the misery of the courtiers culture in France A US SAM in Kiev on May 16 (social networks) Among numerous liars and mercantile pen pushers who are nowadays populating Western mainstream media, French ones are undoubtedly the worst stooges. I guess the issue is atavistic or otherwise, congenital, a strong courtiers culture. On May 16, a […]
The American plantation relies on the mental distress of those it oppresses. As revolutionaries, we seek the liberation of people in bondage, both in prisons and psych wards.
In order to eliminate patriarchy, capitalism, gender, and anti-blackness, we must address the significant psychological damage these forces inflict.
The trauma caused by social isolation, psychological manipulation and physical oppression is felt by all of those who are locked up, enslaved and otherwise targeted by the barbaric enforcers of white supremacy.
The rampant psychological distress we are accustomed to is the effect of living in a depraved world.
It is not possible to address “mental illness” without addressing the overwhelmingly reactionary nature of American society.
Psychological Emancipation for Revolutionary Abolition seeks to create ways of dealing with psychological distress which build up the revolutionary relationships that are needed to help people stay free.
The skills, ideas and methods of organization proposed in this call for a revolutionary abolitionist approach to psychological emancipation will be useful to anyone seeking to overcome the psychological barriers to securing their own liberation.
We must not only be supporting our fellow revolutionaries in their time of psychological need, but developing the patterns and practices of social cohesion that create strong bonds more capable of withstanding state repression, dealing with psychological distress, and undertaking militant action.
But the ultimate goal of PERA is to destroy locked psychiatric treatment, prisons, and the state itself.
This means that to truly succeed PERA requires support from and coordination with a broader abolitionist network, the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement.
We are the Campaign for Psychiatric Abolition (CPA), a collective of psychiatric survivors who are fighting against the violence of policing, prisons and psychiatry.
We want to demonstrate that our collective struggles against imperialism, racism, capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy and the climate catastrophe are also a struggle against psychiatry.
The storefront of Altitude Cannabis Club in Brooklyn, NY was attacked with three of its windows shattered and a message scrawled on its door.
The building that Altitude is located at is the former address of the Base, an anarchist political space that many of us revolutionaries held near and dear to our hearts and gave us a space to build community, make friends and comrades, sharpen our political knowledge, debate with others, and grow into the thorns in the side of the state and capitalism that we are today.
One thing that set the Base apart from other spaces in the city, which are run by fossilized Marcyites, hipster anarcho liberals, or bourgeois leftists of various shades, is the uncompromising focus on anti-imperialism, old school anti-capitalist radicalism, support for political prisoners, regardless of tendency, and promoting anarchism through the lens of the history of the struggle against slavery and colonialism.
The Base was the only leftist space with a preponderance of working class people in the collective or frequenting the space, many of whom were people of color, and not despite this, but because of this, they were always against liberal identity politics; which in essence is the politics of white university culture.
It was the only space that always welcomed neighborhood people and homeless folks without judgment, treated people as equals and assisted with day to day struggles.
Unlike other political spaces, the Base cared about providing us a constructive space, keeping bad actors and abusive personalities out, and became the space where those of us fed up with yuppie or cult run spaces and activist groups came to get to know each other and formulate our ideas and plans for the future.
When the landlords evicted the Base and Altitude took over, it was obvious that Altitude probably had no hand in the eviction process. However the stark contrast of what used to be and what now is was very symbolic.
An overpriced, gentrified weed club where yuppies go to waste their money instead of supporting locals, staffed by despicable hippies and hipsters.
And so in the dead of night we struck back. A last hurrah to the best anarchist space on the east coast.
The space may be gone, but the ideas and bonds that were built and expanded upon there will never be broken until we all take our last dying breaths.
We will fight to continue the legacy they aimed to promote and will continue struggling against all that oppresses us.
Death to the state and capital!
US and NATO out of everywhere!
Death to every tyrant and oppressor whether big or small! And may all the landlords and the gentrifiers who sustain them be one day robbed of their ill gotten wealth and property and may it be distributed to the working class.
Submitted by anon (not verified) on Tue, 02/07/2023 – 20:45
But is this contrast between a yuppie cannabis club in its smug exclusive bubble much different from a group indulging heavily with intellectual bong-farting full of hot impotent fantasies about their social Utopia?
Submitted by anon (not verified) on Tue, 02/07/2023 – 21:27
not from such a distant glance. it’s a case of one specific group of people displacing the other, not of differing intragroup dynamics and activities. also the displaced group identifies as working class, while the yuppies identify as who knows what, since they haven’t issued a communique yet at this time
Submitted by anon (not verified) on Wed, 02/08/2023 – 08:22
“a group indulging heavily with intellectual bong-farting full of hot impotent fantasies”
Nobody who read past the headline or knew anything about the Base and what they actually, physically did in the surrounding area of BK would troll this badly. I guess it’s mean to be humour which is why it remains undeleted. Charming.
Submitted by anon (not verified) on Sat, 02/11/2023 – 11:54
“a group indulging heavily with intellectual bong-farting full of hot impotent fantasies”
Its always those that are doing absolutely dick to better their community that make comments like this. For those of us that struggle and those of us that struggle to make a difference, we know the odds we are up against. We know that until we shut it all down, the state will always come a knocking.
I don’t need to know this person to know that they are as helpful as their comment, always with criticism and never with solutions. The boiled down version of their argument is, “your dream of a better future will never be so you’re wasting your time.” but this is objectively not true. We can dream big and still make significant worthwhile changes to the lives of those we interact with and that matters.
