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Jami Van Alstine
@jamivanalstine.bsky.social
Anarchist, archaeologist, currently employed in corporate IT.
I think I want to write something about individual behavior as representative of what an anarchist community would look like with such individuals. If individual action is both representative and prefigurative, how would that translate?
December 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Heard a Fox News reporter describe the proposed tariffs on Canadian imports as being paid 100% by companies there.

Kids: Study economics.
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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Not understanding what's going on in Georgia? This is a great explainer by @willneal.bsky.social particularly because it gets out of the capital and takes a look at protests in smaller cities. Via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/12/04/p...
Pro-European Protests Sweeping Across Georgia Stir Memories of a Darker Past
Huge numbers of protesters are demonstrating their resistance to their disputed Government's Putin-pleasing decision to suspend the country's bid for EU membership
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Georgia: The Firework Protests

crimethinc.com/Georgia2024

After six consecutive nights of clashes between police and protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, anarchists in Tbilisi report from the front lines, exploring the causes of the unrest and documenting it in a series of videos.

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Georgia: The Firework Protests
Anarchists in Tbilisi report on a week of street confrontations, exploring the causes of the unrest and documenting it in a series of videos.
crimethinc.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.

Colin Ward
December 3, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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WATCH: People celebrating after South Korea's parliament blocks martial law and soldiers withdraw
December 3, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Today the DOJ suspended the DEA's controversial practice of having agents intercept airport travelers, interrogate them & insist on searching their bags.

These encounters are supposed to be consensual.

This is the shocking footage of one such traveler’s experience:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XBz...
DEA Caught Red-Handed: Airport Intimidation
YouTube video by Institute for Justice
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Due to recent Michael Lacey news, watch this:
November 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.

Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.

Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
I just found @FedicaHQ for scheduling and cross-posting to Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram, and Threads. Now let's see how it does and whether it makes sense.
November 15, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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I am actively recruiting MA and PhD students in linguistic, historical, and cognitive anthropology at Wayne State for Fall 2025. No GRE; no application fee; multi-year funding for all PhD students. Application deadline 01/15 - still lots of time. Share widely! clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/dz6179
Stephen Chrisomalis
Stephen Chrisomalis, Professor, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology, Wayne State University
clasprofiles.wayne.edu
November 15, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Sadly, I totally forgot about this site after applying to beta test.
Hoping to have finally found my anarchist and archaeologist folks. Where is everyone at?

#anarchist #archaeologist #anthropologists.
November 14, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Before talking about this WH cocaine story I feel like we all need to take a deep inhale…wait, scratch that, we should first hold up a mirror…no, what I mean is we should keep our powder dry…no DAMMIT…

Seriously though, the story has gone up in smoke thanks to this crack reporter.
July 5, 2023 at 8:02 PM
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this piece gets to something key: states have the capacity to expand and deepen the rights of their residents and in the process create pressure to expand and deepen the rights of american citizenship
The Overlooked Solution to the Radical Supreme Court
Conservative justices will rule for another generation. The only hope of liberals is to seize state courts and launch a legal counterrevolution.
nymag.com
July 5, 2023 at 1:20 PM
Oh God oh God oh God when you get a notification that someone you cited in your paper just read your paper oh God oh God oh God.
July 3, 2023 at 7:13 PM
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“If you want to take over the factory & make it democratic, you might be an anarchist.
If you want to destroy the factory, you might be an anarchist.
If you want the factory to remain exactly the same … you’re probably not an anarchist.”
-Eric Fleischmann on anarcho-capitalists
Non Serviam Podcast #48 From Marx to Markets with Eric Fleischmann
Join us for Non Serviam Podcast 48. This month host Lucy Steigerwald with Eric Fleischmann about historical materialism, agorism, & individualist anarchist L...
youtu.be
June 30, 2023 at 8:46 PM
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First, we need to look at state law. In half of states, departments are allowed by law to shield officers’ identities and disciplinary records from public view, even when media submit public records requests.
The ACAB case for public police records
Listen now (6 min) | What do you have to hide?
cathyreisenwitz.substack.com
July 3, 2023 at 5:09 PM
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"The Co-op Food System We Need" -- Grassroots Economic Organizing
The Co-op Food System We Need | Grassroots Economic Organizing
ino.to
July 3, 2023 at 5:53 PM