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January 3, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

Happy New Year!

One year ago on January 3, 2025, I had not met you at the CVS yet.

One year ago I had not experienced your positive response to the message on the sticker I would subsequently be handing out: "Let's remove the rich from power; have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor."

One year ago I didn't know that I would end up handing out about 3,500 stickers at the CVS in Brighton Center in 2025.

One year ago I didn't know that I would have countless wonderful conversations with you at the CVS. Here's an example.

One year ago I didn't know that by year's end some of you would join with me in founding the Brighton Assembly of Egalitarians (BAE) and that twelve people would consider themselves members of it, thereby creating a new game in town that aims to get us off of the Treadmill of Defeat.

One year ago I didn't know that there would be BAE posters about illegal immigration displayed in many shop windows in Brighton Center, as you can see in these photos online. These posters break the virtual total censorship on the truth about why there are so many illegal immigrants, a truth that when widely known would cause almost all the people who presently support ICE to change their mind and be sympathetic to the illegal immigrants and angry at the billionaires who have forced them to enter the U.S. illegally in huge numbers just in order to survive.

But now I know about all of these things that happened in 2025 in Brighton and I am very grateful to you for making them happen.

I wonder what I will know happened in Brighton by January 3, 2027?

I hope that I will know that the BAE has grown in numbers by engaging in activities that inspire more people to decide to join it, and possibly inspire people elsewhere to form similar assemblies of egalitarians.

What activities might the BAE carry out this year? Well, the BAE members will be deciding that at its meetings on the second Sunday of each month. The next BAE meeting is Sunday, January 11, 1:30 PM at the Cafe Mirror (362 Washington St.) I look forward to seeing you then.

All the best,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

January 7, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

I wrote the following in my recent Substack. I suggest we discuss this at this Sunday's (January 11) BAE meeting, 1:30 PM at the Cafe Mirror.

Spread the Egalitarian Vision & SOLUTION for Good Health Care and Good Housing for ALL

The ruling class censors the egalitarian vision & solution so that we will remain hopeless that there is any solution whatsoever, and hence not fight for it.

Our ruling class limits discourse about the big problems people want solved—such as the lack of affordable good housing and good health care—to ‘solutions’ that leave the rich in power and perpetuate the some-rich-and-some-poor class inequality of our society. Thus limited, the possible ‘solutions’ are no solutions at all. This—that there are no true solutions—is the conclusion the ruling class wants us to draw. The ruling class aim is to make us feel so hopeless about the possibility of any real solution that we will not seriously engage in a fight to make it become actual.

But there IS in fact a real solution!

The solution is the egalitarian solution, a solution that the vast majority of people today would LOVE to see implemented. Let’s take a look at this solution.

The solution for good health care and good housing for all:

All people who contribute reasonably (i.e., ‘work’) according to ability1 have the right to receive good health care and good housing for free. Period! It’s not complicated.
People who receive good health care or good housing for free pay for it by contributing reasonably according to ability. Period. It’s not complicated.
Health care providers and housing builders are paid by having the right to take for free from the economy what they need or reasonably desire (including good housing and health care and good education and fun vacations, etc. etc., and have scarce things (luxury items and organ transplants, etc.) equitably rationed (democratically, as described below) according to need. Period. It’s not complicated.
All workers—those who work reasonably according to ability by farming and building houses and doing scientific research and entertaining people and repairing plumbing and teaching children and providing transportation, etc. etc. etc. are paid by having the right to take for free from the economy what they need or reasonably desire and have scarce things equitably rationed according to need. Period. It’s not complicated.
Truly democratic government—genuine democracy as described here—with a non-centralized moneyless economy based on mutual agreements—as described here—decides what constitutes “contributing reasonably according to ability.” Ordinary people—there’s no rich and no poor!—this way decide whether, for example, somebody will be considered to be working reasonably according to ability if they join the ranks of those already serving in the military, or they join the ranks of those already serving as prison guards, or of those already serving as entertainers…OR alternatively if they join the ranks of those already serving as, say, healthcare providers or housing builders or teachers. If people think there are not enough healthcare providers, or not enough housing builders, then they democratically decide to alter their decision-making so as to promote more people providing healthcare or building homes and fewer people doing different kinds of things. Period. It’s not complicated.
Yes, all resources are finite. This means, of course, that it may not be possible for society to provide all of the health care or all of the good housing that might be desired. BUT…the time when society will tell somebody, “We’re sorry. We cannot provide you the life-saving treatment you require because we need to ration those finite resources in order to provide for other important social needs,” is AFTER, not before, there are no rich and no poor and AFTER there is no obscene economic inequality. Period. It’s not complicated.

