- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You have to assign these action to a plan for the org these actions are for, but these look like actions from different orgs so this doesn't work anyways?
The American Decay (Riot)
- Thread starter yeastmobile
- Start date
- Alt. History Modern
AG_AG
I love vegetarian food: it goes great with steak
- Location
- California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Understood. Since I don't really have any sort of plan I will delete my original message
- Location
- Australia
- Pronouns
- He/They
[x][CyP] Plan Definitely not terminally online anymore
-[x] Require dues
---[x] Small
--[x] Allow delinquent members
-[x] Manage online presence.
--[x] Social Media Accounts: 2 funds, 0 per turn.
-[x] Create a CyP-affiliated tabletop roleplaying game and associated "publishing company" to produce it. 5 Funds
I was going to just reach out to student researchers this quarter, but apparently funds don't transfer between turns. So I figured I might as well make more use of my funds.
-[x] Require dues
---[x] Small
--[x] Allow delinquent members
-[x] Manage online presence.
--[x] Social Media Accounts: 2 funds, 0 per turn.
-[x] Create a CyP-affiliated tabletop roleplaying game and associated "publishing company" to produce it. 5 Funds
I was going to just reach out to student researchers this quarter, but apparently funds don't transfer between turns. So I figured I might as well make more use of my funds.
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Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
[X][FF] Plan Money Money Money
-[x] Require dues
--[x] Large
--[x] Allow delinquent members
---[x] Making dues mandatory would be a form of taxation, and thus slavery! But while the Foundation will allow delinquency, members who refuse to contribute will be shamed as moochers who're trying to leech upon the productive members of the organization.
-[x] Require dues
--[x] Large
--[x] Allow delinquent members
---[x] Making dues mandatory would be a form of taxation, and thus slavery! But while the Foundation will allow delinquency, members who refuse to contribute will be shamed as moochers who're trying to leech upon the productive members of the organization.
- Location
- France
- Pronouns
- She/They
Damn the action economy is really killing us. I had planned to do some skill sharing but we aren't going to move forward with one action so we need the meeting space. I can't see a good reason to do the lightweight meeting place option when the funds would be wasted anyway. But since we're sinking 10 funds into it, I'm going to suggest a write in.
[X][VHDSM] Plan make a home
-[X] Purchase a property a little distance away from the city with some grounds for meeting members to throw tents and canopies together in addition to a building for more permanent recordkeeping. Ideally in a small community we aren't unwelcome in and could buy more land in later. 10 funds
@yeastmobile is that acceptable?
[X][VHDSM] Plan make a home
-[X] Purchase a property a little distance away from the city with some grounds for meeting members to throw tents and canopies together in addition to a building for more permanent recordkeeping. Ideally in a small community we aren't unwelcome in and could buy more land in later. 10 funds
@yeastmobile is that acceptable?
dex10awesome
Anarcho-Determinist
- Location
- Australia
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X][IWW] Plan Industrial Union 530
-[X] Manage online presence.
--[X] Personal Website: 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Make a newspaper.
--[X] Local: 15 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Organize protests about ?
--[X] Sympathy and solidarity with the trucker strikes
-[X] Support trucker strikes over rising diesel prices: 37 funds
-[X] Manage online presence.
--[X] Personal Website: 10 funds, -5 per turn.
-[X] Make a newspaper.
--[X] Local: 15 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Organize protests about ?
--[X] Sympathy and solidarity with the trucker strikes
-[X] Support trucker strikes over rising diesel prices: 37 funds
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
[x][IWG] Plan: Emilia's Lovely this Time of Year (2008Q2)
(11/11 funds) (4/3+1 actions)
-[x] Require dues.
--[x] Based on income.
-[x] Manage online presence.
--[x] Social media accounts. 2 funds.
-[x] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[x] In the workplaces of cities. 7 funds.
-[x] Accept invitation to attend the IBRP's meeting in Parma, Italy. (Free Action) 2 funds.
And it is this time of year. The 2009 meeting's in Milan.
(11/11 funds) (4/3+1 actions)
-[x] Require dues.
--[x] Based on income.
-[x] Manage online presence.
--[x] Social media accounts. 2 funds.
-[x] Send agitators to publicly speak supporting your cause.
--[x] In the workplaces of cities. 7 funds.
-[x] Accept invitation to attend the IBRP's meeting in Parma, Italy. (Free Action) 2 funds.
And it is this time of year. The 2009 meeting's in Milan.
Scrivener
The Femme In Yellow
- Location
- Don't Leave Me Here You Bastards
- Pronouns
- She/Her/They
[X][AALS] Shatter the Spectacle
-[X] Work with Food Not Bombs to distribute free food across Chicago. 5 Funds
-[X] Produce Art and Essays extolling the atrocities of America, and promising a better future built by those with visions beyond this capitalist hellscape.
-[X] Social Media Accounts: 2 funds, 0 per turn.
-[X] Work with Food Not Bombs to distribute free food across Chicago. 5 Funds
-[X] Produce Art and Essays extolling the atrocities of America, and promising a better future built by those with visions beyond this capitalist hellscape.
-[X] Social Media Accounts: 2 funds, 0 per turn.
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
[X][PLP] Plan: Building the Vanguard (2008Q2)
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
--[X] Allow delinquent members
-[X] Require dues
--[X] Based on income
--[X] Allow delinquent members
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X][BB!]Belay the Bullies!
-[X] Start a youth section of the org, recognizing safe schools for families to send their kids to and setting up a help line for youth at risk of self harm from abuse. 2 Funds
--[X] The fatal shooting of Lawrence "Larry" King has shown to the queer community and the world that not even kids are safe from violence from the anti-queer movement. It's imperative we work on creating a safe space and provide resources for at risk children, no matter queer or cishet.
-[X] Rent, Squat, or set up a rotational system for ensuring a known meeting space for the organization. 2 Funds
[X][AALS] Shatter the Spectacle
-[X] Work with Food Not Bombs to distribute free food across Chicago. 5 Funds
-[X] Produce Art and Essays extolling the atrocities of America, and promising a better future built by those with visions beyond this capitalist hellscape.
-[X] Social Media Accounts: 2 funds, 0 per turn.
-[X] Start a youth section of the org, recognizing safe schools for families to send their kids to and setting up a help line for youth at risk of self harm from abuse. 2 Funds
--[X] The fatal shooting of Lawrence "Larry" King has shown to the queer community and the world that not even kids are safe from violence from the anti-queer movement. It's imperative we work on creating a safe space and provide resources for at risk children, no matter queer or cishet.
-[X] Rent, Squat, or set up a rotational system for ensuring a known meeting space for the organization. 2 Funds
[X][AALS] Shatter the Spectacle
-[X] Work with Food Not Bombs to distribute free food across Chicago. 5 Funds
-[X] Produce Art and Essays extolling the atrocities of America, and promising a better future built by those with visions beyond this capitalist hellscape.
-[X] Social Media Accounts: 2 funds, 0 per turn.
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Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
[X] [ANON] "I'm behind seven proxies."
-[X] Improve the cybersecurity and quality of life of 4san, your digital meeting place for Anonymous. 14 Funds
-[X] Form a "lessons learned" workshopping group and a red vs. blue pen test wargame to improve the infosec and penetration skills of members. 3 Funds -1 Funds per turn
-[X] Establish contact and rapport with other hacker collectives.
Letting Project Chanology coast a bit while we work up the skill-base and security of our operations, because otherwise they're going to start rolling up dumbasses.
-[X] Improve the cybersecurity and quality of life of 4san, your digital meeting place for Anonymous. 14 Funds
-[X] Form a "lessons learned" workshopping group and a red vs. blue pen test wargame to improve the infosec and penetration skills of members. 3 Funds -1 Funds per turn
-[X] Establish contact and rapport with other hacker collectives.
Letting Project Chanology coast a bit while we work up the skill-base and security of our operations, because otherwise they're going to start rolling up dumbasses.
Voting Closed
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Let's see if I do this right this time.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Plans, divided by "task" rather than by "block."
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Oh well, maybe i'll figure it out next time by using desktop instead of mobile. Anyways time for rolls.
