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"I made a garbage video about Germany's waste management and compare how they differ from the United States. It made me think twice the next time I go to throw something away.

Europe is on a path to reduce waste and improve their renewables grid, including recycling, reusing, repairing and waste to energy plants. My takeaways are that there are many things done here in Germany that can be replicated in other nations looking to solve their own trash equation."

Why peaceful protest does not work; an introduction to direct action and mutual aid; how to resist oppression without turning oppressive; the weakness of formal organization and the power of affinity groups

Sources:

Books and zines: (I suggest accessing all the books I cite on this channel through https://libgen.is/ or https://www.pdfdrive.com/)

The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy by Peter Gelderloos

Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance and Surviving the Apocalypse by Shane Burley

In Defense of Looting: a Riotous History of Uncivil Action by Vicky Osterweil

Anarchic Agreements: a Field Guide to Collective Organizing by Kinna et al.

Why We Don’t Make Demands by Crimethinc: https://crimethinc.com/2015/05/05/feature-why-we-dont-make-demands

Demonstrating Resistance by Crimethinc: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-demonstrating-resistance

The Weakness of a Politics of Protest by James Herod: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-herod-the-weakness-of-a-politics-of-protest

After We Have Burnt Everything: https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/organizing/after-we-have-burnt-everything/

Against Organizationalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3wzpFJtEmE

Red flags to know before joining an organization: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/unsalted-red-flags-before-you-join-that-org

Affinity groups:

How to Form an Affinity Group: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-how-to-form-an-affinity-group

Affinity Groups: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/shawn-ewald-affinity-groups

Affinity Identity Tactics: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bonfire-collective-affinity-identity-tactics

Affinity Groups: Essential Building Blocks for Anarchist Organisation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upfiMNHADCo

Affinity: Beyond Friendship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvLJgYDp-8

The Future of Insurrection: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lupus-dragonowl-the-future-of-insurrection

Coordination and tactics: https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/02/from-a-matter-of-principle-to-a-matter-of-tactics/

How affinity groups stopped the WTO in Seattle in 1999: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-n30-the-seattle-wto-protests

Security culture:

What Is Security Culture? https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/what-is-security-culture

A Practical Security Handbook for Activists and Campaigns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pWW3KJxG-A

Further reading:

How to get started by Vicky Osterweil: https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/how-to-get-started/

Basic Community Organizing Guide: https://neighborhoodanarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Community-Organizing-Guide-Imposed-v2.2.pdf

Black Blocs and Contemporary “Propaganda of the Deed” by Jeff Shantz: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-black-blocs-and-contemporary-propaganda-of-the-deed

Direct action by environmentalists and animal liberationists and how the FBI has tried to crush it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfki76bUza4

Movement for No Society: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/movement-for-no-society-movement-for-no-society

My playlist on spontaneous order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOV4fQRc2u4&list=PL3waFZldV-Y2NZuI-sQAtT_Y1CzXfwJHT

A transcript of this video is available at https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2024/08/10/toothless-protest-pointless-demands-and-effective-resistance/

In the struggle against hierarchy, it can be easy to give in to crude forms of future conception, such as optimism and pessimism. But if we are to carry out a successful abolition of hierarchical society, we must abandon these naïve simplifications. Only hope may act as a guiding light in the long darkness and thus bring about a future of human flourishing. Hope is realism.

A list of feeling centers this movie hit me in:

• My gay feelings
• My leftist feelings
• My gay leftist feelings
• My Appalachian feelings
• My gay Appalachian feelings
• My leftist Appalachian feelings
• My gay leftist Appalachian feelings

I'm a staunch atheist myself, but I could see myself joining in on some Atheopaganist stuff for the community building aspects.

Certainly an interesting idea anyway. I think Andrew did a good job of highlighting the pitfalls of religion, and how Atheopaganism could potentially avoid them. But I'm skeptical of the idea of certain things, even benign things like Love being 'sacred', as it just seems like that could get weird if taught over a long enough time-span...