Untangling the Net of Capitalism by Emmi Smith

"How does capitalism so quickly destroy what took billions of years to evolve?"

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Chapter 1: Listen

"How can we organize ourselves intentionally to combat the imbedded isolation of late capitalism?"

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Chapter 5: Collaborate

"Marketable captives for capitalism. “Loved.”"

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Chapter 8: Be Fierce

"rest is resistance and sleep is political"

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Chapter 10: Honor Your Boundaries

"Who benefited from the conspiracy to teach us that we were not beautiful?"

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Chapter 11: Respect Your Hair

"if whales returned to their pre-commercial whaling numbers, their gigantic breathing would store as much carbon as 110,000 hectares of forest."

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Chapter 2: Breathe

"In the US, the state shackles prisoners giving birth, and takes children away from prisoners almost immediately."

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Chapter 3: Remember

"folks with endometriosis or who walk with canes or who live with other chronic shapes of tilt and pain... I kayaked for a week... I thought about how between each vertebra there is a story pinched and breathing."

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Chapter 4: Practice

"Like that move where you leap out of your situation, arch your body fantastically, then splash down where you were, more aware of your roundness."

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Chapter 7: Be Present

"Is it possible to untangle the consequences of centuries of rapacious greed?"

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Chapter 12: End Capitalism

"I wonder if the toxicity of the slave trade and its impact on the ocean have been under-reported?"

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Chapter 13: Refuse

"But hundreds of years ago whiteness turned against them, when humans gave whiteness another meaning. Operationalized that whiteness for money and coats."

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Chapter 16: Stay Black

"That same military that at best stands by amidst assassinations of the activists, especially Black and Indigenous, activists and visionaries who oppose the corporate harm of the local environment and the exploitation of their people."

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Chapter 17: Slow Down

"This section argues the urgency of rest, the necessity of regeneration, and the depth rest reveals and allows."

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Chapter 18: Rest

"To need ice as a barrier between you and a species of people, a segment of which would create something that destroys families, seeks to eradicate sanctuary, violates privacy and home, and call it ICE."

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Chapter 19: Take Care of Your Blessings

"And what if, with every bark or bite, we thought about the blubbered tons behind our every movement?"

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Chapter 6: Be Vulnerable

"They shift, recalibrate, and let it go in fifteen seconds or less. Could we get there?"

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Chapter 9: Learn From Conflict

"Praisesong for the menopausal planet who knows herself well enough to see your nonsense for what it is."

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Chapter 14: Surrender

"How do we stay deep when distracting distractions distract us (like racists being racist for racist reasons)?"

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Chapter 15: Go Deep

"At least one of the refusals in this book can fit on a protest sign or a graphic t-shirt. Make it so."

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Chapter 20: Activities