Want to hang with some kids? Want to get into radical childcare organizing? Want to know what that even means exactly? Check out the Crescent City Childcare Collective. They’re having an open volunteer meeting this Saturday. From their blog:
Summer is over and the Crescent City Childcare Collective is officially back! Please join us, experienced volunteers & newbies alike, this Saturday to discuss radical childcare and why it rules. On the agenda:
Brand new Childcare Share!
A review of volunteer guidelines
Partner organization updates
Resources and snacks
Upcoming events & trainings
Saturday, September 29 at 12:30 pm, upstairs at Fairgrinds Coffee House in MidCity
Any questions or concerns? Check out our About C4 page and always please feel free to email us at ccccollective@gmail.com
How is it that sweet, sweet summertime paired with sweet, sweet unemployment leads to ANYTHING but goal attainment/productivity/creative expression? I missed community ballet class, my collective meeting, and Maddie Ruthless’ set at the Saint last night so I could indulge in the seasonal alcoholic hedonism known as Tales of the Cocktail at the Hotel Monteleone.
It wasn’t my intention. I was simply PMSing and in need of a dip in the Monteleone’s rooftop pool. Upon our arrival and at the realization that the booze conference had just serendipitously begun, I was overcome with joy. Sophie, more sober in mind and spirit, was immediately repulsed by the scene there. It took me a minute. Years past, Tales of the Cocktail was an opportunity to get top shelf drunk and nibble on canapes for the FREE. Therefore, every drunk punk you knew in New Orleans was there rubbing elbows with alcohol distributors and Yankee mixologists. But, this year they were all conspicuously absent.
THEY’RE CHARGING NOW. FTW.
Everything about it just seemed grosser than usual. Sure, we got drunk but, we were lonely, too. The pool was a nightmare. Some horrible, older Aussie decided it was a really cool idea to slap my besequinned bottom without my expressed consent. I shouted “Welcome to America!” while proceeding to give him a bloody nose in front of his buddies. I pissed all over myself in the hallway where we found some unattended club sandwiches. Hungover by sunset.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, sorry for not posting for a bit. Since we missed last Friday, here are two 90′s throwbacks for your weekend amusement, comrades. Hope you’re surviving your summer better than I.
(Probably the most arousing music video I had ever seen in the third grade.)
(And, my first concert! Sixth grade! Natalie Lawson and I sung every word, SEVERELY pissing off the mother and daughter seated in front of us. When they asked us to pipe down, we sung twice as loud. Fuck you!)
Forgive me for all the times I talked shit about computer nerds and hackers, thinking that those sorts of activities have nothing to contribute to the movement. God, was I wrong. They’ve actually conceived of kick-ass and practical ways to further the radical cause.
Last week, LulzSec hacked Arizona Law Enforcement and released names, addresses, and tactics of the border patrol. This week they completed their final action and released government documents on anarchism and domestic terrorism. I am slightly comforted by the release of these documents, given their scope is so small, and homeland security seems largely unconcerned with anarchists.
One portion of a section entitled Domestic Extremeists: Capable of Violence on a Limited Scale reads:
Leftwing extremist activity is more sporadic and less lethal. Only small pockets of leftwing extremists, primarily violent anarchists, espouse the use of violence to advance their anticapitalist, communist, or socialist philosophies. They target government-owned buildings, military recruiting offices, and high-profile business and public events such as political campaigns, conventions, elections, and world trade and economic meetings. Their tactics include property destruction, vandalism, arson and fire bombings, sabotage, and violent protests. In the immediate near-term, their activities likely will remain at current levels through the U.S. Presidential transition period and as the war in Iraq continues, but will probably remain within the scope of local law enforcement.
I was also slightly flattered that they chose to name anarcha-feminism as a primary form of anarchism, but totally confused by the inclusion of a brand of anarchism I’m not totally convinced exists- anarcha-masculinism. If you self identify as one, please let us know! We’d love to hear from anarchists who apparently focus on the “rights and experiences of men”.
You can view some of the documents here, and read LulzSec final press release here.
Less than a month after Women With A Vision won a victory for sex workers by getting a repeal of the Solicitation of Crimes Against Nature (SCAN) law through the Lousiana legislature, a law which labels sex workers with Sex Offender status meant for sexual assault perpetrators, NOPD continues it’s racist, P.R. motivated sweeps of minor offenders by arresting 9 women and charging them with the soon-to-be-repealed SCAN law.
