They don’t denounce what the state does, they just object to who’s doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials. If you can’t pay or don’t want to, you don’t much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.

I was there. I wrote about it! (http://americancynic.net/log/2012/5/6/my_may_day_2012.html)

This is a protest I went to back in November. State troopers under Governor Hickenlooper and Denver police under Mayor Hancock had just arrested dozens of people at the Occupy Denver camps and confiscated food and supplies from the kitchen, and then they were made the “guests of honor” at a Denver homeless shelter’s Thanksgiving dinner. It was pathetic.

I’m the thumbnail image for this article!

Vermin Supreme is a candidate for the President of the United States of America. Free ponies for all.

I disagree with her: protest chants almost never feel meaningful.

On Karl Hess’s move to the Left.

By Andy Alexis-Baker of JesusRadicals.com. This paper is relevant to Christians beyond Anabaptists, and to people beyond Christians.

Mikhail Bakunin on social contract theory.

“That sound you don’t hear — the absence of outrage over marriage rights, and gay spokespeople for middle-American companies — is the sound of social change.”

A fairly concise introduction to Christian anarchism by one of the most active academics researching the topic.

Nice short introduction to neomedievalism. The rest of this weblog is fun to read, too.

If nothing else, the Occupy protests have helped bring attention to laws aimed at criminalizing homelessness and the authoritarian restriction of public spaces.

Expanding on Tucker’s four monopolies of the state

There was a No Borders camp at the US-Mexico border for five days in 2007! I wish I had been there. Though they did get beat up pretty bad by the US Border Patrol on the last day. Check out the videos. There is also a series of three videos on YouTube summarizing the entire event:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccePCNfEsQ0
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNJxYgEduSs
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9wGm6VA208&feature;=youtu.be