- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. Where there is a conflict between the law and the higher moral code that we all share, my loyalty is to that higher moral code."
Tim DeChristopher
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
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I say let’s push them all over a real cliff!
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of hearing about the fiscal cliff and Obama’s grand bargain. Almost before all the voting booths could be packed up early last month this made-up, bullshit story started making the rounds on all the corporate news media in an effort to scare people into taking whatever deal the psychopaths in banking and other powerful industries decide to foist upon us all. There is bipartisan agreement between the two corporate-controlled parties to slash … Continue reading
Serious Business
“To me, this is the fundamental issue at stake when considering the impending collapse of this global empire. None of us in the homo consumptus species have even the absolute most basic skills of survival. We don’t know how to grow food – and I don’t mean non-native tomatoes in pots, that we use to decorate the arugula we buy from Whole Foods, I mean real food, calorically- and nutrient-dense, enough to keep us from starving. We don’t know how … Continue reading
You May Be an Anarchist — And Not Even Know It
I was digging around the archive at the online Anarchist Library today and found an interesting conversation between Derrick Jensen and anarchist theorist John Zerzan, who suggests that modern society has subjugated the populace to the point that it no longer even sees the bars of its cage. The entire interview, especially a discussion of time and the “subtle coercion of the clock,” is quite interesting and I encourage readers to click through and take in the entire piece. Anarchism, along … Continue reading
This November You Have An Opportunity: Stand For Something Beautiful or to Maintain Your Complicity in a Culture of Death
It Is Not Necessary For Everyone To ‘Earn’ A Living
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he … Continue reading
