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7pm this Sat 3rd November

Pilrig St Pauls church hall, Pilrig Street, just off Leith Walk, Edinburgh.

This inspiring and extremely democratic and grass-roots controlled movement is at the forefront of resistance to the pro-capitalist policies of the ANC government. This is a rare chance to hear Lindela Figlan, vice president of Abahlali Basemjondolo, the shack dwellers movement.

Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) began in Durban in 2005. Lindela will speak about his experiences, ways of organising and other community based issues. In terms of people mobilised, it’s the largest militant poor organisation in post-apartheid South Africa. Social movements like AbM, the Landless People’s Movement in Johannesburg and the Anti-eviction Campaign in Cape Town pose serious challenges to the ruling party because of their refusal to vote.

AbM’s key demand is ‘Land & Housing in the City’ and has successfully politicised and fought to end forced removals and for access to education and the provision of water, electricity, sanitation, health care and refuse removal as well as bottom up popular democracy.

Lindela Figlan will join us as part of a speaking tour around the UK – details other meetings here http://www.anarchistbookfair.org.uk/

(includes Glasgow friday 2nd)

more info including map to venue location:

BIT.LY/PILRIG

(above url case sensitive)

https://www.facebook.com/events/503923502953605/

This event is free, there will be a collection to help cover travel expenses.

Friday 2nd November. 7-9pm Glasgow Social Centre, Basement, Garnethill Multicultural Centre, 21 Rose St, Glasgow. G3 6RE The Glasgow date of Lindela Figlan’s UK tour – he was brought over for the London Anarchist Bookfair as a member of Abahlali … Continue reading →

Perhaps some of you in the area have heard about the environmental campaign Tar Sands Blockade. For those who don’t know about Tar Sands Blockade here’s a summary I pulled from the website:

STAND WITH US AGAINST THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

A coalition of climate justice activists are converging from across the continent with local organizers and landowners to put a final stop to the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas.

Tar sands giant TransCanada has begun construction on the southern leg of the Keystone XL.

TransCanada has used money to influence elected representatives and to intimidate landowners, rural communities, and jeopardize the environment. The Tar Sands Blockade is calling on you to join one of our rolling actions to shut this pipeline down.

The action is committed to non-violence, and is using direct action to physically stop the pipeline. As both a pledge to protecting private property rights and our environment, I feel left-libertarians should be aware of Tar Sands and how it really highlights some key principles put forth by ALL.

The campaign is in day 37 of their fight against the pipeline. They need help and support to keep this going as long as it takes to win! DFW ALL fully supports our friends with Tar Sands Blockade and wants to see this pipeline defeated!

Follow their twitter for updates, and “like” the TSB Facebook page.

Join the Action, donate or find out other ways to help.

More about the pipeline and why you should oppose it:

Why Oppose the Keystone XL pipeline?

Tuesday, November 13, 5-7 pm
Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 333

Join Students for Unity for a discussion about resistance to the prison-industrial complex, with author Vikki Law and Portland Central American Solidarity Committee (PCASC). PCASC will be discussing private prisons and immigrant detention centers and the prison divestment campaign.

A presentation on Race Traitor politics is being held this Monday at the Rusty Spoke Bicycle Co-Op in downtown Phoenix. During our active era as PCWC, we wrote with some frequency on Race Traitor politics (with my partner P.I. writing on the subject ye…

Continue reading at Fires never extinguished: A blog of the Phoenix Class War Council …

This Saturday, October 13th, The Students for Liberty Dallas Regional Conference will be held at the University of North Texas for the second year in a row. In 2011, Left-Rothbardian and ALLy, Sheldon Richman was a keynote speaker at this same conference. This year we will be hosting James Tuttle, Director of C4SS, making for an even bigger left-libertarian presence– quite possibly the biggest in SFL history!