2008 Q2: Actions
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
2008 Q2 Results
The Second quarter of 2008 is buzzing with background activity. Pope Benedict XVI visits the US on a week long trip in early April, visiting the White House, the former WTC, and Yankee Stadium. In the middle of his trip an earthquake hits southeast Illinois, causing several injuries and limited damage. Iron Man releases in theaters as a roaring success, propelling a superhero barely anybody has heard of to the top spot.
At the beginning of May General Motors announces it's mothballing three plants in Michigan and Oshawa, Ontario, causing protests by the UAW and CAW. The truckers strike put pressure on continued operations at the plants after an announcement in late April signaled only a cut in production, and with the company already faltering due to low car sales, operations have to be cut back.
As a bank run causes Washington Mutual to go under, the stock market falters, not a crash, but a worrying downturn that investors are speculating might be a sign that a recession is incoming, especially with the news of General Motors halting production.
Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly is caught on camera uttering the phrase "Fuck it we'll do it live!" which instantly becomes viral across the internet. The California supreme court rules a same-sex marriage ban is constitutional, keeping Massachusetts as the only state in the union that allows same-sex marriage.
As June rolls around Barack Obama secures the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first African American presumptive presidential candidate for a major political party. As the economy falters in more obvious ways, Hope and Change become the words many people rally around.
You don't need a weatherman to known which way the wind blows.
Industrial Workers of the World
Personal Website: 58
The IWW had a website for a while now, but it was barely updated, and with the invigoration of new members and fresh social media accounts it had a new reason for life. With sections being fleshed out for existing Unions and unions in incubation, and the front-page being able to be filled out with recent actions of the org, it's felt more alive than it has ever been before.
And other people have noticed that as well. With the news feed being contributed to by newspaper writers and volunteers a like,
(+5% permanent recruitment bonus, 5.8% incidental recruitment bonus)
Local Newspaper (Cincinnati): 45
The Industrial Worker is a newspaper that the IWW has printed continuously for 102 years now in Chicago, Illinois. It is the last remaining vestige of news print the IWW holds over from its early days. But with new members and new money, branch papers are able to become a reality again. The Cincinnati Worker starts rolling off the presses in early May. Giving commentary on labor news both local and national, with a focus on local, it provides a voice for the people of Cincinnati that they haven't had for years since the mass media companies started to gobble up all the oxygen and control the narratives people read and tell.
(+3% permanent recruitment bonus, 4.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Protests for trucker strikes: 51
The trucking business is made up of many types of people. Some of whom are not into the whole Direct Action business. But parking by the side of the road and displaying a banner for people to see? They can do that. With small scale protests being organized all over the country, but majoritively in the eastern parts, truckers get the word out about how unfair the business is to those just trying to provide for their families and make enough to save up for retirement. Public support soars with these protests, even if materially nothing gets accomplished. The name of the IWW does crop up though whenever people ask how this was organized, and a few new faces start getting added to the membership rolls.
(+5.1% incidental recruitment bonus)
Trucker strikes (103 + 437 = 540/500)
Trucking as a profession has long been under the radical purview of the Teamsters. But the Trucking industry has been neglected by them for a number of reasons. None of those matter much now as the IWW has stepped in and rallied a number of truckers to the Industrial Union 530. With organizers going out to rest stops across the nation, and CB radio call signs lighting up like a Christmas tree agitating radical action. Many sleepless nights were had, because trucking also never slept. Truckers pulled in and out of every rest stop at all hours of the day. While being accosted by strangers talking of solidarity wasn't appreciated when they only had a limited time to get cleaned, fed, and rested. They also realized that limited time was because they were being squeezed like the stranger said. Conversations were held, numbers were exchanged, email addresses and forum contact information was exchanged, and the word got around as far as it could on short notice. The seeds for a trucking strike have been laid and have been sprouting for over 20 years now, as the industry got worse and worse to work in, and workers were squeezed for more and more. The only thing holding them back so far was organization. So when the call went out, and a plan was formed and placed in peoples hands, they grasped it with all their might. Eventually, a critical mass of truckers is determined to have heard the word, and on May 1st, 2008 a truckers strike goes into effect.
It takes less than a day to become apparent how widespread this action has gotten.
Supply chains ground to a halt, stores missed their shipments, factories missed their deadlines, warehouses stopped being able to move product and supplies. From Maine to Florida to Texas to Wisconsin, over half of all over-land trucking ground to a halt in the continental United States.
At the peak of the strike on the second day, an estimated three-fourths of a million trucks had refused to haul a load. Crippling the USA's economy and ability to maintain the Just-In-Time economy that had been forming steam over the past few decades.
President Bush acted as quickly as he could once the crisis became apparent, calling for the national guard to step in and haul materials for "industries vital to national security", and some Republican politicians calling for the Smith Act to be invoked to charge the ringleaders with treason for crippling Americas economy during wartime. This of course is looked at with amused expression by Congressmen who know the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are wars of Presidential power and not Congressional Authority so the legality of such a move would be contested in the courts.
The national guard and military though didn't have nearly enough trained drivers to replace the truckers and gently pushed back that maybe negotiations were the more effective option at the moment. The courts also looked on with amusement because there really wasn't a clear ringleader of the strike. The truckers just seemed to be upset.
Though, fortunately, or unfortunately depending on who you are, this wasn't needed as during the third day, the carrier companies that employed or contracted the striking workers opened up to negotiations. Realizing the scope of the problem could not be solved by any quick means, and wanting to get back to business as usual before real damage was done, everyone agreed to sit down and negotiate.
Every trucker who participated was allowed to be represented by the Industrial Union 530 of the IWW. Stepping up to the plate to represent them, many companies had to be negotiated with as the problems were not limited to a single company, but were industry wide. Negotiations continued throughout May, and by the middle of June with the threat of another strike being thrown around, most companies affected by the strike agreed to a majority of demands. While some truckers grumbled they could have gotten more, and fewer still grumbling they could have gotten more truckers in on the strike if they had waited for another month of of organization to happen, most were satisfied they got something out of losing three days of pay. The truckers in the western half of the united states would have to wait their turn.
Companies like J. B. Hunt, XPO Logistics, Landstar System, Old Dominion Freight Line, and Schneider National were all the ones to sit down and recognize the union (as those were the companies with the most employees/contractors to have gone on strike) and begin negotiations. Some employees in smaller companies despaired at not getting representation, or simply switched employers to get covered, inadvertently increasing the market share of the companies. Something that eased the burden of agreeing to the unreasonable demands of the truckers:
All drivers are employees of the company, not independent contractors. This opened them up to employee benefits for things like, health insurance or insurance on their trucks they didn't have to pay out of pocket. This also opened them up to compensation for time spent waiting/idling in their trucks to pick up a load (effectively a minimum wage), and compensation for fuel expenses. The companies agreed to a scheduling refusal clause, where a trucker could refuse to be dispatched on a load if its too soon after the last load, without the threat of being fired if they didn't take it. It had been standard practice for if dispatched were low on drivers, to call in a trucker who didn't get the "mandatory" minimum 11 hours rest in-between loads. This saw a drop in accident rates across the country as truckers were able to get a guaranteed good amount of rest in-between loads for the first time since the 70s.
While these points were the "minimum" demands for the truckers, they were massively impactful. The companies affected saw a small hit to their profits, unforgivable in the modern world, and raised freight rates "to compensate". Passing off a bit off price gouging to the consumers to compensate for the crime of having to pay their workers a livable wage was acceptable.
Speaking of the consumer, to the average person, the truckers strike was nonexistent on the west coast, with the east coast noticing emptying supermarket shelves, and gas stations saying they were out of gas. This caused an oil panic were everyone tried to fill up their tanks as they had no idea when the strike would be over, causing many gas stations to quickly sell out, and transportation in some regions grinding to a complete halt, disrupting the economy even further. After the end of the strike it took roughly a week for the situation to stabilize, but by then people had already realized just how fragile and precarious the entire transportation situation of the USA was, from the companies to the consumer.
Meanwhile, the Republican government was at a complete loss of what to do. President Bush was a firm believer in the free market, so didn't commit to any government action beyond getting the military to drive some military loads, and directing federal agencies to union-bust. The Democrats on the other hand capitalized on it in a media campaign, pointing out that it was Reagan era deregulation that caused this current disaster, and pointing out Bushes absent (public) reaction to the crisis and letting it unfold.
