It’s Spreading: More Anarchists Are Fixing Potholes Because the Gov’t Won’t Do Its Job

(ANTIMEDIA) Indianapolis, IN — As government agencies continue to prove themselves incompetent at local, state, and federal levels, some citizens are taking responsibilities typically assigned to the authorities into their own hands. One of these responsibilities is maintaining the roads, a task most people believe only government entities can carry out. In Indianapolis, Indiana, however, where the […]

Trump Haters Didn’t See This Coming! (VIDEO)

This week I discuss the various ways in which the Liberal Left Trump haters and their mainstream media have revealed their cards to America and the world as they continue to push identity politics, hatred, division, provocation, propaganda and victimhood while trampling on, America the Constitution, the rule of law, freedom of speech and much more. Among the reasons for the recent exposure of their divisive globalist agenda is the natural disaster in Texas and Louisiana as well as the recent exposure of ‘Antifa’ terror organization. In this podcast I also expose how many Anarchists are quietly in favor of this revolution against president Trump and how we must be very careful who we listen to. More than ever it is very important to think on our own and commit to focusing on the big picture.

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Militant Revolutionary Abolitionist Group Wants to “Expropriate” Your Property and Give It to Someone Who Deserves It (VIDEO)

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is Antifa on steroids. An offshoot group that has popped up has a website with some pretty extreme ideas, including expropriation of property from their enemies. They’ve declared war against capitalism and the state, promoting “militant defense.”

Their intro says:

We situate our political movement in the context of the abolitionist struggle against slavery and continue in the tradition, from Nat Turner to the Black Liberation Movement. We believe the Civil War was never resolved and the system of slavery transitioned into the prison industrial complex. Our struggle today must begin from this starting point. Lastly, as revolutionary anarchists, the abolitionist struggle must be extended to the state and capitalism, the perpetrators of oppression. The revolutionary movement in the US today is at a cross roads, as fascist movements are expanding, and the state becomes increasingly authoritarian.

They want to build a new Underground Railroad to free people from detention, incarceration, deportation, or white supremacist violence. They welcome “comrades” to aid in their efforts to build “organized defense groups, local councils, and regional/national councils.”

Let’s set the mood with their introductory video.

I guess they’re not planning on holding hands around the campfire and singing Kumbayah.

This kind of “anarchist” should not be confused with the voluntaryist type of anarchist, who, as a group, strongly supports free market principles.

While a lot of us wish the state was not so state-y and that the police were less police-y, most rational people aren’t ready to go out and lay a beatdown on anyone they perceive as an enemy. Nor do we wish to demonize capitalism or give away all our personal property for the greater good.

The political foundation of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement consists of:

• Self-Defense


• The Neighborhood Council


• Conflict Resolution and Revolutionary Justice


• Abolition of Gender


• Expropriation and the Cooperative Economy

While all of these are alarming, I’m particularly concerned about their calls for “self-defense,” “revolutionary justice,” and “expropriation.

Let’s look at what they have to say about these topics through a variety of direct quotes.

Militant Self Defense

The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement endorses “militant” self-defense, citing the tactics of the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army, and the Rojava Revolution in Syria. They model themselves, particularly, after the Rojavas.

The training of these new militants is the revolutionary heart of the Rojava Revolution. The long-term intentions of the training programs are to ensure that everyone can participate in self-defense. To that extent, there are also localized training programs that arm the public for a second tier of neighborhood defense. The Self Defense Forces (HPC*) were formed for this purpose. While specific armed groups, such as the People’s Protection Units and Asayîş (YPG** and YPJ*** respectively), have been formed to fight external enemies, the HPC are civilians that get arms training with the specific goal of maintaining autonomy against internal forces that might seek to consolidate power. They are volunteers who receive both political education and self-defense training.

These armed groups are able to defend their communities from attacks without compromising revolutionary values. As the YPG and YPJ liberate ISIS territory new communities become incorporated into their political project. Rather than establish a top-down system of governance, the revolutionary movement establishes new neighborhood councils and communes, feminist education programs, and decentralized local-based militias within each liberated town. To implement this form of political organization, there is undoubtedly a give and take. While the towns receive the infrastructure necessary for self-governance, such as weapons and training from the YPG to set up their own, local defense groups, they agree to uphold certain social principles like feminism and social ecology. (source)

One tactic they endorse is, basically, beating up “Nazis.”

