Cindy Milstein (they) on Nostr: 1 new zine, 13 Jewish anarchists, 20 accessible ideas. It all adds up to “things ...
1 new zine, 13 Jewish anarchists, 20 accessible ideas. It all adds up to “things you can do to counter fascism—yes, you! yes, now!” (whether you’re Jewish and/or an anarchist, or not).
As an added plus, there’s nothing quite like focusing on collaboratively creating a zine filled with prefigurative ideas to boost one’s spirit! Or at least somewhat balance all the despair in the liminal space between fascist election and fascist inauguration. As smart friends keep repeating of late, agency and community are what counter trauma—and as this zine highlights, also fascism.
The idea for this zine came from another one I was part of collectively writing back in the days of Trump, part 1, titled “12 things you can do instead of calling the police.” It has been widely circulated ever since, and I personally witnessed how much it opened up liberal minds in particular, nudging them to think and act in more anarchistic and solidaristic ways. (Thanks to incredible designer and friend @eff_charm, who created the look for that earlier zine, for letting me borrow his graphic vision and try my own hand at laying out this one!)
Flash-forward, and we need to encourage even more people to defy fascism and embrace anarchism—at least in their practices! That is, we need more folks to not “just do nothing” and instead realize that the only winning strategies toward a world without fascism are liberatory forms of self-determination, self-organization, and self-governance, and in the here and now (“doykeit” as we diasporic Jews put it), while offering each other communal self-defense (hence the garlic pictured here, long a form of protection among various peoples, including us Jews).
So read, print, and/or freely and widely distro this zine, made up of advice gleaned from 13 of us Jewish anarchists, and turned into a PDF with the kind help of a few others!
If you’d like both the readable and imposed PDFs, email me and I’ll joyously send them to you.
The zine will soon be hosted on anarchistic websites; DM me if you’d like to do that.
I’ll end by sharing 1 of the ideas:
“Make people soup and do not stop inviting them over for soup! Be a reason for living.”
As an added plus, there’s nothing quite like focusing on collaboratively creating a zine filled with prefigurative ideas to boost one’s spirit! Or at least somewhat balance all the despair in the liminal space between fascist election and fascist inauguration. As smart friends keep repeating of late, agency and community are what counter trauma—and as this zine highlights, also fascism.
The idea for this zine came from another one I was part of collectively writing back in the days of Trump, part 1, titled “12 things you can do instead of calling the police.” It has been widely circulated ever since, and I personally witnessed how much it opened up liberal minds in particular, nudging them to think and act in more anarchistic and solidaristic ways. (Thanks to incredible designer and friend @eff_charm, who created the look for that earlier zine, for letting me borrow his graphic vision and try my own hand at laying out this one!)
Flash-forward, and we need to encourage even more people to defy fascism and embrace anarchism—at least in their practices! That is, we need more folks to not “just do nothing” and instead realize that the only winning strategies toward a world without fascism are liberatory forms of self-determination, self-organization, and self-governance, and in the here and now (“doykeit” as we diasporic Jews put it), while offering each other communal self-defense (hence the garlic pictured here, long a form of protection among various peoples, including us Jews).
So read, print, and/or freely and widely distro this zine, made up of advice gleaned from 13 of us Jewish anarchists, and turned into a PDF with the kind help of a few others!
If you’d like both the readable and imposed PDFs, email me and I’ll joyously send them to you.
The zine will soon be hosted on anarchistic websites; DM me if you’d like to do that.
I’ll end by sharing 1 of the ideas:
“Make people soup and do not stop inviting them over for soup! Be a reason for living.”