In this atmosphere, I don’t think anarcho-villages of ALLs would do anything but attract police repression.
Unless you’re talking about people who live together in as much of a left-libertarian fashion as allowed by the current state of affairs.
Personally, I am hesitant to do anything major or involving much risk now. My RAWA benefit idea is a nice enjoyable low key legal event that will do some good without likely getting me pegged as a subversive.
Then again, as aspiring fascist in chief John McCain says: country first!
In this case, I am responding with: rights for Afghani women before U.S. policy! Death to the U.S. supported Islamist regime of Kabul.
Ah; I do like dramatics ( :
I got all of your emails about an ALL around here. I am interested, and I’ve been meaning to write back to you about it. I’ll do that this weekend. Marja and I are on good terms, so we could coordinate with each other easily. My reservations about starting one mostly deal with civil liberties questions. If we do, I’d like to do low key legal stuff that won’t get me locked up. There was a time when I would have fought in risky fashion for liberty in America, but I am now in the process of finding a way to leave America. I am still interested in meeting socially-culturally liberal libertarian types who I can trust not to make anti-statist power centers a boon for theocrats though. I am more cautious about anti-statism in a meta-context right now, but I could use some support networks of likeminded people on a more localized level.
]]>I think some ALL locals in the Dirty South would be a great development.
I don’t know of anyone yet who is working on new Anarchovillages, although I’d love to be proven wrong. Back when a couple places were standing empty for months in my complex, I was thinking of encouraging a couple of ALLies to move in, but it seems that over the summer we’ve had some Obamarchist move in next door.
For what it’s worth, I think that an ALL local could potentially provide a very good springboard for agorist projects like Anarchovillages and the like. (The first goal is to find each other; then you can start doing whatever most logically follows.)
I’m doing some asking around about Atlanta, and I’ve added you to the Organizing
list at the Organizing Committee website. I’ll drop you a line privately about some of the nitty-gritty stuff.
Also, I’ve been thinking a lot about the need for intentional agorist communities lately, SEK3-style, where ALL-minded people live and work together in a free-market commune. Do any such communities exist? Are there people working on starting one?
My email is mghertner at gmail, by the way.
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