my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them
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Urbanites discovering the rural default
@kallisti I know folks who live in rural areas who do not have this as a default -- this isolation is culture-wide thing (I know rural folks like to think they're superior to those city folks but no one is exempt from the isolating factors of modern US culture)
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my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them
Now *that* is solarpunk.
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@susankayequinn The local neighborhood free lists have been good for giving homes to items we don't need any more, and sometimes picking up things we could use more than others. "I'll leave the craft supplies in a bag with your name on it on the porch".
We had a nice exchange of sorts via the free list-- a neighbor was looking for a home for an old patchwork quilt. We took it with thanks, and then a couple years later when we didn't need a portable air conditioner, those same neighbors found our note on the free list and came to pick it up.
Not all that personal, and mediated via Facebook, but it's something.
@jmeowmeow @susankayequinn That's nice. Our city has a program where you can bring these items to a special place at the municipal junkyards, and anyone can take them for free. Lots of useless trinkets, obviously, but often, you can come across pretty neat stuff.
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my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them
@susankayequinn "I cut out the middle man skimming off profits for the shareholders and now my life is better"
no really, jokes aside, good for them
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Seems like a good time for me to recommend (again) the Serviceberry (gift economies) and Caliban and the Witch (capitalist enclosure of women's bodies and destruction of communal means of support).
@susankayequinn Just checked my regional library database but didn't find Caliban & the Witch.
I did, on the other hand, find a PDF of it.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdfand also in its entirety at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/silvia-federici-caliban-and-the-witch
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@susankayequinn Just checked my regional library database but didn't find Caliban & the Witch.
I did, on the other hand, find a PDF of it.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdfand also in its entirety at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/silvia-federici-caliban-and-the-witch
@KeithDJohnson If you're willing, I would still request that your library carry it, so other folks can discover it!
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@KeithDJohnson If you're willing, I would still request that your library carry it, so other folks can discover it!
@KeithDJohnson mine has 3 copies and 3 holds!
(I have my own copy, which I'm highlighting the heck out of)
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Seems like a good time for me to recommend (again) the Serviceberry (gift economies) and Caliban and the Witch (capitalist enclosure of women's bodies and destruction of communal means of support).
@susankayequinn
How interesting that I just bought a serviceberry tree to start my food forest. -
The two women writing under the joint pen name J. K. Gibson-Graham have built a whole scholarly research network around basically this idea. Basically, many worlds are possible, and better ones already exist out there right now!
@MichaelTBacon @susankayequinn Their paper on micro-currencies looks really interesting at a glance. Thanks for posting.
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@KeithDJohnson If you're willing, I would still request that your library carry it, so other folks can discover it!
@susankayequinn I certainly will. I need to input ALL the data about it, ISBN, etc. but I can get that from (yuck) Amazon.
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@susankayequinn I certainly will. I need to input ALL the data about it, ISBN, etc. but I can get that from (yuck) Amazon.
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my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them
@susankayequinn There are news that give smile 🥹
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my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them
@susankayequinn yay mutual aid network
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my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them
@susankayequinn this is how capitalism ends. More of this!
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my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them
@susankayequinn beautiful.
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