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And just for good measure

Whatever traditions you celebrate—happy holidays to all!

Kropotkin Escapes from Prison! https://cwc.im/KropotkinBreakout For Peter Kropotkin's birthday, we present an account of his celebrated escape from prison in St. Petersburg, featuring his own sketches and art from a forthcoming Detritus Books reprint, Kropotkin Escapes.

"Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is… death! "Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. "The choice lies with you!" -Peter Kropotkin, The State: Its Historic Role Kropotkin helped popularize the idea that mutual aid is at least as important a factor in the survival of individuals, societies, and species as "survival of the fittest." When many remember Kropotkin as a bearded, beneficent theorist, we remember that he was also a fighter, an enemy of the state. Establishing relations based in solidarity and abolishing all mechanisms of domination are two aspects of the same project. 🏴

“Struggle! To struggle is to live, and the fiercer the struggle the intenser the life. Then you will have lived; and a few hours of such life are worth years spent vegetating. Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life.” "Practical solidarity never ceases; not even during the worst periods of history. Even when temporary circumstances of domination, servitude, exploitation cause the principle to be disowned, it still lives deep in the thoughts of the many, ready to bring about a strong recoil against evil institutions, a revolution. If it were otherwise society would perish." -Peter Kropotkin, born December 9, 1842.

For years, the FBI targeted ecological activists as priority #1. This is among the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked. https://cwc.im/greenscared As the climate crisis hits from Haiti to New Orleans, they are responsible for forcing this tragedy on us. https://twitter.com/CertainDays/status/1468221491187695618

13 years ago today in Greece, police murdered a 15-year-old anarchist, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, setting off a countrywide insurrection. In this interview, participants discuss the organizing behind that upheaval, which foreshadowed many of today's revolts. https://cwc.im/organizeaninsurrection 🏴

Abolish the Supreme Court—and all courts. cwc.im/Kavanaugh

Thanks to the assistance of hundreds of people, we have already met the goal to reprint our books! The campaign will continue for three more weeks for everyone else who wants to get copies of them: https://cwc.im/DaysContraReprint If we reach our stretch goal, we will add another element for all backers—a sticker in homage to our friend David Graeber, who passed away last year. As David put it, “The principle of direct action is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”

As the Supreme Court prepares the latest attack in a centuries-old assault on our bodily autonomy, we give thanks to all who have provided abortion access to those who needed it in defiance of the law and the patriarchal violence behind it. One of the reasons abortion became legal in the first place was that underground networks like the Jane collective of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union were already making it widely available in defiance of the law. A zine about Jane: https://azinelibrary.org/approved/jane-1.pdf No court deserves this power over us. Let's extend solidarity to everyone who continues to resist.

To understand how global the movement was that shut down the World Trade Organization summit in 1999, read this timeline of buildup actions leading up to it—from Milan and Prague to Seoul, from Bangalore and Manila to Athens and Seattle. https://crimethinc.com/2021/11/30/epilogue-on-the-movement-against-capitalist-globalization-22-years-after-n30-what-it-can-teach-us-today#appendix #WeAreEverywhere

22 years ago today, demonstrators used direct action to shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In this analysis, we explore what today's movements could learn from the creative and joyous networks that achieved that victory: https://cwc.im/WTO22Years

Today, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter. Let's not be alarmist, but their policies may change. Please urge your comrades to join our @Telegram channel here: https://t.me/ExWorkers And follow our Mastodon account here: https://todon.eu/@crimethinc And sign up for email updates here: http://crimethinc.com/ Thank you. Let's keep in touch with each other. Who knows what is ahead.