Recommended Links

Anarchist and Radical Organizations

Anarchist Free University, Toronto http://anarchistu.org/ -- Whether exciting or inciting, _ N-E-V-E-R _ GET_ C-A-U-G-H-T__ --- anon.tao --(,{< >^< >},)--Mr Balaclava __
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• Collective Book. An on-going project about decision-making in collectives, anarchist ways of organizing and much else. http://www.geocities.com/collectivebook
• Discussion of Consensus Decision-Making http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/DiscussionOfConsensusDecisionMaking
• Negative dynamics when people work collectively - Resources on Non-authoritarian Communication Models - from http://santacruz.freeskool.org/content.php?article.23. ( A master like Sun Tzu might win an unresolvable dispute about violence at a tactics meeting if he was to read The Parable of the Sheep to the ladies ).
  A good template for a freeskool to manage facilitatores: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/freeskool-sc-teachers, and is also reprinted at AFU: http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/JohnPromo
  Free Skool Santa Cruz -> Forums -> Class News - http://santacruz.freeskool.org/forum_viewtopic.php has a GOOD LIST OF FREE SCHOOLS.
• Communication Rights in the Information Society. Activists respond to the World Summit on the Information Society, December 2003 http://www.crisinfo.org
• Crimethinc. A new generation of creative and imaginative anarchists. Live your dreams! http://www.crimethinc.net/ :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc
• Media Democracy Day. 17 October 2003 http://www.mediademocracyday.org
• Reclaim the Streets. http://www.reclaimthestreets.net For a report on the Toronto festival 26 September 2003 http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-10-02/news_feature_p.html
• Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty. An on-going campaign against animal testing by Huntington Life Sciences. http://shacamerica.net
• Animal Liberation Front (ALF): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Front :: http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/
• Earth Liberation Front (ELF) - http://www.earthliberationfront.com/ - In the past,individuals have committed arson and other illegal acts under the ELF name. Individuals who choose to do actions under the banner of E.L.F. do so only driven by their personal conscience.
• Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs (SNGP): www.liberation-now.org/ - CLOSE DOWN NEWCHURCH GUINEA PIG FARM -- covered by Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail Aug 30 2004, titled: "Animal protesters turn village into a living hell for one family". Saunders's article is a tried and true must read tactics tutorial and a recycleable template for all protestors: http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario/AMustReadNewTacticsTemplate - The article may also still be posted at MEDIA DEMOCRACY, so click on 'Solutions' in the MENU on the left of the page at http://www.mediademocracyday.org/tiki-index.php SNGP update Nov 2005: http://war.arforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=220 THE TRIUMPH http://www.liberation-now.org/index.html
• Portland indymedia - Animal Rights tactics - http://portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/animalrights/ - Write your own news. Don't hate the media -- become the media.
• Seven ways to stop the war in Iraq Everyone in AFU may not necessarily support the seven ways because it sucks if a heroic eco-saviour Green-thinking B. Bloc balaclava gets caught and put in a zoo.
  One of the SEVEN WAYS is large scale urban rioting :: More on large scale urban rioting
• GREEN ANARCHY an anti-civilization journal of theory & action. http://greenanarchy.org/ [revamped and expanding] - "Enjoy the site, but don't hang around too long -- the 'real thing' is never on-line."
• Insurgent Desire - The Online Green Anarchy Archive - http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/ - Loads of new essays uploaded to the site. Including enlarged Feral Faun and John Zerzan sections, a Fredy Perlman archive, new stuff in the Misc section and additions to the Species Traitor archive.
  New 2005 section: Post-left Anarchy section. If you are involved with a green anarchist/primitivist or insurrectionist zine or journal and you would like some of the articles featured here then email me: insurgentdesire@mail.com
• John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works critique (agricultural) civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some of his criticism has extended as far as challenging domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time. His four major books are Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive (1994), Against Civilization: A Reader (1998) and Running on Emptiness (2002).
• Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research and Development (BASTARD) - http://sfbay-anarchists.org/
• Ward Churchill speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco on March 26, 2005 - http://www.zombietime.com/churchill_in_bay_area/churchill_sf_anarchist_bookfair_march_26_2005/ :: Lynching Ward Chuchill - http://www.counterpunch.org/feldman02242005.html. Another speech: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/WC022203.html The $327,000.00 chill at Colorado U chills Ward Churchill. October 01, 2005 - http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_3073410
• The BarringtonCollective, Berkeley - Parents, teachers and students could organize on the neighborhood level, demand charter status and form their own schools. Public schools are generally viewed as inefficient, test crazed and/or prison-like. Many believe that the public schools are administered by those in power with interests in providing just enough educational resources to prevent rebellion. The Barrington Collective sees such centralized institutions as alienating and destructive of community and culture. Wherever possible, we support the creation of decentralized, autonomous organizations networked horizontally rather than hierarchically. - http://barringtoncollective.org/FreeSkoolBackground
• INDYMEDIA's Ontario News with it's International counterparts - http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario :: http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario/WebOrgInfo
• OPIRG Provincial Home - http://www.opirg.org/ - The membership of OPIRG Provincial is comprised of eleven autonomous, non-profit, university student-funded and directed organizations that conduct research, education, and action on social and environmental justice issues. For more information, contact any local chapter.
• Quebec Indymedia: Centre for media alternatives (CMAQ) - http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/index.php
• Globalresearch.ca Centre for Research on Globalization: http://www.globalresearch.ca/ ...by University of Ottawa prof. Michel Chossudovsky.
• GNN guerilla news network - http://www.gnn.tv/
• Toronto's Robin Hood Collective - http://robinhood.revolt.org/
• Toronto Anarchist Bookfair - (annual, coming soon) - http://montreal.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Toronto/BookfairHome - Contact: anarchistbookfair@ziplip.com - Please prepare early as this year additional workshops may also be held on the day after the Bookfair. Hopefully this year's workshops will be serial instead of overlapping so one can attend every one. Last year's (2004) DAY TWO Bookfair workshops were held at a different address and included American anarchist guests. Book early aimimg to get space in DAY ONE, taking advantage of having a larger class from the built-in casual visitors who originally came only to buy books and look around.

