Seems the IWGB organizing committee was victims of a company mole, feeding HR recordings of union meetings and shit.

"A group of about 4,000 protesters arrayed along San Francisco's waterfront, supported by boats and kayaks that blocked off entrance to the harbor, prevented the re-enactment of Columbus’ landing that was scheduled as part of a quincentennial Columbus Day celebration.

Egg-throwing demonstrators also provoked violence along the route of the annual parade through the city’s heavily Italian North Beach district. Police arrested 40 protesters--some of whom threw Molotov cocktails and bottles at officers--mainly for disrupting the parade and inciting to riot, authorities said.

After several passes in front of the landing site at Aquatic Park, the boat bearing 'Columbus' turned and sped away, delighting the chanting and hooting demonstrators onshore.

The demonstrations were the centerpiece of activities sponsored by the Resistance 500 Coalition for Indigenous People’s Month. Participants represented a cross-section of Bay Area activists, ranging from American Indians protesting what they term the genocide of their people, to anarchists and lesbians protesting the imperialism and patriarchy that they trace to Columbus’ arrival in the Americas."

-Los Angeles Times

An insightful interview about the complicity of the Taiwanese government and businesses in the genocide, and the actions and challenges of pro-Palestine solidarity organising by anarchists and other leftists in Taiwan.

Any moroccan comrades here

Hi,
I feel like I’m always seeing posts of companies to boycott that invest in ICE, AI, Israel, etc. but I’m having trouble finding alternatives for a lot of companies. For example I use Amazon to buy almost everything. I’m disabled so I pretty much shop online for everything I need. So what’s the best alternative to Amazon? Amazon is the biggest example I have but there’s so many more. Has anyone created like a master list of companies to boycott with good alternatives?
Any advice is appreciated, thank you

Hello! I have a friend who recently came across the 161 alphanumeric code in a comment section, he was worried it might have been a hate thing, and texted me about it because i spend a lot of time looking out for dogwhistles.

Symbols are pretty well known and obvious, but almost all alphanumeric symbols i've had to be taught by an elder in my community, or had to have explained to me. It struck me that someone must have catalogued, somewhere, common alphanumerics in the political sphere.

I come now to ask, does anyone have something like that? Even if its a list exclusive to certain ideologies (IE; only lists right wing alphanumerics like 88/1488, or only lists left wing codes like 1312/161.) My friend is currently in college, and i've realized a lot of people in our age group are very poorly educated on hate symbols and resistance symbols alike. Alphanumerics aren't all too common these days from what i know, but they still crop up. I'd love to be able for both of us to distribute flyers or links to anything in particular to our local communities.

If anyone knows of a list- book, website, blog post, any form its in that i can get my hands on- that'd be an awesome thing to share. Thanks for reading, excuse any formatting i am not a redditor nor am i on laptop.

Hi. I live in Turkey. I really love Sikhism and Anarchism. I spent almost my entire life in private schools, but I'm a class-traitor and anarchist. I live in Türkiye, but my family is against my views. They think I can't become a civil servant. What advice can you give me?

This guy, unfortunately, has received almost half of the country's votes. Education is the true portal for not falling for this kind of shit, thinking it's nothing important. And that's exactly what he and his fascist family wants to take away from Brazilian citizens.

[ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT AVANT-GARDE ARCHIVE] Following up on her uncompromised catalog featured last week, international anarchist and dissident artist and filmmaker Natali Cohen Vaxberg delivers a sharp 20-minute structural shock treatment and psychological short film titled "Purity" , fully armed with English subtitles:

What happened to little Purity when she found out about an imaginary creature called God? And what did it make her do on Yom Kippur

The film sharply and through black humor critiques the education system, parental attitudes toward their children, racism, bullying, and religious coercion. It demonstrates what happens when religion and nationhood are prioritized over human life.

