Serotiny

The world after the end

[lithicc]

Hopefully these are viewable at a large size. if not, here is a link to where they are

Set of drawings by Clifford Harper imagining an alternative future. Published in a book called Radical Technology in 1976.

[lithicc]

These are blowing up again in notes. Clifford Harper is a gift to anarchism/anticapitalism. I’m always nervous I’m gonna hear bad news cause he’s old and in really bad health. 

If you can, pick up his  Anarchy, A Graphic Guide to the History of Anarchism it’s basically an intro to anarchism with lots of wonderful illustrations

[bumblebeeappletree]

So. You want to garden.

For whatever reason. Right now as of uhhhh Friday March 27, of 2020, within the quarantine of COVID-19 you are most likely want to garden in order to feed your family as you want to save money from the grocery store. And to ya know. feed your family.

SO. Here’s some YouTube videos. Mainly from this one YouTuber since she runs her own farm. She talks about what to grow and how to grow as well as saving seeds. (Trust me, saving seeds is better in the long run.) You can also regrow kitchen scraps too if you feel like you’re unable to get any proper seeds. And for fun have a post apocalyptic type garden.

What to plant in a small garden:

Fast-food growing options:

The importance of Seed saving:

How to build an arched trellis for $30:

A complete guide to virtual gardening:

How to PLANT & GROW with cattle panel arched trellises:

14 store bought vegetables & herbs you can regrow:

Save your kitchen scraps, these 7 plants can be grown out of them:

9 survival gardening crops to grow in a post apocalyptic world:

[artofprayer-blog]

[uzowuru]

A cook in a Sikh kitchen cooking curry in an extremely large pot. The Sikh kitchen provides tens of thousands of free meals on a daily basis

It`s called a langar and everyone, no matter what your religion, caste, race, age, gender, etc, is invited to come eat. Only vegetarian food is served, so regardless of dietary restrictions, anyone can eat. It was started by the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak. Langar was designed to uphold the principle of equality between all people. ~Gurneet

[zuky]

I have a lot of respect for the Punjabi institution of the Sikh Langar. Tens of thousands of people of all backgrounds have been fed good, fresh, complete meals every day for five hundred years, made entirely by volunteers, without a penny changing hands. Imagine that, making a serious, large-scale, sustained effort to feed people simply because people need to be fed.

[bakwaaas]

[kaijutegu]

Gotta love seeing a golf course turn back into prairie.

[spindercatscher]

Life uhh finds a way

[kaijutegu]

It’s THE coolest thing about my hometown. This is a huge chunk of land in the middle of town, and it’s incredibly popular. There’s two miles of walking paths of varying difficulties (it’s actually really wheelchair friendly; the paved paths are nicely maintained and the hills have incredibly smooth switchbacks so that the pushing or wheeling angle isn’t too steep), play places thoughtfully carved into the prairie and woods, three lakes- one of which is stocked with bass, but the others not for fishing, just for looking, and a pavilion for meetings, parties, etc. The town has totally embraced it- it’s our busiest park and people really do respect the park rules ( respect wildlife, pick up after your dog, no off-leash dogs) and just… come out to walk and enjoy nature. There’s a smallish wetland area, 25 acres of woodland, and almost 50 acres of prairie. 

And the wildlife- I’ve seen so many birds. Deer. Foxes. Bobcats have come back to the area after being extirpated for decades. Native bees. There was a lot of pushback originally- people were worried that it would be an eyesore- but now it’s something the town really takes pride in. As it developed, people got really excited. Without any parks department solicitation, the park got two million dollars in donations and a whole bunch of in-kind donations from the hospital (four outdoor exercise ponds), the local Kiwanis club (a musical playground), and one of the local construction companies (the most beautiful tree fort you’ve ever seen… also the only tree fort I’ve ever seen with ramps). People love this place, and I really hope other towns see that you can turn a golf course into something really fun for everyone. 

[permaculturewomen]

Home water system illustration by @jackieholmstrom from the #foodnotlawns book by @heatherjoflores. Read the book for free at foodnotlawns.com — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2thjJU2

[cyndigenous-deactivated20210204]

Idk who needs to hear this but non-Native people who want to build a communist or socialist state to replace Canada & the US are just as colonialist as their capitalist counterparts.

