This is a document about a presentation given titled "20 Anarchists I’ve Known (of) and Loved" presented at Pecha Kucha Gisborne on June 21, 2012. The title suggests the presentation will introduce 20 anarchists that the presenter is familiar with and has an affinity for.
The document discusses the history of electric vehicles and how they were produced but then destroyed to protect oil industry profits. It describes some early electric vehicles like the GM EV1 and Nissan Hypermini that showed promise but were taken back and dismantled by the automakers. Alternative fuel vehicles like hydrogen and water-powered cars are also mentioned but have not been widely adopted, likely due to oil industry lobbying against promoting alternatives to gasoline. The document calls people to spread awareness of these issues and to demand electric or alternative fuel vehicles from automakers.
Extractive Industries on the East Coast: Green Drinks Rotorua, April 2012Manu Caddie
A presentation to the monthly 'Green Drinks' network in Rotorua on the recent exploration activities of multinational petroleum companies operating around the East Coast of New Zealand, central government facilitation and local communities resistance.
Hei Tikitiki: Traditional Rites of Passage for Young MāoriManu Caddie
A summary of research into traditional rites of passage for young Māori by Te Ora Hou Aotearoa.
Presented at the NZ Council of Christian Social Services National Conference, 18-19 April 2012.
For more information visit: www.teorahou.org.nz
Tiakina o Tātou Tamariki - update Nov 2014Manu Caddie
This document outlines an approach and principles for a project aimed at keeping children safe in the community. It presents results from surveys conducted in 2010 and 2013 that show improved social connections and trust among neighbors over time. Charts compare data on how long residents have lived in the neighborhood, their enjoyment of and interactions with neighbors, and feelings of safety. The document also shares declining crime statistics and child welfare reports for the project neighborhood compared to other areas. It discusses challenges and opportunities for residents, funders, the organization, and themselves in continuing this work.
This document discusses declining voter turnout in New Zealand elections, particularly among young people, Māori, and recent migrants. It analyzes reasons for lower participation, including lack of efficacy (belief that voting can make a difference), lack of habit or social norms around voting, and lack of interest or knowledge about the political system. The document proposes approaches to increase turnout through programs targeting underrepresented groups, education resources, and community initiatives to build efficacy and establish voting as a social norm and habit.
Presentation to the Gisborne Cycling Advisory Group.
Unfortunately the animated map of Portland cycleways over 25 years doesn't work in Slideshare, neither does the Portlandia clip at the end.
This document outlines a dozen green industries that could be developed in Tairāwhiti to create jobs and economic opportunities, including:
1) Forestry industries like biofuels, erosion control, and carbon trading.
2) Seaweed industries like fertilizer production, biofuels, and biochemicals.
3) Eco-tourism through investment in Māori businesses and conservation.
4) Other industries like renewable energy, conservation projects, fibre composites, bees/nutraceuticals, and rail transport. Subsidies and jobs in various areas like research, planting, construction are proposed.
The document discusses the history of electric vehicles and how they were produced but then destroyed to protect oil industry profits. It describes some early electric vehicles like the GM EV1 and Nissan Hypermini that showed promise but were taken back and dismantled by the automakers. Alternative fuel vehicles like hydrogen and water-powered cars are also mentioned but have not been widely adopted, likely due to oil industry lobbying against promoting alternatives to gasoline. The document calls people to spread awareness of these issues and to demand electric or alternative fuel vehicles from automakers.
Extractive Industries on the East Coast: Green Drinks Rotorua, April 2012Manu Caddie
A presentation to the monthly 'Green Drinks' network in Rotorua on the recent exploration activities of multinational petroleum companies operating around the East Coast of New Zealand, central government facilitation and local communities resistance.
Hei Tikitiki: Traditional Rites of Passage for Young MāoriManu Caddie
A summary of research into traditional rites of passage for young Māori by Te Ora Hou Aotearoa.
Presented at the NZ Council of Christian Social Services National Conference, 18-19 April 2012.
For more information visit: www.teorahou.org.nz
Tiakina o Tātou Tamariki - update Nov 2014Manu Caddie
This document outlines an approach and principles for a project aimed at keeping children safe in the community. It presents results from surveys conducted in 2010 and 2013 that show improved social connections and trust among neighbors over time. Charts compare data on how long residents have lived in the neighborhood, their enjoyment of and interactions with neighbors, and feelings of safety. The document also shares declining crime statistics and child welfare reports for the project neighborhood compared to other areas. It discusses challenges and opportunities for residents, funders, the organization, and themselves in continuing this work.
This document discusses declining voter turnout in New Zealand elections, particularly among young people, Māori, and recent migrants. It analyzes reasons for lower participation, including lack of efficacy (belief that voting can make a difference), lack of habit or social norms around voting, and lack of interest or knowledge about the political system. The document proposes approaches to increase turnout through programs targeting underrepresented groups, education resources, and community initiatives to build efficacy and establish voting as a social norm and habit.
Presentation to the Gisborne Cycling Advisory Group.
Unfortunately the animated map of Portland cycleways over 25 years doesn't work in Slideshare, neither does the Portlandia clip at the end.
