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fullyarmoredbattlesturgeon

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I need this study

unrequirede

It looks like it's Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement. It was published in 2004

writefinch

It's worth pointing out that cops in the US adapted to these problems through using grand juries to cast wide nets and do punitive fishing expeditions in the wake of any serious suspected left-wing actions.

Here's how it works:

Someone starts a fire at an army draft office.

The cops look through their files for anyone who might be in the political orbit of someone who'd want to do that. People picked up at protests, for drug charges, vandalism, anyone who is already on their radar. They look into their known associates, anyone they live with, anyone they drink with.

Then they start subpoenaing these people for a grand jury summons. They give you immunity (but only for the matter of the grand jury!) so that you can't exercise the fifth amendment against self incrimination. If you say nothing, they can imprison you almost indefinitely for contempt of court. If they catch you in a lie, that's criminal perjury.

They'll ask you for information on everyone you know. Obviously they'll ask about their involvement in any crimes, but they're casting a wide net. Who knows who, where do they hang out, who talked to who about what and when. They'll ask you to spill interpersonal stuff, whether anyone is cheating on someone, whether people have substance abuse problems or embarrassing personal issues, if anyone is closeted, anything they consider dirt. Anyone you name is gonna get subpoenaed and they'll be asked for all this information on everyone they know, including you, and although you have immunity from your own testimony, you don't get immunity from each others.

Assuming you didn't personally do anything they can prosecute you for in the matter of the grand jury, they'll go after you based on what they know. The cops will arrest you on any little thing they have suspicion of, even if they know they can't prosecute you, just so that they can keep you in jail for a few days while you miss two shifts at work and your friends have to scramble to raise bail. They'll leak any embarrassing info that comes out, to your boss or your family or even the local press. Whatever they can do to make your life a little harder.

They will lean fucking hard on anyone who is involved in the scene but had second thoughts or felt like they were dragged into something they never wanted to do in the first place by their friends. The cops will say 'do you want to get your life ruined by people who did something stupid over something you barely even believe in' and sometimes that's a very compelling argument! If people have dependents or kids who they think won't be looked after if they go to prison, there's a lot of pressure to cooperate.

It's important to note two things:

1) Based on the ratio of actual prison sentences to maximum possible sentences for the charges, it's better for people not to cooperate with the jury both individually and as a group. People who talk still get sentenced, with the information they helped provide.

2) These aren't surgical strikes, they're an artillery barrage designed to destroy infrastructure and send people running for cover. Cops don't want you to have friends, they don't want you to hang out and have fun, they don't want you getting or providing food or shelter through anything you can't get fired from. They don't want committed direct-action people swimming freely through a sea of friendly people. They're not scared of the flower, they're scared of the soil that grows it.

noneedtofearorhope

Narratives from three people who successfully stood up to grand jury indictments: one who served jail time for resisting, one who went on th

anarchistmemedistro

Green Scared?

Philosophy Podcast · Updated weekly · A podcast broadcasting Anarchist texts and audiobooks

counterintuitivecomics

WHY WE MASK: IT'S NOT 'JUST A COLD' 2025 ED

My COVID-19 comic is BACK, babeee, because all these respiratory viruses sure didn't go anywhere! I took all your generous feedback from WHY WE MASK 2024 to make the free printable zine the best version of itself. Mainly, I edited all the dang text to be as simple and clear as possible! Which is harder than it sounds, but worth it to reach more readers. Also I did a million tiny visual fixes that no one will notice but me :P

Thank you to everyone who's read and shared the zine, and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone masking out there! It's never too late to start taking care of each other.

website version - featuring: clickable endnotes! working URLs!

free downloadable version - print & distribute your own copies! (donations to our print fund welcome but not required)

our patreon - help me & my partner @earnestattempts keep making comics like this one!

send us questions, comments, etc at [email protected] (we love seeing pics of the zine out in the wild)!

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crimethinc

One year ago today, Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC as an act of protest against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

The scale of the tragedy in Gaza exceeds anything we can understand from the United States. Aaron was determined not to passively accept it.

