A question you'll often get when you attempt to educate someone about anarchism, is how practical is anarchy? How can anarchy be demonstrated to me in a way that I can appreciate its effectiveness? Nothing is more effective in demonstrating the value of anarchy than praxis.
Praxis is any action that embodies and realizes anarchist theory. It's a valuable method for creating awareness of anarchist causes and building solidarity in your community.
Examples of praxis:
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Setting up a Food Not Bombs chapter in your community.
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Squatting an unused building to provide a safe space for homeless people.
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Guerilla gardening.
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Setting up a free shop that people can freely take what they need from.
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Building community gardens to feed and engage the community.
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Preparing free meals for homeless people.
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Helping people install a free and open source operating system and the Tor browser for privacy and security.
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Converting old combustion-engine cars to electric.
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Make a zine/informational about an important topic.
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Creating memes from an Anarchist perspective.
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Assassinating dictators.
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Creating an autonomous zone.
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Horizontal community public safety organizing to replace the police.
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Teaching people how to steal from the rich effectively.
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Creating a space online where Anarchists can share their ideas with each other.
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Aiding in defending indiginous sovereignty.
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Being support for people suffering from addictions, and helping them be on a healthy path they want to be on.
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Stopping pipelines from being built.
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Investigating history, and appreciating the context for how you have come to be.
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Identifying privileges caused by being a part of a white-supremacist, hetero-normative, patriarchal, trans-phobic, classist, state controlled labor farm.
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Calling out problematic behaviour in comrades, no matter their status in the group.
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Teaching people to be self sufficient by gardening, foraging and upcycling.
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Starting an anarchist bike collective to fix people's bikes.
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Making anarchist music that shines a light on injustices in the world.
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Setting up a community mesh-net to share data with people in a decentralized manner.