This document outlines a dozen green industries that could be developed in Tairāwhiti to create jobs and economic opportunities, including:
1) Forestry industries like biofuels, erosion control, and carbon trading.
2) Seaweed industries like fertilizer production, biofuels, and biochemicals.
3) Eco-tourism through investment in Māori businesses and conservation.
4) Other industries like renewable energy, conservation projects, fibre composites, bees/nutraceuticals, and rail transport. Subsidies and jobs in various areas like research, planting, construction are proposed.
Participatory Budgeting & Public Finance Planning in New ZealandManu Caddie
This document discusses public finance planning in New Zealand local government. It provides an overview of the local government structure, the legislative environment governing public finance, and the planning and reporting cycles used. It also examines trends in public participation, noting it has traditionally involved older, wealthier residents. The document argues opportunities exist to improve public participation, such as by formalizing local government commitments to empowering citizens and establishing funds to allocate portions of budgets to specific community groups.
Rod Oram - Sustainable Dunedin March 2013Manu Caddie
Rod Oram presented on New Zealand's economic challenges and opportunities for sustainability. He argued that New Zealand suffers from slow economic growth ("slowth") and needs to develop business strategies to build capacity and value to increase wages and living standards. While the government aims to double the size of the economy in 15 years, the current commodity-focused primary sector model will not support that level of growth. Oram also emphasized the need to reinvent urban communities and economies to make them more sustainable and reinvigorated for the 21st century. Facing resource constraints and a responsibility to sustain its land and oceans, New Zealand must develop new values and systems of collaboration.
The document summarizes proposed reforms to New Zealand's resource management system that are aimed at streamlining processes and increasing economic growth. Key concerns with the proposals include undermining environmental protections, reducing local democracy through increased centralization of power, and a lack of proper community consultation. Specific changes discussed include weakening environmental principles, limiting appeals rights and public participation, and granting more centralized control over planning and consenting.
This document discusses issues related to deep sea oil drilling including:
1) It outlines several technical challenges of drilling in deep and isolated offshore environments such as high pressures, temperatures, poor well design, and failure of blowout preventers.
2) Relief well drilling is needed to stop a blowout but requires multiple rigs. Deep sea rigs in New Zealand would be isolated from infrastructure.
3) The Deepwater Horizon disaster cost $37 billion and highlighted the lack of an international oil spill liability treaty and potential economic impacts to fishing and tourism industries from a spill.
Geoff Bertram
Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
NZ Assn of Impact Assessment Conference 2012
11 November 2012
Presentation delivered to Powershift NZ/Pacific, 7 December 2012
GOOD STUFF TO SUSTAIN GOOD STUFF
1. Good causes
Be discerning on what you put your energy into.
Specialise in something.
East Timor was my entry into activism.
2. Good context
Focus energy and action on situations where there is a real opportunity for change – topical issues, where you have something unique to contribute and there is a decision to be made by the public, business or politicians.
Saving the rail.
3. Good alternatives
Authentic alternatives are always hard to find.
My parents place.
4. Good info& analysis
Don’t rush into:
- assuming the worst
- sharing sensitive information
- making claims that can’t be substantiated with robust evidence.
Pulling off effective actions can sometimes be luck but more often takes much planning.
5. Good communication
Don’t preach to the converted,
Find out what the skeptical, ignorant and apathetic care about and address that stuff creatively
Waihopai was relatively successful, because it was well planned and communicated.
6. Good attitude
Stay humble, don’t sweat the small stuff, anger is a gift, use it wisely.
Having courage is important, having patience and grace even more so.
7. Good friends & good times
PowerShift is a great example of friends doing amazing things together.
Find a few key people you can trust to both support and challenge you.
Have fun!
This document lists 8 reasons for locking the gate to one's property to prevent oil and gas companies from drilling or engaging in extraction activities: 1) To avoid unacceptable noise, light and traffic that could occur 24/7. 2) To protect the health of one's family and livestock from potential risks. 3) To safeguard one's groundwater supply from adverse effects. 4) To prevent a reduction in one's property value. 5) To maintain control over day-to-day property management. 6) To preserve one's community and social wellbeing. 7) To avoid potential regrets about not supporting clean, sustainable energy. It advises not negotiating or signing anything with oil/gas companies and seeking legal advice.
Parihaka was a Maori village in Taranaki, New Zealand that was the center of non-violent resistance to the confiscation of Maori land by the New Zealand government in the late 19th century. It was led by Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi who advocated peaceful resistance to government surveying and land seizures. In 1881, over 1,500 armed constabulary troops invaded Parihaka, arrested Te Whiti and Tohu, imprisoned Parihaka residents, and destroyed the village. However, Parihaka was later rebuilt and continued its peaceful resistance under the leadership of Te Whiti and Tohu until their
Pauline colmar 1000 n zers attitudes to natural resources presentation mini...Manu Caddie
This document reports on the results of a survey of New Zealanders' attitudes toward natural resources and mining. It provides details on the research methodology, including that 1000 interviews were conducted in February/March 2012. It also presents findings on attitudes toward issues like coal mining, New Zealand's natural resource wealth, and awareness and views of lignite as a potential energy source.
