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prole-log · 10 months

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#anarchism #Lucy Parsons #freeblr #1312 #ftp

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simplepotatofarmer · 1 year

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since it's black history month, i wanted to share the works of lucy parsons! she was a black woman, an activist, and an anarchist and i think everyone should take a look at her essays. anarchism is often overtaken by white voices so i think it's important to remember people like lucy who contributed so much.

#anarchism #lucy parsons #black history month

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claybefree · 2 months

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#anarchism #Lucy Parsons

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atomic-cat · 4 months

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I went to see the haymarket martyrs' memorial

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queersatanic · 2 years

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Source of Lucy Parsons' famous quote

Thanks to u/Nepalman230 and r/Anarchism for tracking down this famous quote, which was attributed to Lucy Parsons by the Chicago Tribune on May 7, 1885.

"Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or knife and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination and without pity. Let us devastate the avenues where the wealthy live as Sheridan devastated the beautiful valley of the Shenandoah."

AN EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY. The Socialists held a meeting last night at No. 64 West Lake street, at which there were perhaps fifty persons present. The subject for discussion was the late riot at Lemont, and Citizen Spies opened the debate with a few remarks wherein he mildly denominated the militia who did the shooting there as "'the organized banditti of law and order." They were murderers, be said, and the two men killed were wantonly slaughtered. When the Coroner went down there to look into the matter Col. Bennett, commanding "the troops, refused to answer a subpoena, and this In a country, too, where the civil was superior to the military law. Gov. Oglesby was not enough of a lawyer to settle the controversy, and consequently Col. Bennett was the victor up to date. Citizen Fielding denounced all laws as subterfuges. Gov. Oglesby could find law enough to send troops to Lemont to shoot down starving workmen, but was unable to discover any law whereby Col. Benrfett could be made to answer the Coroner's subpoena. Our laws were of india-rubber stretched for the benefit of tho rich. The workingmen should starve peaceably and quietly and the priests would absolve those who were responsible for the situation. "Money will buy either the Governor of Illinois or the Governor ol Heaven," said Citizen Fielding. Citizen Ducy said Sheriff Hanchett was the murderer of the two men at Lemont and " Hanchett ought to die. When a President, Governor, or Sheriff calls out the troops- he should die." Citizen Ducy was bloodthirsty and wanted everybody killed. Citizeness Parsons, however, had a plan at once startling, unique, and redolent with gore. “Let every dirty, lousy, tramp," said she, "arm himself with a revolver or knife and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination and without pity. Let us devastate the avenues where the wealthy live as Sheridan devastated the beautiful valley of the Shenandoah." Citizen Parsons then read some resolutions of sympathy with the Lemont strikers, denouncing the militia, etc., after which the conclave went into secret session for the transaction of private business. There were three women present last night.

#Lucy Parsons #Anarchism #19th Century Anarchism #newspaper #Chicago Tribune

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slimethought · 4 months

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It's time to explore the origins, history, and diversity of Black Anarchism.

The list of artists used is in the outro.

Introduction - 0:00 Pre-Colonial African "Anarchism" - 0:58 What is Anarchism? - 4:09 The Rise of Black Power - 6:53 The Rise of Black Anarchisms - 11:05 Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin - 11:08 Martin Sostre - 14:03 Kuwasi Balagoon - 17:06 Ojore Lutalo - 19:47 Ashanti Alston - 22:15 Anarchist People of Colour - 25:08 Anarkata - 28:48 African Anarchism - 30:49 Conclusion - 34:40

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nextwavefutures · 1 month

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The Red May Day and the Green May Day

The Red May Day and the Green May Day: the politics of the environment and the politics of labour. New post.

As May Day approached this year I finally got round to a small project I’d been meaning to do for a few years now. This was to read Peter Linebaugh’s book The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, which is a collection of pieces he has written over the years—some pamphlets, some articles—for and about May Day. Peter Linebaugh is a radical American historian, probably…

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#Beltane #Haymarket riots #Lucy Parsons #May Day #Merry Mount #Peter Linebaugh #William Morris

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comicdissectionpod · 7 months

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Will you deny that your jails are filled with the children of the poor, not the children of the rich? Will you deny that men steal because their bellies are empty?… this is your society, judge altgeld; you helped create it, and it is this society that makes the criminal… and if the workers unite to fight for food, you jail them too.. no. So long as you preserve this system and its ethics, your jails will be full of men and women who choose life to death, and who take life as your force them to take it. Through crime. -Lucy Parsons

#lucy parsons #anarchist history #anarchism #anarchy

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callese · 1 year

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#lucy parsons #ftp #acab #When the people shall have nothing more to eat they will EatTheRich

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notchainedtotrauma · 1 year

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Could they ever understand the dreams of another world that didn't trouble the distinction between state, law, settler, and master ? Or recount the struggle against servitude, captivity, property, and enclosure that began in the barracoon and continued on the ship, where some fought, some jumped, some refused to eat. Others set the plantation on fire, poisoned the master. They had never listened to Lucy Parsons; they had never read Ida B. Wells. Or envisioned the riot as a rally cry and refusal of fungible life. Only a misreading of the key texts of anarchism could ever imagine a place for wayward colored girls.

from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

#Saidiya Hartman #antiblackness as the foundation of the world #the roots of the hold #violence is the only response to rabid malevolence #Ida B. Wells #Lucy Parsons #erasure: a tortured silence #we say we love you Black and want you gone

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nando161mando · 3 months

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“How many of the wage class, as a class, are there who can avoid obeying the commands of the master (employing) class, as a class? Not many, are there?

