Protester Shot in Head, Run Over in Genoa

Joe R. Golowka joeG at ieee.org
Sun Jul 22 17:42:23 PDT 2001


From: "/ dave /" <arouet at winternet.com>
> And Joe's
> comment that, "In that context, any violence used at this protest is
> basically self-defense by the working class against the exploiting
> class" is all well and good, but you've got to convince untold millions
> that the images they're seeing on TV and the internet of two human
> beings in a small vehicle being set upon by others correlate with that
> and "sit right" without unspoken contradictions rising to the surface.

We will never get rid of capitalism until the control of corporate media over people's mind's is broken. They are one of our enemies, I am quite wary of pandering to them. Trying to do things which will cause corporate media to portray us positively and not doing things that will cause them to portray us negatively will effectively give the capitalists control over our movement. They control the media and the media decides what looks good and bad. If we always do what looks good, they can just change around what looks good and get us to do what they want. What needs to be done is to expand the reach of independant media and weaken corporate media. In the US, where I live, I don't advocate the use of the violent tactics used in Genoa. I'm not familiar enough with the Italian situation to say whether they are appropriate. But we should always remember who the real agressors are - capitalists and the State.


> The bottom line is, it's a pity, as always, that so many individual
> human beings have been compelled to fight out such battles against each
> other in the streets while the real culprits and instigators of woe
> convene safely behind closed doors. Would that some of these conflicts
> and issues could visit them in a more immediate fashion sometime soon.

Agreed.

Joe



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