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About Our Efforts
On Resistance is a media and art collective that is critically committed to supporting and agitating for resistance. We are currently broadcasting out of Los Angeles with counter media via SoundCloud, KPFK Pacifica and other forms of written and spoken word.
Our creativity takes many forms from art and poetry cultural healing spaces to investigative journalism, radio broadcasts, report backs, direct action and vigilant support of uprisings to undermine cooptation and neutralization efforts by the state and other counter-insurgency forces.
Topics covered in our radio broadcasts have included:
- Political Managers during the Trayvon Martin Uprisings in LA
- Treat Yo Self: Self and Communal Care
- Black Trans Revolt: interview w/ X, Chella and CeCe
- Black Rage Friday, Anti-Blackness
- "Are you ready to talk about White Supremacy or nah?"
- 5 Week Series on the War on the Poor: Housing, Health, Work, Police and the Social War
- Get out the Revolt: On Voting as an Ineffective Tactic
- On Violent Extremism (of the state and it's forces)
- Abolish the Police? a discussion
- Art and the Resistance, and Media Management
We are determined to empower revolt and direct action against all forms and systems of oppression with the desired outcome of revolution toward self organized autonomuos communities.
As a party-less, leaderless, brand-less, anti-capitalist collective we are politically autonomous and do not represent anyone but ourselves and are not affiliated or in allegiance to any established organization or group.
We hope to inspire creativity, dialogue and direct action against the capitalist state and all variations of oppression that uphold societal hierarchies and state assigned privileges based on race, gender, class, sexuality, dis-ability or citizenship.
Why Fundraising? And why the Left Forum?
As anti-capitalists who desire accessible spaces be assured that we do not take fundraising lightly. We do not maintain a collective space and all of our efforts and resources to date have come out of our shared pockets.
Over the last 3 years we have made it a point to not fundraise and freely distribute counter propaganda, literature, patches, clothing and food made available to the public and our communities. We have avoided vending because circumstances allowed us, and because we wanted to create alternative exchanges and experiences from the dominant monetary and property based exchange system we currently experience nearly everywhere we go.
As our circumstances have changed so have our fundraising needs. We want to do more art and soulcare events, investigative journalism and idea sharing spaces to keep up energy to support existing rebellion.
We also want to continue providing zines and literature, such as the comrade Bobby London's printed words Can't Dictate Revolt: It's Time for Black Liberation as well as supporting printing for LAQR Los Angeles Queer Resistance zines.
Why the Left Forum?
We are presenting a panel this year titled "Drawing Lines: Liberation and Co-Conspirators".
Please support us by donating whatever you can toward our travels, it will really help us reach our goals of housing and food safety during the conference and trip.
Through our fundraising efforts we have been asked numerous times by comrades why the left forum? This is a valid question for an autonomous group whose participants have never identified as leftist and have been necessarily critical of the "left" and leftist strategy in general. And we did actually do a show on deconstructing the left and have decided as a group to never host or give platform to popular theorists on our radio show.
This is exactly why it's important for us to go to the space and bring with us our agitated energy!! To call into question the formation of the "left" in this critical time of global resistance and what that even means! and how resources are being concentrated according to that logic. #wtfistheleft
Especially in what is rumored and verified to be a mostly white academic space that is exclusionary to people who aren't from the area, who can't afford to travel or don't have the social capital to participate.
"Drawing Lines: Liberation and Co-Conspirators".
Our panel discussion will include mention of the following topics:
horizontalism, autonomy, the self, the left and (possible) abolition.
The discussion will focus on practices for liberation in
contrast with the ‘established left’ that at best *appears*
disconnected from the everyday lived experiences of oppressed people
and at worst centers methods and ideologies that actively expect
oppressed people to attach themselves to ineffective models of action,
leadership and decision making that continue dis-empowered existences
for oppressed persons.
To this end we will be challenging what ‘success’ looks like and
how effective action and resistance is measured within hierarchical systems.
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