Today, in Aaron's memory, let us pledge ourselves once more to solidarity with Palestinians—to fight against genocide, ethnic cleansing, and all forms of colonialism.

In this memorial, we share Aaron’s summary of his anarchist politics, with testimony from his friends.

https://crimethinc.com/AaronMemories

In Aaron's own words:

"I am an anarchist, which means I believe in the abolition of all hierarchical power structures, especially capitalism and the state… I believe that any hierarchical power structure is bound to reproduce class dynamics and oppression. Thus, I want to engage in egalitarian forms of organizing that produce horizontal power structures based on mutual aid and solidarity."

In the words of one of Aaron's friends,

"Aaron has permanently changed the fabric of your being. You know this because for the rest of your life, you will wrestle with the thought of what you will sacrifice for the liberation of others."

stillnaomi

no matter how you examine a bar of chocolate, there's no indication of the exploitation that went into creating it — not an atom that screams "I came into being through slavery!" and yet, the social relations of slavery and unequal exchange are facts of its existence. in the capitalist world, we're presented with an endless series of commodities, while the social relationships behind their production and distribution are hidden from us. when people understand the misery that others are forced into in order to shave $0.5 off the production costs of every t-shirt, sofa, or TV they purchase, they often feel rage at the capitalist system. that's why we must continually expose such things. don't let them be hidden from view

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Richard Goldstein & James Baldwin | The Last Interview

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lol i litereally stopped reading right before one of his most important quotes. including it with a lot of added context because i always see that quote on its own without the rest of the conversation which is really fascinating.

halflife2dotnet

we're fucked. main breadwinner of the house got in a crash. if it's as bad as he says we're so fucked. i was going to try to save $ so i can move away from my abusers but if his car is totaled we're just going to lose our home flat out cause that's the only way he can do his job. We are so fucked. i want to die

halflife2dotnet

need to make this the new post since the last one has lost traction completely. we're so fucked. the main work horse is on its' very last leg. the car someone else uses for work is also broken down again, leaving only mine which still needs work.

i'm trying to leave this place after a suicide attempt, but with the way things are we're all just going to end up homeless very soon if a solution isn't found Immediately.

we're fucked. i need help now

please anything you can spare helps so much. if you can't afford it please reblog so someone who can will see this. i need anyone who can see this to reblog

staying alive is the only & greatest act of resistance i'm capable of offering right now. i can't do it alone

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theophages

everyone says join your local mutual aid groups and build community, but uh, what do you do if a lot of them seem to have dissolved and the other ones don't have consistent recurring meetings.

luulapants

this is real, and it's a thing that a lot of people are going to run into in the fact of calls to "get involved," especially if they're people who haven't been deeply involved in their communities before. so here's what I can share:

You can't expect it to be built for you already. Community organizing has fallen apart in a lot of places. That means you may need to be the one to start it. Someone has to.

Your presence will matter. Local community networks are SMALL. That means that every single person has an outsized presence and an outsized absence. One person dropping off the map can feel catastrophic, but that also means that one person stepping up can make all the difference.

Find a center. Any community group needs a steady base. That can be a physical location - that's why coffeehouses were historically such effective grounds for building political and creative movements. It can also be a person or people who are consistent and reliable. If one person shows up to make space for work on a regular basis, they'll be there when the second person shows up. They'll be there for the third. That's how it starts.

Play secretary. A lot of activist groups are starving for some basic admin support. Maybe you're not up for being the leader, but maybe you can organize the Google drive. Maybe you can be the one that keeps phone numbers. There's a lot of unsexy shit work out there that needs to be done.

Count your eggs before you start baking. There is an economics of labor to why activism circles have shrunk. Be mindful of the time and hands you have available when deciding what work you're able to take on.

Build tolerance, build coalitions. Small organizing means you can't afford to fracture over every little disagreement. Decide your mission and your values from the start, the things that are non-negotiable, and don't get hung up on the rest. Be prepared to work with people you don't like. Focus on the task at hand.

