- Location
- Reno
- Pronouns
- They/Them
OOF on the FLM nat one. That sucks. IWW and The Lime Wirerers got some nat 20s tho
The American Decay (Riot)
- Thread starter yeastmobile
- Start date
- Alt. History Modern
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Rolls are up, sorry for taking a minute on those. Looks like everybody got pretty lucky this turn besides FLM! Results will come soon 
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Interesting that buying/renting/sharing premises doesn't depend on rolls, I hadn't recalled that. Makes for a short slate of rolls this turn, what with literally everyone doing that who could.
- Location
- Reno
- Pronouns
- They/Them
IWW Social Media = 80
IWW Ideas Committee = 69 (nice)
TLW Band = 67
FLM Connect With Homeless = 46
BB! Connect with Philly Queer = 61
Anon Project Chanology = 70
Honestly not an awful turn. The IWW is having a great time of it, hopefully this'll let them supercharge their unionization efforts next turn. Probably more actions for them to take as well. TLW's band is doing pretty well, probably some funds and supporter growth out of that. FLM got the lowest roll, and even then a 46 is usually just kinda blow average in these kinds of quests. Not as many options or support as they could have had, but its not like the roll failed.
BB! is getting inroads with the Philly queer community, probably more actions, funds and supporters there. The real wild card is the pretty damn successful Project Chanology. IRL it did pretty well at undercutting Scientology, but this might go even further beyond that. I also assume it'll lead to the historical surge in growth 4chan experienced after the OTL Chanology happened. Lots of new supporters for Anonmyous, but they'll have to work even harder to prevent the rightward 'trolling' shift from occurring. This is also during the time period when the online harassment campaign against Chris-Chan is heating up. Ideally a shift in Anon's priorities might see that squashed and the start of the 'lolcow' farming movement on 4chan that lead to the acceleration of troll and right wing ideation there stopped or slowed.
IWW Ideas Committee = 69 (nice)
TLW Band = 67
FLM Connect With Homeless = 46
BB! Connect with Philly Queer = 61
Anon Project Chanology = 70
Honestly not an awful turn. The IWW is having a great time of it, hopefully this'll let them supercharge their unionization efforts next turn. Probably more actions for them to take as well. TLW's band is doing pretty well, probably some funds and supporter growth out of that. FLM got the lowest roll, and even then a 46 is usually just kinda blow average in these kinds of quests. Not as many options or support as they could have had, but its not like the roll failed.
BB! is getting inroads with the Philly queer community, probably more actions, funds and supporters there. The real wild card is the pretty damn successful Project Chanology. IRL it did pretty well at undercutting Scientology, but this might go even further beyond that. I also assume it'll lead to the historical surge in growth 4chan experienced after the OTL Chanology happened. Lots of new supporters for Anonmyous, but they'll have to work even harder to prevent the rightward 'trolling' shift from occurring. This is also during the time period when the online harassment campaign against Chris-Chan is heating up. Ideally a shift in Anon's priorities might see that squashed and the start of the 'lolcow' farming movement on 4chan that lead to the acceleration of troll and right wing ideation there stopped or slowed.
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I looked through the first turn or two of AE and didn't notice it depending on rolls?
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I'm not gainsaying you, I had literally forgotten
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Yay, good rolls for the IWW. Though hmm, no rolls on supporting the Trucker Strikes? From American Experiment, I was expecting the usual d20 per fund dedicated to be progress towards that goal.
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I rolled that behind the scenes as I didn't remember it getting rolled in the thread for those actions woops. Can do that next turn.
2008 Q1: Actions
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
2008 Q1 Results
2008 starts off with minor controversy. A tornado outbreak starts and stop in four days, killing just as many people and injuring dozens others. President bush leaves in the middle of it to tour the Middle East. A week after getting back Bush announces an economic stimulus package. Proposing $700 an individual, and $1500 per couple. The stock market plunges three days later. The CBS News writers strike ends with a tentative deal.
February goes just as well, atrocities committed by military personnel happen in Iraq and Japan, the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak kills 59, and the Stock market plunges 4%. A mass shooting happens in Illinois, and the Writers Guild of America ends their strike with a tentative agreement.
March is quiet. John McCain secures the Republican presidential nomination. A bomb explodes outside an unoccupied military recruitment office in Times Square hurting no one. The Federal Reserve cuts rates by 75 points down to 2.25%.
People are getting worried, but hey, how bad can it get?
Industrial Workers of the World
The wobblies look around at the state of the country, and realize they need much more cash than they have at hand if they want to form that One Big Union. They institute dues, small ones, but without delinquency some members have to leave or become at arm's length so as to manage their personal finances. This barely impacted their efforts though with this quarter being very effective.
