PeterGelderloos
@petergelderloos.bsky.social
Writing and fighting for a world without prisons, borders, clearcuts, or strip mines, a world of care, imagination, and mutual aid. he/they
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/
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https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345116/the-solutions-are-already-here/
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I'll probably be unable to use Bluesky for the next month, and this fundraiser really needs support over the next 16 days. Wouldn't it be great if a different person reposted it every day until the 14th?
With Firefund, you only get the money if you meet your goal, so please help us with this:
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
“From Brazil to the world, turning our backs on the lies of green capitalism & the state, & spreading the projects to help us survive the ecological crisis.”
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'll probably be unable to use Bluesky for the next month, and this fundraiser really needs support over the next 16 days. Wouldn't it be great if a different person reposted it every day until the 14th?
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Anyone notice how quickly the "No Kings" protest movement brought back all the lies and conspiracy theories of nonviolence that we fully laid to rest in 2020?
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
No Kings, Just a Lot of Puppets
the endless circles of social amnesia
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Anyone notice how quickly the "No Kings" protest movement brought back all the lies and conspiracy theories of nonviolence that we fully laid to rest in 2020?
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
I'll probably be unable to use Bluesky for the next month, and this fundraiser really needs support over the next 16 days. Wouldn't it be great if a different person reposted it every day until the 14th?
With Firefund, you only get the money if you meet your goal, so please help us with this:
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
“From Brazil to the world, turning our backs on the lies of green capitalism & the state, & spreading the projects to help us survive the ecological crisis.”
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'll probably be unable to use Bluesky for the next month, and this fundraiser really needs support over the next 16 days. Wouldn't it be great if a different person reposted it every day until the 14th?
Anyone notice how quickly the "No Kings" protest movement brought back all the lies and conspiracy theories of nonviolence that we fully laid to rest in 2020?
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
No Kings, Just a Lot of Puppets
the endless circles of social amnesia
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Anyone notice how quickly the "No Kings" protest movement brought back all the lies and conspiracy theories of nonviolence that we fully laid to rest in 2020?
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
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Here's an article that gives a lot more detail about this project-- how do we take on climate change without massive land theft and mining? What's an anticolonial approach to the ecological crisis?
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Here's an article that gives a lot more detail about this project-- how do we take on climate change without massive land theft and mining? What's an anticolonial approach to the ecological crisis?
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
Here's an article that gives a lot more detail about this project-- how do we take on climate change without massive land theft and mining? What's an anticolonial approach to the ecological crisis?
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Here's an article that gives a lot more detail about this project-- how do we take on climate change without massive land theft and mining? What's an anticolonial approach to the ecological crisis?
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...
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“From Brazil to the world, turning our backs on the lies of green capitalism & the state, & spreading the projects to help us survive the ecological crisis.”
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution
From Brazil to the world, spreading the projects and struggles that will help us survive the ecological crisis
www.firefund.net
October 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“From Brazil to the world, turning our backs on the lies of green capitalism & the state, & spreading the projects to help us survive the ecological crisis.”
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
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Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.
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With Firefund, you only get the money if you meet your goal, so please help us with this:
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
“From Brazil to the world, turning our backs on the lies of green capitalism & the state, & spreading the projects to help us survive the ecological crisis.”
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution
From Brazil to the world, spreading the projects and struggles that will help us survive the ecological crisis
www.firefund.net
October 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
With Firefund, you only get the money if you meet your goal, so please help us with this:
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
Elite voices demonizing, criminalizing, and penalizing (including with the death penalty) property destruction by the lower classes has been going on for centuries or millennia, depending on the territory.
"Violence" being used as a moral/political category dates largely to the 20th century.
link/
"Violence" being used as a moral/political category dates largely to the 20th century.
link/
historians -- when did defacing buildings start getting called "violence" in the press? it always seems kind of strange to see it equated with violence against, you know, people
October 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Elite voices demonizing, criminalizing, and penalizing (including with the death penalty) property destruction by the lower classes has been going on for centuries or millennia, depending on the territory.
