{"id":13,"date":"2024-07-24T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:27:20","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:cover {\"url\":\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Battalion-Hero-Home-BW-Web-Edited.jpg\",\"id\":529,\"alt\":\"Spaceship leaving the scene of a battle\",\"dimRatio\":20,\"isUserOverlayColor\":true,\"focalPoint\":{\"x\":0.06,\"y\":0.93},\"minHeight\":66,\"minHeightUnit\":\"vh\",\"customGradient\":\"linear-gradient(360deg,rgb(44,2,74) 0%,rgb(249,249,249) 100%)\",\"isDark\":false,\"metadata\":{\"categories\":[\"banner\"],\"patternName\":\"core\/cover-image-with-bold-heading-and-button-left\",\"name\":\"Cover Image with Bold Heading and Button, Left\"},\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"padding\":{\"top\":\"48px\",\"right\":\"48px\",\"bottom\":\"48px\",\"left\":\"48px\"},\"margin\":{\"top\":\"0\"}},\"color\":{\"duotone\":\"var:preset|duotone|duotone-1\"}}} --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"margin-top:0;padding-top:48px;padding-right:48px;padding-bottom:48px;padding-left:48px;min-height:66vh\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-529\" alt=\"Spaceship leaving the scene of a battle\" src=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Battalion-Hero-Home-BW-Web-Edited.jpg\" style=\"object-position:6% 93%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"6% 93%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Battalion-Hero-Home-BW-Web-Edited.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Battalion-Hero-Home-BW-Web-Edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Battalion-Hero-Home-BW-Web-Edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Battalion-Hero-Home-BW-Web-Edited-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-20 has-background-dim wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-gradient\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(360deg,rgb(44,2,74) 0%,rgb(249,249,249) 100%)\"><\/span>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\"><!-- wp:group {\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":\"48px\"}},\"backgroundColor\":\"contrast\",\"layout\":{\"type\":\"constrained\",\"contentSize\":\"100%\",\"justifyContent\":\"left\",\"wideSize\":\"100%\"}} -->\n<h2>Destroying Autocracy, Defending Democracy<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:group --><\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- \/wp:cover --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"margin\":{\"top\":\"1em\"}}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1em\">Battalion strives to combat and defeat autocrats worldwide and overthrow autocracies with direct action. This goal also includes corporate oligarchies, crony capitalism, monopolies, religious nationalism, racist nationalism, big tech, big media, and any other sort of dickheadedness. Fascists, communists, and anything or anyone allied with them are its foes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"margin\":{\"top\":\"16px\"}}}} --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:16px\">It is built with open-source software and a dedication to freedom and human rights.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:group {\"metadata\":{\"name\":\"About Us\"},\"align\":\"full\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"padding\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|10\",\"right\":\"var:preset|spacing|50\",\"bottom\":\"var:preset|spacing|10\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|50\"},\"blockGap\":\"var:preset|spacing|50\",\"margin\":{\"top\":\"0\",\"bottom\":\"0\"}}},\"backgroundColor\":\"tertiary\",\"layout\":{\"type\":\"constrained\"}} --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-tertiary-background-color has-background\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><!-- wp:columns {\"align\":\"wide\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":{\"top\":\"var:preset|spacing|50\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|50\"}}}} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\"><!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"35%\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:35%\"><!-- wp:heading {\"textAlign\":\"left\",\"fontSize\":\"large\"} -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\"><em>We are fighting WWIII.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":409,\"width\":\"250px\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\",\"style\":{\"color\":{\"duotone\":\"var:preset|duotone|duotone-1\"},\"border\":{\"radius\":\"0px\"},\"shadow\":\"none\"}} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Battalion-Soldier-BW-Web.png\" alt=\"Astronaut soldier\" class=\"wp-image-409\" style=\"border-radius:0px;box-shadow:none;width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Battalion-Soldier-BW-Web.png 600w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Battalion-Soldier-BW-Web-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:column --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"50%\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"blockGap\":\"var:preset|spacing|30\"}}} --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You, me, everyone, and every nation on the planet are involved a world war between democracy and autocracy. That&#8217;s life. Hybrid nation states are in the middle playing both ends against each other.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>And within countries we are in a battle between democrats and autocrats. Political parties in every nation, province, and city fall somewhere between the two.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s being fought in the minds of everyone, online, in public life, in the economy, in legislatures, and (sometimes violently) on the ground as well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Battalion aims to help create, support, and empower communities (of all types) to win battles in the eternal war against autocracy and for freedom. We will do so  with curated and original resources.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:column --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:columns --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:group --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>This project was one that was planned to launch several years in the future during our retirement in Europe. It was to be used as a personal political organizer. Unfortunately the world is not improving with time. And because big tech and big money entrench autocracy, weaken democracy, enshittify the economy, and destroy the environment, I have decided to launch the project early.