Fracking: A Sensible Response to Peak Conventional Oil? Paul BruceManu Caddie
This document summarizes Paul Bruce's concerns about fracking in New Zealand. It outlines several risks of fracking including water contamination, air pollution, health impacts, and increased greenhouse gas emissions exacerbating climate change. It notes bans on fracking in many countries and cites studies showing high rates of well casing failures and other infrastructure issues. The document advocates for transitioning to renewable energy and more sustainable practices to address energy needs and climate change challenges.
A brief presentation on the risks and likely benefits of allowing mining on the East Coast of NZ prepared for Ngāti Porou, May 2012.
More info at:
www.nodrilling.org.nz
www.frackfreetairawhiti.org.nz
This document summarizes a community meeting about proposed petroleum permits on New Zealand's East Coast. It outlines two existing permits held by companies to drill for oil and gas. It discusses the process of fracking and lists some of the chemicals used. While companies claim fracking brings jobs and revenue, residents express concerns about risks to water, land, health and the environment. The document suggests actions the community can take, including lobbying local government to ban fracking and denying access to private land.
The document discusses opposition to petroleum exploration permits granted by the New Zealand Crown to Petrobras in the Raukumara Basin off the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. There are concerns about the environmental risks of offshore drilling, Petrobras' safety record, lack of consultation and compensation to Maori, and the Crown's unilateral claim to minerals. Strategies of non-violent resistance to influence decision makers and build support are outlined.
This document presents a quiz to assess how colonized a person is based on their knowledge of their family history, local indigenous peoples and culture, and relationship to local indigenous language. It contains questions in several categories: knowledge of family tree, family history, local history, relationship with local indigenous peoples, relationship with local indigenous language, relationship with local indigenous culture, and relationship with their own culture. The quiz aims to evaluate a person's level of connection to their indigenous roots and local indigenous community.
The Wellington Youth Service provides free and confidential primary healthcare, sexual health services, social workers, youth workers, peer support, counselling, and recreational activities to young people in Central Wellington. It aims to make services easily accessible, participate youth in decision making, and address the specific needs of groups through innovative programs. Around 2,500 young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, including 20% Maori, 10% Pacific Islanders, and 15% other ethnicities, are registered with the service.
The document summarizes plans from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Youth Development, and Tairawhiti District Health Board related to improving youth health in Tairawhiti, New Zealand. It outlines goals such as creating a safer environment for youth, improving mental and physical health, involving youth in decision making, and ensuring accessible health services. It also provides details about the youth population in Tairawhiti and current issues like high smoking and teen pregnancy rates. The document aims to gather input from youth and professionals to develop a new regional youth health plan.
Provision Of Youth Health Services In AotearoaManu Caddie
The document discusses the provision of youth health services in New Zealand. It advocates for a "one stop shop" approach within schools to provide developmental health care and avoid barriers to access. This would involve same day drop-in appointments and minimizing referrals. The document also calls for school health care to be a high political priority, organized without thresholds, and aimed at through evidence-based research and qualified professionals. Standards of care mentioned include community engagement, youth participation, comprehensive clinical services, and health promotion.
This document outlines the schedule for the Tairawhiti Youth Health Symposium 2007. It included mihimihi/karakia to open the event, then presentations from various youth health services on their work and a survey of Tairawhiti youth. Small group sessions provided input on effective youth programs. The symposium closed with a plenary session and karakia whakamutunga.
At Affordable Garage Door Repair, we specialize in both residential and commercial garage door services, ensuring your property is secure and your doors are running smoothly.
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Welcome to the world of social media, where Instagram reigns supreme! Today, we're going to explore a fascinating tool called Insanony that lets you watch Instagram Stories secretly. If you've ever wanted to view someone's story without them knowing, this blog is for you. We'll delve into everything you need to know about Insanony with Trending Blogers!
Participatory Budgeting & Public Finance Planning in New ZealandManu Caddie
This document discusses public finance planning in New Zealand local government. It provides an overview of the local government structure, the legislative environment governing public finance, and the planning and reporting cycles used. It also examines trends in public participation, noting it has traditionally involved older, wealthier residents. The document argues opportunities exist to improve public participation, such as by formalizing local government commitments to empowering citizens and establishing funds to allocate portions of budgets to specific community groups.
Rod Oram - Sustainable Dunedin March 2013Manu Caddie
Rod Oram presented on New Zealand's economic challenges and opportunities for sustainability. He argued that New Zealand suffers from slow economic growth ("slowth") and needs to develop business strategies to build capacity and value to increase wages and living standards. While the government aims to double the size of the economy in 15 years, the current commodity-focused primary sector model will not support that level of growth. Oram also emphasized the need to reinvent urban communities and economies to make them more sustainable and reinvigorated for the 21st century. Facing resource constraints and a responsibility to sustain its land and oceans, New Zealand must develop new values and systems of collaboration.
The document summarizes proposed reforms to New Zealand's resource management system that are aimed at streamlining processes and increasing economic growth. Key concerns with the proposals include undermining environmental protections, reducing local democracy through increased centralization of power, and a lack of proper community consultation. Specific changes discussed include weakening environmental principles, limiting appeals rights and public participation, and granting more centralized control over planning and consenting.