Anti-fascist tactics – focused primarily around the use of physical force—proved effective in forcing neo-Nazi groups out of entire neighborhoods. The tactics were simple, if they came upon a neo-Nazi, they would use sufficient force to drive them away. The network was so successful that it eventually grew to 100 chapters. By joining in a nationwide network, they were able to help spread and strengthen the model while still maintaining local control over each chapter. (source)

Of course, who gets to decide whether someone is a Nazi? Must the person be wearing a swastika t-shirt or a white hood? Or is this just an arbitrary decision based on the color of their skin or who they voted for? You can see how easily this could go downhill.

They offer to train anyone in self-defense who wants it. But – they don’t stop at “defense.” In fact, offense is their plan. They intend to develop “the capacity to begin launching offensive actions against fascists and the regime.” Their common enemies are “fascists, right-wing militias, and State forces. ” (source)

One place they may run into trouble is their desire to be egalitarian.

Successful self-defense must incorporate revolutionary values and practices. In Rojava, combatants are trained both in fighting techniques and the benefits of creating a feminist, egalitarian society. They put these values into effect through their relationships. For example, to dismantle the lingering effects of patriarchy, no man can give a woman an order; to maintain participation and egalitarian relationships, all fighters contribute to decision-making within units, particularly by selecting their own leaders for specific missions.

Look. Everyone gets a trophy.

Revolutionary Justice

In the section on Revolutionary Justice, the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement calls for an onslaught of violence against police officers. Now, I’m not a fan of the police state or police brutality any more than they are, but prison uprisings, civil unrest, violence against law enforcement, and riots are not the answer.

Every prison uprising from Attica* to Lucasville**, is an example of revolutionary justice. Every group that goes underground to launch clandestine attacks against bondage and oppression, like the Black Liberation Army or the United Freedom Front***, engages in acts of revolutionary justice. The uprisings of the 1960s in Watts, Newark, and Detroit, to the Los Angeles riots, and the recent insurrections in Ferguson and Baltimore sparked by executions from police are manifestations of revolutionary justice. (source)

They appear to wholeheartedly endorse violence and even execution as the answers.

No platform, no dialogue, no inch of territory, and certainly no concern can be ceded to those who either threaten or unleash authoritarian, white supremacist violence. As the Italian anarchist, Alfredo M. Bonanno has eloquently put it, “The life of someone who oppresses others and prevents them from living is not worth a cent.” (source)

They condemn those who call for peaceful protest.

Revolutionary justice is an unpredictable, yet inevitable, element in revolutionary struggle. As we move towards liberation, there will be spontaneous eruptions, moments to support and side with, as well as alliances to create. The more power tries to suppress the population, the more defiant the acts of revolutionary justice become…

…When police killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, the town erupted in riots. No sooner had they begun this act of defiance, when non-profits and faith “leaders” descended upon the town to induce people to protest “peacefully” and attempted to de-escalate the situation. On the other hand, riot police and armed right-wing militias surrounded the rebels, cornered them in a sea of “illegality” by declaring curfews, and then swept people up with brutal arrests and long jail terms. Without revolutionary objectives, or the foundations for a sustained revolutionary conflict, everyone had to, eventually, reconcile living with the oppressive State that they were just rebelling against when the riot subsided.

The most essential tasks are to create the ideological underpinnings for revolt and the necessary infrastructure that can sustain action and long-term forms of organization. (source)

They intend on long-term revolt and plan to “derail forces that want to bring people back into the fold of power: nonprofits, political parties, and authoritarian political groups.”

Expropriation of Property

First, let’s call expropriation what it really is: theft. But the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement believes it’s entirely justified as long as they’re the ones doing it.

Revolutionary struggle necessitates an aspiration for collectivity. Those who exploit us and withhold the fruits of our work from us will not willingly give up their wealth and power. To carve out autonomous territory, or to begin the revolutionary process, goods, land, and tools must be expropriated, or taken away from those who withhold them. (source)

They cite a group they admire in Greece:

For example, revolutionary anarchist groups in Athens have been working with refugees from the Syrian Civil War. The refugees are routinely attacked by fascists and often denied housing, food, and health care. Anarchist groups have taken over abandoned hotels and have invited refugees to live in them, (source)

They gush over how businesses were taken over from the owners during the Spanish Civil War.

For expropriation to be a successful tactic political organizations must already be in place. As goods and production are taken over, they can be put into collective hands, and organized for communal use. During the Spanish Civil War, workplaces were seized after the owners fled or stopped production to sabotage the revolution. Revolutionaries continued until all major places of work were taken over; many were run and controlled by the workers. In otherscommittees were established to override a lingering boss.  (source)

They’re jazzed about collectivism.

