If I’d been thinking I would’ve brought a zine or three to put in the pile of shitty mags in the waiting room…. Always room for #distroism improvement…
just some ordinary bullshit scenes from the city of death so far this morning…
—a new spot where the dept of transportation has erected a 10ft iron fence with the express purpose of preventing poor folks from taking respite underneath a bridge, and forcing everyone to walk in the street —the park board has turned the only free parking near the hospital into paid parking —the authcom posters wheatpasted up and down the street (those that haven’t been totally painted over by someone wielding black spray paint with nothing better to do) declare “class war 2024!” but ofc by “class war” they mean “vote for our obscure candidate and then come to our Marxist reading group” —nobody in the hospital waiting area, nor the receptionists, are wearing a mask
Remember: “looting” (“neighbors finding survival supplies”) is also morally just when there’s not a natural disaster, only the regular everyday capitalism disaster, too
I don’t make the rules. Loot the hoarders back just like they’ve looted us
Free covid tests from the U.S. feds website is back up! Get your tests! Get tests to the abandoned house down the block and go pick em up! Get tests for your parents house since you know they won't!
maybe you already know this but i think they are behind their usual schedule this year - i was told end of october is the estimate for them being printed and available here in the US, tho you can preorder here now
I"ve been reading bit by bit a book about Jewish women resistance fighters in occupied Poland during the WWII holocaust and cannot emphasize enough that the people described pretty much in every single way just regular people just like us, and their thought processes (that we know of from journals and oral histories) are more or less just those of most rebel groups today, just in a desperately amplified context
"oh goddammit, the council sold us out again" "they're saying we should just go peacefully and maybe it won't be so bad that way" "fuck that, i know we only have three pistols, let's fight anyway. maybe at least history will remember some of us chose not to be complicit" "ok, how many people do we have left still in on the plan? seven of us? ok, i guess that'll have to do"
and then, reading this becomes even more of a trip when you realize that people in palestine and lebanon are acting out the same thing *right now* and in a few decades perhaps i'll be reading the same book about them
Also of note is that after the Nazis routed opposing militaries, the resistance was entirely made up of *civilians*
Nazis: “we’re attacking the last remaining military holdouts”
The holdouts: 15 year old Jewish girls and boys with maybe (but probably not) a pistol, a good disguise, a pair of wire cutters and a lot of courage and luck
so keep that in mind when, for example, the IOF says it is bombing “military targets” or “hezbollah targets”. It’s civilians all the way down
Update: Felicia is out of jail on bond! :abunhdhappy: She and her support crew are super thankful for everyone who donated and shared to help make this happen. The next step for fighting her bogus charges is hiring (and paying) a private lawyer:
The moment: producing weapons from genocide; arguing for more and better paid prison guards; pumping money into blue maga while cities arrest homeless workers
leftist orgs out here posting pics of all their people crowded together at an event during a pandemic surge, no masks, almost all boomer white people, straight up posting their Ls
I'm helping fundraise for legal expenses for Felicia, a homeless trans youth facing bullshit felony shoplifting charges in an extremely MAGA appalachian county. She's facing a $100K bail and max 35 year sentence if convicted.
Felicia urgently needs funding to hire a lawyer and make bond, in addition to food and phone calls. Our hope is for her to get the charges dropped, which is only possible with financial support. Please give, and share widely/on your own channels:
@tillshadeisgone not that a cop sitting in prison where he can network with other white supremacists is in any way "justice" - but derek chauvin never would've been even charged if it wasn't for folks setting shit on fire here, no doubt about it.
@x_screamodeath_x guillotine cutter when available, otherwise ruler + xacto. scissors for the mini one-pagers. or else fold and crease real good and tear by hand for that "artisanal" look lolol (i don't actually do this)
Spurred by my encounter with a $20 zine at a Milwaukee bookshop, "The Price of Zines is Too Damn High" is my antagonization of boutique zinester culture. It argues in favor or a return to the roots of zines as a noncommercial means of expression and communication for marginalized communities and crews.
(It's also the first time I've collaged and hand-written a #zine for quite a while... it was fun! and it has lotsa #cats too)
@MediaActivist@sheffieldmaskbloc super, and thanks for the poke, i been thinking about getting to this and wishing i had more energy to do so earlier.... lmao at myself thinking i'd be able to back in june :D
Found something rad outside Mayday Cafe in south #minneapolis the other day - a sturdy free mask distro box, made from metal pipe with a wooden base and affixed to a street pole. Packed with various types of n95s! I might have to drop off some of my stickers there sometime too. #CovidIsNotOver#Covid
(My guess would be that it's either monitored by someone who works at Mayday, or someone/s in the neighborhood - there's a couple Mayday folks who always mask up but most of the time I stop there nobody is...)
repping the city where a precinct burned once and then almost everyone lost their minds. if you're local say hi!white anarcha queer/trans weirdo. be my friend & co-conspirator. I talk a lot about radical politics, repression and resistance. zine bitch. wear a mask. frequent #distroism. occasional sportsballtooterTestimonials:“Give off bad bitch vibes”“Angel of terrifying and awe inspiring proportion”avatar is by indigenousaction.org