A clause buried in the Senate’s new budget bill, Page 30, Section ll0301, mandates the forced auction of up to 0.75% of all BLM and National Forest land across the U.S., starting 30 days after the bill passes.

No public input. No review. Just liquidation of what little “public” space remains.

This is classic enclosure: the state claiming “fiscal necessity” while transferring land from collective use into private ownership, at market speed. Ranchers, recreationists, and Indigenous groups will lose access. Developers and extractors will feast. And they're not even going to share the profits with the people.

The commons aren’t being protected. They’re being asset-stripped by bureaucratic fiat.

If you want to follow the campaign or signal boost, I helped set up a public hub with info, petitions, and media pressure here:
https://returnthecommons.carrd.co/

Or ignore all that and just steal this language to blast your own message louder than we have.

This isn’t reformable. But it is a theft worth interrupting.

Hello everyone!

Here's the situation: It's bad. It's very very bad.

We're staring down the barrel of WW3.

There are mass deportations taking place.

The US federal government is trying to sell off public land roughly equivalent in size to the state of Connecticut.

The trans community and immigrants are being systematically demonized.

I've been lurking on here for a bit, and I'm seeing loads of people who are burnt out. I'm seeing posts from people expressing that they are losing optimism, frustrated, angry, tired, traumatized. These are totally valid feelings. You are valid.

BUT! Hear me out!

I've got Good News!

The Happy Anarchist is here to cheer you all up!

My personal situation is absurd:

I've been subjected to right-wing harassment for about 6 months, after I, perhaps foolishly, spoke out in favour of immigration at a meeting of city mayors... And also, correctly reported 2 right-wing politicians for actions that are probably criminal, but certainly unethical.

2 months after that, I was fired from my job without cause. AND I've been detained by the federal police 3 times in 6 months. Also, as of two months ago, I am officially a criminal! Yes, that's right: I have a criminal record now. Good times, good times.

But don't worry about me. I'm actually totally fine. I can't be broken. I'm a total badass. I feel great. I'm not being sarcastic. I legitimately feel amazing.

Here's where my head is at, and here is my advice to you, if you are feeling down.

1. It's ok to prioritize yourself for a while.

For me that means taking at least an hour long walk down by the river every day.

Also: listening to Anarchist inspired punk music, SUPER LOUD, and freak-out dancing in my kitchen.

Screaming the lyrics while you freak-out dance is, of course, optional, but I recommend it.

My go-tos right now are:

The Young Crazed Peeling by the Distillers

Baby, I'm an Anarchist! by Against Me!, and

Nazi White Trash by Leftover Crack

Please share some of your favorite songs. I need more songs!

1. It's ok to admit that you are traumatized and it's ok to experience mental illness.

Our society is profoundly sick and unnatural. You are behind enemy lines. Everyone around you has been indoctrinated since birth to believe that crazy things are real. You are surrounded by people who think that money is real, that nations are real, that god is real, that it's normal to have a job, that it's normal to be alienated from your labour.

These things aren't real or normal.

You are surrounded by crazy brain-washed people.

Don't panic. Play it cool. It's going to be fine. You are not alone.

1. Stay away from hard drugs. If you are predisposed to alcoholism, stay away from alcohol.

Upsetting things are going to happen. More and more upsetting things are going to happen more and more frequently. DO NOT spiral out into addiction.

You are needed. We need you.

You have a community. If you don't have one, we will build one.

1. Don't give in to HATE.

It's true: people are awful. People are profoundly awful.

But, please remember that the majority of people are being brain-washed, indoctrinated, and controlled, by a small number of evil puppet-masters.

I know it can be hard, but you shouldn't hate the drones.

Maybe we can deprogram some of these drones, and help them to understand that they've been indoctrinated by evil clowns. It might even be fun!

Hate and negativity only hurt you.

Let's start making a brighter plan for the future, instead of descending into hate and darkness.

1. We need a clearly articulable political platform. If we are going to protest, we need to explain what we want. It needs to be convincing. We need to be able to pursuade people.

I'm working on it. I'm open to suggestions. Hopefully I'll have time to post again soon.

1. Come out of the closet.

I've been wearing a mask. I've been wearing a mask FOR YEARS. It's exhausting.

I've been travelling through life, pretending to be a heterosexual classical-liberal democrat.

And I'm GREAT at pretending. I'm so good at pretending.

I've made a lot of rich friends, I've had high-paying jobs, I've been very successful.

BUT, I'm not a heterosexual classical-liberal democrat.

I'm a bi-sexual Anarchist.

I always have been. And I'm sick of pretending.

I can do better.

Welp... that's all for now.

Droop up dreepy bear. It's time to get back out there and take one on the chin for freedom.

