The Free

Love and Rage in the Rainforest

anarchistnews.org/Unceded Pacheedaht Territory

A year of continuous blockades against logging, on the invitation of hereditary chief Victor Peter and elder Bill Jones.

Three months of police invasion (aka “injunction enforcement” for logging company Teal Jones). 650+ arrests and counting. Thousands of participants, visitors, supporters… numerous solidarity actions near and far, and logging blockades underway in various other locations across this colonial province: british. columbia.

The RCMP’s pension fund owns TimberWest, one of the largest logging companies on the island. The RCMP’s Orwellian “Community Industry Response Group” (CIRG) was created in 2017, the 150th anniversary of Canada’s genocidal statehood, to facilitate militarized policing of resistance to colonial resource extraction.

Recently it has made significant incursions against the courageous land defenders dug in around the ancient Ada’itsx (Fairy Creek) rainforest, including a major assault on the blockade HQ and nearby camps begun on August 9th, the one year anniversary of the first Ada’itsx blockade.

While we would never count out this generational movement which has already proven its resilience time and again, the situation at the blockades seems dire at times lately. Our hearts are heavy, but our will is strong. At this time we offer a brief analysis of some overlooked aspects of this conflict, our deepest respect to many courageous rebels involved, and some criticism to the recuperative tendencies which, while not surprising to encounter, should nevertheless be discussed as the blockade movement evolves.

Continue reading “Love and Rage in the Rainforest: Defending the last Ancient Trees”

From Education to Liberation

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by crimethinc.com/categories/adventure shared with thanks

As students prepare to return to an increasingly dystopian learning environment, it’s a good time to revisit our assumptions about education itself.

see also by Crimethinc: No Gods, No Masters Degrees A Memoir of Struggle from Outside and Inside the Institutions of Learning

What is the purpose of our educational institutions?

How deeply do the premises of those institutions shape the ways that we approach learning, even in our “free time”?

How else might we go about developing and exploring our capacities?

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten,” B. F. Skinner put it. In other words, the function of education is not to enable the learner to acquire specific skills or knowledge so much as to inculcate certain habits and ways of thinking.

In a hyper-capitalist society, in which educational institutions chiefly serve to rank and categorize job applicants, the role of schools is not just to prepare us for the working world, but to resign us to it, reducing our ability to imagine any other form of learning.

The following text originally appeared in 2005 in the first issue of Rolling Thunder, our Anarchist Journal of Dangerous Living. In the years since, between declining employment prospects and “remote learning,” the horizon students face has only become bleaker.

Continue reading “Deschooling: Unlearning to Learn: How Compulsory education tames us. From Education to Liberation”

by: chaamjamal at tambonthongchai.com on: August 31, 2021

THIS POST IS A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF A PUBLISHED PAPER IN THE AAAS JOURNAL THAT ESTABLISHES THE CREDIBILITY OF CLIMATE SCIENCE WITH THE STATEMENT THAT “EVEN 50 YEAR OLD CLIMATE MODELS CORRECTLY PREDICTED GLOBAL WARMING.

LINK TO SOURCE: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming

PART-1: WHAT THE SOURCE PAPER SAYS

Global temperatures have risen approximately 0.9°C since 1970, though some areas have warmed much more than other

s. Seven older models missed the mark by as much as 0.1°C per decade. But the accuracy of five of those forecasts improved enough to match observations when the scientists adjusted a key input to the models: how much climate-changing pollution humans have emitted over the years.

Continue reading “THE INCREDIBLE CREDIBILITY OF CLIMATE SCIENCE”