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One thing you could do is promote antipatriotic education?

Contribute to an anarchist library, whether by uploading something you have access to or translating into a different language

Support or offer your voice to Audible Anarchist to provide audiobooks of anarchist texts

If your area has an infoshop, anarchist bookstore, or anarchist bookfair, volunteer and donate! There’s no comprehensive list of these things so you’ll have to do your own duckduckgoing

Support anarchist news media like CrimethInc, It’s Going Down, Unicorn Riot, and Indigenous Action

Put up stickers or posters around your area

Print off or order some zines, books, or other reading material and stick them in local little free libraries

Slave Narratives (x) (x) Linked to one I own, and the search results since there’s seriously a LOT

Preaching with Sacred Fire:  An Anthology of African-American Sermons, 1750 to the Present

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

Our Non-Christian Nation (because these chuds have a hard-on for theocracies)

The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.  (Because you can’t deny what he says in his own words)

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About…American History

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)