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Connor Atwood
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Activist w/ daretostruggle.org • a person who tries to be revolutionary • you should read Going Against The Tide journal
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Revanchist masculinity and the wannabe oppressors trying to put women back in servitude

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Revanchist masculinity and the wannabe oppressors trying to put women back in servitude
It’s 2025. A cabal of rapists has set up shop in the White House. For months, trans teenagers on hormones have had their life-saving medications taken away from them. Now, Trump is trying to …
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March 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Women’s empowerment: individual or collective, bourgeois or revolutionary?

Going Against the Tide pamphlet series, published March 2025

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Women’s empowerment: individual or collective, bourgeois or revolutionary?
Under capitalism-imperialism, women are subjected to patriarchy, degradation, and violence, from harassment in their workplace to domestic abuse at the hands of a romantic partner or other family m…
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March 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Resisting ICE Beyond Social Media & “Know Your Rights”

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Resisting ICE Beyond Social Media & “Know Your Rights”
The ugly and brutal mass deportations have begun. ICE agents under Trump have ramped up attacks on immigrants in homes, workplaces, and even schools. While the criminalization of the border and att…
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February 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The Frontlines Issue #1
from Dare To Struggle NYC & Rogue Residents

“In the face of evictions, rent increases, and hazardous conditions, we must mobilize together and lead a citywide fight against gentrification and urban cleansing.”

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The Frontlines Issue #1 Jan 2025
Issue #1, Jan 2025 Letter from the Editor If you live in public housing, you’re all too familiar with inhumane conditions and ineffective repairs. NYCHA regularly ignores tickets and whenever they …
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February 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Hood Offensive Against Police Brutality Issue #1: A newsletter of interviews, strategies, and events to expose and end police brutality.

Why does Anaheim PD brutalize, harass, and ticket us? Why do they employ murderers?

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Hood Offensive Against Police Brutality Issue #1:
A newsletter of interviews, strategies, and events to expose and end police brutality. Why does Anaheim PD brutalize, harass, and ticket us? Why do they employ murderers? In December of 2009, a 35 …
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January 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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“Conspiracy theories have the effect of distracting and misleading oppressed people, starting with obscuring the system and class of people responsible for their oppression.”

Conspiracy theories cloud the enemy class | Going Against The Tide journal

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Conspiracy theories cloud the enemy class
For centuries, conspiracy theories have held sway over the masses. These theories often set out to provide answers to difficult questions: Why does so much suffering and injustice exist in the worl…
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December 7, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Oppression in the Streets: How New Britain’s shelters treat the Homeless

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Oppression in the Streets: How New Britain’s shelters treat the Homeless
Issue #2 Nov 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiativ…
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December 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Why Dare to Struggle members refused to take a plea deal, and why we need to fight the NYPD’s mass arrest playbook

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Why Dare to Struggle members refused to take a plea deal, and why we need to fight the NYPD’s mass arrest playbook
At a court appearance in November, four people, including three members of Dare to Struggle, refused to take deals from a judge after we were arrested in Brownsville, Brooklyn on the October 22nd N…
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December 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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“It’s no secret that the healthcare system in the United States, like every other industry, is driven by capitalism’s bottomless hunger for profit, not by any quest for the well-being of the people.“

How the bourgeoisie keeps us sick

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How the bourgeoisie keeps us sick
It’s no secret that the healthcare system in the United States, like every other industry, is driven by capitalism’s bottomless hunger for profit, not by any quest for the well-being of…
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December 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Lucy, a mother of a 22 year-old inmate in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, discusses the conditions there, her son’s fight to get out, and the system he is up against.

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An Interview with the Mother of a 22-Year Old Inmate of Cook County Jail
Lucy, a mother of a 22-year-old inmate in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, discusses the conditions there, her son’s fight to get out, and the system he is up against My son was arrested Jun…
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December 3, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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A new organization has been formed uniting families and friends of people murdered by police in the U.S. - Families Demanding Justice is uniting all who can be united to end the epidemic of police murder and brutality through mass action outside of “normal channels”

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Families Demanding Justice
The epidemic of police brutality must be stopped!
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November 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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In a two week span, at least a dozen Black men set themselves on fire at Virginia’s Supermax Red Onion State Prison.

#prison #massincarceration #Virginia

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At Least A Dozen Prisoners Set Themselves On Fire In A Virginia Supermax Prison In September 2024
A solitary confinement cell in a Virginia prison In a two week span, at least a dozen Black men set themselves on fire at Virginia’s Supermax Red Onion State Prison. Two of these individuals,…
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November 23, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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If you’re in #NYC today check out this mass meeting to learn about Dare To Struggle’s mass campaigns around #policebrutality and #NYCHA neglect and disrepair.

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November 21, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Some keen observations about fighting political repression today, and debunking some myths about how fighting back “makes things worse”. New from Dare To Struggle

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Fighting political repression or staying silent and letting the lawyers handle it
From Dare to Struggle’s inception, we’ve had to contend with various Leftist myths in opposition to our mission statement, such as “you have to give people free food before you can try …
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November 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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An important (and crushing) interview with a man on Skid Row in Los Angeles, done with some of my comrades who are there multiple times a week organizing the homeless to fight back. It’s being distributed by the mass organization Skid Row Stands Up.

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WORD ON THE STREET: “At the end of the race, we’re in the same place”
Spoken by the people on Skid Row. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle. Distributed by Skid Row Stands Up. Issue #1, November 2024 Dare to Struggle showed a man on Skid Row our flyer and asked …
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November 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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A critical read for understanding where we’re at in the movement against police brutality, and what is to be done.

If you’re not, you need to be reading Going Against The Tide
#policebrutality #nojusticenopeace #stolenlives #acab #ftp

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The Struggle Against Police Brutality now available!
This collection, published in 2024 by Going Against the Tide, brings together articles, coming from a communist perspective, on the struggle against police brutality that were published in the jour…
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November 19, 2024 at 12:25 AM