 While conducting the military struggle on the front, militants in the rearguard helped form workers’ councils and rural communes, and since anarchists were at the forefront of the struggle, the council-based system was remarkably egalitarian. Workers seized factories, peasants collectivized the land, and even the revolutionary militias were organized in a participatory and non-hierarchical fashion as a result of the anarchist struggle. Indeed, the revolutionary militias were formed in a similarly horizontal manner as the collectives, which reciprocally provided them with both weapons and other provisions. The symbiotic relationship between the worker’s councils, collectivized land projects, and horizontal militias demonstrates how the political foundation facilitated cooperation between each of the three organizational structures. (source)

Of course, they leave out the part about how collective agriculture has a long history of abject and utter failure. Most recently an attempt to convert a thriving capitalist country into a socialist utopia has resulted in mass starvation and poverty in Venezuela. But they’re pretty sure it would work differently here and now.

You can be certain that if you were personally well stocked and others were hungry, folks like these would feel completely entitled to your supplies. You need to be prepared for a long-term scenario and extreme civil unrest scenarios to stay safe.

It all boils down to communism.

People got upset when I posted an article about a communist group last week who was planning sedition against our country. They said that I was name-calling when I referred to them as communists.

This leads me to believe that there are a lot of folks who don’t know what communism IS.

Communism is:

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their needs.

It is the opposite of capitalism:

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Communism abolishes private property and personal profit and redistributes wealth. Here are the tenets of the Revolutionary Abolition Movement. When you read them with these definitions in mind, is there any other word that fits so well?

• The Abolitionist struggle must take up the immediate fight to abolish prisons, courts, and ICE detention facilities.


• As Abolitionists, we must fight unequivocally with Black, Latino, Native, Muslim people, and all those subjected to prison society and white supremacy.


• This struggle must be feminist, and predicated on queer and trans liberation.


• The Abolitionist struggle must fight for decentralized, commune-based political organization, and stand resolutely against capitalism and the State.


• The struggle must be oriented toward militant self-defense, and devise specific plans for offensive actions against reactionary forces.


• The Abolitionist long-term goal is to get rid of the justice system, the nation-state, and the capitalist economy. (source)

Really, this is the culmination of decades of indoctrination in the Marxist education system. But these people who think they’re seeking “freedom” would end up with just the opposite should their communist dreams come true. The underlying theme throughout their document is:

We will burn down the American plantation once and for all.

Extremist factions like this could trigger the Civil War 2.0 about which many of us have been concerned. A lot of folks like to shrug and laugh off these liberals because of their distaste for firearms and traditionally masculine pursuits.

But, that could be a huge mistake.

Never underestimate a zealot, no matter how misguided they are or ridiculous they seem.

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Anti-Government Vandalism Hits Trump Golf Course at Worst Possible Time

(ANTIMEDIA) Virginia — Kicking off what CNN called “the most crucial week of statesmanship so far” for the new U.S. president, NBC Washington reported Monday that police in Virginia are investigating a striking piece of vandalism at the Trump National Golf Club.

From that report:

“Vandals dug holes in the club’s 13th fairway of the club’s Championship Course, spray-painted parts of the course and poured a chemical, believed to be bleach, on the grass, said the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.”

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Continuing, NBC explained what makes the vandalism so profound:

“The word ‘resist’ was spray-painted on the fairway and symbols associated with anarchists appeared to have been spray-painted and dug into the course.”

The incident was reported Saturday morning, a day ahead of a scheduled golf game at the course between President Trump and Senator Rand Paul.

When CNN said this would be a challenging week for the president in terms of diplomacy, it was referring to the fact that on Friday, Trump is set to sit down with the most powerful world leader he’s faced yet — China’s President Xi Jinping.

U.S. tensions are high with China, with territorial disputes in the South China Sea and concerns over global financial markets pitting the two superpowers in a standoff.

It can’t look good for the Donald, then, to have a rival world leader in town days after an anti-government group publicly exhibited such a bold statement in opposition to his rule — and on the man’s own soil, no less.

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Ugly Domestic Enemy Rage at Victims of Communism a Good Indicator of Their Intent for Living

“Evil is.” And being a useful idiot enabling it is no excuse.

A photo posted to Twitter by a self-styled “Black Bolshevik” should tell decent and sane Americans all they need to know about the character of the Marxists and their useful idiots trying to tear down the social order under the appropriated term of “anarchist.” Participants are circling the base of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington DC and giving it the middle finger.

The inscriptions circling the pedestal of the statue read:

“To the more than one hundred million victims of communism and to those who love liberty [and] “To the freedom and independence of all captive nations and peoples.”

