teq@aus.social (@teq@aus.social)
Learning how to balance surviving the present with supporting resistance efforts while also participating in collective experiments in prefiguring better futures.
I post occasionally and intermittently boost, mostly to share and/or amplify resources
Header image description: screenshot of text that reads: "It wasn't always this, and it won't always be this... How can I find the most liberated position in the current reality?" (adrianne maree brown, Possibilities Podcast S3E5, 2019)
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.
Senza categoriaYes! It's a good example about the power of organised resistance, and the important context that the resistance movements go way beyond what is happening in Minnesota is worth highlighting
I'd add that practising organising mutual aid and building the relationships needed for neighbourhood resistance movements are urgent, regardless of if/when we live through sustained attacks by an oppressive state
" a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom...
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme"