During a DWI stop on January 1st, 2012 police violently assaulted a woman for informing a friend about her right to refuse a sobriety test. A bystander, Antonio Buehler, who saw the violence (and captured it on film) was then also assaulted and arrested on trumped-up charges. The entire incident was caught on video and shows the officers’ version of the events is untrue. Recently police Corporal Hipolito stated to Keye news, that he did not see evidence on the dash cam video of Antonio spitting on the officer.
This is a Rally to protest the APD for adding additional charges to the female victim and withholding the dash cam video that would further exonerate Antonio of the felony charge.
Demands:
*All charges against the victims dropped.
*Police officers Patrick Oborski and Robert Snider immediately fired, and criminal charges filed against them.
Bring:
*Yourself and at least one other person.
*Cameras
*Signs
Come out and show support for Antonio Buehler and the other victims of police abuse on January 1st, 2012. This is a peaceful showing of solidarity. All you really need to bring is some friends and cell phones/cameras. Learn about the incident here. Click on the image below to maximize then ‘right click’ and save it. For better quality download the pdf through the link below.
The New Years Day incident in Austin involving police officers Robert Snider and Pat Oborski abusing peaceful citizens has reached nationwide media coverage. It all began with a DWI traffic stop in front of a 7-11, while the driver was out of the vehicle with police, the passenger Norma Pizana was informing her friend her rights. She is quoted in an interview here, “Yelling out of the car to my friend her rights is not interfering, it’s telling her rights,” said the woman. “And sitting in the passenger seat, never opening the car door, I’m not harming myself, I’m not harming others.”
Apparently officer Pat Oborski didn’t like her shouting to her friend about her rights, so he approached her sitting in the car and warned her to stop. Antonio Buehler was parked getting gas at the 7-11, he and his friend were watching the driver perform a field sobriety test in heels. He was the designated driver that night and was driving his friends truck home from a party. Pizana continued her 1st amendment speech and was yanked out of the car violently, causing bruises on her arms and legs. At this point she began to scream for help, as she was being pulled up from the ground by her arms over her head. Continue reading “Video Footage of Arrest in Austin Highlights Troubling Trend of Police Abuse”
It’s in the interest of the ruling elite to keep us divided and fighting amongst each other. The idea of class war or police violence would benefit the State immensely. This is an old COINTELPRO tactic that is used to create false revolution, the result being no change and apathy. Now, grassroot movements that are deemed a threat by government are co’opted and discredited. It’s easier to destroy a movement by becoming it, rather than assassinate leaders like they did with the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, MLK, and JFK.
The Occupy movement, shouldn’t be a movement, it should be a paradigm shift of thinking based on breaking their chains and becoming self-sufficient. Assume your power and create the system you want instead of asking for the system to change itself. The globalists behind the system, that can’t be voted out, have been in control of governments for generations and will not yield control willingly. Continue reading “Occupy Agorism”
During Houston’s 2011 End The Fed Rally, attendees were fortunate to have their minds expanded by the revolutionary strategy of Agorism by John Bush. John is a hard working activist and inspiring speaker based out of Austin, Texas. John is not only spreading the message of true freedom, he is also working on numerous projects based on mutual aid and voluntaryism. Continue reading “Problem: Police, Solution: Agorism”
Sheep “mow” an orchard. This relatively inexpensive livestock will eat both grass and tender weeds, and can be rotationally grazed using movable electric fencing. PHOTO: DEBORAH RENDON
Lawns first became fashionable in the Middle Ages. Back then, the only alternative to sending flocks of sheep to graze the lawn was hiring men with scythes. Since that time, lawns and gas-powered lawn mowers have become ubiquitous, while the use of sheep to keep grass neat has become rare. Why is this? Using sheep to keep lawns trim is quiet, requires no fossil fuel, adds fertilizer to your lawn, and has wonderful side benefits — meat and wool — that no mechanical mower can provide.
Sheep aren’t the only livestock that can serve multiple purposes. Each type of livestock has natural habits with potential uses around your homestead. Pigs are nature’s plows. Geese feast on grassy weeds. Ducks eat slugs and bugs.