Social media accounts: 80
The wobblies went on a digital spree of setting up accounts of every social media site they could find, and with the fresh influx of dues money, were able to pay someone to maintain them. While they all shared the same news, members of the IWW made sure to also check out the profiles and engage in the comments and replies of the posts the IWW accounts would make. Spreading awareness of the group through the digital realm.
(3% permanent recruitment bonus, 8% incidental recruitment bonus)
Support trucker strikes: (103/500)
As diesel prices start to rise across the nation, truckers start getting nervous, and the IWW notices. While talk of a strike is scoffed at due to the byzantine and anti-labor structure of the trucking industry, sending feelers out to rest stops across the country and talking to drivers about organizing for future action takes root in their minds, and truckers start to talk about ways to protest higher fuel prices and low pay. One group of owner-operators even pull over off the side of an interstate to make a protest, extending for miles along a busy section of interstate down in Georgia. While not doing much to be disruptive, it does get media attention.
Setup ideas committee for deciding actions to respond to the subprime mortgage crisis: 69
The subprime mortgage crisis has hit the american middle class light a freight train. The IWW sees this as an opportunity to try and make a small comeback, and to help those affected. A committee of volunteers is set up to come up with ideas. The committee sets to work coming up with ideas for ways to help those in immediate need from the crisis, most not immediately useful until funds crop up to implement them.
(+10 to actions related to housing)
Internationalist Workers' Group
The IWG, looking at the task ahead of them, and reaches for a place to sit. Seeing they have enough cash and noticing the rent market is forcing rents to go up, they make the choice to buy themselves a small office. Squeezed between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, they are only a few streets away from the state Capitol. Hungry for the vision that one day the workers will seize it for their own.
The Lime Wirers
Setup a band: 67
Stolen Powr, the S being a serpent with an apple in its jaws, and the O as a lotus flower, starts to play Gigs around southern California. They shock crowds in dive bars across the area by… actually being good? Their lyrics hit home to the downtrodden, and the tech savvy in the community love the puns and references. To those outside those demographics the bassline is absolutely killer and the drummer is insane. Every show they go to they pass out a stack of freshly burned CD's of their songs and they always run out before they leave. Not good enough to attract attention from talent seekers, but enough to keep scheduling gigs to make a little extra cash.
(10% bonus to Funds, 6.7% recruitment bonus next turn)
American Avant-Garde Literature Society
The AALS looked around, saw the world lacking, and decided to add something new to it. They began throwing half parties half meetings at members homes throughout the midwest. Sometimes devolving into protests about some issue or another, there was always an energy in the air whenever the AALS got together to discuss issues and come up with solutions. Not all of them made sense, or went in what some members thought were the right direction, but they kept the group moving forward. Faster and faster into the future that only the energy of the optimistic youth could bring as the world slowly started to crack and creak at the seams.
Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Connect with the homeless populations in NYC: 46
The FLM starts their journey looking for people who already know how to squat and live in the cracks of society. Connecting with the homeless is slow going at first, with most people not wanting to bother with college kids asking weird questions about politics they understand, but eventually the FLM manages to convince people they aren't cops, and people warm up to sharing their experiences and methods for how to find places to squat in, holes in the city to live in, and spaces to be safe in from police sweeps. Most of the methods are useful in urban environments, but some can be shared with the comrades up in Vermont, and some people even offer to join the FLM.
(+5 to actions related to organizing urban environments, 4.6% recruitment bonus next turn)
Cyborg Party
The Cyborg Party realized that they needed places for discussions, but were too dispersed to hold them in one area. After a few weeks of grumbling on forums and in coffee shops, an idea was formed. Maker spaces all through the west coast would be used to set up meetings. Not only did this give them organizational spaces with access to tools to try out futuristic ideas, it also allowed them to connect with other visionaries and technological tinkerers like them. Before long a common question in west coast maker spaces is "Are you a Cyborg?"
American Workers' Party
The American Workers' Party realizes they will need locations to set up at for further expansion and preparation. Renting out warehouses is within their budget, so they grab a few that they can afford. Though for their average meeting they set up various geographically dispersed "councils" to manage organization day-to-day in other areas. Even if for now most meetings are ideas for future action.
The Hero Legion
Every Superhero team needs their secret base! Where better to set one up than in a secret location! No need for paperwork or anything else easily traceable to their secret identities. An abandoned warehouse on the edge of town is… infiltrated and starts to turn into a secret lair. With workspace being made for work on the various -mobiles and gadgets that every superhero without powers will need.