Operating under an absolute institutional blockade and multiple state arrests for her radical public interventions, Vaxberg’s work completely rejects mainstream compromise. Presented with the deceptive framing of a surreal children's story, this concise performance piece turns into a deeply disturbing, pitch-black critique of structural isolation, collective civilian conditioning, and performative societal constraints. Utilizing a visceral aesthetic of profound discomfort, continuous loops, and severe auditory distress, she embodies the stylized personifications of an uncompromised Witch and a dark Angel to completely shatter traditional comfort frameworks from a raw outsider perspective.

To support her autonomous archive of resistance, search for her handle directly on YouTube and Instagram:

Natali Cohen Vaxberg

https://www.blackrosefed.org/web-solidarity-chicago-ice/

In this article, Heather, a member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation and public school worker affiliated with the Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) reflects on the deep organizing (and organizations) that went into resisting ICE's 'Operation Metro Surge' in Chicago.

Basically im in college right now (dumb 20 year old lol) majoring in criminal justice and currently have the future goal of wanting to be a paralegal or lawyer for unions or something helping people like giving legal aid to immigrants and stuff.

I've recently been starting to read some anarchist literature (Emma goldman) and it feels like my law class is making me in a strange way consider Anarchism more and more.

Like for example ive met some socialists who are public defenders and I have had conversations with them about their case load and how much work they have. Basically they get like 50 cases and the vast majority of those cases aren't even serious crimes but petty drug offenses or things of that nature. Things I dont even think need to be prosecuted in any sense.

My professor used to be a police officer then prosecutor and then became a defense attorney. This kinda have me pause though He is honest about how the system is made as of current to jail people as much as possible. He said that its super common for people to take plea deals like 99% because you can be in jail for years with no trial. So when they offer a deal that looks like "Plead guilty and leave jail today or risk a bad trial and go to Prison for 20 years" it just makes sense for most reasonable people to "confess" to get out of their imprisonment. Imprisonment that hasn't even been able to go to trial as Jails are the holding place between the court and Prison. How can the state just be allowed to do that? Well it seems that the state can do whatever it wants with no regard to the law at all!

Another thing I learned from this professor is that the state only paid out money to the people impriosned in the japense interment camps after FOURTY YEARS! What is even the point of the law if the state whenever it so chooses can break it and face no real consequences?

I was already a socialist and so understood that poverty makes crime happen more and that the legal system is unfair to working people but I guessed I assumed that just a socialization of the economy would fix this issue. But it seems to me more and more that the State itself is incapable of justice.

Emma Goldman made a point that has spurred this thought on epsecially. She states that 90% of crime is property and that the state exists to protect private property. I looked it up and yeah 80% of crime in the US is over property and other countries like Spain or Germany its 90 or 95%.

Which means that the state no matter how many public defenders there are or how many judges we have there will always be an insane backlog of cases and people who are in jail with no trials.

This is a bit ranty I suppose but I just wanted to share some of thoughts ive been thinking about recently as I cant really talk about Anarchism with many people lol. Im still learning about Anarchism and what justice in a stateless society would look like but so far im unimpressed with the states current method. I still think i want a job in the legal system but only in things like mentioned before like union or protecting rights.

Oi gente!

Procurando alguns memes de anarquia pra colocar no status do meu whatsapp durante esse período maluco de eleição, fui atrás de comunidades anarquistas do Brasil e as que achei têm publicações de mais de 1 ano!!!

Será que tem algum lugar que a anarquia está viva no Brasil? Se souber, pode linkar aqui nos comentários?

E se tiver memes anarquistas em português por favor também Linke aqui 🙏🙏🙏

To all the believers, i think you all should post outside of this sub, comment on ignorant shit. i think we are limiting our capacity just because we are too lazy. spark curiousity in other people too, increase the audience. if you all really believe in this shit, you know other people need to be educated too. the others are trying too hard to expand their propoganda, trying to brainwash people with unsophisticated, shallow quotes and texts. its your responsibility teach them for the better.

Radical women can talk about whatever they want in here.

This is an excerpt from my "Anarchy and Psychiatry" post on Raddle.

