ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:

ANARCHIST VOICES:

Here's news of an exciting new anarchist project- 'Anarchist Voices'. This is a collection of videos of anarchists involved in day-to-day peaceful community projects, far from the juvenile image of losing street fights against the cops that some might like to portray modern anarchism as. Here's the announcement from the Voluntary Cooperation Movement/Any Time Now discussion boards (see our links section).

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Anarchist Voices video project

Hi all!

This may (or may not) be of interest to members of the group. I have been recording videos of Anarchists involved in practical, peaceful Anarchist community level projects. and putting together a website under the name Anarchist Voices

See

http://anarchistvoi ces.wetpaint. com/

orhttp://www.youtube. com/JonSais

If anyone wishes to contribute they need

Digital Camera with video facility

Broadband

Films to be 5 - 10 minutes

I don't wish to feature long and boring ideological rants

best wishes

Jonathan Simcock

http://totalliberty .eu/

ANARCHIST MEDIA:

NY TIME NOW; ISSUE # 27:
Issue number 27(fall and winter 2007) of the anarchist newsletter 'Any Time now:For Social Anarchism' is now available in both print format and as a downloadable pdf at the zine's website. To view the magazine online go to said website. To order a print copy send a donation to Any Time Now, c/o Affinity Place. Argenta BC V0G 1B0, Canada.


The latest issue begins with a retrospect by the founder, Larry Gambone, on the last 10 years of ATN's life (it existed in a previous form before that), how the anarchist movement has grown and also matured. It gives a basic history of the politics of ATN, and how it defined itself as non-sectarian and committed to outreach to ordinary practical people. Often the second imperative overcame the first as ATN has not been loath to criticize what it saw as destructive trends in anarchism. What ATN has always promoted are, as Gambone says, "practical, people-oriented syndicalist, anarchist communist, communitarian and mutualist groups", something that has grown exponentially in the last decades while the supporters of terrorist options, violence, primitivism, half-baked 'post-leftism' and simple plain craziness have lost ground. While being firmly "left-anarchist", ATN has also extended a hand to the growing number of 'left-libertarians' in the USA who, however much they may differ from traditional anarchists in philosophy end up supporting the same things in terms of practical politics. Gambone ends his introduction with a statement of what he sees the role of ATN as being in the new situation of a growing anarchism, and he reaffirms the role of this zine as one of bridge-builder, independent of but supportive of all the truly constructive trends in this growing movement. An independent !!! voice that can go beyond organizational loyalties, criticize where it is needed and try and build sympathy amongst different groups when that is what is needed.


The latest ATN contains a lot more than just the introduction, 'Ten Years After'. There are excerpts from 'Why I Am an Anarchist', originally published in The Cunningham Amendment, an article 'The Witch Hunts' (on the European witch craze)from the Purple Thistle Centre of Vancouver and a general update on the state of anarchism in the UK. There's also an article 'Eminent Domain' on the ability of government, and big business via the government, to expropriate property for some presumed "higher use", and also a report on the recent formation of the BC Anarchist Writers' Group. One of the editors, Dick Martin, weighs in with his opinions of decision making in 'Consensus/Democracy', being on neither one side or the other but rather pointing out how these two different processes belong in two different realms. Or rather of how consensus is the "fine structure" of larger direct democracy organizations. The issue concludes with an article, 'A Journey Through Three Anarchist News Providers' , comparing the A-Infos, LibCom and Anarkismo internet sites. The author is the same little overweight calico cat who meows at you here.


There's lots more in this issue. Short news items. Reviews of other publications. Much more. See the website http://www.atnzine.net for more details and the complete issue.

JOEY ONLY FALL SCHEDULE:

Joey Only, radical songster and good friend of Any Time Now will be on tour in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia this Fall. As we speak he is playing a benefit for the Guelph Union of Tenants and Supporters in Guelph, Ontario. Later this month he will be appearing in Petersborough, Belleville. Ottawa, Montreal, and Kelowna BC. Later appearances this year will be in British Columbia. For up to the minute updates on Joey's schedule be sure to contact his website at http://www.joeyonly.com . See also Molly's Links under 'Anarchist Music'.

NEW EDITION OF 'ANY TIME NOW' AVAILABLE:

The anarchist newsletter 'Any Time Now: For Social Anarchism' has just come out in issue # 26, for the Spring of 2007. This issue features articles on the growing libertarian students' movement in Quebec, the USA and Chile. Also the statement of the Committee for the Defense of the Rights of the people based in Oaxaca, Mexico, 'Authority, Conformity and Mental Illness' by John Griffin and 'The British Distributionists', a review by Kevin Carson. Plus a whole raft of reviews and short items.

The pdf version of ATN can be viewed and downloaded at the website http://www.atnzine.net . Subscriptions to the printed version are available by donation at the mailing address: Any Time Now, c/o Affinity Place, Argenta BC V0G 1B0, Canada. Anyone who would like a sample printed copy just write to Molly here at Mollymew Productions, Box 172, Henderson Hwy., Winnipeg, MB R2L 2A5, Canada.

Molly

Links, links, get your red hot links here. Only 50 cents for one, three for a dollar. Get em here, and get em now. The following 6 new links have been added to the list at the bottom of this page.
Under the general Links section see:
1)Autonomy and Solidarity, a libertarian Marxist site.
2)Jesus Radicals. Christian anarchists. Their library has also been added under the Online Libraries section.
3)Daybreak Collective. A group active in the Minneapolis/St Paul area.
Under the Online Libraries section besides item #2 above see also:
Question Everything.
Under the Texts section see:
Barbarians At The Gates of the Public Library by anarchist librarian and member of the ATN discussion group Ed D'Angelo.
Ttttttat's all for now folks,
Molly

The Value of The Amateur:
Ancient ages ago there was a campaign against Dimitri Rousoupoulos of 'Black Rose Books' (who at that time also published 'Our Generation'). The accusation was that he was basically a "parasite" who "lived off the movement". Personal differences in Rousopoulos' circle in Montreal gave this accusation credibility. This dispute is long gone, but I find it interesting that nobody raises the same accusation today against some people who OBVIUOSLY "live off the movement" such as "Chucky-Poo" of Infoshop or "Crimeth(INC-TM) who have found a way to extract money from the gullible and avoid work. Both these people and others had personal connections to some of those in the USA who were Dimitri's greatest detractors. There were others such as Jason McQuinn who probably didn't live as a parasite off of their anarchist efforts but who OBVIOUSLY had an independent source of income that allowed them to publish a glossy magazine that would always lose money. Anarchy Magazine could even survive turning the treasury over to a drug addict who robbed them and keep on publishing as if nothing had happened. The NOTHING is what McQuinn wanted to convey as he covered his ass across a continent without ever sinking to rationality and common sense in saying that criminal behavior is wrong- except in his privileged case. God, these people make me sick to my stomach.
But to return to the "value of the Amateur". There is an argument to be made on anarchist principles-ie those principles that "post-leftists" borrow from while denigrating as "obsolete"- that an anarchist propaganda effort should be susceptible of immediate reproduction by those who agree with it. Unlike the glossy magazine of 'Anarchy'. Unlike the complex website of 'Infoshop'. May I say that the latter two are "money-making enterprises" while publications such as ATN which can be reproduced by anybody with a printer are "anarchistic" in a way that the arrogance of "post leftist commercialism" could never be.

Hard to believe that somebody found this blog already while I still in the setting up mode. If anyone else comes across it in a presumed search for Murray Bookchin items please go to the Any Time Now website (www.atnzine.net ) and get on the discussion group where a message of sympathy is being formulated for the public memorial service on August 13th.