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from 2020: "Alexey Sutuga took part in creating Autonomous Action since the early 2000s... Anti-fascism was always one of his main priorities. He was jailed twice after fights with Nazis who went snitching to the police when they were on the loosing side." avtonom.org/en/news/our-...
this: " ...Some people still remember Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, the Makhnovschina, the Kronstadt uprising, the battle for Khimki forest-but who knows how many courageous people like Aleksei have been forcibly erased ?"
"...they assembled in Bolotnaya Square in 2011 in a desperate bid to keep Putin from cementing control. By the time we were participating in the uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore, many Russian anarchists had already been killed or forced into exile, and Aleksei was in prison."
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. โThe real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionalsโฆโ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five years ago today, Russian anarchist Aleksei Sutuga passed away. His friends remember him as "a big, strong, reliable, kindhearted guy from Siberia, an anti-fascist, an anarchist, a real hero of the working class who knew how to listen, think, make decisions, and act." We, too, remember him. ๐ค
russia will lose Substack by Diane Francis "Stalingrad became the graveyard of Hitlerโs ambitions, and #Ukraine will become putinโs graveyard. Ukrainians are also brilliant tacticians, technologically superior, and fearless soldiers." open.substack.com/pub/dianefra...
Los Angelesโ One arrest outside the MDC. Situation still volatile
i truly hate gavin newsom
Despite months of protests, a former state prison in California City has officially reopened as an ICE detention center and is now housing detainees Core Civic, the private company that owns the facility, is one of the largest prison operators in the US bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/f...
Another item from the Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War. Spanish Civil War Museum. "I gave to save a life in Spain." Medical Bureau to aid Spanish Democracy. USA, 1938.
#OtD 2 Sep 1932 the Syndikalist newspaper of the Dresden local of the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers Union of Germany (FAUD), was banned by the Nazi-led German government, but a renamed paper, the Arbeiterecho (Workers' Echo), was lauched in January stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9233...
For one New Orleanian, the silence after the storm was another sign of the cityโs loss.
On Aug. 22, a catastrophic explosion erupted at Smittyโs Supply, a major lubricant manufacturing facility in a predominantly Black town of Roseland, Louisiana. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials.
On Thursday, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. arrived by train in Greenwood, Mississippi. He traveled for nearly 13 hours from Chicago. This first-of-its-kind commemorative ride was done to honor the life of his cousin and best friend, Emmett Till.
Antifa Action Of The Month for September 2025: Start 'Em Young! Details: antifaintl.substack.com/p/september-...
#OtD 1 Sep 1939 the first fighting of WWII in Europe took place. 56 post office workers in Danzig (now Gdaลsk, Poland) took up arms to repel the Nazi takeover. After 15 hours, the surviving workers surrendered. They were tried as bandits and executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8158...
"For all of the above, we call on everyone to show their solidarity and participate in these months of agitation for the absolute freedom of Miguel Peralta." itsgoingdown.org/call-for-agi...
"Because ICE sightings in the app arenโt verified in any way, it's likely that most reports in the app aren't actually ICE, even if theyโre posted by people who mean well โ the vast majority of ICE reports are false positives." Local groups farm clout broadcasting unverified info from this app.
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Please pledge support for Eric King's book with PM Press. Eric King is an anarchist who was imprisoned in 2014 for acts of solidarity with the Ferguson, Missouri uprising.
Incredible answer absolutely devoid of any meaning.
- And you know what hurt me the most? - No - That
Re-visiting Sarah Kendzior's Hiding in Plain Sight. Ch 6's coverage on Ferguson is poignant, powerful, relevant. Reflecting on the voyeurism of social media & complicity of D & R admins~who funded/militarized the brutal systemic injustice in Ferguson and what we're currently witnessing nationally.
Hell, the 90s, with Satanic Panic just assumed you were a sadistic Satan worshipper if you liked heavy metal. The most notable case of this to me was the West Memphis Three, where three teens were wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for life for the "ritualistic Satanic" murders of three young boys.
