"When the reservations were created, imperial logic of “borderization” was imposed; meaning, the communal and nomadic lands used for Life were divided by borders: fencing for animal domestication, invisible lines drawn on maps to denote “property” i.e. who owns what, etc. it fundamentally changed people’s relation to land. And this set up the infrastructure / hierarchies for surveillance and policing. The camp exists in a way that resists this imperial imposition. We share food and water without hesitation. We have no leader. We all have knowledge to share and learn from each other. We recognize that the borders we build between ourselves are not “natural” anymore than the flooding in the 1950s by the Army Corps of Engineers was. They do not spread our Wildfire, so we continue to keep the eternal flame lit. Instead of framing things in colonial terms of “legal/ illegal”, it makes more sense at the camp to think in terms of effectiveness; effectiveness of stopping this genocidal project so the people can reclaim their way of life." This zine brings to mind how much of who someone is, can be bound up in a history. What it means to be indigenous may have as much to do with the ways people make space to share their traditions as to fight against the mining of them. Indigenous tribes inviting folks to drop out of white-impirialist culture is how places like Little Egypt and several other places in the midwest were first established; as routes of nomadism traveled by indigenous,escaped slaves, and deserting whites. Some autonomous ventures are embarked upon by destroying our subjectivities through putting them in common; much like our burdens. This zine is an account of one of the many times indigenous tribes have affirmed their own traditions while offering others this opportunity to destitute the "traditional values" and conservation of settler-logic and manifest destiny. You can find a link to this zine here: http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/archive Follow this link to read about folks in Evansville supporting the resistance in Standing Rock: https://wheretheriverfrowns.wordpress.com/2016/12/11/defending-against-state-tactics-at-standing-rock
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-how-to-start-a-fire"Every life decision - where we live and whom we live with, where we get food and how we share it, how we get money and what we do with it - is a question that can be answered differently. What appears initially as an individual duty or responsibility can be understood as an opportunity to increase our collective strength...A communal house in the middle of a small town can be a node of partisan reality or a burden to everyone involved. It will never be enough to simply acquire property, buildings, land. We must become territory by increasing the circulation and density of partisan relations in an area and between places. There’s little sense in obsessing over the morality or “internal dynamics” of such ventures. Avoid exploiting each other and always hold together what this society separates: practice with thought, action with contemplation, thinking with feeling. What becomes a burden can be abandoned. We want more strength and energy with time, not less - so do what moves you."
" The Next Eclipse is the beginning of a vision for regional autonomy, and a challenge to southern Illinois to build the infrastructure of such autonomy … Economic autonomy, A social safety-net from below, Ecological restoration and defense, A sense of collective fate …”
“ crisis is maybe most visible in the desert because the crisis makes deserts. And it is these deserts that make the militias- or at least that make them an actual threat … less convinced by the old militias’ narratives of racial supremacy, the ideological focus of such groups has instead turned largely to issues of land politics. ”
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