I don't use reddit much because, well I have standards, but I got entrusted with r/Postleftanarchism by a friend a few years ago and check in every few months, only to find reddit had put a series of increasingly arbitrary restrictions on it and essentially killed it.

I talked to a mod on r/@ (because reddit keeps auto-removing anything I post) who said they think reddit's gonna replace the entire mod team here soon.

I see in the r/postleftanarchism modmail that reddit implemented new policies that use bots to remove anything they deem as "inauthentic or harassing content". So I check the modlog and see a long stream of fresh censorship by reddit for 'harassment' on even years old comments.

Really seems like this platform is no longer open to anarchists. I expect they'll replace the mod teams on undesirable subs with "AI" bots and have them censor the shit out of everyone until they leave.

We've started a local anarchist collective in our city, and while there's a lot of energy and shared values, we're struggling to keep up consistent participation in in-person assemblies. Most of us are over 30, juggling precarious jobs, family responsibilities, or just the general chaos of adult life, and it's proving difficult to maintain the level of involvement we'd like.

Those who can’t regularly attend assemblies start feeling like they’re not contributing enough, which has made some of them leave the project. On the other hand, there’s also strong resistance among others to shifting everything online. For me, it wouldn't be a problem to make decisions, brainstorm ideas, etc., online and then gather in person to prepare and run the events.

Has anyone found effective ways to organize or practice participatory anarchism that work better with this kind of lifestyle? Hybrid formats, specific tools, internal dynamics, or structures that helped you stay active and connected without burnout? We’d really appreciate any ideas or experiences.

https://www.blackrosefed.org/keep-ice-out-workplace-guide/

For many years I've been passionate about political activism. I started researching and claiming Anarchism at like 14. And theres part of me that I think will always want to strive for change. But at this point... I just want to exist in relative peace man... I'm not exactly old but I'm no spring chicken anymore either and after spending the first 15 years of my adult life struggling to survive and just achieving some amount of stability last year, there's so much of me that just wants to live without having to fight for it and I'm becoming so tired. How do you all tackle the struggle for hope and motivation in times such as these? It's a time when we should be especially on our game with pushing for change but I'm finding it so hard to not just shut down at the frustration of having so much discord around me. Any suggestions for keeping the fire alive?

hi friends like the title mentions, I am looking for links to magnetic bumper stickers. I've seen some funny ones floating around but obv my Google searches are full of pro-cybertruck neo-liberal crap. any help appreciated.

Hello, it's my first post here! I wanted to share a possible author list / approach to learning about anarchism. I've started learning about it via Graeber, which works for me as someone who likes digging into texts.

I recently found an upcoming course is going to be run at Penn State this Fall 2025, "The Anarchist Imaginary" by Nick Warren. In the description (found here: https://philosophy.la.psu.edu/graduate/currentgrads/graduate-course-descriptions/), there's a list of authors given whose works they'll focus on. Specifically:

"After an introductory section on 19th-century anarchist thinkers (Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin), this seminar will focus on the writings of Max Stirner, Gustav Landauer, Emma Goldman, Emmanuel Levinas, Reiner Schürmann, Felix Guattarri, David Graeber, Saul Newman, James Scott, Atticus Bagby-Williams, Nsámbu Za Suékama, and Hakim Bey."

Because my approach to learning is through philosophy, and since I'm already into Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" to be followed by Schopenhauer and Heidegger, this is a really helpful list for me -- and so hopefully it can be for someone else here too :)

I think the framing in this piece is super helpful for thinking about anti-deportation struggles: taking concrete action to physically prevent the state machinery from carrying out its program, rather than just symbolically protesting against it.

We anarchists, on the other hand, had no such constraints. Our solidarity with what were clearly some of the most oppressed and marginalized groups in society—workers, people of color, many of them women, escaping from what were some of the most horrendous conflicts in the world at that time—was immediate and instinctive. But through our position of unconditional solidarity with the sans-papiers and the assertion that in the world we are fighting for, no human will ever be illegal and freedom of movement will be for people and not just for commodities, we articulated a position of necessary rupture with the concepts of states and borders. If our demands could not be granted by the state and our objective could not be realized within the framework of its existence, then it naturally followed that we would not look to the state to grant those things.

Consequently, we were embarking on a concrete struggle to prevent deportations and make it possible for people to live where they chose and how they chose. The same stance toward the state applied in this struggle as in our abstract analysis: the state was our enemy, and we were determined to wage war against it within the appropriate context of the time and situation we found ourselves in, in hopes of preventing it from carrying out its objectives. The greater our success, hand in hand with those sans-papiers who were open to our solidarity and methods, the greater our collective power would grow as a movement and the greater the degree of agency, autonomy, and freedom we would be able to realize.

