Organising for Change

Extinction Rebellion - activism in the UK

Earth Strike - organising a general strike to bring the world economy to a standstill

Demand Utopia - Rojava solidarity & social ecology activism

The Buy Nothing Project - community resource pooling

Food Not Lawns - project to help communities feed themselves without capitalism

Food Not Bombs - same idea as above

Industrial Workers of the World - radical workers union for ALL workers (UK site here)

Solidarity Federation - UK anarcho-syndicalist network

New York Libertarian Socialist Caucus - faction of the Democratic Socialists of America

They don’t have an official site yet but Extinction Rebellion is mobilizing in Canada as we speak.

Don’t forget Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

And SSB (decentralized social media):  https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

I have some more stuff listed here: https://solarpunkstation.wordpress.com/resources/

also a fuckload of resources and info here (co-op run solarpunk wiki)

Extinction Rebellion should be taken off since they’re purposefully getting people arrested by cops

I’d like to add The Green Anticapitalist Front as an alternative bc yeah I can’t in good conscience advise anyone to join XR, made this list a while ago

@waysssss

“XR are using civil disobedience to make a spectacle its drawing lots of public attention to the issue”

Public attention has been attentively on the climate crisis for several years before Extinction Rebellion existed, but the vast majority of us are utterly powerless to do anything about it as individuals. That is why, if we are to take the climate and ecological crises seriously, we need to be looking at how we can collectively work to restructure society based around decentralisation, co-operation, and ecological sustainability. When trying to come up with such a solution, there are two enormous obstacles that arise: Capitalism (in the form of corporations and their owners), and the State (in the form of governments, the police and the military). Public attention and belief alone is no match for the direct and structural violence of capitalism and the state, so any climate “rebellion” is going to have to directly confront those forces with its own, uncompromising violence.

If you’re naïve enough to think that any capitalist or state will not meet a climate protest movement that in any way threatens their wealth and power with brutal violence and repression, read about Operation Backfire and the Green Scare. Despite being responsible for exactly 0 deaths, in 2001 the Earth Liberation Front was branded the “number one domestic terror threat” in the USA following an increasingly successful campaign of economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment.

You see, what makes an action radical isn’t how much it endangers the activist, it’s how strong the effect of it is on the ruling class. So far XR have done absolutely nothing in the way of building alternative social and industrial structures to capitalism, nor have they had any effect on the economy or corporate profits. The reason for this is quite simply that the leadership don’t want to, and the membership don’t get a say. The only outcome of the protests that the leaders of XR want is for mass arrests and mass publicity, so that they can use the public outrage they’ve generated to free up government investment in their “green industrial revolution” and make a mint, whilst continuing to exploit the earth’s resources and exacerbate the ecological crisis.

There’s been a lot of talk about eco-fascism recently, and how to identify it and prevent it growing within XR and similar movements. But there’s not been a lot of critical thinking as to whether the movement was eco-fascist by design since its inception. An undemocratic movement, whose leaders make appeals to popular support and run “people’s assemblies” in name alone, who refuse to provide legal assistance to members whilst encouraging and recording civil disobedience, who urge their members to take action and reveal their identities - likely to result in jail time, in some cases potentially for years, downplaying prison and the experience of being arrested - whose leaders are made up of representatives of massive multinational corporations and the non profit industrial complex? I think there’s something extremely fascist about such a movement; it seems entirely designed to catapult its leaders into wealth or power on the backs of mass arrests of their members.