My Dearest Friends,

This was posted on a forum I belong to. I think it needs to be shared here.
Please read it from begining to end before you pass judgement on what's being
said here. These actions, and others like them, may be the only chance we have
of leaving a free country for our children and grandchildren.

- AJM


Passive:

- Know your facts! Don't spread misinformation or unverifiable stories.
- Do not pay taxes. Any.
- Do not buy food in packages, or that is shipped from anywhere further away
than you can travel yourself.
- Buy only organic / naturally farmed / raised foods.
- Grow / raise food.
- Make clothing.
- Manufacture whatever you can manufacture.
- Barter.
- Buy energy saving appliances. Start with lightbulbs - it's an easy primer; get
the curly kind. Look for the "Energy Star" label on appliances.
- Use freon tubing instead of conventional AC.
- Make sure all south-facing windows on your home are unobstructed.
- Install skylights.
- Install solar panels; install far more than you need for your own energy use,
and sell the extra power back into the grid.
- Plant trees *where there are no trees* (and where trees are unlikely to grow
otherwise), especially food trees like fruiting trees and nutting trees. Plant
hemp *everywhere*.
- Investigate and invest in alternative energy sources (solar, wind, tidal,
geothermal, hydrogen, whatever rocks you like a hurricane).
- Walk or bike.
- Don't use gasoline for anything; don't burn oil for anything.
- Don't eat out. Save your money. Forever.
- Don't do any business with anyone you don't know. If you need service from a
business, get to know someone that works there. If the company is too large for
you to know someone or even try to - it's too big to ever be anything but a
pointless danger and a certain drain on the world around you.
- Don't seek revenge. Don't mete out punishments. Forgive.
- Don't feel bad if you can't do it all. Do as much as you can and accept
yourself inasmuch as you can convince yourself to reach just... a little...
bit.... higher.


Active:

- Tell the truth!
- Fight disinformation on all sides; don't let unverifiable stories get
momentum, don't give in to paranoia. Stay real, and *confront* disinformation
when you encounter it. Don't let it go by without challenge.
- Be loud. Be vocal. Don't shut up. Don't shy away.
- Protest early, protest often, protest vigorously, protest cogently.
- Be active. Neighborhood council, city government, state government, federal
governmet. Call your congressional reps *constantly* - make a fucking nuisance
of yourself. Leave messages. Stay on hold.
- Makes signs. Freely distribute them. Put them about. Yes. Now. Do it.
- Quit your job if you don't know every single individual that works for your
employer.
- Quit your job if you discover they're bad for the world around you. (good
golly did *my* life ever change when i took that step)
- Find a job at which you know everyone involved with the enterprise, from the
bottom up.
- Stop police from doing illegal things; video them, cellphone-video them, yell
at them to stop, collect their badge numbers, file complaints. It's difficult to
file a complaint; they'll try to talk you out of it and may threaten or
otherwise seek to indimidate or discourage you. Don't be intimidated - document
the entire experience. Remain. File that complaint. And then do it again.
Immediately.
- Introduce yourself to your neighbor.
- Help your neighbor. Suggest passive revolution to your neighbor; if s/he digs
it, suggest active revolution to your neighbor.
- Sabotage the efforts of wrongdoers whenever and wherever possible: free people
you saw being arrested for bullshit (like, oh, protesting for instance) from
police cars, take a chunk out of an elbow of the highway with a nice hefty
mattock, send junk mail from one company to another company in yet another
company's paid-postage commercial envelopes (stuff as *much* as possible in
there), be on the lookout for any opportunity to fuck shit up.
- Raise the level of energy. Make your times crackle with danger and
opportunity.
- See your ideals as goals to strive for and *achieve* - don't fantasize about
things you can't and won't do. Do them.
- *Have fun* and *look good* when you're out there doing stuff. Make it look
fucking cool and sexy, and make it fun as hell. Have an explosively good time.
- Take very good care of yourself and take very good care of other people around
you, no matter how you feel about them individually. Love them.
- ORGANIZE. Get people together. Meet, discuss. Regular is good - once weekly,
say. Workshop stuff I forgot to mention, and then come back and tell me about
it, so I can tell my people and then we can do what you're doing.



Sometimes you want to go..
Brew'd and Bound
The coffee-house where everybody knows your name.









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