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Sharing some eco-anarchism for our solarpunk hommies....

“Force is that which makes a thing of whoever submits to it. Exercised to the extreme, it makes the human being a thing quite literally, that is, a dead body. Someone was there and, the next moment, no one. The Iliad never tires of presenting us this tableau […]...

On November 4 2023, a small group of anti-colonial feminist organizers in Hamilton, Ontario dropped a banner over Highway 403 in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians who are experiencing the current genocidal peak of Israel’s violent settler-colonial state project....

Credit to @jlou for sharing David Ellerman.

The pies are funny, but the politics are real.

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For the ISE blog: Mason Herson-Hord explains the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza through the history of Israel’s radical right’s ascension to power. “Over the course of these decades, there was a resulting shift in Israeli political consciousness where the historical necessity of the Nakba for the creation...

A team of physicists, astrobiologists, and philosophers developed a thesis that they hope to be accepted as a new fundamental law of the universe, the “law of increasing functional information.” Many of us familiar with Murray Bookchin’s work on social ecological philosophy already know that nature does tend towards...

Vietnam 2021, the mood in the air seems to be that of optimism. The government’s relentless pursuit of a Zero-COVID strategy has won them widespread approval both domestically and internationally. The economy managed to squeeze out positive growth whereas many of its neighbours suffered a decline from the pandemic. Yet...

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/9109027...

Heya folks, let’s try something new. I liked that people asked questions about anarchism in the David Graeber post. Every now and then I’ll be posting these meta threads where people are free to ask questions on anarchism or social ecology and hopefully people knowledgeable can answer.

Millett argues that state welfare is a function of social control and that social welfare can only be considered as a function of empowerment. Their proposed anarchist alternative is mutual aid....

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