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Networking and politics

Political label
armchair anarchist (former wobbly organizer)
Region
North America
Country and town
State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Employment sector
education and learning
Union membership
IWW, UA
Occupation
atmospheric physicist
What do your politics mean to you?

i arrived at my politics after careful reasoning based on my observations and experiences of the world. soon afterwards, i discovered that my ideas were very similar to those articulated by anarcho-communists and council-communists and anarcho-syndicalists and others. before long, i was actively engaged in organizing projects, especially with the wobblies. my ideas were refined and tempered by practical experience. my general anti-social nature has harmed my organizing, and now i am going to graduate school for atmospheric physics (studying severe storms, especially tornadoes, and mesoscale meteorology). my partner, who is much better at these sorts of things, will be working towards building a network of workers' co-operatives as a preliminary anarchist revolutionary economic infrastructure. my sole political contribution will be supporting my partner and posting to websites from my armchair (at least for the forseeable future).

Favourite thinkers
peter kropotkin, anton pannakoek, rudy rocker, daniel guerin, andrea smith, bell hooks, butch lee, michel foucault, jacques derrida
Favourite political books
workers' councils, anarcho-syndicalism in theory and practice, night-vision
Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
Austin People's Legal Collective, MonkeyWrench Books, Austin Indymedia
Comrades re-united - further information

APLC - started it, MKWB - Accounting and Book-Ordering Committees, ATXIMC - Brought it back to life from the brink of destruction and then did absolutely nothing more at all for it

Personal

Interests
tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, fortran, differential equations, cooking (especially french haute cuisine)
Custom title
armchair anarchist
Favourite books
v for vendetta, the watchmen, astro-city, hundred bullets, homage to catalonia
Favourite films
Ghostbusters, The Cradle Will Rock, Salt of the Earth, Reds, Lawrence of Arabia, Serenity, But I'm a Cheerleader, Chinatown, Matewan, F.I.S.T. (Federation of Inter-State Truckers)
Age
30 - 39
Gender
Male
Music
sleater-kinney, austin-style honky-tonk, brennan leigh, dale watson, bluegrass, bill monroe, jazz, dave brubeck quartet, miles davis, the grateful dead, old-timey, old crow medicine show, eliza gilkenson, free jazz, ornette coleman, charlie parker, bebop, guy's all-star shoe band, beethoven, richard strauss, richard wagner, the ring cycle, vivaldi's four seasons, any jazz rendition of vivaldi's "summertime"
Dislikes
armchair anarchists, people with no sense of irony (especially when it pertains to them), people who don't listen, creationists and other anti-scientists, misogynists and patriarchs, homophobes and heteronormative culture, people who think that all comic books are a lesser form of literature, ringworm oh yes ringworm it sucks, people who hate (or love) postmodernist philosophy but have not even the slightest clue as to what it's about and won't bother to learn

History

Member for
1 year 20 weeks

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