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

James Grimmelmann’s fascinating condensed history of Sealand, a micro-nation on a platform in the North Sea, and the attempt to run a data center there.

Count me in the left-wing market anarchist school.

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.