If the movement doesn’t prioritize returning governance to Indigenous people it’s just colonizing but a little to the left

[archae-heart-deactivated2021012]

Ok, so let’s talk a little more about the Land Back movement. I saw a ton of white nonsense in the notes comparing the call to return indigenous land to indigenous people to—I shit you not—Nazi Germany and ethnonationalism. We’re not even going to give those clowns a debate platform. We’re just here to laugh at them. That said, I also saw legitimately good points asking where this movement would leave Black people who, while not Native, are certainly not colonizers. Land Back is inherently a movement for Indigenous people and descendants of slaves. It should and does include reparations for the land loss and theft experienced by slaves post-emancipation (the effects of which are still seen and felt today).

All this said, Land Back means different things to different indigenous people and their tribes.

Some really do literally mean the return of U.S. land to tribal nations and ADOS is something that SHOULD happen, but we’re not a bunch of idiots. We understand that’s not a pragmatic or achievable solution (currently) and return of land =/= forcibly removing or committing mass genocide of people that don’t look like us. That’s something only savages do, and we have never been savages.

Other times it means protecting Turtle Island, all of us who live here, as a collective. Love the land and the land will love us back. Land back = the key to restoring ecosystems. Listen to indigenous people. We have always known these lands better than y’all.

It is also an empowering political statement from indigenous leaders to their people, to keep fighting for our treaties, for the right to self-govern, to continue the long process of de-colonizing ourselves, to harness our own power, to restore our cultures.

As far as literal repatriation of land goes, it’s not a far fetched or impossible idea. It has been done and is being done. It’s far from simple, but land stewardships, land trusts, and land transfers are all legal mechanisms to achieve this. And it doesn’t mean you (the donor) must leave the land. Oftentimes it means paying taxes to the tribe itself but still being able to live on/use the land; it just makes it so that the land has been returned to the tribe. In theory this would be the solution for indigenous people getting our land back without this big dramatic forced exodus of white people that racists pretend to be so worried about. It’s too complicated to really delve into here but this is a good link for a brief overview of the idea behind it.

And remember, today is a good day to stop being a low life piece of fucking garbage in the ✨ notes ✨

[tropicalhomestead]

Attention all farmers, gardeners, garden dreamers & wanna-be's:

Johnny Select Seeds has a Growers Library on their website that is filled with tons of free information about growing herbs, fruit, veggies, flowers, you name it!

Need to know your hardiness zone? They have maps!

Want to know how many seeds you need to buy to fill your growing space? They got a calculator for that!

Want to find out what it takes to build a (not kidding) gothic cathedral 14 ft growing tunnel? They have a list of parts needed and where to buy 'em!

Ever wondered what the 5 factors affecting cut flowers vase-life are? Well dadgum it if you can't find out there!

For free!

[eco-socialism]

[angiethewitch]

hey a local town actually did this!

they planted berries, root vegetables, leafy greens, herbs, all sorts. they label each plant and the sign said "free to take, leave some for others to enjoy!"

and people did. they took a bit, but left some for others.

it also fed the homeless people living around there.

bearing in mind this is a tourist town, so i half expected to see the plants gone. but nope, there's always some left.

people aren't naturally selfish, and they will share. the initiative works

[explorerrowan]

And honestly? Most people who don't need it won't bother to stop and pick fruit. It's only people who actually need it who will devote the time. People with money still have grocery stores.

[dramaticowl]

[Image description: tweet by Black Botanist @CreativeTiana: transcript follows]

I was talking to someone about planting food and fruit trees in public spaces and they were like “Why so everyone can steal the food?”

And I was like “See, that’s the problem right there. Why should taking food off a public tree be stealing?”

[that-stone-butch-deactivated202]

this whole 'which job would you have on the leftist commune?' meme is really bringing to light the gulf between internet opinion-havers and like, actual blue collar laborers. removing the exploitative nature of capitalism isn't going to abolish all needs for labor. getting people their meds is still going to take hard work. getting people their mail is still going to take hard work. getting people their food is still going to take hard work. none of these tasks can be 'fully automated luxury space communism.' it doesn't have to be an economic hostage situation, but shit's still going to have to get done and people are going to have to do it.

if you wouldn't want to do the hard work of growing food or building maintenance or community meals on your little idealized leftist commune, how is it different than a gated community? a fucking suburb? congratulations, you've invented a gay homeowners' association.

