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It's been a lot of new followers lately so let me tell you about a foundation I run along with @Terrilltf @NoLore and a couple of others who aren't on the bird app.
Nii'kinaaganaa.
It started as a cheeky fundraiser on Patreon, Pay Your Rent. Now it's a non-profit foundation.
Nii'kinaaganaa.
It started as a cheeky fundraiser on Patreon, Pay Your Rent. Now it's a non-profit foundation.
We take money from people living on Indigenous land, a form of rent, and then disperse it to Indigenous people in the form of long and short term projects as well as some individual support for rent and groceries and the like.
Last weekend at the #socialism2022 conference the speakers talked about world building and that is the kind of thing that Nii'kinaaganaa supports. The small scale world building that connects with others. Everyone doing something so that together we can change everything.
Talking about this book, how it came about and how it connected so well with things said at #socialism2022 was amazing. The really good questions and comments from the audience, the conversations afterwards. And it sold out there y'all. Even before my talk. I signed sticky notes.
Every speaker I heard talked about world building. The right can call us destructive and violent, and there is room for creative violence [tm RWG] but the focus was very much on world building and what kind of world do we want built and that, my friends, means examining history
That means examining history for the stories we were not told. Like Kim Kelly's book on labor history "Fight Like Hell." Like Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's book Rehearsal's for Living in which they examine past and present together.
I'll be processing #socialism2022 for a while. The people I met and listened to and learned from, in and out of sessions. The way that the things they said combined in such interesting ways. God I've missed conferences, please keep inviting me to speak at them because I loved it
But it was the final moment that really crystalized something for me. They sang The Internationale which, bad socialist that I am I have heard of but don't know. It's a difficult melody, so it was discordant and out of sync. All those voices.
And it was perfect.
And it was perfect.
Because that's who was there. Socialists and anarchists, people who reject those labels or take them on and off depending on need or mood. Trotskyists and Marxists. Genders and races and labour and all manner of educated and self educated, academic and front line.
Workers joining together have infinitely more power than any worker alone. Tenants working together also have infinitely more power than any one tenant. If your landlord is screwing you over search up local tenants unions asap.
If you don’t find a tenants union you can join, start one. I’m in a panel right now with @LATenantsUnion, @KCTenants, and @CityLife_Clvu. Check them out as one way to get a glimpse of what strong tenants unions can look like.
Here’s a doc you can look at too. And I’ll thread a video in the next tweet.
#Socialism2022
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