Chicago History:
“In the past year, he said, the Anti-Eviction Campaign freed up 20 abandoned properties, fixing up the buildings and moving “home-less people into the people-less homes.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/magazine/how-chicagos-housing-crisis-ignited-a-new-form-of-activism.html
“In the past year, he said, the Anti-Eviction Campaign freed up 20 abandoned properties, fixing up the buildings and moving “home-less people into the people-less homes.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/magazine/how-chicagos-housing-crisis-ignited-a-new-form-of-activism.html
NY Times
The Death and Life of Chicago
An innovative campaign to move “home-less people into people-less homes.”
“By conflating “solidarity” with service work, we risk impoverishing what solidarity actually means and feels like. It’s a serious problem when we’re perplexed when a worker is having a conflict with their boss/landlord over stolen wages and rent, and the best thing we think we can do is start a GoFundMe for them. If your work is visibly indistinguishable from NGOs, capitalist firms, well-meaning religious groups, and even fascists, you cannot expect the political content to actually be different. No amount of plastering red flags changes this.”
https://regenerationmag.org/mutual-aid-a-factor-of-liberalism/
https://regenerationmag.org/mutual-aid-a-factor-of-liberalism/
Regeneration Magazine
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Liberalism
Mutual-aid is in the air. Look near any anarchist or socialist project, and you will see the importance of it emphasized in big bold text. In the name of mutual-aid, people are doing food shares, repairing pot-holes in black bloc attire, fixing brake lights…
Forwarded from Strike Force
It’s been 21 years since the disruption of the WTO in Seattle.
Here’s Crimethinc’s movie about the events: https://youtu.be/zWQkGQ1yLEw
Here’s Crimethinc’s movie about the events: https://youtu.be/zWQkGQ1yLEw
YouTube
Breaking The Spell
An hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organisation protests and the anarchists who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation. Filmed in the thick of the action, including footage that aired nationally on 60 Minutes, it captures…