Euphoric Autonomy

@euphoricautonomy.bsky.social

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I post a lot about Indigenous struggles in "canada", as well as decolonial anarchy. Defend the land, liberate Indigenous territory. Form relationships, create subsistence and live in autonomous communities.

The intense feeling of unquestionable purpose behind what you are fighting for creates the experience of finally being alive with actual clarity. Knowing that these battles will go beyond just stopping a pipeline, creates a sense of longevity that is lacking in similar anarchist struggles. Once these industrial projects are defeated, the camps will remain, not only to keep future proposals at bay, but to provide an avenue for people to get back on the land and an opportunity to realize and remember life outside of the colonial system. I find it incredible that one of the most effective ways of resisting these land destroying, resource extraction projects is by learning or remembering how to live off of these lands again. In order to fight these projects, we need to be living on the land, and in order to live on the land we need to be fighting these projects. Life becomes resistance and resistance becomes life.
ve felt fulfillment and inspiration in these struggles that I haven’t experienced in other anarchist projects. Being engaged in subsistence practices or conflict at a blockade camp has such a strong feeling of experiencing something “real”. Where as returning home, to the dreary routine of our pretend reality, really throws it in your face that, within civilization and capitalism, our existence is meaningless.
The question of insurrection transforms from a question of the destruction of the state into the question of building a new world without capital and the state. How to sustain the insurrection? The answer is exquisitely simple: ask the people themselves. Ask nuclear power plant workers how to shut down the plant. Ask nurses how the hospitals can continue to run in a situation of scarcity of pharmaceuticals. Ask the immigrants employed as slave labour by large farms how they would run their farms communally. Ask the army how they could have an insurrection against their officers. The knowledge needed for communisation is already in everyone’s heads. The only task then is to put the question of insurrection on everyone’s lips.
For myself a dip in an ice cold creek, putting in my mouth a handful of sweet huckleberries that were picked with friends, or listening to the wind, amongst other things, blows away these feelings of loss. To get the fuck out of our heads and fully into our bodies is really beneficial. And finally, to fight back, to keep the powerful of this world from sleeping peacefully at night, to plot, to conspire, to dream, practicing mutual aid as we go, reinvigorates the will to live full lives in spite of and against this freedom, individuality/ community and wildness devouring machine.
Creating anarchy, or the undoing of capitalism and the dismantling of authority, is primarily an unknown adventure, but living in anarchic villages is in our blood. Since the first dawn we have been free except for the long nightmare of this urban civilization. Rediscovering voluntary association, creating collectively a new era of social experimentation will involve many events and upheavals and in many cases bloodshed, not because rebels are fixated on violence, but because authority relies on it. All over the planet, political authority is making it safe for the market to devour the wild and punishing and imprisoning its opponents.
The police are the front line of capitalism and racism in every fight. You might never see the CEO who profits on fracking your water supply, but you’ll see the police who break up your protest against him. You might not meet the bank director or landlord who forces you out, but you will see the sheriff who comes to repossess your home or evict you. As a black person, you might never enter the gated communities of the ones who benefit most from white privilege, but you will encounter the overtly racist officers who profile, bully, and arrest you.
As soon as social movements began to listen to the media, the elite could determine which forms of resistance were acceptable, and which were unacceptable. Every day of the week, the media are telling us what is violent and what is normal. The category of violence belongs to them. By using the same category as our moral compass, we are allowing those in power to guide our struggle.
HOW CAN “WE” (IF YOU AGREE WITH A WE THAT IS WHITE N LITE AF…) ENSURE THAT ATTACKS ON POWER ACTUALLY HURT THE POWER STRUCTURE? WHY DO SO-CALLED ANARCHISTS COMPLY WITH STATE EFFORTS TO NEUTRALIZE ANTI-POLICE ACTIVITY BY DRAGGING THE SCENE INTO LEGAL PR CAMPAIGNS? SAME SHIT KILLED STOPCOPCITY. NOTHING IS HAPPENING TO THESE “MOVEMENT” CONVICTS THAT HASN’T BEEN HAPPENING TO BLACK PEOPLE SINCE BEFORE THERE WAS EVER AN “AMERICA”