From the SFL website:

James Tuttle is a left-libertarian anarcho-ostromite, the Director for the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), an occasional Instructor for the C4SS Stateless University Course: Introduction to Anarchism – Bravo Section, a Co-organizer for the Tulsa Anarchist Meetup, a Co-Editor of the left-libertarian zine ALLiance Journal, a Friend of Corvus Editions, and a proud Delegate of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Among the 21 partner organizations tabling at the conference, 3 of these will be left-libertarian organizations! DFW Alliance of the Libertarian Left, Students for a Stateless Society OU & UNT, and James Tuttle’s table will be our C4SS presence at the conference. This weekend will be a key opportunity to radicalize libertarians by speaking about left-libertarian theory, selling zines/radical literature, and acting as an alternative to mainstream thought for students and attendees interested in libertarian philosophy.

Tuttle’s lecture on “Radical Labor” seems like the perfect topic for this sort of event, “radicalism is the only thing that can determine whether or not libertarianism is the future or just apologetics for the status quo.” Which leads me to believe conferences like these are the best place for a strong left-libertarian presence.

If you want to register there is still time!

Visit the SFL website for more details on the conference and directions to the university, linked above.

As part of the launch of the Peaceful Streets Project in the Metroplex, there will be a public presentation informing local residents of how to protect their rights during police encounters. On Sept. 29 at 3 p.m. at the Haltom City Public Library, guests will also be introduced to proven grassroots strategies for maintaining safe and secure communities from police misconduct.

You can RSVP on the Facebook event here. Light refreshments will be provided.

What: Know Your Rights Presentation hosted by PSP DFW

Where: Haltom City Public Library, 4809 Haltom Road, Haltom City, TX 76117

When: Saturday, Sept. 29, 3 p.m.

This Thursday (20th September)

DFW ALL is hosting an open discussion on Saturday, Sept. 15.

When: Saturday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m.

Where: Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, 600 Byron Nelson Blvd, Ste 100, Roanoke, TX 76262

The C4SS post is up!

James Tuttle:

We at C4SS would like to offer and (re)introduce S4SS, the Students for a Stateless Society.

The Quebec student strikes have offered us new insights and confirmed old ones. A robust and pre-existingpolitical culture– student or not, student and not – is not sufficient, but certainly conducive to building, mobilizing and sustaining a confrontational political strategy – and the use of swarm protests is not only cool, but an effective display of open-source resiliency.

With S4SS, our goal is to develop a networked structure that will allow for maximum autonomy while fostering maximum inter/intra-chapter participation, communication, and coordination.

All power to the affinity groups!

Leaning on Elinor Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Action we have decided to try the following organizational orientation:

The Students for a Stateless Society (S4SS) agree to the following four design principles:

1. “Student” does not mean subservient, submissive, or subordinate. A student is anyone who desires knowledge. A student can be either a teacher or a learner.

2. A stateless society is anarchy. Students have a right to contribute to and have a voice in the institutions they participate or constitute. As anarchists we will actively pursue and support hierarchy dissolving and mutual aid projects. Our time as students is not a time of passivity or mindless discipline, but a time for activity and creativity.

3. S4SS spaces are safe and valued spaces. We are dedicated to not only identifying agents of aggression, but dissolving institutions of oppression.

4. All chapters of S4SS, to be considered active, must have at least one volunteer “point of contact” that can be reached by interested students or encouraging chapters. There is no limit to the number of S4SS chapters that can be on any one campus – swarm and take over!

If S4SS sounds like a project that you would like to support or set up in your area, then see if one of the active S4SS chapters is near your campus or register your own.

And again, swarm and take over!

The S4SS UNT chapter will hopefully help in building a bigger community of left-libertarians in the DFW area with ALL and The Black Cat Collective. I would encourage other existing or prospective chapters to look to local collectives for a resource as well. And of course, if you are lucky enough to have one in your area, ALL.

This will be an exciting project to follow as more chapters are launched and S4SS develops in size, scope, and influence.

Help make S4SS as well known as YAL and SFL!

Link this post or the C4SS post on your blog or Facebook. If you’re a student, start a chapter!

To quote James at C4SS once more– swarm and takeover!