Modern society has a predilection for centralization–the consolidation of resources. This has clear roots in Enlightenment thinking: use natural science to discover and build on the best ways to do things, and ultimately strive toward perfection. This crippling singularity does not reflect the complexity of the human experience.
There is no best form of government. There […]

We became aware of suffering. We knew we had to work to change things. The first step was learning. We read as much as we could, we started talking about how things could be different. We didn’t know what to do.
We became aware of power structures. We saw an opportunity to work towards change. We […]

There was a time when I was ignorant of oppression; a blissful childhood spent aloof to the suffering in the world. My eyes began to open in my adolescence, and my identity shifted. Naively, I thought we could use the system’s own channels to reform and ameliorate oppressive conditions. I slowly became disillusioned with this […]

Last Friday I took part in Chicago’s Critical Mass. Rain was expected and it was the first Mass of the summer, so we numbered in the hundreds rather than thousands. Those who road found gorgeous weather, only light rain, and high spirits all around.
Hundreds of cyclists riding in unison tend to block traffic out of […]

New reading added under the Resources page: Howard Zinn: Anarchism Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word.
Read, enjoy, discuss.

So, I just saw the new movie adaptation of Ironman. If one can look past the racism and sexism that Hollywood seems incapable of transcending, it offered a fairly intriguing story. The narrative is well-rounded, with enticing action sequences that are by no means the central focus of the movie. By the end, some important […]

This is a very long post. If you get all the way through it, there is a treat at the bottom just for you.

Somewhere lying on a desk in the back of our cultured minds is a definition of property. We read it once, and can’t recite it verbatim, but we have a good idea […]

Updates, updates. New banner up, courtesy of my good friend Andrew. Leave a comment and let us know what you think.
The Resources page has also been updated with some new reading–a piece called “Anarchy & Alcohol” (put out by CrimethInc.) which analyzes the role of alcohol in the life of an anarchist. It’s a good […]