The IWW in the meanwhile saw a huge increase in member rolls. Their name was mentioned everywhere in the media coverage. Never in any headlines, except attack articles, but in places the curious labor conscious reader would find, they were there awaiting with open arms to invite in those that saw the power in a union.
(+40% incidental recruitment bonus, most of the east coast trucking industry is unionized, being a trucker is less of a living hell, -2 penalty per Fund for unionizing the rest of the Trucking industry)
Internationalist Workers' Group
The IWG realized that with their big ideas of what to do with their new office, they would need the cash to implement them. So unfortunately, dues were implemented. It is instituted on a sliding scale, and if you can't pay then you are suspended from the org until you can. While there is much grumbling about this move, and some members do leave, it does provide a necessary influx of cash for future ideas to become a reality. In other paperwork news the invitation by the IBRP was accepted and plans for sending representatives to Italy in 2009 are made, though obviously won't be put into action for another year.
Social Media accounts: 43
The IWG puts up a variety of social media accounts this quarter. While most of the members are older and unaccustomed to the technology, they are able to find useful ways to share theory and literature of how to organize on their pages. Following events and providing commentary of politics and economic moves nets them a steady audience, and making sure to comment on local events gets the community to know their name, even if via a passing comment decrying about "petite-bourgeois frivolity" that perks their interest to know more about these Italian speaking people.
(+3% permanent recruitment bonus, +4.3% incidental recruitment bonus)
Send agitators to the workplaces of cities: 71
Sending agitators to the workplaces of cities is not like what it once was 100 years ago. Nowadays if a worker is caught slacking off or talking radical left politics with a customer they could face disciplinary action, or be fired. But the old timers in the IWG had been around this block once or twice and were able to get into plenty of workplaces and strike up a few conversations. Simply showing solidarity with someone who is obviously overworked, or cracking relatable jokes about the hopelessness of ones situation can go a long way to building a rapport with peoples who's entire existence is boiled down to corporate speaking 5 minute interactions to get the customer to buy a product. While most of the Funds went towards small, frivolous purchases to justify the interactions within such spaces, connections were made, and the IWG was able to name drop literature, their group, and places to meet up outside of working hours. Some people were even receptive to discussing with their coworkers these ideas. Though, how those interactions went we may never know. At the very least, the IWG noticed an uptick in new members, so they had to be doing something right.
(+7.1% incidental recruitment bonus)
The Lime Wirers
The Lime Wirers set up a system this quarter of setting up meetings at dive bars and coffee-shops this quarter. Mostly taking place during Stolen Powr gigs, the org rents the time before and after the band plays to take time to discuss issues and projects of the org. With the band releasing a "slower" album for playing in coffee-shops. While most of the other patrons would rather their drinking not be interrupted by a bunch of nerds and punks talking about the logistics of being a digital pirate, others find the discussions engaging, especially after they find out the band they came to listen to is part of this group of radicals. Though there are plenty of hecklers.
(+10% incidental recruitment bonus)
American Avant-Garde Literature Society
FNB: (55/?)
Food Not Bombs Has been in operation in Chicagos Northwest for over 20 years now serving vegan and vegetarian food while living with constant police and FBI harassment. So when they saw a gaggle of youths approaching them and offering assistance they accepted as more hands were always welcome. Then they were told the funding the AALS was able to scrape together and provide to the org, and their eyes popped out of their heads in a cartoon fashion.
In they past, FNB Chicago had only been able to distribute food from one location, twice a week. But with how much extra funding the AALS was able to provide, they were able to expand to the Southwest as well, and have food distribution three times a week at each location. This significantly ingratiated the local residents to both the AALS and FNB, but with FNB's name on everything they got the bulk of thanks. The AALS was still able to talk to people and explain their unique stance on issues, and people were generally receptive as long as they had a warm bowl of food to hear it over.
(+5.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Art: 45
Endless art is produced by the members of AALS, not all of it good, but quantity is a quality of its own. Posted to sites, read in jazz bars, and published in university newspapers, Essays, poems, political cartoons, and animations rule the day as an idea of rapid change is implanted in the minds of those willing to spend their time to consume this media. Comedy is the best medicine, and America is a sick country. News of military atrocities are dolled out in graphic detail like a clown dissecting a joke, only for its blackness to become funny again. Treatment of minorities, and those that mistreat them are deformed and stretched in fantastical ways until even the medium itself is being made fun of for not being able to properly capture the horror.
But horror is not all that is extolled. Better, brighter futures are explored and presented, critiqued, and re-presented. Like an ouroboros of presenting a better world, it consumes the tragedies of daily life under the American Empire, and regenerates new ideas for how to supplant it. Even critiques from readers, viewers, and listeners are listened to and incorporated into these ideas, or mocked for their capitalist realist view of the world.
(+4.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Social Media Accounts: 70
The AALS starts up the meme machine this quarter with a flurry of social media accounts, including on sites other orgs might not consider to be conventional social media. The youth of the org create rage comic after rage comic and come up with unconventional ways to use them to convey ideas.
(+3% permanent recruitment bonus, +7% incidental recruitment bonus)
Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Overfunded squatting: 54
The FLM decides this quarter to try and make a home for themselves. Literally. A small shanty town has started to grow in disused property in a poorer part of one of NYC's boroughs. Situated next to properties being squatted in, the organization is taking a risk by growing in a centralized location like this. Some funds go to gathering supplies to build something sturdier than a tent, and to blend in with local construction. While this may attract attention eventually, for now it gives a good central location for meetings to take place in NYC, and is making a more pleasant place for the cities homeless to live in.
(+5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Cyborg Party
The Cyborg Party implements dues this quarter, needing the cash to further ideas they have all over the place. While small, and allowing for members to not pay if they are strapped for cash, they provide a much needed injection of spending power to further the reach of the org.
Social Media Accounts: 42
Social Media accounts are set up across a variety of sites, while many people don't understand the terms and concepts being thrown around, the younger members of the org are able to make memes and posts that resonate with people of a more esoteric nature than your average person.
(3% permanent recruitment bonus, 4.2% incidental recruitment bonus)
TTRPG and publishing company: 55
The Cyborg Party decided on an unconventional approach to explain it's ideology to people unaware of the concepts, through a TTRPG. Introducing, Hardwired Horizons! Set in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, but a hyper-capitalist society has caused a system wide collapse through the inadvertent release of hyper-intelligent AIs and climate collapse. The players are left to live in the cracks of society as it tries to cling to life on orbiting bodies, separate from the home-world that is now an unlivable husk. With heavy trans- and post-humanist themes, and a dice system that takes only a practice session or two to learn, it becomes a hit with certain subsets of TTRPG gamers, and starts selling well everywhere the "publishing company" (Cyborg Printing) can distribute to. A blurb at the start of the rules book gives people information of how to get in touch with the Cyborg Party, and before too long, the Party starts to hear back from people interested in these revolutionary new ideas.
(+5% permanent Funds increase, +5.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
American Workers' Party
The AWP this quarter decided they needed to take more concrete steps to disconnect from "the grid" so to speak, dues based on a sliding scale would be implemented, but they were non-mandatory, and instead one could provide goods and services to other members in a variety of ways. With a good subset of rural members, food is able to be taken directly from the pens and fields of farms, straight to the plates of those in the organization who most need it, while feed and fertilizer and given to them by other members who find it cheaper or more productive than paying dues.
Mutual aid for members: (97/1825)
The dues model is taken even further with members setting up an official method of coordinating mutual aid. In the early planning stages at the moment, members are able to outline their expenses and needs, and also what they can contribute to the community, and people are matched up to help. Right now only a small handful of members are contributing, but with more effort more members should be able to contribute as they figure out what they can do to help, and what they can receive in return to help live a life disconnected from Capital.
(+5% permanent Funds) (As the org grows this percentage will go down unless the mutual aid network is continuously grown to keep up)
The Future Foundation
Spend money to make money baby and if you can't spend the money then you aren't going to make it! Send in your payment right now to support the organization to get rich quick or fall behind! And it's alright if you fall behind, not everybody can make it in the fast paced world of finance but hey McDonald's is always hiring! Ah we're just kidding, you can stay if you can't make the payment, but seriously, if you can't make the payment, are you serious about making the big bucks? Think on it kid and get back to us. Happy to see you next month, just try to be a winner next time alright? We need that seed capital to start this money machine a rollin!