Though using working animals on your homestead has many benefits, it involves some work, too. Unlike gas-powered equipment, animals can’t be put away in the garage until the next time you need them. They need food, water, shelter, fencing and occasional veterinary care. So, why keep them? Continue reading “Homestead Helpers: Sheep, Cattle, Pigs and Poultry”
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Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).
About Marcin Jakubowski
Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing a set of blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built cheaply from scratch. Call it a “civilization starter kit.” Full bio and more links.
SurvivalBlog has posted this handy guide to maintaining your caffeine addiction during even the worst of times — but who says you have to wait? The idea of roasting your own coffee sounds rather intriguing on its own. James Rawles lays out the basics below:
I have read many articles stating that if you have any addictions to nicotine, caffeine or alcohol that now is the time to change your habits so that your dependency on them in their absence are easier to tolerate. My coffee habit is less a habit-at least that’s what I tell myself-and more of an enjoyment of life. That being said, in moderation coffee actually has an anti-oxidant property- justification is always a sign of a habit I know – not to mention the benefit of assisting in staying alert during a night watch task.
As a previous specialty coffee shop owner-prior to the commercialization of the industry by Starbucks -no I am not bitter- the storage of “freshly” roasted coffee has always been an issue. In fact, there is really only one method for long term storage of coffee since once the bean is roasted the oils and converted sugars begin to deteriorate and go rancid very quickly. Most off the shelf coffees that you buy in vacuum sealed containers or bags are actually made stale so that they can be vacuum sealed. Otherwise the bag would burst from the off gassing of the beans. Vacuum sealed freshness is a marketing term that actually means vacuum sealed staleness. I would always tell my customers you would never buy stale bread, why do you insist on paying a premium for stale coffee?
I was interviewed yesterday on Agorist Radio’s Cypherpunkd show. It was a great hour, and I want to thank Hiro for having me on!
Ben Godwin from the awesome website: JustLive.us joins us for a chat. Ben talks about the sites origin, design and goals. We discuss agorism, mutual aid, self-sufficiency, Direct Action, diverse groups moving into agoric activity, the building of alternate systems to replace the Failed States and the Snake Oil they have been peddling, people looking for and building systems to solve their real world problems – now.
Check it out, and listen to the other episodes while you’re there — it’s a great show. Topics covered so far have ranged from Bitcoin, to Loom, to Hawala, just to name a few.
Grace Lee Boggs says she would like the chapter titles of her new book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, written with Scott Kurashige, to become buzzwords for progressive activists.
So I imagine “Detroit, Place and Space to Begin Anew” or “We Are the Leaders We’ve Been Looking For” on T-shirts, trying to fit them on for size in the coming era of struggle to rebuild Detroit and Michigan.
More than just buzzing around, Boggs wants people to really ponder the meaning and implications of those words. “What does it mean to start anew? What does it mean to say we are the leaders we’ve been looking for?” she asks me rhetorically. “I think instead of growing our budgets, we need to be growing our souls. What are the economics of happiness instead of gross national product? People of every race are beginning to think differently. They’re beginning to recognize that life isn’t just about making a living. It’s about making a life.”
Boggs is a political philosopher whose thought and activism have been reaching around the globe from her modest home near Mack and East Grand Boulevard. Last week, I sat down with her and Kurashige, a Boggs Center board member and director of AC Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan, to ask how her ideas relate to some of the tumultuous events taking place these days. The large, though not fancy, brick house is filled with books and papers. It’s not an advertisement for the electronic age and predictions of a paperless society. Boggs, the daughter of Chinese-American restaurant owners, earned a Ph.D from Bryn Mawr in 1940, became a leftist, and married black autoworker-activist James Boggs. The Boggses collaborated with the Marxist historian and theorist C.L.R. James during the 1950s, and, starting in the 1960s, set their own course, writing several books either separately or together. These days, Grace, a widow recently turned 95, is the leader of the nonprofit Boggs Center, headquartered at her home, which is the hub around which a number of efforts — Detroit Summer, the Allied Media Project, Detroit City of Hope, the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality and others — maintain their philosophical grounding and connection to a broader, growing movement in Detroit.