SO MUCH “MOVEMENT” COMMENTARY ABOUT THE PRAIRIELAND CASE IS ABOUT HOW THE CONVICTS ARE NORMAL PEOPLE BEING JAILED FOR DOING NORMAL THINGS, HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN, FASCISM? IN MY AMERCA??? BLA BLA BLA. NORMAL IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM. CAMPAIGNING AROUND SETTLERS WHO SHOULDN’T BE JAILED FOR BEING GOOD COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS DOING GOD’S WORK IS ONLY THE LATEST STEP IN THE YANKEE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT’S LONG JOURNEY BACK INTO THE LIBERAL FOLD.
"I wish I could change myself into a wolf so I could sink my teeth into the belly of society in a orgy of destruction " - Bruno Filippi
As a force, we defend, protect, and take the initiative to strike. Indigenous Anarchism presents the possibility of attack; it is the embodiment of anti-colonial struggle and being. - Klee Benally
Bus meme. Top text says "nobody wants to work anymore". Sad person is labeled "neoliberalism". Happy person is labeled "anarchists"
If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. - Lilla Watson Circle A Land Back
Photo of the burning 3rd precinct. Text says "There is no going back to the way things were, to the future that we once anticipated. The old world is in flames around us.
Graffiti that says no pipelines no police solidarity with the Unist'ot'en circle a
The major attack on the CGL drill pad
Those of us who want to see the leap from riot to insurrection, to see this long, hot season stretch into an endless summer will need to find ways to contribute to this unfolding. This is often quite simple. One way in which anarchists make themselves useful is by holding onto the memory of lessons learned in previous struggles and experiments.
This will also be a moment to propose workshops and other happenings, as we have done at skillshares here many times before. It would be a good opportunity to talk about visions for the future of the occupation. And on April 14th, we have the 14th anniversary of the occupation itself to celebrate. Donations of building materials would be great, especially tarps (truck tarps, no woven tarps please, they poison the forest). Tools would also be nice. Feel free to bring some vegan food for the collective kitchen. For anarchy and high treason! some forest dwellers p.s. We invite you to translate and spread this call far and wide.
4 section meme. First section a wounded person says "I have caused millions to suffer" section 2 the same person says "but if you kill me that makes you just as bad as me". Slide 4 shows the attacker saying "no it doesn't ". Section 4 shows the attacker with a gun with a Bang!
Banner that reads "we support our troops when they shoot their officers"
Photo of the burning Amazon, and another of melting ice caps. With the texts: "The wrong amazing is burning" and "the wrong ice us melting" at the bottom it says "the government won't save the planet for us - we have to save the planet from the government"
This uprising caused at least $2 billion in property damage, the “highest recorded damage from social unrest in US history,” and forced more than 200 cities to impose curfews and mobilize 96,000 national guard troops in 34 states. These stats are not a Fox News pundit trying to fear-monger a right-wing audience with hyperbole, but rather come from an authentic attempt on the part of a State and capitalist funded think tank to internally study what happened for reasons of its own self-preservation. They are undoubtedly a low estimate.
This uprising caused at least $2 billion in property damage, the “highest recorded damage from social unrest in US history,” and forced more than 200 cities to impose curfews and mobilize 96,000 national guard troops in 34 states. These stats are not a Fox News pundit trying to fear-monger a right-wing audience with hyperbole, but rather come from an authentic attempt on the part of a State and capitalist funded think tank to internally study what happened for reasons of its own self-preservation. They are undoubtedly a low estimate.
At least 28 people died in the wave of social unrest that rocked the United States from late May until July in 2020. In this 10-week period, there were 574 riots; 624 arsons; 2,382 incidents of looting; 97 police vehicles set on fire; and 12,241 people arrested for protest-related activities. In addition, at least 13 police were shot, 9 were hit by cars and 2,037 were reported injured in the riots, mostly because of the tossing of rocks, bricks, and other projectiles.
Unsung is a writing initiative which highlights self organized direct action across BC. State agencies and media have a practice of obscuring breaks with social peace except when they think it serves their interests. We believe that it is important for the rebel imagination to highlight the ever present practice of attack. Unsung highlights anonymous unclaimed actions we encounter in the media, police reports and stories we hear. We will explore some of the economic, ecological and political realities that shape the context that each action occurred in. It is important to remember that we do not know the intention of those carrying out actions and cannot speak on their behalf.
Avenge Indigenous Children
Photo of a tweet from a nazi saying bluesky supports the assassination