I need you to start using Facebook again-- really. I mean it.
I need you to start sharing information there. Share leftist news. Share real news about #Palestine. Share #BLM posts. Share #Queer & #Trans news and resources. Share #Climate Crisis news. Share increasingly #radical memes and personal takes. Ramp it the fuck up till you're worried your family & friends will think you're absolutely unhinged.
I'm completely serious.
Why? Because older people use it who only get their news from Fox or CNN. Because your centrist friends and conservative family are there. Because you are the last line of hope for them to learn anything about what's really happening, and about things that actually matter. Some of them know you and trust you enough to listen-- not all, but some. They aren't going to read theory or pay attention without a thread or connection to someone else that cares.
They need real connections like you so that these ideas are not abstract.
How'd you like to travel a few years into a future world of positive outcomes?
Maybe if we practice imagining what that could be, we might be more inclined to
MAKE IT SO! (he shouted).
If that is challenging, you might want to listen closely to some of the, so far, 98 episodes of From What If to What Next. If we can't imagine it, it's not fucking likely to happen, eh? We can retrain our brains.
"If there was ever a time for fresh thinking, for being bold, for being visionary and imaginative – for reimagining everything – this is it. Each episode, writer and Transition Movement founder, Rob Hopkins, invites cutting edge thinkers to visualise a new future. Join us as we ask What If..." #permaculture#TransitionTowns https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/from-what-if-to-what-next/id1538281063
86 - What if care, cooperation, kinship and collective wellbeing were the ethics we lived by?
"When it comes to work that celebrates the #radical imagination, Jayna Brown's recent book #Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the #Music of Other Worlds is one of the most fascinating that I've read recently. Jayna is professor in the Graduate Program in #Media Studies at Pratt Institute, and for this episode she is joined by Kevin Quashie, who teaches black cultural and literary studies and is a professor in the department of English at Brown University." https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/86-what-if-care-cooperation-kinship-and-collective/id1538281063?i=1000629043264
My #smashbysmashwest talk is in less than 24 hours! <3 Please share widely! I'll be discussing the intersection of #teen liberation and #trans#anarchy, and how #radical spaces can be more inclusive of #youth. It'll be gay, bro.
Flyer reads:
queer youth liberation workshop
@ Smash By Smash West
this discussion-based workshop on youth liberation, recently presented at Queers Bash Back 2023, will explore the intersection of anti-queerness and ageism, how radical spaces can be more inclusive to young organizers, and what it means to be, well, an angry queer teenager. organizers of all ages welcome.
facilitated by trans teen organizer mk zariel (they/them) of Debate Me Bruh, THE CHILD AND ITS ENEMIES, and the Anarchist Review of Books.
7PM to 8:30 PM CT, March 12
jitsi.anarchy.chat/YouthLiberationSXSW
& in-person at Monkeywrench Books
Gentle reminder that usually what is called too radical today, like government taking over vacant buildings under eminent domain for low cost housing, is both the way of the future and moral.
This example of a US pre-revolutionary abolitionist Quaker is a perfect one. He harangued, lobbied and shamed his fellows in order to get slavery and indentured servitude destroyed. Yet he was called a radical then (and to some extent even now) for his actions. Even today, I reckon he would be called a radical by half the White population for wanting to abolish slavery completely as in prison labor.
Moral: todays progressive radical is often tomorrows moral hero. #slavery #prison #servitude #radical #freedom #hero
#America is struggling w/ several crises, most notably a #radical, #antidemocratic leader & movement controlling one of its major #political parties. America’s journalism industry is also in crisis: Its traditional funding sources are drying up, leading to mass #layoffs.
We think you may have forgotten about us. Or, at the very least, you are trying to. The new normal in society at large excludes many people, among them some of your comrades: us. Need we remind you that disabled and chronically ill people can be radical leftists? The entire range of self-proclaimed radical leftist politics should include anti-ableism by default. Without anti-ableism as a founding principle, all that remains of the radical left project is hypocrisy.
Today in Labor History November 16, 1849: Russian authorities gave a death sentence to author Fyodor Dostoevsky for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group called the Petrashevsky Circle. He and his colleagues were lined up before the firing squad when, at the last minute, a cart arrived with a letter from the Tsar, commuting their sentence. He still had to serve 4 years hard labor in Siberia. Dostoevsky alludes to his experience before the firing squad in his 1868-1869 novel, “The Idiot.”
Turkish president claims the US has been training and arming all terrorist groups at some 20 military bases in Syria, and turning entire Middle East into a bloodshed by unleashing them.
It seems that #Erdogan is preparing his supporters for a confrontation with the US. His intelligence asset, jihadist IHH chairman Bulent Yildirim, vowed to pick a fight with "Great Satan" during a public rally held today in #Turkey's Istanbul.
A man from the crowd responded to his call by saying that they will kill all US troops deployed to the region.
Photo:
Bulent Yildirim [Leader of Turkish jihadist charity IHH 13 Oct.2023]: "The real Zionist state is America. Israel is its outpost. Therefore, mobilize in all the streets against America with the words "Down with America." The entire Islamic world will unite against this Great Satan" 👀
@raymondpert for all us old folks who have degrees in religion, philosophy, english, heaven forbid, journalism, literature, the arts....etc., we had no idea how #radical we were, nor that we would be labeled as such now w such vitriol - Carry On!
Imagine being this oblivious. 70% of Americans support a woman's right to #abortion; the greatest level of support in America's #history. Prior to the recent, horrible #Dobbs decision, abortion rights were guaranteed for 50 years. So, how could the #Democrat's position on abortion possibly be considered "#radical"? Isn't a position that is overwhelmingly contrary to what the vast #majority of people believe, and contrary to the #historical#statusQuo the radical view?
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
Yes, #UN, immediately implemented and ongoing #radical Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions are the only way for #humans and our #civilizations to survive, and hopefully thrive.