As climate change intensifies and human activity impacts every corner of the planet, repairing our world increasingly means realizing that our fate is intertwined with that of other animal and plant species — not separate from theirs — and that we must think and act accordingly.
If it wasn’t already clear, the Covid-19 pandemic has made it painfully obvious that our lives are entwined with the lives of other animals.
Our health depends on theirs, not only because viruses from their bodies can enter ours, but because we survive thanks to the soil they fertilize and the plants they pollinate.
Kawesqar National Park in Patagonia, Chile, is regarded as one of the world’s few remaining intact wild lands. Antonio Vizcaíno / www.parquesnacionales.cl
And as climate disruption escalates, it’s evident that many animals are buffering us from its worst effects, maintaining ecosystems that absorb carbon and help mitigate the effects of sea-level rise.
On Saturday, May 8, there was a Solidarity Rally with the Prisoners of February 27 in front of Brians I Prison.
As they say on the El Lokal page, where we found the above poster, on May 4 the provincial court issued an order denying the release of the six detainees who have been in preventive detention since 27F.
These comrades have been deprived of liberty for 67 days, despite the inconsistency of the evidence and the disproportionate accusations.
May 2021 from Autonomies collective. by Amedeo Bertolo
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.Fernando Birri quoted by Eduardo Galeano
There can be no radical political project – in the broadest sense of “political” -, without myth. And myth projected into the future is utopian.
This is not to abandon the critique of ideology, of hegemonic ideology and its monstrous children: social and/or political vanguards,power as a monolith to be taken or lost, homogeneous space and linear time as the frame of history, moral utilitarianism and instrumental reason, and so on.
Utopia as freedom or freedom as utopia exists in continuous and ever possible tension within itself, defying all homogeneity and fixity. It is condemned to plurality, multiplicity, metamorphoses, collapse, destruction and creation. It is anarchy, the anarchy that sustains anarchism(s) as ideolog(y/ies). And so argues Amedeo Bertolo in the essay that we share below.
With this post, we close our collection of essays by Amedeo Bertolo, part of our series grouped under the title, “writers of May 68”, within which we have included Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós, Eduardo Colombo and Amedeo Bertolo.
The reference to “May 68” is a political metaphor in this instance, for aside from Semprun, the other three writers were in their respective countries of origin at the time (Amorós was in Spain, Bertolo in italy, and Colombo in Argentina), but all four writers would be profoundly marked by the events of May and would endeavour to rethink anarchism in the wake of those events.
Three of the essays that we will share in English translation were passed onto us by others. They are: “Authority, Power and Domination”, “Fanatics of Freedom”, “Democracy and Beyond”. We have made changes to the translations only when we believed it was necessary
Our modest effort is dedicated to the memory of Amedeo.
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The Utopian Function in the Anarchist Imaginary
(A text presented at the seminar, “Les Incendiaires de l’Imaginaire”, Grenoble, March 19-21, 1998, and published in AA.VV., Les Incendiaires de l’Imaginaire, Atelier de Création Libetraire, Lyon, 2000).
The following info is from the Corporate mass lies media.. The RobinHood group has been blamed! Why is nobody asking what are the stolen secrets so criminal that Colonial Pipe people prefer to close down everything rather than pay up..
All the fossil fuel industry is an immoral swindle poisoning the planet for obscene profits for billionaires, bribing and blackmailing to cover up Climate Change for a whole generation till its nearly too late to save ourselves and millions of species, buying up politicians to get gigantic ”subsidies” and avoid…..etc…….
The Regime has leaked that it was the ‘RobinHood’ group called Dark Side…the Mass Lies media is already blaming the Russians!.. But fossil fuels do NEED TO BE STOPPED… and YESTERDAY!
”DarkSide claims it doesn’t attack hospitals and nursing homes, educational or government targets and that it donates a portion of its take to charity. …Colonial didn’t say whether it has paid or was negotiating a ransom, and DarkSide …”
Corporate arsonists are torching forests in Brazil — and the “worst company in the world” is likely to profit from the disaster: Cargill, an agribusiness giant responsible for environmental destruction and human rights violations on a massive scale, makes billions producing soy and meat in South America.
To: the management of McDonald’s, Burger King, Walmart, Unilever, the Dutch company Ahold Delhaize and others
“Cargill is responsible for massive environmental degradation and human rights violations. We call on you to drop Cargill from your suppliers. “
Numerous corporations are guilty of trashing nature. Major chocolate manufacturers, countless palm oil producers and global fast-food chains are all driving the decline of the world’s forests, savannas and other ecosystems.
Yet when it comes to environmental destruction, Cargill dwarfs…
The following zines were published in the broad anarchist space over the past month. We encourage folks to read, discuss, debate, and circulate the zines they find relevant. We have heard of folks using these round-ups as a way of staying informed, as the basis for sending mailings to prisons, and for reading groups.
Note: It has been a while since we have done one of these, but we will be publishing these monthly again. If you have suggestions for zines to include, please contact us.
Zines and Pamphlets – April 2021
Without Police: Community Safety & Accountability Alternatives in Three Examples
This zine collects stories of communities who have developed working alternatives to police with an eye towards expanding conversations around abolishing police.
The Free 