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Abstract By Nature zine #2 is out this Spring. Take a journey into a day in the life of Occupy Los Angeles including vegan recipes, cool art, comics, d.i.y gardening, zine and music recommendations. Educate yourself on the world around you. Start by turning off the television, especially the mainstream news. Average people all over the world are documenting the real news with their own cameras. Read books and travel. Be open to change. Stay awake. Step out of your comfort zone- it is the only way to further personal growth. A closed mind is a dangerous mind. “I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it’s humiliating. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people.” ...

I'm happy to share that several unexpected events have been presenting themselves this summer. The latest news is that my zine "Abstract By Nature" has been selected to be in the ANARCHIST LIBRARY in Serbia. I knew little about this country and was intrigued when they contacted me.  This is what I learned about Serbia.. Serbia became a stand-alone sovereign republic in summer 2006 after Montenegro voted in a referendum for independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Zoran Djindic became the president and was involved with an anarchist group when he was young. Trivo Indjic, another former anarchist, became Serbian ambassador to Spain. The first Serbian socialist, Zivojin Zujovic (1838-1870), was a follower of Proudhon. Zujovic influenced the first Serbian socialist theoretician Svetozar Marković (1846-1875), a central figure of the early Serbian revolutionary movement. Marković was not an anarchist, but was significantly influenced by anarchism, and his...