The New October Movement
The NOM starts off their liberation war with the smallest of actions, breaking into unoccupied/foreclosed homes and setting up shop. While the legality of such an action is… dangerous, the capitalists stole these homes from working class people anyways. And some people using these homes even use to live in them.
Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
Frank sees the writing on the walls with how small his organization is, and how important the task of responding to a collapse of the american economy is. He instates dues for members, with a sliding scale for income, so that he can set up some bigger projects to really help the most people. Though after some protests from the poorest members, and some rich members, he allows people to be delinquent and not be kicked out. It's more important to help each other than share each others paychecks. Though some members on the left of the organization petition for and get Frank to accept using non-monetary methods to pay dues. A few cans of beans here, a 100 rounds of 5.56 there, and everyone can share what they have as long as it's roughly what they would have paid in cash anyways. While the org can't use toilet paper to buy ammo on the open market, they can barter between members for it.
Bash Back!
Connect with queer spaces in Philadelphia: 61
Connections into queer spaces goes slowly. Most people are wary about "bashing back" and feel they are slowly being accepted into society. Then Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15 year old 8th grade student from California, is shot dead for the crime of being gay.
Queer Philadelphians and allies alike react with shock to the news, along with the rest of the country. Vigils and marches sprout up everywhere, and Condolences were given. Thoughts and prayers, this was a very sad event for us all.
Bash Back! on the other hand did not send thoughts and prayers but actions and actionable ideas. They organized marches and vigils in the Philadelphia area with community leaders. Giving safe spaces for members of the queer community to process, and giving speeches decrying that they are and always will be under attack as long as society stays heteronormative, forcing queer people to assimilate and keep quiet about their identity lest they be attacked. Their efforts were not the most effective as legislation was introduced in some states to include diversity education, causing some to gain hope in the system and back out of the radical action of BB! Overall people were receptive though.
(6.1% bonus to recruitment next turn)
Anonymous
Some members of Anonymous realize the security concerns of coordinating and organizing on public image-boards, and while they have had private spaces to organize in before, they've taken the opportunity to build one of their own to use. Using servers based out of countries outside of the Five Eyes, and mandating the use of a vpn to access it, members of the organization start to feel slightly safer in their digital organizing.
Execute Project Chanology on schedule: 70
Project Chanology goes off swimingly. With the release of a youtube video announcing the project, a coordinated cyberattack is launched against scientologist sites. One member manages to upload malware to scientologist servers that deletes the firmware, rendering most scientologist internet connected hardware as inert bricks, knocking them off the internet entirely. It takes scientology a few weeks to restore from some ancient backups on new hardware, and is promptly DDoSed. The response from Scientology is muted at first, though eventually leadership calls those that committed the attack "cyberterrorists committing religious hate crimes". Without a clear target for legal action though the church does its best to ignore the movement.
In-person protests happen alongside the downage, popping up at almost every Scientologist 'church'. The Guy Fawkes mask making its way into the headlines and feeds of millions of people as onlookers try to figure out who these mysterious people are that came out of nowhere, punched Scientologists digital face, and kept up the pressure for months with the message that "nobody is safe, we do not forgive, we do not forget." Riot police even arrested a handful of protesters at an event in Atlanta after the protest spilled out onto the street with the crowd growing too large.
(7.0% bonus to recruitment next turn)
2008 starts off with minor controversy. A tornado outbreak starts and stop in four days, killing just as many people and injuring dozens others. President bush leaves in the middle of it to tour the Middle East. A week after getting back Bush announces an economic stimulus package. Proposing $700 an individual, and $1500 per couple. The stock market plunges three days later. The CBS News writers strike ends with a tentative deal.
February goes just as well, atrocities committed by military personnel happen in Iraq and Japan, the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak kills 59, and the Stock market plunges 4%. A mass shooting happens in Illinois, and the Writers Guild of America ends their strike with a tentative agreement.
March is quiet. John McCain secures the Republican presidential nomination. A bomb explodes outside an unoccupied military recruitment office in Times Square hurting no one. The Federal Reserve cuts rates by 75 points down to 2.25%.
People are getting worried, but hey, how bad can it get?
Industrial Workers of the World
The wobblies look around at the state of the country, and realize they need much more cash than they have at hand if they want to form that One Big Union. They institute dues, small ones, but without delinquency some members have to leave or become at arm's length so as to manage their personal finances. This barely impacted their efforts though with this quarter being very effective.
Social media accounts: 80
The wobblies went on a digital spree of setting up accounts of every social media site they could find, and with the fresh influx of dues money, were able to pay someone to maintain them. While they all shared the same news, members of the IWW made sure to also check out the profiles and engage in the comments and replies of the posts the IWW accounts would make. Spreading awareness of the group through the digital realm.
