fiction or fascism

my shit has been lost, have you seen it?

What can we do to promote 'food justice' in our communities? Can we support local vendors, who are harassed by the city and the police for trying to make a living by feeding their communities non corporatized food?  Can we try to network amongst the spaces we do have access to, community gardens, meeting hubs, accessible spaces for direct gardening action and community feedz?  In an era where our food is increasingly genetically modified and controlled by capitalists, more direct involvement in our food supply is necessary. NO, not better labeling creating an alternative market for some subsidiary of these food conglomerates for those that can 'afford it'.. no more food justice movements that just serve as platforms for middle class demands and capitalist advertisements... it has to be local.  And even if we cannot feed all the people, it is important that we attempt to build these alternative avenues and support networks. At the very least, it is an important contradiction to explore- that we are forced to exchange our labor and our time for 'the right to eat' and that even if this context of capitalism, we are only permitted to eat what they put forward- what they poison and put on the shelves. as is usual, i believe all we have is our attempt, and strategy. There are contradictions afoot. We have to eat some of the shit they are selling- so we can organize food collections from those who can spare some of their cans or foodz to connect themselves into food share networks, mutual aid and solidarity instead of the poor constantly being at the mercy of charity-type programs or reliance on government assistance or whatever dominant food paradigm idea/trend imposed upon the population. Most importantly, we connect people to other people instead of believing that we could ever provide enough food for the people. We find ways for people to provide and search out food, to grow the network. We can glean whatever food that cannot sell from the over production of a system that does not even TRY to meet our needs, but only serves profit. I think to combat that expectation by serving each other, instead of the 'other', those with titles and money and power, would be an act of rebellion itself. Instead of political groups capitalizing off of poverty to create sets of demands, we can engage these contradictions and do direct things to alter the structural effects of capitalism- namely resource deprivation, criminalization, etc. in order to make our movements more participatory, to make the power systems irrelevant, to ease the burdens imposed by capitalism through our own struggle (instead of by asking for MORE from the state, which only further enables their power), and to do so in order to wage a dual struggle, one that destroys both (capitalism and the state) while demonstrating their irrelevance, by returning to the land, and listening to the voices of those most impacted by environmental racism and this system of borders and supremacy and displacement/colonization/food suffocation/deserts.  Our movements will be stronger if we can feed each other. This includes collectivization of resources, expropriating resources from our oppressors, inverting the values and contradictions of capitalism and repurposing spaces for community instead of for capitalist exchange. How do we grow a movement capable of both seizing and decolonizing spaces- those left abandoned by the state, empty lots, churches with parking lots instead of gardens.. etc/ creativity! how do we grow a movement capable of holding space, temporary autonomous zones, and defending those spaces? The use of space, the decolonization of space, how it has been misused to serve supremacy... all of this must be challenged. and perhaps by attempting to feed ourselves / to farm for ourselves / to liberate space/ we create deliberate acts instead of those created by the desperation of capitalism. /rant/thoughts? [im so all over the place- food, insurrection, organizing against the police/criminalityetc.etc.etc.] anyway if anyone has ideazzzzz this is not just a rant, let's do thingzzz.

i sifted through my archive and i swurr i lose my shit on this website like ALL the time. it's like... where i go to lose my shit. so thank you for that. and i'm very very sorry.

1) the era of symbolism and playing politics is long past us. our actions must become more direct. against what institutional power considers valuable, targeted at those that invest and profit from War. 2) The War MACHINE is deployed from the homeland. This means we need to organize ourselves to build a viable movement that will use blockades, disrupt recruitment, disrupt weapons manufacturers etc. There is also a domestic war on our streets against the people, upholding white supremacy, a war on the poor and we need to bridge these struggles. FOR TOO LONG have they used domestic issues to keep us disengaged from foreign US led geopolitical terror, and vice versa. War on the Streets and War Abroad must be explained in context together as a war on the poor. 3) we can appeal to the people, not to institutional power. this could also mean stop appealing to key 'sites' of power like the federal building and city hall. 4) what does solidarity actually mean? protest politics has severe limitations and keeps appealing to the morality of our leaders- this is ineffective. Moralism leads to nationalism it does not stop it. If we are in solidarity with Egypt, Turkey, Syria etc etc etc we must acknowledge that we live under the US regime and it is our responsibility to destabilize it as well as self organize a strong peoples movement against war of all kinds (especially economic class war by the Capitalists that make war on the poor and imperialism profitable and functional!) and especially a mounting movement against FASCISM. 5) diversity of tactics. this does not mean anyone has to condone actions and behavior that they would not take themselves voluntarily with consent. but it does mean that to the STATE we show FULL solidarity and stand against police terrorism. there is more we can do outside of permits and civil disobedience, in fact most of those measures have been recuperated by the state and kept ineffective. We need to have a broader dialogue. 6)  people's assemblies, so we can make spaces against the war more participatory. This would help with longer term participation instead of just coming out to a rally and listening to speakers. We need to broaden outside of traditional organizing structures to keep power decentralized instead of in the hands of key decision makers. We need to be intersectional, valuing the voices of womyn, queer/transgender, the dis-abled, immigrants, prisoners, the house-less, youth, and those most impacted by capitalism. 7) perhaps a participatory dialogue (not speakers, not a panel) and brainstorm on why the anti war movement has been so largely unsuccessful. Any building we do towards a strong movement against war and fascism has to be self critical and move to counteract the inevitable apologism and narrative of political management or forced unity/pacifism. Symbolism is dead.