Then are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can’t vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.”

— Lucy Parsons,

Americans! Arouse Yourselves!

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anarchistin · 2 years

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We find Black Anarchism as a political tendency particularly attractive because of its flexibility—how it draws from a number of revolutionary frameworks—Black Marxism, Maoism, Pan Afrikanism, Black feminism, Queer liberation—which makes it not just opposed to the Western and capitalist forces oppressing Black people, but also the transmisic, heterosexist, misogynistic, disablist, and human-centered forces working against us as well.

Most of us in “anarchic” Black radical movements, however, find ourselves overlooked, and our politics get confused and dismissed as synonymous with classical, European Anarchism—which is itself often misunderstood by the non-anarchic world as largely an aesthetic and utopian movement, perhaps where people in bandannas smash windows or advocate an individualist liberty, a naive pacifism, or simply uncoordinated destruction and “chaos.”

It is within this milieu—of the increased popularity and relevance of anarchism to Black revolution, and the confusing or elusive nature of this relevance in the public consciousness due to anarchist mythology—that some of us decided we should develop our own name, to help demonstrate that we locate our anarchic radicalism in our own history as Afrikan/Black people.

#anarkata #black anarchism #anarchism #black liberation #lucy parsons #kuwasi balagoon #africa #afropessimism #racism #slavery #europe

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whatsnewalycat · 1 year

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAAAAY!

Here are some of the women on my diva shelf ✨

Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Hallaway, and Victoria Beckham

I was immediately enamored with the spice girls after hearing “wannabe.” These women were loud, bold, wore short dresses, platform heels, and screamed “GIRL POWER” from the rooftops. They stood for feminism and friendship. Also Spice World is still a hilarious movie.

Lucy Parsons

Lucy was an anarchist through and through. She blew a lot of shit up with dynamite. She was a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote in several socialist and anarchist newspapers, gave speeches, and took shit from absolutely no one. The Chicago PD once described her as “more dangerous than 1,000 rioters.”

“Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth.”

“Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less."

“You are not absolutely defenseless. For the torch of the incendiary, which has been known with impunity, cannot be wrested from you."

“So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government. We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.”

Harriet Tubman

She was born a slave, escaped slavery, then helped other enslaved people escape. She helped formerly enslaved people find work, and helped John Brown plan the raid on Harper’s Ferry. She was a nurse, cook, and a motherfucking SPY during the civil war. She was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in war.

“I grew up like a neglected weed, – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented.”

“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free.

“I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them”

Glennon Doyle & Brené Brown

Both of these authors have been such a positive influence on my life. I would recommend that everyone read “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle, and “The Power of Vulnerability” by Brené Brown. IMO it’s required life reading.

Glennon Doyle, Untamed:

“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”

“I will not stay, not ever again - in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”

“I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. Everything I need to become the woman I’m meant to be next is inside my feelings of now. Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold. I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming.”

“I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy. I thought that happy was for feeling and that pain was for fixing and numbing and deflecting and hiding and ignoring. I thought that when life got hard, it was because I had gone wrong somewhere. I thought that pain was weakness and that I was supposed to suck it up. But the thing was that the more I sucked it up, the more food and booze I had to suck down.”

Brené Brown:

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”

“Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.”

Courtney Love

I love Hole. So much. And Courtney is a fucking bad ass to the highest degree.

“I strap on that motherfucking guitar and you cannot fuck with me. That's my feeling."

“I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.”

“I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.”

Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson

Marsha was an activist in New York City during the Stonewall Riots. She threw a lot of rocks and bricks at cops. It’s rumored that she threw the first brick that was a catalyst for the LGBT movement in the US. Marsha and her friend Sylvia Rivera founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

“STAR is a very revolutionary group. We believe in picking up the gun, starting a revolution if necessary. Our main goal is to see gay people liberated and free and have equal rights that other people have in America.”

“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”

“Darling, I want my gay rights now.”

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IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR THANK YOU FOR READING MY THOUGHTS ON THESE FUCKING AMAZING WOMEN!!!

❤️❤️❤️❤️

#international women's day #happy international women's day #spice girls #lucy parsons #harriet tubman #glennon doyle #brené brown #courtney love #marsha p johnson

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teachanarchy · 2 years

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Watch "Lucy Parsons, a Biography by Rolling Thunder" on YouTube