Network! Know what other related or like-minded projects are out there, whether they are groups like yours in other areas or groups in your community who are doing work that intersects with yours.

Be there for people. Step up. Offer to help. Even outside an organizing structure, if you become the kind of person who shows up and helps, people will remember you and they will reach out to you when need arises.

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actually saw my own legs off rn

nutopiancitizen

who’s left- Mariame/Prison Abolition

by Flynn Nicholls

keplercryptids

[image description: a comic titled “Who’s Left: Prison Abolition.” It opens with a black woman wearing glasses, beaded earrings and a headscarf. She says, “I’m Mariame Kaba, director of Project NIA and prison abolitionist.” Someone off screen asks, “is prison abolition a hard thing to explain to people?” Mariame says, “I get the same questions. ‘What about bad people? What about rapists?’ I don’t answer those questions anymore.”

Next panel is of an ominous city skyline, split diagonally into a street scene where a white businessman is looking terrified among people of color moving about their lives. Text reads: “These are posed as questions about safety but are mostly based in fear of the other. Safety for whom? And from what?” Next panel says, “It doesn’t make sense to answer because there are bad people who have not been incarcerated.” There’s a closeup of a corner of a newspaper, showing a smiling man with the text: “dog murderer net worth $1.5 million, cleared on all charges.”

Next panel shows blue silhouettes of police and cameras and Mariame’s text says, “I’d rather talk about having justice without police or surveillance.” Next panel shows Mariame being asked, “Why abolition? Why not reform?” and she replies, “The prison system is harmful!” Her words appear over stylized prison bars: “there is rampant violence, rape and deaths in custody.” On a panel of a whip with an arrow pointing to a prison, she says, “the prison itself was a reform of corporal punishment.” Next panel shows a couple Quakers looking anxious outside a prison and says, “When prisons first came into use in the late 1700s, Quakers pushed for reform. Why continue centuries of rounds of unsuccessful reforms?”

Next panel says: “So we have to create the conditions that decrease the demand for police and surveillance. You need jobs, healthcare, housing, people need to be able to live their lives.” Beneath that, three cranes with heavy chains are lowering a hospital and a home, and lifting away a prison with cracked walls as someone watches. “You need to create structures to address harm and hold people accountable. People think abolitionists minimize harm but we take it very seriously.” Beneath that, eight people are drawn, four sitting atop the others’s shoulders and holding hands above their heads to form a bridge. Underneath that it says, “Safety is a collective action.”

Next panel says: “A lot of people think abolitionists want to close prisons tomorrow when we didn’t get there yesterday. Ruthie Gilmore says, ‘Abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions.’” On the left side of this panel, there’s a person trying to flip a switch on the side of a prison. The switch is labeled “Prison industrial complex” and is flipped to “on.” On the other side is a drawing of Ruth Gilmore. Next panel is a white spiderweb on a black background with a pink prison in the center, and text around the web reads: “The prison system sits at the intersection of multiple forms of oppression and facets of society, and when you map it out, we’re all in that web.”

Next panel shows Mariame smiling and holding a clipboard, saying, “I am the director of Project NIA, an organization focused on ending youth incarceration. I also work with Survived + Punished, a project dedicated to the release of survivors of domestic + gendered violence imprisoned for survival actions. Survived and Punished’s Free Bresha campaign successfully managed to keep Bresha Meadows in the juvenile system rather than being tried and sentenced as an adult, and transferred to a mental health facility before finally being released, avoiding a 25 to life sentence.” Beside that is Bresha Meadows, a teenager with a somber expression. A caption in front of her reads: “Bresha Meadows was arrested at 14 for fatally shooting her abusive father in self-defense.”

