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Bigfoot Books & Brews @bigfootbooksnc.bsky.social · 3d

Please purchase a book now through this Bookshop wishlist:
www.bigfootbooksnc.com/prisonbanned...

(Try using discount code BBW25 at checkout and you could save 20% on your purchase also!)

#BannedBooksWeek #PrisonBannedBooks #AVL #WNC #MarionNC #McDowellCountyNC

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · 3d

AVL Prison Books have been doing amazing work getting books into the hands of incarcerated folks. This week is #bannedbooksweek, & you can purchase books that go directly to their program from @firestorm.coop, Malaprops, & @bigfootbooksnc.bsky.social !

All 3 wishlists are in the tree in my bio.

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · 29d

Everytime someone buys from a company on the BDS list with an excuse like “starbucks is closer,” “it’s cheaper,” or “I needed something quick,” I imagine the dissociation they must force on themselves in order to ignore their moral injury. I imagine their spirit weeping, suffocated by convenience.

Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Apr 9

Ruminating this morning with a friend on the culture of social hierarchy and supremacy as it is replicated in movement spaces, and really feeling hopeful that the collective can shift away from disposability and transactional relationships while we weave this new reality of abundance together.

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Apr 4

I don’t want to be confrontational, but I simply can’t be silent and someone has to say the hard things to get folks that are comfortable and well-resourced to rethink their positions.

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Mar 31

This wasn’t a rhetorical question, I am really wondering where I can get paper atlases of WNC and surrounding states 🥲😬 Pls help, thank you

Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Mar 30

Are paper atlases still a thing?! Where can they be found?

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Mar 31

Please know that if you post any of those AI Ghibli abominations, I will block you without remorse. 😤🥰

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Mar 30

Are paper atlases still a thing?! Where can they be found?

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Mar 30

Thank you, friend 🥲🖤❤️

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Mar 26

Feeling tired & sad today as wildfires cruise thru WNC, fueled by flood debris. Wore my MADR shirt to grocery shop & a neighbor stopped to ask me about it, “what does that mean by solidarity not charity?” Our convo was just the pick-me-up I needed. One day at a time, one foot in front of the other.

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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · Mar 18

Israel killed 412 Palestinians in 12 hours. If this isn’t genocide, then genocide as a concept doesn’t exist

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Mar 18

I will go so far out of my way to avoid Russ Avenue that I practically know every road in Waynesville at this point. These industrialists aren’t gonna keep me trapped in that single-file line of metal and misery. 😭

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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · Mar 11

Most outside this city (and even far too many here) don't understand the massive destruction wrought by redlining and "urban renewal" here. It left Asheville hyper-segregated, something city hall has enforced with countless actions since: ashevilleblade.com?p=241 #avlgov #avlnews

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Swagger / Tail Light Rebellion @jonnyswagger.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Feb 26

I hope you think of me every time you get solicitors during election season 😂😇

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Truthout @truthout.org · Feb 26

The Trump administration has announced that it is seizing full control over which journalists have access to the press pool covering the president, taking the power from the organization that has represented journalists who cover the White House for over 100 years.

Trump Administration Seizes Control Over White House Press Pool in Chilling Move

“In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps,” the White House press group said.

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Feb 25

Me and my closest organizing comrades are stocking up on basic necessities, OTC medicines, hygiene products, nonperishable items — tariffs be damned, we are spiraling towards the collapse of late stage capitalism and WE ARE DETERMINED TO SURVIVE. Pls I am begging y’all to start organizing together❤️🖤

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · Feb 24

"[Siembra] praised the neighbors for their response, for using the hotline as it was intended, and pointed out that if the federal government had warrants to arrest people, those should have been easy to produce. They also discouraged people from spreading unverified rumors about ICE..."

Trump Wants Us to Fear ICE — Our Resistance Must Spread Solidarity, Not Panic

ICE arrived in unmarked vehicles to snatch our neighbors. Here’s how a North Carolina community organized in response.

truthout.org

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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · Feb 23

Total rental aid on the Feb. 25 Asheville city council agenda: $0

This was the same amount that they considered at their Feb. 11 meeting too. #avlnews

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Feb 24

The African People’s Socialist Party (2015) notes “A stand that fears Trump fails to recognize that when Africans in the US were subjected to public, mass lynchings, that terror was carried out by non-fascist ‘democratic’ states and ordinary white citizens.” 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Feb 16

Our neighbors in Central Appalachia are, once again, facing the consequences of the climate crisis. EKY were some of the first folks to respond and mobilize to the hardest parts of WNC to reach after Helene. It’s our turn now. Come hell or high water, we take care of each other.

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Feb 16

The chicken nuggies of radicalizing content — I love this high key

LeftInTennessee @bristolhatter.bsky.social · Feb 10

It's a fantastic episode and one I highly recommend. What I enjoy about @rednecksrising.bsky.social podcast is their ability to break down these issues in discussion and serve these intricate details of nuggets in a way that's easy and digestible. Like chicken nuggets.

Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Jan 31

The first episode of the podcast for 2025 is a banger, featuring our comrades at @stopcopcityhershey.bsky.social

In this episode, we explore the cop city project, the power of creative mutual aid and its role in abolition, and the need for intentional community building.

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Billie @billietheshidd.bsky.social · Feb 6

People who’ve never been involved in the work perceive that nobody is doing anything because they don’t recognize what it looks like to be engaged in the work. They only recognize progress if it was born of the traditional paradigm… The one that got us here in the first place.

A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · Feb 6

I was going to try and limit my politics posting but one thing that I think may be worth talking about...

A very common refrain I hear from people is that they don't understand why more people aren't freaking out about fascism or why nobody is 'doing anything'.

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Feb 2

The moon and Jupiter are going hard tonight from the view in Western NC

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Rednecks Rising @rednecksrising.bsky.social · Jan 31

Welcoming my new followers like

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