someone like Emma Goldman would say that "direct action is the consistent method of anarchism"
but is putting every activity within only immediate means desirable? is it even possible? what's the subjectivity that has "immediate" means? can groups have immediate means to goals or is it reserved only for individuals?
i'm also reminded of Schmitt's discourse on the Sovereign. The Sovereign as the Decider Of The State Of Exception thus needs a Normal Situation by which to judge something to be exceptional. The Sovereign Makes and Maintains the Normal Situation that it judges its subjects by.
What mediates the sovereign?
“Luana Ross's study of Native American women incarcerated in the Women's Correctional Center in Montana argues that "prisons, as employed by the Euro-American system, operate to keep Native Americans in a colonial situation/'87 She points out that Native people are vastly overrepresented in the country's federal and state prisons. In Montana, where she did her research, they constitute 6 percent of the general population, but 17.3 percent of the imprisoned population. Native women are even more disproportionately present in Montana's prison system. They constitute 25 percent of all women imprisoned by the state.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
According to new report Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen all use prison labor in production in #Germany. Those companies really stick to traditions... #Prison
Also producer of children toys for water "Tinti" is used prison labor.
https://fragdenstaat.de/blog/2023/06/22/fuer-diese-firmen-arbeiten-strafgefangene/
NEW: More than 100 artists including Rage Against the Machine, Wheatus, Jill Sobule, Anti-Flag, Speedy Ortiz, Deerhoof and Boots Riley have signed a pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition.
We launched the letter with a Rolling Stone exclusive this morning. Still taking signers!
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tom-morello-zack-de-la-rocha-facial-recognition-concerts-boycott-1234775909/
I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.
When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.
I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps.
EDIT: Replies tell me that this doesn't function in the UK without a VPN.
in further genocidal news: conservatives are currently violating patient privacy protections to create lists of queer people so they can be tracked down and attacked with the might of the state.
@exiliaex a rly good book i was reading was about this, and it was p good tbh https://www.amazon.co.uk/States-Liberation-Dictatorship-Democracy-European/dp/1487542143
Basically, it talks about both west/east germany and how these laws compare, plus explains the years before and after. I'd definitely recommend.
if you want to read more it's called Paragraph (or Section) 175.
"In the Shibboleth, example and exception become indistinguishable: “Shibboleth” is an exemplary exception or an example that functions as an exception."
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.