Victims there were. And while the Genocide Chart created by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership does not confine itself to murderous communist regimes, it’s undeniable that those, including the Soviet Union, Red China and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, were where the most monstrous crimes against humanity, with deaths in the tens of millions, were perpetrated.

Unsurprisingly, such totalitarian governments demanded a “monopoly of violence.” That they represented themselves as being for “the people” is but another Orwellian lie, as there can be no more egalitarian form of true power sharing than is secured through an armed populace.

It’s also unsurprising that the Antifa freaks and fake “anarchists” accuse principled conservatives and libertarians of being “Nazis” and “fascists,” while the truth of the matter is, whenever their kind assumes power, individual freedom, including of speech and worship, is  brutally suppressed.  It’s also no surprise that they are the ones screaming “Racist!” while flipping off the victims of their ideology, untold millions of whom were non-whites.

“Can there be no peace between our peoples?” is a question I routinely ask on my War on Guns blog, and the answer, of course, if you look at some of the examples at the link, is “No, of course not. They won’t allow it.” Not with demonic sociopaths who call “whiteness” a “genetic defect” to be “wiped out,” or are working to impose some of the other evil lunacy.

There’s a great and true line in an old movie, one of my favorites, “The List of Adrian Messenger,” spoken by the character played by Kirk Douglas:

“Evil is.”

That’s something many Oath Keepers have not just read examples of, but have seen up close and personal. We’re not talking about people who just have different political opinions; we’re talking about domestic enemies as the term was understood by the Founders. And what they want from us is aptly illustrated in a scene from another movie, “Independence Day.”

That’s not hyperbole, it’s the way Marxist rule historically works out for those who will not live as slaves.

You don’t even need to imagine what those giving the finger to victims of communist genocide would do if they ever gained power. “The lessons of history,” my friend and colleague Brian Puckett wrote in his landmark Memorandum on Arms and Freedom, “are numerous, clear and bloody.”

(If you’ve not read that before, take some time and do so now.)

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Masked Vigilantes Are Repairing A City’s Potholes – And Officials Are Upset

Residents of one American city can thank an unlikely group of “masked superheroes” for road repairs.

The masked, self-described anarchists in Portland, Ore., are dressed as ninjas and filling potholes while winning popular gratitude, KGW-TV reported. Their efforts have earned the praise of residents and opposition from the Oregon city’s government.

“Successful preliminary action today. We patched five potholes on SE Salmon, between 37th and 39^th,” the group, known as Portland Anarchist Road Care, posted on its Facebook page recently.

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But city officials want the group to stop.

“It’s not safe for them because there is traffic on the streets and they can potentially put themselves at risk and the public at risk if the repair isn’t done properly,” Dylan Rivera of the Portland Bureau of Transportation said of the anarchists.

Some citizens, though, love what the vigilantes are doing. The anarchists post pictures of themselves, masked, repairing potholes.

“They don’t need to be masked,” resident Tom Satchell said of the anarchists. “They’re doing a great job.”

Rivera said the city has fixed more than 900 potholes so far this year and has crews out working on the problem on every sunny day. It is not clear how many potholes the anarchists have repaired.

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Portland Anarchists Begin Fixing Roads & Potholes (Because the Government Won't)

Authored by Derrick Broze via TheAntiMedia.org,

“Who will build the roads?” The question is a common response to the proposition that human beings can coexist peacefully in the absence of a government or even the concept of a State altogether. Anarchists often claim that in the absence of an institutionalized State, people will voluntarily organize and discover solutions to the problems they face, including the construction and maintenance of roads. One such group of anarchists decided to put their beliefs into action by repairing potholes in Portland, Oregon.

A Facebook page called “Portland Anarchist Road Care” claims PARC is an anarchist organization dedicated to putting “the state of the roads of PDX into the hands of the people.” The group’s page says they “believe in building community solutions to the issues we face, outside of the state.” They say they are working to change the stereotype of anarchists as road blockers and window smashers. PARC also accuses the city of Portland of failing to repair roads in a timely manner and failing to provide adequate preventative care for winter storms.

“Portland Anarchist Road Care aims to mobilize crews throughout our city, in our neighborhoods, to patch our streets, build community, and continue to find solutions to community problems outside of the state,” their Facebook page reads.

Dylan Rivera, a spokesman for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, told Anti-Media he can empathize with those who are frustrated. “We have a backlog of more than 1000 pothole requests,” Rivera said over the phone. “That work has been frustrated by a wet spring, with very few dry days for potholes.”

