Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free. From David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography. The background is Graeber speaking from a position seated on the floor at the Maagdenhuis occupation at the University of Amsterdam in 2015.
Anthropologist, Occupy activist, and fellow worker David Graeber was born on this day in 1961. #DirectActionGetsTheGoods #OTD
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One wouldn't want to inspire creative actions ;) Gawd Fuhbid as one might say. #DirectActionGetstheGoods #SoMoteitBe
Bring 🤝Back👀Jail💓Solidarity🌟Agreements!
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If you yell at people to “be peaceful” to others acting autonomously while at a protest, you’re a cop and deserved to be treated as such.
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Setting Teslas on fire is a terrible idea. The smoke releases toxic chemicals into the air. Dumping them in the lake does the same thing to the waterways. Is there an environmentally-friendly way to destroy these things? Asking for a friend. #directactiongetsthegoods #anarchistcookbook.
March 2025 page of the Social Justice Kittens calendar features a sad, fluffy kitten sitting in a pile of balls of yarn the text reads “Due to your refusal to embrace violence, I will no longer be discussing the revolution with you.”
The March page of the Social Justice Kittens 2025 calendar just gets me
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Utility box with three wheatpasted posters on it. Going left to right, the first poster features two cats on different tiers of the same cat trees with the text “all cats are beautiful.” The middle poster has an image of Bill Nye The Science Guy with the text “The end is.” The poster on the right features an image of bolt cutters with the text “marching in the streets won’t be enough. Direct action gets the goods.”
A highlight from a recent wheatpasting adventure
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a brick flying through the air, text that says "Direct Action Gets the Goods" - the brick being something of an example of direct action
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The labor movement shoukdbe taking this election as a sign to return to our direct action roots and to stop placing our hopes on a democratic party that hasn't delivered a solid pro-union piece of legislation in over 50 years.
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This means that two states now—MN & WA—have had appellate courts AND supreme courts affirm the use of the climate necessity defense. That's a VERY important precedent.
In WA & MN, the high courts have got your back.
You know what to do, people.
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