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Again, it&#8217;s built with open-source technology not corporate surveillance tech. Battalion is fortified with WordPress and Activity Pub. Both are tried and true technologies that democratize the web and social spaces. And they have done so for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":1128,\"width\":\"300px\",\"height\":\"300px\",\"scale\":\"cover\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"is-style-rounded\",\"style\":{\"color\":{\"duotone\":\"var:preset|duotone|duotone-1\"}}} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"769\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/voting-headshot-reuben-walker-bw.jpg\" alt=\"Reuben Walker headshot\" class=\"wp-image-1128\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:300px;height:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/voting-headshot-reuben-walker-bw.jpg 769w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/voting-headshot-reuben-walker-bw-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/voting-headshot-reuben-walker-bw-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph {\"align\":\"left\"} --><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Reuben Walker<\/strong><br \/>Ringleader, Battalion<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"51px\"} --><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:spacer --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:separator {\"className\":\"is-style-wide\"} --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<!-- \/wp:separator -->\n<p><!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"40px\"} --><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:spacer --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:columns --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"33.33%\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><!-- wp:image {\"lightbox\":{\"enabled\":false},\"id\":528,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"custom\",\"className\":\"is-style-rounded\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/category\/defending-democracy\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Defending-Democracy-BW-Web-Edited-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Spaceship at the site of a battle\" class=\"wp-image-528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Defending-Democracy-BW-Web-Edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Defending-Democracy-BW-Web-Edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Defending-Democracy-BW-Web-Edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Defending-Democracy-BW-Web-Edited.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:column --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"66.66%\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"padding\":{\"right\":\"var:preset|spacing|10\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|10\"}}}} --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);flex-basis:66.66%\"><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Destroying Autocracy<\/h2>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Battalion features a weekly post with the latest news in the battle against autocracy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/category\/defending-democracy\/\">Destroying Autocracy<\/a> category page for the archive. And use the latest post link in the menu for the current one.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>You can follow our RSS feed so you don&#8217;t miss an issue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:buttons --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\"><!-- wp:button -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/rss\">Follow Destroying Autocracy<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:button --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:buttons --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:activitypub\/follow-me {\"className\":\"is-style-profile\"} --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-activitypub-follow-me is-style-profile\"><!-- wp:button -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Follow<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:button --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:activitypub\/follow-me --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:column --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:columns --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"40px\"} --><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:spacer --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:separator {\"className\":\"is-style-wide\"} --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<!-- \/wp:separator -->\n<p><!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"40px\"} --><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:spacer --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:columns --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\"><!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"33.33%\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><!-- wp:image {\"lightbox\":{\"enabled\":false},\"id\":1213,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"custom\",\"className\":\"is-style-rounded\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Techno-Anarchism-Manifesto-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white siloette of a female figure in an astronaut suite with a space helmet and halo around it\" class=\"wp-image-1213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Techno-Anarchism-Manifesto-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Techno-Anarchism-Manifesto-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Techno-Anarchism-Manifesto-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Techno-Anarchism-Manifesto.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:column --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:column {\"width\":\"66.66%\",\"style\":{\"spacing\":{\"padding\":{\"right\":\"var:preset|spacing|10\",\"left\":\"var:preset|spacing|10\"}}}} --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);flex-basis:66.66%\"><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Techno Anarchist Manifesto<\/h2>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Battalion is also home to the <a href=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/techno-anarchist-manifesto\/\">Techno Anarchist Manifesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>This practical and profanity-laced manifesto provides the loose philosophy, strategies, battleplans, tactics, and weapons to destroy Techno Feudalism via the practice of Techno Anarchism. It explains the war we are in, the Techno battle\u2019s place in it, and what Techno Feudalism and Techno Anarchism are.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:buttons --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\"><!-- wp:button -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/battalion.mobileatom.net\/techno-anarchist-manifesto\/\">Read the Manifesto<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:button --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:buttons --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:column --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:columns --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":\"40px\"} --><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:spacer --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destroying Autocracy, Defending Democracy Battalion strives to combat and defeat autocrats worldwide and overthrow autocracies with direct action. 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