The Secret is to Begin

Our goal is life. We are free to live it as we want. Nobody can judge us and tell us how to live. We are born free. We have freedom of choice.
Somehow we know all this, but we are not free. In the society we live in it is very hard to be free. You can be free without the society when you escape away from the civilization and live in the nature, cultivate your own self-sustainable garden and live alone or with a community. Live isolated from the society.
If you want to be free within the society, or you want to make the society free, you should believe in what you are doing, and in the power of change.
You are most probably not free. You may have a number of problems, and you may feel totally frustrated about them and injustice in this world. You can just sit there and accuse in your problems the state, the institutions, the society, the environment, bad ecology, family, world order and so on... You can temporary run away from the problems with help pf alcohol, drugs or random sex. You can even justify all of these by such words as "relaxation", "freedom" and "poliamory". This is just an illusion.
You can just chill out and tell everyone how cool you are because you wear political pins, go to punk concerts, live in a squat, and get drunk.
You do not work, you do not do wage labour because you do not want to be exploited and you hate capitalism. But you live with your friends, you do not participate in cost sharing for the flat, you do not cook, you do not clean, you never bring any food home, you hardly ever share anything with your frinds because you do not have anything to share, you use your friend"s laptop for youtubing for the whole day and say that you are busy with fighting capitalism. But you are simply exploiting your friends.
Or you live in a commune, stay away from exploitation by the capitalists and you do not have a wage labour to sustain it, but you charge your guests fixed price for being able to stay overnight.

If you are able to open your eyes and take you butt of the coach, then you may take your life in your hands and START LIVING and START CHANGING THE WORLD AROUND YOU. Just start doing anything you feel positive vibrations inside of you. Do not sit and wait until the world will change itself, it will not. By just sitting and observing you are flowing with the stream of the biomass, and you let others decide about your life and freedom, you let yourself being exploited. They are just overtaking decisions about your life, and at some point you will wake up to demand your freedom, but it can be too late.
Stop adopting to this changing world, let it adopt to you! Be yourself, start doing things, fewer words, more action, take an active side of the life. Start the change, first change yourself, and you will see how teh things around you also start changing, one by one, little by little, and later on the scale will grow, and you will see ho a drop of water creates bigger and bigger circles on the surface of a lake.

Start beliving in impossible, and just act as your heart tells you!
Anarchy Works

Anarchist Summer Camp in Austria

The Website:

http://www.a-camps.net/AST/

The Message:

Dear friends from Europe and around the world!

We would like to announce the 3rd Anarkiisma Somera Tendaro, an international A-camp taking place from July 18th to 27th 2008 in the northern part of Austria. An anarchist summer camp, where we have 10 days to try a life free from pressure and the habitual constraints present in our every day lifes; a place where we can mutually encourage us in transforming our struggles into lived experiences.

The Description:

Resistance - we hold this to be a synonym of vitality. In this spirit, the third anarchist summer camp in Austria should be a week spent

living together, loving, laughing, debating, making plans, dancing, gathering ideas, cuddling and doing whatever else comes to our minds.

The camp should not be seen as a "holiday", for this expression implies the separation of work and leisure time. Rather, we wish it to be an opportunity to freely mould our shared life during the camp, get to know each other and to live our dreams of a liberated life, during debates and workshops as much as in everyday life.

We are aware that such a freedom can only ever be relative, firstly because we carry the legacy of authority around with us in our heads and bodies, and then because the anarchist camp is an island, which is limited in time and place, surrounded by an oppressive society. But maybe we can still manage to create a free space outside of dreary social normality, where we can experience what it is that we are fighting for and aiming at.

In order to make this possible, it is crucial that no forms of discrimination or oppression are tolerated at the camp, and that everyone considers it as her or his responsibility to ensure this to be the case. This means: be aware, get involved, and if you observe any such behaviour (in others or in yourself) then make sure you bring it up. Sexualized violence will not be tolerated on the camp. How these are defined and what consequences ensue is solely decided by the survivor of the assault. Her power to define will not be doubted! But the reflektion about sexism should not stop here - it's also necessary to think about sexism beyond it. Solidarity and freedom from authority, when genuinely experienced, gives us energy and encouragement for our daily struggle. You neither need to know any theories nor be active in any political groups to participate at the a-camp. Everybody is welcome who can identiy with emancipatory and anti-hierarchic ideas.

Details:

The campsite has various fields with trees, wilderness, a small river and campfires. As well as enough places for tents, the camp offers a varied infrastructure. There are dry rooms, a kitchen and sanitary facilities, as well as a limited number of beds for those who may need them. There will be computer facilities, which could for example be used for producing a camp newspaper, workshops and internet access. Nearby there is also a pond where you can swim.

Shared cooking will follow the principle that all should be able to eat (including vegans, persons with allergies, breastfeeding women…). If we cooperate and share the daily chores fairly (food shopping, cooking, cleaning, tidying up), they will take up very little of everyone's time. Solidarity and voluntary mutual help will however remain nothing but empty words, if in practice the same few people will end up doing all the work.

What will actually happen at the camp will depend on what the participants will want to make out of it. Don't expect to find a ready schedule of lectures and workshops: rather expect to get involved, create the workshops and debates yourself and together with others. The experience of previous anarchist camps has shown that many varied and interesting topics and activities will arise spontaneously on site. The following and much more took place at the camp in 2007: workshops and debates on subjects as diverse as sex/gender/queer, migration, legal advise, anarchosyndicalism, a clowns' army training,…

The scope of subjects and possibilities should go beyond traditional anarchism. We would like to discuss the most diverse topics from a critical perspective: from (anarchist) utopias and theories, gender relationships and the critique of romantic two-person relationships to action forms, practical examples of political activism or alternative forms of living together. The camp's size and nature should allow it to be multifaceted: filled with theory and praxis, workshops, games, music, presentations and debates, cooking, movies, dancing etc.

(Source: http://groups.google.com/group/anarchiameccanica/msg/a27ab781a84b9e7e?pli=1)