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#smashthestate

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as they decide how much to listen to us and how much to treat us like slabs of meat. Prison is present in the school system as they categorize you, discipline you, track you, and it’s definitely present when they haul you into the office and search your backpack after you start questioning the hypocrisy at the center of it all."
~ Peter Gelderloos

#Abolition#SmashTheState
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"Instead of holding the state accountable for what is a world-historical failure to control disease, instead of demanding a new approach to begin mitigating these unprecedented levels of public illness, the public is distracted with mocking, marginalizing, criminalizing, and attacking disabled people. Who, to be clear, are already completely excised from most forms of public life."
~ Julia Doubleday

thegauntlet.news/p/out-of-cont

The Gauntlet · Out of control COVID means permanent segregation for many disabled peopleBy Julia Doubleday
#SmashTheState#FuckCapitalism#CovidIsNotOver
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The Wimmelbild shows scenes of how we have been failed during the ongoing pandemic, in the absurd nation state where we are forced to live, in a country that wants us dead. And there are probably lots of international similarities.

This drawing was made by @fr3nzin3 for our new zine.

archive.org/details/testimonia

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Spot the: #Capybara

The colored drawing is a wimmelbild showing various scenes from the ongoing pandemic. At the center there is a huddled person who sits on a broken record, saying "I sound like a broken record". At the top right there are scenes from a anti-vax-protest in front of a hospital. On a screen a person in a hospital bed on a respirator can be seen. At the top left corner there's a doctor without a mask leaning into a patient, who seems intimidated. Right underneath a revolver points away, 5 chambers are empty one contains a COVID virus, to signify the russian roulette of Long COVID. In the bottom left corner there's a train station with an incoming train called "you do you", most people in the train don't wear a mask except one person squeezed to the window. The sign reads "next stop: Long COVID". Bellow there's a syringe with a drop. Above to the right a group of kids tries to cross the street, on the crossing are written "LC, diabetes, MIS-C and POTS". To the right of it there's a dance party where no one wears a mask and death stands there with a smiley head. On the side of the floor is a panel that reads, "no time to grieve". Bellow that there's a capybara relaxing on a turtle, next to the flags of a pandemic memorial. Above the dance floor a woman with wild hair opens the door and asks, "Why masked? It's just a flu. We're fine". On a screen there's a video-chat where one person has a cat face.
#CommunalCare#MutualAid#SmashTheState
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Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

A lot of US political talk tacitly assumes that a purpose of government is to help people. One way this assumption manifests itself is as shock that the government openly facilitates exploitation. They prosecute shoplifting but not wage theft! Littering but not industrial pollution! Jaywalking but not killer self-driving cars! Poor people's tax evasion but corporations pay nothing! Student loan defaults but not COVID money fraud!

Often this discourse contrasts current conditions to an imaginary past when the government did its putative job. The top tax rate used to be 90%! The minimum wage was a lot higher in real dollars! Public universities used to be affordable! But really, when was this supposed golden age?

The first governments that colonists set up on this continent were run by enslaving planters to facilitate slave-based capitalism. During the nineteenth century the planters were replaced by industrialists and financiers to facilitate wage-slave-based exploitation. At some point capitalists subbed in professional politicians but the work didn't change. Any gains workers made were the result of resistance, not government beneficence. If there was actually a time when American governments, federal, state, local, meant to help people, when did it start? When did the plantocracy or its successors relinquish control?

Governments here have *never* been on our side. Their main function has *always* been to facilitate exploitation and the transfer of wealth from poor to rich. At any given point in history they've stolen as much as they could get away with, and if it looks like things used to be better it's only because they didn't yet have the means to make them worse. Capitalism isn't amenable to reform, only to abolition. Of the police, of wage slavery, of coercion as a tool of government. So, you know, smash the state!

#Anarchism#Anarchy#Capitalism
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Future Hellfutures🏴💀🦇

Neoliberal media is beginning to warm up to the chaos and is normalizing the instability while it continues to peddle a calming forgetfulness. We do not suspend our dissent and we never forget. We know capitalism and the state created this burning world, full of disease and dispossession, making the anxious road clear for fascism and its false promises. #climate #climatecrisis #Collapse #capitalism #smashthestate

nytimes.com/2023/08/10/busines

The New York TimesHeat, War and Trade Protections Raise Uncertainty for Food PricesBy Eshe Nelson
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Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin speaks in various recordings in this video over ambient peaceful percussion and string instruments.

:anarchism:

If you're going to beat back racism, the feds are not going to help you do it. And the civil rights laws in this country are not functional. They are not functional. And they are not meant to be functional. They've been functional in terms of creating a Black middle class in this country. But they are not functional when it comes to beating back white supremacy, violent white racism. They are not functional for that. That requires a mass movement.

The climate is beset. With the economic inequality. The increase of that. With the building of prisons. With the limitless acts of police terrorism. All of these things are being allowed to happen by those in authority. It's really important to understand that. That's why we can't get fooled by this thing about the good cops. The good cops. Well, the good cops are the ones letting the so-called bad cops do the dirt.

The conditions for this kind of terrorism and this racism is not an accident. It's not a result of someones bad thinking. Or some ideas some white folks had. it's not a question of that. This government is the criminal that allows this to go on. We are not getting reforms. We are not going to get the kind of reforms that is going to deal with racism in this system. This government needs to be toppled, dismantled and destroyed.

If you look at this just in terms of the color of somebody's skin alone. And not attach an understanding to that about the nature of the state and of capital. And how they use race as a divider and class as a divider and rule over all of us with an iron fist. Unless you do this you will turn and attack the wrong folks. You will think the state is on your side or the state is impartial. The government isn't impartial.

And my understanding of government and state has nothing to do with protecting a so-called lifestyle. I'm not trying to protect my lifestyle. I'm trying to protect my damn life. And that's a big difference because the state is the biggest killer, biggest oppressor, of all.

I mean throughout history, with wars and pogroms and mass murders of one sort or another. You can just point to it, at any point in history and you can see where these killers have perpetrated their acts of violence.

When you've got that many people that are in prison. The state has declared war on the youth. You have to understand that. The state has declared war on the youth, and especially, the Black youth.

And to them it's a national security matter. Because they know that the youth can rise up. And if they were politically motivated, overthrow this system. they know this because they had the experience of the Black Panther Party of The 1960's.

And regardless of whatever errors the Black Panther Party made, it proved decisively that the most despised sector, the working class, and specifically the Black working class, they have figured out that the most despised sector is capable of revolution. Of becoming a motive force for revolution.

Malcom X said if you want action, you gotta wake the people up. And I would say you not only need to wake the people up. You gotta get over there and help them mobilize and build autonomous formations in their communities.

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#LorenzoKomBoaErvin#Anarchism#BlackRevolution
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