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About Me


One can only say so much about themself on a website. Here are a few basics:

I maintain several websites including:

    www.iww.org
    www.alcatrazunion.com www.bluediamondunion.org www.grassrootshouse.org www.syndicalist.org www.transportworlers.org

(Myspace seems to be rather persnickety about links from their pages, so you will need to cut and paste these links to your browser to make them work.)

I also recommend several websites, including especially the following:

    www.athleticsnation.com www.brandworkers.org www.indybay.org www.labornotes.org www.labourstart.org www.renewableenergyworld.com www.starbucksunion.org www.uniondemocracy.org

As you have probably guessed (if you didn't know already), that I consider myself a radical. I believe that I am the good sort of radical, meaning that I am not satisfied with quick fixes to deep structural problems. I believe that idealism and dreaming are not bad things necessarily.

I like to think I express my radicalism thoughtfully and nonviolently, but nevertheless militantly. I have focused my energy primarily on the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) of which I have been a proud, dues-paying member since 1995.


I believe the ideal society is one based on anarchism, and no, anarchy is not chaos nor is it "everyone for themselves".

What is anarchy?

"(it is) a philosophy of resistance to, and the creation of, all statist laws and authoritarianism; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary."

"anarchy is best described as libertarian individualism combined with socialist responsibility, freedom combined with workers' solidarity."

"(it is) sensibility, armed with sense and liberty, with the heart and mind united in a single, perfect, sphere."


My Interests

I'd like to meet:

(1) Anyone interested in joining the IWW and helping to organize the one big union.

(2) Anyone interested in building a better, post-carbon world.

(3) Anyone interested in building a society based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation.

(4) Friends, fellow workers, and acquaintences I have lost touch with over the years.

My Blog

So long and good riddance - why I am not sad about William F. Buckley’s passing.

The death of reactionary political commissar William F. Buckley Jr. is generating quite a bit of media buzz.  It seems that mainstream pundits, even liberal ones, are tripping over themselves to ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:42:00 GMT

Well. . .I’m back.

I don't know what happened.  On the night of Sunday, February 24, 2008, I was editing my myspace page.  It looked pretty good.  I had my profile (almost) the way that I wanted it. ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:18:00 GMT