And What About Tomorrow

Posted on October 14, 2008

There’s a lot of media hype out at the moment about the new hollywood flick “the Battle in Seattle”, an overt attempt by a liberal filmmaker to re-write the history of the Seattle protests (which were organized along anarchists lines using horizontal / non-hierarchal decision-making structures and consensus) and re-write the protests into a victory for liberals who wanted to reform the WTO instead of a victory for the mass of people who came to SHUT IT DOWN because it shouldn’t exist in the first place.  Read more

None of the Above!

Posted on October 9, 2008

The brand new animated music video from Beltaine’s Fire about the elections.

Help us get the word out & re-post the video on your blogs, pages, myspace/bebo/facebook/etc profiles. We’re counting on ya’ll to get the word out!

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Time Management for Anarchists

Posted on October 8, 2008

A few years ago I decided I was sick and tired of working shit jobs for shit pay.  even the cool local anarcho-friendly worker-owned cooperative wanted to pay me $16/hour to do graphic design with them and billed their clients at $72 / hour.  There was no boss to skim off the top, but rent in the bay area is insane and their office building and state of the art computers cost a lot of money, money that had to come out of the proceeds of their labor before they could afford to pay themselves.  And that’s just no fun.  So I started advertizing on craigslsit and set myself up as a graphic designer working from home.  The job is still kinda boring and I’m not thrilled about all my clients, but I get to set my own hours, work as little or as much as I feel like, and I don’t have to pay a boss to tell me what to do.    (Incidentally, it may suprise some of you that I have a job at all, but the thing about giving my music away for free / donation is that I don’t get paid for it…)

I’ve been self-employed for a bit over 2 years now and it’s good times, for the most part.  The hardest thing about making the switch – aside from taking that first leap into the unknown – has been learning to motivate myself to work and manage my own time in a way that lets me do everything I need to get done efficiently, keep my clients happy, and still leave me plenty of time for music, activism, and just plain being a human.  It’s was one thing to free myself from wage slavery (though, come to think of it, I still get paid an hourly wage.  but at least I set it myself and don’t have to give a portion of it to my boss…) and it was another thing entirely to figure out how to keep from going totally broke.  Learning to self-manage has been a long tough proccess, but is a critical one for anyone interested in smashing the tyranny of bosses and creating a self-managed society.

In that spirit I present to you the following flash movie, courtesy of No Media Kings.

They also have a text version (here) and a comic version, also available from their website.  Check ‘em out!