Note: I have no affiliation with the organizers; I attended one of their gatherings years ago though and had an excellent time!

This event is a space to network, to workshop, to skill-share, and to strategize about building dual power in our region. All levels of experience are welcome, from longtime organizers to folks who are completely new! The gathering will take place October 3-5 at a campground in southern Michigan, near Kalamazoo. The address of the campground will be released to folks who RSVP in the weeks leading up to the gathering. To RSVP, select "Donate and Tickets" above and select one of the RSVP ticket options. ... This event is a space to network, to workshop, to skill-share, and to strategize about building dual power in our region. All levels of experience are welcome, from longtime organizers to folks who are completely new! The gathering will take place October 3-5 at a campground in southern Michigan, near Kalamazoo. The address of the campground will be released to folks who RSVP in the weeks leading up to the gathering. To RSVP, select "Donate and Tickets" above and select one of the RSVP ticket options.

Campground lodging will be available starting Thursday evening (October 2), as the gathering will kick off promptly on Friday morning.

There are cabins on-site, but folks are are also welcome to bring their own tents and sleeping bags. ADA-accessible bathrooms and running water are available on site, as well as electricity, and vegan food for all participants. Cell service is available at the campground. We will have a shuttle service, but you will need to contact us so that we can coordinate pickup. If you need help finding an alternative place off-site to sleep, like in a hotel or on a couch, let us know and we’ll try to set this up (resources are limited.)

Families with children are also encouraged to attend! There are even plans to have youth-organized sessions so kids and teens can take an active role in creating the event. Please let us know if you would like any help with childcare during the gathering. Service animals and pets are more than welcome.

We want the event to be as accessible as possible: if you have any access needs or questions about the accessibility of the event, please feel free to get in touch by emailing us. We will do our best to make accommodations. At this event, we hope to mitigate the spread of COVID. You can read more about our COVID and masking policy here in the Orientation Guide.

Attendee participation fuels this gathering. It is structured as an "unconference".

What this means is that at the start of each day, we will gather and collectively create a schedule of sessions for the weekend. Everyone attending will have the opportunity to put unconference sessions on the schedule.

In past years, we’ve had a range of different types of sessions: from the formal to the informal, the prepared to the spur of the moment, the demonstration of a working tool to the whiteboarding of something completely new. This event is what you make it! Here are a few examples of previous sessions:

• Food Sovereignty, Foraging, and Farming (hands-on skill share)
• Conflict in Social Movement Spaces (roundtable discussion)
• What is Dual Power? (presentation and conversation)
• Indigenous Values vs. Capitalist Values (presentation and discussion)
• Narcan Training (hands-on skill share)
• Worker’s Cooperatives and the Labor Movement (roundtable discussion)
• Radical Media: Reflections and Scheming (roundtable discussion)
• The No Borders Struggle in Europe: a Reportback (presentation and conversation)
• Countering White Supremacy Culture (presentation and discussion)
• Radios for Community Defense and Disaster Relief (hands-on skill share)
• Bodywork and Co-Regulation as Mutual Aid (hands-on skill share)

Participation in the gathering is open to everyone, not just those camping: feel free to participate on any day in any activity or session that you choose to!

In addition to the self-organized unconference sessions, you can also expect shared meals, folk dancing, live music, and collaborative art making.

Considering everything that's happening recently it's getting increasingly harder to find rest and peace, and I've been wondering what do people in this community do for fun, if there's any media you recently found you enjoy, or anything else that comes to mind.

It's been really hard finding community where i live, and i thought maybe this will make me and other people like me feel a sense of community.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25899831

I made this a "climate action individual" post because a "library economy" is made of individual actions - borrowing a tool instead of buying one, sharing your books with the neighborhood, etc. Bottom up instead of top down.

Between 6000 B.C.E. and 1000 B.C.E., the people living in the Carpathian Basin of central Eastern Europe experienced a whirlwind of social and technological change. The first farmers brought domesticated crops. Smaller communities grew into larger settlements, broke apart, and reformed. New technologies such as plows, draft animals, standard measurements, and metalworking transformed working life. Elsewhere in the ancient world, such changes often heralded increasingly unequal and socially stratified societies.

But not in the Carpathian Basin, which covers all of Hungary and stretches to parts of countries including Austria, Serbia, and Ukraine. There, house sizes and grave goods suggest societies remained remarkably egalitarian for 5000 years, hinting that people developed social and political strategies that helped them resist inequality, researchers report today in Science Advances.

