A Quaker anarchist podcast
I was catching up on some Occupy Wall Street drama (because what else to do on a Monday morning in 2018?) and came across this essay by someone who wants leftists to be better at organizing or something. I liked it enough to read the whole thing.
On the origin of the word 'capitalist'
David S. D'Amato's collection of 19th-century individualist anarchist quotations.
A series of interviews with famous bloggers about blogging.
A look at the organic farm and ecovillage run by Gabriel of Urantia's group (who I've written about before: http://americancynic.net/log/2012/6/7/gabriel_of_urantia/)
It is encouraging that an intentional community with so much itnellectual baggage has been this successful.
Bryan Caplan's Anarchist Theory FAQ is interesting because he treats traditional anarchism and anarcho-capitalism as standing on equal ground.
A report on the blockade of the ICE field office in Centennial, CO.
Kapitalism101's Law of Value series (I've not read/watched all of these yet).
"Occupy Oakland began as a protest encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on October 10, 2011. Protestors renamed it Oscar Grant Plaza after a young man who was fatally shot by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police in 2009. The encampment was cleared out by multiple law enforcement agencies on October 25, 2011. The movement also helped spur the November 2, 2011 Oakland General Strike that shut down the Port of Oakland. Police again cleared the protest encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza on November 14, 2011. Other protest encampments were created and subsequently dismantled by law enforcement. The last encampment at Snow Park was cleared on November 21, 2011."
Audible Anarchist project on SoundCloud. "Audible Anarchist is a collective of volunteers from around the world dedicated to sharing anarchist ideas through audio recordings of books and essays, through podcasts, and through collaboration."
And on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL99_eb0XhJI2Fyw
Recently came across this Stirner-influenced writer who wishes anarchist would do more living and less politics a la the Cynics.
Duran successfully defrauded several Spanish banks of around 500,000 Euros by taking out loans and not paying them back.
An investigation into the practices of private security at Denver's Union Station and 16th Street Mall after four guards beat a homeless man in the bathroom and then tried to cover it up.
An audio version read by the journalist is available: https://soundcloud.com/user-11498782/on-guard
I like this argument, but imagine thinking it is an argument in favor of marriage.
'In 2014, the watchdog organization Verité released a study on migrant workers in the electronics sector in Malaysia. Among a sample of more than 400 foreign electronics workers, at least 32 percent were, by Verité’s definition, forced to work against their will. According to the report, “these results suggest that forced labor is present in the Malaysian electronics industry in more than isolated incidents, and can indeed be characterized as widespread.”'
The Verite's report: http://verite.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/VeriteForcedLaborMalaysianElectronics2014.pdf
Since January of 2001, over 2,100 undocumented migrants have died within the Pima County OME jurisdiction. The information presented is stark and perhaps unsettling. However, both Humane Borders and the Pima County OME believe that the availability of this information will contribute to fulfilling our common vision.
Portrait of long-distance hiker Nimblewill Nomad.
He's got a website: https://nimblewillnomad.com/