Anarchism will never die so long as people resist and people will always resist against injustice, domination and exploitation. We won’t let the State slow us down and people like this guy, and they are almost certainly a white dude, are nothing next to that.
I applaud your efforts comrades and the symbolism of your action.
Panic broke out on Ukrainian social media over reports that during the detonation of the huge ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky. A large batch of British depleted uranium tank ammunition, which was recently brought in to Ukraine along with Storm Shadow missiles, was also destroyed.
And so it begins. We introduced these, and other countries followed our lead. We sent spent depleted Uranium reinforced projectiles to Ukraine to use against Russia in our FOURTH major violation of existing treaties. Now? Nuclear Radiation.
DU dust can be inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through scratches in the skin. It is linked to DNA damage, cancer, birth defects, and multiple other health problems, and contaminates the surrounding area with toxic waste that has a half-life of 4.5 billion years,
Russia sent 21 drones to an army missile silo causing an enormous fireball which injured dozens, as per reports.
The local military administration said on Telegram that “critical infrastructure” had been hit in the May 12 attack.
A spike in gamma radiation was detected around May 12, with emission continuing to rise the following day and remaining at the elevated level thereafter.
Taking into account how little gamma radiation comes from depleted uranium, this spike indicates that the stockpile of depleted uranium munitions was destroyed there.
From the sad experiences of both Yugoslavia and Iraq, one may conclude that an outbreak of cancer should be expected in the region in the future.
The mushroom-like explosion in Khmelnytskyi struck a depot storing missiles and ammunition, say reports. Ukraine denied Russian reports that the strike caused significant losses to the armed forces.
LANSING, MI — Beavers, muskrats, rabbits, opossums, weasels and several types of squirrel, including chipmunks, are now legal to trap and kill in Michigan without a permit under recent nuisance wildlife regulation changes.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) expanded the list of critter species that landowners can kill to prevent property damage during the state Natural Resources Commission meeting on Thursday, May 11 in Lansing.
Acting DNR Director Shannon Lott approved the change under her office’s authority. The commission did not vote or discuss the matter in detail last week.
The goal is to reduce conflicts between humans and animals as more Michigan farm and forestlands fall to development,DNR says…
Panic is developing on Ukrainian social media over reports that during the detonation of an ammunition depot in Khmelnytsky, a large batch of British depleted uranium tank ammunition, which was recently brought in to Ukraine along with Storm Shadow missiles, was also destroyed.
As a result of the huge explosion, particles of depleted uranium may have been dispersed on the territory of the entire Khmelnytsky region.
Reports claim that the background radiation has increased in the area.
Russia sent 21 drones to an army missile silo causing an enormous fireball which injured dozens, as per reports.
The local military administration said on Telegram that “critical infrastructure” had been hit in the May 12 attack.
A spike in gamma radiation was detected around May 12, with emission continuing to rise the following day and remaining at the elevated level thereafter.
Taking into account how little gamma radiation comes from depleted uranium, this spike indicates that the stockpile of depleted uranium munitions was destroyed there.
And so it begins. We introduced these, and other countries followed our lead. We sent spent depleted Uranium reinforced projectiles to Ukraine to use against Russia in our FOURTH major violation of existing treaties. Now? Nuclear Radiation.
From the sad experiences of both Yugoslavia and Iraq, one may conclude that an outbreak of cancer should be expected in the region in the future.
The mushroom-like explosion in Khmelnytskyi struck a depot storing missiles and ammunition, say reports. Ukraine denied Russian reports that the strike caused significant losses to the armed forces.
Varios cientos de personas participaron en las actividades que se celebraron este sábado 13 de mayo en Bilbao, dentro de la jornada “Gora Kuba Soberana. Unblock Cuba!” (¡Viva Cuba Soberana. Desbloqueen Cuba!), organizada por la asociación de amistad Euskadi-Cuba y las asociaciones de la emigración cubana patriótica en Euskal Herria, Sierra Maestra y Desembarco del Granma, con el grupo musical cubano Buena Fe como protagonista principal. La jornada se enmarca, a su vez, en la campaña unitaria del movimiento de solidaridad con la Isla en toda Europa llamada “Unblock Cuba!”.
A las 18:00 horas, una concentración silenciosa contra el bloqueo de EEUU sobre el pueblo de Cuba reunió, en la calle Ronda del Casco Viejo de Bilbao, a decenas de personas solidarias y a un numeroso grupo de cubanos y cubanas residentes en Bilbao.
Posteriormente, en la sala Bira, ubicada en la calle Ronda 2, se…
A 530-pound boar grizzly bear was found dead near Newton Creek Picnic Site on the morning of May 1. A Cody hunter has been charged with killing the animal.
The grizzly bear found dead along the North Fork Highway last week was killed by a Cody area hunter who said he mistook the animal for a black bear, according to court documents.
The hunter, Patrick M. Gogerty, reportedly came forward on May 2 — the day after he reportedly shot the bear, and after the bear’s carcass drew widespread public attention.
“Gogerty should have turned himself in immediately,” North Cody Game Warden Travis Crane wrote in an affidavit included in court records.
Park County Prosecuting Attorney Bryan Skoric charged Gogerty on Thursday with a misdemeanor count of taking a trophy game animal without the proper license or…
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