slogans

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>  The slogan you mention -- "Capitalism?  No Thanks!  We'll burn your
>>  fucking banks!" -- never resonated with me (and I imagine I'm to the
>>  left of 99.99% of Americans as far as endorsement of civil
>>  disobedience for a left cause and the like are concerned), so I think
>>  it didn't resonate with most passersby in _Seattle_ and other
>>  locations in the USA either.  I figure that the slogan sounded cute
>>  to some, because it was clear that those who were saying it _never
>>  really meant it_.  It was just radical posturing.  Perhaps, the
>>  movement needs slogans that participants actually intend to put into
>>  practice (and not just in the WEF protest in NYC).
>
>It resonates with me and probably many people in the Global South.
>
>When you've been unemployed for almost a year and the banks and credit
>crad companies harass you daily over the phone, one has lots of
>fantasies about burning banks.
>
>The photos of destroyed ATMs in Argentina have been really heartwarming.
>
>I'll tell you something, when you have little to lose, an entire range
>of possibilities open up.
>
><< Chuck0 >>

Destroying ATMs (& other physical facilities) doesn't make much dent 
in the power of banks, credit companies, and the like, as they can 
always build more of them, whereas organizing debtors' cartels might.
-- 
Yoshie

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