Everywhere we look, things are falling apart. The (legal) options offered to us are laughable: work for a boss, start a business to exploit others, start a co-op and exploit yourself, go into politics and get co-opted. The refusal to rule or be ruled is a crime; revolution is a crime.
Though separated from what they produce, people nevertheless produce every detail of their world with ever-increasing power. They thus also find themselves increasingly separated from that world. The closer their life comes to being their own creation, the more they are excluded from that life.”-Guy Debord
We’ve seen the miserable results of the marxist-leninist revolutions of the 20th century. No one is coming to save you, comrade. What if we focused on getting free? What if we focused on building a real working class, multi-generational movement of maroons, committing to ourselves and each other, committing to refusal?
The ‘mosaic’ will not be an effort directed toward imposing any type of multiracial, multiethnic, gender-neutral, or conformist utopian universalism. No! The mosaic will allow individuals, organizations, and entire communities to exercise self-determination in deciding what types of social orders they choose to struggle to bring into being, while at the same time learning how to better come together with others to form societies that will be superior to the ones in which we now live”-Russell Maroon Shoatz
Anarchism is the framework which permits us to build ‘a world in which many worlds fit’ as the revolutionary Zapatistas of so-called Mexico say. In gifting us a perspective which is skeptical of all hierarchical relationships, we are most able to move through this world in a way which is empowering to both ourselves and those around us.
We are calling an assembly for those who refuse this situation we find ourselves in and the options which we’ve been given. We welcome seasoned radicals as well as those coming across these ideas for the first time, in a sprit of solidarity & complementarity. The world is on fire, the oceans are rising, fascism is ascendant; let’s respect ourselves and build a freer & more caring world now.