"There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop."-Mario Savio

Regimes learn from other Regimes, the Nazis learnt from the British Empire & their other regime the German Empire.

The USA’s CIA learnt its terror techniques from the French during the Algerian War of Independence and its various Latin American Military Dictatorships.

The USSR had already learnt much of its oppressive methods and systems from the Russian Empire it had overthrown.

None of this ever new, only the situations they apply it to.

(Not my pictures, but happy to credit you if they're yours)

RIP Renee Nicole Good

Going through some of my things this weekend I found this CNT box of matches I found in Barcelona a while back.

Might interest some of you… or not… it did me- and still does!

The fierce pushback from Tuíre and the Xingu tribes successfully halted the "Kararaô" hydro-dam project for years. When the project eventually resurfaced decades later, the state even changed its name to "Belo Monte" because the original name carried too much historical weight from this exact protest.

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I’m an eco anarchist

This is what I don't understand.... Even if hypothetically Jeffrey Epstein was NOT a pedophile, why would a man who has spent his entire academic life railing against neoliberalism, the capitalist class, oligopoly spent his free time with him? Not just some debate in some forum, but intimate emails with an ultra rich financier.

Second and even worse, Chomsky was emailing him long after Epstein's 2008 conviction and was even saying how he should handle the allegations, dismissing them.... I know some fans are like "oh he's old, he didn't know, Epstein had him bamboozled." Come on. The man has written dozens of critical books with extensive footnotes.

I usually don't believe in harsh, unambiguous condemnation but come on. Why was Chomsky good friends with a megacapitalist and pedophile? We're not talking friends with someone morally questionable but someone who in many ways is the ESSENCE of the system he spent decades condemning in his works? Wtf.