It feel ridiculous now, but I knew some goth kids at the time that were getting hassled by school faculty for wearing black.
I remember when the Columbine massacre happened and very serious media and political figures deliberately hid the fact that the shooters were neo-Nazis and claimed that they did it because they were bullied (they werenโt) and that they wore black clothes. Just thought Iโd mention that
kept saying this as I saw them coming from NH into VT since at least 2019 when I arrived.. leaving their graffiti and flyers under bridges..etc and everyone at that time on X was like... " oooo nooo PF are not nazis.. just lonely disaffected incels/ nationalists" ๐คก
Honestly don't know how so many sources have labeled Patriot Front as "white nationalist" when they have blatant neo-nazi roots and are full of neo-nazis. It's rebranded Vanguard America. You can see the evolution in images from their Discord servers. discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/serv...
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
The basic rule-of-thumb for neo-Nazis is: 'Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.' To think otherwise is either ignorant, naive, stoopid, or some combination of these (and/or worse). Hard lessons don't come cheap.
๐ซก to all whistleblowers & hackers
srry most of the people reacting negatively to this are pelosi/clinton boomers .. and 'def don't get the vid.. ya oc katseye are vapid corp k-pop.. but it was a welcome response to an arseless eugenic freak promoting fascism via "good genes"
It was only celebrated as a response to the racist pro-eugenics ad for American Eagle. In that way, it is far superior.
This was sad news to come home too. RIP Graham Greene
RIP to the great Graham Greene. He never struck a false note, and brought warmth and authenticity every time he was onscreen.
Also Damien Echols is a goddamn hero, man. How anyone spends almost two decades on death row for a crime they didnโt commit and still has any positive outlook life is astonishing. Donโt think I could do it.
Coincidentally listening to the Last Podcast interview with Damien Echols while everyone is posting their hot takes on the criminal justice system is kinda wild. Like both are reinforcing that the whole system is broken and corrupt and maybe we should just rethink everything.
Twilight over St Philip Street, New Orleans
anyway hereโs katseye in that cunty gap ad that โnobody even noticedโ
I love love love Naomi Osaka.. that is all.
NEW YORK (AP) โ Naomi Osaka eliminates Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 at the U.S. Open to reach her first major quarterfinal since 2021.
seeing all the flak about Andreessen's neo nazi-fied Substack and Thiel et al sponsoring other forms of fascist media without looking at "our side" protecting.. and investing in these network state rubes.. from Pelosi ... to Ro Khanna and more..
โcaviar topped chicken nuggetโ - I cannot think of a better objective-correlative for the American ruling class
It is natural to get caught in the catharsis of imagining Trump being gone, but we canโt let it rock us into complacency. This fascistic moment was built on people wanting to believe an investigation or scandal or election would rid us of Trump, which cost us valuable time organizing resistance.
Itโs time we give up on pleasing fantasies that all of this is an aberration rather than the natural evolution of capitalism into fascism. Trump is a figurehead, but he isnโt the total sum of what weโre facing. Unless we fight back and change things, this will continue to worsen regardless of him.
Glad to see this is being recognized by even more institutions. Every scholar and professor who protected Israel, who tried to criminalize and harass the encampments, is criminally complicit in this.
Nine years ago exactly, an interesting series of events happened in Uzbekistan concerning their dictator...
ICE Continues to Detain Award-Winning Journalist Who Filmed Immigration Raids Truthout truthout.org/articles/ice...
Gabriel, as most people refer to him since itโs not as if he identified as Prosser, was born in 1775 or 1776 on a tobacco plantation in Henrico County, Virginia. He was taught to read, not a common event in late 18th century Virginia, but not unknown either.
This Day in Labor History: August 30, 1800. A man named Gabriel Prosser, a Virginia slave, intended to lead a slave rebellion into Richmond. Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, which Prosser moved about, Gabriel's Rebellion failed, but is an important moment in resisting slave labor!
