No matter what, we’re not going back. As the american empire crumbles around us, we’re focused on shaping whatever will take its place, not losing ourselves grieving for the old world that’s being destroyed. Mass despair, resignation and apathy only serve to empower our oppressors, enabling their reckless profit seeking and abject cruelty. The future belongs to communities organized around pleasure, abundance, equity, cooperation, beauty and sustainability. Building those communities is the project of our time. We need to get off of the screens and onto the page; off of the page and into the streets.
Are you a Slingshot organizer? The world struggling to be born needs your creativity, diversity, passion and wisdom. When we gather face-to-face, stand side-by-side, and march arm-in-arm, hierarchical structures can’t stop us any more than they can rule us. Liberation starts by killing the bosses and cops in our heads — and then dreaming wild dreams.
The current moment rests on centuries of struggle back-and-forth between regular folks and the greedy few. Our ancestors made it through before, and we’ll make it through now. Community that’s inclusive and broad, not tribal or homogeneous, is essential since the system seeks to divide us. Solidarity, mutual aid and love are acts the system cannot commercialize or even comprehend. Strengthening relationships with each other and the land builds autonomy as well as delight. They want us lonely, isolated, dependent and scared, but we’re done playing by their crazy rules.
We’re filled with gratitude and wonder that you’ve picked up this little book. You’re part of us, now. We’re creating this world and this organizer together, and there are a million ways everyone can contribute and collaborate. We’re making stuff for ourselves, by hand, filled with meaning, art and color. We’re dissidents — we’re the underground. Laughing at the overlords’ absurdity, insecurity and stupidity. See you at the barricades or the carnival or the library.
This is the 31st year we amused ourselves by publishing the Slingshot Organizer. Its sales raise funds to print the radical, independent Slingshot newspaper. We distribute the newspaper for free everywhere in the US, often at the places listed in the radical contact list. Let us know if you can be a local newspaper distributor in your area. All the content for both the paper and this organizer are made by people like you. Thanks to the volunteers who created this year’s organizer: Ana, Anka, Annalisa, Antonio, Anya, Carolien, Christy, Dakota, Daya, Destany, Detti, Edith, Eggplant, Eliza, Elke, Fern, Flossie, Geo, Gina, Giz, Hayley, Isabella, Jake, Jasmine, Jesse, Jhesu, Jodi, John, Kai, Katie, Kermit, Kristen, Layla, Leah, Lew, Madeline, Manasa, Marie, Marlow, Mei, Melinda, Molly, Nadja, oJosé, paXen, Percy, Piper, Pippin, Reid, Renuka, Robin, Rowan, Ruby, Sadie, Sakiya, Sean, Sidney, Skye, Soren, Trinh, Umi, Violet, Weaver, Yang & those we forgot.
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