We need to lessen authority and coercion in order to live fulfilling, healthy lives. One thing that sets many anarchists apart from other revolutionaries is the belief that the revolution is not a grand apocalyptic moment that we must wait for. The revolution exists in every moment of our lives. When I get up in the morning and spend my day deliberately doing things that please me, when I strive to live instead of merely existing, that is the revolution happening. Because revolution exists in the present, not in some mythic possible future, it is crucial that anarchists establish autonomous communities and start figuring out how to live on our own terms now.
Fall Creek is such a place.
The tree village has no leaders, no bosses. No one person has more of a say about what we should do than anyone else. Having lived in the forest for a decent amount of time, I would like to say that our little anarchist community is a wonderful thing.