Bronx Anti-War

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For those outside the US and NYC, some history: Between roughly 1970 and 1980, the South Bronx burned. Thousands of apartment buildings were destroyed by fire over that decade, and around 300,000 people lost their homes. Whole blocks were reduced to empty lots. Images of the ruins went around the world and became shorthand for urban collapse. That destruction was policy, not decline. Banks refused to lend in Black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods, so buildings could not be maintained, repaired, or sold. The fires that followed were not accidents. European and Zionist landlords set their own buildings on fire, or paid others to, because a burned building paid out more in insurance than a rented one ever would. The state insurance program made those payouts reliable. The city then closed fire companies in the very neighborhoods that were burning, a program its own housing administrator called planned shrinkage. The city said in public that poor neighborhoods should be allowed to empty out. Then the story got rewritten. Newspapers and politicians pointed at the ruins and blamed the residents. The message was that Black and Puerto Rican people had destroyed the neighborhood themselves, that this was simply what happened when they were left in charge of a place. The state institutions that engineered the destruction were recast as reformers, and the people who survived it were made to carry the blame. That reversal matters, because it is what justified another thirty years of abandonment. The Black and Puerto Rican people who stayed rebuilt this borough themselves. Tenants took over abandoned buildings and made them livable. Neighbors cleared lots and planted gardens. Hip hop was built in these blocks. None of it came from the city that left. Now the land is profitable again, and capital wants it back. Rents climb, buildings turn over, and the culture we made gets used to sell the neighborhood to the people displacing us. This is the same logic we oppose abroad: land is made valuable by the labor of people who are then treated as an obstacle to that value. The ones who built it and the ones removed from it are always the same people. Mutual aid is how we fight it materially. The distro is not charity and it is not a service. It is survival work that keeps neighbors fed and connected to each other while we build the political base to defend this place. We don’t rely on cops, nonprofits, or politicians, because organizations funded by the institutions displacing us will never be the ones to fight them. If you are outside the Bronx and this resonates, the most useful thing you can do is build the same thing where you are. If you want to support this work directly: Venmo: https://venmo.com/bronxmutualaid CashApp: https://cash.app/$bronxmutualaid Givebutter: https://givebutter.com/bronxmutualaid Our September 5 distribution is dedicated to South Bronx youth. Every kid leaves with a brand new backpack, fully packed. $30 fills one.

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When I see on television these respected women who are engaged in supporting and assisting the army and the armed forces, I feel a deep appreciation for them in my heart, an appreciation that I cannot feel in the same way for anyone else. 🔹 The work they are doing is not motivated by any expectation of receiving a position, holding an office, or asking anything from the people. None of these matters are involved. Rather, they are unknown and selfless soldiers who, on the front lines, must be regarded as engaged in jihad. Imam Khomeini 18 March 1980 @khomeinLifeStyle

Admin’s note: a new song has been published about DPRK soldiers who fought in Kursk against NATO-Nazi invaders.