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nando161mando · 6 months

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In Melbourne/Naarm this Wednesday ...

'Stop genocide in Gaza now!

Protest Zim Shipping Line

5.30pm, Wednesday 8.11, 78 Webb Dock Drive

Protest to say: Block the boat

No Israeli ships in Port Melbourne

Hosted by Trade Unionists for Palestine'

via @slackbastard

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff

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nyiiwest · 4 months

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Let me break it down for y’all;

Killing babies and children = No more future generations

Killing women and pregnant women = No more future generations

Killing men= No more future generations

Killing the elderly = Erasing history and culture for future generations

Killing journalists = No news coverage of what’s really happening so the opposing side can push propaganda.

Open your eyes the Palestinians that do survive this if a ceasefire doesn’t come will lose their culture and identity because Israel will force them to assimilate to whatever sick and twisted ideology they want. This is a genocide! The Palestinian genocide is directly mirroring the Native American genocide. Keep talking about Palestine, it’s a privilege you get to scroll away from dead children and adults.

#gaza genocide #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #palestine #free palestine #genocide #native american genocide #american politics #political activist #politics #fuck israel #tags for attention #kpop #taylor swift #beyonce

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ihhfhonao3 · 8 months

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I’m a firm believer in the passive and small acts of activism.

You’re actively fighting capitalism by resting and taking a break. You’re actively fighting homophobia by wearing a rainbow pin to signify to others your allyship. You’re actively fighting climate change by air drying your hands after washing them. You’re actively fighting childism by letting a minor talk to you about how they’re doing. You’re actively fighting oppressive systems by simply existing.

There have always been others like you, and there always will be others like you. Your existence is rebellion. As long as you’re alive, conservatives and bigots have lost.

You’re a rebel. You’re a warrior. You’re a fighter. And you don’t even know it.

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licorice-lips · 5 months

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In the past few days, I've seen an increasing amount of comments about how Suzanne Collins pushed a narrative in The Hunger Games about "both sides being equally bad" because of her representation of Coin and Snow being the same, someone going as far as saying Katniss was being manipulated by Coin, therefore, making her words against the Capital less true. And that really bothered me.

I strongly disagree with those people but I can see where they're coming from and that point of view has two reasons to be so widely spread:

The first of them is Snow and Coin being "different sides of the same coin" (pun intended). Both are driven by the same thing, which is the hunger for power and it's true that Coin tries to manipulate Katniss. However, just like Snow, she's unable to, that's the reason why Coin is so set on killing Katniss in the second film (and the book, but it's less obvious there).

But that's the thing: Katniss (just like Lucy Gray) won't be contained because her compassion for the struggling people under the oppression of the Capital and her hatred against this oppression shines through every time someone - even herself - tries to contain those traits.

Katniss is a representation of what the people from the districts really are - people both compassionate and filled with hatred against the oppressive system that shackles them to fear. Her own existence validates that the district's fight is a fair one, one that means the freedom of all Panem, as they claim. The fact that Coin is a part of the revolution does not make it less valid, it just comes to show that we have to be careful about choosing our leaders and that they, alone, don't mean anything:

It's really important to understand that the people responsible for the dismantling of the Capital were not Coin and District 13, but all of the Districts organized together, people who didn't have the exact same values or vision of what a freed Panem would look like but know the Capital cannot continue to oppress them. THEY are the revolution, THEY are the ones who killed Snow, THEY are the ones who did the fighting, THEY are the ones who took the Capital, and to me, it's insulting to resume their fight and their hopes for a better Panem on Coin and her own selfish goals.

Especially not when they are the reason why Coin dies at the end: once she tries to show her hands, she is immediately shot down (pun intended) because Katniss - as do others, like Plutarch - recognizes they're trading six for half a dozen (and I don't know if that's an English expression, but I think its meaning is obvious) if they allow Coin to spread her wings. The revolution didn't happen because of Coin, it happened because people saw in Katniss a symbol of hope, driving them into action, and the fact that District 13 - and Coin - appeared months after the beginning of it doesn't invalidate their fight in any way.

The second point is closely tied to the first and it's the strong anti-violence and anti-war narrative in both the books and the films. And I'll have to be very careful treading this one because I don't want you to think I condone war or violence but it's a really fine thread I'm going to walk by right now:

It's undeniable that the war itself is treated in the books as something terrible, both sides (first point) use violence as a means to an end, this end being the victory of their own side. But that's inevitable in war: there will be violence, and there will be unspeakable things done to "the other side", and there will be war crimes being committed. And we are so culturally infected by the idea of resolving anything by "love" and of a unique hero who will free us all, that talking about violence as a valid response to oppression is quickly rejected.

Again: I do not think violence should be the immediate answer to political problems, of course not. But when we talk about the oppression that's been committed continuously against a group of people through a large period of time, especially when their diplomacy and cries aren't being heard, why shouldn't violence be the answer? What other response there is? Go quietly into the good night? I don't think any of us would want that, not for ourselves and not for the ones we love, and not for the ones who make our communities.

There's a really good book - The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon - that explores violence as more than a valid response to oppression, but a necessary one. Although I do think diplomacy should be tried and other resources should be exhausted before violence and war, I also think they are a valid response to oppression, especially because the oppressors are so vicious.

