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HOW CIUDAD MORAZÁN IS BUILDING “PROTECT AND SERVE”
When I was growing up in the United States, the image of “police” was a friendly man walking the streets, ready to protect and serve all the inhabitants. Now the picture in the US is cars with militarized people whom even the most law-abiding citizens should beware of. “Officer, was I speeding?” In fact, courts…
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ROSA AGUILAR: ONE MOTHER FIGHTING FOR HER DREAMS
A lot has happened since I wrote about Rosa Aguilar and her small business as the first commercial tenant of Ciudad Morazán last year. She had a short-term contract to rent her space under a tree while she waited for the first houses to be built and the first residents to move in. She had…
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WATCHING AN INNOVATIVE HOUSE BEING BUILT
I was excited to watch the first house being built in Ciudad Morazán. I knew it would be unlike any place I had seen before. I had read about the innovative technology that would make it weather-proof, sound-proof, and even earthquake-proof. I knew it would start with lightweight panels of expanded polystyrene and galvanized steel…
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HOW ROSA AGUILAR BECAME THE FIRST COMMERCIAL TENANT IN THE ZEDE CIUDAD MORAZÁN
Rosa Amanda Aguilar has a long history with the land that is the ZEDE (Zone of Employment and Economic Development) Ciudad Morazán. For many years, she lived a few hundred meters from the spot where she is growing her business. This land has always been agricultural land. Twelve years ago, Rosa lived on the farm…
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November 22
Fifty-six years ago today, I was enjoying a typical day in high school. I don’t remember which class I was sitting in when there was an announcement over the public address system. President Kennedy had been shot. He was in Dallas, Texas, and had been taken to a nearby hospital. No word yet on his…
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On Strike!
As I was traveling down the street today, I saw a group of people–maybe fifty or sixty–carrying signs saying On Strike! Since about half of them were strolling along the sidewalk in front of a suburban school while the other half sat under makeshift tents socializing, I assumed they were members of the teachers’ union…
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Who can you control?
Most of us spend a lot of our precious time trying to control other human beings. Perhaps it is natural for us to try to control the people closest to us; our family, friends, business colleagues, and acquaintances. There is even moral justification in trying to control the small human beings who are dependent upon…
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Why I refuse to vote
The most obvious thing that makes voluntaryism different from any other “political” philosophy is that it advocates NOT participating in politics at all. That means, among other things, NOT VOTING. While everyone else is frantically trying to “get out the vote” and convince everyone it is their civic duty to vote, voluntaryists proudly refuse to…
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What Does It Mean To Be A Voluntaryist?
What exactly is a voluntaryist? The Merriam-Webster dictionary, which bills itself as “America’s most trusted online dictionary for English word definitions, meanings, and pronunciation,” doesn’t even have a definition for “voluntaryist.” I don’t know how many people identify themselves as voluntaryists, but I see the number has been growing for the last few years. You…
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What is Libertopia?
Libertopia is a community that espouses and promotes a society of free and responsible people. We believe in the power of individuals to govern their own affairs through voluntary associations without coercion. Each individual is unique in the universe with inherent dignity. Each possesses free will and the sovereign power to choose his or her…