Joe R. Golowka End the American Police State! Anarchist FAQ - http://www.infoshop.org/faq
"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, and socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality." -- Mikhail Bakunin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lakota" <lakota at disinfo.net> To: <anok4u2-list at anok4u2.org>; <la-anarchists at lists.tao.ca>; <cuaf at egroups.com>; <la2k-colorado at egroups.com>; <NAAC-Un-mod at egroups.com>; <UnitedAnarchistFront at egroups.com>; <seattle_la at egroups.com>; <anarchism at egroups.com>; <anok4u2k at egroups.com>; <movementau at egroups.com>; <positiveforce at egroups.com>; <aars at egroups.com>; <anarchy_history at egroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 11:32 PM Subject: [anarchism] CALL TO ACTION: THE EVOLUTION OF A MOVEMENT
> CALL TO ACTION: THE EVOLUTION OF A MOVEMENT
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> The Corporate Media has used the strategy of blackout and misinformation
regarding recent protests in the last century. Unlike in the past where
civil rights movements, and anti-war in the 50's-70's when coverage was
extensive and global, the current media often lies and spreads far more
misinformation then even the police. Since, the 60's when corporations and
government were slightly (SLIGHTLY) less separate, the media gave
information to the people with a less (LESS) biased stance. Now that the
corporations have bought the government, the global economy, and especially,
the media the peoples number one source for information, they have become
all in the same.
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> Protestors are now confronted with the grim reality that protests and
demonstrations cannot change public policy. Their function is to turn the
spotlight of public opinion on the abuse of power. If the national news
media ignores the civil disobedience in Los Angeles as it did in
Philadelphia, then we won't have accomplished a thing, all that happens is
we all go home with police records and black eyes.
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> "The police don't care about our issues. The convention delegates and
candidates clearly don't care about our issues. How can the activism
community make the national media sit up and take notice in Los Angeles? How
can we break through this corporate news blackout? We cannot in good
conscience go out onto the streets of Los Angeles until we know how we are
going to solve that problem." -Mark Dixon
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> The answer is simple. No longer will the traditional protests work, no
longer will we be able to spread any message with this new tactic in a
progressed society. Now we must realize that these institutions are one in
the same, the corporations own the police, the media, the 'elected'
officials, and the schools. The very people we are protesting against are
who we rely on to spread our message! I believe we should start many more
IMC like web sites, newspapers, radio, and public television broadcasts. The
Corporate Media is just as much our enemy corporations. Unlike the
corporations that exploit and destroy people, the corporate media
brainwashes our neighbors into hating us, spreads lies about us, promotes
the greed that pays them, and seeks the total totalitarianism of this
country.
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> It seems that now the only way to get our message across is we must take
our civil disobedience TO the media, we must MAKE them listen because we are
tired of begging. Now, we must use non-violent civil disobedience to disrupt
the media, block doors at TV stations, zero cooperation with them, disrupt
they're lie spreading messages, and possibly sabotage they're equipment that
transmits to propaganda and brainwashing machines located in every household
(television/radio). And remember vandalism is NOT violence, if you track the
money back, all those things were paid for by the same people who exploit
millions and support mass genocide overseas.
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> The new movement is suffering heavy casualties because it has not yet
adapted like the corporate run society has, they're tactics are changing and
defeating us, now its time for ours to change. Lets get the message out and
point the movement in the next logical direction. Without this step our
messages will never be heard. The advantage Martin Luther King, Ghandi, and
the 60's activists had was that there movements were heavily covered by the
media creating public sentiment, ours are heavily slandered by the media
creating public hatred of the very people trying to improve there lives and
protect human rights. Take a stand and evolve, we now know that our message
have not been heard using the current tactics.
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> Proposal:
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> -Start alternative media and support it.
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> -Protest, shut down, and use the means you are comfortable with to stop
the slander of our movement by a corporate run media.
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> This is the first call to action on anything like this. This will evolve
just as everything has, but we must realize that if we are to promote change
in society we must be able to embrace change ourselves.
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> ---Lakota
> (Vegan, Non-Conformist Youth, Activist, Anarchist)
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> Unite the MOVEMENT! We are all brothers!
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> Anarchists. Animal Rights Activists. Unions. Civil Rights Activists. Gays.
Aids. Police Brutality Activists. Reds, Blacks, Greens, Revolutionary,
Non-violence. Third World Justice... WHEN WILL WE RELIEZE WE ARE ONE IN THE
SAME? Stand for your right, to UNITE!
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