(3% permanent recruitment bonus, 8% incidental recruitment bonus)
Support trucker strikes: (103/500)
As diesel prices start to rise across the nation, truckers start getting nervous, and the IWW notices. While talk of a strike is scoffed at due to the byzantine and anti-labor structure of the trucking industry, sending feelers out to rest stops across the country and talking to drivers about organizing for future action takes root in their minds, and truckers start to talk about ways to protest higher fuel prices and low pay. One group of owner-operators even pull over off the side of an interstate to make a protest, extending for miles along a busy section of interstate down in Georgia. While not doing much to be disruptive, it does get media attention.
Setup ideas committee for deciding actions to respond to the subprime mortgage crisis: 69
The subprime mortgage crisis has hit the american middle class light a freight train. The IWW sees this as an opportunity to try and make a small comeback, and to help those affected. A committee of volunteers is set up to come up with ideas. The committee sets to work coming up with ideas for ways to help those in immediate need from the crisis, most not immediately useful until funds crop up to implement them.
(+10 to actions related to housing)
Internationalist Workers' Group
The IWG, looking at the task ahead of them, and reaches for a place to sit. Seeing they have enough cash and noticing the rent market is forcing rents to go up, they make the choice to buy themselves a small office. Squeezed between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, they are only a few streets away from the state Capitol. Hungry for the vision that one day the workers will seize it for their own.
The Lime Wirers
Setup a band: 67
Stolen Powr, the S being a serpent with an apple in its jaws, and the O as a lotus flower, starts to play Gigs around southern California. They shock crowds in dive bars across the area by… actually being good? Their lyrics hit home to the downtrodden, and the tech savvy in the community love the puns and references. To those outside those demographics the bassline is absolutely killer and the drummer is insane. Every show they go to they pass out a stack of freshly burned CD's of their songs and they always run out before they leave. Not good enough to attract attention from talent seekers, but enough to keep scheduling gigs to make a little extra cash.
(10% bonus to Funds, 6.7% recruitment bonus next turn)
American Avant-Garde Literature Society
The AALS looked around, saw the world lacking, and decided to add something new to it. They began throwing half parties half meetings at members homes throughout the midwest. Sometimes devolving into protests about some issue or another, there was always an energy in the air whenever the AALS got together to discuss issues and come up with solutions. Not all of them made sense, or went in what some members thought were the right direction, but they kept the group moving forward. Faster and faster into the future that only the energy of the optimistic youth could bring as the world slowly started to crack and creak at the seams.
Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Connect with the homeless populations in NYC: 46
The FLM starts their journey looking for people who already know how to squat and live in the cracks of society. Connecting with the homeless is slow going at first, with most people not wanting to bother with college kids asking weird questions about politics they understand, but eventually the FLM manages to convince people they aren't cops, and people warm up to sharing their experiences and methods for how to find places to squat in, holes in the city to live in, and spaces to be safe in from police sweeps. Most of the methods are useful in urban environments, but some can be shared with the comrades up in Vermont, and some people even offer to join the FLM.
(+5 to actions related to organizing urban environments, 4.6% recruitment bonus next turn)
Cyborg Party
The Cyborg Party realized that they needed places for discussions, but were too dispersed to hold them in one area. After a few weeks of grumbling on forums and in coffee shops, an idea was formed. Maker spaces all through the west coast would be used to set up meetings. Not only did this give them organizational spaces with access to tools to try out futuristic ideas, it also allowed them to connect with other visionaries and technological tinkerers like them. Before long a common question in west coast maker spaces is "Are you a Cyborg?"
American Workers' Party
The American Workers' Party realizes they will need locations to set up at for further expansion and preparation. Renting out warehouses is within their budget, so they grab a few that they can afford. Though for their average meeting they set up various geographically dispersed "councils" to manage organization day-to-day in other areas. Even if for now most meetings are ideas for future action.
The Hero Legion
Every Superhero team needs their secret base! Where better to set one up than in a secret location! No need for paperwork or anything else easily traceable to their secret identities. An abandoned warehouse on the edge of town is… infiltrated and starts to turn into a secret lair. With workspace being made for work on the various -mobiles and gadgets that every superhero without powers will need.
The New October Movement
The NOM starts off their liberation war with the smallest of actions, breaking into unoccupied/foreclosed homes and setting up shop. While the legality of such an action is… dangerous, the capitalists stole these homes from working class people anyways. And some people using these homes even use to live in them.
Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
Frank sees the writing on the walls with how small his organization is, and how important the task of responding to a collapse of the american economy is. He instates dues for members, with a sliding scale for income, so that he can set up some bigger projects to really help the most people. Though after some protests from the poorest members, and some rich members, he allows people to be delinquent and not be kicked out. It's more important to help each other than share each others paychecks. Though some members on the left of the organization petition for and get Frank to accept using non-monetary methods to pay dues. A few cans of beans here, a 100 rounds of 5.56 there, and everyone can share what they have as long as it's roughly what they would have paid in cash anyways. While the org can't use toilet paper to buy ammo on the open market, they can barter between members for it.
Bash Back!
Connect with queer spaces in Philadelphia: 61
Connections into queer spaces goes slowly. Most people are wary about "bashing back" and feel they are slowly being accepted into society. Then Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15 year old 8th grade student from California, is shot dead for the crime of being gay.
Queer Philadelphians and allies alike react with shock to the news, along with the rest of the country. Vigils and marches sprout up everywhere, and Condolences were given. Thoughts and prayers, this was a very sad event for us all.
Bash Back! on the other hand did not send thoughts and prayers but actions and actionable ideas. They organized marches and vigils in the Philadelphia area with community leaders. Giving safe spaces for members of the queer community to process, and giving speeches decrying that they are and always will be under attack as long as society stays heteronormative, forcing queer people to assimilate and keep quiet about their identity lest they be attacked. Their efforts were not the most effective as legislation was introduced in some states to include diversity education, causing some to gain hope in the system and back out of the radical action of BB! Overall people were receptive though.
(6.1% bonus to recruitment next turn)
Anonymous
Some members of Anonymous realize the security concerns of coordinating and organizing on public image-boards, and while they have had private spaces to organize in before, they've taken the opportunity to build one of their own to use. Using servers based out of countries outside of the Five Eyes, and mandating the use of a vpn to access it, members of the organization start to feel slightly safer in their digital organizing.
Execute Project Chanology on schedule: 70
Project Chanology goes off swimingly. With the release of a youtube video announcing the project, a coordinated cyberattack is launched against scientologist sites. One member manages to upload malware to scientologist servers that deletes the firmware, rendering most scientologist internet connected hardware as inert bricks, knocking them off the internet entirely. It takes scientology a few weeks to restore from some ancient backups on new hardware, and is promptly DDoSed. The response from Scientology is muted at first, though eventually leadership calls those that committed the attack "cyberterrorists committing religious hate crimes". Without a clear target for legal action though the church does its best to ignore the movement.
In-person protests happen alongside the downage, popping up at almost every Scientologist 'church'. The Guy Fawkes mask making its way into the headlines and feeds of millions of people as onlookers try to figure out who these mysterious people are that came out of nowhere, punched Scientologists digital face, and kept up the pressure for months with the message that "nobody is safe, we do not forgive, we do not forget." Riot police even arrested a handful of protesters at an event in Atlanta after the protest spilled out onto the street with the crowd growing too large.
(7.0% bonus to recruitment next turn)
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Organizational Info Sheets - end of 2008Q1, going into 2008Q2
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Industrial Workers of the World
Internationalist Workers' Group
The Lime Wirers
American Avant-Garde Literature Society
Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Cyborg Party
American Workers' Party
The Hero Legion
The New October Movement
Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
Bash Back!
Anonymous
Dues: Small
Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World have steamed on as but a shadow of their former selves, but nevertheless still existent. Recent economic crises and radicalization has seen some new blood entering the organization. An injury to one is an injury to all. Let us form one big Union to unite the world behind!
Locale: Dispersed, headquartered Cincinnati, Ohio. Notable Activity in NYC.
Supporters: Various Workers
Ideology: Industrial Unionism, Internationalism, Industrial Democracy, Syndicalism
Committees: Subprime Mortgage Crisis Response Committee (+10 to actions related to housing)
Continuous Actions: Social media accounts (3% continuous boost to recruitment)
Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World have steamed on as but a shadow of their former selves, but nevertheless still existent. Recent economic crises and radicalization has seen some new blood entering the organization. An injury to one is an injury to all. Let us form one big Union to unite the world behind!
Locale: Dispersed, headquartered Cincinnati, Ohio. Notable Activity in NYC.
Supporters: Various Workers
Ideology: Industrial Unionism, Internationalism, Industrial Democracy, Syndicalism
Committees: Subprime Mortgage Crisis Response Committee (+10 to actions related to housing)
Continuous Actions: Social media accounts (3% continuous boost to recruitment)
Internationalist Workers' Group
Formed from the publishers of Internationalist Notes (US), and Notes Internationalistes/Internationaist Notes (Canada). They are the organizing committee of the International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party in the US and Canada. To summarize their beliefs, They believe in fluid organization building through the spreading of class consciousness and organizational theory and not permanent organizations. Essentially single-event unions to be discarded and replaced so as to not get subsumed into the capitalist system organized by a central party.
