Personal
- About me
undergrad student of cultural anthropology, new to the labor movement -- impressed by no-bullshit approach by IWW and anarchists in general lead me away from dead end liberal and authoritarian socialist anti-war organizing. Very interested in practical application of syndicalism and anthropological research in creating self-managed and community based institutions for betterment of people's lives autonomous of the state.
- Favourite books
- The Dispossesed by Ursala LeGuin (I lied, this one's about politics too)
- Interests
- anthropology, archaeology, political ecology, bicyles, coffee drinking and cigarette smoking
Networking and politics
- Political label
- anarcho-syndicalist, anarcho-communist, social ecology, council communism, political ecology (anthropological theory)
- Country and town
- Midwestern United States
- Region
- North America
- Union membership
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Occupation
- student
- Political group membership
- Industrial Workers of the World, Students for a Democratic Society
- What do your politics mean to you?
Politics is more than a way of looking out for one's own self-interest or the interest of one's class. Politics is about connection between people -- when based upon solidarity can be not only a socially liberating process, but can be an individually liberating experience.
- Favourite thinkers
- David Graeber, Michael Albert, Chomsky, Bakunin, Sam Dolgoff, Murray Bookchin, Elizabeth Gurly Flinn, Emma Goldmann, Utah Philips, Paul Farmer, please recommend someone you like to me.
- Favourite political books
- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber; Pathologies of Power, Paul Farmer; Labor and Monopoly Capital, Harry Braverman; The Anarchist Collectives, Sam Dolgoff; Anarchy in Action, Colin Ward; Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, Noam Chomsky
- Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
- Green Party, Workers International League -- not actually a member but fellow traveler, several local anti-war coalitions
History
- Member for
- 33 weeks 4 days