fuck yeah!
it's possible I shoulda used Southwest Asia, I'm not really 100% sure the current best terminology. But yeah even as a little kid "the middle-east" didn't make any sense to me as a term, anymore than the fact that "the midwest" is about the area immediately west of the east coast
and as always, preorders have a disproportionate impact in the publishing world, because they provide a spike of sales right at release, which tells the publisher to promote a book and the author, so it's always worth preordering books you care about.
you can preorder it and I recently set up affiliate links with @firestorm.coop because they're a cooperative bookstore that is rad as hell, if you want a discount and to support a rad store.
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And how in exchange the zionists were to try to stop the Jewish Labor Bund from trying to overthrow the Tsar?
Or just read about teenagers armed with rocks and guns taking on capitalists, antisemites, zionists, proto-tankies, and the police every nation while singing and holding each other close.
Like, want to read about how political zionism from the very beginning made a deal with the minister of the interior of the Russian Empire (the same minister behind the promotion of pogroms) to try to get Palestine for their colonization?
holy fuck, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's new book is fire. I'm interviewing her about it for Cool People, but seriously, I read history books about this exact time period for a living and I don't know that I've seen an author pull off "this is how this history matters today" quite so well.
i'm curious about your hesitancy? I've only ever heard or read positive things about him, like an embrace of feminism and anarchism. but i've only read so much
this week's post is about preparing for oil crises, for some odd reason
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Thank you!! Proud of that one
Thank you!! Proud of that one
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 💃
Margaret continues her conversation with Raechel Anne Jolie about labor organizing among sex workers in the United States.
@margaret.bsky.social @rebelgrrlraechel.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
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I know a lot of places have organized to stop detention centers but I haven't personally made a study of how they're getting stopped
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 💃
Margaret talks with Raechel Anne Jolie about labor organizing among sex workers in the United States
@margaret.bsky.social @rebelgrrlraechel.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod
Just a wonderful conflagration of things I adore, between @margaret.bsky.social , @rebelgrrlraechel.bsky.social, sex worker rights and history, and union organizing.
You simply must listen.
Also, you know, support @casw304.bsky.social, @swaidcollective.bsky.social, @swop-usa.bsky.social, etc.!
Oh right!
I thiiiink the only episodes that are specifically on the subject are the episodes on Sholem schwarzbard. Black Banner got discussed a fair amount in another episode, and the bund comes a lot on the side. I'm excited for @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 's new book on them
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
"Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free." --David Graeber
Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work
I work at a CNC shop. It seemed you were talking to me in one of your recent Cool People episodes.
this sounds like an insult but I mean it earnestly: i was impressed by how boring it was. Just people doing people things. Later there was a big punk festival in the park to celebrate too, but I just went to boring meetings and reportbacks about history in an anarchist office building and it ruled.
TBH that's always felt a bit like an outdated policy, but I suppose the people who make those policies know more about labor organizing than I do.
well fine i'll count it because I went to y'all's 100th anniversary celebrations and it was the first time I saw an anarchist-owned office building.
honestly I had them written into one of the drafts of this piece, but it was already 3x longer than my usual post. It's a really, really similar structure.
oh lord i never go to meetings. They sent me an email asking if i wanted to meet up with organizers in my area and told them "no thanks i just want to pay my dues and talk about our rad history"
Meta also does active harm and its owner eats dinner with Trump, but I continue to use Instagram to reach people with ideas and Facebook Marketplace to buy weird old junk off strangers in Appalachia.
It's a funding and dissemination structure for independent writing, and it's an effective one. The main alternative people suggest, Ghost, doesn't have content restrictions either it appears and also provides a platform to anyone willing to use its software.
When people pushed Patreon to ban Nazis, it led to several prominent anarchist projects losing their funding. I don't trust tech companies to be the arbiters of speech.
I'm bothered by Substack's platforming of fascists, but I think the majority of its top political newsletters are left-leaning.
my reasons for staying on substack are complicated and unlikely to address your concerns, but: I have found that when we ask platforms to develop codes of conduct and deplatform the rightwing, it is adult content creators and anarchists who find themselves deplatformed and demonetized.
