Author Archives: zach

Polysecure – Jessica Fern

2/22/23
  • Secure Attachment
    • This in turn teaches the child that allowing themselves to feel their needs and communicating those needs to others is an effective strategy.
    • Through these nourishing experiences, a child develops a sense of safety and trust. They take in the messages that the world is a friendly place and that they can ask for what they want because the people in their lives care and are willing to help.
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Towards Collective Liberation – Chris Crass

By Chris Crass

Excellent book on organizing and anarchism. Very practical and relatable examples.

  • Organizing / leadership 
    • Supporting people to come together and overcome isolation and feelings of inadequacy is one of the key tasks of organizers, and we can do this by developing a systematic understanding of the problems we face, nurturing relationships of solidarity and respect, building up collective power through action, and working for social change in ways that also help us grow and live our values in the here and now. 
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The Barrow Will Send What It May – Margaret Killjoy

4/22/18
Sequel to “The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion”
  • Anarchists stick together. Well, except when we get mad at one another over small details.
  • It’s okay to let yourself love someone, but that letting yourself love someone is like letting someone have the keys to your control room, so you can share the responsibility of running yourself with someone else.
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Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown

2/8/18

Really incredible book. Highly recommend for anyone doing social justice work.

all that you touch
you change
all that you change
changes you
the only lasting truth
is change
god is change

  • What is Emergent strategy?
    • Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies.
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Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary

12/1/2017

  • Capitalism
    • As capital concentrated, it seized the means of productions from the hands of the artisans, forcing them into factories and shops owned and run by capitalists… They became utterly dependent upon the capitalists for a livelihood; they had to sell their labor from day to day to make a living.
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Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile – Ramor Ryan

9/12/17
  • Mayday
    • Mayday is a ritual that has been, throughout history accompanied by bonfires. As the flames engulf the abandoned riot van, the people dance around like a band of festive Celts of old. Here we are, history dancing with us, the heathens of the ages resisting the suppression of our day of leisure, our day of carnival, our merry-making.
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