Jasper Gregory

D&G "What makes fascism dangerous is its molecular or micropolitical power, for it is a mass movement: a cancerous body rather than a totalitarian organism."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:53:41 -0800

Cyber-Marx Chapter 7 - Nick Dyer-Witheford

Chris Hedges’ credentials for talking about violence

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:19:56 -0800

Chris Hedges’ credentials for talking about violence

Look at this list of books I have ordered at the library. Death...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:37:31 -0800

Look at this list of books I have ordered at the library. Death by book gluttony.

However, it is important to recognise that the potentialities recognised by Deleuze, and Guattari...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:31:47 -0800

However, it is important to recognise that the potentialities recognised by Deleuze, and Guattari also have a malignant side. One of the salutary aspects of these authors’ work is that they take seriously the possibility of a postmodern fascism, in which the very communicational and nomadic capacities so rich in anti-capitalist possibilities are recuperated in appallingly destructive form. Guattari and Deleuze have always emphasised that molecular rebellions can turn negative, becoming paranoid or suicidal, and they have taken conventional Marxisms to task for their failure to recognise the unconscious and preconscious paths in which longings for emancipation and freedom become twisted into racist, sexist and homophobic hatreds and authoritarian dependencies. Like Baudrillard, they speak of “black holes”—in this case, meaning the turning inwards of revolutionary
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aspirations toward internecine hostility.106 In this perverted form, they become available to capitalism as a weapon against movements of autonomy, providing the basis for fascism — “without doubt capitalism’s most fantastic attempt at economic and political reterritorialisation.”
page 184 Cyber-Marx: Cycles and circuits of struggle in high technology capitalism - Nick Dyer-Witheford

The intellectual Father of the Anti-Globalization, Negri,...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:49:00 -0800

The intellectual Father of the Anti-Globalization, Negri, critiques Black Bloc tactics of Insurrectionary Individualism

The Italian 1990’s Tute Bianche (White Overalls) have...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:39:12 -0800

The Italian 1990’s Tute Bianche (White Overalls) have developed ‘Violent Non-violence’ as an alternative to Black Bloc tactics #oo
http://books.google.com/books?id=IJpYlFC1lKUC&lpg=PA57&dq=Zapatista%20’Black%20Bloc’&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false

Columbia University Revolt april 1968

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:20:52 -0800

A historian of the sixties explains how 68-69 Chicago riots destroyed the student movement

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:13:00 -0800

Todd Gitlin, former president of SDS writes in the Nation http://www.thenation.com/article/166142/will-occupy-embrace-nonviolence
The authorities in Chicago, Tampa and Charlotte hope to scare Occupiers away. They’ve thrown down their gauntlets. These are flagrant insults. And very likely some who show up to stand for economic justice and decency will react not only with indignation and mockery (eminently called for) but in-your-face breakage and belligerence, even though Occupy Chicago explicitly defines itself as a “nonviolent nonpartisan people’s movement.” No matter whether it’s the riot police or the agents provocateurs or the “black bloc” who cast the first stones, under Chicago’s new ordinance, if vandals hijack the demo or damage property, the city could legally force the organizers to pick up the tab.

It’s not hard to imagine scenarios in which windows are smashed and heads clubbed. What happens then—regardless of who started it, regardless of the assemblies’ nuanced arguments about the true meaning of violence—is that the image of the protest becomes just that: violence. Which offends people in living rooms everywhere, many of whom sympathize with the thrust of Occupy. Seeing what gets framed as “violent clashes,” whoever started them, they cringe and pull back. What moves to the forefront of their minds is an association between Occupy and a symbolic amalgam of disruption, inconvenience and the privileged frolic of rich kids. Panicky about the loss of law and order, they’re more likely to vote for take-no-prisoners politicians whose idea of reform is a reformatory.