The New October Movement
The NOM ached for funding, and so decided they could afford to implement dues. Or at least a form of self-sufficiency as an organization. A sliding scale was set up, ensuring fairness based on how strapped for cash an individual was, and if life got in the way, then a bit of delinquency was fine. They even allowed for non-monetary methods of payment to be used. Exchanging canned goods, providing house-work for those busy with their jobs, and car maintenance for those unable to pay costly mechanic rates, the organization was able to live 'off-grid' just that little bit more as long as they stayed with the org.
Social Media Accounts: 48
A variety of Social Media accounts were set up this quarter, directed at Atlanta and Georgia residents first and foremost. While the maoism wasn't shied away from, the main focus of the accounts was to stress the need for community support as the economy started to falter, and news of local small scale horrors of capitalism were shared. People seemed receptive to the strategy of posting how the org was helping members most of all, and new supporters started to message about joining.
(3% permanent recruitment bonus, 4.8% incidental recruitment bonus)
March Tornado Relief: 72
The March Tornado's caused a large amount of structural damage in the southern and northern Atlanta suburbs, and thankfully only killed 3 people. The city and insurance companies stepped in and dump money on homeowners and businesses, but beyond the initial relief efforts, people were left to pick up the pieces, and most people affected didn't get anything at all outside of an insurance payout that might now have been enough in the first place.
NOM wasn't the only organization to step up to the plate, and it wasn't the largest, but people noticed, and they were thankful. Members went around repairing storm damage for free, lending out clean water for those with power still out, and cleaned up debris. Peoples who's rental property were damaged or destroyed were given assistance to move to undamaged places, and people who lost their homes and were receptive to it were allowed to squat in some of the properties NOM knew of. A little bit went a long way, and people were sure to remember the kindness, even if NOM members kept saying funny words about economics.
(7.2% incidental recruitment bonus)
Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
The VHDSM realized they had an excess of money, and knew just what to do with it. After a bit of shopping around for land in Washington state, A large patch of cheap, and relatively flat, land was found off route State Route 530, across the Sauk River. A little south of Rockport, but north of the Campground, there was plenty of uninhabited land to expand into. While the Sauk River did present a logistical challenge to getting into town, it also provided for a lot of privacy, with traffic on the closest road being almost nonexistent besides the occasional trip into town by one of your two neighbors.
With a bit of effort and time, a log cabin was build to act as a main lodge for the members, while a small tent city started to form around it. The local neighbors on this side of the river consist of a single farming family, and a lone shack dweller at the base of the close by mountain, with acres and acres in-between. While they are nervous of "A bunch of newcomers coming in with big ideas" they seem receptive as long as you stay friendly.
Bash Back!
Bash Back! Starts setting up regular meetings in queer spaces throughout the cities they operate in. Never choosing the same place twice, and always giving a different but related description of what the event will be about, Bash Back! Is able to have plenty of meetings that look more like public speaker events, with long form question and answer segments. To those not in the know, when they realize what's going on, they usually become incredibly curious. With the recent news from California opening up a lot of these curious folks to the idea of anti-assimilation.
(+5% permanent recruitment bonus unless California reverses course, +10% incidental recruitment bonus)
Queer Family and Youth support: 27
The effort to form a youth and family support network started off strong with a lot of energy behind it. Plans were drawn up, accommodating schools were looked into, and families were contacted. That last point was where the trouble started though. Some families of queer youth, after learning that an organization of adults was looking to have their child sent to "accommodating schools" freaked out, and contacted the media. A smear campaign by Morality in Media was started to pain Bash Back! As a bunch of radical groomer pedophiles that wanted to abduct children. While this was nothing more than a few hit pieces in right wing media outlets warning of the dangers of letting your kid choose the gay lifestyle, some Bash Back! members who were public facing in the initial organizing effort were approached in their homes by FBI agents looking into a "child sex trafficking ring". This put a damper on most of the efforts, and most members refused to continue efforts for the rest of the quarter until the hit pieces calmed down in fear of having their lives ruined.
(+2.7% incidental recruitment bonus, -20 to actions pertaining to organizing the youth until the Media calms down and moves on)
Anonymous
4san sanity improvement: 138
4san, the grown up version of 4chan as some members call it, was initially just a private server run out of Iceland. Some members grew to dislike this approach though, and money was collected and poured in to making the site even better. Diverting from its 4chan image-board roots, 4san is a forum with features not found elsewhere on the internet. Only accessible by vetted members who know of the specific IP address, and only via using a small subset of white-listed ssh encrypted VPN addresses, and only with an account made specifically for that user, the forum is incredibly user friendly, and compatible with the, supposedly more secure, Firefox web browser. Inbuilt Git support for keeping up to date with the latest changes to tools, and a functional in-house search function, there is no reason to look anywhere else for any hacker needs. Sure the load time could be better, and the site needs to go down two days a month to make sure the latest security features are installed and old threads with compromising details are deleted, but compared to any surface web sites nothing feels safer to use. An IRC live-chat is the planning stages, but until a little more money is injected to buy more server resources, the forum thread method and inbuilt dm's will have to do. The server is currently "owned" by a company based out of Panama with a CEO who is a Panamanian native paid $50 to write their name on a piece of paper, but run by a small elected council of core members that rotates regularly.
(+10 to rolls preventing cyberattacks)
Wargaming: 49
Effort this quarter towards developing a "red vs. blue" war-gaming team exercise went relatively smoothly. A system was set up where every month, the organization would set up two teams, red team, which had a set of "examples documents" and blue team, who had to secure the documents. The first week of the month would be a "preparation" phase where each team would hone their defenses and cyber-weapons to try and gain an edge. Most of the red team efforts went to pushing select code changes to repositories all over the internet in the name of "bug fixes from concerned users". The Linux environment soaked most of these up. Blue team on the other hand pushed to private repositories of "tools" the organization had been developing for a while now. After the initial week of prep, the next week of the month would go to penetrating the defenses of red team, or blocking the attacks of blue team. Points are given for how long it takes blue team to "recover" documents, or for however many documents red team is able to keep secure, with each team only knowing their score in the third week or the "lessons learned week". Both teams would be assembled to be judged by referees who would go through and point out every single mistake each individual member of each team made, or as many as could be done in a week. Offering and asking for advice on how to resolve each problem and how to make the game more educational. The fourth week of the month would be where members who did not participate in the war-game were directed to implement these lessons learned, with anyone who did not seem to want to learn noted down as untrustworthy for further review. April was spent brainstorming the idea, May was the trial run, and June was when it got serious. It was determined that every month was too much, but once a quarter should be fine.
(+10 permanent bonus to digital actions)
Contact other hacker collectives: 51
The effort to contact other hacking collectives went about as well as could have been expected. A few groups didn't want to respond to "the script kiddies making a public fuss", but most were willing to reach out after being impressed by the initial assault upon Scientology. Offers to share knowledge of exploits and zero days were given and taken up on, and some groups even were impressed by the organization of Anonymous. Noting that the war-gaming idea would be a great idea to hold between groups as a rapport building measure, though trust was limited in some groups who saw the level of organization and screamed "federal funding", but thankfully no groups decided to attack any of the infrastructure built. Though some penetration tests were noted.
(+5.1% incidental recruitment bonus)
Progressive Labor Party
The PLP felt the wind blowing mid-2008 and woke from a slumber they had been in for a long time. A bunch of new members had joined and the org looked around and realized there was too much work to do on the small budget they had available from member donations. So they set about setting up a dues system. Wanting everyone to pay their fair share, but knowing they're working to organize the most disadvantaged parts of society, they set up a sliding scale system. From each according to their ability, but no pressure if you are in a spot of trouble and can not afford to make a payment.
A/N: Would you believe me in saying I did way too much research into trucker forums in 2008?
The Second quarter of 2008 is buzzing with background activity. Pope Benedict XVI visits the US on a week long trip in early April, visiting the White House, the former WTC, and Yankee Stadium. In the middle of his trip an earthquake hits southeast Illinois, causing several injuries and limited damage. Iron Man releases in theaters as a roaring success, propelling a superhero barely anybody has heard of to the top spot.
At the beginning of May General Motors announces it's mothballing three plants in Michigan and Oshawa, Ontario, causing protests by the UAW and CAW. The truckers strike put pressure on continued operations at the plants after an announcement in late April signaled only a cut in production, and with the company already faltering due to low car sales, operations have to be cut back.
