Our new police abolition essay "Kick the Cops off Your Block" is now available on substack. This essay gives an analysis of the police, many alternatives to the police, and ways to get to a world without hierarchical security forces and what they enforce

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/kick-the-cops-off-your-block

#anarchism #police #policeabolition #anarchy #socialism #communism #prison #prisonabolition #abolition #abolitionism #acab #cops #communal #utopia #praxis
#directaction #mutualaid #mediation
#transformativejustice
#restorativejustice #selfdefense #mediation #freeassociation #hierarchy #equality #statecraft #capitalism

#Communal #singing performance by the #elderly

#chinatown #singapore
#streetphotography #photography

#FoodCosts are Still Sky High. #Communal #Gardening Could Help
https://modernfarmer.com/2023/08/food-costs-communal-gardening/

What's happening in Gurgaon, Haryana, India?

#communal #voilance

One thing that was fun over on the birdsite was watching & commenting on "trash" TV with others. I wish we had that here. Maybe I need to learn more about making groups to do such a thing #TrashTV #BirdSite #RealityTV #Communal

I do not believe in the #individual as the greatest human #creative power and in the #private property as the only measure of #wealth.

Rather, I believe in the unity and creative power of the #commune as a space for development and #communal property as the measure of wealth.

2/3

I won't be watching #Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: #TakeTwo.

Too bad the content and tone of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: #TakeOne are so opposite from #NeptuneFrost, which I watched last night.

Both inventive and unique, but #Symbiopsychotaxiplasm is of the past with its ingrained toxicity, #Neptune #Frost is of now, and our future, in its openness, acceptance, and #communal #spirit.

Three #Black #filmmakers (2 on Neptune Frost), two very different results onscreen, and in my emotional response.

Uit bovenstaand artikel:
"Dan zijn er de diverse bewegingen in de dagen van de Engelse burgeroorlog, waarvan de #Diggers het bekendste voorbeeld zijn."

#Chumbawamba vertolkt hier The Diggers' Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA4FTIz2Zrw

#anarchisme #communal

The #German #pavilion at #biennalearchitettura2023 turns out to be a #reuse #recycle #workshop cum #storage: Materials from the #biennalearte2022 are being transformed into furniture and more for and with various #cultural, #social and #communal projects like the #centrosocialerivolta in Porto Marghera, among others in collaboration w/ # @bellevuedimonaco! Good work!

The #German #pavilion at #biennalearchitettura2023 turns out to be a #reuse #recycle #workshop cum #storage: Materials from the #biennalearte2022 are being transformed into furniture and more for and with various #cultural, #social and #communal projects like the #centrosocialerivolta in Porto Maghera, among others in collaboration w/ # @bellevuedimonaco! Good work!

Alternatives to #flushtoilets in times of diminishing #freshwater supplies around the globe are a prominent topic at the #Venice #biennalearchitettura2023 : While the #Finnish #pavilion shows a traditional #Huussi dry #toilet producing natural #fertilizer which will be used at a #communal #gardening project on one of the #Venezia'n islands after the exhibition, you can actually use a dry circular toilet (or a unisex #urinal) producing fertilizer at the #German pavilion.
#biennale #noplanetb

Minority cell president K K Shahul Hameed said the culprits behind the murders of three Muslim youths should be charged under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), after a proper reinvestigation
#SITProbe #Communal #Murders #DakshinaKannadaDistrict #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.news18.com/india/sit-probe-sought-into-the-communal-murders-in-dakshina-kannada-district-7968853.html

@Natanox I also have some questions on policing in an #anarchist society - more accurately on the subject of figuring out #communal protection and #rehabilitation. I am anarcho-adjacent, since communism doesnt make sense to be on a big-scale but it seems that communal protection and rehabilitation for "criminals" in an anarchist society is my biggest setback.

@edendestroyer "how state abolition would function within geographical limits and help ensure #communal safety?"

Hmm, I think I understand this as a question of self-defense and autonomy, in which case the Kurdish revolution in Rojava fighting ISIS & Turkey, as well as the Zapatistas in Chiapas fighting the narco state, are worthy examples of large scale anti-state community self defense.

Internally, the tekmil is a great tool for collective reflection. If you're looking for a pragmatic and practical guide: Burn Down the American Plantation, is an excellent read.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/revolutionary-abolitionist-movement-burn-down-the-american-plantation

Seven People They Never Told You Were #Socialists
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/04/seven-people-they-never-told-you-were-socialists
#history #socialism #communal

We need #free #colleges, we need #better #funded #public #education. We need more #access to #support #groups for people. We need #community #centres and community-building #events. We need more #communal #kitchens and #restaurants, more #community gardens and #farms. (2/3)

@atomica @BobMastodon

😂 yikes indeed!

The #AntifaAF doesn't really exist, but if it did it sould be in the open spirit of collaborating but not communing. The #Federated approach, instead of #communal or walled garden surveillance captitalism.

#art created for the express written purpose and intent of fighting #fascism. #MPNCA

#JohnMastodon leads the way, but you never have to stay. #TTJ

#WeAreJohnMastodon
#TheResistanceWillBeFederated

Today in Labor History January 21, 1525: Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz and George Blaurock founded the Swiss Anabaptist movement by baptizing each other and breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. The Anabaptists were considered Radical Reformers. They preached against hate, killing, violence, taking oaths, participating in use of force or any military actions and against participation in civil government. They also believed in separation of church and state. However, some Anabaptists went even further, like those in the Munster Commune, who called for the absolute equality of man in all matters, including the distribution of wealth. They called upon the poor of the region to join them in sharing all the wealth of the town. Many also believed in polygamy and free love. Not surprisingly, both the Roman Catholics and the nascent Lutherans persecuted them heavily. This history is wonderfully portrayed in the epic novel, “Q” by the Italian fiction collective, Luther Blissett.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #peasants #protestant #Reformation #LutherBlissett #anabaptist #equality #freelove #communal #polygamy #lutheran @bookstadon

We need #NewFarmers and #NewWorkers for a new #Communal #economy
- New farmers who reject fossil-fuel agribusiness.
- New farmers who reject meat
- New farmers who reject #Ecocide
We need *industrious* workers whose industry directly serves their community.
- New Workers who reject their own commodification
- New Workers who reject the commodification of their community.
Together, what did agrarian and industrial workers accomplish?
We need a new hammer and a new sickle to smash the New Oligarchy that has destroyed Democracy and destroyed democracy in a world of Wealth.
Now what is wrong here when I grab the hammer and sickle emoji and only get text that says "Commie"?
We have a problem here on #Mastodon that smells like #FBI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/01/india-poonawala-walkar-murder-case/

This is disturbing:

1. #India has 1.3 billion people
2. #Communal tension runs high as #Muslim population exploded
3. A Muslim BF and chef cuts up his Hindu GF into 35 pieces
4. Cities are progressive, country side lives in middle ages
5. Girls seen as burden and often married off in childhood
6. Extreme #patriarchal society - #women are men's property
7. Bride killing and #dowry torture rampant as reported in general

World's biggest #democracy is also a dark place.