6 MIN13 MAY 2026

You Can Just Do Things: A Circles-Driven Liberland Cleanup

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We recall a recent collective action undertaken on the border of Liberland and Serbia. Authorities had neglected to clean up one of the main transportation routes in the area, leading to a buildup of rubbish that no one wanted to take responsibility for. We didn’t wait for permission; we formed a pop-up Circle and got to work.

During Liberland’s 11th Anniversary Celebration in April 2026, the Logos team organised a rubbish cleanup in Apatin, the Serbian town closest to Liberland. In just one afternoon, a small group of volunteers collected more than 35 bags of waste, inspired spontaneous participation from locals, received a personal shoutout from the President of Liberland, and were covered by local media.

The activity demonstrated the power of an “action-first” approach: taking a visible local problem and galvanising a local community around it. We believe that such collective initiatives can inspire others to take on the challenges they face, rather than waiting for someone else to intervene on their behalf. This, after all, is the cypherpunk spirit that Logos was founded upon.

Importantly, the rubbish cleanup did not involve huge numbers of volunteers or unattainable funding. It was the action of a few committed activists wanting to create change in a local area.  The barrier to entry is as low as you make it.

Logos Circle activates in Liberland

Logos Circles are self-organised groups that take action to address issues that matter in their communities. Rather than trying to reform broken or rigged institutions, they focus on building practical alternatives that can operate independently and be sustained through the network. 

The Logos community has now hosted more than 135 Circles in 33 cities across five continents. These meetups are often regularly occurring, but sometimes ad hoc. With Logos contributors already attending Liberland's anniversary celebration, we took the opportunity to form a pop-up Circle and engage in some impromptu collective action.

Liberland is a micronation founded in 2015 between Croatia and Serbia, built around the libertarian philosophy of minimal government and voluntary association. It was founded on the belief that sovereignty should derive from individual consent rather than centralised authority, with strong protections for personal freedom and private property rights. Liberland is an experiment in maximising individual agency and giving people greater control over their own lives, with several of its founding principles closely aligned with those of Logos.

The plan

With our time in Liberland limited, we didn’t have the luxury of forming a Circle with locals and working out a suitable issue to focus on. So, we took a different approach.

We figured the best way to make a big impact in a short period of time was to tackle a high-visibility, tangible activity immediately. Therefore, before we arrived, we engaged with local groups in Apatin and identified a clear solvable problem:

Having identified a clear, highly visible winnable issue, we sought validation from locals by posting in a community social media group. The post got good engagement; people seemed largely enthusiastic about the idea. Upon arriving, we further validated the cleanup by speaking with residents of Apatin and Liberland to hone in on the optimal, high-impact location.

The logistics

During the anniversary celebrations, we personally invited attendees who showed interest in autonomous collective action. A local bed-and-breakfast owner generously hosted us in her dining room while we coordinated, highlighting the community's enthusiasm for the rubbish cleanup.

The list of things we needed to get the initiative underway was minimal:

We bought the few items we needed and hosted a short presentation on the Logos vision and Circles model with the activists.  Then, we headed out.

The execution

We worked along the road and riverbank, discovering far more rubbish than expected, hidden in tall grass, an informal dump behind bushes, and the flood “wash-up” zone on the shore of the Danube. We broke the working day up into two three-hour shifts, with a break at ARK, the community centre of a local eco-village, in between.

During the day, multiple cars honked in appreciation as they passed, and a hiker joined us spontaneously, later thanking us for our efforts. We also enjoyed reflective moments during breaks, discussing ways to scale community-impact projects like the one we were working on.

By the end of the day, we'd collected more than 35 bags of rubbish. The generous B&B owner from earlier connected us with a community care organisation, which quickly arranged a truck to transport the bags to the local rubbish dump.

The outcome

In just a single day, we managed to have a notable impact on the local community:

You can just do things

Cypherpunks don’t wait for permission. They see a problem, and they act.

That's exactly what we did in Liberland. We knew we were limited on time and resources. But that didn't stop us. We found a problem, validated it, and got to work.

The lesson for Logos Circles is that you don't need some lofty issue to take aim at. You don't need a large number of volunteers, nor do you need many resources. A few people working hard on a high-visibility problem for even a single day can seed a movement.

When choosing a first issue, it may be helpful to focus on something that:

Although difficult to draw conclusions from a sample size of one, we believe this action-first approach is one worth exploring for new Logos Circles. It seems much easier to enthuse people about a hands-on project than philosophical notions of community sovereignty and individual agency. Once people are aligned around a common cause, these ideas naturally surface and people are more likely to entertain them.

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