may day is coming up! so get plannin already, but just keep your plans off the internet! here is a repost from the may first coalition:
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
may first is coming up
Come help in the organization of a unified International Worker's Day in San Diego! This is a coalition of several San Diego grassroots organizations working together to organize a strong May 1st in San Diego in 2010.
Monday, March 29, 2010
new Bikes Del Pueblo hours + Microcosm tours San Diego!
exciting news everybody:
first off, Bikes Del Pueblo, San Diego's only bike collective has added an extra day! now every sunday from 3pm to 6pm one or two or all of us will be at the snowdrop house in city heights to help fix bikes. the address is 2754 snowdrop street, 92105. this is extra special because this is where we keep all of the tools, all our spare parts, and where delicious food is often made concurrently with bike fun. so please stop on by
second, Microcosm Publishing is going to stop in San Diego on their Post-Punk Extravaganza West Coast Tour at the Snowdrop House! how exciting! time is april 18th, 7 pm. here is more info and if you dont know microcosm is a super cool group that puts out probably the best do-it-yourself and radical set of zines and books out there. so stop by, there will be food, zines, books, movies, and tons of fun
first off, Bikes Del Pueblo, San Diego's only bike collective has added an extra day! now every sunday from 3pm to 6pm one or two or all of us will be at the snowdrop house in city heights to help fix bikes. the address is 2754 snowdrop street, 92105. this is extra special because this is where we keep all of the tools, all our spare parts, and where delicious food is often made concurrently with bike fun. so please stop on by
second, Microcosm Publishing is going to stop in San Diego on their Post-Punk Extravaganza West Coast Tour at the Snowdrop House! how exciting! time is april 18th, 7 pm. here is more info and if you dont know microcosm is a super cool group that puts out probably the best do-it-yourself and radical set of zines and books out there. so stop by, there will be food, zines, books, movies, and tons of fun
Thursday, March 25, 2010
event this friday! fundraiser at the free skool
Come to the Free Skool this Friday (tomorrow) at 7 pm to enjoy some delicious pupusas and watch a fantastic film called We Shall Remain (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/)
9pm live music and DJ dance party
$5-10 Sliding scale donation
4246 Wightman St
San Diego CA 92105
9pm live music and DJ dance party
$5-10 Sliding scale donation
4246 Wightman St
San Diego CA 92105
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
more interesting reading
from Fires never extinguished:
What I mean is, anarchy is not a moral trip, and it isn't a monkish project of self-sacrifice either. I want to overthrow this system because of what it does to me every day. One must first and foremost be motivated by one's own liberation. Otherwise, it's no different than bullshit liberalism. I'm no one's savior except my own. But revolution is not an act of navel gazing. We win by fighting together, side by side. True solidarity comes, then, from finding commonalities with the struggles of others, and recognizing that one's liberation is inextricably tied into the the liberation of others.
check these out:
http://firesneverextinguished.blogspot.com/
http://www.reocities.com/kk_abacus/vbutterfly.html
What I mean is, anarchy is not a moral trip, and it isn't a monkish project of self-sacrifice either. I want to overthrow this system because of what it does to me every day. One must first and foremost be motivated by one's own liberation. Otherwise, it's no different than bullshit liberalism. I'm no one's savior except my own. But revolution is not an act of navel gazing. We win by fighting together, side by side. True solidarity comes, then, from finding commonalities with the struggles of others, and recognizing that one's liberation is inextricably tied into the the liberation of others.
check these out:
http://firesneverextinguished.blogspot.com/
http://www.reocities.com/kk_abacus/vbutterfly.html
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
accountability and organizatin
Below I've linked an essay on anarchist accountability and organizing as well as pasted the first few paragraphes. It was written by Thomas of Miami Autonomy and Solidarity and I feel like it does a pretty good job pretty quickly of going through the basics of why and how. Because no, we're not for chaos and doing whatever you want no matter what.
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“This disease of disorganization has invaded the organism of the anarchist movement like yellow fever and has plagued it for decades…There can be no doubt, however, that this disorganization has its roots in a number of defects of theory, notably in the distorted interpretation of the principle of individuality in anarchism, that principle being too often mistaken for the absence of all accountability.” –Delo Truda Group[1]
“…[O]rganization, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each one of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in the collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.” – Errico Malatesta[2]
The assessment of the Delo Truda Group from 1926 is as true today as it was 84 years ago. But if that’s the case; and if, as Malatesta suggested, organization is the only cure for authority, how do we as anarchists differ from others in how we view organization? Or more specifically, how does our view of individuality differ from the common misconception of anarchism as the “absence of all accountability”. Perhaps it’s best summed up by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt in their exhaustive account of the history of anarchist ideas, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. They explain:
“…[G]enuine individual freedom and individuality could only exist in a free society. The anarchists did not therefore identify freedom with the right of everybody to do exactly what one pleased but with a social order in which collective effort and responsibilities- that is to say, obligations- would provide the material basis and social nexus in which individual freedom could exist.”[3]
This essay will describe anarchist accountability and how it differs from the types of accountability we’re trying to replace. Implementing accountability in all of our practices is fundamental to our effectiveness now in our practice and how it prefigures the kind of society that we want to replace the existing society.
keep reading
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“This disease of disorganization has invaded the organism of the anarchist movement like yellow fever and has plagued it for decades…There can be no doubt, however, that this disorganization has its roots in a number of defects of theory, notably in the distorted interpretation of the principle of individuality in anarchism, that principle being too often mistaken for the absence of all accountability.” –Delo Truda Group[1]
“…[O]rganization, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each one of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in the collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.” – Errico Malatesta[2]
The assessment of the Delo Truda Group from 1926 is as true today as it was 84 years ago. But if that’s the case; and if, as Malatesta suggested, organization is the only cure for authority, how do we as anarchists differ from others in how we view organization? Or more specifically, how does our view of individuality differ from the common misconception of anarchism as the “absence of all accountability”. Perhaps it’s best summed up by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt in their exhaustive account of the history of anarchist ideas, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. They explain:
“…[G]enuine individual freedom and individuality could only exist in a free society. The anarchists did not therefore identify freedom with the right of everybody to do exactly what one pleased but with a social order in which collective effort and responsibilities- that is to say, obligations- would provide the material basis and social nexus in which individual freedom could exist.”[3]
This essay will describe anarchist accountability and how it differs from the types of accountability we’re trying to replace. Implementing accountability in all of our practices is fundamental to our effectiveness now in our practice and how it prefigures the kind of society that we want to replace the existing society.
keep reading
Sunday, March 21, 2010
new blog, first post!
So yesterday at the march in LA a group of us were asked frequently what we stand for, and we found out there was no quick answer that could get our point across. We couldn't just say, "Oh, we're from such and such organization" or "We are anarchists" because that says nothing to most people about what we believe and what we want. This happens all the time back home in San Diego. Whether during our work organizing or just in the day to day there really isn't a good short answer to these questions. So here is an idea for a new blog with many contributors, each active in their own way or with other contributors in our own area to publicize our work, to spread our ideas and news, and to fill the information gaps that desperately need filling. We are all adding something to San Diego, we already have a presence, hopefully this can give a voice to that.
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