I was on the streets of Chicago in August 1968 when provocative disrupters among overwhelmingly nonviolent protesters were infiltrated by provocateurs and beset by rampaging police, producing a televised spectacle that had the perverse effect of encouraging a disengaged public to side with the police against what they thought were dangerous and frivolous revolutionaries—even as the Vietnam War declined in popularity. Let there be no romanticizing of those who “upped the ante” toward militancy, indifferent to the fact that 95 percent of America was politically on their right—or of the few hundreds whose stagy vandalism (“Days of Rage”) a year later sounded the death knell for a mass student movement.

from Weatherman Manifesto ‘You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:38:00 -0800

from Weatherman Manifesto ‘You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows’ 1969 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rrpec.org%2Fdocuments%2Fweather%255B1%255D.pdf&ei=oJFCT6KjDIeOigL-47CRBA&usg=AFQjCNE2giXncAZYlKJZx7JsSoW9H3P6Jg&sig2=JHtSPG5-wLIrTge2Oi1_OA

‘[In 1968] at Columbia, the left was afraid its struggle would be co-opted to anti-police brutality, cops off campus, and said pigs weren’t the issue. But pigs really are the issue and people will understand this, one way or another. They can have a liberal
understanding that pigs are sweaty working-class barbarians who over-react and commit “police brutality” and so shouldn’t be on campus. Or they can understand pigs as the repressive imperialist State doing its job. Our job is not to avoid the issue of the pigs as “diverting” from anti-imperialist struggle, but to emphasize that they are our real enemy if we fight that struggle to win.’

Andrew Yeoman & the Bay Area National Anarchists

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:23:42 -0800

I spent the morning researching the ‘New Right’ and National Anarchism. I still have 10 tabs open in my browser, and I listened to two different radio shows. The whole thing leaves me feeling ill. The phenomenon is complex but important. Let me summarize a few points:

National Anarchism is a fusion of white separatist beliefs with anarchist ideas. It seems to be strongest in the Anglo-American countries of Australia, USA and UK. The San Francisco Bay Area was the center point for America. Andrew Yeoman set up ‘Bay Area National Anarchists’ in East Bay.
For a time this group seemed to be the the center of American Anarcho-Fascism.
They got press by attending Anarchist Events. Interest peaked in 2009. Yeoman got press in 2011 by attending the Anarchist Book Fair and in 2011 by burning a Koran in San Francisco and issuing a Threat to Obama over twitter. I vaguely remember hearing about all three events. After the Feds cracked down on him Yeoman disbanded BANA in september 2011. His peeps seemed to have dressed in the Black bloc style, but he seems to have eschewed property destruction. Hopefully this means that The Bay Area will not see a neo-nazi black bloc phenomenon like the Autonome Nationalisten in Northern Europe.

Yeoman now writes about bitcoin, cryptography and Science FIction at his blog where I found this quote ‘The best thing about leaving politics behind me is knowing that none of my erstwhile allies or opponents will achieve their goals, and in particular, those I was allied with.’

A New Right Anarcho-Fascist explains what 'National Anarchism/Green Fascism' is

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:46:59 -0800

Jasper sez ‘Jasper did not write this. Jasper does not endorse this post. It is reposted from the fascist site Stormfront. Jasper is reproducing it to give you an insider’s view’

