One limitation of mine I’m personally ashamed of is knowing only one language. That isn’t particularly unique for an American, but regardless, it’s annoying. In addition to the trouble communicating with half of my family, there is tons of material on individuals, organizations and struggles that have never been translated into English. Google Translate is […]

So I wrote a couple of things in September, breaking a nearly year long dry spell… Personal issues with ‘writer’s block’ – wrote this for my libcom.org blog about some of the real reasons I was having trouble writing. Contemporary IWW slang & lingo – a (humorous) glossary of some terms we use in the […]

Because of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in 2008, there was a lot of protest mobilization in the Midwest during that time. The stuff I became involved with was mostly anarchist related. It was my entry into radical politics and the beginning of an anarchist grouping in Iowa City, which I’ve already written […]

This is from a Facebook Note written in October 2011 as Occupy was taking off. I thought it was interesting reading considering everything that happened after. Hey ya’ll, like a lot of you, I’m trying to process this #occupy stuff. I’ve talked to a fair number of people whose opinions I really respect, as well […]

I had to really scour the internet to find this. From April 2011 when I was still in Madison, this is a Craigslist Missed Connections I wrote. It got quite a few responses and reposts. Probably the most popular thing I’ve ever written, haha. Even a Wobbly I met in Wisconsin and who also lives […]

I started writing this in possibly Spring 2012. It was intended to compare and contrast insurrectionary anarchism and platformism. The motivation behind such a thing was annoyance at platformists that scoffed at IA, and IA’s that had a caricature of platformists. I didn’t get much further than an introduction, which is sort of long-winded way […]

Here is a Spring 2011 interview I did for a internal (UK?) IWW bulletin I’m not sure exists anymore. I’m also not sure if this was included in it, as I never saw a copy. 1) So what made you decide to come to Wisconsin? I had been unemployed for about 3 months and heard […]

Wrote most of this around July 2012 or so. Sort of lost interest in it, not sure where I was going, and I think I was mostly jumping into the middle of a heated conversation that happened without me. Some of the ideas and wording I don’t agree with and some of it I feel […]