We Are a Conspiracy: 56 Notes on Red

From Black Ink

Because the history and practice of anarchism have been foundational to me—and because I’m aware of the toxicity of deadnames, the patriarchy embedded in surnames, and the trauma at the root of slavenames and government names—I have a high tolerance for anyone who, whatever the reason, changes their name. I read the shifting of Red’s name, over time, as a survival strategy; she was a Black woman in a country founded on, among other things, the abuse and erasure of Black women.

Solidarity Breakfast in Canarias

Neighborhood anarchism and strong social communities

The Gran Canaria Anarchist Federation has been taking action to address basic needs for a decade now, be it through housing or food autonomy projects. Social community projects become stronger when they learn to manage and solve the problems that they take-on as their own. The comrades conclude that “in the face of the ineptitude, inability and disinterest of the institutions toward this situation, worsened by the consequences of the pandemic and the wars, we launched this initiative that aims to feed tens of minors with healthy nutrition and without animal suffering”. Revolutions are made from the barricades, with a well fed stomach.

RIP Vermont Revolutionary Roz Payne

5/21/19 -Vermont lost one of our most remarkable woman today; film maker, journalist, Black Panther historian, communard, Green Mountain Red, revolutionary, and (ironically) Richmond constable Roz Payne has left this world and these Green Hills for points beyond. Roz grew up in a working class-leftist household in New Jersey. Her mother was a union organizer in Lawrence, MA during the Great Depression. Her father ran for NJ State Senate as a member of the Socialist Party. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was her sometimes babysitter.

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