about

rebrattle is currently written and cultivated by mags b. mags is a queer cis white woman living on the stolen Dakota and Anishinaabe land in what is currently known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. she has lived and organized in anarchist and radical left movement since the late 1990s in various locations around Turtle Island including the pacific northwest, southern borderlands, and great lakes region. she is a long-time street medic and is actively organizing with collectives and her neighbors in the twin cities. she also has studied and works in public health. rebrattle welcomes collaborators and critical reflection.

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July 2016
Hi.  This is RebRattle.  Welcome.  Here’s the deal: it’s time – past time really – to rebuild the radical left.  We are a mess.  I can hear the critiques from all sides as these words are being written.  Anarchists, artists, academics… people think things are fine or have self-opted out of the Left despite tradition.  Well, I’m beginning this writing project because after a decade and a half of being an anarchist organizer and seeing first hand our capacity to be powerful and create change, it is a daily devastation to watch that have ebbed away, witnessing this currently broken and disempowered shell of a movement. We are what this world desperately needs right now as the climate crisis, right-wing fascism and empire continue to advance.

I hope to add more voices to this project but I want to get started.  We’re already behind.  So, I’m going to just begin; posting writings and ideas for how we build ourselves back up, re-organize, re-create, re-shape ourselves into a coherent force with solid strategies, goals and an ongoing attempt and momentum towards… well, basically… a new radical left.