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  1. Matt Derrick

    News & Blogs Unique Travel Jobs: Working On Super Yachts & Sailboats

    Unique Travel Jobs: Working On Super Yachts & Sailboats By Matthew Karsten Travel Jobs: Working On Yachts & Sailboats Travel Jobs I’ve met quite a few “yachties” during my travels over the years. People who work as yacht & sailboat crewmembers for a living. Today, my friend Katie shares...
  2. Slingshot Collective

    News & Blogs History of Health: Needle Exchange in San Francisco

    Taken From: http://sfaf.org/client-services/syringe-access/history-of-needle-exchange.html Throughout the history of HIV/AIDS, there are many moments that stand out as bold acts of courage that forever changed the course of the epidemic. Syringe access in San Francisco is certainly at the top...
  3. D

    News & Blogs The Green Book: Celebrating 'The Bible of Black Travel'

    These word-of-mouth suggestions for safe passage through a sometimes-hostile America were, "sort of a 20th Century version of the Underground Railroad, and this annual travel guide was the Bible of black travel," says Brent Leggs, the director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action...
  4. Coywolf

    News & Blogs Nearly 4 In 5 Voters Concerned Incivility Will Lead To Violence

    Here it comes, folks. I, personally, cant wait.... Link: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/662730647/poll-nearly-4-in-5-voters-concerned-incivility-will-lead-to-violence ELECTIONS Poll: Nearly 4 In 5 Voters Concerned Incivility Will Lead To Violence LISTEN· 3:58 Toggle more options...
  5. Matt Derrick

    News & Blogs Living in a Van Down by the Instagram

    Living in a Van Down by the Instagram By The Grouch February 12, 2018 It’s necessary above all to maintain the reign of the economy beyond the extinction of the wage system. This has to do with the fact that if there is less and less work, everything is all the more mediated by money, be it in...
  6. Matt Derrick

    News & Blogs How I Became Irish: Claiming Dual Citizenship by Descent

    How I Became Irish: Claiming Dual Citizenship By Descent By Matthew Karsten6 This post may contain affiliate links. Read my Disclosure. Claiming Irish Citizenship by Descent The Irish love to travel. So for years, whenever I met someone from Ireland during my adventures around the world, I’d...
  7. D

    Albany NY: Millennial survivalists share downtown squat, anarchist ideals

    https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Millenial-survivalists-share-downtown-squat-13215107.php#photo-16216489 David Gunn had just been released from the hospital after trying to kill himself when he met the fallen beauty who changed his life...
  8. ScumRag

    News & Blogs The Stasi + revolution in East Germany, cold war years + The Spirit of '77

    https://longreads.com/2018/09/25/the-very-top-guy-in-the-stasi-was-personally-involved-in-figuring-out-how-to-destroy-punk/amp/ Longreads ‘The Very Top Guy in the Stasi was Personally Involved in Figuring Out How to Destroy Punk.’ Will Hermes "Punkers and policemen face each other during a...
  9. Cornelius Vango

    News & Blogs Misanthropic Pessimism (an article from 1914)

    Original article location So I read this article recently, it's loosely associated with anarchist concepts so that's why I put it in this section... I don't necessarily agree with everything it has to say (also it's old) but I thought it was an interesting read and was wondering what you think...
  10. ScumRag

    News & Blogs The Constitution + Homelessness:

    The Constitution and Homelessness By Steve Martinot Introduction When the police violate the US Constitution, are they criminal? In what court can their conduct be judged illegal? For recourse against crimes against the people for violation of the Constitution, to whom can we turn? We...
  11. Ezra Fyre

    News & Blogs Bronze Leaves Commemorate Homeless Who Die on the Streets (beautiful idea, Seattle)

    A lovely heartwarming article about a beautiful tradition. A volunteer group in Seattle is doing something beautiful for Seattle homeless. Bronze Leaves are engraved with the name and dates of homeless, who die, while living on Seattle's streets. The bronze leaves are then added to the...
  12. wokofshame

    News & Blogs Bussed Out: How America Moves it's Homeless

    Really good article from the Guardian (UK) on the free-ride-out-of-town programs in the states and their side effects If someone is less ignorant than me at inserting the article and media, feel free to do so...
  13. Coywolf

    News & Blogs Greyhound vs. SEMI truck leave 7 Dead in New Mexico

    I hope no one on here was on this Bus.... https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/643531297/greyhound-bus-semi-truck-crash-head-on-in-new-mexico-at-least-4-killed Greyhound Bus, Semi-Truck Crash Head-On In New Mexico; At Least 7 Killed August 30, 201811:01 PM ET VANESSA ROMO Twitter First responders...
  14. Ezra Fyre

    News & Blogs Holy Fuck, 100+ O.D., New Haven Park, Connecticut

    More Than 100 Overdose in One Connecticut Park Police in the Connecticut city of New Haven have arrested one man in connection with a spate of synthetic marijuana overdoses that sickened scores of people at a park this week. Two other people were arrested, including one New Haven man who...
  15. ResistMuchObeyLittle

    News & Blogs Man Bikes Around the World With $2 in Pocket

    Man Bikes Around the World With $2 in Pocket BY SARAH LANGDON IF YOU THINK riding the stationary bike at the gym is exhausting, imagine riding your bike 28,000 miles through 37 countries in eight years. Tired yet? Keiichi “Kei” Iwasaki , 36, of Japan began such an adventure when he grew...
  16. Coywolf

    Defendents plead "No Contest" in Ghost Ship Fire case

    https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/625918717/men-charged-in-deadly-calif-ghost-ship-warehouse-fire-plead-no-contest Men Charged In Deadly Calif. Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire Plead No Contest July 4, 201812:04 PM ET AMY HELD Two men pleaded no contest Tuesday to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter...
  17. EphemeralStick

    News & Blogs California Ghost Town For Sale

    Now here's something you don't see every day. Screw an StP HQ, let's form our own god damn municipality! Asking price isn't too bad but fuck it, squatters rights. ~A https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a21500753/california-ghost-town-for-sale/ An Entire Ghost Town Is for Sale in the Sierras...
  18. PunkrAwk3r

    News & Blogs Voluntarily vagrant, homeless youth a 'crusty' urban challenge

    Fox News just put the whole community on blast with this, well that’s my Opinion... either way; it kind of makes us out to be the evil in this world... but it’s the exact opposite; don’t rain on our parade because you wasted your whole life on journalism instead of traveling and seeing the world...
  19. D

    News & Blogs Wothahellizat? Australia's largest 6x6 RV

    Thought this would be interesting to everybody here. Rob Gray (a fellow aussie) a nature photographer, grey nomad, and also the owner/builder of WOTHEHELLIZAT (Australias largest offroad motorhome) http://www.robgray.com/graynomad/wothahellizat/index.php Wothehellizat mk1...
  20. MolotovMocktail

    Bitter to better: Squatters transforming a derelict pub

    Interesting story about some folks squatting in London! Activists and squatters have moved in to a derelict Romford pub, The Bitter End, with the aim of transforming it into an independent environmental and cultural space. In April, photographer Ed Gold spent three weeks living alongside...