James @cosmic@sunbeam.city

Here an except from the interview I really liked:

“I’m often trying to do is to debunk the idea that you have to be a full-time activist in order to be doing anything for the world.
I actually think you have to be a full-time human because you have to be paying attention to the fact that you’re already connected.”

I haven't left the house and have hardly left the bed or eaten in 3 days. I'm losing all hope that I'll be able to survive under capitalism or be happy under any system. I really really don't know what I'm going to do, materially

My ko-fi is linked in my bio and my pinned post. I don't know if it'll do anything other than delay the inevitable, but if you're so inclined I would appreciate a little help. Thank you, I love you all

hey uh i know i mostly post about my top surgery fund but at the moment i’m really worried about being able to eat so like if you can spare anything please help me out?!
https://www.paypal.me/ashleyvillers

i don’t get paid till the 7th and i’ll be in new york like a week before that and i’m scared about how i’m supposed to support myself while i’m there

Political Nihilism has never achieved anything and offers nothing to anyone. Likewise a "ruthless critique of everything existing" only achieves political inertia and smug satisfaction in armchair theorists as the world around them falls apart. How comfortable it is to criticise everyone else for trying to make the world a better place in which we find it, and how paralysing it must be to be afraid of having the same done to you. If you're not making mistakes you're not making anything.

Civilization will end in 2030 as no Country will sacrifice economy for future
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-full-speech-to-mps-you-did-not-act-in-time

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u ever see a word and ur like “lol that’s a made up word” and then you say it out loud in a voice making fun of the clearly made up word only to realize it is in fact a real word cuz that just happened to me with stork

Climate collapse is class war

Capitalism and centralisation have devastated our planet

Direct Action and Autonomy - not looking to elected representatives for reform

Climate issues are social issues

Consensus is key - All Power to the People!

Anti-Fascism

Rejection of the state and police

The climate struggle is an internationalist struggle

so I've been listening to y'all bitch and moan about XR and Earth Strike and quite frankly, I agree with you. So I've been drafting up a proposal for a loose network of activists (united by shared principles rather than with any official structure, think antifa) to work alongside such groups to try and make sure the climate movement isn't dissolved or crushed, and I've posted it as a page in the wiki. Please give it a read and share it if you like it, trynna get other propaganda stuff based around its principles on the go too

https://wiki.sunbeam.city/doku.php?id=autonomous_earth_federation

“diversity of tactics!” is never excuse to avoid criticism of a movements’ tactics.

Diversity of tactics means we see the value of many different initiatives being taken at the same time, we don’t pretend to have all the answers and we try not to get in each other’s way.

It doesn’t mean there are no bad tactics, or tactics that could become much better.
Debate on tactics should thrive. And if we still end up doing very different things, we do them better because we learned from each other.

https://winteroak.org.uk/2019/04/23/rebellion-extinction-a-capitalist-scam-to-hijack-our-resistance/

Fuck #XR ; Fuck #FFF ; Fuck #ES ; Take your fate into your own hands.

Fight back, don't tolerate complacency!

Inspired by @scottishwobbly's amazing music posts, I thought I'd coin a hashtag for sharing radical music: #OurBeats

Have rad music you want to share? Use the hashtag and we can build a big library of the stuff 🎼

As much as I'm into Social Ecology and Bookchin's school of thought, I can't help but yawn when I'm reading his denser works. So I thought I'd put together a wee Social Ecology reading list made up of easily-digestible essays not written by Bookchin:

Social Ecology (as a whole) - 'Communalism Pamphlet' by Marcus & Stephanie Armagi https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/communalism-a-liberatory-alternative/

1. Dialectical Naturalism - 'The Trouble With Wilderness' by William Cronon http://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wilderness_Main.html

2. History of Hierarchy - 'Cities Without Centralization' by Greg Bryant http://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/1992/cities-against-centralization

3. Ecological Critique - 'Ambiguities of Animal Rights' by Peter Staudenmaier http://social-ecology.org/wp/2005/01/ambiguities-of-animal-rights/

4. Libertarian Municipalism - 'The Politics of Social Ecology' by Janet Biehl http://www.social-ecology.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/The_Politics_of_Social_Ecology2.pdf

5. Utopian Vision - 'To Be Realistic, Demand The Impossible' by Blair Taylor https://www.tikkun.org/to-be-realistic-demand-the-impossible-toward-a-visionary-left

hey kids! Remember to be gay and do crimes today!

#ThinkingUtopia art is allowed to take up space wherever it pleases, without needing to answer to Business Formality, Homeowners Associations, and other forms of enforced uniformity.