Rivera says the city has held a “Patch-a-thon” where they quadruple their staff working on potholes. He stated that during a recent “Patch-a-thon,” the city had 29 crews fix more than 900 potholes. In contrast, The Portland Mercury reports that PARC has patched five potholes in Portland. While those differences may seem stark, it is worth mentioning that the anarchists fixed the potholes via voluntary direct action while the city of Portland is using money stolen from the local community via taxation.

Rivera warned that Portlanders who choose to privately maintain the city streets without the approval of the government are doing so at their own risk. “Portlanders maintaining city streets is not safe and it’s not allowed,” Rivera stated. “It’’s not safe for the people doing the fixes because they are working in traffic and they are not trained to have the right procedures, barricades, and that sort of thing, to have a safe work zone.” Rivera also warned that individuals who choose to fix the roads could face potential civil liability if someone’s car is damaged. The irony is that, currently, if an individual’s vehicle is damaged due to government inaction on potholes, the government is rarely held accountable.

Whether Portland Anarchist Road Care will continue to fix potholes and eventually outcompete the City of Portland remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: the community is a shining example of what a determined group of individuals can do when working together on a common goal.

Portland Anarchist Road Care’s profile picture on Facebook.

Even more so, they are a powerful example of how the people can accomplish both mundane tasks like building and maintaining roads, and more complex issues like how to organize our lives in the absence of the State. The beauty is that we each have the power to be an example of what a world without theft, institutionalized violence, and force can look like. We can choose to live lives that do not rely on the force of government and instead use our individual power to work towards collective liberation.

Anarchists Gather in Acapulco to Take over the World…Then Leave You Alone

(ANTIMEDIA) Anarchists have gotten a bad rap. From the self-described anarchists who riot in the streets to the doomsday Hollywood franchise The Purge, many have been led to believe anarchy is synonymous with chaos, terror, and violence. President Trump even chimed in recently, referring — without evidence — to “professional anarchists” who were paid to protest his reign.

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Few people associate anarchism with consciousness, spirituality, veganism, music, meditation, yoga, peaceful parenting, homesteading, and cryptocurrencies. Few associate it with peace, non-aggression, and basic respect for human life and individuality.

But that’s what a recent days-long conference in Acapulco, Mexico, just sought to challenge.

The Anarchapulco conference recently held its third annual incarnation in the city of Acapulco, located in the drug war-riddled state of Guerrero, Mexico, a region where soldiers patrol the streets armed to the teeth. But in a city that beams vibrancy and vitality in spite of a visible police state, hundreds of anarchists from around the world have found a home.

The festival is put on at the end of February by Canadian expat Jeff Berwick, who hosts a podcast called Anarchast, where he interviews prominent anarchist intellectuals and activists. The event is a culmination of many of the ideas discussed on Berwick’s show.

Some of the speakers at the event focused on the political — or rather, apolitical — nature of anarchism. Renowned anarchist Larken Rose, author of Most Dangerous Superstition (hint: it’s belief in government), tackled some of the most fundamental reasons to embrace anarchism in his tongue-in-cheek-titled talk, “Sacred Cow Shish Kabob.” By breaking down many of the myths and misconceptions surrounding what many anarchists refer to as “statism” (the belief in the need for government, or the State), Rose made clear the problems with central authority.

Larken Rose gives his “Sacred Cow Shish Kebab” speech. Photo credit: Eric Mccool for Permagora.

He addressed a wide variety of misguided beliefs about the State, including nationalism and saluting the flag, an act he noted amounts to a pledge of allegiance to the government, itself. “I pledge allegiance to the flag…and to the republic, for which it stands,” he explained, is a phrase that blatantly professes loyalty to the institution — not the ideals of freedom.

This led him to one of his most salient points: Rose argued that despite a country’s adoption of a constitution or label like a “republic,” gross oppression still occurs in the name of representation and liberty. He cited the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, noting, “Yep, has a constitution, yep, allows them to vote, yep, has a bill of rights,” noting the same is true for the People’s Republic of China, the historical Weimar Republic, modern-day North Korea, and numerous other seemingly democratic governments that have all the trappings of “freedom.” They have all severely oppressed individuals, just like the United States, yet another republic, has.

Speaking on oppression, Lynn Ulbricht, mother of imprisoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, spoke about the dangerous precedent set by the U.S. government in its prosecution of her son. Ross, who founded a dark web marketplace that, among many other things, allowed for the sale of illegal drugs, was sentenced to life in prison though he never actually sold narcotics.

Mother-turned-activist Lynn Ulbricht with event photographer and activist Avens O’Brien. Photo credit: Avens O’Brien & Judd Weiss.

