Presto’s Ramblings

I know that things are a little quiet around here. I’m working on a few projects that are taking me from much substantive online writing for a little while. Rest assured, I will be my long-winded self again soon.
Meantime, here’s an interesting video that fits in well with my current studies [...]

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Kent McManigal has one of the best suggestions for direct action that I have ever heard. To quote:
I think it is time for anarchists to take back the term from the nihilists who have stolen it. I think we should have an “Anarchy Day”. If anyone has a suggestion for a good date, let [...]

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Rad Geek has posted Benjamin Tucker’s classic individualist anarchist work, Instead Of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One in full online at the Fair use Archive.
A big hat tip to Rad Geek for his hard work getting this book online.

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Archivist extraordinaire Shawn Wilbur has managed to produce a complete PDF archive of the full run of Liberty, the anarchist newspaper edited by Benjamin Tucker. It’s available in all its raw glory here on Shawn’s site. It’s just the raw scans of the pages at this point, but Shawn has much more ambitious [...]

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Shawn Wilbur has been posting various libertarian texts on his blog and website for some time now. Now Shawn has proposed a full-blown Left-Libertarian historical library online. From his initial proposal:
I’m in the midst of putting together a first-stage proposal for a digital library of left-libertarian and related material, a more “walkable” version [...]

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A couple of months back I featured a video on letterpress printing. Here’s another video on the subject. One commenter on that post will appreciate one of the publications featured in this film, Fred Woolworth’s anarchist journal The Match!

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I’ve recently been looking around the Net for statements about anarchism, inspired by Claire Wolfe’s recent interest in writing a credo. While searching the net, I found this an incredibly eloquent summation of anarchism written by a writer who goes by the handle of Catfarmer. I found it so beautiful I asked for [...]

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I’m having a problem with my writing lately. Not exactly writer’s block, but something else. I can write easily, but everything I write lately seems to not be up to the standard of anything I want to put up here. I am having a hard time putting anything together that’s coherent, so [...]

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For those of you anarchists thinking about reasons to convert to Linux, here’s another one for you. While poking around the repositories* that come with Ubuntu, I discovered that there’s a package called ‘anarchism’ that installs a local copy of the Anarchist FAQ on your computer. I understand that it is also in the Debian [...]

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Does anybody know the story behind this clip? I know it was filmed during her 90-day brief return from exile, but I know nothing else. She looks stiff and uncomfortable. I wonder if appearing in the newsreel was some sort of requirement for getting a return visa to the US. She was an accomplished public [...]

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