Market Anarchy #39 booklet done. Printing out first proofs soon.

Anarchist Classics #26 booklet: done. Time for a break; then, Market Anarchy #39

One of the fun things about providing footnotes for old essays about how the best authors are barely known and the worst authors prosper in the mass market, is that the footnotes I have to provide are more or less always footnotes about whatever ephemeral popular authors are being held up as examples of the dreck.

Signs that someone may be editing a Wikipedia page to try and preserve the feelings of someone famous and supposedly reputable: sections begin “Though not a garden-variety anti-Semite. . . .”

is prepping the next issues of Anarchist Classics and Market Anarchy Zine Series. Possibly printed out late tonight? Or early tomorrow morning. (This month: something about majorities! And something about networked economies!)

Anyone know, off the top of their heads a good, entry-level focused treatment of government supports for and structuring of industrial agribusiness? (It doesn’t have to be exhaustive, just a relatively comprehensive overview.) I am looking for “Further reading …” sorts of footnotes, and the best thing I’ve got off the top of my head are things like scattered articles on the school/military surplus buy-up programs, a bunch of stuff about the evils of Monsanto, passages of e.g. FAST FOOD NATION (where the author himself doesn’t necessarily see the import of the things he’s documenting) or something like Joel Salatin’s EVERYTHING I WANT TO DO IS ILLEGAL. But something that pulls all of these items into a more comprehensive overview would be nice.

How to make every Daft Punk song ever: (1) take previous Daft Punk song. (2) Change two or three notes in the main hook. (3) Take out the 3-5 word vocodered slogan. (4) Replace with another 3-5 word vocodered slogan. The cool thing about this process is that no matter how many times you repeat it, the result is still amazing.

To-day Fair Use Repository: “Kate Austin,” obituaries from FREE SOCIETY (November 30, 1902). Includes a photo, a biographical sketch by Will Holmes and letters from Voltairine de Cleyre, “Joy” of Freedom colony, Kansas, and James F. Morton, Jr. http://fair-use.org/free-society/1902/11/30/kate-austin

Immigration freedom is a civil rights issue. “[Melissa] Murrell joined five other members at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to introduce the project to the public. She says the organization already has collected some twenty stories from immigrants and their families, both documented and undocumented. ‘To kind of put a face on the issue to help people understand that every time we talk about immigration reform we’re talking about real people,’ she said. Over the next several months the coalition will compile more stories. Those stories will then be archived at the BCRI. . . .”

From Salon, “With gun nuts hoarding bullets, will cops be disarmed?” (*) (* Yes please.) “But what those rushing to stockpile guns and ammo seem to miss is that their actions have consequences on the people [police] whose job it is to keep us safe. . . .” http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/cops_are_running_out_of_bullets_thank_the_nra/ I have no real idea what “those rushing to stockpile guns and ammo” think about or don’t think about. Maybe if you want to know that, you could ask some, instead of spending the entire article interviewing cops. But I do know that many of us would be much safer if police had no bullets at all. Did police bullets keep Kimani Gray safe? Emma Hernandez? Angel Alvarez? Alonzo Heyward? Sean Bell? Amadou Diallo? Who seriously believes that “keep[ing] us safe” is what police do? Who’s the “us” they have in mind when they think that?