As a bank run causes Washington Mutual to go under, the stock market falters, not a crash, but a worrying downturn that investors are speculating might be a sign that a recession is incoming, especially with the news of General Motors halting production.
Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly is caught on camera uttering the phrase "Fuck it we'll do it live!" which instantly becomes viral across the internet. The California supreme court rules a same-sex marriage ban is constitutional, keeping Massachusetts as the only state in the union that allows same-sex marriage.
As June rolls around Barack Obama secures the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first African American presumptive presidential candidate for a major political party. As the economy falters in more obvious ways, Hope and Change become the words many people rally around.
You don't need a weatherman to known which way the wind blows.
Industrial Workers of the World
Personal Website: 58
The IWW had a website for a while now, but it was barely updated, and with the invigoration of new members and fresh social media accounts it had a new reason for life. With sections being fleshed out for existing Unions and unions in incubation, and the front-page being able to be filled out with recent actions of the org, it's felt more alive than it has ever been before.
And other people have noticed that as well. With the news feed being contributed to by newspaper writers and volunteers a like,
(+5% permanent recruitment bonus, 5.8% incidental recruitment bonus)
Local Newspaper (Cincinnati): 45
The Industrial Worker is a newspaper that the IWW has printed continuously for 102 years now in Chicago, Illinois. It is the last remaining vestige of news print the IWW holds over from its early days. But with new members and new money, branch papers are able to become a reality again. The Cincinnati Worker starts rolling off the presses in early May. Giving commentary on labor news both local and national, with a focus on local, it provides a voice for the people of Cincinnati that they haven't had for years since the mass media companies started to gobble up all the oxygen and control the narratives people read and tell.
(+3% permanent recruitment bonus, 4.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Protests for trucker strikes: 51
The trucking business is made up of many types of people. Some of whom are not into the whole Direct Action business. But parking by the side of the road and displaying a banner for people to see? They can do that. With small scale protests being organized all over the country, but majoritively in the eastern parts, truckers get the word out about how unfair the business is to those just trying to provide for their families and make enough to save up for retirement. Public support soars with these protests, even if materially nothing gets accomplished. The name of the IWW does crop up though whenever people ask how this was organized, and a few new faces start getting added to the membership rolls.
(+5.1% incidental recruitment bonus)
Trucker strikes (103 + 437 = 540/500)
Trucking as a profession has long been under the radical purview of the Teamsters. But the Trucking industry has been neglected by them for a number of reasons. None of those matter much now as the IWW has stepped in and rallied a number of truckers to the Industrial Union 530. With organizers going out to rest stops across the nation, and CB radio call signs lighting up like a Christmas tree agitating radical action. Many sleepless nights were had, because trucking also never slept. Truckers pulled in and out of every rest stop at all hours of the day. While being accosted by strangers talking of solidarity wasn't appreciated when they only had a limited time to get cleaned, fed, and rested. They also realized that limited time was because they were being squeezed like the stranger said. Conversations were held, numbers were exchanged, email addresses and forum contact information was exchanged, and the word got around as far as it could on short notice. The seeds for a trucking strike have been laid and have been sprouting for over 20 years now, as the industry got worse and worse to work in, and workers were squeezed for more and more. The only thing holding them back so far was organization. So when the call went out, and a plan was formed and placed in peoples hands, they grasped it with all their might. Eventually, a critical mass of truckers is determined to have heard the word, and on May 1st, 2008 a truckers strike goes into effect.
It takes less than a day to become apparent how widespread this action has gotten.
Supply chains ground to a halt, stores missed their shipments, factories missed their deadlines, warehouses stopped being able to move product and supplies. From Maine to Florida to Texas to Wisconsin, over half of all over-land trucking ground to a halt in the continental United States.
At the peak of the strike on the second day, an estimated three-fourths of a million trucks had refused to haul a load. Crippling the USA's economy and ability to maintain the Just-In-Time economy that had been forming steam over the past few decades.
President Bush acted as quickly as he could once the crisis became apparent, calling for the national guard to step in and haul materials for "industries vital to national security", and some Republican politicians calling for the Smith Act to be invoked to charge the ringleaders with treason for crippling Americas economy during wartime. This of course is looked at with amused expression by Congressmen who know the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are wars of Presidential power and not Congressional Authority so the legality of such a move would be contested in the courts.
The national guard and military though didn't have nearly enough trained drivers to replace the truckers and gently pushed back that maybe negotiations were the more effective option at the moment. The courts also looked on with amusement because there really wasn't a clear ringleader of the strike. The truckers just seemed to be upset.
Though, fortunately, or unfortunately depending on who you are, this wasn't needed as during the third day, the carrier companies that employed or contracted the striking workers opened up to negotiations. Realizing the scope of the problem could not be solved by any quick means, and wanting to get back to business as usual before real damage was done, everyone agreed to sit down and negotiate.
Every trucker who participated was allowed to be represented by the Industrial Union 530 of the IWW. Stepping up to the plate to represent them, many companies had to be negotiated with as the problems were not limited to a single company, but were industry wide. Negotiations continued throughout May, and by the middle of June with the threat of another strike being thrown around, most companies affected by the strike agreed to a majority of demands. While some truckers grumbled they could have gotten more, and fewer still grumbling they could have gotten more truckers in on the strike if they had waited for another month of of organization to happen, most were satisfied they got something out of losing three days of pay. The truckers in the western half of the united states would have to wait their turn.
Companies like J. B. Hunt, XPO Logistics, Landstar System, Old Dominion Freight Line, and Schneider National were all the ones to sit down and recognize the union (as those were the companies with the most employees/contractors to have gone on strike) and begin negotiations. Some employees in smaller companies despaired at not getting representation, or simply switched employers to get covered, inadvertently increasing the market share of the companies. Something that eased the burden of agreeing to the unreasonable demands of the truckers:
All drivers are employees of the company, not independent contractors. This opened them up to employee benefits for things like, health insurance or insurance on their trucks they didn't have to pay out of pocket. This also opened them up to compensation for time spent waiting/idling in their trucks to pick up a load (effectively a minimum wage), and compensation for fuel expenses. The companies agreed to a scheduling refusal clause, where a trucker could refuse to be dispatched on a load if its too soon after the last load, without the threat of being fired if they didn't take it. It had been standard practice for if dispatched were low on drivers, to call in a trucker who didn't get the "mandatory" minimum 11 hours rest in-between loads. This saw a drop in accident rates across the country as truckers were able to get a guaranteed good amount of rest in-between loads for the first time since the 70s.
While these points were the "minimum" demands for the truckers, they were massively impactful. The companies affected saw a small hit to their profits, unforgivable in the modern world, and raised freight rates "to compensate". Passing off a bit off price gouging to the consumers to compensate for the crime of having to pay their workers a livable wage was acceptable.
Speaking of the consumer, to the average person, the truckers strike was nonexistent on the west coast, with the east coast noticing emptying supermarket shelves, and gas stations saying they were out of gas. This caused an oil panic were everyone tried to fill up their tanks as they had no idea when the strike would be over, causing many gas stations to quickly sell out, and transportation in some regions grinding to a complete halt, disrupting the economy even further. After the end of the strike it took roughly a week for the situation to stabilize, but by then people had already realized just how fragile and precarious the entire transportation situation of the USA was, from the companies to the consumer.
Meanwhile, the Republican government was at a complete loss of what to do. President Bush was a firm believer in the free market, so didn't commit to any government action beyond getting the military to drive some military loads, and directing federal agencies to union-bust. The Democrats on the other hand capitalized on it in a media campaign, pointing out that it was Reagan era deregulation that caused this current disaster, and pointing out Bushes absent (public) reaction to the crisis and letting it unfold.
The IWW in the meanwhile saw a huge increase in member rolls. Their name was mentioned everywhere in the media coverage. Never in any headlines, except attack articles, but in places the curious labor conscious reader would find, they were there awaiting with open arms to invite in those that saw the power in a union.
