From It's Going Down

A week ago, It’s Going Down published a statement announcing that we were putting this project on hiatus after ten years. Tired and burned out, we were gambling our absence wouldn’t be missed. In short, the response from readers, friends, and long time collaborators was overwhelming and clear: many feel this project is important and should continue. We appreciate all of the incredibly kind words and those who took the time to reach out to us.

With this encouragement in mind, we have decided to continue publishing at It’s Going Down and operating the platform for the near future. Going forward, we want to focus on quality over quantity and also attempt to cultivate again a culture of report-backs and movement journalism as we go into the second Trump period. We also realize that this isn’t 2017 anymore; the site may be updated less as it has been in the past.

We also want to salute all of the new (and old) anarchist and autonomous media projects that have sprung up in the last few years: hopefully we can continue to be part of a burgeoning grassroots media eco-system where we learn and grow from each other.

A few updates:

Moreover, if you are interested in contributing to the columns In Contempt, which features a roundup of news, action, and updates about political prisoners, repression, and abolition, or This Week in Fascism, which discusses the far-Right and antifascist resistance to it, please reach out to us at: info [at] itsgoingdown [dot] org. Have other ideas? Drop us a line!

Lastly, since folks have asked if they could help donate to support our work, we want to instead encourage people to donate and help sustain mutual aid and autonomous infrastructure in their local areas. If you can, also consider helping these organizations and their work:

Life, finds a way. So will we. See you soon.

Comments

EmmaAintDead Sat, 12/28/2024 - 10:14

phew! I was starting to get worried there wouldn't be any leftist activist reporting around to cheerlead the crimethinc "Get a couple dozen young people arrested for absolutely no reason" festival this January. I can't wait for their wholly sympathetic coverage on this completely unforeseeable disaster of a throwback to the summit years!

parking these now so everyone knows we've had solidarity since Before the massive pointless arrests in January:
#FreeTheDC23
#ReleaseTheRoanoke12
#UnhandTheUtahUhhleven

for the works!

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 12:42

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

Sorry, this is an anarchist website. Radical liberal news and commentary goes on reddit.

Happy IGD is prioritizing report backs again. If our politics are only producing commentators and spectators, they are literally a part of the problem.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 13:04

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

Who do you work for?

Or is it just that the notion of people anywhere doing anything is just too anxiety-provoking for you?

The thing in January is literally a bunch of educational gatherings. If that's too high-risk for you, fine (I bet you have COVID anxiety!), but for chrissakes, shut up with your dumbass whining, you just sound ridiculous.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 15:01

In reply to by anon (not verified)

y'all both fucks isn't getting emma's wise content down y'all throats.

the prob with strugglismo isn't "doing to much," it's "indirect actions that make symbolic appeals to existing political powers that be"

naturally you org types would conflate *getting intentionally arrested* with *accomplishing literally anything*

if you can't actually get a crew together to burn down your local city hall AND courthouse, AND to make the streets unsafe for pigs at all hours, indefinitely, then just go do something that helps someone/something/yourself materially. everyone's food still comes from the grocery store or the industrial local organic farm for godssakes, and i don't see anyone practicing under the table general medicine!

so as of today just like 100 years ago there's still tons of hard stuff to learn and do, and none of it has to do with insurance companies, city councils, or presidents. this at least is my understanding of means/ends and prefiguration.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 17:27

In reply to by anon (not verified)

no, but you would think that, given your proclivities. you think the ability to pass laws is power? real power is the ability to do whatever you deem, no matter the laws. THAT's what organizing means. orgs, otoh, can't understand how to get people together to break social norms and get every crazy twacked bum into a couch or bedroom with a household who has unlimited patience for them. let alone getting massive numbers of people to recognize theft as a legitimate use case and property as an artifact of a phantasm'd bourgeoisie mass media...

recognizing neoliberalism as not going away due to mutual aid or hopes and prayers is not supporting neoliberalism, it's simply practicing no gods no masters by refusing to live on faith and assumptions. having no hope is fine akchually... if you ever try it you could see

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 20:12

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Super funny that people like you who throw around the "strugglismo" epithet don't even know what the people you're caricaturing actually believe. Yeah, yeah, I know the whole point of a smear is to paint your opponent as something they're not, but come on. Strugglismo is to the insurrecto as woke is Tucker Carlson.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 20:27

In reply to by anon (not verified)

feel free to let me know what you mean by the term, but what i mean is prioritizing "actions" for action's sake without meeting material needs along the way, typically indirect actions while thinking that politicians are the actual power wielders...

