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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Josefin Öhrn The Liberation:
🎵 Rushing Through My Mind (Al Lover remix)
#JosefinÖhrn TheLiberation
https://allover.bandcamp.com/track/josefin-ohrn-the-liberation-rushing-through-my-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/1uznHfaQ2JwbJIs2nrI5oy
Heute auf der Total Liberation Demo Hannover – also meine Seele hat sich grad von meinem Körper befreit bei dieser Hitze. Stay safe an alle! ❤️
There are 3 fundamental freedoms outlined in Dawn of Everything:
(1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings;
(2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and
(3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
I think these can all be captured in one statement when reframed as a system constraint: for a system to be free, participation must be optional for all members.
People must be part of *some* system. Even individualistic survivalism is itself a system (if not a very good one). Then there is a corollary as well: any system that is not free, that is not optional, can turn optional systems into mandatory ones, and thus (adopted from the MLK quote) un-freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
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I'm gonna drop the #Philosophy tag on here because apparently that's where I went with it. Challenges and push-back welcome.
Edit:
Aaaaand Its a blog post
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/an-algorithm-for-liberation
As usual, comments, typos, and questions are always welcome.
Trump and the USA is "losing" everywhere...
#USA
It is done. The USA is now officially a fascist state. No more hiding behind rhetoric, it's clear.
They either sort themselves out, or we will need to do so in the future. Help them, like they helped us.
#liberation
Marching today in Galway. Despite a "ceasefire", Israel has continued to kill Palestinians this week in breach of it. There is no liberation under occupation. Dismantle the apartheid and genocidal Zionist state. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
In People Before Profit we stand for a liberated Palestine and will continue to march in solidarity and demand the Irish government act!
We need sanctions now! Pass the Occupied Territories Bill, and get the US …
Remembering Maritza Montero | Liberation Psychology https://libpsy.org/2025/09/04/remembering-maritza-montero/
I refuse to replace capitalist hierarchies with red-tinted authoritarianism, because in the end, I want liberation, not another power structure draped in red with the hammer and sickle.
#Authoritarianism #Anarchism
🎵She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...🎵
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/drug-overdose-crisis-dulf-vancouver
This post made me think about another post in my timeline. It mentioned the "liberation of Germany from the Nazi regime" 80 years ago. This is how it's usually worded in 🇩🇪 up to this day but that phrasing sucks. It makes it sound like Germans were poor oppressed people and who just needed a bit of outside help to topple their government. Words matter though. Germans weren't being liberated. Germany was getting defeated (fortunately).
Established by the Black Guerrilla Family in San Quentin Prison in 1979,
Black August is an annual commemoration of the struggle for Black liberation
and a time to remember the freedom fighters who have passed
or who remain locked up in prison.
In 2025, as fascism rises in the US and around the globe,
what can the radical tradition of Black August teach us about keeping the fight for freedom alive in dark times?
In this on-the-ground edition of Rattling …
The implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.
Terecht, bedreigen moet je niet doen: Dierenactivist Ad B. opgepakt na bedreiging kantoor BBB https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/31/dierenactivist-ad-b-opgepakt-na-bedreiging-kantoor-bbb-a4904597
What is #degrowth?
We offer a definition wherein the fundamental core is the planned reduction of energy and material use to keep within planetary limits, while the associated 'pluriversal' belt of concepts and practices is also essential to degrowth.
Part of our response to @…
October 3, 2025.
Park Police tore down FLARE encampment at 5:00 AM this morning.
Protest at Union Station, Washington, DC this evening 5:00 PM
https://youtube.com/shorts/t8qtpbQS6Kk?si=mEb3bypUIOQN2iJ5
"In these sessions, Nkem will offer an introduction to the Resilience Toolkit, focusing on embodied self-awareness as a foundation for liberatory relational and collective work. ...
"Together, participants will practise real-time regulation tools that harness the body’s innate biology to settle overactive and pdetrimental responses – reclaiming energy, creative flexibility, and connection to ourselves, one another, and our shared liberation. ...
"Masking is mandatory - we will have some spare masks available at the venue. Full COVID policy will be shared via email once you have registered."
#ResilienceToolkit #Sheffield #Leeds #Bristol #London #Glasgow #England #Scotland #liberation #events #Masks4All #CovidCareful #UK
Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol