On Hiatus: A Statement from the Editors

From It's Going Down

10 years ago a group of people set out to create a new media platform to document and give voice to autonomous social movements happening across so-called North America. It’s Going Down (IGD) has had an impact and audience beyond what many of us thought was possible, and we’re proud of the work that we’ve done over the past ten years.

Dispatches from Firestorm in Asheville, NC

From It's Going Down

Original title: “The Utopia we Dream of Becomes Most Visible in the Dark”: Dispatches from Firestorm in Asheville, NC

The following are several dispatches from Firestorm, a radical anarchist community center and cooperative bookstore in Asheville, NC, which in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, has become a growing hub of mutual aid and autonomous disaster relief efforts in the area. While these dispatches have been posted to social media, we are publishing them here so people have an opportunity to read them in their entirety.

On the ‘Baby Murder’ article and Twitter’s Intellectual Dishonesty

From anarchocopium.medium.com

A while ago, just after the Anarchist Library had rejected the works of Foucault, theory twitter lost their minds over another work. The said work was Eleven Ways to Kill a Child written by Mallory Wournos. And as someone who has finally read it and discussed it with a friend, I would like to share my thoughts on this controversial article.

TOTW: Anarchist Influencers

Topic of the Week – This week we’re asking you to like and subscribe, smash the like button, and join the conversation here about anarchist influencers.

Conflicts and anarchists

From Pramen

We were prompted to write this critical text by a situation that happened recently in social networks. In brief: we were invited to an anarchist group, where there was a person X., who was responsible for some pretty big problems within the anarchist movement. As a result of a conversation about X. we were removed from the chat room because we were considered to be engaging in “policing” and “blackmail”.

Dispatches from the Fediverse

From From Embers

Our fediverse correspondent Lenny returns to discuss the FBI seizure of the servers of Kolektiva.social, the largest anarchist instance on Mastodon. We also talk about the continuing discrediting of big tech companies such as Twitter, Meta and Reddit, and what that might mean for people working to build an open-source, decentralized alternative to corporate social media platforms.

Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI

From Neowin
by Paul Hill
July 1, 2023

When Elon Musk took over Twitter and started getting on people’s nerves, some users left to join Mastodon. Unlike Twitter, Mastodon is a federated network where individual servers run by different people interact using the Mastodon software. Now, one server admin has been raided and plenty of unencrypted user data is now in the hands of the FBI.

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