Last week, we talked about giving/receiving care, and creating collective access. This week we will be expanding on discussions of care, time, and access, by zooming-in on childcare and radical parenting.
Childcare Practices of Radical Parent Activists by Deborah Sielert from the (Un)usual Business journal Utrecht Meent Het #1 (May 2015) is free to read via screen or as a custom imposed, short-edge doubleprint zine PDF.
As always, we meet at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra Street, on Lekwungen Territory. The next meeting is Sunday December 22nd @ 6:30PM.
art credit: Voice by Nikki McClure
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PS: Our friends at the Anarchist Network of Vancouver Island have put together a list of anarchist and adjacent projects on the territory. If you are looking to involve yourself in anarchist activism, look at their trifold! Particularly, Food not Bombs serves free vegan food for revolution every Sunday 4-6PM at Spirit “Centennial” Square. They need help from volunteers.
Note: In line with 
Remembrance Day, in “Canadian” national mythology, signals the end of World War 1, an imperialist travesty where the ruling classes of France, Germany, England, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Russia fomented war fever against each other, which also distracted from and weakened working class uprisings in their countries, harnessing energy instead towards squabbles over imperial carve-out rivalries globally. As Canada’s then Prime Minister Robert Borden saw it, the fight in supporting the British, was “to put forth every effort and to make every sacrifice necessary to ensure the integrity and maintain the honour of our empire.”
For our next meeting, we are going to be discussing deference politics — the organizing tendency to defer to someone else’s judgment about what should be done in a given situation based solely on their perceived social location. We are going to dissect this tendency through “Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference” (2020) by Olúfémi O. Táíwò, and the local Ada’itsx “Fairy Creek” anarchist zine Creeker’s “Water Falling on Granite: Deference Politics, Indigenous Leadership, and Anarchist Relationality” (2023).
Next time, we will be discussing Sobre la violencia en una época de catástrofes AKA About violence in a time of catastrophes (2023). We will also be pairing it with an excerpt, Chapter 7: Trusting, from Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home. (2023)
Our last readings got us into talking about building collective capacity to become better ̶a̶l̶l̶i̶e̶s̶ accomplices. We also briefly touched on the Black Panther Party’s programs (and formulation of revolutionary Self Care) which brought communities together to build this capacity, which naturally led us into Crimethinc’s Self-Care: Self as Other (2013). 
Spilling over from our last conversation on Turning Away from The State, we decided to revisit the classic Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex (2014) by Indigenous Action (now Indigenous Abolition), and to pair it with Peter Gelderloos’ Debunking the myths around nonviolent resistance (2020).
In solidarity with Palestinians, and our comrades on the frontlines at People’s Park and across Turtle Island, we will be reading Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Movement in Solidarity with Gaza from Crimethinc and Enclosures of Possibility: The University & The Encampment from UBC. We ask folks to read these pieces ahead of time.