Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 12 (March 17, 2014)

Why the Bison Roam: An Interview with Comfrey Jacobs | Earth First! Newswire

This kid's one-man protest ended up stopping the bison slaughter for at least the rest of the year.

Center for a Stateless Society
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"A left market anarchist think tank & media center"

Social Memory Complex

The weblog of Jeremy Weiland. I like his writing.

What does it mean to be an 'anarchist'? | David Goodway
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A popular introduction to anarchism in the Guardian's Comment is Free (from 2011). I can't help but think the subtext of these sorts of articles is always "Anarchism: It might not be quite as stupid as you first thought it was."

Prison Hunger Strike Puts Spotlight on Immigration Detention | TIME.com
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The hunger strike has spread to another GEO Group facility in Texas, while only two prisoners remain on strike in Tacoma:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/03/19/3105791/hunger-strike-down-to-2-detainees.html

Global Uprisings

"Global Uprisings is an independent news site and video series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis from around the world."

South by Southwest’s unpaid labor problem: Why it’s risking a class action lawsuit - Salon.com
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'With ticket prices so high and labor costs rivaling those of a Cambodian sweatshop, how much money does SXSX Inc. actually make? “As a privately held company, SXSW doesn’t release any financial information,” said spokesperson Elizabeth Derczo when I called her up.'

Qatar 2022 World Cup workers 'treated like cattle', Amnesty report finds | The Guardian
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It would seem Qatar is being built by slaves. Except obtaining slaves isn't gratis and they don't make their own travel arrangements, so owners actually have to worry about keeping them alive.

Direct link to the Amnesty International report:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE22/010/2013/en

Open Borders: The Case

This website is dedicated to making the case for open borders. The term “open borders” is used to describe a world where there is a strong presumption in favor of allowing people to migrate and where this presumption can be overridden or curtailed only under exceptional circumstances.

Lysander Spooner cited by Alito and Thomas in McDonald v. Chicago | People v. State

Spooner's "The Unconstitutionality of Slavery" was published in 1845:

This right of a man “to keep and bear arms,” is a right palpably inconsistent with the idea of his being a slave. Yet the right is secured as effectually to those whom the States presume to call slaves, as to any whom the States condescend to acknowledge free.

Under this provision any man has a right either to give or sell arms to those persons whom the States call slaves; and there is no constitutional power, in either the national or State governments, that can punish him for so doing; or that can take those arms from the slaves; or that can make it criminal for the slaves to use them, if, from the inefficiency of the laws, it should become necessary for them to do so, in defence of their own lives or liberties; for this constitutional right to keep arms implies the constitutional right to use them, if need be, for the defence of one’s liberty or life.

Al Jazeera's The Stream episode on anarchism [video]

Al Jazeera's The Stream did an episode on "the anarchist movement"! I've read Crispin's book. It was surprisingly compelling for a book on political philosophy. It was so good I will probably read it again. I've also read the first third of Cindy's book. I remember it being surprisingly boring for a book about anarchism. I may have to give it another try.

The episodes web page: http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201403172248-0023558