Fun fact, hammering metal spikes into tree trunks is a federal crime in the US because environmental activists used to do it in the 80s to fuck up chainsaws and logging equipment.
So you should never use this effective strategy for disrupting logging operations because it is illegal.
hey guys! a lot of our followers have been reblogging this post telling us that doing this will harm workers and trees! i understand your concern, and i even get why you believe that. the thing is, you don’t spike every tree in a forest and then walk away. you spike a few of the trees that are slated to be cut down, then you put up a sign or send an email telling the loggers that some of the trees in this area have been spiked
spiking a tree has a small chance to cause an infection in the tree. but cutting a tree down has a Huge chance of killing the tree, and they cut down a lot of trees
this has also never harmed workers. iirc, there was one example of a logger getting hit with a chainsaw chain, but it was disputed as to whether or not the tree had been spiked. in reality, it only harms their equipment, making it very expensive to cut down any of the trees in the area, just in case
many of us believe these things, because the logging industry dumped tons of money into propaganda to stop us from protesting their actions, either by convincing us that what they’re doing is good, or by convincing us that what we’re doing is worse
so remember, do your own research, punch nazis, and buy recycled paper
~mod Civ
I’ve read that they use metal detectors now as common practice. Not sure if it’s still true, but you might want to use something like ceramic spikes now instead. There are also other tactics to use, could probably find some in the monkeywrenchers guide. Can’t forget to remain creative too.
Reminds me of the “Blade Ruiner” comics from some time ago. I don’t remember where they come from, but as far as I know there were only 4 of them, so here they are.
Yes areas that are heavily tree-spiked sometimes use metal detectors. This was probably during the tree-spiking peak though, decades ago. The free pdf of ecodefense is online and has many techniques for tree-spiking.
Plus, forcing a logging company to invest in and use metal detectors, and then potentially remove your spikes one by one, is something of a victory in itself. It wastes time and resources and makes logging less profitable
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To be fair I put bread in the freezer until I’m going to eat it that week because otherwise it will go mouldy.
But what drives me nuts is how many people I’ve lived with who don’t understand that most fruits and veggies are still living things that you’re trying to keep alive so they don’t start rotting?
Like they’ll put things like onion or garlic (bulbs) in the fridge, have the crisper way too cold to begin with or refrigerate all vegetables like they’re any other food… Like no, that’ll just go bad really fast?
Basically, you’re trying not to burst the cell membranes with cold while keeping it in a cool enough state to not be too actively trying to grow. For some fruits, roots and bulbs that’s a cool room temperature being hidden from the sun.
A lot of fruiting bodies and things intended to grow or spread are best kept alive on a clean counter because they can’t actually try to grow without soil and water.
Most veggies are only helped by cold to a very particular degree.
If you full on refrigerate an onion it will immediately start dying and rotting, whereas if you leave it on the counter it will stay alive, slowly sacrificing outer layers one at a time to stay viable until it can grow again.
Rule of thumb is to determine whether something is still a little alive or fully dead, and then whether you want the living parts of it to stay alive or die as much as possible, and then how much what level of cold will affect its texture.
Like milk is dead but has living things in it you want dead, so cold is good, but too cold will make it separate, so freezing cheese will make it crumbly and you don’t freeze milk. Yogurt you could freeze if you wanted to keep it a long time, but if it’s live culture it might be better remaining sealed in the fridge.
Meat is dead and you want it to stay dead, and ice breaking down the connective tissue doesn’t hurt the texture so it’s best frozen as long as possible to prevent bacterial growth unless you’re eating it right away.
Bread is fully dead. Mould isn’t entirely stopped by fridge temperatures and nor is the process by which it goes stale, so if you’re going to keep it more than a week before eating it, freezing it is valid and won’t affect the texture as much as the same length of time in the fridge.
Most fats are stable and won’t grow anything at room temperature or in the fridge. Putting oils in the fridge can separate the more saturated fats from the less saturated ones but will also keep them from breaking down into less healthy stuff that doesn’t taste as good. Purified fats that are solid at room temperature are generally stable at room temperature. Freezing fats doesn’t hurt them though if you need to keep them a really long time.