Next panel shows a complex web of prison walls, topped with barbed wire, separating individuals from each other. The text reads: “Some people ask how feasible abolition is. Security is about putting up gates and walls and weapons between you and other people. How feasible is it to continue a violent system? For people to live in fear?” Next panel zooms in on one of the people within the web, and reads: “The prison system is a recent development and not as permanent as people think.” The wall in front of the person is knocked down by a person behind it, revealed to be a cardboard cut-out.

The next panel shows similar cranes as before lifting all the cardboard prison walls, and reads: “I don’t know what a world without prisons will look like.” The last panel shows a line of people of different body types, abilities and ethnicities, most looking upward at text that reads: “But it will fundamentally transform our relationship with other people.”]

leonardcohenofficial

all prisoners on death row are political prisoners. capital punishment is part of both the afterlife and presentlife of lynchings and slavery. the myriad of issues including the permanence of death as punishment, how death sentences are deployed in an overtly discriminatory manner, how capital punishment does nothing to actually prevent crime, denies people any chance of restorative justice all of these are secondary to the simple fact that the state should not have the right to kill human beings. some of y'all keep missing the point and focusing on the dichotomies of guilt versus innocence when it comes to the liberation of prisoners on death row (and otherwise). regardless of whether or not an individual is "guilty" of the crime they have been charged with, the state should not be able to detain them indefinitely before murdering them. full stop. rest in power marcellus williams and may we, in the words of george jackson, "rage on aggressive and free" until no human being is murdered by the state again

v-70

Hello all. I'll keep this brief, a close friend of mine has fallen on hard times. They're an autistic and physically disabled Latina butch with PTSD, and theyre at risk of being evicted. right now they're two weeks behind rent, which is just $700. if youd like to donate, their cashapp is $anita0anita

They haven't been able to make much money on account of not being given enough hours. donations are appreciated. Thank you!!

v-70

they've just told me they need $200 by tonight. any bit helps! share if you can

bringmemyrocks

Please don't get all your political info from Tumblr. If you want to learn about Palestine, please read scholars and poets and activists, do not get your information from me. I post quotes and articles as supplementary, not as substitute--even following Palestinian Tumblr or Instagram users who post cool infographics multiple times a day is not a substitute for education.

We are all doing our best, but please use the resources that are available.

Welcome to the Decolonize Palestine reading list. We have carefully put together this list so that you can expand your knowledge on all thin

fairuzfan

If you want to learn about Palestinian history without analysis, here are some good digital archives:

The largest online community serving Palestine, Palestinians refugees, Right of Return, Oral History & especially about Nakba. Tens of thous

Explore events, biographies, highlights and documents, in a platform entirely devoted to the history of the Palestine Question

The institute of Palestine Studies has free articles sometimes that you can read analysis and background information:

The most reliable source of information and analysis on the Question of Palestine.

And LAP, Librarians and Archivists for Palestine is an org that I keep up to date with and has amazing zines and information about memory work and Palestine. They even have reading lists for different groups of learners:

#ref

blackgirlmagicx

$1200 RENT BY SEPT 15 URGENT!

$500 FILL PROPANE TANK

Black girl with custody of her 8 year old sister. My hours have been cut. My rent hasn't. Please don't skip without sharing please! I can't lose my sister. trying to keep her out of cps's hands.

220/1200 September 15th rent.

95/500 fuel

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THINGS THAT DO NOT EXEMPT YOU FROM BEING ANTI BLACK:

Your proximity to blackness. Whether through a friend, colleague, partner, neighbor, or the one black kid that goes to your PWI.

Using AAVE. In fact, this might make you more anti black. I can't even count the amount of times non black people have actively disrespected black people while using AAVE.

Idolising a prominent black figure. You listening to Beyonce and voting for Obama (both times) doesn't make you any less anti black than if you slapped on a MAGA cap and called BLM protestors "terrorists".

Being queer. You being oppressed does not magically erase your ability to oppress others.

Being a woman. Same logic as before; your oppression does not stop you from being an oppressor.

Being a non black racial minority. Exact same logic, with the added bonus of anti blackness being extremely prominent in NBPOC communities.

BEING BLACK. There's literally a whole word for anti-black black people.

