"They Can't Beat All of Us"
A Report Back from the #FloridaAbolitionistGathering

#CrimethInc, March 15, 2025

"From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of #abolitionists and #anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering (#FAG). Across a passionate weekend of #workshops, films, food, #debate, #ritual, and #protest, the contours of a robust regional #resistance movement came into focus.

"The #intergenerational, heavily #queer and #trans, and strongly multi-issue and anarchist group of abolitionists that converged in Florida articulated an expansive vision of #liberation anchored in the urgent need to dismantle the #PrisonIndustrial complex in all its manifestations. The gathering showed that even as liberals wring their hands about the death of democracy, scrappy groups of organizers continue to fight back—and sometimes win—deep within the belly of the beast."

Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/15/they-cant-beat-all-of-us-a-reportback-from-the-florida-abolitionist-gathering
#Resistance #Resist #USPol

Day 2 p.H.r. (post #Heilung #ritual). Moderate success in passing as human.

I had a 3h siesta with my heavy blanket folded on top of me, to maximise the kg/cm2 effect.

Please give me your tips to get my brain and body to function again.

This paper using gene sequences to track linguistic 'capacity' is from a #Chomskyite perspective (eg Tattersall among authors) pinning #language #evolution to #genetic #mutation!

But even chimps and bonobos have significant 'capacity' so the key question would be #social conditions which liberate that capacity.

We know from the #ochre record that #ritual culture had become #PanAfrican by 140,000 years ago. This date needs to catch up! They have shell beads in Morocco already.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full

Archaeoethnologica: Archaeology of the Cult in Peucezi - video Arqueologia do Culto em Peucezia - vídeo

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/03/arqueologia-do-culto-em-peucezia-video.html

Archaeoethnologica: Archaeology of the Cult in Peucezi - video Arqueologia do Culto em Peucezia - vídeo

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/03/arqueologia-do-culto-em-peucezia-video.html

We need time, space, materials, and commitment, and #Ritual can help us meld all those things together. (p. 84)

News - Mysterious 2,400-Year-Old Puppets Unearthed in El Salvador - Archaeology Magazine

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/03/07/mysterious-2400-year-old-puppets-unearthed-in-el-salvador/

#Ritual is a kind of structure, one that takes from where you are to a new place, crossing over a line in some way to get there. Its purpose is to provoke change in yourself and/or in the #Audience. (p. 74)

You can imbue your arts and crafts with special energy this month.

Your Full moon prayers and rituals can be supercharged this month, too!

More live-stream info: https://www.timeanddate.com/live/eclipse-lunar-2025-march-14

Most of us these days think of artists as tortured souls who simply can’t *even* until they are *inspired*, and then they pour out their art in one rushing torrent of beauty and perfection. This is ridiculous. (p. 80) #Ritual

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

Tues Mar 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Chris Knight on
'On women and jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'

Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science.

In this talk, #ChrisKnight will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.

Chris will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

If you keep following where the work leads, you will create a path to follow next time. #SuccessiveApproximation #Ritual #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

We use #Ritual to move from WHERE WE DON’T WORK into the circle, into the liminal state, WHERE WE WORK. (p. 83)

Thank you for this day.

“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.” — Marilyn Monroe

Go to the wood! Just don’t expect to be home before dark. (p. 79) #Ritual