I had a convo with some leftists a while back about book banning and I was honestly shocked that most of them didn’t care about book banning, basically saying “it shouldn’t matter if they ban POC/queer books, people who actually want to read those books will use other means to access them,” but this attitude hurt me because so much of my early political awakening came from books I was assigned in school, like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

I’ve considered building a Little Free Library and keeping it stocked with leftist/banned books. I’ve also thought about running creative writing workshops with my local library (and maybe even the local juvenile detention center) and using the writings of leftist figures as the example texts we read/analyze. What other ways can we be better beacons for education in our communities?

As someone who lives in the Deep South, I have been interested in knowing the history of radical left politics in the south. Does anyone know of books about anarchism, anti fascism or resistance specifically in the south?

I'm looking to distrubute some literature around my area, however; a lot of stuff I'm finding it 8 or more pages. Is there anything that's smaller and or more introductory that is only a few pages?

Have tried for a long time to be optimistic about the future but I don't know if I can ever envision the planting of a black flag in my lifetime. The entire country is becoming more reactionary by the second and the movement is stagnating/on the decline everywhere. Do you all think it's over? If not where do you find hope?

I am always on the lookout for books for my kids that contain anarchist and anarchist-adjacent themes. Obviously, there are lots of books aimed at kids and teens that contain anti-authority themes—don’t trust adults, corporations are the villain, etc—just as there are lots of books aimed at them that are deeply pro-authority (ahem Harry Potter).

I recently read Jessica Khoury’s “Skyborn” fantasy trilogy to my kids and was immensely pleased that it was not only well-written, but was also an excellent story about learning to let go on ingrained obedience to authority and eventually overthrowing exploitative systems. An older book I read as a kid was Monica Hughes sci-fi “Invitation to the Game,” which is features escape from capitalism and the state.

Any other good recommendations?

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pls help y’all i can’t find shit on this 😭🙏🏽

Hi, I just want to tell you that if you are a victim of the 40% of police officers that have self-reported to some kind of domestic violence towards their spouse it is not your fault. If you were warned a hundred times and still stayed, it is not your fault. If you were wearing nothing that day, it was not your fault. If you didn't make him sandwiches when he asked you to, it is not your fault. If you stayed for the children because you were afraid to leave for your safety because they have a gun, it is not your fault. If you are the child of the 40% and you said nothing, it is not your fault. If you are scared to leave because they are part of an institution that backseat each other up, it is not your fault.

I know that these spaces can get really caught up in the acab part and especially the acab part of the 40% and I feel like it can be very tempting to just keep on with these edgy statements about the domestic violence statistic and things like that but these statistics have humans behind them and those humans are victims always.

I really do hope and I don't see this happening but I hope that in the future whenever the 40% is brought up just like how suicide hotlines are brought up anytime there's talk of suicide that we should also bring up domestic violence resources whenever we bring up domestic violence.

• National Domestic Violence Hotline - 1-800-799-7233 📞
• Love is Respect (National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline) - 1-866-331-9474 💬
• StrongHearts Native Helpline - 1-844-762-8483 🪶
• National Sexual Assault Hotline - 1-800-656-4673 🛡️
• VictimConnect Resource Center - 1-855-484-2846 🔗

Hey everyone 👋🏽

Im someone who was formerly on the right but shifted to the left of the political spectrum after reevaluating whether my views would truly be beneficial to society as a whole. I wouldn't say I am an anarchist but I discovered an anarchist YouTuber ( look up "What is Politics" if your interested ) who fundamentally changed my perspective on politics and how people make decisions in groups.

What I found was that, all right-wing ideologies are after heirarchy, control, and authority. No matter which country you focus on, they have the same basic drives. Their desire to dominate others can be in the political, economic, social, or cultural spheres, but all right-wing ideologies tend to want to pool some sort of power or decision-making ability into a small group of people.

I found this to be dramatically opposed to what the left-wing of the political spectrum wants, which is an egalitarian distribution of power and decision making ability and I see anarchism as the true embodiment of freedom and equality for all people.

We're at a point where we currently have the greatest risk of nuclear war since the cold war. Interested to hear your thoughts on how a post-nuclear world would unfold, and what could be done. Also intrigued to hear any survival plans.

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Cause I'm trying to be fair, and I think it's always good to steelman what someone is saying in a conversation, but I'm really struggling here. I really don't see anything that separates them ideologically.

edit: deleted because this was a vulnerable post for me and I got the help I needed. thank you

I been fascinated by this for a while. Grow your own food and never worry about depending on big corporations for your food. Growing your own food can be used as mutual aid.

In september after 5 constructive years of doing political activism in Israel especially in relation to stopping the war & the far-right government I had to pack my stuff & basically move to Japan for 1.5 Years of studying here art, I want to do anarchist activism but my Japanese is not that great & aside from coming to a few protests relating to the war on gaza, I don't see many stuff here that are left-leaning or ways to do activism especially when you're not Japanese

does anyone know or have tips on how to get involved?(I do speak conversational Japanese and it's that I'm a weird foreigner who doesn't even wanna study or can't speak in the language)

What you are reading, watching, or listening to? Or how far have you gotten in your chosen selection since last week?