Tag: Anarchism

“RAMSHACKLE GLORY is a retired anarchist punk band that was based out of Tucson, AZ. This is our last release. Our band lasted from 2010-2016. We put out three full length albums, one split album with the folk punk band Ghost Mice, and toured every year. We donated money to a large number of anarchist and radical political projects, and distributed a lot of free political literature on a variety of topics. We stood up for our values as much as we knew how to. I’m proud of everyone in our band for doing what we did together. This project was hard on all of us in different ways, but in the end we took care of each other as much as we know how to. That isn’t something to take for granted. I actually think it’s all we have. Thanks to everyone who helped us, tolerated our mistakes and our crankiness, and listened to our music. You have funny taste. So do I.
Love, Patrick Schneeweis (June 1, 2016)”

“THIS PROJECT was a significant part of my life these past 6 years and I’m thankful for it. At times it was an inspiring and affirming reprieve from normal life. Having the platform to attempt centering both anarchism and queerness in punk spaces meant a ton to me, personally. These weren’t clear objectives, we didn’t have those, but such attempts would manifest and at times it felt important and useful. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t, like most of the ludicrous things that anarchists do. Aside from the obvious thanks to my bandmates for being the brilliant collection of beautiful weirdos that they are, I want to thank all the rad folks who set up tables at our shows and all the kids who took that part of what we were doing seriously. Thanks to those who tried to practice some kinda consent on the dance floor. Thanks to all the hosts. (Sorry if you had to hear us yelling at each other about violence, insurrection, and techno-transhumanism or whatever at 3 in the morning on your porch.) Love your buds with all you got. Brush your teeth. Fuck authority.

For a world without borders, cops, or cages,
Luke (December 2, 2016)”

“This is a benefit for Pepe, the founder of the DIY Bandits who was sentenced to nearly 5 years in Federal Prison for marijuana conspiracy charges in 2019. Help him buy some peanut butter and vitamins while he’s serving time. Find more info about his situation at www.preparingforfreedom.org

Over 20 tracks from friends of the Bandits, some of which have never been released before or are kinda hard to find. If you wanna help Pepe buy some extra peanut butter and vitamins while in prison please give a few extra dollars if you can spare it.”

Pat the Bunny is my favorite singer-songwriter. This is a compilation of all the songs he recorded in the first iteration of his musical identity, when he was a teenage drifter anarchist addict singing under the name Johnny Hobo. These songs were all released as a series of demo EPs of super ghetto–but still so beautiful–recording quality, and this is an attempt to improve the quality of all those recordings made in squats and encampments across the country on his travels, to bring them all together in one magnificent album of semi-acoustic anarchist anthems. ♥ Neonn

“My predictions of what we would be allowed this time were all surpassed by the crowd around me, who were blessed with the inexperience necessary to push beyond the limits of what was possible. So-called “knowledge” becomes a liability when one context is mistaken for another. The same series of motions that wins someone a boxing match will lose them a knife fight.

I was mistaken that night. I thought we were on a different field playing a different game. The truth is I don’t know the world I act within well enough to justify a moment of certainty. Of course I deceive myself into many such moments, because the scale of chaos that swirls around me is beyond comprehension. But if you ask me the point of undertaking the small acts of resistance I find within my reach, I must admit: “Probably nothing, but possibly everything.”

And those are the best odds I can expect to play if I am in the
habit of believing in troubling things like freedom. I might never
know the results of what we do, but I have trouble thinking they
could be worse than if we had done nothing at all.”

“Civilization ended the moment it began. So when we face up to our industrial poisonous civilization, we will one day have to forage and hunt singing “I refuse to be miserable even though brick is still inedible!””

In this expedition, Neonn talks to legendary superconscious emcee Kalki das (aka Antony of Egypt / Kikwaakew / Legion / Sunya Das), manager of Revolt-Motion Records, founder of Mutant Akademy, & author of over 100 albums of paradigm-shifting radical Hip-Hop, to discuss the decolonization of mythology, anarchism as a spiritual philosophy, Hip Hop as a radically inclusive futuristic global culture, animal activism & the possibility of ethical commerce, the true nature of the apocalypse we’re living thru, the metaphysics of corruption in hierarchical power structures, the potency of artistic activism in the lifting of the veil, the beauty of diversity, the chasm between religions & the prophets who inspired them, science fiction as the new mythos for a technological age, what living sustainably really means, and lots more decolonial metagnostic activist philosophy.. 🎃

▲ Kikwaakew / Kalki / Antony of Egypt / Legion / Sunya Das ▲
Revolt-Motion Website ▲ Bandcamp ▲ Facebook

▲ Of A Great Red Cypress ▲ Soundcloud ▲ Facebook

▲ MRKRYL ▲ Soundcloud ▲ Facebook

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“This is the FULL MOVIE! – The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.”

“Following on from his explosive & controversial interview on BBC Newsnight, Russell Brand sat down for an evening with Mehdi Hasan to discuss his opinions on the world order, politics, drugs & their treatment & also anything else that Russell felt like talking about.”

❝ Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. ❞