The Free

A look at how the Black Lives Matter movement, through ideas and action, gives rebels tools in which to engage in social struggle.

by Paul Messersmith-Glavin from Its Going Down shared with thanks.. illustrations added

photo via: @MaranieRae

Using an intersectional, anarchist analysis we can see how racism, patriarchy, and class society are intertwined producing a society that actively is changing the climate. We can begin to untangle these relationships, digging into the history of white supremacy to see how it reinforces capitalist social relations producing the ecological crisis we confront. The Black Lives Matter movement offers us the chance, both through its critique and methods, to move closer to a society that no longer changes the climate.

If we view various forms of domination as forming a ball of twine, we can see how pulling on one string can start to unravel the whole thing. Approaching racism, patriarchy, and class exploitation, for example, as interlocking and mutually reinforcing, organizing against any one of these might begin to reveal connections and relationships to the whole. Each is a potential entryway to understanding the complexity and interconnection of contemporary hierarchies. Better comprehending these relationships offers the possibility of beginning to detangle them. In this way we can relate the movement for Black lives, for instance, to the movement for climate justice.

As with police violence, pollution disproportionately impacts Black and poor communities. For instance, a recent study found that Black people are exposed to twice the particulate matter as white people, and that Hispanics had more exposure than non-Hispanic whites. The study also found that people in poverty had more exposure than people not in poverty. That the people of Flint, Michigan, almost half of whom live in poverty, were drinking lead contaminated water is only one of the more well-known recent examples.

In Texas, environmental racism is in our FACE

Continue reading “Black Lives Matter and the Future of Humanity”

In this issue:

1. We will prevail!
2. Naming the enemy
3. Shattering illusions
4. Here comes Santa Klaus!
5. Jaime Semprun: an orgrad inspiration
6. Acorninfo

1.  We will prevail!

It was back in March 2020 that we first reported signs of resistance against the Covid-themed totalitarian coup.

We hoped back then that this would quickly develop into a largescale uprising that would quickly see off this unprecedented global power grab.

Things didn’t quite work out that way, though, and opposition has been much slower to build than we would have imagined.

But now, as 2020 draws to an end, things in England and elsewhere are finally hotting up.

People who were pro-lockdown are seeing through the illusion, and GPs and hospital staff are voicing their huge concerns about the mRNA vaccine and so-called hospital statistics.

Continue reading “The Acorn – 62.. December 2020 by winter oak … We will prevail!… Naming theEnemy… Shattering illusions”

nota: traducción del inglés. Ofrecemos este traducción del ensayo de Dr Jaeckle porque da un sumario de la novela The Free que solo existe en el inglés, y que puede ser interesante.

“El tratamiento ficticio más detallado del movimiento de un mundo reconociblemente como el nuestro a una sociedad anarquista que he leído … imaginado con la suficiente fuerza como para permitir que los lectores crean que los eventos podrían suceder de esta manera”.

El Dr. Daniel P. Jaeckle es autor de Embodied Anarchy en The Dispossessed de Ursula K. Le Guin

Uno de los temas más espinosos que enfrentan los anarquistas es imaginar un proceso viable mediante el cual el mundo contemporáneo de dominación y opresión pasa a un mundo de libertad e igualdad. ¿El proceso debe ser evolutivo o revolucionario, y si es lo último, debe ser violento o no violento? Curiosamente, no hay muchas ficciones anarquistas dedicadas a describir un proceso tan transformador. La mayoría asume que la sociedad anarquista ya existe y prestan poca atención a cómo surgió, o postulan algún evento catastrófico que acaba con el antiguo orden y permite que surja uno nuevo.

Rara vez un autor esboza pacientemente un proceso de transformación que muestre un progreso continuo desde algo parecido al estado actual de la sociedad a uno anarquista. 1*

Es por esta razón que The Free de M. Gilliland merece un ensayo aquí.
Es el tratamiento de ficción más detallado del movimiento de un mundo reconociblemente como el nuestro a una sociedad anarquista que he leído. Más importante aún, se imagina con la suficiente fuerza para permitir que los lectores crean que los eventos podrían suceder de esta manera. Es decir, da respuestas plausibles a las dos preguntas más importantes con respecto a tal transformación: ¿bajo qué condiciones previas es probable que ocurra y, una vez que comience, qué factores contribuyen más a su éxito? Después de un breve resumen de la trama, trazo las respuestas que The Free da a estas preguntas.3*

Continue reading “ensayo: Imaginando una Revolución Anarquista : The Free de M. Gilliland .. por Dr. Daniel P. Jaeckle”