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Gun Control? No, Youth Liberation!

Originally published by CrimethInc.

Following the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School last month and ahead of the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC this coming weekend, people all around the United States are talking about gun violence. As politicians seek to exploit horrific tragedies to consolidate even more power for the state and channel youth outrage into support for the Democratic Party, we have to direct attention back to the structural factors that cause these mass killings in the first place. We’ve prepared the following poster, zine, and handbill addressing the root causes of school violence and the solutions that genuine grassroots organizing can offer. Please print these out to distribute at your local high school, walkout, or protest!

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Featured Organization–Austin’s Autonomous Student Network

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Cutting Class: Counterinfo for the Ungovernable Generation

Over the next few days, we’ll be releasing pieces to highlight the work of some of the organizations involved in the Cutting Class project. We hope this will provide some clarity on where we are coming from and how that affects the way we have organized this project. We also hope this can help provide a beacon for other autonomous groups to get in contact and start collaborating–whether on this or on other projects!

First up is the Autonomous Student Network (Austin). For more info on their history & style, check out their year in review piece!

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On the Student Walkouts

The following editorial was originally posted to the May 1st Anarchist Alliance website & discusses the mass student walk-outs across the US.

Over one million high school students walked out of class on Wednesday, March 14th 2018 in what was the biggest school walk out protests since the Vietnam War. These students have been raised with school shootings being a norm. As they march out of class and into the streets, they defy the police and the school administrations. They defy the whole damn system.

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Cutting Class: An Invitation

Cutting Class
Counter-info for the Ungovernable Generation

2018 marks the passing of half a century since the global youth insurgency of 1968. Students across the world took their struggles beyond the limits of the University as an institution and began to imagine new ways of learning and living—forms that broke the social walls between “Campus Life” and “Public Life.”

The so-called spirit of ’68 survives in the insurrectional language that, to this day, can still occasionally articulate a bridge between the accounted-for and the unintelligible. Under the paving stones, the beach. The act of translation can only be a direct act. Continue reading “Cutting Class: An Invitation”

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#NationalWalkoutDay Roundup

Cutting Class–Counterinfo for the Ungovernable Generation

Tons of kids are cutting class today as part of a day of nationwide walkouts against gun violence. Some are walking out for only 17 minutes in memory of the 17 students killed at Stoneman Douglas HS on February 14th. Others have carried out full marches & rallies, taking streets and protesting in front of major symbols of the institutions that prop up the NRA & the militarized gun culture of the U.S. We’ve rounded up a collection of some of the most inspiring shit we’ve seen, including the moments of militancy that go unappreciated by mainstream media outlets.

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SFSU #ICEOut Walkout

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Cutting Class – Counterinfo for the Ungovernable Generation

While the insurrectionary activities in Berkeley never cease to inspire, their Bay Area neighbors are no less militant. Students at San Francisco State University recently demonstrated this militancy in a walkout against ICE.  Gathering on the Malcolm X Plaza on campus, students held signs and a banner reading “Crush ICE,” while others spoke out about resistance to ICE. The walkout was done in solidarity with a larger #ICEOutOfCA action occurring that day, which featured various community organizations. This came in response to recent raids in San Francisco that kidnapped over 150 people, although the plans had been circulating since earlier in February when ICE raided 77 businesses in Norther California.

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Trouble #9: Learning to Resist

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Older generations never tire of reminding youth that the years they spend on college or university campus are formative moments in their lives, times that more often than not play an important role in shaping the trajectory of their future careers and helping to determine the types of adults that they will soon become. These are, after all, years where new life-long friendships are made, politics are formed, and ideas about one’s role in the world start to take hold. What these old-timers often don’t tell you is that if you play your cards right, they can also be the years when you participate in your first riot, flip over your first cop car, occupy your first faculty building, or topple your first government. Continue reading “Trouble #9: Learning to Resist”

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Agitate, Subvert, Negate: Austin Year in Review 2017

A Year in Review

A year ago, we began this project called the Autonomous Student Network. Below are some reflections on the events of the past year, where we fit into them, and takeaways for the future.We've also put together a little video highlighting the most memorable moments of the past year in Austin–check it outhttps://sassatx.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/asn-playful-reflections/

Posted by Autonomous Student Network-UT Austin on Sonntag, 14. Januar 2018

Originally published on the Autonomous Student Network – UT Austin website.

“The present catastrophe is that of a world actively made uninhabitable. A sort of methodical devastation of everything that remained liveable in the relations of humans with each other and with our environments.”
—The Invisible Committee, Call

It has been one year since the collection of friends associated with this project called the Autonomous Student Network began to respond to The Call—the call to get organized, to begin to Spread Anarchy and Live Communism. Continue reading “Agitate, Subvert, Negate: Austin Year in Review 2017”