Quote from: p21mutual aid is not charity.
I've skimmed this chapter. I don't want to know in greater detail about this thing that mutual aid isn't, because I (personally) already understand that it isn't it.
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Quote from: p20For social movements working to imagine and build [..] sustainable, regenerative ways of living, mutual aid offers a way forward.Okay!
Quote from: p19[Naomi Klein] argues that in energy, as in other areas of survival, we should be working toward locally controlled, participatory, transparent structures to replace our crumbling and harmful infrastructure.
Quote from: WikipediaA participatory organization is an organization which is built based on public participation rather than their contract obligations.
Quote from: p19[The devastating 2018 California fires] were caused by Pacific Gas and Electric Company's mismanagement, and then [..] California's government immediately offered the company a bailout, meanwhile failing to support people displaced by the disaster.
Quote from: p18MADR asserts that "saving lives, homes, and communities in the event and aftermath of a disaster may require taking bold action without waiting for permission from authorities. [..]"
Quote from: p18-19Mutual aid projects [..] developed to support people living through the crises caused by poverty, racism, criminalization, gender violence, and other "ordinary" conditions[..]
Quote from: p16Mutual aid is inherently antiauthoritarian, demonstrating how we can do things together in ways we were told not to imagine, and that we can organize human activity without coercion.
Quote from: droqen on July 27, 2022, 04:41:30 PMQuote from: p76, The Dispossessed"But we haven't been sure whether or not you came with the approval of--" [Oiie] hesitated.
Shevek grinned. "Of my government?"
"We know that nominally there's no government on Anarres. However, obviously there's administration. And we gather the group that sent you, your Syndicate, is a kind of faction; perhaps a revolutionary faction."
"Everybody on Anarres is a revolutionary, Oiie. . . . The network of administration [does] not govern persons; they administer production. They have no authority either to support me or to prevent me. [..] Most people on Anarres don't want to learn about Urras. They fear it and want nothing to do with the propertarians. [..] I came to begin to change that."
"Entirely on your own initiative," said Oiie.
"It is the only initiative I acknowledge," Shevek said, smiling, in dead earnest.
Quote from: droqen on August 04, 2022, 09:10:40 AMQuote from: p128, The DispossessedTo his surprise a good many students came to him to complain. They wanted him to set the problems, to ask the right questions; they did not want to think about questions, but to write down the answers they had learned. And some of them objected strongly to his giving everyone the same mark. [..] If no competitive distinction were to be made, one might as well do nothing.
"Well, of course," Shevek said, troubled. "If you do not want to do the work, you should not do it."
Quote from: p8In this context of social isolation and forced dependency on hostile systems, mutual aid--where we choose to help each other out, share things, and put time and resources into caring for the most vulnerable--is a radical act.
Quote from: p12-15Solidarity
Quote from: p15Solidarity and an ever-expanding commitment to justice emerge from contact with the complex realities of injustice. This is exactly how movements are built, as people become connected to each other and as one urgent issue unspools into a broader vision of social transformation.
Quote from: p13Under capitalism, social problems resulting from exploitation and the maldistribution of resources are understood as individual moral failings, not systemic problems.
Quote from: p7Mutual aid is collective coordination to meet each other's needs, usually from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them. Those systems, in fact, have often created the crisis, or are making things worse.
Quote[..]setting up a ride-sharing system during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, putting drinking water in the desert for migrants crossing the border, training each other in emergency medicine because ambulance response time in poor neighbourhoods is too slow,
Quote from: p7,p8There is nothing new about mutual aid--people have worked together to survive for all of human history. But capitalism and colonialism created structures that have disrupted how people have historically connected with each other and shared everything they needed to survive.
Quote from: p139[..]where there's property, there's theft[..]
" 'To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.' [..] "
"[..] Where there are papers in locked rooms, there are people with keys to the rooms!"
Quote from: p137, Chifoilisk to Shevekyour habit of approaching everybody as a person, an individual, won't do here, it won't work. You have got to understand the powers behind the individuals.
Quote from: p143It's not money I want, you know. I want the superiority of Cetian science recognized, the superiority of the Cetian mind.