Boggs’ revolution is not a call to seize political power from the government. “A cultural revolution has begun to take place,” says Boggs. “It’s a phenomenon as historic and as far-reaching as the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry. Now we’re at the heart of a change from industry to a world where people work not so much at jobs. Work is something that we do to develop skills as much as to produce goods and services. We’re so used to the idea that we work in order to make money, but that’s not why people have worked throughout history and that’s the kind of way we’re going now. It provides a very different perspective of revolution. It’s not about seizing state power to plan the economy. [...continue reading at MetroTimes...]
Gonzo Times has just released a PDF of the first issue of their mutual aid print publication. The PDF is available in several formats, seen below:
Here is the first issue of Gonzo Times for Print. We ask that you print not only one for yourself but others to distribute in your area. Coffee Shops, Libraries, Campuses, Book Stores and Community Centers may be some places you can do this. Please tell us how many you publish and where you have distributed. I would love to know.
You can order copies here at Gonzo Times. We will be selling copies in bulk seeking only to cover printing costs starting March 10th. This is a publication supported by mutual aid only. This is not a for profit publication. We will however offer ad space in the next issue for people who order certain quantities this will be to fund continued printing only. Take part in this mutual aid publication by distributing all around your area.
The publication was designed to be printed on 11 x 17 both sides 8 sheets folded and side stapled to create a 36 page publication. You can print on 8.5 x 11 if those are your only printing capabilities.
Be sure to check the link for ways to help spread this zine far and wide.
Much of the radical left subscribes to some version of “Dump the bosses, put the workers in charge.” Brian Edwards-Tiekert tours a bakery in Oakland that went out of business — until its workers brought it back. Melissa Hoover describes how worker-run businesses adapt to a bad economy. And Gayle McLaughlin discusses her plan to create jobs by following the model of the cooperatives in Spain.
Roderick T. Long’s brilliant “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class” had only been available as a scanned PDF. It’s now been OCR’d and we’re happy to make it available here.
Wally Conger posted this review in praise of the work when it came out in scanned-PDF form:
Roderick T. Long’s “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class,” which first appeared in Social Philosophy & Policy (Summer 1998), is finally available for download as a two-part PDF…
I think this is a seminal work in the ongoing struggle to build a hardcore radical Libertarian Left movement from three disparate strands — libertarian capitalism, libertarian socialism, and what Long calls “libertarian populism.” If you consider yourself a Libertarian Leftist, you should really read this. If you consider yourself a serious Libertarian Left activist, you should really study this thoroughly and add it to your intellectual arsenal.
Original PDF (combined into one file, 47 pages, 8.1 MB)
OCR’d PDF (40 pages, 512 KB) — In this version, the footnotes have been moved to the end of the document.
The OCR has been gone over, but we’d appreciate hearing about out any errors, missing text, etc.
This is another great how-to from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob shares his favorite methods for making sauerkraut at home.
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So around thanksgiving the snows were getting two feet deep and it was getting cold enough to just about freeze solid all the fruits and vegetables we store outside our home in a big ‘ol busted down chest freezer by the woodshed.
The ol’ chest freezer before the snows hit:
So y’all know what that means, it’s time to finish preserving the stuff we wanted to keep but not freeze solid. As part of our annual fall “stocking up” trip we’d gone to cash and carry and I’d gotten a fifty pound sack of onions for five bucks, forty-five pounds of cabbage for nine bucks and change, and the carrots had gone up to six bucks for twenty five pounds so we only got fifty pounds of those. The cabbages were starting to silver in the cold, so it was time for cabbage chopping and sauerkraut salting!
We hauled all the stuff into the cottage and I set my wife to chopping while I scrounged around for suitable containers. The containers I usually use for kraut were not gonna be big enough this time around. I was never happy with the mold growing on my kraut anyway, and my wife never cared for the smell of tubs of fermenting cabbage in our tiny cottage so I thought I’d try a new trick this year. Continue reading “Bob Talks Making Sauerkraut from Scratch”
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