australia None Austria 16 weeks Bahamas, The 8 weeks Bahrain 45 days Bangladesh 12 weeks Barbados 12 weeks Belarus 126 days Belgium 15 weeks Belize 12 weeks Benin 14 weeks Bolivia 60 days Botswana 12 weeks Brazil 120 days Bulgaria 120-180 days Burkina Faso 14 weeks...
This is an anti catapultist blog.
domesticterrorism:
I do not like catapultism. I think that the concentrated accumulation of catapult is the cause of much of our society’s woes.
I’d quite like to catapult some capitalists. Can we have a trebuchet for the Tories after the revolution? See how far you can fling them into the Thames…
“Advice for young feminists? Do something else besides feminism. I’m serious. The...”
– Latoya Peterson (Source) (via andcouldheplayblog)
this is the quote I mentioned in my earlier work-thoughts dump. at least i think it is.
(via nom-chompsky)
apply your feminism in a different space
rinse & repeat
(via brazenbitch)
You're in a room with Hitler, Stalin and Mao...
antisocial-socialist:
and you only have a gun with two bullets, what do you do?
Shoot Mao and Hitler and beat Stalin to death with the gun.
Have them stand in a line & double-tap them all together. If the gun’s a decent caliber like a .45 it’ll rip a hole through all three.
April 2012
21 posts
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull)
4 tags
Kettle Police Powers →
A conference to explore the impact of police powers on protest and communities. Are we seeing Total Policing or a Total Lockdown? The Netpol ‘Kettling Police Powers’ conference brings together activists, lawyers and others working at the sharp end of challenging unlawful, violent, racist or excessive policing, to look at the concept of Total Policing – the London-based policing initiative with an...
call it quits or get a grip.: Dear Fellow White... →
angrywomenoftumblr:
We need to have a talk. Again. About privilege, about racism, and about a collective effort to get our heads out of our asses when it comes to these issues.
Here’s the thing—I’ve had this conversation with other white people (mostly men) a number of times. It gets…
My only problem is the choice of word “privilege”, as though it’s not a right. When...
How to Be a Reverse Racist
lacigreen:
bookishboi:
genuineeee:
curiouslycool:
mylesbiansensesaretingling:
Be not white
Discuss racism
~reverse racist 5ever~
team reverse racist 5evaaa
i’ve learned you can’t ever have a discussion about racism and prejudice without white people hollering about “reverse racism”….
Racism is racism. Judging a person because of their race or ethnic background is racism. If...
Let the Truth Encircle You: Petition against the... →
dailymurf:
“We call on the London bus company that has been booked to carry an advertising campaign (starting Monday 16th April) which asserts the power of therapy to change the sexual orientation of gay people to be dropped immediately. The adverts - which read “gay! Post-gay, ex-gay and…
Post-gay: you’re turned on by the mailman?
