"The Road Not Taken" is a historic proposal that was provided to the Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (FRAC) from the Black Heart Anarchist Collective-Columbus Ohio in 2001. Previous to now this proposal was treated as an internal FRAC document and has never been made available online or to the public. Ultimately the proposal was not adopted by FRAC. It is being provided now as it shows some of the internal debate and discussions that were taking place in the anarchist movement shortly after The Battle of Seattle. The document also highlights one road that aspects of the anarchist movement viewed as open to it, even if this road was never taken. Now that we are struggling against an increasing fascist tendency in the U.S. and beyond [2017], we as a movement need to explore those crossroads that post-Seattle presented us, and re-evaluate the strategic and tactical directions the movement took then in order for us in the present to build a stronger more effective movement today.

This proposal was provided to the still forming Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (Great Lakes Region-Midwest) in December, 2001 by the Black Heart Anarchist Collective (Columbus, Ohio). It was not adopted by the federation. It was also sent to the Northeast Federation of Anarcho Communists. David Van Deusen wrote this document with Lady. The proposal was adopted as a position by the Black Heart Anarchist Collective as a whole, whose members also had input into the content. The Black Heart Anarchist Collective was an offshoot of Anti-Racist Action-Columbus. The collective (which included Van Deusen, Lady, Dustin, Noah, and others) formed for the primary purpose of engaging in discussions with other regional anarchist collectives about forming the Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives. The Black Heart Anarchist Collective were participants in a number of meetings leading up to the creation of the federation. However, prior to the official formation of the federation Van Deusen & Lady moved back to Vermont, the collective disbanded, and was never an official member collective of the federation. Van Deusen (who co-founded The Green Mountain Anarchist Collective) was in Ohio, and a member of Anti-Racist Action, for some time in 2001-2002. The Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives folded in 2005.
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Le scuole, da quando sono gestite da sedicenti "presidi-manager", che mirano ad esercitare un certo tipo di "politica", nell'accezione più deteriore del termine, ossia nel senso di un'operazione di squallido proselitismo clientelare ad esclusivo vantaggio di sé e di altri notabili politici locali, non sono più ambienti sani ed integri moralmente, frequentabili dai discenti... read full story / add a comment

… Γιατί το εκπληκτικό που συμβαίνει τούτη τη στιγμή (τουλάχιστον μετά το 1991), είναι ότι αυτή η παραγωγή ηγεμονικής ιδεολογίας, με ό,τι κανονικά σήμαινε ο όρος, έχει στερέψει! Καμία απόπειρα έλλογης δικαιολόγησης των αποφάσεων που διακυβεύουν τον κόσμο μας δεν ηχεί πλέον πειστική, και οι ίδιοι οι κρατούντες μοιάζουν να έχουν παραιτηθεί από κάθε προσπάθεια συγκάλυψης της ωμής, απερίφραστης και προκλητικά αυθαίρετης ισχύος: οτιδήποτε λέγεται από επίσημα χείλη έχει τον βαθμό λογικής συνέπειας του προλεχθέντος ανεκδότου, και από κανέναν δεν αναμένεται να παρθεί στα σοβαρά. read full story / add a comment

Para reprimir la manifestación, el gobierno de Mauricio Macri ordenó a la Policía de la Ciudad dispersar violentamente el lugar, golpeando y ultrajando a los manifestantes presentes, hiriendo en el rostro y el cuerpo a nuestro compañero Nicolás de Antueno. En estos momentos, se encuentra lesionado e incomunicado, casi en un secuestro por parte del Estado. read full story / add a comment

Now, the way to take will be to create a new model organization: a Confederation of Autonomous Municipalities/Communities. read full story / add a comment

Δεν χρειάζεται να είμαστε αφελείς (και με αυτό αναφέρομαι στο δεύτερο στοιχείο). Η διαδικασία της εκλογής μέσα από τους παραδοσιακούς τρόπους μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για τις ιδιοτελείς φιλοδοξίες των οργανώσεων ή των αντιπροσώπων. Αλλά πρέπει να υπάρχει μια σταθερή και συνειδητή άσκηση εντός της κοινότητας ώστε να διασφαλήσουν το σύστημά τους από τις φιλοδοξίες για την εξουσία. Ας αποφάσεις να πέρνονται από τη βάση! Αλληλεγγύη με τις κοινότητες των Ayutla de los Libres στην πορεία τους προς την αυτονομία! Guerrero για τους ανθρώπους! read full story / add a comment

"No es sólo un crimen, sino un asesinato de Estado" read full story / add a comment

“Aquí ya no entran ningún cártel ni extorsionadores del gobierno, ahora todos nos cuidamos como uno solo”. read full story / add a comment

Six men were on trial accused of falsely imprisoning the then Tanáiste (deputy Prime Minister) and Labour Party TD, Joan Burton, and her colleague in Jobstown, a working class suburb of Dublin, on 15 November 2014. The charge of false imprisonment carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. All six men claimed that they were exercising their right to protest, and that the protest was peaceful. This was part of a mass campaign that successfully defeated the attempt to introduce water charges. Following a nine week trial, the six have been found not guilty. read full story / add a comment

En primer lugar un saludo fraterno, de hermanos y hermanas. Ya decía un sabio guna-dule que todos los seres somos hermanos y todos los pueblos somos hermanos. Reciban, pues, un saludo de un pueblo hermano, el pueblo nasa del norte del Cauca, en las cordilleras del suroccidente de Colombia.

En segundo lugar, para decirles que quemamos el segundo cuetón (cohetón, cuete, volador) para invitarlos e invitarlas al encuentro internacional de liberadores y liberadoras de Uma Kiwe, nuestra Madre Tierra. El primero lo quemamos el 20 de septiembre de 2016, cuando decidimos convocar este encuentro desde La Emperatriz, una de las aldeas de liberación acá en el norte del Cauca. A partir de allí regamos la invitación, voz a voz, desde muchas partes. Hoy, desde la festividad ritual del Sek Buy (el nacimiento de El Sol), la hacemos pública con toda la fuerza con la quema del segundo cuetón. El tercero lo quemaremos el 4 de agosto, cuando ya estemos viéndonos las caras en Corinto. read full story / add a comment