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The Pueblos

What this means to me is that, as long as the people can gather and make decisions together, this is direct democracy together. A directness that rises directly from their day to day lives. And from their culture. Culture as democracy and vice versa. Or anarchism, if you will. Anarchism as lifestyle, in the US. I just want to be with the people. Anarchism as a loneliness, and only a contradiction until I am with the people.

From a chapter from a book out recently, "In the Name of the People", by Liasons:

    The pueblos, then, are territories where collective life and struggle take place. Or, more precisely, places where life and struggle coincide and end up being almost synonymous. Territories where existence, in the face of a war of extermination, is already a form of resistance against the invasion of farmers, hacendados, miners, and, of course, the state.

    This is because the pueblos’ forms of collective decision-making not only prevent the formation of small states in their interior but also keep the official institutions far from their dynamics and territories. Organization and self-government help prolong the absence of the state, not alleviate it. This is why discussions about inclusion/exclusion and state “recognition”—for example, the impulse of certain anarchist positions to repeat over and over that the EZLN “sought state recognition in the San Andrés Accords”—are so fruitless.

    In fact, perhaps one of the most brilliant and complex forms of the pueblos’ strategy has been the way they have occupied and repurposed “official” institutions in order to prevent the entrance of the state. Before the entrance of the political-party system became one of the most severe obstacles to the organization of the pueblos, the autogobiernos (forms of self-government) had taken the form of religious brotherhoods and civil councils in the colonial period, agrarian authorities and municipalities in modern Mexico, or leaders’ councils throughout all of history. Reclaiming the right to autonomy is nothing other than obliging the state to recognize the way in which the pueblos have been able to deceive it.

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Who is leaving who

if I haven’t even been there

to say goodbye before you

got here to even try to

say hello? Greetings of

faces wet from tears

from the last farewell

from civilization, there

is no civilization in

goodbye, just

glorious sunshine and

earth works dark as trees.

Insects, lizards and viruses

who know what dirt is,

dirtier than you’ll ever be,

dirtier than your uh, words

all over inside me. I do

want you to ride

free even if it means

to fly away.

The real sex crimes are

missed opportunities to save

the earth from her darker loving self,

we enter that cave

holding hands and it just gets

darker than dark,

the squeezing crush

has no feeling in it

without 

the right tears.

I’ve begged for better

and nothing happened

except the moon waxes

and wanes and flowers

still bloom. Mona Lisa smiles.

Pop withers away.

A chakra meditation holds up

the entire world when

the sun burns.

Walt Whitman asked me if

you would say something soon.

Group thimk fb sux

4/7
One reason I dislike fb is cuz I write differently then I talk, and fb appears to create a group thimk but its a shitty group thimk (in my onion). we make decisions so much better face to face, f2f.
1) I would like to contact calvary church and say ok to saturday the 13th to meet w the a-space collective, and also
2) set up a fundraiser to pay for a mediator/facilitator who hopefully will fulfill the criteria set out by the a-s collective. My take on their response is that they are setting up a gateway of wether we can center POC, and non-cis issues and identity, as a criteria of any further negotiations. Which we have already been discussing. Personally, I would love to do that, center not whiteness and not straightness for the future A-space. This should and could also include other questions such as homelessness, gentrification, precarity, mental and emotional health, prison nightmare society, etc. No problem, would love to escape this current deadend USA, and trust in peopleness to get us through. I trust in our someday black trans gender fluid president to help get me and my loved ones through. (Can we set up a shadow anarchist government, like they do in Britain? haha joking/not joking) The contridiction being I am straight-white and why am I posting so much!!! Only because I hope we can keep things clear and move forward step by step. All other voices please do step up. Lastly,
3) there will be a meeting on tuesday eve, because we set it up at the last meeting. We’ll talk about the agenda for the general assembly, but also now that we have a response from the a-s collective maybe theres other questions.
4) staying focused on practical movement forward, and also visioning for the new a-space.