The St. Paul Principles
1. Our solidarity will be based on respect for a diversity of tactics and the plans of other groups.
2. The actions and tactics used will be organized to maintain a separation of time or space.…
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greece
Hedging Our Bets on the Black Bloc: The Impotence of Mere Liberalism
Chris Hedges has written some of the most insightful analysis of the U.S. war machine in recent years. His 2009 book The Empire of Illusion was an exploration of how exhibition has eclipsed truth and meaningful connection in American society. His acknowledgment of the ease in which one can buy into such spectacles is a small part of why it was so odd to read his article on Truthdig attacking both anarchists and black bloc tactics entitled “The Cancer in Occupy.”
Read more »Statement by Comrades from Cairo in Response to OWS Proposal to Send Election Monitors
re-posted from jadaliyya.com
[The following statement was issued by Comrades from Cairo on 13 November 2011.]
To our kindred occupiers in Zuccotti park,
When we called out to you, requesting you join us on 12 November in defending our revolution and in our campaign against the military trial of civilians in Egypt, your solidarity—pictures from marches, videos, and statements of support—added to our strength.…
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Athens, July 2011
State repression in Greece becomes more desperate in the face of widespread public demands for radical democracy:
From the Greek Streets:
Riot police throw stones at protesters in what appears to be officially-sanctioned brutality:
and
from OpenDemocracy
The uprising in Greece is “alternative and new in a more settled sense, as the recovery or reactivation of something latent.…
Read more »The heresy of the Greeks offers hope
The heresy of Greece is that the uprising of its ordinary people provides an authentic hope unlike that lavished upon the warlord in the White House.
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