When this vision of the egalitarian solution to the big problems—such as the lack of good health care and good housing—is widespread, then we the have-nots will no longer be politically paralyzed by hopelessness and despair. We will KNOW there is a solution, a perfectly reasonable and desirable solution based on the egalitarian values held by most people and summarized here. And we will feel empowered to fight for it and remove from power those who oppose its implementation. Yes, this is possible, as I discuss here.

One way to spread this vision of the real solution, the egalitarian solution, is to form local assemblies of egalitarians for that exact purpose, like we did in Brighton, Massachusetts. Why don’t you do it in your local community too?

For some people, what they can contribute reasonably according to ability, is zero, due to their being children or retired elderly, or due to some physical or mental disability, or due to the absence for some reason of an opportunity to do useful work; also being a student or apprentice, etc., and caring for a child or another adult counts as working reasonably according to ability. Egalitarians are reasonable!

All the best,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

January 9, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neigbors*,

Here is the title of the article I wrote yesterday in response to recent anti-egalitarian media reports about NYC Mayor Mamdani's new housing chief. Just click on the title to read it. Among other things, I hope the BAE (that meets this Sunday the 11th at 1:30PM at the Cafe Mirror) can promote a pro-egalitarian public discussion of housing and private property.

Egalitarianism and Private Property (& Housing)

Beware of anti-egalitarian propaganda that says egalitarians want to take away your home.

All the best,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

January 11, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

I am seeking people to help me get the ball rolling to building an egalitarian revolutionary movement that one day--who knows how far in the future?--will be able to remove the rich from power so there can be real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor.

I have written two articles about why this aim is a worthy one to work for with seriousness:

I am looking for people who agree that this aim is one worthy of working for with seriousness and who, personally, wish to join me in that effort as a fellow member of the Brighton Assembly of Egalitarians (BAE.)

I am looking for people who want not merely to say "I am a member of the BAE" (as twelve of you currently have done) but who seriously intend to attend all of the BAE meetings unless an unusual circumstance prevents them from doing so. This is what a serious BAE member does.

I am looking for people who feel obliged to notify other BAE members if they cannot attend the next meeting, and who definitely explain to their fellow BAE members why they didn't attend a BAE meeting they were expected to have attended. This is how serious people relate respectfully to others with whom they share a common goal.

I am looking for people who, when they say to their fellow BAE members that they will do X, really do X or else explain to their fellow BAE members why they failed to do X. This is what it means to be serious.

I am looking for people who make working for the mission of the BAE a HIGH PRIORITY in their life, not such a low priority in their life that they feel no particular obligation to act upon it and do so only when it suits them.

My fellow neighbors, you are welcome to join the BAE and attend its meetings when and if you wish. Fine. But that, by itself, is not the serious help I am looking for.

If you are somebody who does want to help me with the seriousness I describe above, please reply to this email and let me know. Otherwise I will assume that you do not wish to do so even if you may attend a BAE meeting now and then.

Sincerely,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

January 16, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

Please help the anti-ICE effort in Brighton that you can read about online here. If you would like me to help you make copies of the poster, please let me know and I will do so. Anywhere that you place this poster so people can see it will be valuable. Please let me know what you decide to do.

Also, please tell me what you think about this anti-ICE effort. I want to hear from you!

Thank you.

All the best,

-John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

January 20, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors,

If you want to do something very useful for stopping ICE, do this:

1. Download and print the BAE anti-ICE poster online here (as a PDF) and print a copy and place it somewhere (any place you wish) where other people will see it. (Go here to read why this is an important way to fight ICE, and to see ideas about where you can put the poster.)

2. Let me know when you've done this (or if you have questions or concerns about doing this, or if you need my help to get a printed copy of the poster.)

These posters not only fight ICE, they create unity instead of the current dis-unity of the have-nots so that one day we will be able to remove the rich from power.

All the best,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

January 29, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

According to the news article here, there will be an anti-ICE demonstration this Saturday on the Boston Common.

