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I admit I'm sceptical about the value of transferring the responsibility of punishing Indigenous prisoners in federal prison to Indigenous communities.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/06/26/Indigenous-Justice-Canada-Prisons/

In the context of colonial courts and policing, transferring punishment to communities without giving them actual sovereignty over acceptable behaviour and ways of dealing with conflict seems like a trap.

It's similar to other decarceration ideas, in that it contributes to a deeper separation between the "good" prisoner who participates in their own punishment through so-called rehabilitation and those who refuse or are not given the option. Except it adds in a dimension of community belonging, which leaves it in the hands of the new jailer to define community.

It uses the language of reconciliation but seems like a poison pill.

if hacking had any impact they'd make it illegal

I keep seeing these posts about "if you can read cursive, help the National Archives digitize old records!"

folks...that is the kind of work someone should get paid for

when you encourage people to give away their labor doing entry-level work in a professional discipline?

you are contributing to the erosion of both wages and respect for that discipline

the federal government ABSOLUTELY has the cash to pay for the work they want done

they're choosing not to and you're helping them 🙄

Libraries are cool as hell.

The old world is dying and communes struggle to be born

The commune centers two core components: an anti-individualistic collective bond and a concomitant radical transformation of everyday life. In liberal ideology, which is grounded in the capitalist marketplace, human community is reduced to unmoored individuals who are forever in competition. In the face of this atomization, communes are formed around the desire to carry out collective projects. Communes arise when we transform our relationships with each other and face the world together.

As the Invisible Committee defines it, “what constitutes the commune is the mutual oath sworn. . . to stand together as a body. . . a commune was a pact to face the world together. It meant relying on one’s own shared powers as the source of one’s freedom. What was aimed for in this case was not an entity; it was a qualitative bond, and a way of being in the world.” Communes construct community out of isolation and replace individualism with collective self-determination and well-being. Communes form when groups of individuals attempt to directly “communize” their lives (put them in common) and face the problems of the world together.

. . . Rather than orienting towards seizing and wielding power, networks of communes attempt to secede from power’s grasp and destitute its institutions. Secession does not mean establishing new borders but instead practicing communist forms of life and promoting counter-circulation between a growing archipelago of autonomous territories.

. . . This is how communism is built on a large scale. Territory is inhabited and controlled, the people living within this archipelago of liberated territory establish contact and material links between themselves, learn to provide for their needs, and establish liberated relationships with each other and the land. The means of existence are appropriated and/or collectively constructed. Organic gardens and farms are established to directly feed people, free clinics to heal the sick, and worker cooperatives to produce for the needs of the community rather than profit.

The material construction of another world deprives capitalist state power of its capacity to manage and control us. This is ultimately what the Invisible Committee means by destitution, by “becoming ungovernable.”

Read more in my article "Living Communism: Theory & Practice of Autonomy & Attack" https://anarchiststudies.org/living-communism-spencer-beswick/

bias check:
when you use the word 'people' (in whatever language), are you inclusively imagining children under the age of 13? or do they implicitly "not count" in your mind?

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timeline cleanse

the SAG threatening to strike alongside the WGA is really demonstrating the kinds of things that should be happening like, everywhere, in every industry, all at once. the problems they describe are the same problems every working person in this country is facing right now. this would be a great time for a general strike, i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdtpZR8cC_w