The average age of entry into prostitution is 13 or 14 years old. Most of these 13 or 14 year old girls were recruited or coerced into prostitution. Others were “traditional wives” without job skills who escaped from or were abandoned by abusive husbands and went into prostitution to support themselves and their children.[1] The fact that New Orleans cops firstly failed to protect these women when they were children from the violence of patriarchy and class society, and then have the gall to ATTACK THE VICTIMS when they use a means of survival that is a visible reminder of this system’s failures is a despicable attempt at obliterating any activities which remind them of where their massive degree of power, control and wealth in our society came from, while simultaneously re-producing and furthering that inequality as these women are forced to pay money to the courts for fines and fees, as their bodies in cells mean daily money to pay the Sheriff to house them, and as they lose the money from Johns to the whiter, more privileged sex workers (“escorts”) not targeted by NOPD. NOPD’s action simultaneously attacks society’s victims, takes away more power from the oppressed and gives it to the more privileged, and blames sex workers instead of Johns for prostitution when most wealth is controlled by men in our society, re-enforcing the system of patriarchy.
The insults against the dignity of the people who live in this city just keep on coming fast and furious.
Bitch gets attacked by her stalker when she’s trying to cut some grass for the cows so she CUTS HIS HEAD OFF WITH A SICKLE and parades it through the market. Think twice, motherfucker. More here.
This one goes out to Sarah SK and all y’all bad bitches out there, and the best friends (and your mama, and your cousin, too)! Enjoy, comrades and enjoy your weekend!
Fighting patriarchy can make you crazy. If you’re a non-cis-gendered male then you’re probably well aware of this. I can admit there have been times in my own life when paranoia took over and I was convinced everyone was out to get me because of my gender politics. I also experienced megalomania when I knew for a fact that I brought feminism back and made shaving uncool. I haven’t had these feelings for a while, but I got a great reminder of them reading Rosanne Barr’s New York Magazine article.
Roseanne was and still is my favorite sitcom to ever air on TV. I maintain that if you don’t like Roseanne it means you’re one or all of the following: sexist, classist, or sizeist. Give me a reason why you don’t like Roseanne, and I will tell you which of the –ists it falls into. So imagine my delight to read an article written by Roseanne where the word feminism is mentioned at least 10 times over 3 pages. It was a breath of fresh air, even if it did smack a little of narcissism, or some other personality disorder. Continue reading →
I realized a little while ago that history class was boring because I find men stroking their own egos a little boring! Good luck to the ladies working on this project! Can’t wait to see it!
We at The Milwaukee Nihilist Women Historical Society are calling out for writers and historians to contribute short papers on women throughout history that went above expectations of their gender and fought against the institutions that controlled them. These papers will be added to our zine entitled Resisting Gendered Order: Histories of Anarchist and Nihilist Women. To Contribute send an email to Resisting.Order [at] gmail.com with the figure you will be writing about The deadline for submissions is august 22nd
We currently have pieces written on the following:
Louis Michel
Kaneko Fumiko
Isabella Eberhardt
Natalie Lemel
Paule Mink
Marusya Nikiforova
Please also include your name so we can give you credit!
NO BOSSES, NO BOYFRIENDS would like to know what you think. Every Wednesday we’ll post a question for y’all to ponder and discuss amongst ya’selves. Got a question you’d like to see answered? Shoot us an email at nobosses@ noboyfriends.org. Here we go!
What’s your take on or experience with polyamory? An expression of revolutionary love, a display of selfish hedonism, or an easy out for players? How do you make it work for you?
First, and let me just get this out of the way now, LaBruzzo, I think you’re ugly and I am absolutely certain that your forehead is entirely too large. I would like to formally challenge you to a dance-off, where I’m pretty sure I’ll dominate. If I win, all women everywhere have to get abortions all the time for the rest of their lives. If you win, I’ll give you a hand-job, also known as an “old-fashioned,” in the back of a Jefferson Parish Police Dept. squad car while your family watches. Cool?
Since you apparently have NO IDEA what’s going on in the lives of women, let me fill you in on the fact that regardless of a woman’s skin color, religious devotion, or how much money she’s got in the bank, it’s very likely she might have an abortion at some point. Further, despite whatever little, tiny men or the governments or states they create for themselves have to say about, women have for THOUSANDS of years been administering abortions whenever they feel it is in their own best interest or in the best interest of their families.
In fact, a ban on abortion will NOT stop abortions. We remember Jane. I’m not signing a petition or holding a placard. I don’t have time for all that. We already have doctors and organizers on our side and we will take care of it ourselves if you insist. A ban on abortion will, however, lead to more unwanted pregnancies, not to mention, an increase in death, illness, and injury to women who seek dangerous, poorly administered, or dirty procedures.
If you are SO concerned about women and what’s going in and out of our uteri, I can tell you how to decrease abortion. (You might want to write this down.)
RT @kev2cent: #AREALRANT I've been to so many "CHARTER" Schools here in the city recently. So apparently there's No Qualified Black Teacher… 6 days ago
out the Crescent City Childcare Collective. They’re having an open volunteer meeting this Saturday. From their blog:
