If more people displayed the virtues that #JimmyCarter did, and lived their faith the way he did, the better for our lives, the church, and the world.

#WagePeace
#Grieving
#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing

It feels poignantly fitting that Alfredo M. Bonanno should die today, on December 6—the anniversary of the 2008 Greek uprising, or one could say insurrection, sparked when a cop murdered 15-year-old anarchist Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens.

I’m no “insurrectionist”; to my mind, insurrections happen, whether we want them to or not. They aren’t something we anarchists—or anyone—can kick off. When they are filled with an abundance of anarchic sensibilities, as in Greece in 2008 or the George Floyd rebellion in 2020, or so many other moments of liberatory joy arising from the direct actions of the grieving and aggrieved, they are a thing of beauty and possibility, generating the forms of social relations and social organization as windows into the worlds we dream of—fight and live for. But insurrections—when fascistic and/or authoritarian—can be ugly, brutal, and deadly.

Still, I’ve been drawn to the always-provocative writings and life of insurrectionist anarchist Bonanno precisely because of how he embraces such tensions in every rebellion, not to mention everyday life.

I urge you, as a way to honor the memory of this now anarchist ancestor on this day of his death, to read his piece “The Anarchist Tension,” which offers this spot-on “definition” of anarchism:

“[The] anarchist is someone who really puts themselves in doubt as such, as a person, and asks themselves: What is my life according to what I do and in relation to what I think? What connection do I manage to make each day in everything I do, a way of being an anarchist continually and not come to agreements, make little daily compromises, etc? Anarchism is not a concept that can be locked up in a word like a gravestone. . . . It is a way of conceiving life . . . [I]t is a stake we must play day after day.“

And read, too, his piece “Palestine, mon amour,” which concludes:

“Either the theocentric Israeli State disappears, giving life to another federalist kind of formation that is open to the possibility of a communitarian cohabitation with the Arab Palestinians and eventually with other peoples, or the Jews will be moving towards a catastrophe once again.”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/alfredo-m-bonanno

#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing
#MayHisMemorySparkABlessedRevolution

On Friday I was in the French period rooms when I spied a fussy little boy. I began my usual litany of clicks & beeps when he said something I didn't catch, I'm guessing in Chinese.

I went off-script when a familiar voice rose out of me to stage yell, "What? WHAT?? I can't hear you: I have a banana in my ear!" followed by the signature chuckle.

#PeeWeeHerman can never die, and so #PaulReubens is immortal. #MayHisMemoryBeABlessing

Leonard Nimoy at a #NOW rally in 1989. His sweater reads "PRO-CHILD, PRO-FAMILY, #PROCHOICE". His sash reads "HONORED GUEST". His pin reads "HONORARY SISTER".

#LeonardNimoy was #Jewish and spoke fluent Yiddish. His parents were first-generation #Ukrainian Jewish #immigrants who fled the Soviet Union and he was born in 1931 in Boston. Jewish activists have always been at the core of support for #abortion rights.

#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing.

https://www.tumblr.com/delphinidin4/690529825685946368/his-sweatshirt-reads-pro-child-pro-family

#socialmedia #tumblr

I watched some TikTok video that had "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" by Jim Steinman and Celine Dion playing in the background and now it's stuck in my head and I'll have to listen to it on repeat for a while to get it un-stuck and this is the best problem I've had in a while 🤘

https://youtu.be/j8fHNdrZTSI

#mayhismemorybeablessing #mayjimsteinmansmemorybeablessing #jimsteinman #celinedion #itsallcomingbacktomenow #music #epicmusic