This post is reproduced from http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t732945/#post8412300
Andrew can of course give a good account of what BANA is about, but he would surely admit he has some natural biases on the subject. National Anarchism should be understood as an offshoot (sub-category?) of the European New Right, which from the start has had substantial libertarian elements and a generally anti-capitalist orientation. It’s chief theoretician, Alain de Benoist, fused together the decentralism of Action Française, what in the 70s was the cutting edge of sociobiology, the rigorously anti-bourgeois Conservative Revolution, and the anti-Christian elitism of Nietzsche and Evola. It’s a pretty interesting brew that has taught me a lot. De Benoist eschews White Supremacism in favor of an ethno-pluralism that simultaneously affirms the value of each ethnic culture and asserts that individuals can only fully realize themselves within their own culture: diversity is worthy, and multiculturalism should be rejected on this very ground because it results in ethnic and cultural mixing, which destroys difference. What I find particularly provocative about this, and where National Anarchism really takes its inspiration, is that the modern nation state is rejected as an inherently multiculturalist, homogenizing institution. The organically integrated tribal societies of Europe had been destroyed by the imposition of (fundamentally Jewish) Christian monotheism, with its universal ethics and inherent commitment to egalitarianism (everyone’s equal before God). Native languages were replaced by bastardized versions of Latin. The old gods were killed or appropriated as saints or demons. During the Early Modern period, the Renaissance through the Reformation to the dawn of full-fledged capitalism in the 17th Century, Christian ethics were secularized into the foundations for modern thought, particularly political and economic theory. Monarchs like Louis XIV sought to finally quell upstart aristocrats with a rationalized bureaucratic State apparatus that gave increasing power to the rising class of merchants and manufacturers. In the process you have systematic destruction of regional cultures, that oddly parallels the devastation about to be unleashed on the environment. Things like official state languages are imposed, etc. The nations of Langue d’Oc and Navarre are integrated into greater France. The Basques and Catalans are forced into a subservient position to Castille in Spain. Don’t get me started on the many wrongs done to the Irish. Anyway, and sorry to be so longwinded with this stuff, the point is that the modern nation state, control of which is the sum total of modern political struggle, is thoroughly infected with a culture-destroying spirit that is non-European (i.e. Near Eastern) in origin. Positive political action must therefore take the form of the subversion of the modern State, preferably by nurturing ‘regional’ identities. De Benoist calls for a ‘Europe of a thousand flags’. National Anarchists pick up on this decentralism and note its resonance with Proudhon’s federalism. Furthermore, they take the New Right’s criticism of the modern state as a starting point to pose the question of what would a non-alienating, non-Jewish, truly organic ‘political’ entity actually be like. Their answer is a kind of tribalism in which political, religious, and general social status are integrated. The sacralization of power and all that. This primitivism has some parallels (exaggerated in my view) with anti-modernist currents of anarchism as expressed by people like John Zerzan and Hakim Bey/Peter Lamborn Wilson. In practice, National Anarchism believes in a kind of ethnic survivalism in which people group themselves together into small tribes and cultivate an organic hierarchy and a traditional religion (almost invariably some kind of Nordic or Celtic paganism) that treats humans as a part of nature, rather than dominating it by divine command. The NAists present their ideology as ‘neither Left or Right’ because those are modern categories and they are anti-modern. They use this to try to draw in left-wingers and their symbolism draws freely on (really appropriates) that of Leftist anarchists: hoodies, balaclavas, banners, DIY chic, etc. As a tactic, I’m skeptical about its viability. The left has been getting more aware about Jewish issues thanks to Israeli intransigence, but almost every anarchist I’ve met is firmly committed to extremely repressive, and statist, Political Correctness. If it works for BANA, I’m happy. More race realists by any means necessary!!! This has been fairly rambling, but I hope it helps. If you want to understand National Anarchism, I’d suggest reading Troy Southgate. He coined the term and pretty much formulated it as an orientation. Check out the New Right too, in particular de Benoist, who’s a personal favorite. Here’s a collection of his writings: The De Benoist Archive Southgate also draws on Third Positionism, which is great if you’re Catholic. I’m not. Final thoughts: National Anarchism is provocative and has attracted some highly committed individuals who have successfully spread awareness of it as an ideology in a short period of time. That said, I think it is an oversimplification of the New Right, largely done in the interest of some kind of ‘stealth strategy’ for generating a new mystique and attracting left-wingers. The New Right encourages a much needed reexamination of what should be the locus of our political struggle and the source of our cultural identity. Is the struggle for control of the modern nation state really worth it given our chance of success and its undeniable costs? If the nation state itself is an impediment to the kind of change we want and need, then we need to come up with an alternative. A debate needs to happen about what that might be. National Anarchism proposes quite small tribal enclaves. I just think that’s jumping to conclusions.

1985 San Francisco sectarian violence from Anarcho-Primitivist Bob Black

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:49:15 -0800

form ‘Liste Anarchist!’ by Chaz Bufe
http://www.seesharppress.com/listen.html

As unethical as the Fifth Estate’s actions have been, however, the Fifth Estate staff have not physically assaulted those with whom they disagree. Others have. Over the last two years a relentless campaign of verbal abuse, physical harassment and violent attacks has been carried out against Processed World (PW).

