Thanks to ALLy James Tuttle for creating a solid handout in support of George Donnelly.

Download the .pdf at LibertyActivism.info.

My latest commentary is up at Center for a Stateless Society.

Lots of pundits are piecing together lessons from Tuesday’s US primary elections. But what lessons might the primaries hold for anarchists in America? Read the rest

I was going to do one on the new NYPD tape recordings, but Radley Balko already did a good article about it.

Last night’s Thinking Liberty was one of the best shows we’ve done. Xaq Fixx joined us to talk about anarchism, Fr33 Agents, and DIY culture.

Download the archive from ThinkingLiberty.net.

Thinking liberty is an interactive audio broadcast where Darian, Tennyson, Bosco, and Bile banter and plot to free the world. We often have guests join us by phone, and listeners can call in or chat with us on Skype. Check out ThinkingLiberty.net for the latest updates.

George Donnelly, a Pennsylvania activist, was tackled and arrested for filming federal officers harassing pamphleteers. After being held in a federal detention center he was released under a number of oppressive conditions. He has been charged with resisting and striking federal officers, which could carry an eight year sentence. See Penn. Activist Facing 8 Years in Prison for Video.

It is well known that cops lie, and that they will accuse people of being violent to try to deflect criticism from their own actions.

I ask you to join me in supporting George, not only because he is one of the friendliest, most committed, and most principled advocates of liberty I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, but because there is so much that is important about this case.

Individuals attempting to peacefully prevent government assaults on liberty by advocating jurors exercise nullification power are harassed by agents of the state who would prefer to settle things through violence. An individual documenting this struggle, attempting to hold government officials to some kind of accountability, is violently assaulted, hauled away in chains, and put into a cage. If you believe that government officers should be held accountable for their actions and that we have the right to document what they do while on duty, then you should care about George Donnelly.

So please help George defend himself against the state.

Last night’s Thinking Liberty podcast can be downloaded from LibertyActivism.info. You might need to get a plugin to play it – if so, just click on the Ogg Vorbis link on the page and download the appropriate file for your system.

We should be getting a dedicated url for Thinking Liberty this week. This is one of the changes we’re making to the format. Now that we have our own equipment, we can make a much more reliable setup. We’ll have more guests on the show, and more ways to interact with the live broadcast. Please bear with us as we make the conversion.

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One of the people I had the pleasure of meeting at the New York Anarchist Book Fair was Scott from Firestorm Cafe and Books in Asheville, NC. It’s an anarchist space with a heavy mutualist influence.

There’s also a growing Local Exchange Trading System in Asheville.

I hope Firestorm and Asheville LETS become successful contributors to a consensual community, and I hope they help inspire folks elsewhere to move forward making liberty.

Alliance of the Libertarian Left folks from New Jersey, New York, and New Hampshire converged at the 2010 NYC Anarchist Book Fair. This is the first time ALL had a table at the event.

We had a good mix of cheap and free literature:

The table got more organized as the day went on. Unfortunately we had less than half the display space we’re used to, so it took some work to keep a good representation of literature on the table.

Kevin Carson’s The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand was a popular giveaway. We also gave out about 40 assorted Center For a Stateless Society pamphlets. Our free literature also included copies of ALLiance Journal, the Market Anarchy zine series, and New Libertarian Manifesto. Much of this can be downloaded at LibertyActivism.info.

There was also a great selection of titles from Corvus Editions, including some brand new booklets. They sold well. We also sold the fiction books Bring a Gun to School Day and The Walton Street Tycoons, and prints of An Agorist Primer and Agorist Class Theory. We had ALL buttons from Vegas ALL and shirts by Bosco.

This fair would not be a money-making trip for me, however. I ended up “investing” in lots of books and zines, plus some cool posters.

The fair provided a great opportunity to meet and talk to lots of folks from across the anarchist and radical spectrum. The space was packed with active and inquisitive people. I look forward to doing more anarchy in the New York metro area.

Much thanks to James from Tulsa ALL for contributing towards table costs, and thanks to everyone who came and made the experience awesome!

Last week I posted a new feature at Center for a Stateless Society: Build Liberty From the Ground Up. I turned the text into a pamphlet, which can be downloaded from LibertyActivism.info.

Speaking of Center for a Stateless Society pamphlets, they were popular handouts at the New York Anarchist Book Fair last weekend. I’ll post more about the fair tomorrow, but be assured that it was a great time.

Today I posted a new C4SS commentary, Free Space, which kind of has a pun for a title. Because I didn’t post a news commentary last week, I’ll post another commentary either tomorrow or Wednesday. I apologize to C4SS supporters for not meeting my pledge to post a weekly commentary. But I do think this fumble is mitigated by the fact that last week I not only posted my monthly feature, but put in the extra work to make it into a pamphlet and gave out C4SS literature at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair.

I didn’t post a link to my Center for a Stateless Society commentary last week. In Health Care Anger, Anarchist Solutions, I described how potentially violent power struggles can be defused by ceasing to struggle for power over people:

Consistent libertarian thought offers a clear path out of the conflicts that occur when people struggle to rule over each other.

Governments, or factions within governments, fight over who, what, and where they are to exert their authority. When these turf battles get serious, words like “war” are used.

My March feature article examines What the State is Made Of:

The state is an organization through which some people exercise political authority – coercive power with a claim of legitimacy – against other people.

A state is said to have the right to do things that ordinary individuals do not have the right to do. The state is conferred the right to rule over individuals. It works to control life in order to safeguard or expand the power of the people in charge and the powerful interests they answer to. Individuals may not opt out of state demands without being subject to legal sanctions (unless state agents find the cost of enforcing an individual infraction too high for the perceived benefit).

My latest commentary describes how A Free Society Would Have Safer Subways:

The recent Moscow subway bombings brought out the only response the state could make – more cops, harder crackdowns, and tougher talk. But what if there was another way?