Red Emma’s, a worker-owned radical bookstore and café in Baltimore, is looking for grassroots support to help finance a big, awesome expansion of their space. http://radgeek.com/gt/2012/12/14/red-emmas-expansion/ Any support you can send their way will help, a lot.

OK so the picture made me laugh out loud. http://capnmidori.tumblr.com/post/37307903264/bountyhunterdwe-firegrowshigher

November’s issues of Market Anarchy and Anarchist Classics Series went in the mail to subscribers last week (news here has been slowed by family visits, plus a couple of massive orders that I had to clear out). Now they’re also available from the ALL Distro site. http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/anarchist-classics-series/schulder-relation-anarchism-organization/ Fred Schulder, “The Relation of Anarchism to Organization” (1899) an odd little classic from Fred Schulder, the individualist anarchist writer, lecturer, and sometime traveling salesman from Cleveland, Ohio http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/market-anarchy-zine-series/sheldon-richman-from-state-to-society/ Sheldon Richman, “From State to Society” (2012) a defense of anti-corporate, homesteading-based alternatives to neoliberal “privatization,” and a sharp critique of privateering masquerading as libertarian.

http://catandgirl.com/?p=4014 Yesss….

Another request from a friend. «A really great community bookstore is attempting to crowd-source some capital to put themselves on a stable footing. Consider giving them a hand.»

“In times of political sensitivity in China, security in the capital city Beijing can get pretty intense. The government, it seems, really does not want any political disturbances during this week’s Party Congress, in which the country will change leadership. This means that Beijing officials are deploying, among other things, what has got to be one of the more unsettling measures against dissent: firefighter teams in Tiananmen Square. Why, you ask, are there firefighters hanging out in Tiananmen Square? It’s a natural question, since they’re standing in the middle of a giant open square, with nothing flammable anywhere nearby. Except, that is, for the other people in the square, which may be exactly what they’re worried about. More specifically, the firefighters are likely there to put out any protesters who attempt to set themselves on fire. . . .” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/08/the-creepiest-sight-in-china-tiananmen-anti-self-immolator-firefighters/ This is as clear an illustration of power psychosis as you could hope for. Political control is often treated as a basic requirement for social order to be possible. But social control does not produce social order. It only suppresses the appearance of disorder. Actual social harmony is achieved by removing the cause of social disorder — by removing coercion from social relationships, not by hiding the symptoms of coercion.

Request from a friend: « PLEASE toss these guys $5 or more. ELECTRICITY IS GETTING CUT OFF FROM THIS SHELTER! » « These guys have fought long and hard to help the homeless in a city that was almost demanding the homeless stay out in the cold NH winters. They need some $ to pay for past-due rent and electricity before it gets cut-off tomorrow. They take PayPal donations on their website: http://www.hundrednights.org/ Donate buttons on the left side. »

“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” – August Spies, from the gallows, November 11, 1887. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Spies

“It shall never be forgotten that on the 11th of November, 1887, four men were hanged in Chicago because by spoken and written word they voiced their conviction that the wealth of this country is owned by a handful of non-producers and that the liberty of the republic is a mere sham. Their crime consisted in saying to the poor, You are being robbed and exploited, and telling the people that the republic is a refuge for a thousand big and small despots. They wrote and spoke the truth. But wherever the truth is spoken, the masters have ever been afraid that it would lead to Anarchy. That was the reason why they demanded the blood of our comrades. Had the Chicago martyrs conformed to patriotic convention, had they joined in hurrahing for our wonderful institutions, had they lied and exploited, they would still be alive and respected as model citizens. They might even be found worthy to be honored by President Wilson as Peace Commissioners to the Colorado mine regions, the Tsardom of the Rockefellers. “Hail to them that they did not join the chorus. Hail to us that in the dead of Waldheim we have forerunners who set us the example how rebels should live, struggle and die. Revolutionists are mortal, but immortal are liberty and revolution. These did not perish on the 11th of November on the gallows of Chicago. They march on, through this and other lands, towards their goal. “. . . Our Dead of Waldheim, we greet you as the torchbearers of indomitable revolutionary life force.” – M.B., “Black Friday of 1887,” in Mother Earth, Vol. IX. No. 9 (November 1914). 298-302. http://fair-use.org/mother-earth/1914/11/black-friday-of-1887

Via Brad Spangler, who got it from a friend. “IMMIGRATION SUPPORT: A friend writes, “The quasi-DREAM Act program enacted in April to let undocumented immigrants who came here as kids stay is extorting a $465 ‘fee’ from applicants before their petitions to be permitted to remain in their homes are considered. The Undocumented Students Action and Resource Network has set up a fund to collect donations to defray the cost of this extortion.” * No one should require the approval of some bureaucrat for a change of address — regardless of some imaginary line on a map. * No one should be subject to kidnapping under color of law for sake of not complying with such. * If you can support those who need help with this challenge, please do so.