[that-stone-butch-deactivated202]

i've gotten a few responses to this, in the tags or in my inbox, that pivot the point of the discussion to what can and can't be automated. but i'm going to reiterate: some tasks *cannot* be automated, and some tasks can be automated but definitely *should not*. a large portion of many jobs, especially ones that bring products and experiences to the end user, are heavily dependant on judgement calls. a machine could but should not be in charge of transporting goods on public roads. a live person should be present and in control of the vehicle no matter how smoothly an automated process would drive, because a real human person can better handle the situation of, say, the trailer unhitching in transit.

and hot take, guys? some people enjoy this work. my father drove truck for decades. and he loved it! the man loved his little radio, being out on the open road, just him and his thoughts. he would not have been happier if a communist society automated his job and took care of his expenses while he sat at home. he would have been happier if a communist society had made his job safer and took care of his expenses so that he wouldn't be *forced*to work more than he wanted just to maximize someone's profits; and could be home more. many jobs are like this, and many workers are like this. there is work you might be able to conceivably automate that i would tremendously prefer to do myself. i like the exercise of working as a package handler. i like honest work, just me and my thoughts. i would rather prefer to be able to support myself working optimal four-hour days, and not be pushed past my body's safe boundaries for someone else's profit, than have the work just somehow done by some machine.

the impulse behind 'what work can we make it so we don't have to do it?' is very uncomfortable for me. the focus of your future leftist society should be upon the workers, and upon the work. how it can be made safer? how can the people be supported?

i pointed out the gulf between 'internet opinion havers' and 'actual blue collar laborers' because the impulse to minimize work as much as possible displays a complete lack of community. this is why we're always talking about mutual aid! about mutual defense networks! about community gardens! no one else is going to do this shit for you. we talk about communism in the abstract but it's apparent that a lot of people are unacquainted with the fact that *any* society takes hard work to sustain. roll up your damn sleeves, because no one's going to make a better world for you.

[spacegirlswirl]

This is also indirectly a great critique of fully automated luxury communism too. The goal of communism shouldn’t be to abolish work, but to abolish the exploitation of work. Thank you op for putting this into such eloquent words

[anarchist-revolution]

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Glass art installations by Dale Chihuly

[serotinystories]

Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis

[melkem0t]

Angela Davis said organise.

(source: Freedom is a constant struggle - Angela Davis)

[serotinystories]

Wrote something up featuring Our Cohort. I’m trying to get a feel for these kids, and establish roles and personalities. Jordon (they/she) is the leader of the cohort since they are in Ops in the Personnel department. They’re already an experienced organizer and have a knack for knowing where people work best. This is, however, the first time they’re on their own, the cohort being deployed to their assignment.

Addison (they/them) is looked up to in the cohort not just because they’re the oldest and most experienced, but also because they’re friendly, affectionate, and even-keeled. Addison is a good listener, and good at encouraging their cohort on. Here, they comfort Jordon, knowing full well that Jordon is a great leader and respected by all of them.

[probablyasocialecologist]

If the apocalypse is understood as the dismantling of a system of haves and have-nots into a resulting world consisting solely of have-nots (the “collapse of civilization”), then it has already arrived for most people in the world. Apocalyptic anxiety is a bourgeois problem: “Wasn’t the impulse to catastrophize, to imagine the collapse of one’s world, only the pursuit of a mind shaped by leisure and economic comfort?” Rather than fantasizing about personal prosperity in postapocalyptic scenarios, we would be better off making everyone else’s world today a little less apocalyptic.

John Hay, Slow Apocalypse (via probablyasocialecologist)

[justsomeantifas]

Resources for Getting Involved in Mutual Aid

What is Mutual Aid? (video)

Safety Practices for Mutual Aid During the Pandemic (zine)

Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus (video)

Setting Up A Legal Defense Fund 

Community Bails Around the Country 

Mutual Aid on Lockdown (podcast)

Mutual Aid toolkit

List of Mutual Aids by State

Leadership Qualities that Support Mutuality and Collaboration

COVID Mutual Aid Initiatives

Coronavirus Tech Handbook

Let’s Talk Mutual Aid (zine)

Mutual Fire Brigade (zine)

How to Form an Affinity Group (zine)

DIY Emergency Hand Washing Station Instructions

Mutual Aid & Disaster Relief: Navigating Trauma 

Prisoner Support Programs

The Conquest of Bread (full book)

Community Bail Funds as an Organizing Tool

Best Practices for Jail Support 

Food Not Bombs - volunteer or start your own chapter

Overdose Prevention Guide

Start a Harm Reduction Program

Guide to Defeating ICE Hold Requests

Anti-Racist Neighborhood Watch

A Community Resource on Anti-Deportation Education and Organizing (spanish version)

National Participatory Defense Network

Sex Worker Co-Op & Emergency Fund for Workers in Crisis

Sex Workers Behind Bars Jail Support 

[serotinystories]

Older doodle. Spencer needs to go return some equipment borrowed/commandeered from a citizen. It’s been a while since they’ve been out of the city and they’re nervous. Brooklyn happily volunteers to go with them.