:black_sparkling_heart: #Introduction #Intro

TL:DR: I'm mostly posting this intro to connect with other Black and BIPOC Anarchists or Anti-authoritarians. Hit me up! :Fire_Panafrican:

Hey, everyone

My partner and I are currently working on a docuseries, @Elememts_of_MA, about the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing. The project isn't exclusively profiling anarchist groups, but it is deeply anti-authoritarian - we're especially staying away from charismatic leaders and celeb "activist" types.

The whole thing is independent - no producers; everything is out of pocket. We've been living out of a van we converted so we could make this happen; which has been amazing. We've been on the road since May Day this year, and have already filmed some solid interviews as far north as Montreal and as far south as Puerto Rico.

However, I'm personally struggling to find Black organizations or collectives that aren't MLM, AADOS, authoritarian, Black Capitalist, nonprofit style groups. Reading and theory groups or media collectives are rad, but I'm really looking for groups that're doing interesting work on the ground (*not food distro*) from an anti-state-nationalist analysis.

Lorenzo and JoNina Irvin will appear in the film, among other radical Black people like Jessica Gordon Nembhard, The Northeast Action Collective in Houston, and Arm the Girls in Oakland. So, I'm not at a complete loss.

But, please send me all the rad groups of Black people you know that are creating long-term, democratic, mutual aid projects in their communities. They do not need to identify as anarchist, but they *cannot* be down with the nation state and have to be doing more than food distro.

Thanks a ton, y'all.

Beyond all that, I'm also really interested in connecting with people to write Star Wars analysis and fan-fiction. I think the galaxy far, far away is an interesting canvas to explore the tensions of autonomous world building vs authoritarian revolutionary movements. If I lived in that universe, I'd no doubt be getting into arguments with the Rebel Alliance.

Thanks for reading this long-winded post.

#Solidarity

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Hi, all! Good to be here.

The Elements of Mutual Aid is an independently-produced #documentary series.

Through four, hour-long chapters - fire, earth, water, and air - we'll explore the origins and misconceptions, infrastructures, healing ways, pitfalls and logistics of revolutionary mutual aid against the nation-state.

We hope that this project will offer critical insights into not only what kind of projects are happening today, but how they work on the ground.

This is 100% grassroots. All of our equipment has been paid for out of pocket, we're traveling on our own schedule, and we'll distribute the film independently when it's complete. We've been supported by our comrades and relations to raise money to pay our participants for their interviews - which is highly uncommon in documentary film production.

It's important to us to weave our politics into the way we make this film. We’re not “neutral” or “objective” observers. We’re active participants in revolutionary direct action. Like Gordon Parks once said, the camera is our choice of weapon - at least in this iteration of the struggle.

Enjoy this sample clip from our very first interview with our friend, Muqu!

Stay tuned for updates here, on our website, and on Instagram!

Solidarity,

Payton & Leah

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#transormativejustice #collective #revolution #art #storytelling #community
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#introduction

Indigenous Action presents:
15th Annual No Thanks, No Giving!

Indigenous Autonomy and Anarchism
Indigenous Action hosts Bonn & Klee will join featured guest speaker Tawinikay in a panel style discussion on Indigenous Autonomy and Anarchism: Against Settler Politics.

Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022
4:30pm – 6:00pm MST.
Livestream: www.indigenousaction.org/live/
STREAM LINK: https://youtu.be/wGvjKoc-V94

#nothanksnogiving #thanksgiving #anticolonialism #anarchy #indigenousanarchism

RT @Indigenous_Act
fuck twitter. “Never be deceived that colonizers will allow you to vote away their power.”
Paraphrase of Lucy Parsons
Podcast & zine:
Voting is Not Harm Reduction: https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/

#vote #fuckthevote #anticolonialism #anarchy #indigenousanarchism

RT @Indigenous_Act@twitter.com

fuck twitter. “Never be deceived that colonizers will allow you to vote away their power.”
Paraphrase of Lucy Parsons
Podcast & zine:
Voting is Not Harm Reduction: https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/

#vote #fuckthevote #anticolonialism #anarchy #indigenousanarchism

if folks haven't checked out The Marooncast, by @simaleerbg
check it out

also really been learning a lot listening to the perspectives and analysis of the Indigenous Anarchist Podcast, check it out if you haven't heard it

From mcsole on twitter

#BlackAnarchism #IndigenousAnarchism #Anarchism #podcast

I love hearing Indigenous and Black anarchists talk about owing nothing to the classical canon of "AnarchISM." Peter Kropotkin didn't invent mutual aid, he noticed it.

from mcsole on twitter

#BlackAnarchism #IndigenousAnarchism #Anarchism