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The Tümpeltown Zine shall be about the history of the occupation, shall show diverse experiences and be about own storys and more.
The How-to-Waldbesetzung-Zine has a different focus. It shall help to fill black wholes, according to climbing questions, Creating an EA Structure etc.
Feel very invited to send your text or to send already existing ones
Tümpeltown lebt! Defendallforests!
]]>its not the highest prio of people living there to focus on that everybody feels safe, its important to try, but as its a open space there will always be people who will not prioritize this, and apart from this shitty things are simply happening, this here is a try to find a better way to deal with things happening in places like this, by getting more organised and framing the place as queerfeministic and anticalssistic so everybody whos coming here knows, that people here try to be aware and want to take responsibility for their action and will ask other people to take responsibility for their actions too.
This queerfeministic anticlassistic Forestoccupation is meant as a more collective project against state, capitalism, discrimination, ecodestruction, dogmatism and partriarchy.
But there is no possibility to avoid trigger and trauma. Needs will not always get met and our surrounding is not made to make needs always get met. People have to learn to deal with things, it could be the way of talking about it, of leaving the situation or of confronting it with yourself.
Conflicts are dailyday life, and not preventable as different people live together. It is a try to have space to unlearn our socialisation and structural things, and by this at the same time reflect and considered every action of people in their context and individuallity, not forgetting the situation and people behind the actions.
People here are not dogmatic, there is no awareness police, different opinons want to be tolerated and in a way of living together, compromisses have to be found. This works when people are interested to live as part of a collective in genereal. Like seeing conflicts not like beeing in a fight, or competition, but in a conflict of interests that is possible to find solutions for, even if its to accept that there are different opinions on this topic and value different perspectives.
Having a healthy feedbackculture, where it is okay to make mistakes, to take responsibility for them and try to avoid them next time. Staying in contact and communication whith each other…
After a day full of dailyday stuff etc, things will be reflected in the evening and individuals might state critic on other individuals. A try to see critic as a benevolent and collegial statement, to learn and grow and to get rid of our shitty socialised capitalist, sexist, mackerist, racist behaviour, that we all carry with us, whoever we are…
Its an invitation to be more empathic with each other and our blind spots, adding missing knowledge and classism to the analysis. Listening to each other and having understanding when people are angry & dont use antiviolent speech, and giving space for this, but also communicating borders and leaving when there is no space to hold the anger of the other person.
Its an invitation to learn to say stop and raise the voice for the own rights and needs
And its an invitation to feel not overwhelmed and alone/ isolated, but feeling the support of collective people standing behind you, and always have the possibility to ask for support by indiviuals being in the collective.
Its an invitation to find the own queerness and unlearn norms and confront the own speachlessness/emotionlessness
Its an invitation to learn to communicate more and better, to get more aware of the power of questions and speech/words.
And it is an invitation to ground people connections in friendships and loyality than in shortterm body contact/connections to fullfill own needs,
Its a invitation to cuddle collective in a clear communicated way than to do that isolated in a twoperson dependency, or isolated in a treehouse
Everything private is political, lets get out of our conform zone and confront our own behavior.
And everything happening in a forest occupation is a collective topic. Everybody holds this space, so when shit is happening it concerns everybody who is living there, its everybody collective task to take care together of this social room.
It is a invitation to crash hetronormative romantic two persons dynamics, rebellism needs independent handlungsfähige people
It is a invitation to strengths the collective mind and to strenghts gleichzeitig the individul independency
Its a invitation to get rid of identity culture, a big ego and fear, shame and guilt
Its an invitation to get as an individual selforganised and empowered, to get out of powerlessness and ovictimidentity, to learn to state needs and raise the own voice to others without needing institutions and powerstructures
and it is an invitation to listen to own needs and borders, like the need of resting, beeing alone, having lees stimulous, having a break and feeling independent and also the own need of feeling conected and familiar.
