[prettykikimora-deactivated20250]

[postirony]

yes it’s me

[letterlov3]

Gee, you got rid of your facist proposition pretty quick.

what're you on about?

[la-laborista-republiko]

Some Chill Anarchist Media:

The Ex Worker podcast

The Final Straw podcast

Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Emma Goldman, Anarchism And Other Essays

[letterlov3]

Driving home from an appointment today I saw a homeless woman panhandling near the freeway entrance. Panhandling is illegal in my town, like it is in many places in Amerikkka, so immediately I'm worried about this womans eventual encounter with the police. But what really drew my attention was this dude in khaki shorts with a fucking 8.5x11 paper standing right next to this woman like... protesting her. He's standing right next to her, screaming profanities at her, calling her scum, an addict, drunk, you know, the normal judgemental bullshit. His sign has a simple image of a bum with a red X circle thing around it. And he's just escalating and escalating and she's just begging him to leave her alone. So my wife and I roll up along side the woman and ask if she's okay. She's distressed, obviously, telling me how he's harassing her, won't leave her alone etc. we give her what we can and offer her a ride. She declined for whatever reason, and we ended up having to move on because of traffic. The whole time that dude is arguing with my wife about giving the woman money, saying she'll use it for drugs or some incoherent BS about not wanting her in the neighborhood. asshole.

some people just have nothing better to do.

but how about instead of protesting the existence of the homeless we proceed them a home and the services they need to get back on their feet?

[wormologist]

There’s so much to DO and SEE and THINK and FEEL in this world!!!

[mysharona1987]

[biscuit-tornado]

Hate Trackers has info on everyone who posted in that thread.

Frankly, if you’re going to actively plot and advocate for violence against a child, fuck you and fuck your livelihood.

[towerofglass]

make these peoples’ lives hell.

[polyglotplatypus]

please listen to this poor man losing his shit as he reads an article blaming millenials for killing the mayonnaise industry that was written by a babyboomer upset people don’t want to eat her bland salads anymore

[niggazinmoscow]

know your rights and don’t be afraid to share your experience

[tranarchist]

Trillion degree hot take: “You deserve to be poor because you give money to charity”

[letterlov3]

Im fucking burning this take is so hot

[mysharona1987]

[octopuscato]

“What do you mean you want to be paid for working? You should be paying us for letting you work with us!”

I s2g this is where all of this is headed.

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

Growing up conservative, I always heard that Republicans really hate bureaucracy. They want to cut all the “red tape” and “regulations” out of our lives.

This is actually complete nonsense, and working with literally any charitable organization will show you this very quickly. Republicans actually love red tape and bureaucracy, they just love it for poor people instead of rich people. Republicans add things like work requirements, ID requirements, citizenship tests, means-testing, drug tests, and paperwork to just about every possible charitable giving endeavor. I volunteer at a Church ran charity for homeless people, and the red tape under Trump has only gotten much worse. It was bad before, but it has gotten demonstrably more headache inducing and more time-consuming to simply give the poor what they need to survive.

What Republicans really mean when they say that they want to “cut red tape” is that they want to take away any and all roadblocks standing in the way of an absolute oligarchy.

[letterlov3]

As someone who also grew up in a very conservative house, and as the grandson of a local business owner, can I just say... FUCKING THIS!

[the-real-eye-to-see]

Now I know what an aesthetic pleasure is

[n0kiv]

When the security guard rushed her

[invalleumbraemortis]

This…. is wonderful. I feel empowered on today.

[emotiona1shorty]

omg what’s the name of this song of sorrow she’s singing???? 

[tapatiopapi]

“I’ll leave if you let go, I’ll leave if you let go”

[ant-horngry]

[soorayray]

“Hellllppp”

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[anarcho-communism-revolution]

[letterlov3]

this is great

[kropotkindersurprise]

August 1 - Workers walk off a building site, shutting it down, after management tried to send some of them home. Turn on the sound because the guy narrating this lesson in the power of solidarity between workers is hilarious!

[kropotkindersurprise]

The guy who made this video, Antoine Dangerfield, got fired for posting it after the company tried to offer him $250 to take it down and he refused. 

Here’s a good article with an interview with Antoine: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/wildcat-strike-indianapolis-shut-down

Some excerpts:

How did you feel watching them walk off the job?

Antoine: I just felt that power, man. It just felt good. They were walking out with their heads up, strong. It touched me. That’s why I was like, wow, this is beautiful. It was beautiful that they came together like that — stood up for themselves and not let that dude walk all over them.

You said the workers walked off the job with their heads up.

Antoine: Yeah. It was powerful, bro. They were proud of themselves, like they’re supposed to be. But [management] still paid everybody for the whole day. That’s how you know they were wrong. They sent everybody home, but I stayed until the end, because I was in awe.

You’re black. The people you filmed in the video are Latino. You said in the description of your video that black people need to learn something from this. What did you mean?

Antoine: All the hate going on — we need to stick together. I think black people are moving in the right direction. We were down for a minute with the crack era. And you see the news, a lot of killings in the black community. Sometimes we don’t come together. But if they can do it, we can do it. And we can all come together. There’s power in numbers.

I don’t like racist anything. I don’t like people picking on people, bullying. It’s ridiculous. So when people come together, it’s a beautiful thing.

Do you think this experience will change you, on the job in the future?

Antoine: You can say that. It was life-changing to me to see that happen. Because it was like, dang, they really came together. And that’s why I’m not mad about the video, about getting fired. Because it’s five million people who saw that. And it might change their view on things. Empowering people.

So me losing a job is nothing compared to the big picture. If we can get it in our heads that we are the people, and if we make our numbers count, we can change anything.

We Rise Together Homie!

[letterlov3]

This is so inspiring! Worker solidarity! Class solidarity!

[arrdeearr]

[blairellisorwhatever-blog]

this never gets old

[therothwoman]

I met the creator of this a month ago and he said he got a lot of hate mail from dudebros who thought that he was a woman complaining about these problems.

[smitethestate]

Gold.

Bolding mine.

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

Watch the real thing. Its perfectly creepy

[naidje-deactivated]

This guy also made Night In The Woods

[letterlov3]

Now I gotta play NITW.