Most fungus is a prime target for less desired fungus and won’t stay alive long without very specific conditions, so you keep them in the fridge and use them quickly OR dry them out and store them dehydrated.
Most people who store bread cold are just sick of hot humid counter conditions making it mould quickly… Or their parents or grandparents were and no one has questioned it since… But this insanity with refrigerating onions and other living foods is just a product of no one being taught to properly preserve food and passing that ill information along.
Potatoes go in a cool dry cupboard. Bananas and tomatoes actually keep best set gently on a counter. They’ll ripen faster close together or stay green faster if you spread them apart, just don’t bruise them and let infections in, without the rest of the plant they don’t have much immune function. Thick skinned gourds do better on the counter too! They make banana hangers for a reason, they hang garlic for a reason. Those plant babies are doing their best to stay alive till you’re ready to eat them so help them out!
Obv for loooong veggie storage, more structured and starchy vegetables can be frozen long term, but delicate things like lettuces, leaves, tomatoes and cucumbers need to be pickled or canned for long storage because just freezing them would make them mushy and gross, and unless you like your lettuce pickled, I’ve found the best way to keep a head of lettuce for a really long time is just to replant it! Celery is similar, if it can’t fridge or freeze well and you need it fresh a long time, just give it light and food or water and let it grow! Stand your celery in a bit of water in the fridge short term, or plant it, or lettuce, and only take off the outer leaves as you use them. Potatoes and onions can be replanted and reharvested if they dry out too much!
Most foods you’re actually trying to eat as close to fresh and ALIVE as you possibly can. And I feel like people forget that and just think of a fridge as a magical food storage box.
Fun Fact! Two Weeks Notice is not a REQUIREMENT in any sense of the word. It’s a nicety. A polite gesture, and only polite for the MANAGEMENT because THEY want time to find someone to replace you. They cannot withhold your last paycheck if you refuse to give two weeks notice, and they cannot force you to work the two weeks. Additionally, they cannot report that to any future employers who call them regarding your work history. In fact, they’re not allowed to comment on your performance AT ALL! Legally they are only allowed to confirm that you were an employee during the dates you list – anything else and they open themselves up to civil lawsuits in which they can be sued for damages for any number of reasons. So fuck Two Weeks Notice. if you work for a fucked company, they deserve to get fucked in return.
If you ever feel bad about not giving two weeks’ notice, or like you’re being unprofessional/unfair, think about this:
If your boss fired you, would they give YOU two weeks’ notice? Or would they have you escorted out of the building then and there?
Anything they don’t owe you, you don’t owe them. Fuck ‘em.
Oh these are therapeutic
i had a boss fire me and then say “you still have to come in for the next 2 weeks”
they expected me to train my replacement lmfao i spent company time looking for a new job
neoliberals are like “sweatshops are actually good because people would starve without the bare minimum made in them, and this proves my ideology cares about the global poor, NOT that I support an economic system so inhumane children in poor countries have a choice between certain death and working under deadly conditions in factories for a billion-dollar megacorporation”.
@enbyasha you should check out this documentary if you haven’t, it goes into detail about neocolonialism behind sweatshops and also discussions with people that work at them (plus the other negative effects of megacorporations using sweatshops).
basically, globalization under capitalism is glorified neocolonialism…
american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.
im serious about this though. as an urban indian, i definitely cant speak on this as much as a rez indian could. but i know from talking to rez friends i have and from what the american indian movement has screamed for over the years that we need land we can grow on, we need clean water, we need to allow the wildlife that once lived in this land to live here again (meaning you need to listen to us before building those high speed rails you all get so hard over).
you cant drool over the zapatistas while ignoring people in your own country who have a similar goal
silly me I never provided things to read on the topic of decolonization! I’d personally suggest the following as “beginner level” essential reading to understand decolonization:
Discourse on Colonialism (Aimé Césaire) – this is more a focus on colonization, but I feel it’s a necessary read in my opinion as in order to understand decolonization I believe it’s important to first understand colonization.
Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)
Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (Tuck, Yang)
also an “easy to process” read, to understand landback specifically here in Turtle Island, I’d suggest reading The Red Deal (there is a pdf, I don’t mean the article with the same title)
ifesbob 