No collective conscience here to start a RR mutual aid group.
We have to start somewhere. What’s important is that you think about what you are good at and start there.
If all you can do is donate money, then that’s a start.
Even better would be to volunteer at your local food / clothing bank. Talk to the people there.
Talk to your neighbors about what you do and how they could help. Be friendly and kind in your community, act as if you live there.
Maybe you work with local religious groups before you can grow a network, even as an atheist. You might learn things like logistics and outreach that you never thought of.
We protect us includes many aspects of basic community building. But it also means staying in shape and and learning defense / medical skills.
We have to start somewhere.
how they could help. Be friendly and kind in your community, act as if you live there.
I think you’re misunderstanding my position: They don’t want to help, they don’t want to be friendly, kindness as a concept doesn’t exist. It’s all exchanges of pleasantries to avoid confrontation.
work with local religious groups
Just tell me to kill myself. Easier that way.
We protect us includes many aspects of basic community building. But it also means staying in shape and and learning defense / medical skills.
This exact consciousness isn’t here yet. I doubt it will ever grow.
I am fearing you Westerners do not comprehend Fascist Archipelago consciousness.
Edit: updated the quote to the one I was actually thinking of.
Yet theory without practice is of little use and producing accurate accounts of past anarchists and movements, while important, does not bring anarchy closer. Twenty years is a long time and there is still no sign of the social revolution – although social revolts continue aplenty! Does this mean AFAQ was a waste of time? Far from it! To think that misunderstands what anarchism is – it is not a vision of a “perfect” society but rather a movement aiming to change the world for the better. Sometimes our resistance – like the class struggle it is part of – is small-scale, invisible, securing minor victories or just slowing down the decisions of the powerful (whether the state or the boss). Sometimes our resistance explodes into the public and the revolt becomes newsworthy. Regardless of the size of activity, anarchists work today to make the world a bit more libertarian.
Not all gorups that might be reported to help the community are safe, use your own judgement in picking allies or associations. However, some organizations are much more open minded than you might give them credit for. Either way, use your judgment, and stay safe.
use your own judgement in picking allies or associations.
Thanks?🙃¹
However, some organizations are much more open minded than you might give them credit for.
In Hokkaido?
Either way, use your judgment, and stay safe.
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I’ve heard Japan’s leftist situation isn’t the greatest, to put it lightly, but I have to suspect at least a few people out of the 4.9 million who live in Hokkaido would be interested in joining in on some type of group, even if it’s something like a book/anime/manga club that focuses on exploring leftist concepts in that media.
Maybe from there it could grow into a group that does some small acts of mutual aid, or even some fun community focused projects like a community garden, or making a little library together (or maybe some of the other ideas we put forward in an older monthly meta post).
even if it’s something like a book/anime/manga club that focuses on leftist concepts in that media.
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I’ve heard Japan’s leftist situation isn’t the greatest, to put it lightly
🙇♀️ for acknowledging our predicaments.
a few people
Yeah, 2% of us…. Half them want me to become their “anchor” when I have secured housing in Luxembourg. So yeah….
Time for a friendly neightborhood potluck.
What I’ve heard of the founders of successful groups is that it takes a lot of sitting around being the only one at a meeting. As long as you’re advertising, some day someone will be in the right mindset to be curious and try something new, and two people can already help each other out.
Combine the meeting schedule and social events (even if similarly unattended to start with) and you can start slowly building out community. Even if you were “unlikeable” you can find unlikeable comrades eventually, that’s how fascists get started.
that’s how fascists get started
¹ I’ll forgive your ignorance here,
Time for a friendly neightborhood potluck.
But yes, financing a canteen is praxis that I do.
There’s still no collective consciousness that “If they abduct Antibully for being an unapologetic trans inclusive feminist, I will be next. Thus I have to defend my neighbors as if it was me.”
¹ Fascism is always state sponsored. It never grassroots. My state is 100% Fascist.
Technically fascism is also often corporate-sponsored. But more to the point that kind of sponsorship means people get paid to do the sitting around in empty rooms bit. They still need to form gangs of brownshirts that trust each other enough to go out and do violence that might incur repercussions. And most of the members of those gangs don’t get paid at all.
There’s still no collective consciousness that “If they abduct Antibully for being an unapologetic trans inclusive feminist, I will be next. Thus I have to defend my neighbors as if it was me.”
You can help develop that in the process of getting to know your neighbors. If you’re hosting, at the very least I imagine you would be entitled to have a speech about why you’re doing it and what you hope to achieve with it in the long term.
If you’re hosting, at the very least I imagine you would be entitled to have a speech about why you’re doing it and what you hope to achieve with it in the long term.
Exactly what I am doing. The issue is exactly that my speeches do amount to naught in their compliant eyes. And I can’t blame them for fearing our fascist state over intersecting and solidarity response. That’s the rut I deal with: Complacency.
I mean if nothing else surely you could get together with a friend or something? Or do I misunderstand the culture that badly o-o
🧵’s about rapid response teams, to be able castle doctrine defend neighbors from Nazis. I explained why that fails here in
, & seemingly in 
The reason brownshirts are winning in both is because the consciousness isn’t in either.
I’m sorry things are so bad over there 🫂 at least here in the US I can name several rapid response groups near me, I wish I could share them with you
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