Category: social revolution

Macho Men die EARLY

One of the defenses of the macho ethic is that it encourages men to be tough to protect their families. Even if that were true, you can’t protect if you’re not there.

A study last month revealed a truth many of us have long suspected: men with “macho” attitudes are more reluctant to seek health care—and as a result experience shorter life expectancy and greater medical problems—than men who hold less traditional views. According to the Rutgers University researchers, men who believed in rigid gender roles (like the idea that women should be homemakers while men work) were 46 percent less likely than their more progressive peers to seek out vital life-saving preventative health care.

via Macho Men Die Early: The Destructive Rules of Traditional Masculinity | Gender | AlterNet.

Lets stop torture..of animals and people!

ALF Actions Around the World

http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions-index.htm

Kropotkin.. Updating Mutual Aid

O. Wilson and Peter Kropotkin are not often discussed in the same breath. Yet Kropotkin, who in his professional life was a geographer, devoted a substantial work (Mutual Aid, 1902) to elaborating his ideas on cooperation as an important factor in species evolution. Although his ideas never achieved dominance, as evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould observed in 1997, “Kropotkin was no crackpot.” His efforts were a reaction to Social Darwinism, the misbegotten, deformed progeny of Darwin’s biological theories of evolution,…

….However, in recent years, Wilson has reversed his position on the importance of the paradigm he championed. Kin selection theory, now the dominant model, is, Wilson believes, inadequate to explain the observed cooperative behavior that species, from humans to ants, exhibit. His alternative theory: that groups of perhaps quite unrelated individuals who cooperative amongst themselves achieve greater evolutionary success. The idea is certainly intuitive. In a social species like humans, it is evident that cooperation is a fundamental component of our natures…..cont/

via ideas and action » Kropotkin Selection? Updating Mutual Aid.

Stop Nuclear, Oil, Coal… And Wind ??

I think the image says it all. We can come up with some fairly legitimate reasons why we want to move away from nuclear, oil and coal as fuel sources. But wind? That’s when the arguments against this renewable energy start to run fairly thin. And NIMBYism? Well, that one will hopefully fizzle out entirely.

More Environmental Cartoons What Would Emerge From the Earth’s Cocoon? (Cartoon) Forget Me Knot (Cartoon) Share the Road (Cartoon) Act Natural (Cartoon) via Arguments Against Nuclear, Oil, Coal… And Wind (Pic) : TreeHugger.

The Freecycle Network

changing the world one gift at a time

Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,941 groups with 8,429,212 members around the world. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers (them’s good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by entering it into the search box above or by clicking on ‘Browse Groups’ above the search box. Have fun!

via The Freecycle Network.

Hunger Strike prisoners statement(Chile)

Update: Visit santiaskoanarquista for more information and reports day-by-day on the situation.

It’s difficult to summarize the events of the recent wave of repression, the coarse televised spectacle cements itself in the political-judicial-police machine, reproducing and drawing from the Italian process known as “Marini” and “Cervantes” during which various social centers and squatted houses were raided and the inhabitants charged with being an “Armed Gang.” Operation Salamander (A similar Chilean species) captured 14 people under the charges of Illicit Terrorist Association, and of transportation or placing of explosive devices.

Affectionate friendships were transformed and mutated into a hierarchical structure. Many of the arrested never even knew each other.

Who would have guessed that the idea of living without reproducing power would lead to us being judged as an Illicit Association? The political functionaries maintain that the squatted houses were utilized as conspiracy centers to manufacture bombs; they say nothing of the libraries for

Continued….

via Statement from Maximum Security Section: Regarding Hunger Strike (Chile).

Barcelona: Combative May Day

May Day 2011 comes on the heels of two general strikes (29S, in September, called for by all the unions, and 27G, in January, called only by the anarchosyndicalist and radical independent unions). These strikes saw the creation of over half a dozen neighborhood assemblies and a periodic

coordination between them, as well as other groups organizing at a citywide level. The confrontational barricades and pickets of the minoritarian unions (CNT and CGT) were vindicated, as were the insurrectionary anarchists’ tactics of attack and idea of an uncontrolled generalization of the struggle.

via Barcelona : A Combative May Day Regained (Catalunya).