This document discusses issues related to deep sea oil drilling including:
1) It outlines several technical challenges of drilling in deep and isolated offshore environments such as high pressures, temperatures, poor well design, and failure of blowout preventers.
2) Relief well drilling is needed to stop a blowout but requires multiple rigs. Deep sea rigs in New Zealand would be isolated from infrastructure.
3) The Deepwater Horizon disaster cost $37 billion and highlighted the lack of an international oil spill liability treaty and potential economic impacts to fishing and tourism industries from a spill.
Geoff Bertram
Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
NZ Assn of Impact Assessment Conference 2012
11 November 2012
Presentation delivered to Powershift NZ/Pacific, 7 December 2012
GOOD STUFF TO SUSTAIN GOOD STUFF
1. Good causes
Be discerning on what you put your energy into.
Specialise in something.
East Timor was my entry into activism.
2. Good context
Focus energy and action on situations where there is a real opportunity for change – topical issues, where you have something unique to contribute and there is a decision to be made by the public, business or politicians.
Saving the rail.
3. Good alternatives
Authentic alternatives are always hard to find.
My parents place.
4. Good info& analysis
Don’t rush into:
- assuming the worst
- sharing sensitive information
- making claims that can’t be substantiated with robust evidence.
Pulling off effective actions can sometimes be luck but more often takes much planning.
5. Good communication
Don’t preach to the converted,
Find out what the skeptical, ignorant and apathetic care about and address that stuff creatively
Waihopai was relatively successful, because it was well planned and communicated.
6. Good attitude
Stay humble, don’t sweat the small stuff, anger is a gift, use it wisely.
Having courage is important, having patience and grace even more so.
7. Good friends & good times
PowerShift is a great example of friends doing amazing things together.
Find a few key people you can trust to both support and challenge you.
Have fun!
This document lists 8 reasons for locking the gate to one's property to prevent oil and gas companies from drilling or engaging in extraction activities: 1) To avoid unacceptable noise, light and traffic that could occur 24/7. 2) To protect the health of one's family and livestock from potential risks. 3) To safeguard one's groundwater supply from adverse effects. 4) To prevent a reduction in one's property value. 5) To maintain control over day-to-day property management. 6) To preserve one's community and social wellbeing. 7) To avoid potential regrets about not supporting clean, sustainable energy. It advises not negotiating or signing anything with oil/gas companies and seeking legal advice.
Parihaka was a Maori village in Taranaki, New Zealand that was the center of non-violent resistance to the confiscation of Maori land by the New Zealand government in the late 19th century. It was led by Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi who advocated peaceful resistance to government surveying and land seizures. In 1881, over 1,500 armed constabulary troops invaded Parihaka, arrested Te Whiti and Tohu, imprisoned Parihaka residents, and destroyed the village. However, Parihaka was later rebuilt and continued its peaceful resistance under the leadership of Te Whiti and Tohu until their
Pauline colmar 1000 n zers attitudes to natural resources presentation mini...Manu Caddie
This document reports on the results of a survey of New Zealanders' attitudes toward natural resources and mining. It provides details on the research methodology, including that 1000 interviews were conducted in February/March 2012. It also presents findings on attitudes toward issues like coal mining, New Zealand's natural resource wealth, and awareness and views of lignite as a potential energy source.
Fracking: A Sensible Response to Peak Conventional Oil? Paul BruceManu Caddie
This document summarizes Paul Bruce's concerns about fracking in New Zealand. It outlines several risks of fracking including water contamination, air pollution, health impacts, and increased greenhouse gas emissions exacerbating climate change. It notes bans on fracking in many countries and cites studies showing high rates of well casing failures and other infrastructure issues. The document advocates for transitioning to renewable energy and more sustainable practices to address energy needs and climate change challenges.
A brief presentation on the risks and likely benefits of allowing mining on the East Coast of NZ prepared for Ngāti Porou, May 2012.
More info at:
www.nodrilling.org.nz
www.frackfreetairawhiti.org.nz
This document summarizes a community meeting about proposed petroleum permits on New Zealand's East Coast. It outlines two existing permits held by companies to drill for oil and gas. It discusses the process of fracking and lists some of the chemicals used. While companies claim fracking brings jobs and revenue, residents express concerns about risks to water, land, health and the environment. The document suggests actions the community can take, including lobbying local government to ban fracking and denying access to private land.
The document discusses opposition to petroleum exploration permits granted by the New Zealand Crown to Petrobras in the Raukumara Basin off the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. There are concerns about the environmental risks of offshore drilling, Petrobras' safety record, lack of consultation and compensation to Maori, and the Crown's unilateral claim to minerals. Strategies of non-violent resistance to influence decision makers and build support are outlined.
This document presents a quiz to assess how colonized a person is based on their knowledge of their family history, local indigenous peoples and culture, and relationship to local indigenous language. It contains questions in several categories: knowledge of family tree, family history, local history, relationship with local indigenous peoples, relationship with local indigenous language, relationship with local indigenous culture, and relationship with their own culture. The quiz aims to evaluate a person's level of connection to their indigenous roots and local indigenous community.