Allies of (anti-civilization) Neo-primitive Anarchist Organizations

• Post-left anarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-left_anarchy.
  Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that seeks to distance itself from the traditional left and to escape the confines of ideology in general. It has rapidly developed since the fall of the Soviet Union, which many view as the death of authoritarian leftism.
  • 1 Arguments
  • 2 Conflicts with Authoritarian Leftism
  • 3 Proponents and Detractors
  • 4 See also: Left anarchism, Nihilism, Post-structuralism, Situationists
  • 5 External links: Anarchy After Leftism (Infoshop.org), Primitivist and post-left 'anarchism' (Anarchism.ws)

• More anti-civilization books:
  • http://cybrmarc.tripod.com/read/ - 46 anti-civilization book reviews plus many essays and articles

• Our comrades at .................................... - http://www.ainfos.ca/ appear to be anti-primitive. A quote from their front page says: "A-Infos� work is not inspired by egoistic and egocentric individualism, primitivism, ..." Why would A-Infos hate anti-civilization groups? You can't drink the water; you can't eat the junk food and you can't breathe the air. Is Mother Nature to be replaced by "speciesism", "human Supremacists"? Animals' brains ARE more intelligent than human deviants. Over populating humans who are hogging and polluting all animal habitat are rendering the planet useless so Mother Nature has begun using Her bio weapons of mass destruction against mankind. These WMD - micro-organisms and prions using bird and animal vectors can slow down some of the continuing extinctions of Mother Earth's lifeforms by culling human sprawl if it's not too late.
  Thousands of years ago Hindu scriptures wisely revealed that the smarter animals were demonstrating superior intelligence. Hinduism (http://www.hope.edu/academic/religion/reader/hinduism.html) and it's offshoot Buddhism have been embraced by intellectuals in the West for fifty years, and both (in theory) obey Mother Nature. For details on superior animal intelligence, read postings by godhas4legs at: http://www.animalsentience.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

CollaboratorWatch

• CollaboratorWatches NGOs collaborating with the oppressive and funded by private interests or governed from the top down, carry "strings" -- limits in struggles, program, tactics and strategy. To think otherwise is self-delusive. To truly become an independent force, progressive NGO's must go to their roots, and win the allegiance of their people in order to become self-financing and live and work on voluntary donations from the people they purport to service. -- (exerpt from http://www.rebelion.org/petras/english/ngo170102.htm.
  WEBMASTERbators? - Influence pedlars? - Poverty-pimps? - Grantsmanship-gurus? -- To see the names of the collaborating groups, click here CollaboratorWatches. The list of both self-serving hoarders and centres of control will only grow if you add your pressuring oppressor's name and address, and a URL (with his picture, if you want to take him all the way to the edge)
  
  