Its an invitation to share treehouses and things and to live without concretly private framed treehouses and to live with talking continously about sleeping places needs
Its an invitation of primary taking care of yourself, of the people around you and of our collective ressources. To free us from our own behaviour reproducing exploitation on us and others, by trying to be strategicly effective and efficient and through it altruistic and burning out.
Its an invitation to accept that there are no „forestoccupation decisons“ as there are always different people, people can state together wishes or needs, but there is no explicit orgagroup, who can force there deciciosn on others, on speedyrounds, sharingrounds, sleepinground, gumopartys, emorounds, people dont decide things…they share stuff
Its an invitation to trust people and to let people decide individually
Its an invitation to get to know the concepts of individual actions, if poeple dont like stuff they individually have to solve that, and not directly to delegate their needs to a „institutionalied powerstructure“. If the conflict gets continously bigger its a collective task to try to solve it, by sitting together and talk, but not by putting pressure on each other with repressions…
„Consens“ in decisions concerning everybody! is not the goal, diversity of opinions and indivuality is a big gift and enrichment
Its an invitation to be undogmatic with different perspectives on topics like communism, anarchism and not to shame/blame people because of their political startingpoints …
Its an invitation for a space where there is no throwing out possible by a „legitimated group that can make decisions“, because that does not exist, it would reproduce hierarchys etc
Its a invitation for a place that works autonom and decentralised,
without structures like police and prisons,
Its an invitation for a place where individual people are always able to state people that they wish that they leave, people don’t have to follow that wish as they act also individual
Tolerance of individual actions (as explicit me who is writing this sentence), stops with body violence and rape, activists ignoring basic security culture this means intentional talking with cops and giving infos to them, activists not stopping assaulting people in general, not stopping carrying heavy weapons with you like pistols and guns and people not stopping taking massiv powerpositions and repoducing hierarchic structures
individual people in such situation can organise themselves with others and go to the concrete person and state the wish again, if thats not working people can sit all together and talk and explain the situation to everybody, make transparent what happened and i am pretty sure individuals will find a way to get the person leave without big violence and police…
Its an invitation for all of us, we are as everybody invited and respected but have to consider that we bring baggage from the past and that troubles from the past will sooner or later pop up, and that there will be the need of processing and confronting it and also indiviudal people to explain what happened and process about it, and take responsibility for past conflicts.
And its a invitation for much more, all this what you personaly imagine in your utopia in the living with people…
as always people being there create the details of the room…
there is only the wish to do it carefully with each other (:
let be careful with each other, so we can be dangerous together,
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And i take responsibility of writing this text, its a text of ideas and invitations, people might intepretate it as stable concept, i would wish to see it as starting point for discussions and an ongoing process of ideas filling the room of this imagined forest occupation.
An construction machine got occupied and police brutality was happening as often in these days. The activist was talking about breathing troubles because of a cophand covering the activist whole face. Indeed the activist got sentenced beacuse of the accusation of biting the cop in their hand. Court accounted them as guilty. Again a repression loaded on our shoulders.
Repression does’nt stop, and so will activism not stop, there is no end, let’s donate some money, if we have and let’s hold tight together, solidarity to be continued…
]]>Quote Taz.de on militancy in the climate movement:
“Does the climate movement need to become more radical? That is the wrong question. Radicalism is not an end in itself. The question is how to win more people from different milieus for a climate policy that corresponds to the reality of the climate crisis. So that at the next election the majority doesn’t say again that the climate is really important to them, but doesn’t vote accordingly.”=> https://taz.de/Klimabewegung-und-Radikalitaet/!5818080/
The problem is that elections will never overcome capitalism. Radicalism is not an end in itself, that may be. But we still need strategies for breaking through capitalist constraints and their normalcy.
We should recognize that our task is not to convince more people of our ideas, but to break open the concreted social discourse to give ideas room to grow. In doing so, it is not imperative to convince people of our own ideas or to change their opinions, because in capitalism, opinions are not the cause of people’s actions, but their alibi. Opinions are adapted so as not to have to admit to being part of the oppressive system ourselves. Instead, we need to get people back to developing their own ideas, and fighting for them.