"Violence" being used as a moral/political category dates largely to the 20th century.
link/
"Violence" being used as a moral/political category dates largely to the 20th century.
link/
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Fritz and Iris of the UE Local 667 East End Food Co-op grocery in Pittsburgh talk about their union, conflicts with management and their participation in #BDS to remove products from the Israeli occupation from their shelves
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Fritz and Iris of the UE Local 667 East End Food Co-op grocery in Pittsburgh talk about their union, conflicts with management and their participation in #BDS to remove products from the Israeli occupation from their shelves
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...
Why do you get to define whether a protest is peaceful? If some people are choosing to riot, it's not a peaceful protest, yet still you're giving yourself power over how others participate.
And when have the media and State ever portrayed movements for *radical transformation* in a positive light?
And when have the media and State ever portrayed movements for *radical transformation* in a positive light?
Yes, the violence is here. We can outwit them in other ways. We don't need violence. That's what they want from us. Don't give into it.
Or if you do; Go in on your own mission, if you choose. But pushing your violence during peaceful protests, ur only doing the bad guys a favor by discrediting☮️
Or if you do; Go in on your own mission, if you choose. But pushing your violence during peaceful protests, ur only doing the bad guys a favor by discrediting☮️
October 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Why do you get to define whether a protest is peaceful? If some people are choosing to riot, it's not a peaceful protest, yet still you're giving yourself power over how others participate.
And when have the media and State ever portrayed movements for *radical transformation* in a positive light?
And when have the media and State ever portrayed movements for *radical transformation* in a positive light?
With Firefund, you only get the money if you meet your goal, so please help us with this:
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
“From Brazil to the world, turning our backs on the lies of green capitalism & the state, & spreading the projects to help us survive the ecological crisis.”
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
If you can, please lend your support to this worthwhile project, w/the involvement of solid writer & comrade @petergelderloos.bsky.social
Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution
From Brazil to the world, spreading the projects and struggles that will help us survive the ecological crisis
www.firefund.net
October 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
With Firefund, you only get the money if you meet your goal, so please help us with this:
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
we got to half, now we need to get the rest of the way there!
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“If we could convince a big chunk of society to finally turn their backs on capitalism and all the institutions of power, to understand the ecological crisis as something that enfolds most of the social crises…there might actually be hope for these next few decades.”
And here's my latest: some thoughts on how to keep going, where we're coming from, and how to understand the paths ahead
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
Reasons to hope
A week ago, a Boston prosecutor charged 13 pro-Palestine protesters with “promoting anarchy,” a special law created over a century ago when anarchists were the major threat to this noble, orderly, law...
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“If we could convince a big chunk of society to finally turn their backs on capitalism and all the institutions of power, to understand the ecological crisis as something that enfolds most of the social crises…there might actually be hope for these next few decades.”
We need to shift back towards an anti-surveillance culture! Surveillance helps ICE, it helps the cops, it helps the Nazis cops often work with, it makes you more vulnerable to identity theft and getting your credit cards or personal photos stolen and it puts others at risk too!
A lot of surveillance infrastructure is put up by the State. But these days the vast majority is by consumers. We need to spread the idea that constant surveillance is not okay!
No more Teslas, no more Rings, leave your phone at home when you go out!
Don't go to friends or family's houses if...
No more Teslas, no more Rings, leave your phone at home when you go out!
Don't go to friends or family's houses if...
October 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We need to shift back towards an anti-surveillance culture! Surveillance helps ICE, it helps the cops, it helps the Nazis cops often work with, it makes you more vulnerable to identity theft and getting your credit cards or personal photos stolen and it puts others at risk too!
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"They are learning that exclusive, dogmatic nonviolence does not stand a chance at achieving a revolutionary change in society, at getting to the roots of oppression and exploitation and bringing down those who are in power."
@petergelderloos.bsky.social
@petergelderloos.bsky.social
The Failure of Nonviolence
Peter Gelderloos The Failure of Nonviolence From the Arab Spring to Occupy 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"They are learning that exclusive, dogmatic nonviolence does not stand a chance at achieving a revolutionary change in society, at getting to the roots of oppression and exploitation and bringing down those who are in power."
@petergelderloos.bsky.social
@petergelderloos.bsky.social
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Check out this new essay on film @ Undisciplined Environments:
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/10/20/p...
