Adam Bandt urges Australians to ‘embrace’ civil disobedience and join climate protests

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/30/adam-bandt-urges-australians-to-embrace-civil-disobedience-and-join-climate-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Greens leader says Albanese government is ‘hellbent on opening more coal and gas mines’ and people must ‘fight back’.
#Australia #climate #environment #bribery #corruption #mining #corporation #coal #gas #communitydefense #selfdefense #collapse

@ai6yr Regarding basic firearms safety, the topic of firearms can be a very controversial topic for some groups. Alternatively, self-defense items such as pepper spray (or bear-strength spray) might better appeal to a younger demographic.

#disaster #selfdefense

20. Basic hand-to-hand self defense. Jujitsu or judo or akido or similar (not karate or any showoff sports). Real practical stuff that will get you out of a jam.
21. Human communication skills. How to talk to strangers, ask for help, interact with people WITHOUT using social media or your phone. I know, they hate talking to adults, but this is a huge, huge, huge skill in life in general (and in particular, disasters). 13/x
#DisasterPreparedness #SelfDefense #Talking

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

In Wake of Mass Shootings, States Enact Divergent Laws on Firearms

#2ndAmendment #firearms #guncontrol #gunviolence #selfdefense
https://usnewsper.com/2023/08/in-wake-of-mass-shootings-states-enact-divergent-laws-on-firearms/?feed_id=27656&_unique_id=64e4fa1801224

On The Persistence of Bad Self Defense Advice

(Delivery Warning: this person's style isn't for everyone, but they know what they're talking about and can and have backed up their arguments with academic studies.)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_gtVQEiBFJs&feature=share9

#MartialArts #Defense #SelfDefense #Fighting #Combat #Marketing #Persuasion #Psychology

On this day in 1975, Joan Little was acquitted for the murder of her rapist. She was the first American woman to be acquitted of murder committed in self-defense against a sexual assault.

#OnThisDay #History #BlackWomen #CivilRights #SexualAssault #JudicialSystem #Abolition #SelfDefense #BodyAutonomy

In a local article I read recently 5 of the Top 100 Safest Cities are in România! So, why then do I focus so much on self defense? Follow this link now to read more from this article. #karate #selfdefense #martialarts #romania https://worldbudoalliance.org/news/top-100-safest-cities/

Bio | Lynae Vanee
https://www.lynaevanee.com/bio

It is rough being Black + choosing self defense + mutual aid when white folks attack.

Check out Lynar Vanee's parking lot about the riverboat interlude

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D2D3DlM5Bks
#BlackMastodon
#SelfDefense
#Violence
#MutualAid
#USPol

5/5 In the same way, it's not shameful to consider others in the words you use or jokes you tell. (Especially if you then expect them to be comfortable in a sport like jiu-jitsu!) Like with tapping out and restarting in jiu-jitsu, in life you can start over, change it up, try to handle it better immediately.

#jiujitsu #blackbeltwomen #bjjwomen #jiujitsulife #selfdefense #safespace #politicallycorrect #encouragement #bjj

4/5 My hope is that wherever you find me, I will do everything in my power to contribute to a place being safe. Generally being considerate of others and listening and changing when I've done something offensive are top priorities. We talk about humility in jiu-jitsu. Leave your ego at the door. Tapping doesn't mean you've lost. Don't try to win practice.
#jiujitsu #blackbeltwomen #bjjwomen #jiujitsulife #selfdefense #safespace #politicallycorrect #misogyny #encouragement #bjj

2/5 I've heard objections to safe spaces from everyone to the belligerent to people worried they'll be censored or embarrassed for saying the wrong thing. If we're all working toward having an environment where everyone wants to come train with us, we should all be amenable to discussing and improving something that was offensive, sexist or racist- or even alternative words for sp*z, cr*zy, r***** without shame or shaming.
#jiujitsu #bjj #jiujitsulife #selfdefense #safespace #politicallycorrect

Philippe Blouin on the book "The Mohawk Warrior Society A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival"—Free City Radio

https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/08/05/philippe-blouin-on-the-book-the-mohawk-warrior-society-a-handbook-on-sovereignty-and-survival-free-city-radio/

An interview with author and activist Philippe Blouin who was a co-editor of the important collection “The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival.”
The first collection of its kind, this anthology by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society uncovers a hidden history and paints a bold portrait of the spectacular experience of Kanien’kehá:ka survival and self-defense.

#selfdefense #communitydefense #colonialism #struggle #identity #life #mohawk #warrior #society

“Active intervention of friends, neighbours, passers-by would prevent a large proportion of conflicts. Let it be everybody’s duty… to interfere between fighting people, and police will not be required at all,” (Kropotkin 1902). In the case of unjust violence, persons have the right to defend themselves and defend others. When possible, this can take the forms of breaking up fights as well as many people taking up the initiative to do so. When breaking up a fight is not as immediately possible, there can be more escalated forms of self-defense and defense of others as needed until the violation of freedom caused through unjust violence ceases. Self defense and defense of others is rooted in stopping harm and preserving the right to self-management of each and all. Defense of self-management through self-management provides a standard of violence against a monopolization thereof. This approach of self defense and defense of others means that the least violent possible methods are used to protect the self-management of each and all (for through such an approach, defensive violence is done away with as soon as possible to do so without enabling destruction of freedom/greater harm). Self-defense on a communal scale can mean collectively organized defense against hierarchical rule and domination.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/06/04/kick-the-cops-off-your-block-2/

#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #abolition #abolitionism #police #cops #prisons #kropotkin #selfdefense #violence

@jennzycos #Piracy is literally an act of #SelfDefense, #Mutualdefense and #consumerProtection

🧵37/n
Ch 13
This one is about public figures again. Back in his wheelhouse. He dumps the cumbersome and too frequent metaphors and gives specific details and talks about cases. This chapter, along with two others, if not particularly relevant to everyday personal safety, is at least far more interesting and less annoying than anything else in the book.

#thegiftoffear #bjj #selfdefense

🧵36/n
Then he blames absent fathers. I think this had been debunked. Very of its time. And brings up genetics, the D4DR gene. But then says other factors could make this person a killer or war hero...

Ch13
I don't expect this chapter to be problematic, but i was highly amused at a sentence near the beginning. I love how he says the assassination of public figures is VERY important for us all (implication being his job is most important).

#thegiftoffear #bjj #selfdefense

🧵35/n
Ch12
...more about isolation due to too much consumption. Slightly better?

Lack of things humans need (Emotional Intelligence by Goleman)- motivate ourselves, persist against frustration, delay gratification, regulate moods, to hope, to emphathize, control impulse. And angry children. And child abuse. Are incident indicators. Not bad.

Ok it starts with why does this occurr to how to prevent parricide = be a loving parent. Uhhh...
#thegiftoffear #bjj #selfdefense

🧵34/n
Ch 12 Many examples he provides have misogynistic tinges. I think we've had far better conversations and studies about this lately, after the book's time. It's patriarchy, gender binary, expectations for men (that they be manly) and women (that they obey). No idea what he had to say about the school and mass shootings.

He blames drugs more than media products part way thru. Ugh. Gives another nod to violent media consumption (a myth!) before talking...

#thegiftoffear #bjj #selfdefense

🧵33/n
Ch 11 P203 the disturbing idea that once you aren't being pursued, it's bc he's harassing someone else. Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object.

Chapter 12
More hindsight is 20/20 here.

He's asking the question can media products compel people to violence about boys who blamed Judas Priest for suicide.

#thegiftoffear #bjj #selfdefense