Anarchistic Pendulum

World awakening - communities uniting - people taking action

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Pipes: editing 'Copy of Vastapalloon'

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Pipes: editing 'Copy of Vastapalloon'

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Pipes: editing 'Copy of Vastapalloon'

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Tunisia 2011 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E3BAABDD141EAA1B

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Postmodern insecurity always looking inward...instead of pills we need more connection. http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/93/exporting-our-mental-illnesses.html

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humdictators:

know your enemy

“If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery” - Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

for more information about Bakunin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin

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END:CIV examines our culture's addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: "If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?" Backed by Jensen's narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen's poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.

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Growth economy is insane and abusive

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Fighting is important, but really the ideas are more important. To have the streets is important, but to do that you must glue the streets with posters, to give the people your papers, and to explain to them what you believe. The last step is fighting the cops. You need all of that—the ideas, the effort, the organizing—to win the streets, not just the stones. It's psychologically easy to fight the cops. You just throw stones, then run away. It's easy to be a macho guy, but you can beat the baby, or you can teach it.

Violence is a Small River: To be with Society is an Ocean. | defenestrator

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“Yes, we are very good fighters,” Vaggelis said, “but we don't have the ways to run society. We have no structure to offer. The truth is, if we want to have these structures we must build them with society, which knows how to produce, how to distribute the things she needs. Together we must plan the society we all want. We can't isolate ourselves.

Violence is a Small River: To be with Society is an Ocean. | defenestrator

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Since the development of relationships of affinity is itself a reflection of our aims as anarchists and since it is intended to create a deep and ever-expanding knowledge of one another, it cannot simply be left to chance. We need to intentionally create the opportunity for encounters, discussions and debates in which our ideas, aspirations and visions of the revolutionary struggle can come into contention, where real affinities and real conflicts can come out and be developed—not with the aim of finding a unifying middle ground in which every one is equally compromised, but to clarify distinctions and so discover a real basis for creating projects of action that aren’t simply playing the role of radical, activist or militant, but that are real reflections of the desires, passions and ideas of those involved.

FROM PROLETARIAN TO INDIVIDUAL:

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Ebony Crumm said when the five twentysomethings moved in, "we were like, 'Who are these people?'" But her daughters immediately grew attached to the crew.

Working with the local chapter of Food Not Bombs, Wingnut members help feed the hungry in Monroe Park. They distribute groceries monthly to 175 families on behalf of a food bank. They invite children to read books from their library, creating an ad hoc community center.

They renovated the once-condemned house themselves, making neighbors welcome and hosting bands for performances.

Karn, 24, says anarchists can be many things. For the graduate of St. Catherine's School, anarchy is "a non-hierarchal society where communities take care of each other through mutual aid and voluntary cooperation."

No drugs or alcohol are allowed in the house, making it an easier sell that it is a safe place for children. But they also believe in the right to arm themselves. Karn said she keeps two guns and has a concealed-weapons permit.

They also keep tabs on police through the Copwatch group. When they hear sirens or get a tip about an encounter between police and a neighborhood resident, they've been known to jump out of bed to videotape or serve as a witness.

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mohandas Ghandi (via segadoway)