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Pretty good stuff.

However I read many reactions : "don't take your phone with you" This is a common issue in a lot of activist place to don't ask ourselves why people are acting like this ? before telling them to stop. They may have good reasons, and in a case of protests, there is.

• Filming the cops : I don't know in the US, but in a lot of countries, cops are less violent when they know someone is filming them. This may help people harmed by the police, in giving them evidence, or helping mobilization in the futur. After mass arrestation, it could be hard to know how as been arrested or not; some legal support hotline ask this kind of evidence for this reasons. Of course this some sensitive material, and need to be secured too. For example, the cops may target you if you are filming them.

• Calling the legal support hotline : Some of them ask to be called just after arrestation or cops actions, to make a precise report. You could call them when someone you know have been attacked or kidnapped by the police.

• Call medial support : I don't know how the emergency number is linked with the repressive force in the US, but in a lot of country, it's not. Even if it's rare, it could be a vital issue.

All this actions are important and individuals should compare the risks they take in taking them and what we lost in not acting like that. Of course this risks have to be documented; with flyers at the start of a protests for example.

I would recommend to mutualise actions to decentralize risks. Make a team with one or two people with burned phone and dedicated camera (paid by everyone); let your other phones at home. Stay (at least) by pair, and keep in eye someone with a phone.

They may be better plan of actions, but we couldn't just let down cop watch ant street medic just for the illusion of individual safety. Such thing simply do not exist

Unionize

There sure is new comers thanks to the enhancement of graphic environment and gaming. But this is still very marginal, and there is some good reasons.

If we want to promote linux and FOSS we couldn't only rely on use-cases and good-will of people, we need to find structures that make people use mac and windows. FOSS movement make some interesting stuff about the education system, and the institution use of windows, which are a lot more impact on the OS we are using than the qualities of such systems. But the so-called "politically neutral" forbade us to prevent this situation to repeat itself. Microsoft works on daily bases with tremendous resources (not only monetary). People who are making this decisions have some carrer interests that is not align on those of the masses.

Free-software without anti-capitalism is only open-source, sry

That not a moral state; some capitalist on corporation help us a lot. The main reason for the linux promotion is the choice of Valve, but because that choice is not profitable (in a capitalist way), we should consider it as the exception.

I'm not saying that it's helpless. It's quite the opposite : I'm saying that if we want to have a massive action, we have to take the power were it is.

Pretty bad experience with matrix here. Many users have issues with decrypting messages or having some conversations unable to open. Sometimes we have to disable the encryption, and in some case it don't work either. In all cases, we couldn't find too old messages. Usually you have to balance between safety and archives; both are unreliable. Migrating a community to a specific protocol is not something you could repeat a lot.

I don't know if it's related with the servers, or with the protocol itself. I suspect that things get ugly when your conversations are too big, but it could be the latency between servers, or lack of ressources from server side. If so, you have consider to selfhost a matrix server, or to consider it as not federated, and use the server matrix.org like everyone (which seems to work fine).

• Being paid to work for capitalism from monday to friday
• Smash capitalist stuff on saturday

The only ting it will change is how you feel. It's actually give strength to feel that we could do some things. However if it's the only things that you could do so, it may be addictive, and make the repression even harder. I recommend to join collective self-defense to make it sustainable (like unions, but not only).

Wish you the stregth fellow workers

ACAB

Here we call him "Mr AllNaked", an old guy that go on walk all naked in the nearby woods.

Unfortunately very instable on my machine (Mint, 16 Go RAM, i7). I would not recommend on Linux

Pirate music made by fascists. So you could enjoy, and you money will not armed another violent racist militia

I think it both. Not all software or codec provider aim to apply the EU and French laws. Quite the contrary

Judges and Justices are not that precise. They aim to preserved public order before anything else. If a whole industry is based on a questionable interpretation of patent, they is a lot of chances that judges would agree on it. Even in countries where you could not patent algorythm, industries patent the documentation, the "software design", the brand name, the illustrations used, and aggregates everything together, to say they own it. And it works.

TL;DR : Class Justice

They is many thing we individually like to see, depending of our social position. Without being organize (formally or not), it seems unlikely that those things maybe compatible one with each other. Our political goals are deeply connect to the way we fight for it today.

I will split my answer in 4 parts : abstractly, an analysis, the way to make it, and how I see it where I'm living

• Abstracly : we want a world without domination and hierarchy between people
• Analysis :
  • 1. Mean our productions are monopolize by the bourgeoisie, and the violence of the state
  • 2. People are depending from those way of production for their living
  • 3. States are competing one with each other for they one power
  • 4. States that are winning these competition ensure the adhesion of a part of their people in enhancing access to utilities
  • 5. The never ending economic growth, and the ecological situation is slowly ending the situation
  • 6. The repression of the States are isolating our collectives one with each other. We couldn't design collectively our mobilization accross borders, nations our even our social position. Without the mutualisation of the activist work, people are wore us out, repulsing people to join us, and weakening our fights.
  • 7. To accelerate this end, and replace way we access to our needs, imply to organize internationally (in order co end 3. and 4.) to self-managed (including to stop) the means of production (in order to resolve 2.)
• Way to make it :
  • Need to organize not only our solidarity with others, but our own conditions —psychology, materially and socially (in order to resolve 6) through workplace through organization that are already self-managed and that make live internationalism. Today, I think that the ICL-CIT is one of the most concrete way to do so
  • Of cours, the fight for the mean of production shall not be contain of the formal economy, the informal mean of reproduction (carrying, socializing, housing, culturally, entertainment, …). This is last point is a big step forward to resolve 6.
• An anarchist city : Rent strikes and neighborhood solidarity are let us organize by city block. Restaurant have been replace by common canteen, drugstore by small dispensary (not only supplying medicine, but providing healthcare), stores, and bike workshop. Message boards help to share informations, next to lowtech radio information (by radio, our with lorawan like network for reading information); its help to add, and being inform on topics that would be address on every City block meeting. This city block meetings are deciding of the needs (electricity, heating, pieces for the workshop, foods for the store, …), how to deal with violence issue and is where unions will expose the needs to comply (I will develop after).

Socialized production through union federation, is how we could, as workers, asking for what we need to satisfy the needs. For exemple, if farms need more workers to ensure the need express by city blocks, unions will send workers (with imperative mandate) to discuss in City block meeting of the need of more workers. This discussion could lead to synthesis agreement, like asking time and place to be trained in safety or first aid.

Freedom is build through free time, and even if some necessary works still exists, everybody try to minimize it day after day. Of course we could chill more, but "unnecessary" production could develop as a free time. It may develop entertainment, theater, but why not some scientific stuff; ocean and space exploration may still exists, but they will need the voluntary work of everyone imply, and the ressources willingly given by communities.

Of course, private car have been replaced. Some exists for firefighter or ambulance, but every road have been diminish to one line and 2 cycle path. The place earn is greenish, with kids games, and place to rest.

This is the topic of "Bâtir aussi", a (french) novel.