In small towns in Sweden there are stores with no staff. They are very convenient for the people who live nearby, because they don't recognize the danger of requiring them to log in using a national ID number to buy anything.

Vending machines that accept cash in varying amounts are not unusual. It would not be hard to make these stores accept cash, too. There should be a legal requirement that people not have to identify themselves to buy in a store.

*There are increasing numbers of experiences putting collaborative methods for hope and dialogue into practice.*

When Colorado thugs arrested Vanessa Peoples, dislocating her shoulder and tying her up so that she had trouble breathing, they shone a light on of a massive system of oppression, nominally called "child protection".

There really are parents who mistreat their children grossly, and the "child protection"service does sometimes protect children from real dangers. But it tends to be too officious about small mistakes or confusions, doing harm and spreading terror.

They demand a standard of attentiveness that a middle-class housewife might aspire to, from parents who don't have either the money or the time to try. The effective way to improve matters in those families is to give them more money, but right-wing authoritarians are only interested in punishing. More than half of black US families get investigated by these services.

Bringing thugs (many of whom are racist) into the family situation puts people in many kinds of danger, including the danger of getting a criminal record, which can ruin your chance for a lawful career and increase the poverty your children live in.

The same thing happens when thugs are stationed in schools — minor incidents become opportunities to initiate someone's criminal record.

The Farm System Reform Act would break the dominion of Big Ag over small farms.

The authoritarian UK government has ordered schools not to use any materials from organizations that advocate eliminating capitalism.

This means that schools can't teach about the history of labor organizing and the Labour Party.

Already prohibited is anything produced by an organization that "endorses illegal activity." I suppose that rules out showing people anything written by Extinction Rebellion. Although that organization is nonviolent, its protests do include violating laws in minor ways. Also anything that says you should share copies of published works, disregarding any unjust laws or anti-socializing contracts that say you can't.