Locale: Madison, Wisconsin and Montreal, Canada
Supporters: Factory, retail, and university workers, and students.
Ideology: Left Communist
Property: A small office in Madison. +1 Action
Locale: Madison, Wisconsin and Montreal, Canada
Supporters: Factory, retail, and university workers, and students.
Ideology: Left Communist
Property: A small office in Madison. +1 Action
The Lime Wirers
Founded July 11, 2001 in protest of the shutting down of Napster, supporting not only freely available music but also freely available information of all kinds. Formed from a collection of intellectuals and their book/music club in Palo Alto, California.
Locale: Southern California
Supporters: Melophiles , amateur chemists, small time journalists/bloggers, and hacker activists.
Ideology: left crytpo-anarchism, illegalism
Special Attributes: Stolen Powr, a band that plays in dive-bars across southern California. (10% bonus to Funds)
Locale: Southern California
Supporters: Melophiles , amateur chemists, small time journalists/bloggers, and hacker activists.
Ideology: left crytpo-anarchism, illegalism
Special Attributes: Stolen Powr, a band that plays in dive-bars across southern California. (10% bonus to Funds)
American Avant-Garde Literature Society
The Literature Society was founded in late 2001 as a protest against the invasion of Afghanistan and later the War in Iraq by a bunch of dissatisfied art students in Chicago, Illinois. Since then, the Literature Society has grown in shape and scale -membership numbers exploded thanks to the internet and the rise of meme culture, although coordination is hampered by its semi-decentralized nature.
Locale: Dispersed, headquarters in Chicago, main activity areas are Boston and NYC.
Supporters: Students & Intellectuals, authors, terminally online, disaffected small business owners, retail workers, feminists, LGBTQ+, and POC
Ideology: Situationism, Surrealism, Marxism, Libertarian Socialism, other various materialist/surrealist tendencies, F A S T E R
Property: A rotational meeting place system of peoples houses and street parties. +1 Action
Locale: Dispersed, headquarters in Chicago, main activity areas are Boston and NYC.
Supporters: Students & Intellectuals, authors, terminally online, disaffected small business owners, retail workers, feminists, LGBTQ+, and POC
Ideology: Situationism, Surrealism, Marxism, Libertarian Socialism, other various materialist/surrealist tendencies, F A S T E R
Property: A rotational meeting place system of peoples houses and street parties. +1 Action
Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Founded as a response to 2007 financial crash by university student helping people that lost their home and jobs via mutual aid, forcefully occupying foreclosed homes, and advocating for municipal libertarianism. they also have significant caucus advocating for both indigenous landback and environmentalism. they are currently organized in repossessing foreclosed homes to be used as shelter during the though times and expanding mutual aid to cover more than basic necessities.
Locale: Dispersed in north east region, but particularity organized in Vermont and New York City
Supporters: Students, homeless, jobless, indigenous, and environmentalist
Ideology: Social ecology, Communalism, Municipal libertarianism, bookchin thought.
Affiliations: NYC Homeless population. (+5 to actions related to urban organizing)
Locale: Dispersed in north east region, but particularity organized in Vermont and New York City
Supporters: Students, homeless, jobless, indigenous, and environmentalist
Ideology: Social ecology, Communalism, Municipal libertarianism, bookchin thought.
Affiliations: NYC Homeless population. (+5 to actions related to urban organizing)
Cyborg Party
Initially founded in 2006 by a group of feminist college students in Oregon who were inspired by the works of Donna Haraway, in particular her 1985 "A Cyborg Manifesto," the 'Cyborg Party' is a 'posthumanist' movement which can primarily be found on internet blogs or heated twitter threads. Recently however, in response to the financial crisis, one of the original founders - Veronica Wakeman - has begun retaking control over the "party" and martialling them to take real-world action.