So the strategic question is not how to bring more people into our struggles, but how to make our struggles break the normality in society to strengthen other emerging struggles and ideas, without forgetting to sustain our own struggles and realize our ideas.
Visibility is the best tool to influence society. When actions act as signals of disorder and shatter the illusion of social peace, they break through normality, and are thus visible. At the same time, such actions also separate us from society. It is not possible to attack the system without disrupting society. However, society is not the real problem, but it reproduces the existing capitalist constraints.
The goal, therefore, is to make actions that serve as an invitation to others to become accomplices… Whether sympathetic or smiling, if they offer their support or take to the streets, then we have brought them on board, whether they all share our ideas or not.
But as long as we see ourselves only as political subjects who participate in demonstrations, and are organized in groups along with people who mostly share the same ideas as ourselves – and this acts as a substitute for forming actual relationships with people and thus creating networks that allow us to choose forms of action that allow us to break through social normality, we will remain largely isolated political subjects and groups.
Networks are stronger than hierarchies.
Our networks are strong when each unit has a multitude of connections, rather than there being only a few nodes through which all connections run.
Asking “what vision or plan will society be organized around after capitalism?” doesn’t get us anywhere.
We will be stronger than ever if we learn to understand that not everyone will act as we do – nor as we wish them to do. Our effectiveness lies not in making the whole world thinking and doing the same, but in finding the best way to relate in a complementary way with those who are different and have their own ideas.
We are then an intelligent and self-organizing organism as long as we all make plans, share visions and ideas, and take initiatives. All forms of organization will always have to be shaped freshly between the people who want to organize themselves.
Don’t rely on others creating plans, evolving ideas and telling you what to do!
But also don’t judge others for not doing what you want them to do or not supporting your ideas to the fullest! Do it yourself!
Nor should we limit ourselves to creating a system that replaces the existing system or creating an infrastructure that makes the existing infrastructure obsolete.
If we consider the physical realization of our projects and ideas as a victory, we will adopt a conservative attitude and try to save or protect these projects, losing sight of what constitutes their greatest value:
Our projects are useful when we use them to break through social normalcy.
Sure, we’ll physically lose a lot of what we create, but that’s okay, because they’re not there to be preserved, they’re there to teach us new skills and give society visions of new possible worlds.
What needs to be preserved are the ideas and solutions we create in our projects and the networks we build.
Because only then can we build on you, develop our ideas further and realize new projects again and again.
So that our projects and actions are places where we honestly express our visions of a different world.
Danni lives!
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There is a new short book about Danni. It was written by a person who lived for a year in the occupation and it is his reflection of social structures and problems in the forest during the time of the occupation. The text represents only views and opinions of a single person. Feel free to share online, print and distribute the text if you like!
]]>The struggle against a mining project in Gállok have been going on for many years now. In 2013 there was a protest camp where people were trying to stop the drilling and blowing up of the ground. They never managed to completely stop the mining company, but they managed to delay them and get people organised.
Right now it’s up to the so called swedish government to decide if someone will be allowed to start the mine or not. But we will not wait for their decision. We have already made ours – No mine in Gállok! Not now, not ever.
This struggle is closely connected to the struggle of the Sami people, the indigenous people of Sápmi. For 400 years, the so called swedish, norwegian, finnish and russian states have colonised Sápmi. With the use of cultural genocide they tried to wipe out the Sami people. They never succeded.
So in mid august we meet in the north. The main focus of this gathering will be to connect the different struggles in Sapmi. So we can stand united against the exploitation and contamination of our water, mountains, air and forests. Against mines, windmills, dams, industries, clearcuts, nuclear power plants, pipelines and so on. Let’s come together and share our skills and experiences. How can we support each other? How can we create a good and persistent culture of resistance?
If you want to contribute with a workshop, a talk, a discussion or whatever, contact us so that we can put it in the schedule.
You can read more here or on kolonierna.se
Contact us at kolonierna at riseup dot net
No mine in Gállok!
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