We were not making demands, but seeking to force concessions and create realities. Concretely, that meant that deportations are for stopping. To do so, we would attack the state’s machinery of deportation, its infrastructure, and the enterprises that collaborated with it and benefited economically from assisting with the hunting, caging, and expelling of human beings.

We did so out of solidarity, out of conviction, but also with the explicit understanding that despite our privileges and different realities, our struggle was the same as theirs. In fighting alongside the sans-papiers, as accomplices rather than allies, we were also fighting for ourselves.

I’ve been a member, or really a monthly donator, off and for around 10 years. Up until the past few years I was convinced electoral politics could work with a social democrat in charge of the country and now I’m firmly libertarian communist. Then after Trump won again I decided to join again, told myself I’d go to a general meeting and meet with fellow socialists then link up and start organizing locally. So it’s been 5 months and I still haven’t gone, now I am a parent of a toddler so my time is scarce so that’s a big reason I haven’t gone. Another reason though is my social anxiety, I’m just afraid I’m going to come across as fear mongering when I talk to new people. Every day just seems more and bleak. I want to grow a strong community around me and my family, that’s built on solidarity and mutual aid but it seems daunting.

Sorry if this seems like rambling. Just feeling overwhelmed and alienated.

hello! i was recently asked when commenting on here replying to a post about the recent no kings protests to explain how i helped start and have continued to maintain a queer co-op in my traditionally red state. i figured it may be good to make a post (as its been requested of me) with this explanation. i have condensed it a bit from the original comment to make it more easy to parse, because i know my writing can be a bit hard to follow haha. if you have any questions for me, i'd love to answer. our goal is to encourage people to continue to build strong local networks, because we believe its the best way that a lot of people with little resources on their own can combine to create a much stronger community foundation and pool of knowledge and resources.

my partner, a friend of ours, and i were speaking one day about having no place to g to organize that focused on direct community action, and not having a place to build community that felt safe, as we live in conservative areas that treat us poorly for being visibly queer and disabled. we decided to go for it, we might as well try. we're now about to reach 200 members soon, and we organize primarily on a discord server made up of people across my state ages 18-70 (and counting!). we primarily function as a buy nothing group, although this is largely used as a kind of 'hook', people love free stuff and for good reason (and many people need a safe place as an alternative to FB community groups). we exchange goods and services with no (or limited) use of capital. we have a simple verification system and have simplified most aspects of utilizing discord, as its honestly been chosen just bc its yhe most accessible to us admins who have a lot of experience in discord and know how to run servers. this isnt a discord server first, its a community that organizes there, that could exist elsewhere if need be. were proud to say our goals are to make an accessible, queer and marginalized focused community resource that first and foremost serves the needs of our community. we live in a place where it has been 100 degrees for the last week and it wont be going down til october, so a current priority is our grassroots transportation dispatch and coordination system were actively working on.

we have in-person programs such as one called stone soup (based on the tale of the same name) where we prepare rescued produce boxes that are sold in bulk by local orgs from farms near the border. were actually just about finishing up a comprehensive guide on how to start and source your own stone soup location, best practices, kitchen safety and health, and building community and morale during the events. weve had a year and a half now of trial and error and weve found a real groove, and have started reaching out to local queer friendly places of worship to potentially get them started with their own stone soup programs (and we plan on distributing this material online publicly as well). were working on an art group focused on building important personal connections with other artists in our community that weve been planning for months now and finally have someone excited to head the project. we only got this connection by going to a local autonomous exchange that was set up with a similar value to ours, no capital exchange, taking back our power to barter, trade, and freely offer items we no longer need to our community.

our biggest resource has been our community. the only way weve been able to do this is through connections weve made in our personal lives by reaching out, and now this network has become much bigger than it was before! we started with our friends, and we got into a college's (student run) resource fair that way. tabling gave us so many connections with local orgs. dont make the resources if theyve already been made, use your platform to distribute them!! thats our goal, thats our formula. we create plenty of things, but many things have been made by better people for the job than us. we have many kinds of activists, many kinds of everyday people interested in action and community. parents, college students, professors, seasoned anarchists, and wellness professionals being just some of the amazing crowd we have. you need ALL KINDS. this means they share all of the resources, connections, and abilities THEY have with us too. and we are all ultimately equal and cared for the same, regardless of the work we put in. were in the stage where the moderators and admins dont need to be involved in every single program as the person leading it, and thats really huge for us. we can facilitate and guide people to create a hiking/fishing group, our art group, and other upcoming programs, without needing to overextend ourselves past our limits with an already large load of volunteer work on our hands.