(+40% incidental recruitment bonus, most of the east coast trucking industry is unionized, being a trucker is less of a living hell, -2 penalty per Fund for unionizing the rest of the Trucking industry)
Internationalist Workers' Group
The IWG realized that with their big ideas of what to do with their new office, they would need the cash to implement them. So unfortunately, dues were implemented. It is instituted on a sliding scale, and if you can't pay then you are suspended from the org until you can. While there is much grumbling about this move, and some members do leave, it does provide a necessary influx of cash for future ideas to become a reality. In other paperwork news the invitation by the IBRP was accepted and plans for sending representatives to Italy in 2009 are made, though obviously won't be put into action for another year.
Social Media accounts: 43
The IWG puts up a variety of social media accounts this quarter. While most of the members are older and unaccustomed to the technology, they are able to find useful ways to share theory and literature of how to organize on their pages. Following events and providing commentary of politics and economic moves nets them a steady audience, and making sure to comment on local events gets the community to know their name, even if via a passing comment decrying about "petite-bourgeois frivolity" that perks their interest to know more about these Italian speaking people.
(+3% permanent recruitment bonus, +4.3% incidental recruitment bonus)
Send agitators to the workplaces of cities: 71
Sending agitators to the workplaces of cities is not like what it once was 100 years ago. Nowadays if a worker is caught slacking off or talking radical left politics with a customer they could face disciplinary action, or be fired. But the old timers in the IWG had been around this block once or twice and were able to get into plenty of workplaces and strike up a few conversations. Simply showing solidarity with someone who is obviously overworked, or cracking relatable jokes about the hopelessness of ones situation can go a long way to building a rapport with peoples who's entire existence is boiled down to corporate speaking 5 minute interactions to get the customer to buy a product. While most of the Funds went towards small, frivolous purchases to justify the interactions within such spaces, connections were made, and the IWG was able to name drop literature, their group, and places to meet up outside of working hours. Some people were even receptive to discussing with their coworkers these ideas. Though, how those interactions went we may never know. At the very least, the IWG noticed an uptick in new members, so they had to be doing something right.
(+7.1% incidental recruitment bonus)
The Lime Wirers
The Lime Wirers set up a system this quarter of setting up meetings at dive bars and coffee-shops this quarter. Mostly taking place during Stolen Powr gigs, the org rents the time before and after the band plays to take time to discuss issues and projects of the org. With the band releasing a "slower" album for playing in coffee-shops. While most of the other patrons would rather their drinking not be interrupted by a bunch of nerds and punks talking about the logistics of being a digital pirate, others find the discussions engaging, especially after they find out the band they came to listen to is part of this group of radicals. Though there are plenty of hecklers.
(+10% incidental recruitment bonus)
American Avant-Garde Literature Society
FNB: (55/?)
Food Not Bombs Has been in operation in Chicagos Northwest for over 20 years now serving vegan and vegetarian food while living with constant police and FBI harassment. So when they saw a gaggle of youths approaching them and offering assistance they accepted as more hands were always welcome. Then they were told the funding the AALS was able to scrape together and provide to the org, and their eyes popped out of their heads in a cartoon fashion.
In they past, FNB Chicago had only been able to distribute food from one location, twice a week. But with how much extra funding the AALS was able to provide, they were able to expand to the Southwest as well, and have food distribution three times a week at each location. This significantly ingratiated the local residents to both the AALS and FNB, but with FNB's name on everything they got the bulk of thanks. The AALS was still able to talk to people and explain their unique stance on issues, and people were generally receptive as long as they had a warm bowl of food to hear it over.
(+5.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Art: 45
Endless art is produced by the members of AALS, not all of it good, but quantity is a quality of its own. Posted to sites, read in jazz bars, and published in university newspapers, Essays, poems, political cartoons, and animations rule the day as an idea of rapid change is implanted in the minds of those willing to spend their time to consume this media. Comedy is the best medicine, and America is a sick country. News of military atrocities are dolled out in graphic detail like a clown dissecting a joke, only for its blackness to become funny again. Treatment of minorities, and those that mistreat them are deformed and stretched in fantastical ways until even the medium itself is being made fun of for not being able to properly capture the horror.
But horror is not all that is extolled. Better, brighter futures are explored and presented, critiqued, and re-presented. Like an ouroboros of presenting a better world, it consumes the tragedies of daily life under the American Empire, and regenerates new ideas for how to supplant it. Even critiques from readers, viewers, and listeners are listened to and incorporated into these ideas, or mocked for their capitalist realist view of the world.
(+4.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Social Media Accounts: 70
The AALS starts up the meme machine this quarter with a flurry of social media accounts, including on sites other orgs might not consider to be conventional social media. The youth of the org create rage comic after rage comic and come up with unconventional ways to use them to convey ideas.
(+3% permanent recruitment bonus, +7% incidental recruitment bonus)
Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Overfunded squatting: 54
The FLM decides this quarter to try and make a home for themselves. Literally. A small shanty town has started to grow in disused property in a poorer part of one of NYC's boroughs. Situated next to properties being squatted in, the organization is taking a risk by growing in a centralized location like this. Some funds go to gathering supplies to build something sturdier than a tent, and to blend in with local construction. While this may attract attention eventually, for now it gives a good central location for meetings to take place in NYC, and is making a more pleasant place for the cities homeless to live in.
(+5% incidental recruitment bonus)
Cyborg Party
The Cyborg Party implements dues this quarter, needing the cash to further ideas they have all over the place. While small, and allowing for members to not pay if they are strapped for cash, they provide a much needed injection of spending power to further the reach of the org.
Social Media Accounts: 42
Social Media accounts are set up across a variety of sites, while many people don't understand the terms and concepts being thrown around, the younger members of the org are able to make memes and posts that resonate with people of a more esoteric nature than your average person.
(3% permanent recruitment bonus, 4.2% incidental recruitment bonus)
TTRPG and publishing company: 55
The Cyborg Party decided on an unconventional approach to explain it's ideology to people unaware of the concepts, through a TTRPG. Introducing, Hardwired Horizons! Set in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, but a hyper-capitalist society has caused a system wide collapse through the inadvertent release of hyper-intelligent AIs and climate collapse. The players are left to live in the cracks of society as it tries to cling to life on orbiting bodies, separate from the home-world that is now an unlivable husk. With heavy trans- and post-humanist themes, and a dice system that takes only a practice session or two to learn, it becomes a hit with certain subsets of TTRPG gamers, and starts selling well everywhere the "publishing company" (Cyborg Printing) can distribute to. A blurb at the start of the rules book gives people information of how to get in touch with the Cyborg Party, and before too long, the Party starts to hear back from people interested in these revolutionary new ideas.
(+5% permanent Funds increase, +5.5% incidental recruitment bonus)
American Workers' Party
The AWP this quarter decided they needed to take more concrete steps to disconnect from "the grid" so to speak, dues based on a sliding scale would be implemented, but they were non-mandatory, and instead one could provide goods and services to other members in a variety of ways. With a good subset of rural members, food is able to be taken directly from the pens and fields of farms, straight to the plates of those in the organization who most need it, while feed and fertilizer and given to them by other members who find it cheaper or more productive than paying dues.
Mutual aid for members: (97/1825)
The dues model is taken even further with members setting up an official method of coordinating mutual aid. In the early planning stages at the moment, members are able to outline their expenses and needs, and also what they can contribute to the community, and people are matched up to help. Right now only a small handful of members are contributing, but with more effort more members should be able to contribute as they figure out what they can do to help, and what they can receive in return to help live a life disconnected from Capital.
(+5% permanent Funds) (As the org grows this percentage will go down unless the mutual aid network is continuously grown to keep up)
The Future Foundation
Spend money to make money baby and if you can't spend the money then you aren't going to make it! Send in your payment right now to support the organization to get rich quick or fall behind! And it's alright if you fall behind, not everybody can make it in the fast paced world of finance but hey McDonald's is always hiring! Ah we're just kidding, you can stay if you can't make the payment, but seriously, if you can't make the payment, are you serious about making the big bucks? Think on it kid and get back to us. Happy to see you next month, just try to be a winner next time alright? We need that seed capital to start this money machine a rollin!
The New October Movement
The NOM ached for funding, and so decided they could afford to implement dues. Or at least a form of self-sufficiency as an organization. A sliding scale was set up, ensuring fairness based on how strapped for cash an individual was, and if life got in the way, then a bit of delinquency was fine. They even allowed for non-monetary methods of payment to be used. Exchanging canned goods, providing house-work for those busy with their jobs, and car maintenance for those unable to pay costly mechanic rates, the organization was able to live 'off-grid' just that little bit more as long as they stayed with the org.