Regarding my thoughts about this demonstration I invite you to read my (free to read, no subscription required) Substack article titled, "The (Phony) Pretext for ICE's Murders Is Deporting Illegal Immigrants But the Actual Purpose Is Divide-and-Rule of America's Have-Nots
If Trump really wanted to remove the illegal immigrants his Justice department would prosecute employers who are illegally hiring them; but it doesn't do that."

In this article I discuss what the ruling class (both its conservative pro-ICE wing and its liberal anti-ICE wing) is doing to divide-and-rule us, the have-nots. As I explain in my article, the anti-ICE demonstrations (as they are currently designed) are as much a part of the ruling class strategy as are the TRUMP MAGA rallies and they are not really designed to weaken ICE.

If you attend this Saturday's anti-ICE demonstration, please note the following about it:

1. The speakers do not explicitly oppose the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, which is the stated goal of the Trump administration. The speakers only oppose the manner in which ICE is carrying out these deportations.

2. The speakers do not explain why it is IMMORAL to deport the illegal immigrants. Specifically they do not say that it is immoral to kick people out whom you have forced to enter illegally. They do not explain that the U.S. billionaire ruling class for decades has been doing things south of our border and in Haiti deliberately to force millions of poor people there to have to enter the United States illegally just in order to survive (as I prove here). Explaining this to those who presently support the deportations (about half the public) would cause them to change their mind and oppose the deportations. This would maximally weaken ICE's ability to keep doing what it is doing since the pretext for it is that it is necessary to deport all the illegal immigrants and that people such as Renee Good and Alex Pretti had to be killed because they were physically interfering with the deportations.

3. The speakers do not explain that the ACTUAL purpose of ICE's over-the-top cruelty and terrorism and murders is NOT to deport all the illegal immigrants, as proven by the fact that if the government truly wanted to deport all the illegal immigrants it would be prosecuting the employers who illegally hire huge numbers of these illegal immigrants, which would result in most of the illegal immigrants leaving on their own steam to find work elsewhere outside of the United States. The reason so many of these poor people fleeing life-threatening conditions in their own country head for the United States instead of, say, going to (or remaining in) Mexico, is because the U.S. ruling class wants them in the U.S. working as super cheap labor (because they can't strike for better pay and working conditions for fear of being deported) in industries such as agriculture and hospitality and construction that hire huge numbers of them.

4. The speakers do not explain that the actual purpose of ICE's over-the-top cruelty and terrorism and murders is to provoke anger of liberal have-nots against conservative have-nots who support ICE because they support the deportations: divide-and-rule. This divide-and-rule would collapse if the conservative have-nots were informed of the truth about WHY there are so many illegal immigrants--that U.S. billionaires have forced them to enter the U.S. illegally. This is why the liberal wing of the ruling class promotes (with free publicity such as the news article I link to at the top here) anti-ICE demonstrations that CENSOR the truth about why there are so many illegal immigrants.

I invite you to read (for free, no subscription required) my Substack post yesterday online here about what people can do that REALLY fights ICE and creates unity of the have-nots: display the BAE poster (PDF).

Reminder: The next BAE meeting is Sunday, February 15, 1:30 PM at the Cafe Mirror at 362 Washington St. Please come.

All the best,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

February 1, 2026

Hi my 76 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

CORRECTION: I goofed in my last email. The next BAE meeting is Sunday, February 8 (not 15th) at 1:30 PM at the Cafe Mirror, 362 Washington St. (The meetings are on the second Sundays.)

All the best,

--John

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* 76 now because one person's email stopped working. Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

February 5, 2026

Hi my 76 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

I would like very much to know your thoughts about this article of mine:

"Yes! It Is Difficult to Remove the Rich from Power and It Will Likely Take a Long Time. No! That Is Not a Persuasive Reason for Only Doing Things that CANNOT EVER Remove the Rich from Power. Let's think carefully about what moral people today should do, given the reality of the world we live in."

It's about why it's a good idea to join the BAE, which meets this Sunday at 1:30 PM at the Cafe Mirror, 362 Washington St.

All the best,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

February 6, 2026

Hi my 76 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

The BAE meeting this Sunday is cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

All the best,

--John

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

Spread the Egalitarian Vision & SOLUTION for Good Health Care and Good Housing for ALL

The ruling class censors the egalitarian vision & solution so that we will remain hopeless that there is any solution whatsoever, and hence not fight for it.

But there IS in fact a real solution!

The solution for good health care and good housing for all:

Egalitarianism and Private Property (& Housing)

Beware of anti-egalitarian propaganda that says egalitarians want to take away your home.

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