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PeterGelderloos
@PeterGelderloos
Writing and fighting for a world without prisons, borders, clearcuts, or strip mines, a world of care, imagination, and mutual aid. he/they
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Sep 17, 2022
    Hey everyone! Here's a thread with links to my books, newsletter, Ko-fi, and all the rest, starting with my latest book, The Solutions Are Already Here.
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Feb 6, 2022
    My new book with @PlutoPress is out! The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below. Here's a short thread on what the book is all about, from the critiques of green capitalism to the interviews with effective movements! plutobooks.com/9780745345116/…
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Apr 18, 2023
    We should be immensely worried that the people with the most power to sculpt the social architecture of the next decades promote the same kinds of pseudo-science used to justify slavery and segregation.
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    Yann LeCun
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    Apr 16, 2023
    Replying to @AbhinandanShah
    Humans are hardwired by evolution to be a social species with hierarchical structure. This includes hardwired drives for dominance or submission. AI assistants will simply have hardwired drives to submit and not dominate.
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Aug 29, 2020
    A fair model for what's happening now is the "Strategy of Tension" in Italy in the '60s and '70s. Police used the far Right to attack the struggle, killing people and exhausting the movement, media and politicians portrayed it all as a clash between equally violent and...
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Jun 9, 2023
    The fires in Quebec are raging in tree plantations that get counted as carbon offsets. To the millions being evacuated or choking on the toxic smoke: anything you do against those responsible for greenwashing is legitimate self-defense.
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Sep 15, 2020
    Taking a page from ISIS, fascists, citizens, and cops have increasingly been using their vehicles as weapons to run people over in crowds. Introducing, rebar caltrops. A brief DIY thread.
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Sep 19, 2021
    The State is not a viable instrument for protecting the planet. Direct action, anti-state, and anti-colonial struggles have been doing the real work. The State has just given us broken promises and repression.
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Jan 6, 2022
    To paraphrase a friend from Belarus, "we understand that comrades in the US need to be anti-imperialist, but they should understand that for hundreds of years, the greatest imperialist power in our part of the world has been Russia." And from Almaty to Vladivostok as well.
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    Integration Nightmares
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    Jan 6, 2022
    Military invasion of #Almaty today. #Kazakhstan
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Aug 29, 2020
    Replying to @PeterGelderloos
    ...arrested, tortured, or exiled, the "Years of Lead" produced a middle class society immersed in consumerism, in which politics was little more than a soap opera. Never underestimate how many murders a democracy is willing to carry out in order to maintain its illusions.
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Aug 29, 2020
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    unreasonable "extremists," the Communists kept encouraging ppl to engage in peaceful, legal reform. The end result was to neutralize the revolutionary movement and present centrist democracy as the only legitimate form of politics. Though hundreds were killed and thousands...
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Jun 9, 2023
    Replying to @PeterGelderloos
    A forest is a complex, resilient ecosystem. It's also vulnerable to climate change, but Canada doesn't actually have much forest. It is mostly tree plantations, which are more similar to a monocrop desert than to a forest, and much more prone to catastrophic burns. 2/
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Feb 17, 2022
    Keep it up people! Fund those NGOs! Elect those politicians! One more international agreement and we got this!
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Jan 1, 2022
    This is my next book. It's an anticolonial view of the ecological crisis, with a focus on all the effective resistance happening around the world. Many amazing people helped out, from Wallmapu to Brazil, Venezuela, US, France, Indonesia. @PlutoPress plutobooks.com/9780745345116/…
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Jan 26, 2022
    Okay, fine. Ukraine, Russia, and NATO. And where do anarchists stand amidst imperialist warmongering. A thread.
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    PeterGelderloos
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    Jun 9, 2023
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    What are the advantages of a tree plantation over a forest? Both are counted as carbon offsets by governments & companies trying to generate favorable media for honoring their emissions reduction pledges in the IPCC framework, which is a giant scam that keeps us all in danger. 3/
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