#film #anarchism #climatechange @pollenetwork.bsky.social @petergelderloos.bsky.social
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/10/20/p...
#film #anarchism #climatechange @pollenetwork.bsky.social @petergelderloos.bsky.social
Political Struggle in Film: An Overview of Pitfalls & Traps - Undisciplined Environments
by Xander Dunlap How do political films depict, reflect and imagine struggle? What do they dramatize and what do they hide? Xander Dunlap examines recent...
undisciplinedenvironments.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Check out this new essay on film @ Undisciplined Environments:
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/10/20/p...
#film #anarchism #climatechange @pollenetwork.bsky.social @petergelderloos.bsky.social
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/10/20/p...
#film #anarchism #climatechange @pollenetwork.bsky.social @petergelderloos.bsky.social
We already learned that nonviolence doesn’t work in 2020. The learning got erased. We learned it in 2014. Erased again. We learned it in 2009. Then lost it. Learned it in 2003. Erased. Learned it in 1991. Gone. Learned it in 1968. Erased. Learned it in 1939. See the pattern? tinyurl.com/5c7n2dxs
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We already learned that nonviolence doesn’t work in 2020. The learning got erased. We learned it in 2014. Erased again. We learned it in 2009. Then lost it. Learned it in 2003. Erased. Learned it in 1991. Gone. Learned it in 1968. Erased. Learned it in 1939. See the pattern? tinyurl.com/5c7n2dxs
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Marcela, Feel the News, on how and when people were forced to work
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Marcela, Feel the News, on how and when people were forced to work
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Hey folks, when you see pacifist garbage like this being spread, please let them know it's already thoroughly debunked. One of the original authors of this "comparative" methodology worked for the US State Dept for f*s sake.
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pete...
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pete...
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hey folks, when you see pacifist garbage like this being spread, please let them know it's already thoroughly debunked. One of the original authors of this "comparative" methodology worked for the US State Dept for f*s sake.
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pete...
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pete...
Total pacifist ignorance, this time adjacent to really f*d up conspiracy theories.
The Nazis didn't need excuses, their whole base was actively pro-genocide.
Marinus van der Lubbe burned down the Reichstag. He was a council communist. The tragedy is that so few people took direct action like he did.
The Nazis didn't need excuses, their whole base was actively pro-genocide.
Marinus van der Lubbe burned down the Reichstag. He was a council communist. The tragedy is that so few people took direct action like he did.
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Total pacifist ignorance, this time adjacent to really f*d up conspiracy theories.
The Nazis didn't need excuses, their whole base was actively pro-genocide.
Marinus van der Lubbe burned down the Reichstag. He was a council communist. The tragedy is that so few people took direct action like he did.
The Nazis didn't need excuses, their whole base was actively pro-genocide.
Marinus van der Lubbe burned down the Reichstag. He was a council communist. The tragedy is that so few people took direct action like he did.
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And here's my latest: some thoughts on how to keep going, where we're coming from, and how to understand the paths ahead
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
Reasons to hope
A week ago, a Boston prosecutor charged 13 pro-Palestine protesters with “promoting anarchy,” a special law created over a century ago when anarchists were the major threat to this noble, orderly, law...
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
And here's my latest: some thoughts on how to keep going, where we're coming from, and how to understand the paths ahead
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
Ah yes, because two key characteristics of fascists are that:
-they are powerless against pacifists
-they only murder people who are being violent
-they are powerless against pacifists
-they only murder people who are being violent
Today was a situation in which the fascists would have LOVED for there to be violence.
NEVER GIVE FASCISTS WHAT THEY WANT.
NEVER GIVE FASCISTS WHAT THEY WANT.
October 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ah yes, because two key characteristics of fascists are that:
-they are powerless against pacifists
-they only murder people who are being violent
-they are powerless against pacifists
-they only murder people who are being violent
And here's my latest: some thoughts on how to keep going, where we're coming from, and how to understand the paths ahead
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
Reasons to hope
A week ago, a Boston prosecutor charged 13 pro-Palestine protesters with “promoting anarchy,” a special law created over a century ago when anarchists were the major threat to this noble, orderly, law...
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
And here's my latest: some thoughts on how to keep going, where we're coming from, and how to understand the paths ahead
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...