On the one hand, we need a certain amount of faith in life in order to keep moving through it…
Anarchism
Note: This piece is a reworked extract from my book Anarchism and Its Aspirations (IAS/AK Press, 2010, http://www.akpress.org/anarchism-and-its-aspirations.html) for the Lexicon…
Homes Not Games
There is this game that landlords play in San Francisco. They write all the rules, of course. And they break…
This Heart of Mine, This Heart of Yours
My heart is torn in too many directions today, not able to keep up with those I love or be…
Talk to Neighbors, Not Cops
This image, copied on to an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, now wrinkled and worn, has been tacked up…
This Life That Should Be Eros
I don’t think I’ll ever quite get this thing called “life,” or what passes for it in this social structure…
Hard Remembering
My dad was born in Chicago. I think. I’m not sure. I can’t remember. I can hardly recall him, as…
Are Our Communities Strong Enough for Police to Be Obsolete?
A new wildly fanciful and completely essential goal, with so many potential tactical and strategic angled to make it materialize,…
Throwing a Wrench in the “Capitalism Works” Piece
Like capitalism, and its “creative capitol” version in city’s such as, say, New York City, it lures us with an…
Red and Black Vienna
One could almost assert that “anarchism is everywhere” in Vienna, at least in terms of how it looks on the…