The organization itself was full of the symbolism so common in 19th century organizations, from the Masons to the Ku Klux Klan to the Knights of Labor, including insignia, rituals, and complicated levels of engagement that could lead someone to rise into leadership.
At first, he tried to ally with other social movements, including one early 1850s effort to guarantee everyone a homestead if they wanted one, but by 1852 or so, he believed that his organization was the only path to saving the nation from destruction.
This was an explicitly anti-capitalist novel intended to call out the Philadelphia elites for their hypocrisy and indifference to the suffering of the poor. The novel consists of a variety of characters that prey on the working poor and thus threaten the very future of the republic.
For the burgeoning American working classes, at a time when the nation had not yet fully committed to industrial capitalism but was clearly heading in that direction, the Panic was the first sign of how this system would treat workers and how workers might resist this.
This Day in Labor History: September 1, 1849. The Brotherhood of the Union, an early pro-worker organization, formed. The vision of a George Lippard, this organization established principles in American working class activism that would be incredibly influential throughout the 19th century!!
Labor Day is an odd holiday to me as it is literally about white men doing labor and a holiday for them and only them. When Labor Day was started in the 1890s Labor Day excluded those suffering under the racial fascism of Jim Crow. Labor Day is a really interesting Americanism tinted by its history
โI donโt want asylum seekers to live on my streetโ is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician
segue ... Nancy Buirski also directed another powerful and poignant documentary: "The Rape of Recy Taylorโ: How Rosa Parks Helped a Sharecropper Report Her Assault & Seek Justice youtu.be/6BJgNUrS38c?...
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Dir Jeff Nichols film (The Lovings) is based on Nancy Buirski's doc ... HBO Documentary Films: The Loving Story - Director's Interview (HBO Docs) youtu.be/hwakppvhsFM?...
In the film "Loving" (starring Ruth Negga as Mildred and Joel Edgerton as Richard) the fear of southern WS/klan violence~in retaliation to their marriage~is palpable in a scene w/Richard driving~being followed down a rural road a lot of us identify w/similar [fear] in r/t youtu.be/p5I_OUxnzR8?...
Iโm obsessed with deep sea sharks: their bioluminescent spots are just visible in the pitch black environment they live in
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Coming of Age | The Loving Generation: Part 3 | Topic youtu.be/iqsaz8rhbl8?...
We Are Family | The Loving Generation: Part 2 | Topic www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9mj...
Checking Boxes | The Loving Generation: Part 1 | Topic youtu.be/PZQSc2CTdJE?...
Thinking of Loving v Virginia~where at least we had minimal federal support. On June 12, 1967 the SCOTUS unanimously struck down state anti-miscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional "under the equal protection and due process clauses" (14th Amendment). We no longer have this/support
๐จ Clergy witness "horrific" ICE abductions at immigration courts. Trump, Fox, & MAGA cheerleaders are lying that these people are "the worst of the worst." I went to the immigration courthouse in Santa Ana, CA, for @therealnews.com & learned the horrifying truth from those witnessing it firsthand
one side effect of the ascendance of right wing extremism online, the mainstreaming of virulent racism and a new segregationism, is that violent anti-social, anti-human nihilism has taken its place on the cultural fringe -- and its status as an animating force for political opportunists
On this day in 1966, 12 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Alabama Senate passed a law that made it illegal for public schools to make school integration plans with federal officials.
He was just 18 years old when he was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to 210 years in prison. Marvin now sits on our Exoneree Advisory Council. Read more about his story: innocenceproject.org/cases/marvin...
23 years ago today, Marvin Anderson became the 99th person in the U.S. to be exonerated due to post-conviction DNA testing.
Criminal justice advocates warn that President Donald Trumpโs executive orders aimed at ending cashless bail policies will disproportionately impact low-income communities.