Social Media Accounts: 48
A variety of Social Media accounts were set up this quarter, directed at Atlanta and Georgia residents first and foremost. While the maoism wasn't shied away from, the main focus of the accounts was to stress the need for community support as the economy started to falter, and news of local small scale horrors of capitalism were shared. People seemed receptive to the strategy of posting how the org was helping members most of all, and new supporters started to message about joining.
(3% permanent recruitment bonus, 4.8% incidental recruitment bonus)
March Tornado Relief: 72
The March Tornado's caused a large amount of structural damage in the southern and northern Atlanta suburbs, and thankfully only killed 3 people. The city and insurance companies stepped in and dump money on homeowners and businesses, but beyond the initial relief efforts, people were left to pick up the pieces, and most people affected didn't get anything at all outside of an insurance payout that might now have been enough in the first place.
NOM wasn't the only organization to step up to the plate, and it wasn't the largest, but people noticed, and they were thankful. Members went around repairing storm damage for free, lending out clean water for those with power still out, and cleaned up debris. Peoples who's rental property were damaged or destroyed were given assistance to move to undamaged places, and people who lost their homes and were receptive to it were allowed to squat in some of the properties NOM knew of. A little bit went a long way, and people were sure to remember the kindness, even if NOM members kept saying funny words about economics.
(7.2% incidental recruitment bonus)
Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
The VHDSM realized they had an excess of money, and knew just what to do with it. After a bit of shopping around for land in Washington state, A large patch of cheap, and relatively flat, land was found off route State Route 530, across the Sauk River. A little south of Rockport, but north of the Campground, there was plenty of uninhabited land to expand into. While the Sauk River did present a logistical challenge to getting into town, it also provided for a lot of privacy, with traffic on the closest road being almost nonexistent besides the occasional trip into town by one of your two neighbors.
With a bit of effort and time, a log cabin was build to act as a main lodge for the members, while a small tent city started to form around it. The local neighbors on this side of the river consist of a single farming family, and a lone shack dweller at the base of the close by mountain, with acres and acres in-between. While they are nervous of "A bunch of newcomers coming in with big ideas" they seem receptive as long as you stay friendly.
Bash Back!
Bash Back! Starts setting up regular meetings in queer spaces throughout the cities they operate in. Never choosing the same place twice, and always giving a different but related description of what the event will be about, Bash Back! Is able to have plenty of meetings that look more like public speaker events, with long form question and answer segments. To those not in the know, when they realize what's going on, they usually become incredibly curious. With the recent news from California opening up a lot of these curious folks to the idea of anti-assimilation.
(+5% permanent recruitment bonus unless California reverses course, +10% incidental recruitment bonus)
Queer Family and Youth support: 27
The effort to form a youth and family support network started off strong with a lot of energy behind it. Plans were drawn up, accommodating schools were looked into, and families were contacted. That last point was where the trouble started though. Some families of queer youth, after learning that an organization of adults was looking to have their child sent to "accommodating schools" freaked out, and contacted the media. A smear campaign by Morality in Media was started to pain Bash Back! As a bunch of radical groomer pedophiles that wanted to abduct children. While this was nothing more than a few hit pieces in right wing media outlets warning of the dangers of letting your kid choose the gay lifestyle, some Bash Back! members who were public facing in the initial organizing effort were approached in their homes by FBI agents looking into a "child sex trafficking ring". This put a damper on most of the efforts, and most members refused to continue efforts for the rest of the quarter until the hit pieces calmed down in fear of having their lives ruined.
(+2.7% incidental recruitment bonus, -20 to actions pertaining to organizing the youth until the Media calms down and moves on)
Anonymous
4san sanity improvement: 138
4san, the grown up version of 4chan as some members call it, was initially just a private server run out of Iceland. Some members grew to dislike this approach though, and money was collected and poured in to making the site even better. Diverting from its 4chan image-board roots, 4san is a forum with features not found elsewhere on the internet. Only accessible by vetted members who know of the specific IP address, and only via using a small subset of white-listed ssh encrypted VPN addresses, and only with an account made specifically for that user, the forum is incredibly user friendly, and compatible with the, supposedly more secure, Firefox web browser. Inbuilt Git support for keeping up to date with the latest changes to tools, and a functional in-house search function, there is no reason to look anywhere else for any hacker needs. Sure the load time could be better, and the site needs to go down two days a month to make sure the latest security features are installed and old threads with compromising details are deleted, but compared to any surface web sites nothing feels safer to use. An IRC live-chat is the planning stages, but until a little more money is injected to buy more server resources, the forum thread method and inbuilt dm's will have to do. The server is currently "owned" by a company based out of Panama with a CEO who is a Panamanian native paid $50 to write their name on a piece of paper, but run by a small elected council of core members that rotates regularly.
(+10 to rolls preventing cyberattacks)
Wargaming: 49
Effort this quarter towards developing a "red vs. blue" war-gaming team exercise went relatively smoothly. A system was set up where every month, the organization would set up two teams, red team, which had a set of "examples documents" and blue team, who had to secure the documents. The first week of the month would be a "preparation" phase where each team would hone their defenses and cyber-weapons to try and gain an edge. Most of the red team efforts went to pushing select code changes to repositories all over the internet in the name of "bug fixes from concerned users". The Linux environment soaked most of these up. Blue team on the other hand pushed to private repositories of "tools" the organization had been developing for a while now. After the initial week of prep, the next week of the month would go to penetrating the defenses of red team, or blocking the attacks of blue team. Points are given for how long it takes blue team to "recover" documents, or for however many documents red team is able to keep secure, with each team only knowing their score in the third week or the "lessons learned week". Both teams would be assembled to be judged by referees who would go through and point out every single mistake each individual member of each team made, or as many as could be done in a week. Offering and asking for advice on how to resolve each problem and how to make the game more educational. The fourth week of the month would be where members who did not participate in the war-game were directed to implement these lessons learned, with anyone who did not seem to want to learn noted down as untrustworthy for further review. April was spent brainstorming the idea, May was the trial run, and June was when it got serious. It was determined that every month was too much, but once a quarter should be fine.
(+10 permanent bonus to digital actions)
Contact other hacker collectives: 51
The effort to contact other hacking collectives went about as well as could have been expected. A few groups didn't want to respond to "the script kiddies making a public fuss", but most were willing to reach out after being impressed by the initial assault upon Scientology. Offers to share knowledge of exploits and zero days were given and taken up on, and some groups even were impressed by the organization of Anonymous. Noting that the war-gaming idea would be a great idea to hold between groups as a rapport building measure, though trust was limited in some groups who saw the level of organization and screamed "federal funding", but thankfully no groups decided to attack any of the infrastructure built. Though some penetration tests were noted.
(+5.1% incidental recruitment bonus)
Progressive Labor Party
The PLP felt the wind blowing mid-2008 and woke from a slumber they had been in for a long time. A bunch of new members had joined and the org looked around and realized there was too much work to do on the small budget they had available from member donations. So they set about setting up a dues system. Wanting everyone to pay their fair share, but knowing they're working to organize the most disadvantaged parts of society, they set up a sliding scale system. From each according to their ability, but no pressure if you are in a spot of trouble and can not afford to make a payment.
A/N: Would you believe me in saying I did way too much research into trucker forums in 2008?
Organizational Info Sheets - end of 2008Q2, going into 2008Q3
- 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 Future Foundation
The New October Movement
Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
Bash Back!
Anonymous
Progressive Labor Party
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
Special Attributes:
-2 per Fund penalty to unionizing the Trucking Industry due to the feds and corps being on to you now.
Committees: Subprime Mortgage Crisis Response Committee (+10 to actions related to housing)
Property:
Offices (Cincinnati)
Newspaper (Cincinnati (Cincinnati Worker)) (3% recruitment bonus)
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
Personal Website (5% recruitment bonus)
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
Special Attributes:
-2 per Fund penalty to unionizing the Trucking Industry due to the feds and corps being on to you now.
Committees: Subprime Mortgage Crisis Response Committee (+10 to actions related to housing)
Property:
Offices (Cincinnati)
Newspaper (Cincinnati (Cincinnati Worker)) (3% recruitment bonus)
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
Personal Website (5% recruitment bonus)
Internationalist Workers' Group
Dues: Dues based on income
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
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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)
Property: A rotating system of dive bars, jazz bars, and coffeeshops. +1 Action.