Two years ago, Robert C. Black, Jr., attorney at law (also known as Bob Black and “The Last International”) began to attack Processed World in various publications, among them Bluff, the SRAF Bulletin, and San Francisco’s Appeal to Reason. Shortly after these printed attacks began, flyers were posted in the San Francisco financial district revealing the names of writers using pseudonyms in Processed World; this appears to have been an attempt to cause them to lose employment. (Most of the people who work on the magazine are office workers.) Flyers were also posted in staffers’ neighborhoods vilifying them and listing their home addresses and telephone numbers. When staff members removed these violations of their privacy, there were immediate cries of “censorship” from Black’s cronies. (There was, of course, no indication on the leaflets as to who produced or posted them.)

In 1984 the attacks were stepped up. Processed World’s office lock was epoxied and in September a worker on the magazine received a middle-of-the-night death threat against her and her baby. In October, Robert C. Black, Jr., attorney at law, filed a complaint with the San Francisco Planning Commission over alleged zoning violations in Processed World’s office. The following month, PW was forced to move after the Planning Commission discovered that the roof in its office was only seven feet high rather than the required eight. PW then moved to its present location in a warehouse shared with several other people. That same month an ax was placed through the magazine’s office door in the middle of the night.

In 1985 things really got nasty. During the spring someone began slashing copies of the magazine with razor blades in bookstores in San Francisco and the East Bay. In April, flyers (again bearing no indication of their origin) urging that PW’s new office be “torched,” and which listed the new address, were posted in the financial district. In the same month Robert C. Black produced a xeroxed tract noteworthy primarily for his vicious personal attacks and disgusting vulgarity (calling one person whom he doesn’t even know a “butt fuckee,” for example). The next step was physical assault. On April 19, Black was arrested for physically assaulting a Processed World staff member hawking copies of the magazine on the sidewalks of the financial district. His arrest came about in a curious way. After the incident occurred, Black went running to the cops in an attempt to get the PW staffer arrested for assault. But fortunately, several passersby had witnessed the incident and identified Black as the assailant. So Black was arrested, hauled off and booked. In May he failed to show up for his arraignment on the battery charge and a warrant was issued for his arrest.Finally, in June, one of the residents of the warehouse in which Processed World has its office was returning home from a show at 3:00 a.m., and when he got home he found a person pouring gasoline all over the front of the building.

All of this is very disturbing. The reaction (more accurately, non-reaction) of many San Francisco anarchists, is perhaps even more disturbing. While all of these extremely vicious, FBI provocateur-type actions were being perpetrated, one continually heard comments among anarchists, such as: “Why should we worry about it? They’re (the PW staff) not really anarchists”; “Fuck both sides. I’ve heard [a PW staffer] badmouthing us. Why should we help them?” And, perhaps most revealingly: “Sure, Bob Black is a destructive nut. But he hasn’t attacked us.” So, many anarchists just sat on their hands. After all, it wasn’t their problem. Instead of sticking to the principle, “An injury to one is an injury to all,” they adopted the more convenient “Every man for himself!”

Even worse, a few marginalist anarcho-sectarians, because of personal feuds with Processed World staff members, actually sided against them. One individual took a cue from the “right to life” honchos’ comments about abortion clinic bombings, and wrote in the journal of the Bound Together Bookstore that he wouldn’t do such things himself, but that he could “understand” the motivations of those who make anonymous death threats. It speaks volumes of the destructive effects of sectarianism that it can lead any anarchist to condone such cowardly, provocateur-like acts.

Anarchism is not amoral egotism by Chaz Bufe (2002). As does any avant garde social movement,...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:56:53 -0800

Anarchism is not amoral egotism by Chaz Bufe (2002). As does any avant garde social movement, anarchism attracts more than its share of flakes, parasites, and outright sociopaths, persons simply looking for a glamorous label to cover their often-pathological selfishness, their disregard for the rights and dignity of others, and their pathetic desire to be the center of attention. These individuals tend to give anarchism a bad name, because even though they have very little in common with actual anarchists—that is, persons concerned with ethical behavior, social justice, and the rights of both themselves and others—they’re often quite exhibitionistic, and their disreputable actions sometimes come into the public eye. To make matters worse, these exhibitionists sometimes publish their self-glorifying views and deliberately misidentify those views as “anarchist.”
The full absurdity of identifying amoral egotism—essentially “I’ll do what I damn well please and fuck everybody else”—with anarchism will become apparent in short order when we’ll consider what anarchism actually is.

