As an excellent example, the convergence of an XR chapter with a local squatters movement. The climate activists recognizing the synergy of place-based "generative refusal" (Leanne Simpson) with the squatters, and getting involved in place-based resistance and a strategic material intervention to change the system in that city. Same story with Atlanta and #StopCopCity ...
... whose work has resulted in hundreds of people — including the middle class people and workers, who seem so elusive to other climate movements — getting involved in mass protest and advocating abolitionist and ecological perspectives to local government. Example here, from a firefighter in Atlanta talking abolition perspectives to the government:
https://twitter.com/MarxistUnityDSA/status/1665861210598785027?s=20
"If you listen to any of the #StopCopCity public comment, you can hear how deeply abolitionist frameworks have taken root––so many people, whether identifying as abolitionists or not, articulated a vision of safety dependent on resources and relationships, rather than policing." — @micahinatl
(Posted on Groundtalk here: https://groundtalk.land/#2023-07-30T12:31:19.48+00:00)
#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActivism #StopCopCity #LandDefense #WaterProtector #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #squat #autonomous #abolition #atlanta #movement #MovementBuilding #MutualAid #strategy #organizing #activism #anarchy #anarchists #solidarity #pagan #antifa #decolonize #DualPower #labor #MiddleClass #workers #unions
#StopCopCity #climate #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #climateactivism #LandDefense #WaterProtector #XR #extinctionrebellion #squat #Autonomous #Abolition #atlanta #movement #movementbuilding #MutualAid #strategy #Organizing #activism #anarchy #anarchists #solidarity #pagan #antifa #decolonize #dualpower #labor #middleclass #workers #Unions
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Help me with transportation and food. Love you all so much. 💚🖤 #landdefense #reperations #landback
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Message from Yaqui Political Prisoner Fidencio Aldama to the National Indigenous Congress
#FidencioAldamaLibertad #Yaqui #Sonora #Mexico #LandDefense
https://itsgoingdown.org/yaqui-political-prisoner-fidencio-aldama-national-indigenous-congress/
#FidencioAldamaLibertad #yaqui #sonora #mexico #LandDefense
Reportback from #StopCopCity Solidarity Demo in ATX
https://austinautonomedia.noblogs.org/atx-atlas-demo/
#Communique #anti-police #atlanta #Austin #defendtheatlantaforest #forest #landdefense #office #officedemo #police #protest #stopcopcity #Texas
#StopCopCity #Communique #anti #atlanta #austin #DefendtheAtlantaForest #forest #LandDefense #office #officedemo #police #protest #texas
Hunger Strike and Tree-Sit in Defense of Redwoods in Humboldt County
#California #Humboldt #Redwoods #LandDefense
https://itsgoingdown.org/tree-sit-defense-of-redwoods-in-humboldt/
#california #Humboldt #redwoods #LandDefense
Phone Blast: ATX to ATL Stop Cop City Solidarity Action
Anonymous transmission
Cop City Contractors ATLAS Technical Consultants have their national headquarters in Austin. Local activist and mutual aid groups have called for a city and nation-wide call-in action tomorrow, Wednesday January 25th, to demand that ATLAS
https://austinautonomedia.noblogs.org/phone-blast-atx-atl-solidarity/
#CalltoAction #General #atlanta #atlantaforest #Austin #landdefense #phonezap #stopcopcity #Texas
#calltoaction #general #atlanta #AtlantaForest #austin #LandDefense #phonezap #StopCopCity #texas
ATL to ATX: Vigil & Altar In Honor of All Victims of Police Violence
Anonymous transmission
On Wednesday, January 18th the police shot and killed a protestor in the Weelaunee Forest in Southeast Atlanta. Theywere protesting the construction of “Cop City”, a proposed police militarization facility
https://austinautonomedia.noblogs.org/atl-to-atx-vigil/
#CalltoAction #atlanta #Austin #forest #landdefense #memorial #police #policeviolence #protest #rally #territory #Texas #TX #vigil
#calltoaction #atlanta #austin #forest #LandDefense #Memorial #police #policeviolence #protest #rally #territory #texas #tx #vigil
Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus in Defense of Land and Territory: No Landscape After Transformation (2 of 3)
#LandDefense #Mexico
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/06/07/assembly-of-indigenous-peoples-of-the-isthmus-in-defense-of-land-and-territory-no-landscape-after-transformation-2-of-3/
Rivers Have no Border: The Slogan of Their Defenders in Peru
#Peru #LandDefense
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/06/07/rivers-have-no-border-the-slogan-of-their-defenders-in-peru/