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)
Property: A rotating system of dive bars, jazz bars, and coffeeshops. +1 Action.
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
Affiliations: Food Not Bombs (Chicago)
Property: A rotational meeting place system of peoples houses and street parties. +1 Action
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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
Affiliations: Food Not Bombs (Chicago)
Property: A rotational meeting place system of peoples houses and street parties. +1 Action
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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)
Property: A shanty town in the slums of NYC. +1 Action
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)
Property: A shanty town in the slums of NYC. +1 Action
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
Special Attributes:
TTRPG shell publishing company, and assosciated games. (+5% Funds)
Affiliations: Maker spaces up and down the west coast. +1 Action
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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
Special Attributes:
TTRPG shell publishing company, and assosciated games. (+5% Funds)
Affiliations: Maker spaces up and down the west coast. +1 Action
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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.
Special Attributes:
Mutual Aid for members (+5% Funds)
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.
Special Attributes:
Mutual Aid for members (+5% Funds)
Property: A few warehouses. +1 Action
The Future Foundation
Dues: Large dues with (supposed) delinquency allowed
In early 2008, three young but visionary businessmen encountered each other during a drunken bash through San Francisco. Zackary Mcgrath, Oscar Byrne and Reuben Raymond all believed that government interference was preventing their businesses from growing optimally and hindering technological development. How great could they make society if only it wasn't for all these stupid rules! The day after, the three discovered that not only did they have a massive hangover, but also that they had somehow created a new NGO to help shape America according to their vision.
Locale: Silicon Valley, Silicon Hills
Supporters: high-tech startup entrepreneurs, techbros
Ideology: Technocapitalism, Technolibertarianism, Libertarian Transhumanism, "Frictionless Meritocracy"
In early 2008, three young but visionary businessmen encountered each other during a drunken bash through San Francisco. Zackary Mcgrath, Oscar Byrne and Reuben Raymond all believed that government interference was preventing their businesses from growing optimally and hindering technological development. How great could they make society if only it wasn't for all these stupid rules! The day after, the three discovered that not only did they have a massive hangover, but also that they had somehow created a new NGO to help shape America according to their vision.
Locale: Silicon Valley, Silicon Hills
Supporters: high-tech startup entrepreneurs, techbros
Ideology: Technocapitalism, Technolibertarianism, Libertarian Transhumanism, "Frictionless Meritocracy"
The New October Movement
Dues: Dues based on income that allow non-monetary methods and delinquency
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
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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
Continuous Actions:
Social media accounts (3% recruitment bonus)
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).
Property: Some land in northwestern washington. +1 Action
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).
Property: Some land in northwestern washington. +1 Action
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
Special Attributes:
+5% recruitment bonus from California illegalizing gay marriage
-20 to actions pertaining to organizing the youth until the Media calms down and moves on
Affiliations: Queer spaces and organizations in Philadelphia
Property: A rotational system of meetings in queer spaces. +1 Action
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
Special Attributes:
+5% recruitment bonus from California illegalizing gay marriage
-20 to actions pertaining to organizing the youth until the Media calms down and moves on
Affiliations: Queer spaces and organizations in Philadelphia
Property: A rotational system of meetings in queer spaces. +1 Action
Anonymous
Factions and Influence:
Hacktivist: 45%
Troll: 45%
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
Affiliations:
Various Hacker collectives
Committees:
Wargaming and lesson learning committee. (+10 to digital actions)
Property:
4san, the best private club on/off the internet for hackers. (+10 to cyberdefense)
Continuous Actions:
Project Chanology. As long as the message is spread, people will know Anonymous is out there. (3% recruitment bonus)
Hacktivist: 45%
Troll: 45%
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
Affiliations:
Various Hacker collectives
Committees:
Wargaming and lesson learning committee. (+10 to digital actions)
Property:
4san, the best private club on/off the internet for hackers. (+10 to cyberdefense)
Continuous Actions:
Project Chanology. As long as the message is spread, people will know Anonymous is out there. (3% recruitment bonus)
Progressive Labor Party
Dues: Dues based on income allowing for delinquency
Originating from the "Albanian Group" within the CPUSA and founded in 1962, the PLP had grown through front groups and by infiltrating the SDS contributing to the eventual collapse of the SDS into factionalism and infighting. The PLP wishes to preserve the integrity of Marxism as outlined by "Lenin-Stalin," vehemently opposing what it calls "Trotskyite Revisionism", "Albanian Opportunism" and the "National-Deviationist Three Worlds Theory". It labels both Trotsky and Bukharin as "Axis Collaborators." While they reject "Trotskyite entryism," in practice the PLP has employed entryist tactics to recruit members, with varying degrees of success. Still, the PLP broke from some of their earlier positions, by expressing support for LGBTQ rights and organizing with LGBTQ workers. They deem the concept of Socialism in one Country as outdated and seek to establish chapters beyond the United States. Furthermore, they have reassessed the Two-stage theory, rejecting it as the cause of Soviet and Chinese Revisionism, and have made greater efforts to organize with minority groups, publishing articles in both English and Spanish and organizing with migrant workers. They are labeled as Class reductionists by other groups.
Locale: Dispersed, claims to have chapters in Mexico and Canada, headquarters in New York, United States.
Supporters: Blue-Collar Workers, Teachers, Migrant Workers, Old Leftists.
Ideology: Stalinism, Marxism-Leninism, Anti-Revisionism, Anti-Drugs, Class Reductionism (Unofficial), Hoxhaism (Formerly, "Revisionist"), Maoism (Formerly, "Revisionist").
Originating from the "Albanian Group" within the CPUSA and founded in 1962, the PLP had grown through front groups and by infiltrating the SDS contributing to the eventual collapse of the SDS into factionalism and infighting. The PLP wishes to preserve the integrity of Marxism as outlined by "Lenin-Stalin," vehemently opposing what it calls "Trotskyite Revisionism", "Albanian Opportunism" and the "National-Deviationist Three Worlds Theory". It labels both Trotsky and Bukharin as "Axis Collaborators." While they reject "Trotskyite entryism," in practice the PLP has employed entryist tactics to recruit members, with varying degrees of success. Still, the PLP broke from some of their earlier positions, by expressing support for LGBTQ rights and organizing with LGBTQ workers. They deem the concept of Socialism in one Country as outdated and seek to establish chapters beyond the United States. Furthermore, they have reassessed the Two-stage theory, rejecting it as the cause of Soviet and Chinese Revisionism, and have made greater efforts to organize with minority groups, publishing articles in both English and Spanish and organizing with migrant workers. They are labeled as Class reductionists by other groups.
Locale: Dispersed, claims to have chapters in Mexico and Canada, headquarters in New York, United States.
Supporters: Blue-Collar Workers, Teachers, Migrant Workers, Old Leftists.
Ideology: Stalinism, Marxism-Leninism, Anti-Revisionism, Anti-Drugs, Class Reductionism (Unofficial), Hoxhaism (Formerly, "Revisionist"), Maoism (Formerly, "Revisionist").
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Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
We're on the grindset, baby!
2008 Q3: Supporters Gather
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Can I do it this time?
[] 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 Future Foundation
[] The New October Movement
[] Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
[] Bash Back!
[] Anonymous
[] Progressive Labor Party
[] 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 Future Foundation
[] The New October Movement
[] Voluntary Human Defense & Survival Movement
[] Bash Back!
[] Anonymous
[] Progressive Labor Party
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
Hell yeah, One Big Union is coming back.
And the -2 per fund penalty to continued Trucker Unionization.
There should probably be something about the permanent +3% Recruitment Bonus the Newspaper gives, right?
And the -2 per fund penalty to continued Trucker Unionization.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
[X] Industrial Workers of the World
[X] Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Okay, I believe the IWW has something like a 50+% boost to recruitment for this turn only, so I am humbly begging for people's votes to take advantage of this opportunity. Unlikely to get anywhere near this much publicity for a good while to come.
[X] Federation of Libertarian Municipality
Okay, I believe the IWW has something like a 50+% boost to recruitment for this turn only, so I am humbly begging for people's votes to take advantage of this opportunity. Unlikely to get anywhere near this much publicity for a good while to come.
- Location
- A haze of forgetfulness
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Added those in!