Zerzan on the Decolonize Oakland vote

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:28:56 -0800

And we’re also seeing at the same time, and it seems like so many things are moving so fast… after what happened up at Scottsdale last week, on this past Sunday in Oakland, the Occupy Oakland considered the proposal to change the name Occupy Oakland to De-Occupy Oakland, or De-Colonize Oakland. And this is a direct challenge, I believe, from what was accomplished in Scottsdale, this kind of emerging joint effort, the realization of its primary importance. What happened was that the proposal was narrowly defeated. They needed a two-thirds majority to change it; a sizeable minority, just over a third blocked that. I wasn’t there; but some of us have had some pipelines to that long discussion. There’s an awesome YouTube video of some of the highlights of this 3-hour debate.

I thought, we are seeing a real clarification. We’re seeing what’s really at stake, and I think we’re coming to a kind of crossroads. And one thing that stood out: it’s making certain choices a little more recognizable or a little harder to avoid, it seems to me. One of the people spoke in support of not changing the name, in support of sticking with Occupy, in support of not recognizing in a name the importance of De-Occupy, these lands are occupied, we’re standing on stolen lands, those of us who are not Native. His statement was, “We need to defend our legacy.” This in support of the word Occupy, that identification.

Well, what is that legacy that’s so important to defend? It’s nothing else but the legacy of the Left—that glorious eurocentric commitment to Progress. How much more Progress can we stand, can anybody stand, can the species of this planet stand? And yet they continue with this leftist program that consists of things like domestication, civilization, industrialism, mass society, mass production, industrial life, mass globalization, mass culture—some of these things are just so glaring, the difference between mass culture and all of its emptiness and pathology, compared to indigenous cultures. But these people cling to it.

Insider account: Zerzan the Green Anarchist versus Jensen the Green Maoist

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:21:26 -0800

Like the idea that the black bloc hates the Zapitistas. That primitivist author John Zerzan (who has not been in vogue among anarchists for a decade) is the primary ideologue of the black bloc. That the black bloc is made up of people who oppose all organization. Or that those who are in the black bloc cease to become human beings but instead become beasts.

I don’t know whether Chris Hedges is doing it on purpose or not, but this is basically a hit piece written by Derrick Jensen against John Zerzan and the anarchists who have spurned him. It is a transparent attempt to sway people over to Derrick Jensen’s cult of personality revolutionary movement “Deep Green Resistance.” (which has as one its other public leaders Lierre Keith, someone who makes public statements that are rabidly and blindly transphobic)

The actual premise of the article is that anarchists, who have rejected Derrick Jensen for being authoritarian, are bad. If this article were genuinely about the black bloc and Occupy, there is no reason to talk to Jensen at all. There is probably no shortage of public intellectuals who hate the black bloc who actually have anything at all to do with Occupy with whom he could have spoken. Using Zerzan as the purported ideologue of the black bloc though is where this subtext becomes completely transparent: Zerzan and Jensen are the two most important “anti-civilization” theorists and they are at odds with one another. Zerzan argues for an anarchist, non-authoritarian way of dismantling civilization. Derrick Jensen has open and widely-published aspirations of being the figurehead of a hierarchical anti-civilization group. Green Maoists, as it were.

Zerzan’s radio show responds to the Hedges and Jensen...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:23:33 -0800

Zerzan’s radio show responds to the Hedges and Jensen critique. Listen to the first 20 minutes. The viewer call in segment really shows the ressentiment of this community towards ‘Liberals’, ‘Arm Chair Activists’

Jasper sez ‘Anarcho-primitivist reaction to Hedges. The anarchist have unified. Listen to...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:17:11 -0800

Jasper sez ‘Anarcho-primitivist reaction to Hedges. The anarchist have unified. Listen to Zerzans radio show for a look inside the culture’ from http://undustrialism.com/2012/02/12/the-hedge-row-continues/

What a week. The fallout of Chris Hedges’ rantings continues to spread, uniting the anarchist world in a ways we haven’t seen in decades. The constant flow of replies to Hedges’ rantings has now moved from bloggers and activists to some of the the best known names in anarchism today, and spreading all over the radical sectors of the internet. Ironically, Hedges may have inadvertently proven his point – poorly constructed attacks only serve to benefit the intended target.

