good tumblr.

Citations Needed is good.

"The press, both local and national, humanizes some victims of state or corporate violence, while demonizing others. Despite good intentions and seemingly without noticing, the media all too often create tiered systems of moral worth by trying to find 'the perfect victim.'"

"Mutualism is an economic theory and anarchist school of thought that advocates a society with free markets and occupation and use property norms. One implementation of this scheme involves the establishment of a mutual-credit bank that would lend to producers at a minimal interest rate, just high enough to cover administration. Mutualism is based on a version of the labor theory of value holding that when labor or its product is sold, in exchange it ought to receive goods or services embodying "the amount of labor necessary to produce an article of exactly similar and equal utility". Mutualism originated from the writings of philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon."

"It is obviously true that one cannot understand the complexities of contemporary geopolitics and imperialism simply by reading Lenin and Bukharin. But it is equally true that if one ignores their key insights, it is not possible to make much sense of the otherwise bewildering set of events that is currently being played out on the international chessboard and, just as importantly, to come up with a coherent political strategy to oppose militarism, war, environmental destruction, and all the other horrors that capitalism creates. The framework Lenin and Bukharin developed a hundred years ago, taken as a methodology and not as a set of dogmas, retains its relevance for activists today."

Jerome Rogers: 1995 - 2016

Shawn Wilbur's mutualism AMA from last year.

Donovan Ayres doing some bang-up police work for the racist faction of the California Highway Patrol.

"Michael German, a former FBI agent, said the Sacramento case was part of a pattern of police in the US siding with far-right groups and targeting their critics. 'They have been trained to look into these counter-protesters as if they are the primary threat.'"

"Emory Ellis, who lived on the streets in Boston, ventured into a Burger King in November 2015 to buy breakfast.

"He left the restaurant under arrest, wrongfully accused of trying to pay for his meal with a fake $10 bill. He spent more than three months in jail."

"Los Angeles area artist Alex Schaefer has a sideline that has won him a fair bit of attention over the years. He likes to paint canvases of bank branches—most often Chase Bank—engulfed in flames."

"the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population, and around 75 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population"

Library Genesis has a PDF of the Penguin Classics version (translated by Ben Fowkes) of Marx's Capital.

Scott Warren was arrested after he helped migrants – but he’s a humanitarian aid worker trying to save lives in a place where so many find death.

Scott is the ninth No More Deaths volunteer to be arrested for giving water to thirsty migrants.

A three-part report on the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border (Part III scheduled to be released this year). Each part accompanied by a video summary.

"The Disappeared report series is collaborative project between two Tucson-based organizations, La Coalicion de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths. [...] . Our research goals are transformative: to expose and combat those US government policing tactics that cause the crisis of death and mass disappearance in the borderlands."

Looks like a good organization. They've published several reports on the mistreatment of migrants by law enforcement at the Mexican border.

"No More Deaths is a humanitarian organization based in southern Arizona. We began in 2004 in the form of a coalition of community and faith groups, dedicated to stepping up efforts to stop the deaths of migrants in the desert and to achieving the enactment of a set of Faith-Based Principles for Immigration Reform."

I had no idea some European countries regulated baby names to such a degree (maintaining white lists and requiring names to be indicative of gender).

Toledo City Paper's profile of a local anarchist activist (not sure what the "atypical" part is supposed to be).

I came across this old archived vivalavinyl thread. I learned that even people who hated folk punk in 2005 still liked Erik Petersen and Defiance, Ohio.

An example of the FBI, in collaboration with a judicial system unable or unwilling to protect individuals' constitutional rights, taking it upon themselves to punish an activist.

I'm currently listening to this radio series by David Cayley on Simone Weil (nearly 5 hours total length).