Pointing out that major corporations have also sanctioned “illegal” activity with no legal repercussions, she highlighted the dangers Judge Kathleen Forrester perpetuated in Ross’ conviction. Among them was the unquestioning acceptance of digital evidence, which Lynn pointed out is easily manipulable. She noted one expert witness on this topic was barred from testifying in the case. Most chilling, however, were the judge’s words to Ross, which Lynn presented on a slide:

“Silk Road’s birth and its presence asserted that its creator, you, and its operator, were better than the laws of this country, and there are posts which discuss the laws as the oppressor and that each transaction is a victory over the oppressor. This is deeply troubling and terribly misguided — and also very dangerous.”

Los Angeles-based artist Mear One working on a painting, which was auctioned in support of Ross Ulbricht’s legal defense fund. Photo credit: Avens O’Brien & Judd Weiss.

Forrester objected to Ulbricht’s subversion of the war on drugs, and explicitly expressed her disapproval not of his actions, necessarily, but the beliefs that inspired them:

“It’s notable that the reasons that you started Silk Road were philosophical and I don’t know that it is a philosophy left behind,” she told him.

The judge’s thought-policing, control-seeking attitude is perhaps the most precise reason anarchists oppose the State.

Rooted in the non-aggression principle, the basic tenet of the anarchism represented at Anarchapuclo is the notion that humans are free to do as they wish as long as they are not using violence against others. All human interaction should be free of force, fraud, and coercion, and all human interaction should be voluntary.

As such, it follows that because no one is asked to pay taxes, but rather forced, the government represents an inherently coercive system. Similarly, tax payers are not asked what programs they’d like to fund. This relationship between government and subject is coercive specifically because what ultimately defines the institution of government is what many anarchists at Anarchapulco might refer to as a “monopoly on violence.” Any regular citizen is barred from stealing or committing violence, but if the government does it, it is considered “taxation” or “protecting and serving.” This is the fundamental authority and double standard anarchists at Anarchapulco reject.

Youtube personality That Guy T with FEE Director of Content Jeffrey Tucker. Photo credit: Avens O’Brien & Judd Weiss.

While most of the speakers at Anarchapulco subscribe to this basic philosophy, at least one did not; Lauren Southern, for example, a Canadian activist and author of Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation, seemingly fits in more with the alt-right movement than peaceful anarchism that universally condemns the State. So does Milo Yiannopolous, the controversial political personality who attended the conference last year but was removed from the list of speakers this year due to, as Berwick simply put it, his “statism.” Southern’s presence this year prompted at least one challenge from the audience questioning her continued belief in government and left some questioning why she was a featured speaker in the first place.

Nevertheless, the vast majority of speakers espouse the philosophy of anarchism. But rather than simply focusing on the negative aspects of State control, many focused on the beauty and possibilities of freedom and the ways to attain it in our own lives.

The political focus of intellectuals like Rose and Edward G. Griffin, author of the Creature from Jekyll Island, Foster Gamble, director of Thrive, and FEE (Foundation for Economic Education) Director of Content Jeffrey Tucker provided the foundational philosophy of the conference. But what stood out most to many attendees was the commitment to higher consciousness, self-healing, and compassion many of the speakers articulated. Sterlin Luxan focuses on psychology and the need to cultivate compassion, improve interpersonal relationships, and improve our own well-being to ensure anarchism is a viable system. He gave a speech on these issues and the power of MDMA, a drug increasingly used to treat PTSD, to attain these goals.

Anti-Media journalist Derrick Broze and founder of the Conscious Resistance Network, spoke about his own path to freedom, through which he overcame drug addiction and developed his own model for sustainable anarchism; at his Houston-based Free Thinkers activist house, members grow their own food, volunteer in the community, and detach from established systems by withdrawing their resources from banks and other modes of control perpetrated by the establishment.

This exit from the system, or counter-economics, constitutes agorism, a strategy Broze adheres to and writes about in his forthcoming book, Manifesto of the Free Humans. Broze also hosted a meditation event blending his solution-oriented approach with finding internal peace.

Journalist and activist Derrick Broze discusses solutions outside the matrix. Photo credit: Eric Mccool for Permagora.

Another speaker offering solutions was Vit Jedlicka, the founder of Liberland, a sovereign state located between Croatia and Serbia that “prides itself on personal and economic freedom of its people, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, which significantly limits the power of politicians so they could not interfere too much in the freedoms of the Liberland nation.”

Dayna Martin, who spoke about peaceful parenting and held a “family camp” day, also held an evening for women. In her Women’s Circle gathering, she stressed the importance of the feminine presence in promoting freedom and anarchism and held a ceremony to foster solidarity. One of the attendees to the circle, Lisa Freeman, organized daily activities for children throughout the conference. Both Martin and Broze participated in a panel on veganism.