I don’t really know what would constitute an “official response” from the anarchist movement, but if you’ve managed to become the subject of essays by David Graeber, Peter Gelderloos and Kevin Carson within a few days of each other, that’s got to count for something. John Zerzan’s radio show has replied (though he’s off in India at the moment), Occupy Oakland has weighed in, as have a great many other radicals.

Chris Hedges’ Epic Fail – Solidarity with Anarchists – Occupy Oakland
Concerning the Violent Peace Police – David Graeber
The Surgeons of Occupy – Peter Gelderloos
Should Occupy Use Violence? (I Dunno, Should the Cops?) – Kevin Carson
Anarchy Radio (John Zerzan’s show) Responds
Violence Begets Defeat or Too Much Pacifism? – Michael Albert (not an anarchist, but Chomsky couldn’t be reached for comment)

All of these should make clear the profound and visceral reaction to Hedges’ writings. In light of this, and the large-scale debate which has ensued, he clarified his comments in an interview, or at least attempted to. This piece confirms, without a doubt, that the man has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about, but we’re assured that he suffered through several entire hours of Anarchy Radio for the purposes of research. He also makes very dubious claims about the Civil Rights movement, and still seems totally unaware that Derrick Jensen is a member of the nasty “anti-civilization” crowd he’s describing.

Anti Union Zerzan Quote

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:59:52 -0800

For unions there was never a question of either evolution or revolution, still less of socialism. Unions go no further than attempting to obtain, for the exploited worker, conditions of labor which are less intolerable and less humiliating, but also, as time has demonstrated, more profitable for capital.
- Unions Against Revolution, G. Munnis & J. Zerzan

Occupy with Art Mexico “on March 3, 2012, the hemispheric...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:34:31 -0800

Occupy with Art Mexico “on March 3, 2012, the hemispheric Institute of Performance and politics and Low Lives: Occupy!” -an international platform designed to enable artists and audiences who sympathize with the movement Occupy support occupations globally - will broadcast performances, actions and happenings in live via the Internet while they occur in real time around the world. Occupy With Art protests, as well as the multiple perspectives and experiences related to this movement, support the creative freedom of the artists to imagine new worlds and inspire audiences in the future.

Occupy With Art (formerly called Occupennial) is a member of the Working Group of art and culture. We are artists, writers, curators and art professionals provide our skills to produce events and artistic and cultural projects with a particular focus in OWS itself as social artistic process.

The hemispheric Institute of Performance and politics is a multilingual and interdisciplinary consortium working in collaboration with institutions, artists, scholars and activists in the Americas. The organization works in the juncture of research, artistic expression, and politics to explore practices bodily - or performance - as a vehicle for the creation of new meanings and the transmission of cultural values, memory and identity.

Through an international call for submissions was selected the proposal of the artistic collective Mexican project 21 (Dir.) Art: José Alberto Patiño) to collaborate with this initiative.

We invite artists to open their eyes and mind to present a radical re-imagining of the ways exist and interact: 1. terrible ineptitude of our system of Government Bank to thousands of people to a precarious life, limitations and oppression. This six years has been characterized by the excessive use of public force against protester citizenship. Several cases of defenders of human rights and journalists persecuted and executed; thousands of cases of killings and enforced disappearances against women where it is presumed the co-responsibility of the authorities, cases of abuse of power, impunity and illicit enrichment of all levels of Government; Members who assemble in evident State of drunkenness; diversion of funds resulting in millions of dollars debt to public finances; blatant sexism; crimes of hate by homophobia, lesbophobia and transphobia; prejudice and discrimination of all kinds promoted from the mass media; dispossession and annihilation of indigenous peoples and their culture; curtailment of civil rights; Racismo…

2 Project 21 (collective artistic multidisciplinary / proyecto21mx.blogspot.com) proposes the intervention of the public space and the proclamation of the fiction as a means of analysis and reflection, political and social, but also as a means of expressive healing. Since 2005 we have involved several streets, colonies and architectural spaces or civic cultural audiences, through a proposed aesthetic that combines the tent Theatre, as well as aspects of the performance, the intervention of spaces, alternative fashion and flash mob.

