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How to be Transformed into a Young Woman

Friday, 22 July 2011 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 4 Comments »

Apparently there's a woman running around out there named Michaela Gogulski, with the same birthday as my own. A correspondent brought my attention to this important video from Howcast: How To Replace a Lost or Stolen Passport [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s4ntUs-hX0&feature=player_detailpage#t=94s[/youtube] At 1:34 you can see ...

Independence Day interview with Jeff Knaebel and Free Talk Live

Sunday, 26 July 2009 by Mike Gogulski
activism, people, podcasts | 4 Comments »

Jeff Knaebel, known also as Sojourner Free, did a beautiful thing on 19 June 2009 by informally (and, thereby, perhaps more freely than I!) renouncing his United States citizenship and shredding his passport and birth certificate at the monument to ...

American Anti War Protestor Renounces U.S. Citizenship At Rajghat, Delhi

Wednesday, 24 June 2009 by Mike Gogulski
activism, people | 20 Comments »

Congratulations, Jeff! Gimme a call some time :) Via MMD Newswire: (MMD Newswire) June 22, 2009 -- This evening in Delhi, former Alaska, USA resident, Jeff Knaebel renounced his US citizenship at the Mahatma Gandhi national monument in a demonstration of non-violent resistance. Shredding ...

“Deadbeat dad” a prisoner of America

Thursday, 28 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
people, prison | 1 Comment »

Someone who found my blog and made their way to my other website where I list my instant messaging contacts struck up a brief conversation with me. It is reproduced here, in slightly edited form. Conversation with He at 3:09 ...

Demystifying renunciation

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary, mind control | 9 Comments »

The questions folks have about what I've done in renouncing my US citizenship and becoming intentionally stateless seem endless sometimes. It seems that what information is out there in the public sphere doesn't lead many to a clear picture of ...

“Only guilty people say they do not consent”

Tuesday, 12 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
police | 10 Comments »

An anarchist friend who prefers to be anonymous with respect to this story called me last night, but I couldn't answer the phone. I sent him an SMS back asking what was up, and he gave a very short reply. ...

May Day reflections on a year of bloggery

Friday, 1 May 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 6 Comments »

1 May 2009 marks nostate.com's first anniversary! It was a year ago today that the site went live, with my very first post, Stateless: "It's great being free". I started the site, really, as my own soapbox, primarily intended to be ...

Back in The Village again

Monday, 9 March 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 32 Comments »

I just returned from the Slovak Aliens' Police office, where I received my freshly-minted 1954 Convention Travel Document (cestovný doklad osoby bez štátnej príslušnosti). I also submitted an application there for issuance of a replacement sticker for my residence permit, which ...

Stateless person’s travel document: approved

Wednesday, 18 February 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 18 Comments »

On Monday (16 February 2009) I submitted an application to the Slovak Aliens' Police bureau for a stateless person's travel document under the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. There was much waiting around the office to do, ...

You are not the bank’s customer

Wednesday, 14 January 2009 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 16 Comments »

I walk into the nearest branch of Tatra banka, where I keep all of my accounts. I proceed to the cash window. I have two tasks: Exchange a quantity of Slovak koruna banknotes for euro notes Purchase a number of commemorative coins for ...