My name is Matt Glaman, I am a nineteen-year-old anarcho-syndicalist, with a hint of nihilism in between, living in the Downtown area of Kenosha, WI in my apartment. I do photography, web development, graphic design, thinking, music, and more.
an·ar·chism [an-er-kiz-uh
m] syn·di·cal·ism [sin-di-kuh-liz-uhm]
The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished. With the form or development of trade unionism that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
I have lived in Kenosha all of my life, minus a year or two. Before my senior year at Indian Trail Academy my family moved to Sturtevant, WI.
For a short while in high school, I volunteered for World Can’t Wait in their Chicago chapter. I did some organizing work, along with handing out pamphlets. Shortly after realizing WCW was affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. Partly because I am not a Marxist, and generally all of the members I met were not aware, and had different views than myself.
After graduating as part of “Class 2006,” I was enrolled as a double major at UW Stevens Point; my majors were CIS and WDMD.
While I was living in Stevens Point, I was an employee of the ResNet Office. Essentially I aided students over phone, remote connections, or via room call with issues they experienced on the network. I also was one of the main members of the repair team. Over my time there, fixed roughly a few hundred computers, approximately.
Besides working and going to class, I became partly involved with the local WISPIRG chapter, one of three (currently) in Wisconsin. I didn’t agree completely with the PIRG ideals, or WISPIRG, but the local chapter wasn’t exactly fitting to theirs either. I worked on event planning and group networking, recruitment, and took a little part in the budgeting.
On October 16th, 2006, we traveled to Chicago, IL. The Department was having hearings about Student Debt in different regions of the country. Seven of us made it, with no one else from Wisconsin (part of the UW System) attending. There was gave testimony and proposed different solutions to help solve student debt. Two weeks before our trip, we had made postcards with signatures from students at UWSP who felt student debt was an issue. We then presented all of the postcards to the members present at that hearing.
There were many small activist experiences while I was at Stevens Point. But due to my majors merging, and other conflicts, I left UWSP. May ‘06 I moved back to Kenosha. With the move back, I revamped NMD Records, a small project I like to consider a record label. During that summer, a group of us tried to organize our own Food Not Bombs chapter, but due to constant bad weather, and a major fall out of support, the attempt failed.
Currently I am employed at Subway and attending Gateway Technical College, and earning an associate degree in Computer Networking.