3. On March 3, from 6-10 pm (N. York time) will carry out a series of coordinated actions with a total duration of 4.48 minutes, whose object is the temporary appropriation of an emblematic area of the city, representing and expressing an ideology of “outraged occupation” of the common space.

4 We call on women and male artists, literatxs, cantautorxs, scenic artists, visual artists, visual artists, musicians, performers and people interested to join the proposal that coordinate and thus described: 5. A melody and selected lyrics of a group invited Latin American, serves as a trigger for the sequences: Group 1: outraged society. They are people dressed as civilians who “can pass unnoticed” in any space daily, during the first 2 minutes of the ephemeral intervention, are located in a designated space to intervene, “spot” where folding campaign houses, sleeping bags, clothes and utensils related to food, are placed letreros-consigna occupies, and elements which concern a “camping”. They establish “guard” in situ, in silence, flying objects designated in a single coordinated movement (lifting the arms and showcasing the idea - object - concept). The last 30 - 48 seconds of action are used to retrieve the elements and disappear from the site.

Group 2: consumer society. A selection of people formed mainly by performers, dancers, musicians, actors, actresses, visual artists and models, re interpret space as a catwalk fashion exhibiting costumes using recycled or decadent materials for their clothing, making reference to the dynamics of consumption exacerbated and the precarious distribution and use of resources. From its design, the dressing rooms incorporate demands on specific cases of impunity in our country. During the first 2 minutes of the intervention, emulating to tourists and curious of a largely complacent society, are distributed as living dummies in space, to proceed with brief coordinated sequences interpret social antipathy as unintentional support to impunity and the disproportion.

6. The details of the place that will be involved, as well as the conceptual lines that determine the use of certain objects and ideas, will be provided on a confidential basis with the stakeholders to confirm your interest and participation through our links in social networks and electronic media (proyecto21mx@gmail.com, http://proyecto21mx.blogspot.com/, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Proyecto-21/55527751494, https://www.facebook.com/groups/118512716551/)(, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alberta-C%C3%A1nada-sic-/312122185506684).

7. By means of a selection or direct invitation, will determine the Group of people that will adorn one of the designs that characterize us and shaped the Group 2: consumer society.

8. The invitation extends to fotógraf@s, videographers, reporters, media, blogger@s and interested in recording the action during its transmission and the process of coordination and production.

9 Friday 17 February will be published an account number to receive economic donations that will be used for the production process of the visual proposal - necessary ephemeral for this intervention, as well as supporting us in operating expenses and for actions that project 21 take place throughout the month of March, including our legal Constitution. Participation in the proposal to Occupy with art from March 3 is free and free, although prior to coordination contact and confirmation is required. Thank you in advance for your valuable collaboration.

“City of Mexico, on February 15, 2012.”

'Disillusioned young people make up the bulk of Zerzan's core support in the US and he is widely hailed as the philosophical leader of the burgeoning so-called Black Bloc anarchist movement

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:00:53 -0800

Fortnight, 2001
‘Disillusioned young people make up the bulk of Zerzan’s core support in the US and he is widely hailed as the philosophical leader of the burgeoning so-called Black Bloc anarchist movement based loosely in Zerzan’s hometown of Eugene in Oregon. Eugene Anarchists were widely reported to be the Black-Masked protesters who thrashed downtown Seattle during the WTO’ in 1999.

Jasper sez ‘It is significant that the first West Coast Black Bloc action was conducted by primitivists who want to destroy civilization and become hunter gatherers. There are many Seattle anarchists among #Occupy Oakland’s Insurrectionary Radicals.’