Hello everyone, I am talking to a group about the robot attack dogs on the border and I remember #IGD or #Crimethinc put out a guide to disarm them. anyone remember?

#IGD #StopCopCity

Thank you to everyone who showed up against #MTG and her far-Right trolls at the Emergency Noise Demo in #NYC
Thank you to everyone who shared and supported keeping fascists off our streets
#Anonymous #IGD (it’s going down) network
Who’s Streets?

$$Follow the money$$. As many predicted, all mainstream journalists have had Twitter accounts reinstated, but the indies and anarchist/antifascist collectives remain suspended. Another really important upheld suspension is that of Linette Lopez, a financial reporter who has extensively tracked the Musk's crooked business dealings. Further reading here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-suspends-insiders-linette-lopez-another-reporter-who-pissed-him-off

This action by Apartheid Clyde is very legible in terms of intention. The punishment of mainstream journos is intended to produce a chilling effect. In 19th century terms, it's not death by guillotine (although he would love to do that if he could) it's a lashing on the back in the public square. If journalists want the access, clout, and reach of their Twitter accounts, they will have to avoid talking about the most sensitive subjects, and definitely shouldn't follow the money. Unless they take collective action against him, they will have been effectively disciplined.

Anarchist and antifascist media workers and collectives disseminating valuable information to the public for free don't follow the profit motive, and therefore, we are more dangerous. Our own account isn't in the top tier of Twitter reach like @igd or @CrimethInc, and so far we haven't hit the oligarch radar, but we expect a suspension to come anytime.

We encourage people not to frame these suspensions as random or whimsical. They are hypocritical, absolutely, but they have a clear purpose.

We also encourage everyone to build bases and cultivate communities off Twitter, on non-corporate social media such as Mastodon.

See this post for tips about moving here: https://kolektiva.social/@AtlantaAntifa/109525531050876643

#Twitter #elonmusk #crimethinc #igd #antifascism #LinetteLopez

So @igd_news has just been suspended on Twitter. Follow them on the Kolektiva server at Mastodon: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news.

The @joinmastodon Twitter account has also been suspended. Apartheid Clyde obviously doesn't want people making the move, which is one of the best reasons to make it.

In this time of growing repression, it's going to be crucial to build non-corporate alternatives free from right-wing corporate censorship. Yes, Mastodon/Fediverse has problems: some servers are much better than others, and it's hard to tell which is better when you're first starting out. But if you want to follow antifascist news, consider joining kolektiva.social, along with IGD, and us. If you have questions, we'll try to help you answer them.

#antifascism #IGD #ItsGoingDown #IGDNews

Listening to the recent John #Zerzan interview on #IGD provoked some thoughts and questions. First, I have never heard the IGD host get that saucy with anyone before, so its fair to assume Zerzan has done something at some point to alienate typically gracious comrades. I found Zerzan’s show in 2014/2015/2016 or so, before I found IGD, and understand him vaguely as an outsider and iconoclast among anarchists, which is saying something.

Although I do not claim to be the best-read (or even a reasonably well-read) Madrone, from what I understand, #anti-civ theory is rooted in the fundamentally Rousseauian idea that the establishment of civilization was the original fall from grace, that civilization is tantamount to technology and concentration of power, and therefore to corruption and inevitable tyranny, not to mention unsustainable growth and destruction of the ecosystem. Although I have questions, I generally find the theory sympathetic.

I learned about it entirely from listening to, reading, and reading about Zerzan. So, I have to confess that, despite his quirks, I kind of like him and experienced a small allergy in listening to another person I like, the IGD host, being so offhandedly dismissive about his ideas. To be fair, Zerzan has an aloof tone of his own, and the way he stepped over the international justice campaigns featured in Crimthinc’s How to Change Everything tour in order to criticize the tour insufficiently Changing Everything was, to put it mildly, especially shitty.

Some of my questions about anti-civ theory are: How far does it go? Is society itself tantamount to civilization? Would keeping a post-civ society from reverting to civilization be its own form of tyranny? Must the fruits of civilization be discarded along with its poisons? Is medicine technology? Art? Language? As I understood anti-civ prior to the interview, the answer to all of these questions is more or less “yes.”

Zerzan stepped back from that position a bit during the interview: he seemed to argue that anti-civ argues for an expansion of skills and not that everyone should go into the woods to hunt and gather tomorrow, that it is not a silver bullet to all of our problems under present conditions. That argument sounds familiar: anti-civ’s job, like anarchism, is to critique and reframe, not solve and ‘explain everything to you.’ While valid, that argument sidesteps what I consider to be a serious question: if present circumstances take anti-civ’s utopia off the table, then what does it prescribe we do to present circumstances other than expand skills and retreat from technology? Is harm reduction reformist? Is anti-civ accelerationist? Because this is where I find my greatest concern about (what I understand to be) the theory: that anti-civ appears to value the end of civilization more than it does helping people survive and thrive the here and now. Zerzan appeared to prove the point when he stepped over chose to criticize the purity of Crimthinc’s radical branding rather than honoring the peoples movements it featured, which are actually fighting for justice here and now. To be fair, Zerzan’s argument was rooted (at least rhetorically) in being accountable to a meaningful strategy and avoiding performative posturing, which are serious considerations. But it was a red flag for me.