The Wellington Youth Service provides free and confidential primary healthcare, sexual health services, social workers, youth workers, peer support, counselling, and recreational activities to young people in Central Wellington. It aims to make services easily accessible, participate youth in decision making, and address the specific needs of groups through innovative programs. Around 2,500 young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, including 20% Maori, 10% Pacific Islanders, and 15% other ethnicities, are registered with the service.
The document summarizes plans from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Youth Development, and Tairawhiti District Health Board related to improving youth health in Tairawhiti, New Zealand. It outlines goals such as creating a safer environment for youth, improving mental and physical health, involving youth in decision making, and ensuring accessible health services. It also provides details about the youth population in Tairawhiti and current issues like high smoking and teen pregnancy rates. The document aims to gather input from youth and professionals to develop a new regional youth health plan.
Provision Of Youth Health Services In AotearoaManu Caddie
The document discusses the provision of youth health services in New Zealand. It advocates for a "one stop shop" approach within schools to provide developmental health care and avoid barriers to access. This would involve same day drop-in appointments and minimizing referrals. The document also calls for school health care to be a high political priority, organized without thresholds, and aimed at through evidence-based research and qualified professionals. Standards of care mentioned include community engagement, youth participation, comprehensive clinical services, and health promotion.
This document outlines the schedule for the Tairawhiti Youth Health Symposium 2007. It included mihimihi/karakia to open the event, then presentations from various youth health services on their work and a survey of Tairawhiti youth. Small group sessions provided input on effective youth programs. The symposium closed with a plenary session and karakia whakamutunga.
At Affordable Garage Door Repair, we specialize in both residential and commercial garage door services, ensuring your property is secure and your doors are running smoothly.
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Welcome to the world of social media, where Instagram reigns supreme! Today, we're going to explore a fascinating tool called Insanony that lets you watch Instagram Stories secretly. If you've ever wanted to view someone's story without them knowing, this blog is for you. We'll delve into everything you need to know about Insanony with Trending Blogers!
Biography and career history of Bruno AmezcuaBruno Amezcua
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Amid the constant barrage of distractions and dwindling motivation, self-discipline emerges as the unwavering beacon that guides individuals toward triumph. This vital quality serves as the key to unlocking one’s true potential, whether the aspiration is to attain personal goals, ascend the career ladder, or refine everyday habits.
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Born in Moscow to an aristocratic family, Kropotkin was originally destined for a military career. After his education at a select military school where his interests in Russian politics and natural science became firm, he chose service with a Siberian regiment where his experiences in studying reform were to shape his thought. As an official in Siberia, in 1862, he made important geographical and anthropological investigations that yielded valuable results in correcting distortions in map representation. At the social level, he concluded that State action was ineffective while mutual aid was of great importance in the struggle for existence. He made a reputation in science and in his thirtieth year was faced with the decision of proceeding with his career or indulging political impulses. He renounced a scientific career.Kropotkin joined the International in 1872 but was soon disappointed with its limitations. The well-known events that led to a split brought the Interntional to two opposite paths. The federative and libertarian wing drew Kropotkin's loyalties. Returning to Russia, after having fully worked out his theories and in order to propagate them, he was there arrested. After a dramatic escape in 1876 he made his way to England and then to Switzerland to rejoin the Jura Federation, to Paris and back to Switzerland to edit Le Revolte. The assassination of the Czar led to his expulsion. He fled to England and resumed his researches on the French Revolution. Discouraged by the political atmosphere, he and his wife returned to Paris. With others they were arrested in 1882 and tried in a spectacular public trial in which the accused conducted a brilliant defense enabling them to preach anarchism to Europe. Returning to Russia after the 1905 Revolution, the remainder of his life was devoted to his writings. Among the best known of his works are, The Conquest of Bread; Fields, Factories and Workshops; Mutual Aid; and the unfinished Ethics.
Mikhail A. Bakunin (1814-1876) The eldest son of an aristocratic family, Bakunin spent his youth on the family estate, which educated him to peasant ways through his association with the serfs. He renounced a military career to pursue philosophic studies at the Universities of Moscow and Berlin. In 1843, in Switzerland, he befriended Weitling, whose imprisonment attracted the attention of the Russian authorities, and he was summoned to return. He refused and made his way to Paris where he learned greatly from Marx and Proudhon, although dislike of Marx prevented any closeness between them. 1849, in Dresden, he was arrested and returned to Russia as a fugitive, where he spent eight years in solitary confinement. After four more years in Siberia and a marriage to a young woman strangely distant from his political concerns, he made his way to London where he worked for a time with Herzen. Making his way to Italy, Bakunin organized in 1864 a secret international brotherhood known later as the "International Alliance of Social Democracy." In 1868 he joined the First International, where his doctrines were strongly opposed by the Marxists. After the resulting split in 1872, the Bakuninists continued as a separate organization. He retired from the movement in 1874 after the abortive Bologna insurrection. He died and was buried in Rome.He had no faith in parliamentary politics and joined Proudhon in saying that universal suffrage was counterrevolution. He believed in mass organization, collectivism, and was above all anti-State. He held that in place of the State, there would arise a free federation of autonomous associations enjoying the right of secession and guaranteeing complete personal freedom. Max Nettlau and E. H. Carr have written authoritative biographies of him. His writings were widely scattered, and he never organized any of them into finished books. A useful compilation is that of G. P. Maximoff, published by The Free Press, although this is a partial collection. A project is now underway for the publication of Bakunin's papers in France. (Irving Horowitz, The Anarchists, 1964, Dell Pub.)
