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£850????? WHEN CAN I MOVE IN?? Median rent in my city is roughly $2500, which is about 75-80% of the median income of $42,000/year.

£850 is still a third of the UK median income which is awful, but I'd take that in a heartbeat!

That said, fuck landlords, fuck rent, form a radical tenants union, and property abolition is cool as hell!

Shall we play a game of "how fucked is the rental market in your region"?

Cheapest flat to rent in Falmouth right now is £850 for a one bed. No parking, no bills. Pre covid, I was paying £550.

It's the only available one bed and the two beds start at about a grand.

Genuinely not sure how someone on an average salary is supposed to afford this, and genuinely interested with comparisons from elsewhere in the UK/the world.

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Overall this is correct, but I have a gripe. The Makhnovists weren't a "militia", well they were initially, but their numbers swelled to over 100000 combatants at their peak, organized into self-disciplined units and structured thru a method of military democracy. Far from a militia, they were an army, an anarchist army, THE anarchist army, called the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine for good reason.

On this day, 25 July 1934, Nestor Makhno, leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine during the Russian revolution of 1917, died from tuberculosis, aged 44, in exile in Paris. In the 1917 revolution his militia, dubbed the Makhnovists, defeated the counter-revolutionary White armies of generals Denikin and Wrangel, executed antisemites and redistributed land and power to the workers and peasants. The Makhnovists were allied with the Red Army, but after the defeat of the Whites, the Red Army attacked them in order to consolidate Bolshevik control of Ukraine. The Makhnovists then fought against their previous allies, until they were eventually overrun by overwhelming military force, and Makhno himself had to flee the country. Learn more about Makhno’s life and activism in this new biography, No Harmless Power: The Life And Times Of The Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno by Charlie Allison, available for preorder now, and due back from the printers next month: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/no-harmless-power-the-life-and-times-of-the-ukrainian-anarchist-nestor-makhno-charlie-allison https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=667344355438783&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

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Anyways I hate sports stadiums and Convention Centers they are terrible land use. They have way too much parking for how little they're used.

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"water hoarders" and "anti-drought action" are wonderful ways to put it and i will be adding these to my lexicon

“Last summer, anti-drought actions multiplied. This summer, activists will act with even more fearlessness and creativity: cutting off hoarders’ water supplies, putting golf courses out of action, dismantling megabasins, squatting the swimming pools of the ultra-rich and the air-conditioned offices of their insurers, banging saucepans outside pool manufacturers offices, building beaver dams to revive our rivers and their banks. Our inventiveness must have no limits.” This kind of activist communique follows two years of unseasonable drought across France. As of 30 June, 42 of France’s 96 mainland départements (administrative divisions) contain at least one area with water restrictions. 15 of these 42 are officially in crisis, meaning water usage is restricted to priority functions: health, civil security, drinking water and sanitation. It’s no surprise, then, that French climate groups are escalating their tactics in the fight over water. In August last year during water restrictions in Vosges in eastern France, activists drilled holes in jacuzzis at a holiday resort. Over the winter, others sabotaged artificial snow canons at Clusaz, south-eastern France, while others set up a ZAD (autonomous zone) in the area, citing the winter drought as their motivation.  The most contentious of these groups is Les Soulèvements de La Terre, or ‘Earth Uprising’, which is currently waging 100 days of action against “water hoarders” across the country. In response, the French state is cracking down on so-called eco-terrorism – and hard.

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Earth Uprising doesn’t use the word sabotage to describe its militant action. In French jurisprudence, sabotage denotes an attack on infrastructure that’s vital to the “fundamental interests of the nation”, Basile explains. “A cement production site or a megabasin is the opposite – it’s private infrastructure which puts the possibility of a living future on the earth in peril.” Instead, activists prefer the term “disarmament”. Victor Cachard, author of A History of Sabotage, adds that this term is also a reference to the actions of the ecological movement in the US against the industries building weapons for the Vietnam War and later the Gulf War. “There was the idea among ecological activists to join their environmental struggle with their anti-war struggle, as they recognised that war pollutes,” he says.

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It's even better praxis to support kids in building safe spaces for themselves and in organizing against adult supremacy

Protect the neighborhood spaces where kids like to hang out and help create such spaces if they don't exist. Be outspoken against loitering laws and other such restrictions on how people can use and occupy space. If you've got kids, give them opportunities to learn how to use public transit. Challenge adults on their entitlement to control over kids.

It’s praxis to be nice to kids. Cruel attitudes toward kids hurts and hurted you, as well.