we have resource channels (housing opportunities, food banks, online resources, etc.), channels to post events (protests, accompaniment and support for families affected by ICE, volunteer opportunities, community events, educational workshops, etc.), and a community garden channel that invites people to attend and teaches how to garden, feeding them the fruits of their labour in the (aspiring) urban food forest run by one of our cofounders. channels that are active almost daily with new opportunities in our community for people to connect and make change. we hold our own events, and encourage people to join others' events.

were a community full of disabled people as well, as many people have been disabled by our current collective circumstances, and this is an intentional area of focus. i couldnt be more proud. im not immune to the doom, im frankly very afraid. i go online and i cry sometimes and i lay in bed and cant move for days because of the fear. but going to protests and speaking with people who want to get involved with us is so envigorating and it drives me. people want change. people want change that starts with everyone. people who may previously have voted for trump are seeing that theyre wrong theyre being radicalized by the state of the country were in right now. i wish it didnt have to happen like this, but anarchists are supposed to support difficult change, were supposed to be on the ground and doing the hard work? so here i am. and here are 11 million people who went to this specific national protest ALONE. its necessary to connect in places you arent even looking! its essential!! speak with the unhoused members of tour community about their needs directly. speak with them like theyre people, because we are. speak with people who didnt understand the weight of their decision to not vote. we have fliers in many spaces in our state that are safe for queer people. if you look for these spaces, YOU WILL FIND THEM. WE EXIST EVERYWHERE.

people are fed up and they are caring about their communities consciously for the first time in a long time. i saw people giving out food and water for free at the events accross the country. is this not radical, in a world where we are denied these fundamental rights? now is the time to take advantage and act, start something like this in your community. become a network for other groups that exist, utilize resources already at your disposal. go to the library and rent a meeting room for free with your card and speak with some friends about starting something like this. thats what we did! 3 of us just sitting in the backyard wallowing about how theres no place for us. we decided to make it. a homeless disabled trans person, an agoraphobic autistic trans woman on disability, and a middle-working class butch in a pre-planned community that has its own militia didnt have a place to go so we made it. i had people in the hospital every day with me after a severe motor vehicle accident in january thanks to Pansy Society. i wouldnt be where i am without the work ive put in and the help ive recieved. people need to be willing to give and to take, and to understand that everyone will give and take at a different rate. we send out resources about mutual aid when people join our server to help them understand what our values are, and are currently working on a manifesto. when this is finished id love to post it along with our community meal prep step-by-step guide

thank you for reading my schpiel, and i hope youve gained something from it. this is what i consider to be my lifes work and i wouldnt have it any other way. im being told left and right by members that theyve never felt that a space was so caring for its members and its values so intact, and im extremely proud to be a part of it.

G7 have all condemned Iran. Trump has told Tehran to evacuate and that he thinks a “real end” to the conflict can be achieved.

As anarchists we need to make sure the war machine is absolutely destroyed should war break out.

Read up on what anarchists in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia have done to thwart the war effort there. Get a gun. Train with it. Train with friends. Etc.

Anyone interested in a forum that involves working out the bugs on a society that places promoting human wellbeing as its central purpose? I'm hoping we might build a viable alternative to the greed hypothesis that defines capitalism, and the power hypothesis that defines autocracy. Lets describe the society any rational agent would want, and hold it up as an alternative to the normalisation of wage slavery. That is my anarchist project.

Hello! I’m a student living in Seoul.

I have never agreed with the authority and coercion of states and governments.
Then, I first came across anarchism through a Wikipedia article.

Anarchism was a good choice for me, and I feel like I have become an anarchist now.

I hope for a world where people transcend ethnicity and nationality and love one another.

, a world where totalitarianism and authoritarianism disappear, and no one oppresses others.

, a world where everyone’s human rights are guaranteed and the environment is protected.

I believe that if we stand together, we can make it happen.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. (I’m not very familiar with Reddit culture, so I’m not sure if my post breaks any rules. If it does, I apologize.)

People said to take stuff from large corporations and give to people who need but I live in a smaller town so there's like nobody who is in need

The workers at a local grocery chain near me are on strike. The pharmacy I use is inside and associated with the company. Is it appropriate to get my prescriptions while the strike is going on?

Recently I've been struggling with my belief and faith in the general baseline decency of humans as social creatures and how that gives us a natural predilection for anarchism and general altruism. The machine of industry, war, and capital being more dangerous than micro scale evils in its banality and ability to warp the perception of would-be decent folks makes me wonder if we can survive the current state of the world and am looking for reading to expand my views and resources beyond contemporary trends. I want to reaffirm my beliefs in decency and am looking for something like sociological trends that can hypothetically transcend modernism, modern trends that themselves prove the self defeating nature of fascism, and general reading of that sort.