So, Zerzan, I suppose my question is: does anti-civ have something to add when it comes to short and/or long-term strategies for radical degrowth that include harm reduction for those most hurt by that change?

Listening to the recent John #Zerzan interview on #IGD provoked some thoughts and questions. First, I have never heard the IGD host get that saucy with anyone before, so its fair to assume Zerzan has done something at some point to alienate typically gracious comrades. I found Zerzan’s show in 2014/2015/2016 or so, before I found IGD, and understand him vaguely as an outsider and iconoclast among anarchists, which is saying something.

Although I do not claim to be the best-read (or even a reasonably well-read) Madrone, from what I understand, #anti-civ theory is rooted in the fundamentally Rousseauian idea that the establishment of civilization was the original fall from grace, that civilization is tantamount to technology and concentration of power, and therefore to corruption and inevitable tyranny, not to mention unsustainable growth and destruction of the ecosystem. Although I have questions, I generally find the theory sympathetic.

I learned about it entirely from listening to, reading, and reading about Zerzan. So, I have to confess that, despite his quirks, I kind of like him and experienced a small allergy in listening to another person I like, the IGD host, being so offhandedly dismissive about his ideas. To be fair, Zerzan has an aloof tone of his own, and the way he stepped over the international justice campaigns featured in Crimthinc’s How to Change Everything tour in order to criticize the tour insufficiently Changing Everything was, to put it mildly, especially shitty.

Some of my questions about anti-civ theory are: How far does it go? Is society itself tantamount to civilization? Would keeping a post-civ society from reverting to civilization be its own form of tyranny? Must the fruits of civilization be discarded along with its poisons? Is medicine technology? Art? Language? As I understood anti-civ prior to the interview, the answer to all of these questions is more or less “yes.”

Zerzan stepped back from that position a bit during the interview: he seemed to argue that anti-civ argues for an expansion of skills and not that everyone should go into the woods to hunt and gather tomorrow, that it is not a silver bullet to all of our problems under present conditions. That argument sounds familiar: anti-civ’s job, like anarchism, is to critique and reframe, not solve and ‘explain everything to you.’ While valid, that argument sidesteps what I consider to be a serious question: if present circumstances take anti-civ’s utopia off the table, then what does it prescribe we do to present circumstances other than expand skills and retreat from technology? Is harm reduction reformist? Is anti-civ accelerationist? Because this is where I find my greatest concern about (what I understand to be) the theory: that anti-civ appears to value the end of civilization more than it does helping people survive and thrive the here and now. Zerzan appeared to prove the point when he stepped over chose to criticize the purity of Crimthinc’s radical branding rather than honoring the peoples movements it featured, which are actually fighting for justice here and now. To be fair, Zerzan’s argument was rooted (at least rhetorically) in being accountable to a meaningful strategy and avoiding performative posturing, which are serious considerations. But it was a red flag for me.

So, Zerzan, I suppose my question is: does anti-civ have something to add when it comes to short and/or long-term strategies for radical degrowth that include harm reduction for those most hurt by that change?

#IGD
#ThisIsAmerica #161: #Florida Student on Walkouts Against #DontSayGayBill; UNT Shuts Down #GenderFascist

Welcome, to This Is America, March 12th, 2022. On this episode, first we speak with an affiliate of the Youth Liberation Front (YLF) in Florida about recent walkouts against the so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill. We talk about the bill and how thousands of students are taking action against it. We then speak with Ben...

https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-161/

#IGD
Police injured one protester after mobilizing against a large crowd on the #UNT campus that shut-down Jeff Younger, a Republican running for office on an anti-trans platform hosted by a 'Young Conservative' group who last year declared support for "Christian fascism" at a rally. https://t.co/2gBDRMLQY7

#IGD
Stay Out of #DC: A #Report on Confronting Patriot Front at ‘March for Life’

Report back on #antifascist mobilization against the neo-Nazi group Patriot Front, who attempted to march at the anti-abortion, 'March for Life' rally in DC in late January. We, speaking as DC AFA, Frederick AF, DCYLF, MDYLF and other DC community members united against Patriot Front on January 21, 2022 during the National March for Life...

https://itsgoingdown.org/stay-out-of-dc-a-report-on-confronting-patriot-front-at-march-for-life/

#IGD. #acab
The #GrowingCrisisInPolicing: In Conversation with #AlexVitale

July 2021
On this episode of the #ItsGoingDown podcast, we speak with #abolitionist Alex Vitale, author of the new #book, #TheEndOfPolicing. In our discussion, we look at the abolitionist movement one year after the #GeorgeFloyd uprising, with Vitale arguing that we have seen a massive shift, both in terms of gains...

IT'S GOING DOWN: The Growing Crisis in Policing: In Conversation with Alex Vitale https://itsgoingdown.org/the-growing-crisis-in-policing-in-conversation-with-alex-vitale/

liking this episode of It's Going Down: https://itsgoingdown.org/twenty-years-of-war-occupation-counter-insurgency-a-conversation-on-afghanistan/ This account explains why the country was so unstable and mentions the arbitrary colonial boundaries. #igd

liking this anti-fasc interviewee: https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-147/ #igd #tia