Children and their parents release baby sea turtles into the ocean during Dayna Martin’s family camp. Photo credit: Eric Mccool for Permagora.

The focus on self-healing to promote external peace was palpable. (Full disclosure: last year I attended the conference and spoke about yoga and freedom and how the two are synonymous. This year I taught a yin yoga class focused on releasing deep tension in the connective tissue and fascia to counter the stress and hysteria of the past election year.)

Other topics included the power of ayahuasca to heal past trauma and promote gentleness and compassion (the festival also hosted a shaman-supervised ayahuasca ceremony for attendees, which has been viewed with skepticism by some but embraced by others). One performance, by Benny Wills of the political satire group Joycamp, used spoken word poetry to satirize the anarchist experience and the broader rabbit’s hole of “waking up” to the many injustices perpetrated by those in power He earned two standing ovations and consistent waves of laughter.

The comedy was a welcome addition to a conference that often must focus on violence and corruption to convey the coldness of the State. So too was an evening concert featuring artists and bands with conscious lyrics. Truniversal, a conscious hip-hop group, sang about “universal truth, love, and freedom,” while heavy metal rap group Backwordz offered harsh indictments of statism and promotion of non-aggression, self-ownership, peace, and self-defense.

Despite the many varied topics speakers discussed — and the many workshops, which included education in cryptocurrencies, media activism, and homesteading — the conference presented several overarching opportunities and sentiments: first and foremost, the possibilities of a world without the State to restrict freedom, but equally important, the vital role of the individual in bringing about change within themselves so they can participate in realizing this vision.

Perhaps most valuable, however, was the chance for anarchists from around the world to meet up in person — as opposed to connecting on the internet — to feel a real sense of community. As many of us spend our time online debating authoritarians, it is easy to feel alone, isolated, and that our desire for peace and freedom is a faint, distant, unattainable fantasy.

But in Acapulco, whether out by the hotel pool, out to lunch, or at the speeches and workshops themselves, this isolation transmutes into optimism. The best illustration of this positivity is perhaps the artwork by L.A.-based anarchist artist MEAR ONE that surrounded the main stage: to one side was a grim painting of a crumbled city and broken roads with a sign that read “Evacuate the State.”

Artwork by Mear One frames the main stage. Image provided by conference organizers.

To the other side was a warm portrait of a smiling young woman with her third eye wide open, surrounded by rich colors and cosmic auras. To one side was the failure of the current system, and to the other, the inspiring potential of freedom, love, and consciousness.

Throughout the conference, eager attendees smiled at each other in the halls of the convention center, happily exchanged bitcoin for pesos, and found solace in their peaceful advocacy for anarchism.

Attendees share music together in the convention hall. Photo credit: Avens O’Brien & Judd Weiss.

As Larken Rose observed of last year’s conference, “If nothing else, it can sometimes be an existential psychological relief to be around a bunch of people who DON’T want you to be enslaved by a ruling class.”

FEE (Foundation for Economic Education) director of content, Jeffrey Tucker, a longstanding voice of reason and optimism, perhaps best captured the essence of the conference during his keynote speech.

Jeffrey Tucker speaks on the history and dangers of right-wing fascism. Photo credit: Avens O’Brien & Judd Weiss.

Tucker recently made headlines for kicking white supremacist Richard Spencer out of a student libertarian event in Washington D.C., and in Acapulco, he spoke about the historical threats to freedom from both the left and the right (he expanded his talk into a must-read article, “The Pre-History of the Alt-Right”). But even as he noted the many threats to freedom humanity has faced and continues to face, he reminded the audience of the great power of anarchism and freedom:

“Ideas are eternal. They’re immutable. They’re infinitely reproducible to every single person who’s willing to listen and willing to try. And you know how many of those people there are? Seven billion.”

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AMERICA’S ENEMIES ON PARADE

By J.B. Williams
Jan. 26, 2017
NewsWithViews.com

As the 45th President and Vice President of the United States were sworn into office, America’s enemies within took to the streets and it was pure evil and ignorance on parade. From DisrputJ20 to the so-called “women’s rights” advocates, the enemies within could not wait to demonstrate just how messed up many in American society are after decades of leftist indoctrination.

The protesters for peace were anything but peaceful. The young and foolish who worry that “Trump will destroy America” were busy destroying America themselves, as they broke out windows of retail stores, office buildings and hotels. These are not protesters, they are pure anarchists.

