Notices by Pops :rojava: (socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city)

If you want to support our troops you can find out how to write to Chelsea or donate to her rent/legal fund at https://xychelsea.is

@garbados Bethesda's Fallout is the most literal possible illustration of "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." The world actually ended, but capitalism persists

It'd be great satire if it was the least bit ironic in its presentation

@LeoSammallahti @cliffregis You folks should also check out https://www.symbiosis-revolution.org/

It's not exactly like anything being discussed here, but it's trying to organize and empower coops alongside other dual power movements in so-called North America. Groups like Cooperation Jackson and Cooperation Metro Atlanta are already members, and the stuff being discussed here would definitely be of interest

I love this so much.........

source: https://k3rryberry.tumblr.com/post/187834090998/were-the-same reposted with permission from the artist

#LoZ #Zelda #ALttP

A friend of mine needs a place to live. She's in upstate NY, near Lake George. White queer trans woman. Willing to pay rent

Please boost, and tag anyone you know who's in the area or has connections in New England. I can give you her discord on request

infosex is like sexting but over secure encrypted channels

Don't steal from local businesses but only because you could be stealing from a big box store instead

Also because small business owners tend to be more vigilant and aggressive than minimum-wage entry-level retail workers

Like, the hammer and sickle literally wasn't made as a symbol of socialism. It was made as a symbol of the Soviet empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle#Inception

No matter how you feel about the USSR, it's gone now. The symbol just isn't relevant. Put it away

The solid red flag works completely fine as a symbol of socialism that wasn't created by a totalitarian empire that slaughtered anarchists. But if you're not happy with that you can also use the red rose (with or without a loaf of bread or stalk of wheat) or the cog

Just, please, phase out the hammer and sickle. Its symbolism isn't even relevant to the modern world

What the fuuuuuuck how have I never heard of the Landless Worker's Movement

https://www.mstbrazil.org/

It's a horizontal squatting organization in Brazil somewhat akin to the Diggers, who occupy unused land it and just build farming communities on them. And it's worked. A lot of their squats have been recognized by the state. They now have over 1.5 *million* members, and I've never fucking heard of them

Most of those hostile designed benches to keep homeless people from sleeping in public? They are usually just regular benches with the bar in the middle attached later with a few hex nuts and bolts, not welded. In other words you can get them off with practically any wrench that fits. I have been liberating my parks in my city all day now. It takes maybe a few minutes per bench. The only problem is finding a place to dispose of the junk bar when you're done without loading trash cans past capacity. Anyway, it's easy, it's helpful, and it's praxis.

Since Sunbeam is sadly kind of falling apart, may I suggest to any instance admins that don't already have us silenced that you take the :greensun: emoji? As its creator (well, the one who came up with the idea, @scintillatinator did the actual drawing), I disavow it from the white nonsense Sunbeam turned into and hold that it still represents the hopeful and just ideals of #solarpunk

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There's a culture of negativity forming on the fediverse, similar to other platforms. The instinct is to call attention to it and critique it, but that itself is just creating more negativity

I think a better tactic is to make a conscious effort to create and spread more positive content, even simple stuff like the plants you're growing or the meal you're having

I really wish veg*ism wasn't presented as such an aggressive, black-and-white moral issue. When you tell someone that every time they eat meat they're committing murder, their only options are to change their lifestyle completely, feel shitty whenever they eat meat, or reject that narrative outright. Most people go for the last

But the fact is, our meat-heavy diet isn't sustainable, and we'll have to change it eventually if our species is to survive. So every step you take *is* helpful

Try to eat less meat. If you do eat meat, make less of it red meat. When eating plants, try and eat in season (and local, if possible). Try out some meat substitutes and meatless recipes - they're better than you think

But don't get overwhelmed trying to change everything at once, because by any measure you're better off doing a little than nothing at all

By the way, I'm happy to find local activist/leftist groups for you if you DM me your general area (county, closest city, etc). I've been doing this for a while so I know generally what to look for, though I'm not as familiar with the organizations outside of the so-called US, and the language barrier will make it tougher in countries where English isn't the primary language. But I still try and rarely ever come up with absolutely nothing

Please boost this! Getting organized at the local level is very very important!!!

"Be gay do crimes" and "boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time" have inspired more direct action in the younger generation than all the somber old slogans combined, and it's because they're funny and memeable. It's because every gen z will see both on social media at one point in at least one form, and they'll stick in their mind

Adjust your messaging to your audience and your culture

I want to introduce a new hashtag, meant for small acts of direct action you spot in your community: #OurStreets. It could be graffiti, stickers, supplies left for your houseless neighbors, hostile architecture being dismantled - whatever, as long as you're *not* the one who did it

And to kick it off, let me introduce you to the building formerly known as Walli's Market. I don't know much about this place other than what it says on the signs (it was a convenience store in the middle of a neighborhood) - it's been in this state as long as I've lived here. It doesn't appear to have been broken into at any point

Outside is the biggest community library I've ever seen plus a smattering of stickers, including these huge art pieces on the outside of the windows (I don't like the conflation of empathy with kindness, it's a bit of an ableist microagression, but I appreciate the sentiment)

I wish I could meet whoever made this their pet project, because this is really inspiring

There's a pervasive liberal myth that the powerful care, or even want to know, what we think. It's the same thought process behind sidewalk protests, because the thing that *really* causes change is witty slogans on posterboard

These things have *never* worked, yet people still believe that all we need is a few more signatures and a few more protestors and then they'll crack. Why should they?

The only language the ruling class speaks is force. If you don't make it more damaging for them to keep up than to relent to you, they won't give a fuck

I'm at the point where I'm seeing decentralization and community control of production as less of a means to slowly move away from capitalism, and more of a crucial effort to ensure our communities' survival when capitalism inevitably and imminently collapses

Once you pay attention, you start to notice that once the 18-wheelers stop coming, most of us are fucked. Especially now, when most of our possessions are designed to be ephemeral to force us to regularly replenish them

You can't rely on the internet to always give you that information once you need it. You need not only the knowledge, but the experience to keep things running after our lifelines are cut. We need DIY culture and local infrastructure now

@animo Studies have shown that solar power is "contagious." When one house gets a solar roof, their neighbors all start wanting one. If you look at a map you'll see clumps of solar power where "outbreaks" have happened, not an even distribution at all

So I guess the answer is, lead the way! Show your neighbors how it's done, #solarpunk style :greensun: