If you want to know the level of extreme violence police are capable of just look at what people will do to avoid it. Homeless people will literally die of exposure on the street in front of a vacant building rather than breaking in and saving themselves. What kind of terroristic threats would it take for you to make that choice? That's what police will do to you.
This book tells you everything you might need to know in 1975, from legal matters to #squatting, from sourcing / using #drugs to #health care, #travel to part-time work, how to wire a house & where to find good free #yoga classes. There’s guides to #hitching & finding #communes & #crashpads , places to print cheaply & #DIY tips, free #education & help with #childcare & it’s all written in such optimistic tones; the freaks & hippies of 1975 really thought they were winning. Heartbreaking, really
By defending the squats, we defend the movement AGAINST THE ROTTEN #WORLD OF #AUTHORITY
From the ashes of Evros, central #Greece and #Rhodes to the mud of the valley.
"The general antagonistic movement and the self-organized spaces build defences against the destruction, the inexistence and the neglectfulness of the state. Solidarity networks are established, and they dive into the fires and floods. Squats and self-organized spaces coordinate, setting up cooking places and organising the fulfilment of needs of the afflicted. #Resistance against barbarity. The state mechanism blames the afflicted while hitting the #squats to disorient. Uprising now and always. While we drown in mud and fight the fires, the state does not waste any opportunity to attack self-organised structures. Self-organisation is the society we desire, of the elimination of oppression and the exploitation of humans on other humans, animals and the environment. Our lives are constantly in danger of being lost in the fires and floods, in the trains and ships, at the borders and by the uniformed murderers and the useless government funded people within our villages and cities."
via @Freedom_Presshttps://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/10/25/by-defending-the-squats-we-defend-the-movement-against-the-rotten-world-of-authority/
Some of the most inspiring places today are sites like this, antifascist, anticapitalist, antimilitarist, feminist, lgbtq+ forward, migrant friendly. Great music, great solidarity, friendship.
The future world already exists, has existed for decades. To paraphrase Gibson, how do we make it more evenly-distributed?
A great deal of discussion about police abolition concerns non-police responses to violent crime, but most police work is unrelated to violent crime. Most, maybe all, of this is economic in nature – designed to keep working people from using productive property to meet their own needs directly – to keep the commons enclosed. This work means the police are inextricably integrated into the economy in surprising ways that are largely undiscussed in the context of abolition, which would trigger monumental, almost unimaginable changes in how we as a society meet our human needs through work. It’s likely that the end of policing would mean the end of capitalism, which suggests that it won’t be easy to achieve given the magnitude of what’s at stake.
In local news: This afternoon in Utrecht 5 houses were squatted at the end of an demo against the dutch housing crisis. They will not be evicted at the moment. Yay!