They claim to be protesting the election and inauguration of Donald Trump. But why? On what basis were these indoctrinated, trained, funded and mobilized malcontents protesting a man who has never done anything to deserve such hate and fearmongering?

In cities across America and as far away as Madrid, women were out in force to protest someone they clearly know nothing about. What was it about his inaugural speech that set them in motion? What caused these women to identify themselves as mere vaginas? Who is behind the so-called women’s rights operation? Why were they protesting Donald Trump?

Do these protesters (aka anarchists) object to Trump’s foundational promises? – “We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.” Do they not include themselves as “citizens of America?”

Was it this? – “Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning because today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people.” – Do they not include themselves among “the people” to whom Trump promised to return governmental powers?

Why do these so-called protesters object to such all-American ideas?

Why are anarchists protesting “the power of the people” responsible for the Trump Revolution, in favor of tyrannical central power in D.C. under Obama’s pen? Why are women displaying themselves as nothing but a vagina complete with “p**syhats” – demanding their right as women, to become men, to kill their young, to destroy the family unit and the basic fabric of any decent society?

As a man, I would never wear a penis hat anywhere I wanted to be taken seriously!

Why is a woman in Madrid flashing her breasts in public, calling for all women to “grab patriarchy by the balls?” Is Trump the new president of Madrid? Why did Madonna threaten to “blow up the White House” as women cheered her on? Blow up the White House? For what possible reason?

Contrast with Obama never-ending self-adulation, Trump was saying “It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country.” Why did this upset Americas enemies within?

Trump was elected based on specific promises he appears on his way to keeping. Which of those promises is causing this backlash from the media, women and anarchist kids?

• We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.
• For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed.
• What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
• January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.
• The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.
• At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction, that a nation exists to serve its citizens.
• We will follow two simple rules; buy American and hire American.

Or was it this promise that upset the snowflakes? “From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first, America first.”

Only anti-American zealots here or around the globe would object to anything Trump has promised to do over the coming four years. There is nothing in Trump’s campaign promises or Inaugural statements that any true American or real woman should or would find objectional.

Enemies within

What rights do men have in America that women don’t have? How can women pretend to be a minority interest when they make up a majority of American citizens, 52% to be exact? What anarchist would find objection with Trump’s promise to return our Federal Government to – of, by and for all Americans?

Why do these anti-American zealots refer to our Constitutional Republic as a mere mob rule democracy, and then act out in totally undemocratic manner and method, opposing a democratic election process?

These people are not just enemies of Donald Trump. They are enemies of all Americans and all American principles and values. They are anti-American at their core and foundation.

Besides the right to be men, marry each other and kill American children for their own convenience, what do the women in this movement really stand for? Women are born in control of “reproductive rights.” 99.9% of the time, violent rape being the exception, women control all reproductive rights with a simple YES or NO. Men cannot bear children without them… Nor can women bear children without men.

So, what is this really all about?

Just as the left did with minority race groups, minority gender and sexual preference groups and unionized labor have been tricked, coopted, indoctrinated, trained, funded and mobilized to oppose all foundational American principles and values in the name of their special interest items, so have a significant number of women in America been hijacked.

In the late 60s and early 70s, a group of anti-American terrorists operating under Weather Underground issued an operational manifesto titled Prairie Fire, written about extensively in a FIVE STAR book about the 2016 people’s revolt against the establishment, TRUMPED The New American Revolution.

Prairie Fire lays out the strategic plan of the anti-imperialist global left to hijack and co-opt every minority special interest group in America and use them to destroy America from within by simply indoctrinating these groups against American principles and values and convincing them that the political left is working for them… when in fact, they had all of these groups working for their cause, global Marxism in America.

Today, some call it progressive, but there is nothing progressive about Democratic Socialism, a modern term for Marxism, a gentler term for communism.

The people rioting in the streets over the past few days are not anti-Trump. They are anti-America… They do not believe in or support a constitutional inalienable right to Life. They do not believe in or support freedom or individual liberty. They do not support the right of every American citizen to define and pursue happiness under their own dreams and energies… They do not believe in a morally and ethically fit society capable of self-governance… They oppose ALL these things, openly!

It is these things they protest, not Trump. Trump is the target simply because he has proclaimed these things as the foundation of his personal beliefs, his campaign and his administration. They hate Trump simply because he has taken a stand for these things…

Everyone who voted for Trump believes in those same principles and values… which makes the anarchists in our streets, enemies to us all.
When will the Americans who oppose all of these anti-American zealots rise up and shut them down? When will we stop them from destroying our cities, our people and our country? When will enough be enough?