Un visitante bilingue del site que fue conmovido igualmente por “We Intend to Live In Peace” decidió traducir el documento al español. Algunos conceptos y términos no están traducidos literálmente para cubrir por lo que el/la traductor/a siente que se pierde en la traducción. Cualquier arreglo o sugerencia será recibida con gusto en hacktiffler[at]riseup.net.
A bilingual site guest that was equally moved by “We Intend to Live in Peace” decided to translate the document into Spanish. Some concepts and terms are not translated literally to make up for what the translator feels is lost in translation. Any fixes or suggestions will gladly be received at hacktiffler[at]riseup.net.
So the 20 most powerful economic countries in the world get together all the time to hash out how they want to best run the entire world’s economy. What? The most powerful economic countries want to make the decisions for everyone? Imagine that. Fortunately, the G20 (group of 20) actually have to physically meet to accomplish this most effectively, and by meeting in one place they expose themselves to the voices and bodies of the people who don’t want to be governed. For more information about the G20 protests, go to resistg20.org.
Note that this summer there will be a few lead-in events, including the Anarchy Summer Camp in northern Virginia on July 17-19th, and the CrimethInc. Convergence in Pittsburgh, July 20-26th. So let’s get together and kick capitalism while it’s down, shall we?
pdf of the poster, 8.5″ x 11″
We were moved enough by the essay We Intend To Live In Peace that we decided to publish a zine version. Print out two sheets double-sided, short-edge binding, fold, staple, then cut in half. This provides two copies.
found on anarchist news dot org. This essay is one of the finest essays I’ve seen. In short, it says: leave us alone, we will operate as anarchists. We won’t start the fight, but when you attack us, we’ll defend ourselves. In fact, there’s only about one sentence I’d strike if I were going to edit it. I like the non-revolutionary tone that still refuses (ideally) to lie down and play dead:
To The Governments & People of Earth:
We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it.
We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We merely wish to be left alone.
All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.
We no longer see any benefit in working through the world’s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and intolerable; for many of us, that point has arrived. Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity and our living homeworld.
We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this - it was forced upon us.
(Continued)
We’ll be tabling at the 1st annual Portland (Oregon) anarchist bookfair! Come say hello and peruse our allotment of silkscreened finery and such! (Including, I believe, new jewelry from out from the wane & waste.)
From the bookfair’s myspace: myspace:
June 6 & 7, 2009 (Sat & Sun)
Liberty Hall - 311 N Ivy | Portland, OR 97227
503-516-9220 | axiom.infoshop@gmail.com
The Axiom Collective is hosting the first annual Portland Anarchist Book Fair. This two day event will feature over 20 booksellers, publishers, and zinesters offering a wide range of radical literature and art.
+ Axiom Infoshop Collective
+ In Other Words Women’s Bookstore
+ Left Bank Books (Seattle)
+ PM Press
+ Just Seeds Art Collective
+ Eberhardt Press
+ Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
+ the Independent Publishing Resource Center
+ Portland Books to Prisoners
+ Portland Radical Reference Collective
+ and more!
This event is FREE to attend. Childcare will be provided, and we’ll be offering yummy treats for cheap. There will be a show at Liberty Hall (bands TBA) Saturday night, too!
We had the extreme pleasure of sharing a table (of sorts) with the Earth First! Roadshow at the NY anarchist bookfair. Anyhow, their presentation is really inspiring, and many steps above the usual fare of traveling activist tours. These things are really well thought out, it’s engaging and inspiring. And funny.
So you should go to it. The odds are good it will end up somewhere near you, if you’re in the USA.
So, yes, it’s been almost a year, but we are indeed still publishing steampunk magazine! This issue, arguably our best (and, if you ask me, certainly our prettiest), has finally been released today. It can be downloaded for free or of course, you can buy it from us. This is the first issue with a color cover (offset printed by those wonderful folks at Eberhardt Press, and the first issue where we were able to actually pay our contributors!
Looks like we’re getting back on schedule here with the Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages! This is our special “clips” issue, in which our characters reminisce on times gone by! Plus punk tourism, bicycles, and the usual zaniness!
It looks like one of us is to be giving the ole “Intellectual Property Is Theft!” discussion at the NYC anarchist bookfair. It’ll start at 4:30 on Saturday, April 11th. Where it will be doesn’t seem to be announced just yet. There are also plenty of interesting workshops at the event, on both saturday and sunday!
The workshop will cover various things like copyright, copyleft, and Creative Commons, and why it is that anarchists maybe ought to embrace CC licensing on their work. Geeky, yeah, sure. But it should be interesting.
Turns out Book Fair is two words. Who woulda known? I always thought it was bookfair.
So we’re going to be tabling at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair on April 11th and 12th. As per usual, nearly 90% of our table will be filled with free materials, and not just dinky flyers or something. Nearly all of our zines—and all of our CDs—are available free of charge. We’ll have some SteamPunk swag to sell too, of course. We’ve also got at least 4 new zines that I promise you’ve never seen before, just waiting to get printed up for the thing.
So if you’re in NYC, or can be, you should stop by! We might be running workshops as well, but we haven’t heard back (so we’re guessing we’re not). Come talk to us and take things!