Remember back during the “Summer of Love” when the founders of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone set up barriers around several city blocks and taped up signs reading, “You are now leaving the USA”? They lasted longer than they should have, but maybe Black Hammer will have fewer murders and a better organic garden.
Black is celebrating a victory this week as it’s reached $64,774 of its $500,000 GoFundMe goal — enough to purchase 200 acres of land in so-called “Colorado, USA” on which to build its colonizer-free city.
🙌🏾Thanks to all of you, Black Hammer has successfully liberated 200 Acres of Land to build our City 🌃! FOR COLONIZED PEOPLE ONLY! 👳🏾♂️👩🏾🦱👲🏻🧕🏾 We are located high up in the mountains 🏔 10,000 feet in the air with RICH soil! We have One Lake and Three Rivers on the land! pic.twitter.com/aMoFgta4ci
— BH Times (@BlkHmmrTimes) May 3, 2021
This is an incredible milestone and achievement for anti-colonial revolution and would not have been possible without the contribution of Colonized people worldwide 🌍! Please continue to support us at https://t.co/dRDX47chWi! You can also Cashapp $BuildHammerCity! 🔨🔥
— BH Times (@BlkHmmrTimes) May 3, 2021
They still need money, though, to build earthbag homes (each costing around $5000), permaculture systems, and waste management systems.
No insurrection here.
No, siree! https://t.co/ti6WQzMr2t
— BayAreaFrau (@bayareahausfrau) May 6, 2021
Imagine if this were a white militia group.
Colonizing to protest colonizing.
Bold move.
Does someone own 'your' colony?
— Victoria Taft – Parler, Minds, Facebook, 5VTShow (@VictoriaTaft) May 5, 2021
I thought this was supposed to be in Florida what happened
— Lil_Tonebushka (@Simprano_Tony) May 3, 2021
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The Irish (my mums side) were colonised by the British, so, are my family and I welcome?
Actually, come to think of it, the Britons were colonised by the Romans, so I should be covered on my dads side too, yeah?
— The Angry Philosopher On Drugs 💡 (@OfficialAPoD) May 3, 2021
didnt you guys call anne frank a colonizer?
— rachel || רחל (@newdreadful) May 3, 2021
Yes
— Guns, Ganders, and Goats (@MENA_Conflict) May 3, 2021
Are you still planning on this as a bio-fuel solution for some fucking reason pic.twitter.com/kdRCPpN4NL
— elise (she/her)🟨🟥 (@toastfacekilla4) May 4, 2021
Donner Party 2.0, ready to roll.
When it comes to it Don't forget to crack the long bones for marrow, it's very nutritious.#AllTheFamineWokeCanBuy— M D Campbell 🇺🇸🏴 (@MCampbell1041) May 4, 2021
Do you have, uhh, any arable soil, because I think you're looking at limestone beyond the first half inch of dry dirt.
— Amazing Thunderbird (@HitherToFore) May 4, 2021
I await the first harvest
— 🇭🇰🔞RoonKolos🏳️⚧️ You Activated My Trap Card! (@RoonKolos) May 4, 2021
Here’s CHOP:
— 🔞HyperLazerOranges (Commissions CLOSED) (@HyperOranges) May 4, 2021
“This garden is for black and indigenous folks and their plant allies.”
That shit was funny. They covered grass with some cardboard, sprinkled some dirt on top and planted some herbs. Excuse me, their plant allies. They were planning to eat their allies later. I don't know what happened next.
— Wesley Mouch (@WesleyMouch3) May 4, 2021
Who's land did you "liberate?"
— High Marshal, Beloved Defender of Freedom Deimos (@Deimosthemagos) May 4, 2021
They liberated ancestrally indigenous land by… purchasing it.
Tbh it doesn't appear they consulted any indigenous tribes bc we would've told them you cannot farm on that land lol
— Yen of the Have-Nots ☭ (@redyennefer) May 4, 2021
If you bought it, you didn’t liberate it. You ransomed it. You dealt with the man.
— Lifer Prepper (@SurvivalPlanner) May 5, 2021
I think I could recolonize this land in about 4 hours tops.
— Watjalukinat (@watjalukinat) May 5, 2021
I’m gonna be real here that land is beautiful and completely unsuitable for what you want to use it for. You didn’t buy those rivers or the lake you just bought the land. Winter is brutal in the Rocky Mountains and it will start snowing around the 1st of September where you’re at
— McHimbo™️ (@tadpr0le) May 4, 2021
Good luck with the four month growing period!
— Canderous Ordoliberal 🐬 (@butleriano) May 4, 2021
Highly recommend you call the local university agriculture extension office and do some soil testing before you plant anything… that soil does not look rich to me
— Fossil friendly (@FriendlyFossil) May 3, 2021
It's at 10,000’ too. There's not much they're going to be able to grow there in the limited growing season. No matter what the soil.
— NCrosshair (@NCrosshair) May 3, 2021
Make sure you drink from the moving water, that way you don't die needlessly
— Sgt. K. Onyx (@SgtKOnyx) May 3, 2021
Like this? pic.twitter.com/fv1y2lp27c
— Lauri Mueller (@LauriLinnea) May 4, 2021
You know they're gonna make a huge open latrine that puts cholera in the water supply, too….
— Night Janitor of the Ecofascist Technocracy🧦 (@Mechdave) May 5, 2021
Out of personal curiosity, what work was done to ensure that indigenous people/ecosystems in the area were included in this decision and will not be exploited by the sale and “development” of this land?
— abhi (@abhiijeebies) May 3, 2021
Did you buy the water rights with it?
You know about water rights, right?
— Hamal Jay (@JayHamal) May 3, 2021
Plus they don’t have rights to any if that river water in Colorado. Also how much land are you left with if you have a third of a square mile with three *rivers* and a lake on it? Plus canyons and rocks aren’t really a place to farm or bug enough to ranch
— Camp Matt (@campmattfield) May 3, 2021
That land can probably sustain 50 or so cows and not much else. It's way too rocky and sandy for farming, not to mention being at 10k feet makes the growing seasons whacky and difficulty
— ThaZeus 🇺🇲🏳️⚧️ (@ThaZeusOH) May 4, 2021
You'd be lucky to have 10-15 cattle make it a year on that scrubland, and after the year all the green stuff would be gone.
— Night Janitor of the Ecofascist Technocracy🧦 (@Mechdave) May 5, 2021
I personally know next to nothing about farming, but just from being a kid growing up in that region? One look tells me that it'll be a struggle to even maintain a flower bed.
— semi-pro woolgatherer (@earational) May 4, 2021
I really hope the people of Twitter will keep this going and upfront. I can't wait to see this end badly
— MsBeth (@MsBeth20) May 5, 2021
I've got 50 down on one month.
— Goth Owl IRL (@mister_syrup1) May 4, 2021
It’s all fun and games until someone has to make the Whole Foods run
— CΛΣSΛR SӨLID (@CeasarSolid) May 6, 2021
Will they open up trade routes with colonizers for the supplies to build their city?
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Anarchists in Seattle’s ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ start their own victory garden, are in for the long haul https://t.co/lI2kcuFErX
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 11, 2020
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