#lucyparsons

Nine years ago today was our first night of many in Zuccotti park. That sparked years of actions and organizing. Our initial contribution at Occupy was helping people to rescue and then sharing free food. It soon became clear that people were happy to buy us pizza every night and even @benandjerrys was there with all you can eat free ice cream! So we decided our efforts could be more impactful if we redirected them. We helped to start the library and stock it with radical publications. Many of the participants who came to Occupy had never heard of mutual aid nor had any concept of horizontal organizing at a large scale. We printed off tens of thousands of copies of pamphlets and zines by people like Noam Chomsky, David Graeber, Lucy Parsons, Ashanti Alston, Errico Malatesta, Emma Goldman, and many more. We distributed these for free. Many have credited this effort with helping to provide an idealogical framework for a large number of those involved. We continued distributing free literature long after being evicted from Zuccotti and did so regularly from Union Square park for years. The fire, the love, and the rage we helped nurture there spread across the globe and back. We are still fighting for each other and for this planet. We are all in this together! Rest in Power to the Occupiers we lost Edith, Kitty, Brendan Mannion, Robert Grodt, and of course David Graeber ❤️🔥🏴✊🏼 #davidgraeber #anarchist #noamchomsky #zines #occupywallstreet #anarchism #anarquista #emmagoldman #rojava #malatesta #zuccottipark #anarquismo #peterkropotkin #chomsky #anarchist #lucyparsons #occupy #anarcho #anarchismo #anarchocommunist #kropotkin #ows #nobodyforpresident #erricomalatest #crimethinc #smashthestate #nogodsnomasters #wearethe99percent #anarquia #wearethe99 (at Zuccotti Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQZIVTjt8C/?igshid=1ll9go7a9bo1q

I think he started without papers and was just in Greg’s care, but when his gem activated as a baby (”Three gems and a baby”) he was basically destined to do gem stuff. I mean, Greg lived in a van and very much had no money to pay hospital bills. But still, the fact that Steven literally stayed in limbo from his 8th birthday to his 13th tells so much about how little contact he had. Plus I think Beach City had a school he could go to without cost. I think the most likely scenario is, that Steven does not exist legally outside some zoning papers for Little Homeworld. As a hybrid, I understand it was a HUGE risk to involve him with human stuff. But this is kinda awful still.

4x6" watercolor commission: American labor activist #LucyParsons

Regrann from @neeshellmybell - Regranned from @kishlb - When the women take hold of a great and crying evil, you may expect revolution — not necessarily a revolution of blood and destruction, yet not necessarily one of peace.” - #LucyParsons #Revolutionary, #radical, #anarchist---these titles barely scratch the surface in capturing the identities Lucy Parsons took on during her life. According to local Chicago #authorities, Parsons was more dangerous than a thousand rioters, and they were right. Parsons’ power was in her pen. Her writings terrified the government so much that the FBI forbid her from speaking in public. Can you imagine? On the same day she died in 1942, the government raided her home and stole 40 years worth of journal entries and books detailing her beliefs on #socialism and #anarchy...left never to be found again. During her early 20s, Parsons fled #Texas with her husband for fear of retribution for their political involvement. Texas officials shot her husband in the leg and threatened to #lynch him for trying to register #Blackvoters. So, they set out for #Chicago. Parsons’ sole mission was to fight for the #poor and #disenfranchised in the face of an #oppressive #american government. Her disdain for the wealthy is clear when she writes, “Let every dirty, lousy #tramp arm himself with a revolver or knife and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of #extermination and without pity.” The #Chicagopolice arrested her numerous times for the alleged “#crime” of disseminating revolutionary-based pamphlets on the streets. She despised #capitalism and argued that #Blackpeople were oppressed because they were poor, not because they were #Black. She also believed violent and direct actions were the only way to change the capitalist system and ensure workers’ demands were met, which is why the #government tried to silence her. Parsons’ affiliations with the #SocialistParty, #CommunistParty, and dozens of radical newspapers made her a prime target for the #FBI. - #regrann

Nine years ago today was our first night of many in Zuccotti park. That sparked years of actions and organizing. Our initial contribution at Occupy was helping people to rescue and then sharing free food. It soon became clear that people were happy to buy us pizza every night and even @benandjerrys was there with all you can eat free ice cream! So we decided our efforts could be more impactful if we redirected them. We helped to start the library and stock it with radical publications. Many of the participants who came to Occupy had never heard of mutual aid nor had any concept of horizontal organizing at a large scale. We printed off tens of thousands of copies of pamphlets and zines by people like Noam Chomsky, David Graeber, Lucy Parsons, Ashanti Alston, Errico Malatesta, Emma Goldman, and many more. We distributed these for free. Many have credited this effort with helping to provide an idealogical framework for a large number of those involved. We continued distributing free literature long after being evicted from Zuccotti and did so regularly from Union Square park for years. The fire, the love, and the rage we helped nurture there spread across the globe and back. We are still fighting for each other and for this planet. We are all in this together! Rest in Power to the Occupiers we lost Edith, Kitty, Brendan Mannion, Robert Grodt, and of course David Graeber ❤️🔥🏴✊🏼 #davidgraeber #anarchist #noamchomsky #zines #occupywallstreet #anarchism #anarquista #emmagoldman #rojava #malatesta #zuccottipark #anarquismo #peterkropotkin #chomsky #anarchist #lucyparsons #occupy #anarcho #anarchismo #anarchocommunist #kropotkin #ows #nobodyforpresident #erricomalatest #crimethinc #smashthestate #nogodsnomasters #wearethe99percent #anarquia #wearethe99 (at Zuccotti Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQZIVTjt8C/?igshid=1ll9go7a9bo1q