Unfortunately, even though knowledge on mental illnesses is growing, many people still cling onto the stigma that was present with them since the day they were born.

No, the weather isn’t “bipolar”. No, your enemies are not “brain damaged”. No, you are not funny making “schizo” “jokes”.

Narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths are not your enemy. They are not inherently evil and they are not in every position of the government. They can live perfectly fine lives without ever ruining anyone else’s. I, myself, am a narcissist. I am still an anarchist, I still want to help people and I do not wish to oppress anyone. Were you hurt by someone in a position of power in the past? That's terrible. This does not, however, give you an excuse to fearmonger about narcissists or psychopaths and smear your abusers with these labels, even if they are correct. It's not okay to hate all autistic people for bad experience with some of them, so why hate all those with "NPD" or "ASPD"?

Empathy is a problem that many struggle for, myself included. And yet I see people say that empathy is required to be a human or to be a good person. I, frankly, don’t care if someone can feel the same emotions as me. What matters are their actions. The psychiatrist in my ward can feel all my pain and sympathize with me, but a nicer prison guard is still a fucking prison guard. Nobody has to feel any kind of way to terrible things if they still oppose them. Just because someone struggles to feel anything looking at the victims of war, it doesn’t make them a bad person.

Schizospec disorders are among the most feared and misunderstood, as well the one some people find hilarious for some reason. Whether somebody says something incoherent or illogical, I keep seeing the fucking “A schizophrenic is talking” meme. I guess we are making fun of some of the most vulnerable people in society now. We are turning those who keep getting demonized and abused for no reason into the butt of the joke. People with schizospec disorders don’t exist in those people’s minds, or at least, not as those who are “deserving” of respect.

People with intellectual disabilities are used these days mostly as a way to insult people. Intelligence is seen as a virtue; smart people can never be wrong or not agree with their ideology. A person doing something foolish, naïve or imperfect can now be called “intellectually stunted”, “braindead” or the r-slur. Because apparently people with intellectual disabilities are all terrible and supportive of evil ideologies. Because only people with a high IQ should be listened to. Because it is cathartic to degrade your opponent’s intelligence…

I admit myself that I did not know of how ableist something I knew could be, nor did I immediately fix everything and stopped using ableist terms. It’s fine to be imperfect. Another thing entirely is digging your heels in and arguing that it’s totally okay to use someone’s mental illness as a figurative bat because “language changes”, or “it’s how everyone uses it”… Are you in solidarity will those with mental disabilities or no? Do you see them as actual people or as abstract concepts on a paper? We want to abolish all hierarchy. Psychiatry is one of them. Only with its destruction can liberation for the mad become possible. Combat it everywhere, in your mind, in others and in systems.

So I have 2 kids with her and I love them all so much. My oldest daughter is autistic and my partner has met a lot of parents at their school whom also have children with autism. There is one parent who is the wife of a cop.

Well her and my partner have become friends and she has been taking the kids over for play dates. Ive made it known that this makes me feel extremely uncomfortable even more so because we have a child with autism. She says I am being immature and I need to quit with my political bullshit.

Idk how to explain to her I'm really against this without coming across as me being controlling because I know her and the wife are friends and I don't want to take that away from them but like I said I'm very uncomfortable with the kids being around a cop.

I usually don't post about personal issues anywhere on social media but since it is an issue with my anarchist principals I thought it fitting to come here for advice.

Noam Chomsky mentioned in one of his interviews that if you have to work just to provide for your basic needs (shelter, food, minimal utilities), you're basically a modern slave selling yourself for 8+ hours a day. He attributed this ides to earlier anarchists of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He didn't mention any names. Could you guys give me some pointers as to who first sounded out this concern? As far as I understand this idea is much older than that. I remember Aristotle said something to the effect that if you do manual labour, you cannot be considered a free person, but I'm interested in modern iterations of this thought and arguments to support it. I could ask AI, sure. But I'd rather talk to real human beings. Thank you

Hi