The People’s Informative Collective is seeking writers, individual pieces of
written/audio/video work, and anyone wishing in help to create a website to better
explain the anarchist movement to the general public as well as people new to
anarchist thought. We of the People’s Informative Collective (PIC) are seeking to
create a website where those new to anarchist thought, action, and culture can learn
more about our community. The goal of such a site would be to show that anarchy
isn’t just for squat kids, nor is it the philosophy of the bomb-throwers that big
media makes us out to be. In doing this we hope to attract more people to the
anarchist movement, taking us all one step closer to a better world.
We want this project to be as large and successful as it can be, but we cannot do it
alone. While we have yet to establish a formal editorial policy, we will consider
and likely publish any piece submitted to us that we feel would be of use to the
beginning anarchist, improving the general public’s image of anarchy, or even just
the anarchist community at large.
Likewise we are interested in hearing from anyone interested in writing a regular
column or becoming a staff writer.
Please contact us at peoplesinformative@riseup.net with any questions, submissions,
or constructive criticism.
http://peoplesinformative.wordpress.com/
We are lacking on dedicated writers, and amazing artists.
“Usually what we do for new writers is you
submit us an article (if you don’t know what you want to write about, we
can brainstorm that together) via e-mail, and if it is up to snuff we run
it and add you as a contributor to the website. Once a contributor you
can publish on your own within the WordPress framework, and it will be
released at administrators discretion (more on our editorial policy if it
comes to that). A few good posts like that and you are make a full author
and are free to write and publish at will.”
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The right wing fascists around the world past, present and future cannot and will not live in peace with their wives, children, neighbors and the world, because of their instinct to do harm to everyone that does not become subserviant to their will.
Comment by Richard Walters 27 September, 2009 @ 1:06 amAnarchists also needs a state apparatus to bring order out of chaos because they too have not evolved where they are capable of living a life of cooperation and being civil and social with their neighbors and the world as a whole.
Untill the people of the world develop the material abundance and will allow everyone to share equally that abundance, …not until then will a new social type of human be born and evolve to become a social, scientific being that is his and her own leader, and does not need a political state or anyone to tell or order this new social scientific being to be social.
When this material condition of abundance arrives on the scene, permitting a cooperative society to replace a society of competition for material scarcity that is regarded as valuable because it is scarce, ..not umtil this occurs can you have the withering of the state apparatus and an administration of things, …not an administration of people.
You are saying people or anarchists are not “evolved where they are capable of living a life of cooperation and being civil and social with their neighbors and the world as a whole.”?
Anarchists do not need any sort of state apparatus, that really wouldn’t make any sense. When its the one thing that we all seek to abolish. Anarchy is order. In a a up and coming anarchist society, chaos would be brought to order by the community.
Comment by peoplesinformative 28 September, 2009 @ 8:23 pmAnarchy is not about being uncivil, although it’s true that sometimes it is demonstrated in a harmful way- but my god, would you call the way capitalism or democracy functions civil? If you look at the systems that we accept for what they really are, then you may realize that they EMBODY oppression, abuse of humanity, racism and the like. They are built on a broken foundation of inequality and prejudice, only it’s in a less obvious way that makes people think they are free (by allowing them to ‘choose’ who gets to tell them how best to exist in society). Do you honestly think that in the world that we live in we will ever reach a place where “everyone will share equally in that abundance?” The idea is that we do not need abundance, and the perpetuation of the thought that material abundance being what we all need is what keeps people who lack necessities in a cyclic poverty trap, and people who have the abundance of material in a toxic, mindless, ultimately meaningless* cycle throughout their lives.
We have beliefs. We want to be heard because we think that perhaps there is a better way. I don’t think that telling other people what is best for them is the right way to go about things, whether you believe it’s democracy, anarchy, communism or anything else. I simply strive to show people what is possible if you let go of all of the things that encumber us and make it hard to breathe. I wouldn’t even say that I’m an anarchist in particular, because plastering labels all about limits your freedom, but I more readily identify with anarchism than any political party that could exist.
I do not pretend to know the answer to humanity’s problems. This is just what has freed me, and I want to share my ideas with people so that maybe they can be a bit freer, too.
*when I say ultimately meaningless, I am simply referring to my own experience. When I was immersed in that world and saw nothing else, I found myself venturing to every possible vice I could in order to fill myself up, because we are taught to look beyond ourselves for contentment, when our solidity resides internally. The way that I am able to exist in the world is as an individual, growing and creating with other individuals, trying to figure out what on earth is going on, constantly trying to remember that we are alive.
Comment by meunomeelip 9 February, 2010 @ 8:48 am