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Facilitators should note the Facilitation Guide.
Next time, we will be discussing various reportbacks from anarchists and radicals participating in migrant defence and anti-ICE protests in the so-called “United States,” zeroing in on Yaanga (“Los Angeles,” Tongva land.)
The following short reportbacks have been combined into a single reading: Revolt and Representation: A View from the Battle for Los Angeles by Cuauhtli & Mapaches Clandestinxs, It Never Has Been, It Always Will Be: On the “Right” Time To Act by Ignatius, and Fuck I.C.E. City-Wide: Los Angeles Goes Up by Anonymous.
As always, we meet at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra Street, on Lekwungen Territory. Our meeting is Sunday July 20 @ 6:30PM.
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Art credit: Jesse Lee
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 and have been facing increasing harassment tied to the gentrification of the Square. Come show up to eat! They also need help from volunteers.
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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).
Good security practices are essential to effective, sustainable organizing. We have decided to review these practices by reading two zines about security culture, Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists and Confidence. Courage. Connection. Trust: A Proposal for Security Culture.
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.