Leo Tolstoy
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman called her “most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced” Yet today, Voltairine de Cleyre was virtually unknown even among libertarians until the recent anthologies were published in 2004 and 2005. She is discussed only briefly in histories of American anarchism and is not even mentioned at all in the more general studies of James Joll, George Woodcock, and Daniel Guerin. Though her writing was both voluminous and powerful, she had appeared in only one modern anarchist anthology until three anthologies of her works were published in 2004 and 2005. (1) Only two modern collections of American radical thought include her classic “Anarchism and American Traditions;” and ironically, neither is primarily anarchist in content (2) Voltairine de Cleyre was, in the words of her biographer, Paul Avrich, ” A brief comet in the anarchist firmament, blazing out quickly and soon forgotten by all but a small circle of comrades whose love and devotion persisted long after her death.” But “her memory,” continues Avrich, “possesses the glow of legend.” (3)Born in a small village in Michigan in 1866, Voltairine plagued all her life by poverty, pain, and ill health, died prematurely at the age of 45 in 1912. The short life span of her life, ending before great events of the 20th century, is, in Avrich’s opinion, the major reason why Voltairine de Cleyre has been overlooked, unlike the long-lived Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman.The strength of will and independence of mind that so strongly characterized this remarkable woman manifested themselves early in Voltairine’s life. Forced into a Catholic convent school as a teenager, she chafed at the stifling, authoritarian atmosphere and was later to speak of the “the white scars on my soul” left by this painful experience. Bruised but unbroken, Voltairine emerged an atheist and soon gravitated toward the flourishing freethinkers’ movement. Influenced by Clarence Darrow, she flirted briefly with socialism, but her deep-running anti-authoritarian spirit soon rejected it in favor of anarchism.As with Emma Goldman, the hanging of the Haymarket martyrs made a profound impression on Voltairine and was the major impetus in her turn toward anarchism. In 1888, she threw herself into the anarchist movement, dedicating herself passionately to the unceasingly to the cause of liberty for the rest of her life.Though seldom in the public limelight — unlike Emma Goldman, she shrank from notoriety— Voltairine was a popular speaker and an untiring writer. In spite of financial circumstances that forced her to work long hours, and despite a profoundly unhappy life, which included several near-suicides, an almost fatal assassin’s bullet, and a number of ill-fated love affairs, she authored hundreds of poems, essays, stories, and sketches in her all too-brief life. Highly praised by her colleagues for the elegance and stylistic beauty of her writing, Voltairine possessed, in Avrich’s opinion, “a greater literacy talent than any other American anarchist,” surpassing even Berkman, Goldman, and Benjamin R.Tucker. Goldman herself believed Voltairine’s prose to be distinguished by an “extreme clarity of thought and originality of expression.” Unfortunately, only one collection of her writings — The Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, edited by Berkman and published by Mother Earth in 1914 — was ever put together, leaving much fine material buried in obscure journals.Both Voltairine’s life and her writings reflect, in Avrich’s words, “an extremely complicated individual.” Though an atheist, Voltairine had, according to Goldman, a “religious zeal which stamped everything she did… Her whole nature was that of an ascetic.” “By living a life of religious-like austerity,” says Avrich,”she became a secular nun in the Order of Anarchy.” In describing that persistence of will that inspired her, the anarchist poet Sadikichi Hartmann declared, “Her whole life seemed to center upon the exaltation over, what she so aptly called, the Dominant Idea. Like an anchorite, she flayed her body to utter more and more lucid and convincing arguments in favor of direct action.”“The Dominant Idea,” wrote Emma Goldman in her commemorative essay ‘Voltairine de Cleyre’ (4) was the Leitmotif through Voltairine de Cleyre’s remarkable life. Though she was constantly harassed by ill-health, which held her body captive and killed her at the end, the Dominant Idea energized Voltairine to ever greater intellectual efforts, raised her to the supreme heights of an exalted ideal and steeled her will to conquer every handicap in her tortured life.”Yet the ascetic also had the soul of a poet. In her poetry and even in her prose, Voltairine eloquently expressed a passionate love of music, of nature, and of Beauty. With all her devotion to her social ideals,” says Emma, “she had another god — the god of Beauty. Her life was a ceaseless struggle between the two: the ascetic determinably stifling her longing for beauty, but the poet in her determinably yearning for it, worshipping it in utter abandonment….”Another manifestation of Votairine’s complex nature was her ability to be both rational and compassionate, a combination that Benjamin Tucker, like some modern-day individualist anarchists, thought led to inconsistency and ambivalence. Voltairine didn’t see it that way. “I think it has been the great mistake of our people, especially our American Anarchists represented by Benjamin R. Tucker, to disclaim sentiment,” she declared. In her essay, “Why I am an Anarchist,” she wrote, “It is to men and women of feeling that I speak…Not to the shallow egotist who holds himself apart, and with the phariseeism of intellectuality, exclaims, ‘I am more just than thou’; but to those whose every fiber of being is vibrating with emotion as aspen leaves quiver in the breath of Storm! To those whose hearts swell with a great pity at the pitiful toil of women, the weariness of young children, the handcuffed helplessness of strong men!”But Voltairine