#indigenous anarchism

[anarchistettin]

We don’t dismiss the reality that, on the scale of U.S. settler colonial violence, even the slightest degree of harm can mean life or death for those most vulnerable. What we assert here is that the entire notion of “voting as harm reduction” obscures and perpetuates settler-colonial violence, there is nothing “less harmful” about it, and there are more effective ways to intervene in its violences.

At some point the left in the so-called U.S. realized that convincing people to rally behind a “lesser evil” was a losing strategy. The term “harm reduction” was appropriated to reframe efforts to justify their participation and coerce others to engage in the theater of what is called “democracy” in the U.S.

#indigenous anarchism

[111seedhillroad]

Self-determination should be read as the desire for people who are self-organized (whether by tradition, individual choice, or inclination) to decide how they want to live with each other. This may seem like common sense, and it is, but it is also consistently violated by people who believe that their value system supersedes that of those around them. The question that anarchists of all stripes have to answer for themselves is whether they are capable of dealing with the consequences of other people living in ways they find reprehensible.

Aragorn! Locating an Indigenous Anarchism

#Aragorn! #anarchism #indigenous anarchism #anti-civ

[raggedyfink]

Me deep in thought one night:

Capitalist modes of reproduction and parenting are centered around creating an endless labor and consumer supply for the benefit of economy that can be only sustained via consumerism and labor exploitation and wage slavery for the sake of endless economic growth that harms the climate and the working class.

Indigenous reproduction and parenting, however, are centered around creating and raising their children to be their authentic selves for the benefit of their tribe and how with their authentic selves they can benefit their tribal communities with their talents and skills.

When in the effort of decolonizing and indiginizing ur mind, perhaps in a way to liberate urself if you want to be a parent is to take on indigenous modes of raising children by raising them to be their authentic selves for the benefit of their community.

#mine #anarchopunk #anarchism #anarchist #indigenous #indigenous anarchism #decolonisation #decolonize #anarchofeminism #anti capitalism

[spaceysoupy]

Actually I am pissed off and tired. Ppl that “vote blue no matter who” condescendingly at literally fucking anyone do not understand that politicians in a settler colonial system WILL NOT MOVE FURTHER AWAY FROM SETTLER COLONIALISM JUST BECAUSE YOU ASK THEM NICELY

In fact, by promising security in his power no matter what he does you are encouraging them to continue their policies and even make them more extreme. And honestly it’s fucking insulting that so many white people are now like “we have to do what’s best for Palestine, which is assuring mr genocide that it’s fine if he does genocide because we’ll vote for him anyways!” when 1) y’all didn’t give a fuck about Palestine before last year and 2) y’all don’t care about the ongoing genocide in your own fucking country lol. Lmao. Like you are just spitting in the face of every indigenous activist at this point and I’m so so tired. You want to help Palestine? first look what meaningful fucking action is in your own home. Learn how to set up support networks for your own community and look to the people who are already doing this for example. And then shut the fuck up and listen.

#indigenous anarchism #indigenous sovereignty #voting is not harm reduction

[youngstrokertheb0dysnatcher]

no matter who you vote for the bombs still drop and the concentration camps stay open.

#i am the chaos wizard #post left #insurrectionary anarchism #anarcho nihilism #indigenous anarchism

[prole-log]

#anarchism #politics #indigenous peoples day #decoloniality

[bfpnola]

While this information may technically be new, government infiltration is not. As mentioned in the video, COINTELPRO is a perfect historical example of the insidious downfall of so many leftist grassroots organizations, and guess what? We've made posts about COINTELPRO in the past!

This information isn't made to scare you though, but to empower us all to come together even stronger, even smarter, even more diligently. We owe it to ourselves, to our communities, and to our predecessors to do at least that much. As working class citizens, we must protect one another. Do not get distracted by the divisions those in power wish to ensue.

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#reaux speaks #resources #black lives matter #history #cointelpro #indigenous #anti capitalism #bipoc #abolition #queer #protest #intersectional feminism #disability justice #anarchism

[decolonize-the-left]

This is Red Scare propaganda in 2023.

