Oliver

XVX, Anti-Capitalist, DIY

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Tobacco Caye, Belize

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Ladyville, Belize

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Dangriga, Belize. 2016

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Rainy Day in Belize City

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San Ignacio, Belize

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Xunantunich, San Jose Succotz, Belize

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#AbolishColumbusDay. 

It’s Our Time Now: #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Image by: Gregg Deal

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Purge the shitty people from your life.

[class-struggle-anarchism]

What ought to be done with rapists? I feel like this is one of the main problems with anarchism. How are we to reconcile prison abolition with serious crimes?

An anarchist society isn’t one in which people are free to rape and murder without consequence, that’s a bit of an ancient strawman which gravely misunderstands both anarchism and prison abolition…not got a lot of time so this is cut and pasted from an old ask:I have no problem with societies collectively deciding to put coercive limits on people who pose a direct and provable danger - peadophiles, rapists, serial killers etc… Anarchism doesn’t mean you get free reign to abuse people without consequence, and I’d imagine that different communities would come up with different strategies to deal with these kind of direct threats, which I don’t think can be adequately handled without coercive force. 

These are a tiny proportion of prisoners though, and although I don’t think a liberated society would be free of this sort of behaviour entirely, I do think the proportion would get drastically smaller when people are raised and supported in an environment of mutual respect and open communication where their immediate needs are met etc. 

This sort of protective function is categorically not what prisons are though, prisons are vast institutions of social control which are there to discipline us, not protect us. The fact that a small number of very dangerous individuals are kept away from society in prisons is nothing compared with the massive social harm they do to entire communities, inside and out, acting as fortresses of racial and class warfare, creating anti-social behaviour, stigmatizing, institutionalising, destroying families, disciplining the labour force etc. They don’t protect us from crime, they are crime. 

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Hope, Alaska -Oliver Weilein

[corvid-420]

Natural disaster: *strikes Haiti*

Everyday people: *donate money, post thoughts and prayers, put on a performance of concern with no returns except social acceptance and a sense of belonging*

Ruling Class: 

[lithicc]

yeah naomi klein wrote a book about this and calls it “disaster capitalism”

don’t worry, they already have all kinds of profit making schemes for when the seas start rising and engulfing major cities. 

john p. clark actually coined the term “disaster anarchism” to explain how working class folks respond when a disaster hits. his example was the aftermath of hurricane katrina when residents organized relief, rescue, etc. long before the government bothered intervening. Even afterwards the residents did a lot more to help themselves than the government offered.

A Japanese anarchist Shusui Kotoku who was living in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake said that the city was basically an anarchist commune among the ruins because the city was without a government and operating purely on mutual aid

[oliverxvx]

The election is filling me with such feelings of dread and sadness. I feel that no matter what I do I’m betraying those who I care about the most.

[communize-anarchy]

Communism is not a programme one puts into practice or makes others put into practice, but a social movement. Those who develop and defend theoretical communism do not have any advantages over others except a clearer understanding and a more rigorous expression; like all others who are not especially concerned by theory, they feel the practical need for communism. They have no privilege whatsoever, they do not carry the knowledge that will set the revolution in motion; but, on the other hand, they have no fear of becoming “leaders” by explaining their positions. The communist revolution, like every other revolution, is the production of real needs and living conditions. The problem is to shed light on an existing historical movement. Communism is not an ideal to be realised: it already exists, not as a society, but as an effort, a task to prepare for. It is the movement which tries to abolish the conditions of life determined by wage-labour, and it will abolish them by revolution. The discussion of communism is not academic. It is not a debate about what will be done tomorrow. It is an integral part of a whole series of immediate and distant tasks, among which discussion is only one aspect, an attempt to achieve theoretically understanding. Inversely, the tasks can be carried out more easily and efficiently if one can answer the question: where are we going?

The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement - Gilles Dauvé & François Martin (via communize-anarchy)

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Hatcher Pass, Alaska -Oliver Weilein

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Remember Sarah: I am strong, I am brave, I am a good fucking person. I deserve to receive the same kind of treatment I give, and I will no longer allow myself to be walked all over, settling for anything less ❤️💪🏻

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children

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Halibut Cove, Alaska  -Oliver Weilein