@fw-will.bsky.social
He/Him. Parent, Wobbly, Anarchist. Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Capitalist. No human beings are illegal. Trans rights are human rights. Free 🇵🇸 An injury to one is an injury to all. Building the new world within the shell of the old.
Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.
If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.
If you didn't like it? They took you out.
Peter Kropotkin, one of the most important and underrated thinkers of our time, died on this day in history, February 8, 1921 near Moscow.
Words of a Rebel is just $5 today. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
I watched until the end. I legit cried during the last part. Like the whole time lol. Thank you Alec.
deleting a white supremacist dating site live onstage while dressed as the pink power ranger has got to be one of the most cathartic hacker experiences
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Americans are not at all ready for the full scale mainstreaming of literal fascists now that media has been retooled as a weapon of anti democracy and fascist consolidation.
The fascist machinery will fire anyone critical of the fascist takeover and boost those who are willing to capitulate.
#OtD 1 Aug 1837 legendary Irish-born US labour organiser and co-founder of the @IWW, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was baptised (her birthdate is unknown) in Cork, Ireland stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8044...
Objecting to AI on legal grounds is a waste of time because the law is owned by whoever has the money to pay for it. Object to AI because it's an affront to the human spirit, because it produces objective garbage, and because it's a massive waste of energy (machine and biological).
Murray Bookchin, who died this day in 2006: "If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."
Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.
He went alone and beat the odds.
youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...
Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism
#OtD 23 Jul 1944 19-year-old French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a Nazi officer walking in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lives to this day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9570...
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
Active duty/West Point teacher Major David Simeroth exposed here: pugetsoundanarchists.org/dragged-into...
If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare…
Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?
RISE UP
#OtD 17 Jul 1921 workers in Civitavecchia, Italy, set up a local battalion of the militant anti-fascist group the Arditi del Popolo. Maritime, coal, and cement workers formed the backbone of the org, which kept fascists at bay for several months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8890...
Thank a billionaire.
If y'all don't start learning to think in Systems I dont think we're gonna make it.
Every problem we have is interconnected. We have to stop trying to distil this into categories and understand this is a polycrisis.
There are very few 'small issues' b/c they ultimately feed back into the system.
“Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of their friends…and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference…every man in this court would have deemed it worthy of reward rather than punishment.”
- John Brown, Nov 2, 1859
While writing There Is No Place for Us, what I wanted most was for readers to feel the fury I carried throughout my reporting—the outrage, the horror at what this country forces our neighbors to endure.
This review by @lilysanca.bsky.social says everything I hoped the book would convey, and more:
#SocialistSaturday
Tear it down.
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The answer to my ponderings... Validate your humanity, thoughts and experience. Give yourself grace, love well, reflect, build community, and stand in solidarity
you can't do this alone
the scale of the problem is too large
so find your piece of the work
and find how it fits with others' pieces
and don't give up
#OtD 10 Jul 1949 Black @IWW dockworker activist Ben Fletcher died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 59. He had been the leading organiser who organised the Philadelphia docks in the early part of the 20th-century, and was imprisoned during World War I. More: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...
If the solution don’t work, dump more money into it. Just like promoting killer cops or giving them raises. The 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 is the problem, the co-conspirator, the murderer’s ally, their attorney, and it’s because of the state that these crimes committed by cops, continue.
Alright Philly, it’s time to show up for our fellow workers, our neighbors, and our city. At 3pm on Wednesday, we’re going to FLOOD City Hall with people power, and show Mayor Parker which side we’re on!!
bit.ly/33solidarity