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 15:39

In reply to by anon (not verified)

To me, as you seem you seem to look down on those who don't do anything. I guess no one should be surprised that when they go looking for anarchists, they just find a small group of people yelling over weird bullshit, LOL.

Pete Preston (not verified) Tue, 12/31/2024 - 11:25

In reply to by anon (not verified)

What's ridiculous is not being able to spell the word "ridiculous" correctly ( a hallmark of a generation who has spent their entire lives talking in text-speak and abbreviated abominations)! And yeah, they WON"T be coming after anarchists because (despite your inflated sense of self importance) we are absolutely no threat to the power structure.

EmmaAintDead Sat, 12/28/2024 - 16:33

In reply to by anon (not verified)

bookmarking this comment to come back to when all the J18/J19/J20 Bail Funds get posted. Might be able to score a cool tshirt off one or two of them. i always look forward to the merch table at these things, the art really pops when teenagers and 20somethings get their lives totally fucked up for years over nothing.

anon (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 04:16

In reply to by EmmaAintDead

Yeah, I'm sure people are going to get arrested at a street medic workshop, you low-grade moron. Good thing we have someone as informed as you to tell us this. You aren't even succeeding in spreading fear the way you want to because you literally haven't even checked what the announcement was for. You are an incredibly stupid and lazy person, and literally no one gives a fuck what you think whatsoever.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 10:51

Translation: after being told about the immediate threat from FBI Trump Faction the admins moved to Mexico with all their assets so they could lead the Anti-Trump Resistance from there, and from BlueSky of course...

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 22:20

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Y'all both fuck get a room and kiss on stream for us okay? Bag of funyuns and coolwhip incorporated into it please. Setup a venmo and I send american dollars to y'all both fucks. This is your peak enjoy it while it lasts! KC BBQ in there too. Thank UWU

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 13:19

No addressing or acknowledgment of any of the genuine criticism given from others in their space, nor any meaningful self-reflection as a platform. So yeah, 2016/2017 but with even less liberals to convert seems like the rerun we're heading into.

CalvinSmith (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 13:54

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Claim they are part of a "burgeoning grassroots media eco-system where we learn and grow from each other." The libs haven't gone anywhere, i think the trump administration will just have more anti-fa and feminists: it's all kinda dispiriting if you think about it. The fascists, liberals, and anti-fascists have all become very similar. They have facebook accounts.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 21:47

This sounds like The Who's Final Tour. Followed soon after by The Who's Reunion Tour.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 21:51

Make sure to drive home that petulant adolescent thing with phrasing like, 'so-called Mexico.' I know for an absolute fact that vast numbers of actual grown-ups in Mexico definitely call it that.

anon (not verified) Sat, 12/28/2024 - 22:24

Y'all fucks like a flock of hens shooting eggs out they anuses. This is the peak of yall fucks lives IGD coming back so cream your filthy pants and type more kewl comments fellow anorcs. Happy New Year YallFucks

anon (not verified) Tue, 12/31/2024 - 01:56

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Wait, how the fuck is this completely incoherent, unintelligible comment acceptable, but my objections that it is incoherent and unintelligible are deleted? Seriously.

anon (not verified) Tue, 12/31/2024 - 10:20

In reply to by anon (not verified)

Perhaps, and hear me out, YOUR objections were the actual completely incoherent, unintelligible ones?

Anarchist rejection of authority includes your own brainworms, brah!

anon (not verified) Sun, 12/29/2024 - 02:03

vaxxed?

anon (not verified) Mon, 01/06/2025 - 09:46

Glad more anarchist projects exist. I'd rather quibble over the particulars of the politic than type into a void.

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