Being "woke". You can make all the signs and attend all the protests. But if you haven't done the learning and unlearning, then all your activism is just an elaborate play that nobody's paying to go see.

Learning and unlearning. It is important to know that learning pro blackness and unlearning all the anti black tendencies we were force-fed as adolescents does not mean we are incapable of fucking up.

The only thing that exempts you from being anti black, is not being anti black. There is no position or title you can hold that's gonna shield you from it. But you can either be a dick and continue to perpetuate it and make everyone around you miserable, or you can do the work to unlearn it so we can all live in a slightly nicer hellscape. Thank you got coming to my TEDtalk.

determinate-negation

the nazi israeli army must be stopped like actually its insane this has gone on for this long

tamarrud

I actually woke up this morning and was thinking how insane it is that the world didn't burst into flames hearing the voice recording of a six year old trapped in a car with her dead family pleading for someone to help her. How has that recording alone not move mountains? Or the fact that the official crews who coordinated with the IDF to go rescue her were killed along with her? Where is that story now? Where did people shelve it? How did things move past this one documented story, let alone the tens of thousand others?

thatsocialmoth

I nearly cried on the bus the other day feeling this. Like, how do we sleep knowing that people are being handed bags filled with carefully collected and weighed remains? Knowing that there is no knowing which pieces were which people because there is nothing left? That a man, desperate to bury his lost child, was told "bury it as if it was them" as he held 18kg of unidentifiable body and blood handed to him by another man who had spent hours weighing, collecting body parts and delivering the most horrifying news another human being can get? And no major news source seemed to care. The world keeps spinning and people shelve it and move on. Children are beheaded, men are getting birth certificates delivered knowing their child is already dead, pregnant people are giving birth in streets filled with filth, blood, and undrinkable water, women are cooking for their families meals made of grass and begging on the internet for mercy. People are starving to death in front of our eyes and the IOF is posting videos dancing on the graves of the graves of people they've killed, pointing and laughing. And there are still people willing to say, "It's just complicated." How? How has the brain developed to just put that somewhere, away, while we do every other thing? How are these horrors not shaking the foundations of the Earth herself in their wake? How have we reached a time where the mourners are the minority in the face of tragedy? If we outlined every crime the Israeli army has committed not only against the Palestinian people but against humanity, dignity and world at large, it would take lifetimes but nearly as many lifetimes as Israel has stripped from the countries around it.

anneemay

Guys, they're in need for more esims to help Gaza remain connected to the rest of the world. Please contribute what you can.

anneemay

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

tf2heritageposts

okay we wasted three hours on the main campus trying to get rent assistance and then get told we need to get a letter from our landlord saying we’re about to be evicted or we get zero help. fucking hell

tf2heritageposts

we literally just needed a single month of rent assistance because our stipend this month won’t cover our rent due to how late it is we’re taking classes in the month but we’d be fine next month but nope. gotta be getting evicted fiest apparently

tf2heritageposts

whelp we’re back home and have not much to show for it so

we only need help with just THIS month’s rent/utilties/bills and we should be good for at least two years thanks to the stipend. this also goes towards ubers(we’re gonna try and get a loan for a car soon though) and food but we’re pretty much good on those for now, just need to take care of rent which is due on the first

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as a reminder, we’re a transmasc extremely disabled system who escaped their abusive family in may and then kicked out my abusive in so many different flavors ex girlfriend out of my house, who took a good amount of my money and has been causing me constant hell for weeks on end despite her being out of my house. i had to quit our job that wasn’t paying any form of bills from the min wage part time nature because it was just causing us to become even more disabled and yeah

to elaborate a bit more on what i meant in the earlier reblogs, we’ll be getting a 2099 dollar stipend every month for college but since we start classes in about a week and a half, we won’t be getting any amount of money that’s enough for rent/utilties

we also have our phone bill at 150 that’s coming up on the second of september we’ll need help with too

i promise, if it all goes right this should be the last donation post for quite a while

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