Local groups: Dick Martin, Affinity Place, Argenta B.C. V0G 1B0 CANADA. Total Liberty, 47 High Street, Belper, Derby DE56 1GF   UNITED KINGDOM El Unico, Aristobulo del Valle 1226, 1638 Vicente Lopez, ARGENTINA Some quotations:     When someone realizes that it is immoral to exploit another person, and immoral to oppress another person, and when they refuse to do so, that person has become an anarchist, as far as I am concerned. Valerio Isca      Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all in return for a few hours of daily toil? Petr Kropotkin      The dreamer is the designer of tomorrow. The practical ones, the sensible, cold heads, can laugh at the dreamer; they do not know that the dreamer is the true dynamic force that pushes the world forward. Suppress the dreamer, and the world will deteriorate towards barbarism.  Despised, impoverished, the dreamer opens the way for his society, sowing, sowing, sowing the seeds which will be harvested, not by the dreamer, but by the practical ones, the sensible, cold heads of tomorrow, who will laugh at the sight of another indefatigable dreamer, seeding, seeding, seeding. Ricardo Flores Magon  (died in prison)      The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently. Gustav Landauer (beaten to death by soldiers)       Father, yes I am a prisoner.  Fear not to relate my crime. My crime is loving the forsaken.  Only silence is shame. Bartolomeo Vanzetti (electrocuted along with Nicola Sacco by the State of Massachusetts.) To read the rest, click here        I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority.  Hang me for it! Louis Lingg (to the Chicago judge who sentenced him and four other anarchists to hang for being anarchists.)       On the surface, they can still exercise their iniquitous laws, fight, devour each other, and indulge in all their earthly horrors.  But thirty feet below the (sea's) surface, their power ceases, their influence fades, and their dominion vanishes.  Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! .... There I recognize no master!  There I am free! Captain Nemo from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne

Voluntary Cooperation Movement

The Voluntary Cooperation Movement is a network linking individuals who favor education and self organization as the preferred methods of achieving a voluntary, egalitarian and cooperative society.

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"And when the drums of war have reached a fevered pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry.  Rather the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so.  How do I know?  For this is what I have done, and I am Caesar." Julius Caesar

"I saw a little boy driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn.  It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat." George Orwell  (on his inspiration for  his book "Animal Farm")