News and Views
This is not a general news section about issues that may be out of your control. Instead, these issues will impact you personally and give you a heads up so you can act accordingly.
By Harold on February 1, 2012
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views | Tagged Antonio Buehler, Austin, filming police, Free the NYE 3, Occupy APD, Occupy Austin Courts, police, police abuse, protest |
On Saturday January 28th, 2012, well over a hundred people from all walks of life, protested on the steps of the Austin Police Department for solidarity of the victims of police abuse on January 1, 2012. This was the second rally that was organized to protest police abuse in Austin, the first was Occupy Austin [...]
By Harold on January 24, 2012
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views | Tagged Antonio Buehler, APD, Austin, filming police, Occupy APD, Occupy Austin Courts, police, police abuse, protest |
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 [...]
By Harold on January 11, 2012
Posted in News and Views | Tagged activism, Antonio Buehler, Austin, Courts, filming police, police, police abuse |
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 [...]
By Harold on January 10, 2012
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views | Tagged Antonio Buehler, Austin, filming police, police, police abuse, video |
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 [...]
By Ben on April 1, 2011
Posted in Books, News and Views | Tagged community, Detroit, Grace Boggs, interview, revolution, sustainability, urban |
From MetroTimes:
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, [...]
By Ben on March 3, 2011
Posted in News and Views | Tagged Against the Grain, audio, cooperative, economy, interview, KPFA, left-libertarian, Mondragón, Oakland, radio, recession, worker-owned |
From Against the Grain:
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 [...]
By Ben on December 27, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged C4SS, Charles Johnson, civil disobedience, cops, copyright, direct action, jury nullification, Kevin Carson, law enforcement, marijuana, public opinion, tyranny |
Kevin Carson of Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) drives another one home, by pointing out the futility of using the system to change the system, when it’s so much more effective to just… just disobey it.
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Attack Tyranny at Its Weakest Link — Enforcement
by Kevin Carson of C4SS
Goo-goo liberals and “good citizens” of all stripes [...]
By Harold on August 4, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged anarchism, anarchists, black-bloc, fake anarchy, g20, libertarianism, tea party |
A good article by Ross Kenyon from the Center for a Stateless Society, illustrating the pervasive stereotypes that are perpetuated against anarchists.
How would the NAACP respond if a politician or other public figure had said this about all black people?
Recently, US Representative John Boehner (R-OH) odiously mischaracterizedanarchist philosophy and painted an inaccurate portrait of its core [...]
By Harold on July 26, 2010
Posted in Finances, News and Views | Tagged agora, behavior, black markets, Canada, cigarettes, state, statism, tax |
An article from the Vancouver Sun, is a great illustration of how black markets rise in response from increased theft from the State. The article highlights the rise of Canada’s black market trade of cigarettes, due to increased taxation from the state.
The State seeks to invade every facet of our human experience, in this [...]
By Harold on July 12, 2010
Posted in History, Movies, News and Views, Philosophy | Tagged anarchism, documentary |
The personal philosophy of anarchism and agorism, are showing significant growth from political activists who have been engaged with the state for the last decade. The journey towards this political philosophy occurred independently and simultaneously, between me and Ben, the co-founder of JustLive. We also noticed this trend amongst those we interact with on social networks and [...]
By Harold on July 8, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Finances, News and Views, Philosophy | Tagged agorism, anarcho-capitalism, anti-state, ba, black markets, government, Samuel Konkin, state |
An informative article titled “New underground economy” from the Washington Times, provides data points that demonstrate the growth of the underground “black” economy. It reveals that the public is naturally gravitating towards an agorist way of commerce, based over economic oppression and distrust of the state.
The article highlights a significant rise of “unbanked” households, [...]
By Harold on June 28, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged agent provocateur, agorism, anarchism, black-bloc, capitalism, fake anarchy, Free State Project, g20, police, political activism, PorcFest, protest, state |
Frankly, I’m fed up with protests that achieve nothing, but more power for the state and less credibility for dissent. We can walk out of the system anytime, you don’t need to go to these criminals and ask for your inherent rights.
Agorism promotes the idea of ignoring government, by dispelling the myth that these crooks [...]
By Ben on June 12, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged Africa, anarchism, anarchist societies, anarcho-capitalism, C4SS, community, Kevin Carson, kritarchy, Mogadishu, Rachel Maddow, Somalia, study |
Kevin Carson takes on statist liberals and anarcho-capitalist ideologues alike in this brilliant article about Somalia and anarchy.
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Somalia — Is That Really All You Got?
by Kevin Carson
Rachel Maddow, a popular liberal commentator on MSNBC, recently iterated — for the umpteenth time — the standard liberal talking point of Somalia as a supposedly unanswerable argument against [...]
By Ben on May 26, 2010
Posted in Communication, News and Views, Technology | Tagged Bangladesh, bicycle, Gizmodo, InfoLadies, information, Internet, netbook, third world |
Gizmodo’s Kyle VanHemert writes about a simple and brilliant program to bring important information to people who have less access to it — the InfoLadies of Bangladesh:
Many people living in Bangladesh’s impoverished villages haven’t yet been reached by technology. But a determined band of InfoLadies—young women equipped with netbooks, phones, and medical equipment—are delivering technology’s [...]
