Anarchist culture and community building are both super important projects that can be taken up by most people regardless of where and who they are.
By culture building I mean the proliferation of anarchist media, symbolism, thought, ideas, memes, and analyses into more and more mainstream channels.
How do we get facebook wine moms talking about mutual aid and the abolition of borders? How do we get sports fans talking about free association and direct action? How do we get students talking about leaderless organization and prison abolition?
Anarchy is for everyone, so there’s an audience in every subculture, club, and clique.
Anarchist community building goes part and parcel with the culture building project. Community building is when we start bringing anarchists into networks, groups, and federations that can engage in direct action and mutual aid together.
Anarchists are everywhere, but we’re not very strong when we can’t find each other.
We can center a lot of our work on culture and community building events. Maybe a group social hosted by the local anarchist federation. Or anarchist soccer matches ranging from youth to adult. Or student anarchist lunch picnic to feed all the starving college kids.
These events are catalysts that can help bring non-anarchists into contact with anarchist circles in a way that (a) shows we’re not just faceless window-smashers and (b) we have a positive program.
Both of these projects are just as important as our more militant work in resisting the physical impositions of fascists and the state as well as our work in providing direct mutual aid.
So lets say you have to start from a position where you are the only anarchist you know? But community building is something I’ve been trying to push myself towards… have some leftish leaning friends but I’m not tryna act like I’m trying to convert them (but like maybe I kinda am). Basically don’t know where to start, or where to find other groups of people that are already trying to do this in my area? Searching the internet has been useless
Imo, you need to take a step back and start with culture building. Stickering and postering campaigns are good, maybe try to find local radio stations that would be willing to play Final Straw Radio or The Hotwire. Start having public viewings of Trouble in a local event space (I plan to use the library event space for this in my town, which is free and lets us use its screen and projector).
It would also really be good to start directing people to ItsGoingDown.org for news. I think this could be accomplished through stickering, postering and so on. You can buy their stickers (and support their site) or make cheap posters to flypost if you don’t have the budget.
Also go to non-anarchist political events and hand out literature, my favorite for this is To Change Everything (it and other useful and cheap distro materials available for order here) though I also made this trifold pamphlet from the article There is a Secret World. Crimethinc also makes a series of very cheap posters that look cool and contain a lot of anarchist messages. People like them a lot ime (they’re available through the same link as To Change Everything).
When you set up community-building events like a Troublemakers Club (a group to watch and review Trouble together) make sure to go around to local places (especially punk bars from my experience) and ask to put up a poster for your event in the window. Mostly they don’t mind that kind of thing.
Having free pizza at your event is a good way to get hungry people to show up and they tend to hate the system. Several places sell a hot pizza for $5 so a budget of $20-$40 should have you covered. I like the slogan “Anarchy means Free Pizza” to get the point of this across.
Hope this helps!
I’m sorry do y'all SERIOUSLY think people will be driven to smash the state through memes, stickering, and Little Caesars Hot N’ Ready pizza?
Compañere, you are missing the point entirely. People already hate this system. All the aforementioned is about informing them that there’s something they can do about it.
I mean or we could just argue about what dead anarchists would think on tumblr until we die.
#oh you sweet summer children#you’re going to have to try harder than that#emma goldman would be deeply disappointed in all of you
#I’m gonna echo foxnewsfuckfest’s tags and reiterate that Emma Goldman would very much so be disappointed in you#you all are immature
This is spooky af. What are you guys, Leninists?
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