Regulatory Protectionism & the D.C. Taxi Cartel vs. mass transit and new technological models. http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/22/uber-wars-how-dctried-to-kill-a-great-n

is in New Orleans from now until Sunday evening. (Still stapling booklets though.)

is madly stapling booklets for ALL Distro at tomorrow’s 2013 New Orleans Anarchist Book Fair. As it turns out, the bad news is that there wasn’t time to get this month’s Anarchist Classics layout ready in time to have it at the table. (*) The good is is that that’s because I used that time to make sure that I will have a booklet edition of William Gillis’s “Fifteen Anti-Primitivist Theses.” A booklet edition with a picture of a jetpack.

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Quick question: any Bay Area ALLies or mutualists currently planning to table at the East Bay Anarchist Bookfair later this month (on Oct 26)? William Abe Mgna?

Civil wars are not “power vacuums.” They are power plenums. The problem isn’t that there’s too few people wielding power within the territory; it’s that there are even more people than usual wielding power, without leaving any room for any other kind of sociality. And they are all wielding power in a death-struggle to see who can hold onto it at the end of the day. When the Wehrmacht and the SS rolled across Poland, there was a violent contest as to who would control central Europe, and a lot of people didn’t know from day to day which government would be in control of the area where they lived; but if you think that the war was an example of anarchy, or of a “power vacuum,” then it seems to me you are using words without much meaning.

I was reading some idiotic border-nationalist thing from a self-described “libertarian realist” (they are actually neither). Then I watched this contribution to global human civilization, and I immediately felt immensely better about people and the world in general. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/world-order-welcome-to-tokyo_n_4065994.html

War on the Informal Sector (Cont’d) “This hearing was necessary because Mayor Kasim Reed had ignored two separate rulings by the court that make clear Atlanta’s [street vendors] have a right to vend on public property, just as they have done for decades. Instead, Mayor Reed and other city officials illegally shut down all public-property street vending and threatened vendors with fines and jail. “In 2009, then-Mayor Shirley Franklin signed an exclusive twenty-year contract that handed over all street vending in Atlanta to a multi-billion-dollar Chicago company, General Growth Properties (GGP). Atlanta vendors joined with the Institute for Justice and filed suit to strike down the vending scheme, which would have thrown them out of work — or forced them to pay thousands of dollars to GGP. In December 2012, Judge [Shawn Ellen] LaGrua struck down the scheme and the law that authorized it. Rather than accepting the court’s ruling, [Kasim] Reed illegally shut down all street vending citywide, throwing dozens of vendors out of work right before the Braves’ opening day and the NCAA Final Four. . . . Reed’s crackdown has kept vendors from working a single day this baseball season. . . . “. . . on July 2, 2013, the Fulton County Superior Court [clarified its ruling], making clear that its December 2012 order had reinstated the pre-existing vending law that vendors had worked under for years. The ruling came just one day after vendors and civil-rights activists engaged in a widely publicized protest on the steps of city hall. But . . . Reed disregarded that decision as well, resulting in today’s court order, which is the third judicial ruling instructing the city to allow vendors to get back to work.”

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: Small-government conservatism (Facebook Macro edition) http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/10/10/small-government-conservatism-facebook-macro-edition/ Nationalism is the death of liberty.

Oh, God, Nina Simone, “Trouble in Mind.”