http://www.freesocietycollective.org/ en-us rob@riseup.net Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:35:02 +0000 http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001680.html Members of the Free Society Collective will be presenting at the National Confernece on Organized Resistance, on the weekend of... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001466.html During crisis events, people often show their most compassionate and even heroic sides. In Hurricane Katrina's disruption of every day... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001283.html Cosponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and Black Sheep Books JACQUES RANCIERE AND RADICAL EQUALITY Presenter: Todd May French... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001226.html June and August seminars available. Registration open now! The Free Society Collective’s (FSC) seminar series aims to provide an independent... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001084.html In the style of a Soviet Propaganda film Maggots and Men recounts the tragic events of the Kronstadt Uprising (Russia,... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000650.html While election seasons are widely seen as times when the polity practices politics, this is an illusion; electoralism that accepts... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000637.html For those of us who participated in the protests against the Republican National Convention (RNC) this summer, reading the newspaper... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000938.html http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000554.html It’s election time again, and so-called politics has come to the forefront of public discourse. Liberals and radicals alike have squandered quite a bit of energy debating the old question of whether or not to vote; the answer, of course, is that it’s the wrong question. Liberals have been so fixated on elections as to ignore the issue of whether representation even equals democracy, and whether voting even equals politics. Anti-authoritarians, on the other hand, while claiming not to recognize the sovereignty of any officials, elected or not, have nonetheless developed their own mythology around voting, attributing to it the mystical power to “legitimize” authority figures thus elected. But voting is not what gives power to politicians, just as abstention cannot take it away from them; they have decisionmaking power because representative democracy intentionally places it in the hands of a few, and because we fail to take it away from them by deliberately applying it ourselves through horizontal forms of self-governance. ]]> http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001047.html The world gets smaller and scarier by the day. This simple fact is the context for my morning routine: a... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/001055.html The global day of antiwar protests on February 15 was remarkable for several reasons. First and foremost, of course, was... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000006.html Saturday, April 5 2 to 4 p.m. at Barre's Old Labor Hall On March 20, the day after the U.S.... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000005.html Download this essay as a PDF "Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000004.html The call for peace in Iraq should mean more than the absence of a new U.S. invasion. For more than... http://www.freesocietycollective.org/archives/000003.html The Free Society Collective, formed in 2002, is a small, membership-based group in central Vermont. We seek the abolition of...