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How to put some anarchy into your life
This section has appeared in every Practical Anarchy published
so far. The idea is to give you some ideas about how to bring more
anarchy and freedom into your life, as well as how to spread it
around your community.
- Think for yourself
- Turn off your TV
- Write a letter to a prisoner
- Grow your own food
- Have your neighbors over for dinner
- Consume less
- Share your car
- Go to a rally against the death penalty. Talk to your friends
and neighbors about the death penalty and how you can stop it.
- Advocate that your community spend less money on police
- On summer nights, hang out on the front porch of your house
and talk to your neighbors. If you don't have a porch, stand out
in the yard. Better yet, build a porch, and get rid of your lawnmower.
- Research your local corporations and find out what they do and
how they affect your community
- Start your own pirate radio station. Get you friends and neighbors
involved
- Boycott corporate bookstores like Borders and Barnes & Noble.
Support your local independent bookstore, or, if you don't have
one, start your own
- Don't cross picket lines
- Pick up all of the trash from McDonalds in your hood and then
return it to the nearest store
- Fight against new chain stores in your community
- Don't participate in state-sponsored lotteries
- Buy a cop a bagel. Talk to them about finding a new line of
work.
- Let the air of of police car tires
- Eat less meat, or try switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet
- Fill out misleading information on any surveys which have been
sent to you by marketing scum
- Ride your bike to work, if you can
- Fight against gated communities in your town. If one already
exists, find creative ways to ridicule it
- Organize the workers in your workplace into a union. Then fire
your bosses.
- Compost your kitchen leftovers
- Start a Food Not Bombs chapter in your town
- Don't vote
- Fill those annoying "business reply" envelopes with anarchist
literature and send them back; you'll make some bored mail room
employee happy.
- Support radical envrionmentalist groups like Earth First!
- Oppose new highway construction in your town.
- Take the bus.
- Join the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)
- Spend some time hanging out with old people.
- Oppose the construction of new super box strip malls.
- Don't let people tell you how to live
- Be a person, not a personality
- Learn to create the things you need instead of buying them at
a store.
- Organise an affinity group and start an anarchist zine.
- Pass out leaflets in your area to bring awareness about issues
that matter to you.
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