I don't really know how this forum feels about young people but I'm hoping for the best
Hey, new poster here. For a while I've sort of vaguely circled anarchist spaces with my involvement in protests and the punk scene, and I've always meant to dive more into anarchy but have always sort of procrastinated. I've recently begun reading material, lurking on forums, and thinking of some "small acts of anarchy" I guess you could call it. I've also become excited enough about this to decide to start an anarchy affinity group at my school (I'm young) that I hope will work as a sort of work and social oriented group for anarchists of all kinds of different opinions to come together. My school has some pretty shitty issues that are pretty typical of the so-to-speak "micro-government" that a school is, I hope to make a group that can help the student body where the school is failing them.
I know this is all pretty trivial stuff, but think about it as like anarchy with training wheels. For example, our school has vending machines—which I suspect they privately own because it seems they buy the product outright and then stock it themselves—that are run by "clubs." Since the beginning of the school year the vending machines have been stocked with extremely expired drinks and despite complaints for almost a month now the school has not removed to expired products. They have even restocked the vending machines without removing the expired product. I suspect these greedy bastards are doing this because trashing the drinks would mean they're losing money they spent buying them in the first place. I've decided to finally do something about this, so I made a petition calling for the "club" that runs the vending machines to remove all expired product.
Point is, this is the type of issues that I want to start an affinity group for. It's obvious that the school has been dragging their feet on this issue/straight up ignoring it for nearly a whole damn month now. If there was a group at our school that could ruffle some feathers to do what's best for the student body these problems would probably be solved much quicker than trying to get change "by the book."
Of course I also have tons of other ideas for what this group could be. A place to exchange literature, have discussions, create zines, make art, plan some "small acts of anarchy" like making some wildflower seed bombs. I wanna help some of the kids at my school who don't know how the fuck to "do anarchy," cause I remember what it's like to be that kid. I'm going to college soon but I figure I might as well do something worth while with my last year.