[Pittsburgh] These Queers Bash Back
From Filler PGH
Full title: These Queers Bash Back: Pittsburgh Anarchists Organize in Response to Transphobic Hate
Report on recent demonstrations in Pittsburgh against anti-trans grifter Michael Knowles.
From Filler PGH
Full title: These Queers Bash Back: Pittsburgh Anarchists Organize in Response to Transphobic Hate
Report on recent demonstrations in Pittsburgh against anti-trans grifter Michael Knowles.
It is the responsibility of free men to trust and to celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths—change in the sense of renewal.
But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not—safety, for example, or money, or power. One clings then to chimeras, by which one can only be betrayed, and the entire hope—the entire possibility—of freedom disappears.
from Center for a Stateless Society
by Jason Lee Byas
The following is one of three introductions for the upcoming C4SS anthology TOTAL ABOLITION: Police, Prisons, Borders, Empire and is being published here as a teaser for the book.
from The Commoner
Mutual Aid Does Nothing Alone: A Rebuttal to Joanna Wuest
In her article ‘Mutual Aid Can’t Do It Alone,’ The Nation author Joanna Wuest alleges that mutual aid is insufficient to support people in (and out of) crisis. She contends that while mutual aid is a useful tool, its efficacy pales in comparison to state programmes. Yet Wuest fails to engage the arguments of mutual aid’s progenitors and proponents. What results is a confused and potentially harmful perspective on a core anarchist principle that has sustained people for generations.
from it's going down
The following communique comes from a group of anarchist women in Mexico analyzing the antagonisms within the recent women’s mobilizations and arguing for the necessity of self-defense.
Mexico. March 2020
There has been a recent rise in women’s mobilizations, actions and organization throughout the world, denouncing the multiple forms of violence to which we are submitted. However, at the same time, various forms of participation and denunciation within the women’s mobilizations have begun to become antagonistic.