Same as the film 'Loving', with ๐ฆ๐บ actor Joel Edgerton & ๐จ๐ฎactress Ruth Negga, who played Richard and Mildred Loving. Because ๐บ๐ธ actors refused those roles, thinking of playing an interracial couple, would destroy their careers. This film also did internationally well outside the USA ๐ฟโ๏ธ
Banned Toni Morrisonโs Pulitzer Prize winner novel โBelovedโ tells the true story of Margaret Garner who chose to kill her daughter rather than let slave owners drag her back to slavery. It was an act of love. If you canโt understand that you canโt speak about the horrors of slavery.
On January 6, 1959 Mildred & Richard Loving were convicted of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth" (miscegenation) and forced to leave the state of Virginia instead of spending a year in prison. Eventually Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage.
Mildred and Richar Loving sit with their children in pace by the steps of their home in Virginia after returning to the state following their victory in the case "Loving vs Virginia", 1967.
โMy art is a worldwide gift for Black people,โ Polo Silk said. โI hold on to the memory of people that are no longer here.โ
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans still bears visible and invisible scars left by compounding climate disasters, environmental injustices, and decades of inequity and systemic neglect. @adamlmahoney.bsky.social "Itโs hard to move forward when the trauma is so present."
Remember Newbern, Alabama โ the rural town where a Black man was blocked from serving as mayor and where elections had never been held? Today, voters are making history as they cast ballots in the townโs first-ever municipal election. NEW: capitalbnews.org/newbern-alab...
As attempts to whitewash history escalate, family and supporters traveled by train to mirror the 14-year-oldโs path to Mississippi to keep his memory alive. capitalbnews.org/emmett-till-...
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Lincoln Batallion brigaders in a trench near Corbera d'Ebre during the battle of the Ebro. Summer 1938. Americans fighting fascism.
clear eyed, principled, organized, and direct opposition to creeping authoritarianism is what the Democratic party sorely needs, and Pritzker seems ready to put his life on the line (and I mean that literally) to do it sure, maybe he'd doing it cause he wants to be Pres, but he's doing it
In Los Angeles, gasoline was found in a drinking water aquifer. Phillips 66 has removed millions of tons of polluted water from its closing refinery, but more remains. Residents of Wilmington demand a plan to clean it.
I'm out of DC and a 65-ish black guy saw my DC plates and commented on the national guard presence. He told me he was a cop for 25 years and very pro law enforcement, but hates what they're doing with the National Guard in DC. Really hasn't hit elite media how broadly unpopular this stuff is.
You know what, I'm grateful for those 'elderly white hippies' protesting in DC because if Black DC residents come out to protest, this administration would label it a riot, arrest them and charged them with anything to push their agenda that crime is 'out of control in DC'
Please avoid doing any of these things, whether they're actually criminal or not, at the moment. Remember, we keep us safe!
THINGS PEOPLE ARE BEING PULLED OVER FOR AT CHECKPOINTS -Tinted windows -Driving with a phone in their hand -Driving without a seatbelt -Not having a registration sticker on your car
NON-DRIVING RELATED -Smoking weed in a public place -Possessing weed in public -Being in public with an open container of alcohol -Metro fare evasion -Carrying a gun outside your house -Writing or drawing with chalk on the street
DRIVING-RELATED -Driving with no permit/suspended permit -Driving with an open container of alcohol -Loaning registration or misuse of temporary tags -Not having a registration sticker on your car -Driving with a broken taillight -Missing a license plate on the front or back of a car
DC - We've compiled a list of the top things the feds and MPD are arresting or pulling people over for. Please read through our list and avoid doing these things for the time being. We've separated our list into driving-related and non-driving related offenses.
"LASD gangs have been involved in assaults, the creation of false evidence, and even murder. Now, with the help of the brave journalist Cerise Castle, the story can be told." youtu.be/VoF8RmohTB4?...