Did you know that a few days ago Democrats and Republicans voted to join sides against socialism and "socialist policies"(good welfare programs)?

According to Axios:

More than half of House Democrats sided with Republicans on Thursday in voting for a GOP resolution denouncing socialism. [...]

• The resolution denounces “socialism in all its forms” and opposes “the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America.”

• A total of 106 Democrats voted for the resolution, while 86 voted against it and another 14 voted "present. "

What they're saying:

• “This [was] very much about politics and political messaging, and you saw that with some of the people voting present,” said Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), the chair of the centrist New Democrat Coalition, which supported the resolution.

• Kuster said leadership was attentive to swing-district members' needs: "It was very much open-door conversations this week ... just conversations about where our members were coming from and how they felt about this. They had strong feelings about this."

What we're hearing:

• House Republican campaign operatives are already sharpening their knives against Democrats who voted against the resolution.

• "It’s certainly a potent hit we’re excited about," Jack Pandol, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told Axios. "If you can’t vote to denounce the horrors of socialism, yes, we will be letting your constituents know about it."

The other side:

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Progressive Caucus, told Axios that her faction recommended its members vote against the resolution and she advised colleagues “however you vote on this bill, they’re going to use it against you, so it doesn’t really matter.”

• Jayapal also argued the bill's sweeping rebuke of socialism conflates historical despots with modern entitlement programs and Nordic social democracies: "They're trying to tie those successful [welfare] programs ... to [former ruler of Cambodia] Pol Pot."

So Democrats and Republicans can unite over what's important to them: Capitalism.

More than half of Democrats in office right now would side with Republicans against your well being. Over half of them.

What we're witnessing is an abuse of power that Only serves to keep Democrats and Republicans as power players in politics.

Coincidentally this comes after a historic rise in union membership, calls for higher wages, protests, and it's also right before presidential candidates have started campaigning!

They didn't sign a resolution like this over Trump supporters literally attacking capitol hill. They haven't made Any reform or agreement that could stop another Trump from winning an election again either. They literally expose people to right-wing candidates on purpose just to help themselves win elections.

But this? Good welfare programs and left-wing ideas being spread before an election? That was a priority. That needed to be stopped. That's dangerous.

Let me ask y'all something: if you feel comfortable showing regular people a bunch of far-right ideas on primetime tv but you wouldn't show them any left-wing ideas at all... Wouldn't that make you right-wing? At the very least you've chosen a side, haven't you?

Democrats don't want to challenge the status quo. Apparently that's the ONE thing they can agree on with Republicans about. That's it's staying here and not going anywhere. That's what this tells me.

If you caught yourself thinking I'll vote for a democrat,at least they won't make things worse please consider that keeping things awful on purpose absolutely counts as making things worse. And also being comfortable with far-right ideology but not far-left ideology means Democrats are closer to being fascists than fighting fascism.

This year spend some time researching candidates that are listed as independent, green party, socialists, or communists. The only people worth entertaining are people who actually care and actually want to change things for the better.

#mutual aid #direct action #leftist #lgbt #capitalism #biden #2024 voting #usa politics #socialism #communism #anarchism #indigenous #liberal #democrats #progressives #socdem #ancom #acab #eat the rich #current events #news #2024 elections #presidential election #primary election #2023

[mrsblackruby]

Why are some of y’all putting so much of your focus on arguing whether or not settlers should be forced to leave a colony they ‘forcibly’ inflicted on the indigenous rather than just assuring indigenous people have human rights and equal engagement in how the land around em gets to be evolved cuz they’re involved with changing environments no matter what. Why are some of y’all so scared of land back that you actively just chose genocide, pollution, and endless imperialistic efforts instead. Like can’t you see there’s alternative outcomes that can become reality and that I personally think should and want to become reality. Whatever that fear mongering shit is a waste of time to me, in the way of all of our actual liberation it comes off really self defeating to me so I’m glad I do my best not to partake in such affairs. End Apartheid.

