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Earlier this year — or was it last year? — I got into a lot of trouble for telling a reporter that I hope my heterosexual friends who are financially able to do so will boycott marriage until such time as it becomes available to everyone. I’m happy to report that a group of students [...]

August 23rd, 2009 | Tags: boycott, gay rights, marriage | Category: Activism, Direct Action, Queer | Leave a comment

I’ll be out of town and offline for a few days starting tomorrow, so don’t be dismayed if it takes a few days for new comments to appear. If you’re looking for something to read while I’m gone, check out my blogroll or visit the new, rebooted, and improved Anarchoblogs. “Anarchoblogs is a collection of [...]

January 7th, 2009 | Tags: Anarchism, blogs | Category: Anarchism, Direct Action | Comments (1)

What do anarchist cooking collectives, decadently healthy deserts, and the sniveling excuses of leftists who give into their own greed under the guise of solidarity with the masses have in common? They’re all featured in the latest action-packed edition of the Abolitionist Online.
Yes, Australia’s indefatigable Claudette Vaughn has done it again, pulling together an [...]

December 28th, 2008 | Tags: abolitionism, Anarchism, reading | Category: Anarchism, Direct Action, Intersections, People I Love, Vegan Bliss | Comments (1)

“Hunting is murder.” That’s the slogan that some unknown Czech hunt saboteurs scrawled on the five hunting towers they sawed down and smashed.
Of course, people all over the world undertake such actions — small in relation to the worldwide scope of the problem but worth the whole world to the specific animals saved by them [...]

December 27th, 2008 | Tags: Activism, Direct Action, hunt sabotage, hunting | Category: Activism, Direct Action | Leave a comment

Sarah Palin, proud of her ignorance, asks “What is a community organizer?” her sneering tone making clear that she thinks anything she doesn’t know isn’t worth knowing. (Oddly enough, she used the same tone when asking what a Vice President does all day, implying that the tasks associated with that job might not be worth [...]

September 16th, 2008 | Category: Activism, Direct Action, Intersections | Comments (4)

Often, it can be hard to see the connections among issues and even harder to figure out how to take action in a way that takes those connections into account. But sometimes the stars align and we are suddenly able to see a certain intersection much more clearly and act much more decisively. That’s what’s [...]

July 21st, 2008 | Category: Activism, Climate, Direct Action, Economics, Energy, Intersections | Comments (1)