Year: 2007

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Josiah Warren and the I. W. A. – Documents

June 29, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
“The International,” Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly,” 6, 5 (July 5, 1873), 3. THE INTERNATIONAL. The meeting of the American Federal Council on Sunday was well attended, and a vacancy was filled by the election of Thomas Lalor. The following communication was received from Section 23 (American) in Philadelphia, Pa.: At a meeting of Section No. 26, I. W. A., of Philadelphia, held June 16, 183, was passed the following, by a unanimous vote, as declaratory of the views of the members of the Section touching the question of the fundamental basis of the body, and recommending their consideration to the […]
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The Radical Review (1877-1878)

June 27, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
Links: Radical Review [tag feed] Contents: [Links are to text in the archive] May, 1877. William J. Potter, “The Two Traditions, Ecclesiastical and Scientific,” 1. B. W. Ball, “To Benedict Spinosa,” [poem]. 24. C. W. Ernst. Practical Socialism in Germany. 25. D. A. Wasson. Theodore Parker as Religious Reformer. 46. Edmund C. Stedman. The Discoverer. [poem] 74. P. J. Proudhon. System of Economical Contradictions, Introduction. 76, Joel A. Allen. The Influence of Physical Conditions in the Genesis of Species. 108. Lysander Spooner. Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations, and Frauds. 141. Current Literature. Alfred Tennyson. Harold: A Drama. Notice by John […]
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Liberty Archive – update

June 26, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
The archive of Liberty is growing steadily. I passed the 1000-page mark today, which is about 1/3 of the run, in terms of actual pages; about 1/4 in terms of difficulty of scanning the material; and about 1/2 of the way in terms of the actual content of the paper. The response has been very encouraging. Wendy McElroy has offered her Index To Liberty as a means of wading into the archive in a more systematic manner, and it looks like we will be incorporating that index into the archive as it becomes more than just a pile of pdfs. […]
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Lysander Spooner petitions Congress, 1839

June 26, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
In the late 1830s, a young Lysander Spooner was involved in real estate speculation in the Maumee River basin of Ohio. In 1837, he purchased 80 acres along the Maumee, including the town of Gilead, now know as Grand Rapids. Charles Shively’s biography tells some of the story of Spooner’s adventures. Gilead was not ultimately destined to become the great trading city between Toledo and Fort Wayne. The effects of the Panic of ’37, and plans by the State of Ohio to build a dam above Gilead, doomed Spooner’s plans. But it appears that he continued to fight until at […]
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Memorial of Lysander Spooner, to 25th Congress

June 26, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
[United States Congressional Serial Set, 3rd Session, 25th Congress, 1839.] 25th Congress 3d Session. SENATE 115 MEMORIAL OF LYSANDER SPOONER, PRAYING To be allowed to improve the navigation of the Maumee river, of slack water, &c. —– January 21, 1839. Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals, and ordered to be printed —– To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The memorial of Lysander Spooner, a citizen of the United States, Respectfully represents: That the Maumee is a navigable river within the States of Ohio and Indiana; that it also has navigable […]
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Left-libertarian archive task-force

June 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’ve just been contacted by a library student and market anarchist who is interested in joining forces on archiving public domain material from the market anarchist traditions. And I’m feeling like there is sufficient interest (based on the reception of the Lucifer and Liberty issues I have posted) to make some better organized and more accessible archive a present priority. A couple of folks here have expressed interest interest in helping with technical matters, hosting, scanning, kibitzing, etc. I’m probably going to set up a “task force” mailing list this weekend to start hashing out some kind of plan. If […]
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Progress in archiving Liberty

June 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
Volumes 1-4 of Liberty and 3 of the 8 issues of Libertas are now available in pdf. The archiving push has brought some offers of assistance. I am hoping to launch a MediaWiki-based site for group discussion and collaborative transcription of the archived material. More news on this, and on indexing for the archive, soon.
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Questions on anarchism and ecology, roughly. . .

June 24, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
Rough notes in response to this week’s Carnival of Anarchy: I had a rare chance to sit and talk with my father face to face a couple of weeks ago. He’s a retired civil servant, who in a career with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked on a range of environmental issues from game management to endangered species recovery. We were talking about the weakening of endangered species protection and about the environmental damage likely to be done in the Rio Grande Valley by the immigration “fence,” and he challenged me a bit about how anarchism of the […]
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embarking again

June 21, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
The lesson here is to take on projects well-adapted to the conditions under which you expect to labor. Now, if only I could get to a place where I could predict those conditions from month to month, or even semester to semester. I’ve been doing a lot of work on this project, reading, scanning and transcribing material from Liberty and from related sources. I haven’t been doing it in a particularly systematic way—until this last week. Some rethinking has obviously been in order, so here’s a new, delightfully doable plan for the start of a relaunch here. I have begun […]
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Liberty, Vol. 17, No. 1, April 1908

June 20, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur
LIBERTY Proprietor: BENJ. R. TUCKER, 502 Sixth Ave., New York City Vol. XVII—No. 1 APRIL, 1908 Whole Number 403 ON PICKET DUTY Pride goeth before a fall. In the December number of Liberty I congratulated myself on having re-established my own composing-room. No later than January 10 this composing-room, together with the entire wholesale stock of my publications and nearly all my plates, was absolutely wiped out by fire. As I had deliberately refused to insure, because of the absurdly high rates now prevailing (the rate for the stock in my book-shop exceeds four per cent. a year), the loss […]