What is your excuse?

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lutarcriarpoderpopular: enpieldelobo: Moradores que ocupam...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:37:40 +0100

enpieldelobo:

Moradores que ocupam area “irregularmente” procuram maneiras de resistir a ação policial que pode acontecer a qualquer momento para desaloja-los!

Residents occupying area “irregularly” seek ways to resist the police action that can happen at any moment to de-allocates them!

Ganhei meu dia com esse post.

Blood and Honour members UK

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:26:08 +0100

Blood and Honour members UK

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"They say police been on a kri all this week, doing sweeps, grabbing anybody standing on the..."

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:10:18 +0100

“They say police been on a kri all this week,
doing sweeps, grabbing anybody standing on the streets.
But we outnumber these motherfuckers a hundred to one!
They think they can’t get it ‘cause they got a badge and a gun?”

- Dead Prez, The Hood.

xindha: In a simple experiment, researchers at the University...

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:49:33 +0100

xindha:

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state.

“A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post

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Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:45:37 +0100

Why our townships are hell.

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:29:00 +0100

Townships came into existence under the apartheid regime, and black people were forced to live in them. Services to the townships were appalling, under apartheid most never even had electricity. Housing and schooling was also deliberately bad. This all formed part of the racist apartheid capitalist system that was built to exploit black people as extremely cheap labour.

Little has changed in the townships since 1994. This is because township residents are still exploited. All that has happened is that a small group of powerful black people have joined the white capitalists in the ruling class to exploit the majority of people. So everyday the rich and politicians steal from us and take our money by making us work as wage slaves, by selling us electricity and water, and by turning basic services and houses into products to make money out of us. Thus, society is not geared to meeting our needs but rather exploiting us – all of this madness is part of the capitalist and state system.

In Khayelitsha [a township near Cape Town] water, which is needed to live, is now sold to make money. The City, under both the DA and ANC, have cut peoples’ water off when the free lifeline is finished. This means no money, no water! But you need water to live! The same applies to Eskom and electricity. We have to pay for this, or we get cut-off. The result, people who can’t pay have to use paraffin to cook etc., which is dangerous and results in shack fires and death. But do the rich and politicians care? NO they don’t. All they do is use capitalism and the state to try steal from us and smash us when we complain.

Public spaces within our townships are also being privatised. You have to pay for things like community halls, which if they are meant for us, should be free. Developments in townships are for the local elite to use to make money from us. Local business people chose to build malls – for companies like Shoprite, Spar, FNB, Standard Bank – instead of using it to build the things we need like houses. When developments do come to our townships, no-one asks whether we want them. They never even ask us what we actually want! We are treated like mindless children – the rich and politicians make decisions and tell us what to do and force things on us whether we want them or not.

Housing too has become privatized. If you want a house you need money and loans from the banks. You spend your whole life paying these off – working to make the banks rich. Even the RDP houses are used by local business people, through local construction companies, to make profits. To cut costs they build poor quality houses that end up cracking and falling apart. Housing should be something that everyone should have; not something to make money from or for only people who can afford it. Thus we live in houses that are no better, and in some cases even worse, than under apartheid.

It is the politicians, the rich and the state that do these things to us. Under capitalism and the state system, we make the rich and politicians rich. In the end we die poor, and for long as the state and capitalism exist this won’t change. We have to fight against these if we are not going to die silent and poor. We need water, electricity, housing and spaces where we can express ourselves freely – these are the basics of a decent life. We, therefore, have to take all these things back – and workers and the poor have to take control of the economy directly to meet everyone’s needs. We also need to get rid of the state, and run society based on direct democracy. Only when this happens will we be truly free and only then will things like homelessness, cut-offs, evictions, crime, poverty, racism, sexism, frustration and misery end – only then will our townships stop being apartheid style hellholes.

By Soundz of the South (Cape Town, South Africa)

“The Soundz of the South (SOS) is a network of activists who use hip-hop and poetry to spread revolutionary messages, raise consciousness and critique neo-liberalism. The aim of the network is to facilitate and encourage a process of self-organisation against neoliberalism within communities as part of the broader struggle to emancipate us all”

http://soundzofthesouth.blogspot.com/

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Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:53:31 +0100

Lol.

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:04:40 +0100

Lol.

givemeathreshold: ”If you’re an adivasi [tribal Indian] living...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:02:54 +0100

givemeathreshold:

”If you’re an adivasi [tribal Indian] living in a forest village and 800 Central Reserve Police come and surround your village and start burning it, what are you supposed to do? Are you supposed to go on hunger strike? Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.” - Arundhati Roy

destroycreateagitate: The Chaosbar in Leuven (RIP this one -...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:54:29 +0100

destroycreateagitate:

The Chaosbar in Leuven (RIP this one - squat got evicted). DIY bar in a dirty dungeon of a squat in Leuven, hosted 73 concerts so far (list : http://freedominfire.blogspot.com/p/chaosbar-leuven.html not all are listed!) and almost all of em are benefits for antifascist action, anarchist black cross/prisoner support, social centers, anarchist libraries, anarchist magazines, … . Known for the afterparties which always last until really early in the morning.

Best place in the world.

destroycreateagitate: Exactly 3 years ago. RIP -...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:51:00 +0100

destroycreateagitate:

Exactly 3 years ago. RIP - ACAB

Remember, remember, the 6th of december.

“Strike, occupy, sabotage” “General strike,...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:44:34 +0100

“Strike, occupy, sabotage”

“General strike, social revolution”

www.vrijebond.nl (Dutch)

destroycreateagitate: jethroq: leahxvx: too easy Because you...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:12:39 +0100

destroycreateagitate:

jethroq:

leahxvx:

too easy

Because you know, violence worked so well before. Remember how the Battle of Seattle brought capitalism to it knees?

Oh wait, no, that just made them buy more teargas and rubber bullets and start pre-emptive arrests. Good job.

Because you know, remember that revolution where there wasn’t any violence involved?

Oh, wait.

Not that I believe violence should be our primary action-method. It should be ONE OF THE methods we CAN use.

^This.

I don’t want to force anyone to use violence, it’s not the method I prefer either. But that doesn’t mean I lose my solidarity with people who do choose a violent method if they deem it fit. Each should choose the way of action s/he feels best with, and I believe a variety of tactics can only benefit our cause.

I’d love to be non-violent, I’d love to be a pacifist. But I kind of lost my naivety in that I no longer think the world can change for the better without having to destroy the old world. There are people in this world who won’t just stand up and leave their positions of power if they see another world is possible or if they hear the people demand it. They will fight for their privileged lives, and won’t hesitate to do us harm in order to save their power.

We should also look at the cause of what angers people so they become violent, rather than blaming them for being violent. There are reasons why people use violence, rather address these issues or the people responsible for it, than condemn those who are outraged.

Don’t use violence if you don’t want to, but please don’t stop or condemn others who wish to attack that which oppresses us all.

"Our creativity is the product of our anger. Our anger is the product of our frustrations. Our..."

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:01:40 +0100

“Our creativity is the product of our anger. Our anger is the product of our frustrations. Our frustrations are the product of your greed.”

- (via destroycreateagitate)

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Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:30:37 +0100

Kitten is right.

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:40:36 +0100

Kitten is right.