TOTW: The Mechanics of Conversation

  • Posted on: 21 May 2018
  • By: SUDS
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How can we have good conversations? Discourse can be challenging, even while talking with an agreeable audience who share an intellectual lineage. But, what makes a good conversation turn bad, or worse, boring?

There is a centuries old history of conversation, but while there is much written about anarchist manners--prescribed principles and actions and those to avoid--there is little content regarding the mechanics of conversation from an anarchist perspective.

Announcing the formation of the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan & Iran

  • Posted on: 23 May 2018
  • By: thecollective

From asranarshism.com

This union is a free and voluntary agreement, and each individual or group will continue to operate independently in addition to being in the union

In the union, all anarchist tendencies, except for religious, pacifist and so called capitalist anarchists, have the potential to be volunteered

Grenoble, France – Fascinating and miserable (16/04/2018)

  • Posted on: 23 May 2018
  • By: thecollective

In the night of Monday 16th April, 3 estate agencies, an Apple store and the offices of a construction and public works firm were vandalized in the centre of the city of Grenoble.

For rebel individuals destruction and devastation have always represented both the goal and the means to live their own negation of the world. From small acts to big attacks, widespread gestures, fascinating or miserable, make conflictuality against all forms of power real.

Munich, Germany: French Consulate Vandalized in Solidarity with the ZAD

  • Posted on: 23 May 2018
  • By: thecollective

During the night from 16.05 to 17.05.2018 we painted the facade of the French Consulate in Munich with red laquer.

A few weeks ago, the French government launched the eviction of the ZAD (zone to defend) at Notre-Dames-des-Landes in Brittany. The ZAD was occupied a few years ago by hundreds of activists to prevent the construction of a major airport. Squatters moved into houses that had previously been cleared by the police, they built tree houses and new buildings. Over the years, the ZAD has become an experiment of a new society and a life beyond egotism, precarity and exploitation by the capitalist system.

Second Annual Int’l Day of Solidarity with EK: His Story

  • Posted on: 22 May 2018
  • By: thecollective

From Support Eric King

June 28, 2018 is the second annual International Day of Solidarity with Eric King. June 28th, 2016 was the day that he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Now, two years later, he is able to share his story about the action that got him there.

We hope that you will join us in celebrating and showing solidarity for our friend by writing him, sending him books, spreading the word through banner drops or leafleting, or organizing a fundraiser or celebratory event.

Indonesia: Anarchist in trouble, Brian Valentino, needs our support

  • Posted on: 22 May 2018
  • By: thecollective

Our comrade Brian Valentino is being held in Polda prison Yogyakarta, the main police headquarter of Yogyakarta (special feudal region within Central Java territory)

Since the day of his arrest, May 1st until May 16th 2018, our comrade, who were beaten and tortured, have been denied of his rights for legal advocate or lawyer. Ever since he was arrested it’s already 15 days of interrogation without the company of a lawyer or advocate.The police or the legal aid haven’t gave us a clear reason about this, therefore we are not sure that whether the police or the legal advocate who refuse to help him.

Planning the Insurgency, Bloc by Bloc

  • Posted on: 22 May 2018
  • By: thecollective

This week, we are excited to share with y’all an interview with TL, the main artist and designer of Bloc by Bloc: The Game of Insurrection. From the website of Out Of Order games, which publishes the game, “Bloc by Bloc is a semi-cooperative strategy board game inspired by 21st century riots and revolutions. The game features hidden agendas, deep strategy, area control, asymmetrical player abilities, and a special method for randomly generating billions of unique city layouts.”

An Anarchist Response to Far-Right Professor Jordan Peterson

  • Posted on: 22 May 2018
  • By: thecollective

The following is a critique of the popular far-Right and ‘self-help’ guru Jordan Peterson. Most recently, Peterson argued that the State should enforce monogamy as a way to end young, male, ‘lone-wolf’ violence. Peterson represents the push towards a fundamental restructuring of society that re-cements the power of patriarchy, social hierarchy, and the State.

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