About Free Schools

• Francisco Ferrer and the Escuela Moderna. The Free School movement in Spain in the 1930s. (Some of the links in this site are dead so be patient.) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5422/
• Summerhill. http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/pages/index.html
• Stelton. http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/modern_school/modern.shtml
• Institute for Social Ecology. Popular education for a free society. http://www.social-ecology.org/
• Renewing the Anarchist Tradition. An annual scholarly conference held in Plainfield, Vermont. Otherwise known as RAT. http://www.homemadejam.org/renew/index.html
• Institute for Anarchist Studies. http://www.anarchist-studies.org
• The Spoon Collective is a site dedicated to promoting discussion of philosophical and political issues. Check out their anarchism and post-anarchism mailing lists & archives.
• Olympia Free School. A somewhat bourgeois free school which seems to be in a rose-coloured bubble of 'Family Values' while Mother Nature's environment is being murdered - http://www.olympiafreeschool.org/ - Sorry about that low rating Olympia, and of course it's just one person's picky opinion. You have a great website structure, but except for your courses "Forest Ecology And Activism" and "Keeping Toxics Out Of Community Spaces", olympia seems to be missing the normal West Coast militancy. Your other Washington and Oregon free schools are angry progressives and I'm certain that you could grow the size of Olympia's membership more quickly if you also projected an image of a protest group that rotates real pressure with persuasion to help Olympia's facilitators and potential students 'Make a better world'.

Local Collectives and Organizations

• Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP): http://www.ocap.ca/ - Be patient when e-mailing any of the seven OCAP member groups of the Ontario Common Front, because they are often in court or arrested by 'low attention span' police for helping those in poverty. i.e. Julian: http://www.ocap.ca/kw and Sam: http://www.ocap.ca/tag/index.html
• Boilingfrog: http://www.boilingfrog.ca/main.html - boilingfrog's main purpose is to promote and distribute media materials dealing with the many issues either contributing to the rising heat, or efforts to turn it down. We also aim to create a collectively run activist/independent multi-media resource centre that operates in the physical realm as a fixed locale, or traveling road show. The best way is to get on the weekly mailing list for daily locations and schedules for these independant activist flicks. Many movie updates and descriptions: http://www.boilingfrogsblog.blogspot.com/
• Free U of T is an organization which provides free space at the University of Toronto for people wanting to offer free classes, or hold community meetings.

AnarchistU In the News

2003

• An article by Dave Fingrut in Eye Weekly that got us started http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/print.asp?issue_03.13.03/city/eg-options.html
• We get a mention and some discussion on the news website Boingboing http://boingboing.net/2003_07_01_archive.html#200443741
• A short general article on A-Infos, Wed 27 Aug 2003 http://www.ainfos.ca/03/aug/ainfos00384.html
• An article in Now magazine by Mike Smith about our orientation picnic, Sept 2003. http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-09-10/news_story3.php
• Coverage of our orientation picnic by Anna Sarkissian in The Link the student newspaper at Concordia University. http://thelink.concordia.ca/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0539225
• Article in the OPIRG newsletter "Action Speaks Louder" Fall 2003
• Canadian University Press newswire, 24 Sept 2003 reprinted story by Anna Sarkissian (above)
• Interview with Christopher Smith on Ryerson University closed circuit television, week of 6 October 2003
• The Globe and Mail, Saturday October 11 2003, M6, "Anarchist U" a short piece by Luma Muhtadie.
• CIUT FM radio, Wednesday 15 October 2003, "Educating Ourselves" show with Rory Hinton and Richard Martin, live interview with Luis Jacob.
• Toronto Star 21 October 2003. "Anarchy enters the classroom: Anarchist U sets up shop in T.O. Students learn from each other," by DAPHNE GORDON.
• Toronto Star article posted to A-Infos. http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos12910.html
• Live interview with Rob Teixeira on CIUT fm 89.5 show, "Sex City" (Saturday November 1, 2003) interviewed by Coman Poon and Louise Bak.
• CBC Radio producer, Antonia Reed, produced a show on the AFU for national syndication.
• OMNI TV (community-access cable 10) Interview with Christopher Smith and Rob Teixeira, for the "Agenda" program. Aired November 24, 25, 26 2003.
• CKLN 88.1 FM, live interview with Dwayne Shaw & Rob Teixeira with host Leah of "Pink Antenna" (Queer-focused news & politics). Aired 9 December 2003.
• CIUT fm 89.5, January courses on "Equalizing X Distort" (punk show 10pm) Sunday 14th Dec 2003. Mark announced to the whole city that he took a RECESS at AnarchistU. Simon played Heavy Metal. January courses listed in Equalizing X Distort zine.

