paranoid @paranoid@darkest-timeline.com

Belarusian anarchists from Pramen collective recorded video statement for the new year. English subtitles inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmYlEjnYq4 #Belarus #anarhism #HappyNewYear

"You ask any Marxist about labor and labor-value, they always immediately go to production. Well, here’s a cup. Somebody has to make the cup, it’s true. But we make a cup once, and we wash it ten thousand times, right? That labor just disappears in most of these accounts. Most work isn’t about producing things, it’s about keeping them the same, it’s about maintaining them, taking care of them, but also taking care of people, taking care of plants and animals."

@paranoid maybe a bit of a tangent, but one of the most brilliant books i've read in a long time is samia khatun's "autralianama". its starting-point is the discovery of a book in a mosque in an outback mining town. a string of (monolingual) australian historians assume that the book, which is written in bengali, is a copy of the quran. but khatun, who migrated to australia from bangladesh as a child, figures out that it is in fact a compendium of poetry called "kasasol ambia". "australianama" is her attempt to start reading the history of the continent through the epistemic strategies embodied in the book's songs and stories. part of the task is to learn bengali, which at the beginning of her research she herself speaks very little of.

@paranoid ah, ok. i think your exhortation is spot on, by the way.

linguistic hegemony and racism are also mutually supporting dimensions of the theory and practice of oppression.

All these yucks with their "positivity only uwu" when the best news I've been getting all year is that I'm negative.

a lot of people are asking why people type it as "folx" and for me it's pretty simple: i think the letter x is cool

24 year old Summer Taylor passed away today after being struck by a car during protests in #Seattle which took the I-5 freeway. Taylor joins a growing list of people killed during the recent rebellion following the police murder of #GeorgeFloyd.

The #BLM #Seattle Freedom Fund

The funds collected through this fund will go to the immediate release of people protesting the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Manuel Ellis (May 2020). Any remaining funds will continue to be used for future bailout efforts as an ongoing community bail fund project.

https://blacklivesseattle.org/bail-fund/

If you want to understand the mainstream political climate of seattle, you just need to know that the paper of record for the city published an editorial describing an attempt to get a small payroll tax on big business to pay for services as the city's "war on employers"

https://www.beyond-prisons.com/prisoner-support-guide-for-the-coronavirus-crisis

"People in prisons, jails, and detention centers are at high risk of infection and have seriously abridged access to health care and hygiene within facilities. The overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of confinement, coupled with inadequate, neglectful, and often punitive responses to medical needs, mean that COVID-19 poses serious risks to this population."

Check out this guide to supporting prisoners during the COVID19 pandemic.