PirateFrog
I think this is an essential watch for anyone living in the US, as it shows how effective civil disobedience and a general strike is against authoritarian oppression. It also highlights reasons the movement failed, to learn what not to do, or what to improve on.
I think this is an essential watch for anyone living in the US, as it shows how effective civil disobedience and a general strike is against authoritarian oppression. It also highlights reasons the movement failed, to learn what not to do, or what to improve on.
Alt of Prodigalfrog@slrpnk.net here (slrpnk admin). As mentioned in the link Faythofdragons provided, the server unexpectantly went down when poVoq went on a work trip, and the failure was unfortunately in a way that requires physical access to fix.
We're using this opportunity to consider a migration to piefed, but if that does not work out, we'll simply continue to run the Lemmy instance. Either way, we will be back! :D
You can follow the progress of the piefed migration here: https://feddit.org/post/13823532
Lemmy.ca also created a secondary piefed instance recently.
TrilliumNext Notes is an excellent open-source alternative to both Notion and Obsidian.
The IWW used to have members pull security to route out planted agent provocateurs that were starting shit in mass strikes or protests. We will need that again.
Cheers for keeping the community alive! :D
I see in your edit that you confused us for a different instance, but I want to mention regardless that Slrpnk.net has 3 active admins, it's not just poVoq (Kris).
As an addendum, I will say I agree with the argument put forward in your link that pacifism is a death sentence against a government willing to kill en masse regardless of what effects it would have on the world stage.
I don't think the USA is at the point where nonviolent methods are ineffective.
Welcome!
https://anarchistnews.org/content/hostages-gun-militancy-and-militarism
And look at Chile in 2019: https://itsgoingdown.org/submedia-presents-interrebellium-the-estallido-social/
They brought their authoritarian government to its knees with continued non violent (in the sense of lack of firearms) resistance combined with an effective general strike.
They ultimately failed because the liberal parts of the resistance fell for the reformist bait, but it demonstrated that you don't need violence to win if you're able to educate the movement that reform is a trap.