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Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
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The Final Straw Radio
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Join BRABC for the monthly letter writing event at @firestorm.bsky.social from 3-5pm, Sunday July 7th
brabc.blackblogs.org/pplwn/
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Kevin Carson
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Firestorm Books
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That might mean we get to a point where no one wants to do something. Those moments are also opportunities. We changed our entire business model in 2018 because no one on our team wanted to do food service work anymore, even though it was 40% of our revenue.
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We've found that a flexible division of labor where folks mostly do the things they enjoy / are good at feels much less oppressive than "everyone must do everything" (which was how we started off). Some folks like to change roles every couple years and we can accommodate that.
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Firestorm Books
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Probably Non Serviam? Could also be Coffee with Comrades.
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June 11 is the International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners and we're raising funds for incarcerated freedom fighters by sending free banned books to FL kids. Sound too good to be true?! You can support the effort from anywhere with a pledge! firestorm.coop/events/3218-...
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The Final Straw Radio
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Join Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross and friends for our monthly zine discussion at @firestorm.bsky.social books, 4th Sunday of the month (this time May 25th, 2024) from 4-6pm.
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"To uphold the idea that Jewishness is equivalent to Zionism… you have to silence all of the Jews who disagree with you. As this has gotten harder these organizations get more desperate and seek allies on the right… making American Jews less safe." threewayfight.org/anti-zionist...
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This tool for optimizing the passive solar benefits of a window overhang is the coolest! 🌞 susdesign.com/overhang/ind...
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David Forbes
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The folks at @firestorm.bsky.social put together a supercut of the many, many (many) people who spoke against the Asheville Business Improvement District last night.
Not shockingly, locals are against giving conservative business owners their own private police force #avlnews youtu.be/xnA510Zkd80
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In 2012 our co-op was part of a broad coalition that fought and derailed an effort to privatize downtown Asheville. Now a nearly identical BID proposal is working its way through City Council, with the possibility of approval as early as May 14th. Find our full statement and more at ashevillebid.com
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Chantal James
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This is a great list on bookshop someone has curated of authors who have recently declined honors from PEN America in protest of its refusal to stand on the Palestinian genocide. These are writers who have forgone opportunity to be courageous in this time of genocide whose work you can support.
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Detritus Books
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Please be careful folks. Access this website with really good cybersecurity: notrace.how
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Two local media outlets publicly fighting over who writes better copaganda is the reality-as-satire state of politics in Asheville 🙄
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Don't miss our chat tomorrow with anarchist historians Zoe Baker and Charlie Allison! We'll be logging on at 3pm EDT / 6pm BST to discuss early 20th century anarchism, the life of Ukrainian revolutionary Nestor Makhno, organizational strategies, and the Platform. firestorm.coop/events/3161-...
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"This System Is Killing Us" presents the truth that lies behind the green re-branding of capitalism that social movements in the Global North have been slow to challenge. 🏗️ Join author Xander Dunlap and translator Carlos Tornel TODAY at 2pm ET 🚧 Register for free at firestorm.coop/events/3186-....
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The Final Straw Radio
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Join Blue Ridge ABC for their monthly Political Prisoner Letter Writing event at @firestorm.bsky.social , 3-5pm the 1st Sunday of the Month (April 7th, 2024)! A great chance to write to folks facing some hard times and make new inside / outside connections. More info at brabc.blackblogs.org/pplwn/
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Rev. Fred Small
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#EverythingPossible is coming to North Carolina this week & next!
In a time of #DontSayGay, #transphobia & book bans, "Everything Possible" is "a real breath of fresh air."--The National (Scotland)
North Carolina tour itinerary: linktr.ee/revfredsmall
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Excited to host Lyzette Wanzer, editor of "Trauma, Tresses & Truth," for a conversation with Valerie Carpenter and Barbara Ruth Saunders on the politics, policing, and perception of Black and Afro Latina women's natural hair! Register for free at firestorm.coop/events/3164-...
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Firestorm Books
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Our solarpunk dreams just got one step closer to reality ☺️
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Firestorm Books
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If you've ever lost a travel mug, it's probably at our bookshop.
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We're backing "UM," a magical girl comic about Eugenée, a Black, nonbinary, aspiring birth-worker who finds themself mixed up in a millennia-old conflict between the powers that be and a faction of cosmic, shamanic midwives. How cool! Kick in and grab a copy for yourself at fnd.us/umvolume1?re....
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Tonight! We're looking forward to this online author event with West Coast anti-racist organizer Josh Fernandez ("The Hands That Crafted the Bomb) in conversation with fellow memoirist Joe Loya. Register for free and grab the book at firestorm.coop/events/3148-....
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Sloppy kissers, swamp suitors, scrappy “limbwrecked boys,” and drag queens drenched in glitter sweat... Next Saturday, South Carolina poet Evelyn Berry will share work from "Grief Slut" alongside readings by local poets Dustin Brookshire and Sera Joy. More info at firestorm.coop/events/3125-...
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How can we create affordable and sustainable cities run by the people who inhabit them? On Monday, February 26th we're excited to host Andrew Lee with Vicky Osterweil for a conversation on the possibilities for urban liberation and revolt. Register for free at firestorm.coop/events/3160-....
