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Anarchapulco 2021:Call for Authentic Anarchy

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AI Summary: In her inspiring 2021 Anarchapulco speech on “Authentic Anarchy,” Catherine Bonandin Bleish (Catherine Bleish) shares her personal journey from Ron Paul activism and early Bitcoin adoption to motherhood and event production, emphasizing that true freedom isn’t demanded from the system but cultivated from within through radical self-ownership and lifestyle alignment. She contrasts “talking […]

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Hands-On Homeschool Field Trip for Families Who Love to Bake

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In this video, I took my kids (and a couple of their friends) out to a local blueberry farm and turned it into a homeschool field trip, and honestly, this is the kind of learning that I really appreciate. We walked the rows, buckets in hand, picking berries straight off the bush. No worksheets, no

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A Better Way to Educate: Inside Greenbriar Community School (Interview)

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A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down for a podcast interview with Connect Elgin to talk about Greenbriar Community School, including, what it is, how it works, and why it matters. A major topic of discussion was about how Greenbriar isn’t just a school, it’s a community-centered model of education

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Greenbriar: Where Education Breaks Free from the System

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Greenbriar Community School and Intentional Community is one of the greatest gift’s of my lifetime! I feel blessed to have found this community during this magical time in history. Tucked into 173 acres of winding trails and parkland, our organization offers a successful community school model that I believe whole heartedly can be replicated in

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Year of Less: Financial Sovereignty and the Great Downshift

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Its the second day of 2026 (as I write this, it will publish a few days later), and I have already finished reading my first book, The Year of Less by Cait Flanders. I read this book ultimately by accident (story for another time), and I am so SO glad that I read it exactly

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Freedom SELLS: the critical importance of accountability in decentralized communities

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Blog Post Summary: The Cost of Unaccountable Liberty In a compelling presentation at Monerotopia hosted in Mexico City, Catherine Bleish Bonandin passionately addresses the disconnect between the rhetoric of freedom and the actions of some within the movement, particularly focusing on her personal experience with coercive control and the lack of accountability in decentralized communities.

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How to Walk the Walk: Porcfest 2024 Panel Discussion

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https://youtu.be/eZB4VR9NXd8?si=bbheiYcKeRs7foCchttps://youtu.be/eZB4VR9NXd8?si=bbheiYcKeRs7foCc Summary In a dynamic 45-minute panel at the Porcupine Freedom Festival titled “How to Walk the Walk,” Catherine Bleish Bonandin moderates a discussion with fellow Liberty movement veterans Danny Sessoms, Jay Noone, and Carla Gericke. These “Porcfest and Anarchapulco OGs” share their journeys of living in alignment with their values, offering practical insights and

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Embracing My Reading Challenges: A Personal Tale of Overcoming Dyslexia

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My mom would sit at the kitchen table and do reading flash cards with me. I would cry. The written language was so hard for me to figure out. While I was super high functioning academically, reading never became automatic for me, or fully integrated. I have seriously struggled to learn to spell, and I

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Benefits of a Decentralized Geography

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Sovereignty can take shape and be expressed in countless lifestyle choices. Off grid homesteading, global digital nomading, high tech, low tech, fast paced, slowed down – the common denomoter is that *you* chose the path because you *own* your life and you have made the choice to exert supreme authority over your existence. No that

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Conflict & the Reason You Have Drama in Your Life

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Conflict is an inevitable and unavoidable aspect of all human relationships. You are guaranteed to experience conflict in some form during every relationship of significance you will ever have, including (and maybe most especially) your relationship with yourself….. While healthy conflict must happen for a relationship to stand the test of time, drama should be

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