Commoners March: Anticapitalists take the (Boston) Commons!

notafraidofruins:

Capitalism and the state: a committed relationship. That is, committed to keeping classist, racist, sexist power structures intact and oppressing gender and sexual minorities. Their tools: poverty and myths about social mobility, victim blaming, evictions, concentrated wealth, police brutality against people of color, reinforcement and perpetuation of binary constrictive gender roles, and the rocky and unnavigable waters of a system put in place to protect the private property of the few rather than the lives, health, and freedom of the rest of us.

Anticapitalists and the people: a committed relationship. That is, committed to actual tangible liberation for those who have been calling for it for too long. Our tools: Our voices, our solidarity, our fists, our love of freedom, and our hatred of hierarchical authority. We’re united in the radical idea that humans are capable of being excellent to each other. 

There is a universe of possibilities if we can reach out to them. Systemic injustices aren’t going to go away if you ignore them. We can tear down complacency with our voices and help raise visibility to ideas that are bubbling just below the surface. Capitalism has had direct unnatural influence on us for too long and that is our common struggle. 

Boston Commons (bandstand), August 25, noon.
Event page (check for updates!)

And don’t forget the Sacco and Vanzetti march on the 26th, either!

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future Lowell MA feminist group!

notafraidofruins:

I’m interested in starting a greater Lowell intersectional feminist/anarchist group. I made a FB group so we can try to set up an initial meeting for everyone’s availability (see link)! I don’t want to be too specific about the group right now because everyone’s input is equally valued - we could probably set up the basis (group name, meeting rules, mission statement, project ideas, etc) at the first meeting based on a consensus - but the general idea is anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, body- sex- and gender- positive, and intersectional. It’ll hopefully involve community involvement/engagement, book circles/readings, zine projects, and supporting one another. Also fun. It’ll be fun. 

Signal boosts appreciated! <3 <3 <3 

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"In this consolidation which we call wedlock is a locking together. It is true, that man and wife are one person, but understand in what manner. When a small brooke or little river incorporateth with Rhodanus, Humber, or the Thames, the poor rivulet looseth her name…. A woman as soon as she is married, is called covert … that is, “veiled”; as it were, clouded and overshadowed; she hath lost her streame. I may more truly, farre away, say to a married woman, Her new self is her superior; her companion, her master…"

1632 English law, a document titled “The Lawes and Resolutions of Womens Rights,” on why women take their husbands’ last names.  (via notafraidofruins)

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I’m spilling kittens all over you to cheer you up.:3 

OMGSH. I am cherishing this so hard for ever. 

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On sprinkling “like” habitually throughout, like, every conversation, or whatever

When you think about people over-using “like,” a caricature of a 14 year old girl might pop into your head. Her main concerns might include finding the right shade of lip gloss and losing 3 pounds by Friday for her date with her flavor of the week boyfriend. Or, to lose the details, “bubble-headedness.” Definitely not someone you’re going to take seriously. In fact, you’ll probably concentrate more on that one little syllable than the actual content of her speech.

But is that the purpose of using “like” in this manner? To make yourself sound as if you aren’t completely confident in what you’re saying, and therefore placing yourself (unconsciously) at a lower level than whoever you’re speaking with? Because if you don’t sound confident, if you sound like you don’t REALLY know what you’re talking about, you aren’t a threat. You could be saying the most profound and radical statement but if you’ve got too many “like”s in there nobody is going to listen. Young people and women especially are taught to do this, culturally; to dumb yourself down so that you remain non-threatening. You start because things like “like” are a verbal crutch, a safety net from embarrassment in case you are wrong. But then it catches. It becomes habit. 

I’ve been thinking about this lately because when I’m in class or with friends and I’m talking about something serious, I almost never use the word “like.” I mean, sure, here and there, but not in any noticeable manner. I am confident; clear and concise in my convictions, ready to defend myself if anyone tries to mansplain or otherwise condescend. But when I find myself trying to convey those same ideas to, say, my boyfriend, I can hear myself using “like” and “or whatever” at every turn and in general sounding weak. Is it really so ingrained in me that (slightly) older male figures are figures of power that I need to make myself sound unsure of myself in fear of being wrong?

The answer is… well, yes. It is. Our current social climate constantly reinforces ideas of young people and women needing to bend to others’ wills, to dumb themselves down, to always give people in power the upper hand, even in daily casual conversation. This isn’t exactly the biggest issue plaguing gender roles, but the way we carry ourselves and the way we speak conveys messages. For me, when every other word is “like,” I’m saying, “feel free to contradict me and tell me I’m wrong because I don’t actually have a clue about what I’m talking about anyway.” Since our culture tells some people to give up their verbal power in such a way, it tells others to take it.

I’m going to fight to keep it… and break this rather nasty habit.

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