Agitate. Educate. Liberate.
We are products, our schools are factories and our dreams are reduced to social expectations. We don’t have to live this way. We have the power to say no.Revolution
is the organization of all public services by those who work in them in
their own interest as well as the public’s; Revolution is the destruction of
all coercive ties; it is the autonomy of groups, of communes, of regions;
Revolution is the free federation brought about by desire for brotherhood,
by individual and collective interests, by the needs of production and
defense; Revolution is the constitution of innumerable free groupings
based on ideas, wishes, and tastes of all kinds that exist among the people;
Revolution is the forming and disbanding of thousands of representative,
district, communal, regional, national bodies which, without having any
legislative power, serve to make known and to coordinate the desires
and interests of people near and far and which act through information,
advice and example. Revolution is freedom proved in the crucible of
facts — and lasts so long as freedom lasts, that is until others, taking
advantage of the weariness that overtakes the masses, of the inevitable
disappointments that follow exaggerated hopes, of the probable errors
and human faults, succeed in constituting a power, which supported by
an army of conscripts or mercenaries, lays down the law, arrests the
movement at the point it has reached, and then begins the reaction.
-Errico Malatesta, Revolution.
(Source: blua, via amodernmanifesto)
"Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of “world history,” but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist."
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (via theframedmaelstrom)
(via arielnietzsche)
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak out because I was Protestant.Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak out for me.
(Source: politics-war, via amodernmanifesto)
Lesbian Woman Arrested After Seeking Marriage License In North Carolina
Yesterday, Mary Jamis and her partner joined eight other gay and lesbian couples to seek a marriage license at the Register of Deeds office in Winston-Salem. Although the other couples left the office after being denied, Jamis and a straight friend of hers who joined the protest chose to remain behind and refuse to leave until Jamis was given her constitutional right to marry the person she loves.
This is at least the third time a North Carolina woman was arrested simply for insisting upon her constitutional right to be free from marriage discrimination. Last fall, a lesbian couple who had been together for 30 years were arrested after seeking a marriage license in Asheville, NC.
Source
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