Living Freedom Archive

we still stay out here I’m in you You’re in me we don’t stick around lousy town we don’t practice the old sloggy routines we create our own Paths even if they’re other way around this planet is owned by bastards who come and go as they please and rub our face in our inability [...]

Freedom, like love, is a choice. We choose to love – though sometimes it seems to just magically appear – falling in love – but we need to create the conditions. We need to open our hearts, our souls even, to the possibility. We are all born free – then slowly, we begin to build [...]

We can re-invent civil disobedience in a million different ways. In other words, we can come up with a million ways of becoming a collective pain in the ass. Our strategy should be not only to confront Empire, but to lay siege to it. to deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. [...]

The world is arse-backwards”, Dr. Francis Israel Regardie In what context do we put freedom? Do we need a social context, a historical one, some background of political ideologies that shape a culture, or indeed do we need a cultural context? Does freedom differ in theory and practice between peoples, does it take on a [...]

Recent changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have provided ample grounds for optimism. Our century has seen a contest between force and regimentation on the one hand, and pluralism, individual rights and democracy on the other. The results of this great conflict are now clear. While no system of government can be [...]

Freedom has been a universal quest for as long as life exists on the planet. Plants and animals alike long for freedom – grass grows through cracks of concrete and a hare will eat through its own paw to liberate itself from the trapper’s snare. Entire groups of people have risked their individual freedom for [...]

“Freedom” has very different meanings for women than men in most parts of the world. For women, freedom constitutes a reprieve (always temporary) from being a target of male violence. Whether directly or indirectly, anti woman violence affects all women. In Elizabeth Stanko’s words, “To walk the streets warily at night is how we actually [...]

While we share with other creatures an inborn need for mobility, as self-transcending beings we also resist any kind of limitation, even self-imposed. There is a good sense and a non-sense to the craving for unlimited freedom, and at this late date in the human career, it’s crucial to realize in our daily lives the [...]