Locale: Dispersed, but more concentrated on the west coast
Supporters: Students, homeless, jobless, indigenous, and environmentalist
Ideology: Feminism (marxist feminism, cyberfeminism, ecofeminism), socialism, intersectionality, philosophical posthumanism
Affiliations: Maker spaces up and down the west coast. +1 Action
Locale: Dispersed, but more concentrated on the west coast
Supporters: Students, homeless, jobless, indigenous, and environmentalist
Ideology: Feminism (marxist feminism, cyberfeminism, ecofeminism), socialism, intersectionality, philosophical posthumanism
Affiliations: Maker spaces up and down the west coast. +1 Action
American Workers' Party
Inspired by the Kurdistan's Workers' Party's new ideology combining aspects of old socialist theory and new ideas of feminism, multiculturalism, and environmentalism, radicals came together to form the American Workers' Party. Rejecting electoralism (though not to the degree of anarchists), they seek to use direct action and mutual aid to build up support as well as encouraging people to be directly involved in its participatory democratic system.
Locale: Dispersed across the rust belt, main area of operation in Chicago
Supporters: Workers, university students
Ideology: Democratic Confederalism, but flexible to fit the needs of the American movement, such as an increased emphasis on queer rights.
Property: A few warehouses. +1 Action
Locale: Dispersed across the rust belt, main area of operation in Chicago
Supporters: Workers, university students
Ideology: Democratic Confederalism, but flexible to fit the needs of the American movement, such as an increased emphasis on queer rights.
Property: A few warehouses. +1 Action
The Hero Legion
Freddy Glover, also going by the name of The Fist, was a kid who absolutely loved superhero comics, instead of collecting them or just keeping up to date on comics trivia like a normal sane person he learnt various forms of street fighting, dressed up in a costume with a Fist motif, and started actually investigating and beating up real criminals, soon others followed his example, some for fun, some actually following his ideology, but he had somehow gathered enough people to form the Hero Legion
Locale: Main activity in Tampa Florida, Dispersed supporters
Supporters: Superheros, Superhero Fans, and Vigilanties
Ideology: Vigilantism
Property: The Secret Base! (A warehouse in the Tampa slums) +1 Action
Locale: Main activity in Tampa Florida, Dispersed supporters
Supporters: Superheros, Superhero Fans, and Vigilanties
Ideology: Vigilantism
Property: The Secret Base! (A warehouse in the Tampa slums) +1 Action
The New October Movement
With the Revolutionary Communist Party's increasing slide into revisionism and cultism, radical Maoists and anti-revisionist Marxists began to search for a new home. In Atlanta these forces coalesced around aid groups and organizing groups formed in the aftermath of the March 14th tornado. University students, workers and ex-RCP forces banded together to form a new organization following the thought of Mao Zedong
Locale: Atlanta
Supporters: Retail workers, university students, ex-RCP activists
Ideology: Maoist
Property: Foreclosed homes being squatted in. +1 Action
Locale: Atlanta
Supporters: Retail workers, university students, ex-RCP activists
Ideology: Maoist
Property: Foreclosed homes being squatted in. +1 Action
Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
Dues: Based on income, allows delinquency and non-monetary payment methods.
Founded by Francis 'Frank' Sato, a 2nd generation immigrant with a disabled younger sister, due to disagreements with the broader survivalist movement: initially he simply thought of it as being caught up in a "cult of the badass survivor" that blinded people from thinking about realistic and effective survival strategies, but over time this developed into him taking issue with what he identified as a 'fascistic and eugenicist streak' within the movement. Frank founded the VHDSM to try and create a survival group "which would actually help people survive a disaster, and not immediately devolve into white supremacist banditry." The VHDSM, like all survivalist movements, has had its membership buoyed by the recent financial crisis, as well as the ongoing popular trend of apocalyptic media.
Locale: Washington State
Supporters: Survivalists, queer people, disabled people, ethnic minorities, youth, disaffected veterans, nerds (zombie fans, gun and/or military enthusiasts), homeless people
Ideology: Officially an apolitical survivalist organization, the main ideological trends in the VHDSM are: bio-regionalism (right-wing of the movement); liberalism, anti-bigotry (centre of the movement); anti-fascism, anarchism (left-wing of the movement).
Founded by Francis 'Frank' Sato, a 2nd generation immigrant with a disabled younger sister, due to disagreements with the broader survivalist movement: initially he simply thought of it as being caught up in a "cult of the badass survivor" that blinded people from thinking about realistic and effective survival strategies, but over time this developed into him taking issue with what he identified as a 'fascistic and eugenicist streak' within the movement. Frank founded the VHDSM to try and create a survival group "which would actually help people survive a disaster, and not immediately devolve into white supremacist banditry." The VHDSM, like all survivalist movements, has had its membership buoyed by the recent financial crisis, as well as the ongoing popular trend of apocalyptic media.
Locale: Washington State
Supporters: Survivalists, queer people, disabled people, ethnic minorities, youth, disaffected veterans, nerds (zombie fans, gun and/or military enthusiasts), homeless people
Ideology: Officially an apolitical survivalist organization, the main ideological trends in the VHDSM are: bio-regionalism (right-wing of the movement); liberalism, anti-bigotry (centre of the movement); anti-fascism, anarchism (left-wing of the movement).