“There has been a huge expansion of interest in the origins of inequality over the last decade,” and archaeologists now have reliable tools to study it, says Tim Kohler, an archaeologist at Washington State University. Kohler co-authored a 2017 Nature paper that used a standard measure of inequality called Gini coefficients to quantify and compare wealth inequality across the ancient world.

Kohler’s paper found that agricultural societies tended to have higher Gini scores—that is, tended to be less equal than—hunter-gatherer communities, and that the use of draft animals often increased inequality further. But when Paul Duffy, an archaeologist at Kiel University, and colleagues pulled together data from 110 sites in the region and calculated house-size–based Gini coefficients for most of them, they found the average score didn’t budge even as technology changed, hovering around an average of 0.21 for 5000 years. The Gini coefficients of cemeteries, where inequality can be expressed through lavish offerings in the graves of select few elites, also showed little change over this time period.

Across similar time periods in places such as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, inequality rose along with the development of plow agriculture. So, why didn’t that happen in the Carpathian Basin?

We need to build trust in our communities—but that requires rethinking ideological habits that isolate us and make us appear as just another lifestyle cult.

Zoe Baker and Anark release a video in the same week? Let's fucking gooooo! ❤️🖤

I've long considered myself an anarchist and while I'm not very well read, I'm also not a baby anarchist. I haven't read too many books on theory, instead I mostly learn from podcasts and discussions with peers. For whatever reason, I struggle to find the mental energy to get through books. I'm vaguely familiar with communalism but I'm still struggling with conflicting information.

1. Is communalism compatible with anarchism? I've come across people who identify as both as well as communalists who view their philosophy and goals as distinct from anarchism.

2. Is communalism statist or anti-statist? I've heard it described as anti-statist, yet depictions of it (when distinguished from anarchism) sound to me like they aim to establish a highly decentralized and directly democratic confederation of states.

3. How do anarchists and communalists in this community feel about the others' praxis? I'm intrigued by both, including especifismo and libertarian municipalism.

Quote from https://www.salon.com/2001/01/08/mackaye/

The previous parts 1 to 3 can be found here.

Written version of the entire series here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anark-a-modern-anarchism

Jeff found a genie in a bottle / Who said, "I can give you anything you ask. / You can have your wishes three, / And a million more for free. / It's unlimited, just set me to the task."

True libertarianism, a left wing, socialist libertarianism, is a path towards a post-moral, totally human and liberated future. This is because libertarianism rejects the idea that morality should be imposed upon individuals by external forces. Instead, individuals are free to create their own meaning and purpose in life, without being constrained by societal norms or religious dogma. This freedom allows individuals to fully realize their own potential and to live their lives on their own terms. Libertarianism is often misunderstood as a conservative, capitalist philosophy. With this book, I aim to recapture the term from the hands of greedy destroyers of the world, and contribute a little to the ever-growing intellectual tradition on the left.

In USA, both US citizens and immigrants are being caught and sent to detention centers or immigration camps. There the people will be kept and will be deported to another country on a later date. And that person will be deported to another country irrespective of whether he or she originated from there or not. It is even worse than what the USA did during the world war 2 to the japanese americans. During the war the japanese americans were forcefully relocated to internment camps. It is very shameful period of US american history. Probably in 60 or more years later people will read about these events in their history books. They will understand how a deranged president did all these. And the fact that the USA president had support of majority of people. USA needs a revolution today. Just like the american revolutionary war a similar war needs to be fought by the sane people of USA. Otherwise whatever good that has been achieved since July, 4th 1776 will all be lost.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24028405

invidous link

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37239269

I fear that if we (anarchists and fellow travelers) cannot explicitly articulate the need for action, within the context of upending daily life as it is currently lived, the horrors that are the existent world will continue along with it. Even when protests become riots, if we find ourselves continuing to inhabit the position of waiting for specialized locations of resistance to make themselves known we will fail to meet the moment at hand, perpetually stuck in a reactive cycle of prairie-dogging into moments of rupture only to fall back in line when the tides subside. If we truly desire the end of this world of death machines, we cannot afford to wait and take action only once ruptures become clear. We must embody the constant state of rupture. But to do that, we need to recognize why we so often wait.