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This was posted on another tribe I belong to. I think it needs to be shared here:
Passive:
- Know your facts! Don't spread misinformation or unverifiable stories.
- Do not pay taxes. Any.
- Do not buy food in packages, or that is shipped from anywhere further away than you can travel yourself.
- Buy only organic / naturally farmed / raised foods.
- Grow / raise food.
- Make clothing.
- Manufacture whatever you can manufacture.
- Barter.
- Buy energy saving appliances. Start with lightbulbs - it's an easy primer; get the curly kind. Look for the "Energy Star" label on appliances.
- Use freon tubing instead of conventional AC.
- Make sure all south-facing windows on your home are unobstructed.
- Install skylights.
- Install solar panels; install far more than you need for your own energy use, and sell the extra power back into the grid.
- Plant trees *where there are no trees* (and where trees are unlikely to grow otherwise), especially food trees like fruiting trees and nutting trees. Plant hemp *everywhere*.
- Investigate and invest in alternative energy sources (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, hydrogen, whatever rocks you like a hurricane).
- Walk or bike.
- Don't use gasoline for anything; don't burn oil for anything.
- Don't eat out. Save your money. Forever.
- Don't do any business with anyone you don't know. If you need service from a business, get to know someone that works there. If the company is too large for you to know someone or even try to - it's too big to ever be anything but a pointless danger and a certain drain on the world around you.
- Don't seek revenge. Don't mete out punishments. Forgive.
- Don't feel bad if you can't do it all. Do as much as you can and accept yourself inasmuch as you can convince yourself to reach just... a little... bit.... higher.
Active:
- Tell the truth!
- Fight disinformation on all sides; don't let unverifiable stories get momentum, don't give in to paranoia. Stay real, and *confront* disinformation when you encounter it. Don't let it go by without challenge.
- Be loud. Be vocal. Don't shut up. Don't shy away.
- Protest early, protest often, protest vigorously, protest cogently.
- Be active. Neighborhood council, city government, state government, federal governmet. Call your congressional reps *constantly* - make a fucking nuisance of yourself. Leave messages. Stay on hold.
- Makes signs. Freely distribute them. Put them about. Yes. Now. Do it.
- Quit your job if you don't know every single individual that works for your employer.
- Quit your job if you discover they're bad for the world around you. (good golly did *my* life ever change when i took that step)
- Find a job at which you know everyone involved with the enterprise, from the bottom up.
- Stop police from doing illegal things; video them, cellphone-video them, yell at them to stop, collect their badge numbers, file complaints. It's difficult to file a complaint; they'll try to talk you out of it and may threaten or otherwise seek to indimidate or discourage you. Don't be intimidated - document the entire experience. Remain. File that complaint. And then do it again. Immediately.
- Introduce yourself to your neighbor.
- Help your neighbor. Suggest passive revolution to your neighbor; if s/he digs it, suggest active revolution to your neighbor.
- Sabotage the efforts of wrongdoers whenever and wherever possible: free people you saw being arrested for bullshit (like, oh, protesting for instance) from police cars, take a chunk out of an elbow of the highway with a nice hefty mattock, send junk mail from one company to another company in yet another company's paid-postage commercial envelopes (stuff as *much* as possible in there), be on the lookout for any opportunity to fuck shit up.
- Raise the level of energy. Make your times crackle with danger and opportunity.
- See your ideals as goals to strive for and *achieve* - don't fantasize about things you can't and won't do. Do them.
- *Have fun* and *look good* when you're out there doing stuff. Make it look fucking cool and sexy, and make it fun as hell. Have an explosively good time.
- Take very good care of yourself and take very good care of other people around you, no matter how you feel about them individually. Love them.
- ORGANIZE. Get people together. Meet, discuss. Regular is good - once weekly, say. Workshop stuff I forgot to mention, and then come back and tell me about it, so I can tell my people and then we can do what you're doing.
Passive:
- Know your facts! Don't spread misinformation or unverifiable stories.
- Do not pay taxes. Any.
- Do not buy food in packages, or that is shipped from anywhere further away than you can travel yourself.
- Buy only organic / naturally farmed / raised foods.
- Grow / raise food.
- Make clothing.
- Manufacture whatever you can manufacture.
- Barter.
- Buy energy saving appliances. Start with lightbulbs - it's an easy primer; get the curly kind. Look for the "Energy Star" label on appliances.
- Use freon tubing instead of conventional AC.
- Make sure all south-facing windows on your home are unobstructed.
- Install skylights.
- Install solar panels; install far more than you need for your own energy use, and sell the extra power back into the grid.
- Plant trees *where there are no trees* (and where trees are unlikely to grow otherwise), especially food trees like fruiting trees and nutting trees. Plant hemp *everywhere*.
- Investigate and invest in alternative energy sources (solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, hydrogen, whatever rocks you like a hurricane).
- Walk or bike.
- Don't use gasoline for anything; don't burn oil for anything.
- Don't eat out. Save your money. Forever.
- Don't do any business with anyone you don't know. If you need service from a business, get to know someone that works there. If the company is too large for you to know someone or even try to - it's too big to ever be anything but a pointless danger and a certain drain on the world around you.
- Don't seek revenge. Don't mete out punishments. Forgive.
- Don't feel bad if you can't do it all. Do as much as you can and accept yourself inasmuch as you can convince yourself to reach just... a little... bit.... higher.
Active:
- Tell the truth!
- Fight disinformation on all sides; don't let unverifiable stories get momentum, don't give in to paranoia. Stay real, and *confront* disinformation when you encounter it. Don't let it go by without challenge.
- Be loud. Be vocal. Don't shut up. Don't shy away.
- Protest early, protest often, protest vigorously, protest cogently.
- Be active. Neighborhood council, city government, state government, federal governmet. Call your congressional reps *constantly* - make a fucking nuisance of yourself. Leave messages. Stay on hold.
- Makes signs. Freely distribute them. Put them about. Yes. Now. Do it.
- Quit your job if you don't know every single individual that works for your employer.
- Quit your job if you discover they're bad for the world around you. (good golly did *my* life ever change when i took that step)
- Find a job at which you know everyone involved with the enterprise, from the bottom up.
- Stop police from doing illegal things; video them, cellphone-video them, yell at them to stop, collect their badge numbers, file complaints. It's difficult to file a complaint; they'll try to talk you out of it and may threaten or otherwise seek to indimidate or discourage you. Don't be intimidated - document the entire experience. Remain. File that complaint. And then do it again. Immediately.
- Introduce yourself to your neighbor.
- Help your neighbor. Suggest passive revolution to your neighbor; if s/he digs it, suggest active revolution to your neighbor.
- Sabotage the efforts of wrongdoers whenever and wherever possible: free people you saw being arrested for bullshit (like, oh, protesting for instance) from police cars, take a chunk out of an elbow of the highway with a nice hefty mattock, send junk mail from one company to another company in yet another company's paid-postage commercial envelopes (stuff as *much* as possible in there), be on the lookout for any opportunity to fuck shit up.
- Raise the level of energy. Make your times crackle with danger and opportunity.
- See your ideals as goals to strive for and *achieve* - don't fantasize about things you can't and won't do. Do them.
- *Have fun* and *look good* when you're out there doing stuff. Make it look fucking cool and sexy, and make it fun as hell. Have an explosively good time.
- Take very good care of yourself and take very good care of other people around you, no matter how you feel about them individually. Love them.
- ORGANIZE. Get people together. Meet, discuss. Regular is good - once weekly, say. Workshop stuff I forgot to mention, and then come back and tell me about it, so I can tell my people and then we can do what you're doing.
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