Indigenous rights and immigration rights aren’t opposed actually they are interlocking and both important to achieve a society that values free movement

#anarchism #leftblr #land back #anti colonialism #indigenous #free palestine #palestine #climate change #anarchist #freeblr #Decolonization #indigineous rights #immigration rights #israel

[yellingfellow]

I want to SCREAAAAAMMMM

The world is fucking burning

Palestinians are being starved in their fucking tents that they have to live in because their whole neighborhoods have been bombed

Congolese women are being raped for not meeting their quotas

People are pulling each other out of mines that have collapsed

Babies are laying next to their dead mothers

Trump is on the ballot in Colorado

Indigenous women and teens being kidnapped and murdered and no one wants to help

They won’t search the landfills for the remains of dead natives

We’re being fed stories by the same 6 media coroporations and AI generated fucking prompts are taking over all forms of video and picture we can’t even know what is real

The world is fucking burning and the ice is melting and earthquakes and tsunamis are shaking the fucking earth and people’s homes are being flooded and completely destroyed

But no lets just keep pretending like it matters if I pay my fucking taxes

#being a human #anarchism #impending doom #im so tired #global warming #free palestine #free congo #free sudan #free hawaii #free puerto rico #free us all #indigenous liberation #mmiwawareness #whats next #humanity

[icarusxxrising]

Too be honest, probably the four most neglected topics in leftist spaces as a whole is landback/indigenous rights, nonwhite rights and experiences (black communist/anarchist movements etc.), feminism (especially radicalized militant feminism), and disability accessibility/experiences (both physical and mental(like cluster B disorders especially). Not in that order btw, I believe all 4 of those are interconnected.

My one tip for people getting into leftist spaces, no matter which one it is, is to learn about the most neglected topics especially and to listen to people apart of the above groups. It is going to frustrate the shit out of you and you're going to learn a lot of the leftists around you hold onto the Patriarchy/White Supremacy etc. But you are going to empower both yourself and those around you for the better by educating yourself.

#left #queer #lgbt #leftist #anarchy #leftism #anarchism #anarchist #communist #communism #socialism #socialist #blm #blacklivesmatter #landback #indigenous #disability #cluster b #covid #wear your mask #feminism #kylr #anarcha feminism

[lady-grey-1993]

Being an anarchist means:

You oppose Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

You oppose Russian imperialism in Eastern Europe

You oppose British colonialist presence in Ireland

You oppose Chinese oppression of Tibetans and Ugyghrs

You oppose American capitalistic exploitation of Africa and South America.

You oppose Iranian persecution of religious minorities.

You oppose ANY form of hierarchy, hegemony, or monopoly.

Being an anarchist means you either fight for the absolute freedom and equity of all humanity, or you just sit on your hands praying the "elites" show you their non-existent mercy.

#anarchy #anarchism #anti state #anti imperialism #anti fascism #anti communism #anti colonialism #anti zionisim #anti nazism #anti capitalism #anti corporations #indigenous rights #queer rights #human rights #freedom #fraternity #equality

[alpaca-clouds]

Learning from Indigenous People

You know how I knew that the big guys from the "new atheist movement" in the early 2010s were full of shit? Yeah, they started to vent about indigenous knowledge. How that was not real science and should not be taken seriously, because "it is not real science", with it betraying their super eurocentric view of science.

This is a general problem we have. It is also something that at times really turns me off from STEM - you know, as someone who is working in STEM. Because while in new science we do definitely include things found out by non-white people, when it comes to the old science (so, basically most stuff happening before 1950) people just ignore all the science done outside of Europe.

This shows especially in regards to indigenous knowledge. This will often be just overall depicted by science as "superstition", no matter what it was. Be it methods of medicine, methods of wayfinding, knowledge about the land and how to protect it, knowledge about animals, about plants... All those things that collected in indigenous knowledge that often does still not get taken seriously.

There is this often quoted little fact: It was indigenous people who invented injections, by using hollowed bird bones for it. And that is just one thing.

And there is of course just the fact of knowing how to take care of the land.

Of course, there is the opposite of this. The people who go deep into the "indigenous people are super vibing with the environment, they are basically magical", which of course is also a racist stereotype.

But, yeah, fuck... You know, we should still just be open to learning from all cultures there are. It does not fucking matter whether they used a formal "scientific method" in the way western science does these days. Knowledge that has been collected over hundreds of years.