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Do you live in Florida? Help us get the word out about Banned Books Back!, our program to send *free* books to kids impacted by Right-wing book bans. You can download and print a flyer at www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ljoes....
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"We demand PEN America release an official statement about the 225 poets, playwrights, journalists, scholars and novelists killed in Gaza and name their murderer: Israel, a Zionist colonial state funded by the U.S. government." lithub.com/over-600-wri...
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Firestorm Books
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We hope you gave Julius a goodbye kiss, because this diligent door greeter is officially taking some much needed time off along with the rest of our collective. Firestorm will be on winter break through Feb 13th!
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We're hosting feminist historian Angela Hume to discuss her recent book "Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open" with Shout Your Abortion co-founder Amelia Bonow! Register for the free online event at firestorm.coop/events/3152-....
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Firestorm Books
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The honor is ours! Hope you keep making rad stuff 🖤✍️
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Anastasia 🪬🧿
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Very excited and humbled to share that @firestorm.bsky.social have a limited supply of my new zine "The Booklet Against Zionism" in print on their store.
Get it from them to help support myself AND a Queer, Feminist worker-owned cooperative fighting for mutual aid in their airea!
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How many banned books can a room of dedicated volunteers pack in an hour? Yesterday we found out! 💪📦 At our first Banned Books Back! packaging party, community members turned out in droves to sort through dozens of cartons of books removed from Duval County Public Schools in Florida.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)
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New article from me outlining the chaos conspiracy theories can inject in a social movement, distracting from the real conditions and spinning righteous anger onto those far from responsible. Political education could be the answer, and help us to figure out who are enemies and who are friends.
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Prisonculture
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I like to lift up Coretta Scott King on this day. It's mainly because of her that this day exists. She was a force. She was an activist before she married King. It was her anti-war commitment that pushed him to take a public stance against Vietnam. She was extraordinary in her own right.
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"The confusion about how to challenge power—and the battle between conspiracy theory and a real mapping of power—has shown up in countless social movements, including some fringe cases in the movement for a ceasefire in Gaza." (@shaneburley.bsky.social)
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EducateUS
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#GoodNewsoftheWeek ‼️ Firestorm Books [ @firestorm.bsky.social ] returns banned books to Florida community in "Banned Books Back!" program!
Thanks to everyone participating in this project and ensuring kids have access to diverse stories! Fight the power! 📚
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"Former Mars Hill Police Chief Jon Clark was fired in October after more than two years on the job in part for soliciting nude photos from the wife of a subordinate officer"—local cops keepin it classy 💀
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Our Banned Books Back! fundraiser passed 50%! Make a donation at (givebutter.com/bannedbooksb...), or request a free book package if you're a FL kid, or have a FL kid in your life, at firestorm.coop/bannedbooks. Keep reading dangerously! If it didn't matter, they wouldn't try so hard to stop you. 👀
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genderchaos is me 🍉
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this project is so fucking good and you should support it if you can
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Our campaign to send banned books back to kids in Florida just hit 50 supporters! Help us get to 100?? givebutter.com/bannedbooksb...
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Today at 5pm we're hosting a casual in-person discussion space for the anarcho-curious! Bring your questions and thoughts to this conversation that will include longtime anarchists and folks who've just dipped their toes into anti-authoritarian ideas.
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We love giving away free books, but this project is a little complex because we're committed to getting as many as possible to kids in Florida. Packaging and delivering thousands of titles across state lines will take serious resources, can you help us fundraise? givebutter.com/bannedbooksb... 3/3
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It's a wild story! Our co-op was unexpectedly entrusted with 22,500 K-5 kids books, more than half feature queer characters, that right-wing politicians and school administrators conspired to keep out of the hands of young folks in one of Florida's most racially diverse counties. 2/3
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We've been sitting on something exciting... and we're finally ready to share our next big project launching in January! With your support, we're going to send thousands of books pulled from schools and classrooms in Duval County, Florida, back to the kids they were intended for! 1/3
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Helena Fitzgerald
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hey quick seasonal question what’s the exact mathematical opposite of the end of It’s a Wonderful Life (this made me so angry and full of despair when I read it last night that I immediately fell asleep and woke up still full of rage about)
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Alongside fellow queer community groups, businesses, and individuals, we are publishing an open letter today to the leadership of Blue Ridge Pride asking that they cut ties with war profiteer Pratt & Whitney. Read the full letter at bit.ly/brp-open-let....
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Today people around the world are saying NO to business as usual with a global strike for Palestine! We're making space for folks to gather with free coffee and tea plus solidarity activities, including ceasefire postcard and letter writing (4pm) and a screening of "Gaza Fights for Freedom" (6pm).
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Fluff Orpington
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Happy to open up the holiday presents to myself + loving the extra goodies that indie presses and shops like @firestorm.bsky.social tuck into packages
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This Thursday from 5pm to 7pm we're hosting a community heater build with friends from Asheville Survival Program! Drop in, or stay the whole time, to make tent-safe copper coil alcohol heaters for your unhoused neighbors! Learn more at firestorm.coop/events/3123-...
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“The disabled or the chronically ill are considered as surplus under the neoliberal capitalist system. Refusing to fight this notion means being subservient and compliant to […] the same people responsible for the continued oppression and genocide of many groups of both humans and animals…”
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