But returning to the books, even when violence and war are valid, like in the revolution, they are still extremely ugly and traumatizing, especially when we need - as the oppressed ones - to keep our humanity so we don't end up becoming the oppressors. So it's natural that the violence narrated in Collin's books, especially the violence committed by the revolution, seems like it passes the message that both sides are just as bad - something like the narrative, you lose your reasoning when your response is violence.

However, what makes Katniss's and the District's fight for freedom from the Capital's oppressive regime valid is not their lack of violence or their integrity (it's war, and it's not likely that, as a soldier, you maintain it), but the very fact that they are the oppressed ones. Victims should not and are not perfect, they never will be - children being as close to it as we can go. But that doesn't make their fight less valid.

Of course, there is a limit, and that's perfectly captured by Gale: hatred without compassion, blind rage, and dehumanizing of your enemy. That's when violence is no longer valid in fighting oppression, not because of its lack of morals but because of the danger it represents to the innocent they're trying to free.

And yes, I thought a lot about Palestine writing this.

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baby-girl-aaron-dessner · 5 months

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Some opinions from Swifties

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musickickztoo · 23 days

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RIP John Sinclair

October 2, 1941 – April 2, 2024

#john sinclair #poet #political activist #april 2 #october 2 #mc5

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agentfascinateur · 5 months

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It's the one year anniversary today of the bravest bubbie, Shatzi Weisberger 💜 Sorely missed in this current landscape.

#jewish voice for peace #peace #political activist #pro palestine #palestine #free palestine #palestinians #israeli apartheid #hero

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fayegonnaslay · 2 months

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Jane Fonda on National Secretaries Day, 1980.

#right on #jane fonda #political activist #9 to 5 #nine to five #era #secretary #office workers #equal pay #womens rights #activism #feminist #dolly parton #lily tomlin #actress

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potentially-a-poser · 6 months

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Why do conservatives only seem to care about “science” when it comes to invalidating trans people? They don’t care about science when talking about vaccines or environmental issues or germ theory.

#punk rock #punk #anarchism #conservatives #christianity #science denial #trans issues #environment #political activist #politics #anti facist #trans rights

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troythecatfish · 1 month

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nando161mando · 6 months

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Portland!

Anti-trans bigots and hate group Women's Declaration International (WDI) are coming to town this Nov. 19th.

Save the date to give them the welcome they deserve :)

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff

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adelphiaxo · 8 months

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yall, we need to talk about the heritage foundation and its project 2025.

the heritage foundation is dangerous, and is going to have significant impact on the government. it's a long term initiative to make the us as conservative as possible, aka make america a fascist state. they have a policy agenda that would help their conservative beliefs.

what they are trying to do is simply minimizing the people in the government administration to mainly conservatives and right winged activists. this way, the people who are in power will enforce laws that reflect conservative principles, which include limited individual liberty, free markets, and a strong national defense. it also involves training and recruiting conservative activists to work in the government.

2025 is coming in two years, and it is already becoming a threat to basic human rights and the american government. the project is based on a narrow ideological view of the world, and it does not take into account the needs of all americans.

if you read till the end, please, reblog this post, like, and/or spread the word.

thank you all <3, adelphi signing out

here is the website linked to project 2025, and their 180 day playbook: https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/project-2025 https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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nyiiwest · 3 months

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If two YouTubers that haven’t been “relevant” since 2013 can raise 83,000$ for Gaza, then yall can share posts about Gaza. It’s literally the least you can do.

#dan and phil #gaza genocide #gaza #palestine #falestine #genocide #global news #american politics #political activist #politics #motaz azaiza #motaz #wizard bisan #bisan #tags for attention #taylor swift #beyonce #disney

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ihhfhonao3 · 6 months

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One year from now, one of the richest nations in the world will be choosing its new leader. And many of the options for leaders are very much genocidial. It’s not looking great.

So I would say now is the best time to start thinking up a fallout plan, just in case the worst happens. Here’s some stuff I came up with, feel free to add:

Start researching the immigration policies of more peaceful and progressive countries. If moving to another country is too much for you, try and find a more progressive state at the very least. Sweden, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand and Ireland are recommended. California, Illinois, New York, Maryland and Washington DC are also pretty decent states.

Make a list of your most prized and important possessions. Ask yourself, “if my house was going to be blown away by a tornado, and I had to grab as much as possible and rush it to my basement in the short amount of time I would have to prepare, what would I take?” Then make sure that you keep those items around. Practice putting everything into luggage as well, in case the time calls for a quick exit.

Make sure your devices are backed up into an account. Just in case they can’t be taken with you.

If you are unable to move for any reason, brush up on proper self defense. This includes self defense against people with guns.

Learn how to properly protest and hide your identity from public view. Teach yourself to hide and sneak, and learn how to conceal recordings and photography. Learn how to steal and not get caught as well.

Learn how to lie on the spot. Also, come up with a common pseudonym for yourself. May come in handy.

And remember: YOU ARE NOT A COWARD FOR FLEEING!

Stay safe, register to vote, vote blue, and be prepared.

#us politics #american politics #2024 presidential race #politics #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #government #activism #political activist #social activist #social justice #this is important

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celsogarratblr · 6 months

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