And I am just so done with the people who want to keep ignoring it.

#decolonize #decolonialism #indigenous people #indigenous art #indigenous knowledge #anarchism #solarpunk

[chahoolheel]

Phoenix, AZ

O’odham land

#indigineous people #indigiqueer #indigenous #land back #anarchist graffiti #anarchism #anarchy #anti colonialism #decolonize #decolonialidad #decolonialism

[decolonize-the-left]

Anyway, I really like the work The Last Poet is doing on tt to help the strike that Bisan called for. If you missed the post about it here's the gist:

TLP a person on tt who relies on mutual aid to survive. As such, when Bisan called for a strike they had the knowledge of how to organize mutual aid. They used that skillset to help employed ppl who wanted to strike but did not have unions/money to do it. She got some of her other friends who had also built trust on the app to help and they worked together to support these ppl.

And what they did was organize fundraising for 30+ people and as of 2 hours ago, they're only $800 away from their 19k goal

I would like to do something similar next time a credible strike is called for.

I will need help keeping things organized as I'm not that kind of ND so I'm also inviting others to help me or to do this yourselves if you are more capable.

Further this is Tumblr and not tt so it's gonna be a little different.

How it works (generally):

Figure out who wants to help coordinate, who can communicate with a lot of people, to write/explain posts, to track goals on a spreadsheet, rational decision making, etc. Then figure out your collective reach and abilities (like how many people you can all raise money for) and apply them where they fit best. These are your Organizers.

The aid: funds for people who can't afford to strike.

People in need of aid will make their own posts that the Social Media Team then boosts.

As you might be concerned, boosting everyone might inhibit anyone from meeting their goal. So focusing on a select few would is best to help ppl meet their goals. Then we can move on to the next person/batch of people. Organizers need to determine who the Social Media Team should focus on first (fcfs is usually fair) and make sure it's communicated clearly who those specific people are.

The Social Media Team team can be anyone with a social media acct but large blogs should definitely be sought out to participate here. The goal of the Social Media Team is to reach Supporters, people who will donate and/or boost further. Absolutely share and boost on other platforms. As TLP explains: there is no shortage of people who are willing to part with their wealth for a good cause, we just gotta find them

Constant communication between people getting aid and organizers is key so that goals are being properly reported and updated on posts.

The way TLP has it set up: large donations go to organizers who then split the money evenly between the people being boosted. Smaller amounts can be directly donated. Any amount donated needs to be reported to organizers so that it can be tracked properly. When the goal is met, they move to the next person until everyone is helped.

When everyone is helped you can all decide to help more people (if you are able/still have spoons to repeat the process) or you can rest up before it's time to do it again.

And before y'all tell me I can't:

Yes the fuck I can actually, so jot that down.

Who is with me? If we start organizing now and growing our little Tumblr pods then the next strike that comes around it'll be more effective cuz more people will be able to participate. More effective is the goal, right?

Spread this post too. I am not (and don't want to be) the only person doing this. If you're able, please start up something similar within your own circle. We will reach more people and be able to help more people if more people are organizing this kind of work.

If you ALREADY make mut aid posts or share don*tion posts, this is the same thing. Just a bigger, more organized scale. It's really not that scary. And just cuz I'm posting this on Tumblr, that doesn't mean you can't create your own effort on Twitter or insta or whatever. Everyone should be doing this everywhere if you ask me.

Also we could practice this by coordinating with people who currently have mut-aid posts up. Just saying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we could learn how to be more effective while helping each other at the same time.

So if you wanna be involved or get involved then reblog this. Share it somewhere else. Make your own post about it. Just share it. Consider this the first post that needs to be boosted are you part of the team or not?

Also I feel like we'd find each other way easier if we used a specific hashtag for this decentralized global strike fundraising so leave some suggestions in the replies ⬇️

#strike #global strike #global solidarity #reblog #boost #important #mutaid #mutual aid organizing #lgbt #direct action #capitalism #leftist #ndn #indigenous #leftists #socialists #socialism #anarchist #anarchism #decentralized protest #decentralized strike #free Palestine #free Gaza #bisan owda #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #boycott #bds #allies #solidarity