2004

• NOW Magazine, 1 Jan 2004. New Year's Resolution: Take a course at the Anarchist University. Situationism and the City course is also included in the weekly Tip Sheet.
• CIUT fm 89.5 Educating Ourselves show on 7 Jan 2004 with Chris Smith and Charlie from This Ain't the Rosedale Library talking about their January courses on the Situationist International and the Beats.
• The Arthur January 12, 2004, p. 12 (Trent University newspaper) article by Sam Cartmell 'We are all students, we are all teachers'.
• The Eyeopener, February 18, 2004. "Different school of thought", by Alison Northcott
• Eye Weekly, March 18, 2004. Story by Gord McLaughlin^??, "Arts, Lit and Anarchy" (p. 8) mentions the AnarchistU in a story about the history of This Ain't the Rosedale Library in Toronto, and its owners, Dan Bazuin and Charlie Huisken.
• TRADE: queer things, summer issue 2004. Article by Dwayne Shaw, "What is Anarchist Free University" mentions the AnarchistU and the queer history course.
• Article by Kathleen Batstone, "Alternative Education: Let's Hear it for Free Schools" appeared in the Niagara Pulse, 9 September 2004.
• Portuguese-language Toronto newspaper, Sol Portugues, (The Portuguese Sun) interviews Rob Teixeira on the AnarchistU, "As perspectivas radicais de Rob Teixeira," by Helder Ramos, 17 September 2004. In Portuguese and English.

2005

• Possum, Chris and Rob interviewed by Dray on CIUT 89.5 FM show, "Beyond the Classroom" 25 August 2005.
• Article in Eye Magazine (15 September 2005) by Brian Joseph Davis, "Anarchy in the U" about our Anti-Frosh picnic in the Park, (p. 8-10). http://eye.net/eye/issue/issue_09.15.05/op/wanderingeye.html

Other Sites by AnarchistU

• Our Russian Revolution class's website. This site is in its earliest stages.
• Our Radical Perspectives on Sexuality class website is now available. Class participants can add their comments and reflections to this website.
• Our Revolution 1968 class.
• Our Anarchist Eighties class.
• An Anarchist Nineties class? -- Did you wonder how it all started in Eugene, Oregon (greenanarchy.org/) in 1999?: The New Anarchists http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9935/features-parrish.php

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Free Books Online

• 'Steal This Book' ...Abbie Hoffman - http://www.tenant.net/Community/steal/steal.html - or if you buy it, and The Anarchist Cookbook: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974458902/104-2313135-1571939?v=glance

Books & Pamphlets

• Re-pressed Distribution (UK).... http://www.re-pressed.org.uk/intro.htm - We are a non-profit UK based anarchist book distribution collective. Our aim is to distribute books and pamphlets we feel aid a critique of the totality, as cheaply as possible.
• Green Anarchy (Oregon) .......... ( _Direct Action Center_ - www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=directactions)
  • Green Anarchy Distro .. - http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewdistro
  • @Library .................... - http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewlibrary

Can't Find it? ...Search at:

• http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario/ImcOtherAllies
• OPIRG Provincial Home - http://www.opirg.org/ - The membership of OPIRG Provincial is comprised of eleven autonomous, non-profit, university student-funded and directed organizations that conduct research, education, and action on social and environmental justice issues. For more information, contact any local chapter.
• http://www.uwatch.ca/ - Advocating for universities in the public interest

Links for Courses (Fall 2005)

Facilitators of all courses can post details below as the anarchist anthropology facilitator has done.

• anarchist anthropology
  • http://www.primitivism.com/index.html Link to web site on primitivism The whole gang is there...in all their primitive glory! zerzan, diamond, perlman, sahlins, clastres, and others...when you get there, check out the anthropology link on the left to find readings for oct. 4th.
  • http://www.illegalvoices.org/home/ Here is a link to an anarchist site by, for, and about anarchist people of color. it is a great resource for contextualizing anarchism as a movement that is of the east and south as much, if not more than of the west and the north....resources include support for the revolutionary hip hop movement, critical analyses, and activist networking.
  • http://culturechange.org/oldcountry.html This is a link that Janet from class sent regarding transformation and change by individuals that once lived in the 'belly of the beast'. the story tells about people who left american consumerist society to live sustainably and sanely in the remote area of the Ukraine.
  • http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/ Find an excellent resource on the work and life of michel foucault. the readings for anarchist anthropology sessions are located here. check out- panopticism, from discipline and punish; technologies of the self; interview with michel foucault, from power/ knowledge; and the first chapter of an archaeology of knowledge about the unity of discourse of the western canon...

• Direct Action
  • http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/DirectAction

• All of the Other Courses' details