was no emotional sentimentalist, wanting in serious arguments. Though Tucker became increasingly skeptical of her talents, most of her associates considered her a brilliant thinker. Marcus Graham, editor of Man!, called her “the most thoughtful woman anarchist of this century,” while George Brown, the anarchist orator, declared her “the most intellectual woman I ever met. “Joseph Kucerra, her last lover, praised her logical, analytic mind. Avrich himself, a careful historian not given to undue praise, concludes that she was a “first-rate intellect.”Voltairine’s political stance in the anarchist spectrum was no less complicated than her other views and even less well understood. Avrich dispels the myth created by erroneous claims of Rudolph Rocker and Emma Goldman that Voltairine became a communist anarchist. In 1907, points out Avrich, Voltairine replied to Emma’s claim, saying, “I am not now and never have been at any time a Communist.” Beginning as a Tuckerite individualist, Voltairine turned in the 1890′s to the mutualism of Dyer Lum. But she eventually grew to the conclusion that neither individualism nor collectivism nor even mutualism was entirely satisfactory. “I am an Anarchist, simply, without economic labels attached,” she was finally to declare.Unhyphenated anarchism, or “anarchism without adjectives” had other adherents as well — ErricoMalatesta, Max Nettlau, and Lum among them. These advocates of nonsectarian anarchism tried to promote tolerance for different economic views within the movement, believing that economic preferences would vary according to individual tastes and that no one person or group had the only correct solution. ” There is nothing un-Anarchistic about any of [these systems].” declared Voltairine, “until the element of compulsion enters and obliges unwilling persons to remain in a community whose economic arrangements they do not agree to.”Voltairine’s plea for tolerance and cooperation among the anarchist schools strikes a modern note, making us realize how little things have changed. Factionalism rages yet, with fervent apostles still all too eager to read the other side (whether “anarcho-capitalist” or “anarcho-communist”) out of the anarchistic fold. the notion that the pluralistic anarchist societies envisioned by people like Voltairine de Cleyre might in fact be the most realistic expectation about human nature seems even more lost on anarchists today than in her time.Probably Voltairine’s best-known intellectual contribution is the often-reprinted essay “Anarchism and American Traditions,” in which she shows how the ideas of anarchism follow naturally from the premises on which the American Revolution was based. The Revolutionary Republicans, she says, “took their starting point for deriving a minimum of government upon the same sociological ground that the modern Anarchist derives the no-government theory; viz., that equal liberty is the political ideal. ” But the anarchist, unlike the revolutionary republicans, she goes on to point out, cannot accept the premise of majority rule. All governments, regardless of their form, say the anarchists, will always be manipulated by a small minority. She then goes on to cite other similarities between the ideas of the anarchists and the republicans, including the belief in local initiative and independent action. “This then was the American Tradition,” she writes, ” that private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.”Another of Voltairine’s special concerns was the issue of sexual equality. In a time when the law treated women like chattel, “Voltairine de Cleyre’s whole life,” says Avrich, “was a revolt against this system of male domination which, like every other form of tyranny and exploitation, ran contrary to her anarchistic spirit.” That such a brilliant, unusual woman would be a feminist is no surprise. “Let every woman ask herself,” cried Voltairine, “Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my children away from me? Will them away while yet unborn? Let every woman ask.” “There are two reasons why,” Voltairine answered in her essay “Sex and Slavery,” “and these ultimately reducible to a single principle — the authoritarian supreme power GOD-idea, and its two instruments – the church — that is, the priests – the State — that is, the legislators…These two things, the mind domination of the Church and the body domination of the State, are the causes of Sex Slavery.”These themes of sexual equality and feminism provided the subjects of frequent lectures and speeches in Voltairine’s years of activity, including topics like “Sex Slavery,” “Love and Freedom,” “The Case of Woman vs. Orthodoxy,” and “Those Who Will Marry Do Ill.”The subject of marriage was one of Voltairine’s favorite topics. Though she valued love, she totally rejected formal marriage, considering it “the sanction for all manner of bestialities” and the married woman, “a bonded slave.” Her own unfortunate experiences with most of her lovers, who even without the ties of formal marriage, treated her as a sex object and servant, convinced Voltairine that even living with a man was to be avoided. When she learned that William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (her heroine) had lived in separate apartments even though they were lovers, she was delighted. “Every individual should have a room or rooms for himself exclusively,” she wrote to her mother, “never to subject to the intrusive familiarities of our present ‘family life.’ To me, any dependence, any thing which destroys the complete selfhood of the individual, is in the line of slavery and destroys the pure spontaneity of love.”Not surprisingly for that day, Voltairine’s bad experiences with the traditionalism of her lovers was a misfortune she shared with Emma Goldman. Though totally different in personality — ” Voltairine differed from Emma as poetry from prose,” says Avrich — the lives of the two women had curious parallels. Most of their lovers turned out to be disappointingly conventional in matters of sex roles but there was in each woman’s life at least one lover who was not of this traditionalist stripe. Each loved a man who was her intellectual equal and who treated her as an equal — for Voltairine, it was Dyer Lum: for Emma, Alexander Berkman. But sadly, both woman lost these men as lovers. Lum committed suicide in 1893 and Berkman’s 14 years in prison left psychological scars that changed the nature of his physical relationship with Emma, if not their emotional one.But in other matters, Voltairine and Emma had little in common. In fact, they quickly took a personal dislike to each other. Voltairine thought Emma flamboyant, self-indulgent, unattractive, and dumpy; Emma considered Voltairine ascetic and lacking in personal charm. Emma claimed that “physical beauty and feminine attraction were withheld from her,” another myth Avrich shows to be false. In truth, most of Voltairine’s comrades, both men and women, found her beautiful, elegant, and charming. The photos of Voltairine included in Avrich’s biography testify to the truth of these views — pictured is a delicate woman with soft, mysterious beauty that is a sharp contrast to Emma’s earthy robustness. Emma, a friend once pointed out, was not above jealousy.Yet, in spite of their personal differences, Emma and Voltairine respected each other intellectually. For her part, Voltairine publicly defended Emma on several occasions, including the passionate plea “In Defense of Emma Goldman and Free Speech,” which Emma notes in her commemoration of Voltairine. She was, writes Emma, “a wonderful spirit… born in some obscure town in the state of Michigan, and who lived in poverty all her life, but who by sheer force of will pulled herself out of a living grave, cleared her mind from the darkness of superstition — turned her face to the sun, perceived a great ideal and determinably carried it to every corner of her native land… The American soil sometimes does bring forth exquisite plants.”
The man who would become a mythic figure of the Spanish anarchism was born in León (Central Spain) and was the son of a socialist railroad worker. He started to work on the railroad when he was 14, and met his first exile in France after the general revolutionary strike in 1917. He didn't come back to Spain untill 1920. In Barcelona, partnered by the Ascaso brothers, García Oliver and other anarchists, found the group named "Los Solidarios" (the solidarian men) close from the FAI (FederacionAnarquistaIbérica, Iberian anarchist federation) ideas. This group attempted a failed bomb atack against Alfonso XIII, the Spanish king by then; particied on the assault against the Guijonsucursal of the Bank of Spain; plus killed the Soldevilla cardinal. Due this reason, he had to escape to Argentina, where he organized anarchist syndicates and was soon pursued by the police forces.The arrival of the Republic found Durruti either exiled or in prison. In 1932 he was deported to Bata because of his participation on the Anarchist sublevation of Alto Llobregat. He was arrested in 1933 and after the revolution of 1934. The electoral victory of the Frente Popular delivered him from the El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) prison.In July, 1936, he was one of the most important leaders of the CNT masses that aborted the military sublevation in Barcelona. After the sublevation was suffocated, he inmediately leaded the militia columns whose purpose was to re-take Zaragoza, occupied by the nationalists. He spread his ideas about the 'libertary communism' as he marches by Aragonian lands, being the doctrinal base for the 'communes' established lately.In November, 1936, convinced by García Oliver and Federica Montseny, arrives to Madrid to defend it against the nationalist army, followed by his column, composed by about 3,000 men. He got the task of defending a sector of the Universitary City, though he was unable to avoid the occupation of the Clinic Hospital by the enemy. The nationalists were still in that hospitan in Nov. 19. That afternoon, Durruti was mortally wounded under not cleared yet circumstances. His body was translated to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony where more than 200,000 people assisted. When he died, all his belongings were a couple of clothes, two pistols, a sunglasses and a pair of binoculars.His fame of uncorruptable, his activistic life and the doubts generated by his death bacame him in a mith that, in some way, resisted the pass of the time and the years.
Peter Maurin
Dorothy Day
Ammon Hennacy
JRR Tolkien My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inaminate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people. […] Anyway the proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. At least it is done only to a small group of men who know who their master is. The mediaevals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Grant me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you dare call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers. And so on down the line. But, of course, the fatal weakness of all that — after all only the fatal weakness of all good natural things in a bad corrupt unnatural world — is that it works and has only worked when all the world is messing along in the same good old inefficient human way. […] There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamating factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
Jacques Ellul
Uncle Noam
TeWhiti & Tohu
GriffMaclaurin was a brilliant mathematician from a distinguished Auckland family who had left New Zealand to study in Britain. He arrived in Madrid on 8 November as part of the International Column. In his small detachment of 'English' machine-gunners he was joined by another New Zealander, Steve Yates.They took up a position inside Madrid University’s School of Philosophy and Letters. Using the larger books from the departmental library, they barricaded themselves in, discovering that ‘bullets generally penetrated to about page 350’. Both men were among the first international volunteers to be killed in the Spanish Civil War when their position was overrun sometime on 10 November.