Bash Back!
Formed in Chicago in 2007 to facilitate a convergence of radical trans and gay activists from around the country, Bash Back! sought to critique the ideology of the mainstream LGBT movement, which the group saw as assimilation into the dominant institutions of a heteronormative society.
Locale: Dispersed, heavy activity in Philadelphia and Seattle
Supporters: Queer people and allies, students, feminists, anarchists, punks
Ideology: Queer liberation, anti-heteronormative assimilation, queer self-defense, queer anarchism, insurrectionary anarchism, illegalism, intersectionality, feminism, anti-racism, youth liberation
Affiliations: Queer spaces and organizations in Philadelphia
Locale: Dispersed, heavy activity in Philadelphia and Seattle
Supporters: Queer people and allies, students, feminists, anarchists, punks
Ideology: Queer liberation, anti-heteronormative assimilation, queer self-defense, queer anarchism, insurrectionary anarchism, illegalism, intersectionality, feminism, anti-racism, youth liberation
Affiliations: Queer spaces and organizations in Philadelphia
Anonymous
Factions and Influence:
Hacktivist: 31%
Troll: 43%
Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an "anarchic", digitized "global brain" or "hivemind". Anonymous members (known as anons) can sometimes be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. Some anons also opt to mask their voices through voice changers or text-to-speech programs.
Locale: Dispersed
Supporters: Hackers, IT workers, netizens
Ideology: Anti-Authoritarianism, Hacktivism
Continuous Actions: Project Chanology. As long as the message is spread, people will know Anonymous is out there. (3% recruitment bonus)
Hacktivist: 31%
Troll: 43%
Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an "anarchic", digitized "global brain" or "hivemind". Anonymous members (known as anons) can sometimes be distinguished in public by the wearing of Guy Fawkes masks in the style portrayed in the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. Some anons also opt to mask their voices through voice changers or text-to-speech programs.
Locale: Dispersed
Supporters: Hackers, IT workers, netizens
Ideology: Anti-Authoritarianism, Hacktivism
Continuous Actions: Project Chanology. As long as the message is spread, people will know Anonymous is out there. (3% recruitment bonus)
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- Location
- Not the asylum anymore
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Wonder if we could use this to promote anti-police sentiment among the Anonymous base. Pump up the hacktivist numbers in comparison to trhe Trolls.
2008 Q2: Supporters Gather
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Alright just opening up this vote. Note to self since I can't figure out how to set a vote timer, vote should end at 2pm on sunday July 2nd.
[] Industrial Workers of the World
[] Internationalist Workers' Group
[] The Lime Wirers
[] American Avant-Garde Literature Society
[] Federation of Libertarian Municipality
[] Cyborg Party
[] American Workers' Party
[] The New October Movement
[] Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
[] Bash Back!
[] Anonymous
[] Industrial Workers of the World
[] Internationalist Workers' Group
[] The Lime Wirers
[] American Avant-Garde Literature Society
[] Federation of Libertarian Municipality
[] Cyborg Party
[] American Workers' Party
[] The New October Movement
[] Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
[] Bash Back!
[] Anonymous
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- Location
- California,USA
[X] The Hero Legion
[X] Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
Florida Man RISES!
Also Hey any VHDSM Guys...wanna be friend?
[X] Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
Florida Man RISES!
Also Hey any VHDSM Guys...wanna be friend?
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- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Reminder you can vote for two groups. There are no negative consequences for doing so, and it helps others
- Location
- Not the asylum anymore
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Anonymous
-[X] Hacktivist
[X] American Avant-Garde Literature Society
-[X] Hacktivist
[X] American Avant-Garde Literature Society
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LuxemburgLover69
There are more things between Heaven and Earth...
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Internationalist Workers' Group
[X] Federation of Libertarian Municipality
[X] Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
[X] Industrial Workers of the World
[X] American Avant-Garde Literature Society
[X] American Avant-Garde Literature Society
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Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Done.
Edit: Huh, combining temporary and permanent boosts, IWW should have an 11% recruitment boost this round. Nice. Anon seems to be 2nd place with 10%.
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Scrivener
The Femme In Yellow
- Location
- Don't Leave Me Here You Bastards
- Pronouns
- She/Her/They
- Location
- Somewhere in the area
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
[X] The New October Movement
[X] Bash Back!
[X] Bash Back!
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
That was probably me, but I already traded my 2nd vote for the Avant-Garde Literature Society. Sorry.
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