food
Existence # 2/2023
From Anarchistická federace
October 17, 2023
In the autumn issue of the anarchist review Existence we decided to devote ourselves to a seemingly mundane topic – food. However, when we will take a closer look at food, we will find out that it has a huge range of dimensions. It’is surprising that it’s not more reflected in anarchist theory. We take food for granted a bit too much, but for many people in the world, even in the Western world, it isn’t. Therefore, food is viewed from many perspectives throughout the Existence.
TOTW: kleptitarianism
This 1960s Anarchist Group Believed Food Should Be Free
From Atlas Obscura
In 1968, the poet Diane di Prima moved from New York to San Francisco. She wanted to work with the Diggers, self-identified community anarchists who performed street theater and organized mutual aid projects, from free stores to free housing to the dissemination of produce, hot meals, and bread.
TOTW: Dinner and a Movie
After some years thinking about this, it seems to me like most people enjoy dinner. I’ve also discovered that a lot of them tend to like pictures that move …moving pictures, “movies.” The social sciences suggest that human beings have been doing something like the two things together for a while. Creating and consuming food while creating and consuming passive entertainment.
What is Anaculture?
From Sabot Media
Anaculture is a method by which we can abolish the State and implement a gift economy based on self-determination, horizontality, mutual aid, and solidarity. One where people contribute what work they can, doing what they are passionate about, and share in the more mundane responsibilities of the community. As anarchist our understanding of freedom is that it is a process that people engage in together. We believe that rigid laws actually undermine our freedom, and therefore don’t aspire to the creation or worship of canonical texts.
Olympia May Day Activities
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TotW: Anarchist Recipes
Radical croissants
From EFE, 13 January 2023, by Nerea González
The anarcho-communist bakers serving the Paris suburbs
Montreuil, France, Jan 13 (EFE).- A bakery on the outskirts of Paris is combining classic French pastry with anti-capitalist political theory.
La Conquête du Pain (The Conquest of Bread) takes its name from a text written by one of the most renowned anarcho-communist political analysts, Russian Peter Kropotkin.
Anarchists Loot Supermarket in Greece
From Athens Indymedia, Translated by Act for freedom now!
On Thursday 22 December we carried out an expropriation at the Market supermarket in the neighbourhood of Iisia and the products were shared among the people at the adjacent street market. [...] Expropriation is the principle against conformity and submission. We call for the immediate multiplication of similar actions in all cities.
Attack on Gage Park Liberation School
From It's Going Down
Report on recent attack on the Gage Park Liberation School by a property management company.
On Wednesday, August 17th, the Gage Park Liberation School was attacked by a property management company, Manage Chicago. Without warning, several men showed up and began drilling into the locks. While management was chased away, they could be back at any time. We’re calling on our community to support us now.
Solidarity Breakfast in Canarias
Neighborhood anarchism and strong social communities
The Gran Canaria Anarchist Federation has been taking action to address basic needs for a decade now, be it through housing or food autonomy projects. Social community projects become stronger when they learn to manage and solve the problems that they take-on as their own. The comrades conclude that “in the face of the ineptitude, inability and disinterest of the institutions toward this situation, worsened by the consequences of the pandemic and the wars, we launched this initiative that aims to feed tens of minors with healthy nutrition and without animal suffering”. Revolutions are made from the barricades, with a well fed stomach.
TOTW: Gardens
TOTW: Soup for my family
Anarcho-Beef People
From Empty Hands by Spencer Beswick
Against All Domination at Anarchist Gatherings (1986-89)
A series of annual gatherings from 1986 to 1989 revitalized the anarchist movement and built the infrastructure for national and continental coordination. I will share more writing about this in the future, but I wanted to share a quick anecdote about the debates over food and animal liberation at these convergences. They offer a window into the evolving values and ethical norms of the anarchist movement at the time. Anarchists developed a commitment to fighting all forms of oppression, hierarchy, and domination—including of other species—rather than solely focusing on capitalism and the state.