Never have I identified more with a stance on world affairs. Thank you for continuing your work, and truly wishing you the best of luck with your treatment 🙏🏻
Hi Peter, could you please elaborate a bit more on what you mean and envision in this section: "A revolution needs to enact solidarity between all people, but people need to be honest about where they are coming from. People who bear a middle class culture need to unlearn it, as it manifests in a politics of comfort: building informal social power, flattening contradictions, and avoiding conflict. Currently, its crusade is to destroy practices of transformative justice—and the difficult experiences those practices come from—in favor of the kind of attitudes (simultaneously fragile and vicious) that flourish on social media." ?
Hey Peter, I appreciate your writing as always <3. Thinking of you often in your treatment and hoping it is going well and you are able to find times for comfort during it.
Question because I can't seem to figure out how to ask this in a better place: are you still considering topic requests from subs? If you are, and you haven't written about it already, I would love to hear your thoughts on (in?)effectiveness of "nonviolent" protest surrounding the AIDS crisis in the US during the late 80's/early 90's with ACT UP, etc. I am just beginning to research and learn about it myself (the HIV/AIDS and C0V1D-19/LongC0v parallels keep increasing as more and more C0V research comes out), and find myself wondering what Peter G would think about the tactics and "wins" the nonviolent movement claims. Perhaps this is an extremely broad topic to ask you to examine, but even your analyses on smaller parts or actions within that movement would be greatly appreciated!
"Democracy is facing a crisis, but it still poses the biggest danger to us: spreading this awareness more generally might have saved some of our most powerful movements—in Chile and in Greece—from falling into fatal strategic dead ends."
I'm curious: what "fatal strategic dead ends" do you believe anarchists under the chilean & greek states fell into? & how do those anarchists assess the present condition of the movements there?
I'm trying to find the Ozlem Goner, “Internationalism beyond the Geopolitics of States and Solidarity in ‘Complex’ Situations” article you mention but it only brings up various versions of this article, where can I find it?
Can you clarify 'Abolition already happened'? I suspect you mean prisons have been reformed but incarceration / the state still exists, but would you like to elaborate a bit? I'm not up to speed with the details but I've heard prisons are getting overpopulated with the increase of zero tolerance / minority exclusions / reduction in mental health benefits, etc (?)
Never have I identified more with a stance on world affairs. Thank you for continuing your work, and truly wishing you the best of luck with your treatment 🙏🏻
Hi Peter, could you please elaborate a bit more on what you mean and envision in this section: "A revolution needs to enact solidarity between all people, but people need to be honest about where they are coming from. People who bear a middle class culture need to unlearn it, as it manifests in a politics of comfort: building informal social power, flattening contradictions, and avoiding conflict. Currently, its crusade is to destroy practices of transformative justice—and the difficult experiences those practices come from—in favor of the kind of attitudes (simultaneously fragile and vicious) that flourish on social media." ?
Hey Peter, I appreciate your writing as always <3. Thinking of you often in your treatment and hoping it is going well and you are able to find times for comfort during it.
Question because I can't seem to figure out how to ask this in a better place: are you still considering topic requests from subs? If you are, and you haven't written about it already, I would love to hear your thoughts on (in?)effectiveness of "nonviolent" protest surrounding the AIDS crisis in the US during the late 80's/early 90's with ACT UP, etc. I am just beginning to research and learn about it myself (the HIV/AIDS and C0V1D-19/LongC0v parallels keep increasing as more and more C0V research comes out), and find myself wondering what Peter G would think about the tactics and "wins" the nonviolent movement claims. Perhaps this is an extremely broad topic to ask you to examine, but even your analyses on smaller parts or actions within that movement would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you for everything! Cheers.
"Democracy is facing a crisis, but it still poses the biggest danger to us: spreading this awareness more generally might have saved some of our most powerful movements—in Chile and in Greece—from falling into fatal strategic dead ends."
I'm curious: what "fatal strategic dead ends" do you believe anarchists under the chilean & greek states fell into? & how do those anarchists assess the present condition of the movements there?
I'm trying to find the Ozlem Goner, “Internationalism beyond the Geopolitics of States and Solidarity in ‘Complex’ Situations” article you mention but it only brings up various versions of this article, where can I find it?
Can you clarify 'Abolition already happened'? I suspect you mean prisons have been reformed but incarceration / the state still exists, but would you like to elaborate a bit? I'm not up to speed with the details but I've heard prisons are getting overpopulated with the increase of zero tolerance / minority exclusions / reduction in mental health benefits, etc (?)