Anarchism and Social Ecology

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A Second Nakba: Paving the Way to Genocide | Institute for Social Ecology ( social-ecology.org )

For the ISE blog: Mason Herson-Hord explains the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza through the history of Israel's radical right's ascension to power. "Over the course of these decades, there was a resulting shift in Israeli political consciousness where the historical necessity of the Nakba for the creation of the...

Neo-Nazi Groups Are Attempting to Worm Their Way into Rallies Against the War on Gaza ( itsgoingdown.org )

CW: Antisemitic banners, nazis

How Unions CRUSH Capitalists [Adam Conover] ( www.youtube.com )

Piped video

The movie "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" is a psy-op (the book is not) ( www.youtube.com )

As an anarchist, I disagree with the linked video's notion that small groups shouldn't act autonomously. That is garbage. But the rest of what it says about security culture and safety and the fact that the movie was pretty clearly made to encourage activists to compromise their security and/or hurt themselves is right-on and...

Asheville Police Use New Drone Unit to Surveil Grand Opening Of Anarchist Bookstore ( itsgoingdown.org )

A brief overview of the Socialist legacy of the 20th century ( petergelderloos.substack.com )

Original title (which I find a bit too click-baity):...

A trans woman in Flagstaff defended herself from an attack. She's now facing felony charges. ( www.lookoutphx.org )

More at Free Epona Rose, also covered by It's Going Down.

Community Rallies To Demand Freedom for Trans Woman Arrested After Being Attacked in Flagstaff, AZ ( itsgoingdown.org )

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data ( www.reuters.com )

What anarchists knew for ages is now being recognised by mainstream.

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Social Ecology

Social Ecology, developed from green anarchism, is the idea that our ecological problems have their ultimate roots in our social problems. This is because the domination of nature and our ecology by humanity has its ultimate roots in the domination humanity by humans. Therefore, the solutions to our ecological problems are found by addressing our social and ecological problems simultaneously.

Quotes

Poetry and imagination must be integrated with science and technology, for we have evolved beyond an innocence that can be nourished exclusively by myths and dreams.

People want to treat ‘we’ll figure it out by working to get there’ as some sort of rhetorical evasion instead of being a fundamental expression of trust in the power of conscious collective effort.

~Anonymous, but quoted by Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

~Murray Bookchin, “A Politics for the Twenty-First Century”

There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society based on self-administration must be achieved by means of self-administration.

In modern times humans have become a wolf not only to humans, but to all nature.

The ecological question is fundamentally solved as the system is repressed and a socialist social system develops. That does not mean you cannot do something for the environment right away. On the contrary, it is necessary to combine the fight for the environment with the struggle for a general social revolution…

~Abdullah Öcalan

Social ecology advances a message that calls not only for a society free of hierarchy and hierarchical sensibilities, but for an ethics that places humanity in the natural world as an agent for rendering evolution social and natural fully self-conscious.

~ Murray Bookchin