• Riot by Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry - free PDF Against Police Violence by Seven Stories Press - free ebook
• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale - free ebook
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States eds. Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price - free ebook
• The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence by Laurence Ralph - free until June 6th
• Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall - free ebook
• Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism - free ebook until June 10th
• Twitter thread of links to PDFs/ebooks of fundamental texts
• free library of Black history and activism texts
• free library of critical race theory texts
• free library of Black revolutionary texts
• blk thots. - pdf library - for Black and Indigenous folks without institutional academic access
• free download of the essay, “To Protect and Serve Whom,” from Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Publisher is promising a free ebook version to come

• Comprehensive list of where to donate  & a list of bail funds for protestors
• pizza pi press - 100% of book proceeds go to “different local org & bail funds”
• Inside the Castle - $15 access to all ebooks, 100% of money raised goes to support BLM. So if you picked up a free ebook or two previously consider making a donation.
• Blush Lit - 100% of chapbook sales will be donated to “Black Visions Collective, Minnesota Freedom Fund, or any other bail fund (just specify at checkout!)“ this week
• Broken Sleep Books - fundraiser for Black Lives Matter - multiple prizes from poetry, etc. presses
• The Atlas Review - donate to a Black organization based in Minneapolis such as Reclaim the Block or Black Visions Collective and get free books, details are in the linked tweet
• Through Clenched Teeth anthology - “all proceeds will be donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, Black Visions Collective, or Reclaim the Block.“

• City Light Publishers - free ebooks - antiracist titles
• The US Antifascism Reader eds. Bill V. Mullen & Christopher Vials - free ebook
• University of Minnesota Press - Reading for Racial Justice - free books available for online reading until August 31

Wood isn't the climate-friendly material you think it is

A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture, and fuel emits about three times more carbon than flying.

Grist

“The bottom line is you got a lot of emissions coming from wood harvest, and we don’t pay attention to that,” said Tim Searchinger, senior fellow and technical director for agriculture, forestry, and ecosystems at the World Resources Institute and a co-author of the paper.  The emissions associated with timber harvests mainly come from burning logs and pellets for fuel and from rotting branches, leaves, and roots left in the forest or tossed in landfills, where they decompose and release carbon into the air. 

Searchinger argues that researchers and policymakers haven’t accurately estimated the climate cost of wood use in part because they’ve counted carbon-capturing forest growth as an “offset” — as if new trees compensated for the missing ones — even when that growth would happen naturally. When trees are in the ground, especially when they’re young and growing fast, they absorb carbon. Many of the forests in the Northern Hemisphere were cleared in past centuries and are now regrowing and accumulating carbon on their own, whether or not they’ve been logged recently. Even for older forests that aren’t regrowing as quickly, “you’d be better off” leaving them unharvested, said Houghton, noting that we’ve got a “long way to go” before our use of wood is efficient enough — say, by not burning so much of it — that the emissions from logging could be fully offset by forest regrowth.   Still, Searchinger said there’s a silver lining to the study. His team’s findings don’t mean that more carbon dioxide is getting into the atmosphere than scientists had thought, just that some of those emissions are coming from an activity that hadn’t been accounted for. 

French Climate Activists Are Waging War Against Water Hoarders | Novara Media

In the face of drought across France, activist coalition Earth Uprising is escalating its tactics in the fight over water. Now, the state ha

Novara Media

“Last summer, anti-drought actions multiplied. This summer, activists will act with even more fearlessness and creativity: cutting off hoarders’ water supplies, putting golf courses out of action, dismantling megabasins, squatting the swimming pools of the ultra-rich and the air-conditioned offices of their insurers, banging saucepans outside pool manufacturers offices, building beaver dams to revive our rivers and their banks. Our inventiveness must have no limits.” This kind of activist communique follows two years of unseasonable drought across France. As of 30 June, 42 of France’s 96 mainland départements (administrative divisions) contain at least one area with water restrictions. 15 of these 42 are officially in crisis, meaning water usage is restricted to priority functions: health, civil security, drinking water and sanitation. It’s no surprise, then, that French climate groups are escalating their tactics in the fight over water. In August last year during water restrictions in Vosges in eastern France, activists drilled holes in jacuzzis at a holiday resort. Over the winter, others sabotaged artificial snow canons at Clusaz, south-eastern France, while others set up a ZAD (autonomous zone) in the area, citing the winter drought as their motivation.  The most contentious of these groups is Les Soulèvements de La Terre, or ‘Earth Uprising’, which is currently waging 100 days of action against “water hoarders” across the country. In response, the French state is cracking down on so-called eco-terrorism – and hard.

Earth Uprising doesn’t use the word sabotage to describe its militant action. In French jurisprudence, sabotage denotes an attack on infrastructure that’s vital to the “fundamental interests of the nation”, Basile explains. “A cement production site or a megabasin is the opposite – it’s private infrastructure which puts the possibility of a living future on the earth in peril.” Instead, activists prefer the term “disarmament”. Victor Cachard, author of A History of Sabotage, adds that this term is also a reference to the actions of the ecological movement in the US against the industries building weapons for the Vietnam War and later the Gulf War. “There was the idea among ecological activists to join their environmental struggle with their anti-war struggle, as they recognised that war pollutes,” he says.

Best abolition-oriented mutual aid project - Chicago Reader

Best abolition-oriented mutual aid project: Chicago Community Jail Support

Chicago Reader|Kerry Cardoza

Chicago Community Jail Support is one of many vital mutual-aid groups that sprung up following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, as local protests against racism and police brutality resulted in mass arrests of demonstrators. The all-volunteer effort aims to support anyone being released from Cook County Jail, the majority of whom are discharged with little more than the clothes on their backs, regardless of weather conditions. While the group’s website says that the jail is supposed to “provide bus cards and phone calls to those being released,” they note that often doesn’t happen. In response, CCJS volunteers set up outside the jail every evening, at the corner of 27th Street and California Blvd, and offer snacks, drinks, phone calls, and safe rides home to newly released individuals.

There are myriad ways to get involved with Chicago Community Jail Support or their support mission. You can donate your time or set up recurring donations, which help purchase things like cab fare, Gatorade, and items off their Target registry. There are numerous opportunities to volunteer on the ground (training is provided) or lend a hand from home, such as fundraising or organizing supply drives. The folks behind CCJS believe that “incarceration is not the solution to a healthier, safer Chicago,” but while it remains a reality, they are determined to demonstrate tangible, life-affirming solidarity.

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