Build an affinity group.
An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together
autonomously on direct actions or other projects. Affinity groups
generally consist of like minded people who come together to get
something done. If you already have an affinity group, link and cluster
those groups!
Skill up.
Delinking from capitalism and colonial apparatuses requires us to learn
how to do things for ourselves and each other beyond buying, selling,
working, or asking the state to help us. From self and collective
defense, to gardening, building bikes, unschooling, and caring for each
other- we can learn a skill and share a skill. We can change how we
value skills and dismantle hierarchies of class and ableism.
Establish and practice good security culture.
Security culture is necessary to survive state repression. We can stop a
lot of infiltration and disinformation in its tracks by improving our
ways of communicating and navigating conflict. We can still be
horizontal and transparent without sacrificing security and safety.
Practice transformative and restorative justice.
Strong communities make police and prisons obsolete. We can change our
culture to prevent violence and abuse. We can build up our capacities to
confront and resolve conflicts. We can strengthen our ties and detoxify
our relationships so harm has no space to grow in our communities.
Mutual Aid.
Start a mutual aid group and provide necessary support to those who are
in need. Mutual aid organizing can ensure our communities are not
dependent on corporations and the state. Shift your use of resources to
things you can grow and make or procure from others in resistance. Build
networks of aid and resources beyond capitalism.
Mutual defense.
From arms training to street tactics to bystander interventions and
safety teams, we need to have the skills and resources to defend our
communities from fascist attacks on our people, non-human beings, and
lands.
Build and sustain conflict infrastructure.
Conflict Infrastructure is any structure we organize helps us be more
effective in our fights. This is infrastructure that goes beyond solely
providing awareness and services and instead builds our capacity to wage
actual resistance. From community gardens and collectively coordinated
farms to infoshops and independent media/communications.
Open squats for unsheltered folx.
Rent is theft. Private property is colonial violence upon the
land. Abolish rent and private property. Rematriate lands to original
caretakers. Create spaces to live beyond landlords.
Defend and reclaim ancestral lands.
Because #landback means ending colonial occupation and restoring
Indigenous stewardship of our ancestral lands. Regenerate our sacred
relations, and all that entails spiritually and materially, with our
original homelands. Liberate the sacred.
Reparations.
Seize what has been stolen from Black and Indigenous Peoples and liberate it back. Radical redistribution is necessary.
Shut shit down.
Intervene in critical infrastructure at the points where capitalism and
colonialism are at their most vulnerable. Seize the streets, factories,
ports, fracking pads, pipelines, power stations, smash the borders, be
smart and be creative! It’s also an effective way to target those
industries perpetuating climate change.
Be fiercely intersectional.
‘Cause we’re not taking those old shitty behaviors with us. Fuck
anti-blackness, fuck orientalism, fuck islamaphobia, fuck anti-semitism,
fuck transphobia, fuck heteropatriarchy, fuck white supremacy, fuck
imperialism, fuck ableism, fuck hierarchy, fuck racism, fuck
citizenship, fuck privilege, fuck everything fucked up!
Practice Radical Self & Collective Care.
To remain dangerous to power we must care for ourselves and each other. Learn common triggers and how to communicate without being fucked up.
Learn to communicate your needs, boundaries, and wants effectively and
nontoxicly – remember that folks in the struggle and resistance have the
hardest time accessing resources for mental and spiritual care.
Movement work can be unsustainable to those with many experiences of
settler policing and violence triggers – find ways to communicate and
negotiate group norms and boundaries that accommodate peoples’ needs if
reasonable. Identify toxic communication patterns and learn / create
ways to dismantle them and communicate in more healthy and less harmful
ways.Be honest about your limitations and care for yourself and each
other. The christianized, capitalized colonial state has taught us to
never rest or heal. Reject any attempts at coercing people to go beyond
their limits. Radical self-care keeps us safe and invulnerable when
consistently engaging in agitating governability by the state.
Make everything accessible for everyone.
Reject ableism and objectification of our bodies and lives, establish
community care networks with people equipped to provide first aid and
care support to a full spectrum of needs. Challenge ableism in our
language, how we organize, and how we value each other. We are all
enough.
Abolish Rape Culture.
Study rape and rape culture
and how it relates to the desecration of sacred lands. Transform our
culture and practices around dating, humor, relationships, sexuality,
consent, parties, sex labor, and play to abolish rape culture. Hold
mactivists, rapists, abusers, opportunists, and creeps accountable.
Center consent and healthy relationships in everything we do everywhere.
Spread radical and militant joy.
We can fuck shit up while we dance, sing, party, laugh, play,
wonder, have deep conversations, tell stories, make art, make love, make
magic, make brilliance, make awesomeness, and have fun.
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