Don Mitchell coined the phrase ‘annihilation of property by law’ to describe the legal exclusion of the public (including the homeless) from ‘public’ spaces. Last year’s Occupy evictions show the violence cities are willing to inflict to so annihilate their public spaces.

Wow. A speech given by Don Mitchell to students at Syracuse University learning how to rule the world: “I find the construction of the American Empire to be utterly reprehensible. I find our diplomatic and military hypocrisy not only on the world stage but at home too to be abhorrent. I find our - that is my and your state’s - role in the world, a role defined by the raw exercise of power, a startling ignorance of what other peoples are like and what they want, to be a sheer exercise not only in arrogance, but in violent bloody-mindedness. I find our reliance on force, on arms, on the technology of death, coupled with our disregard for others' lives - the thousands of Afghani civilians directly killed by our bombs as they missed Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden; the at least ten thousands Iraqis so far killed; the fifty to hundred thousand killed in Dresden; the more than a hundred thousand incinerated or condemned to a cancerous death in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the two million Vietna

Even Pat Robertson sees the problem.

This is the issue by which I became associated with Occupy Denver in the first place.

A short essay on the criminalization of homelessness, with a focus on the inherent dignity of persons.

Of everything Howard Zinn has written, this is my favorite.

Glenn Greenwald’s introduction: “At some point in the future, I believe history will be quite clear about who the actual criminals are in this case: not Mehanna, but rather the architects of the policies he felt compelled to battle and the entities that have conspired to consign him to a cage for two decades”

Once again, good on the NLG. Note the protesters in San Diego charged with felony conspiracy for interrupting a political speech.

“The reason I’m wrong isn’t because gay people shouldn’t join the Army. It’s because no-one should join the Army.”

Anarchy is the radical notion that other people are not your property.

A glimpse at sleeping on Denver’s 16th Street Mall in face of the urban camping ban being discussed.

Detroit high school suspends 100 students for walk-out protest. Those kids respond by starting a Free School while they’re suspended.

Kevin Carson gives the standard left-libertarian view of the state as an economic siphon to make possible a parasitic rentier class.

Chomsky’s assessment of Obama’s presidency: "In many ways, it’s a little worse than what I expected, but I didn’t expect anything."

My “I Was Arrested at Occupy Denver” essay is included as page 6 of this publication.

"I’m astounded that adults argue this so-called philosophy." There’s also a part 2 where you can learn about the silly notion of "libertarian/socialism": http://www.opednews.com/articles/Delusional-Anarchists-Part-by-Joe-Giambrone-120513-310.html

Quebec criminalized protest in wake of the Montreal student strikes. This is how the people of Montreal responded.