HeyJaredZedé
Reflections on community and alternative system building, combining lived experience with practical approaches for meaningful change.
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Communists have a race problem and I'm done being quiet about it (opens the original)
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Some of the most racist messages and comments I get don't come from the right. They come from the far left, mostly communists who've called me slurs and told me to delete my posts as "anti-communist … Read more
Not everyone is an organizer, but your community still needs you (opens the original)
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Last week I posted about how it irriates me when people call political commentators organizers. To explain shortly, I just don’t see what makes you an organizer by simply commenting on the political state of our country. Like, what exactly are you organizing? Your thoughts? Concepts? Theories? Maybe I’m missing something and this may be part of the bigger issue I continuously address as to why I feel many of us are not having the same conversation if we, firstly, don’t all have the same understa
Parallel Systems Have Always Been the Plan (opens the original)
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I got involved in organizing work in 2016, when I was 17, after Philando Castile was murdered. My sister, my friends, and I slept outside the governor’s mansion for three weeks as minors with a group of other strangers we shared a similar bottom line with. Those weeks showed me from the inside how movement spaces actually work and where the issues are, and it definitely wasn’t what my naive brain thought it would be. From there, I would spend three consistent years in the streets protesting his
Let’s pop some tags and get uncomfortable (opens the original)
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Here's another take on this… A lot of people are talking about Macklemore losing this tour in terms of solidarity, or cancel culture, or who's right and who's wrong about Palestine. I want to talk about something more specific than that: We need actual parallel systems built for artists, organizers, anyone who takes a real risk by speaking up, not just a wave of support that shows up for a week and then disappears. So Macklemore just got dropped from the rest of Ed Sheeran’s tour. Ed Sheeran him
Here’s why the left can’t get it together (opens the original)
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The left's dysfunction isn't rage or confusion, it's the lack of a shared bottom line. Different factions are having entirely different conversations. Here, I share my position: intolerance to what is, that's the bottom line. Not rage, not chaos, just a flat refusal to accept the current system as the only option, and a commitment to build something else alongside it. And when we actually share power at that level, parallel systems, mutual structures, that's when the numbers start to grow. Tell
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