[lbo-talk] How the Black Bloc Occupied Oakland

[Nicholas Roberts]

We need to acknowledge that anarchists of varying stripes founded and
remain at the decentralized centers of the OWS movement, whatever
their talk of leaderlessness or the self-negation of their own
influence. We have to hope their New York comrades are more advanced.
After all that has happened here, Occupy Oakland's General Assembly
has not sanctioned a statement on the efficacy of protesters
intentionally provoking the police to riot. We will never get one
because provocation is the only game that anarchists know, because we
only talk of violence vs. non-violence, and because General Assemblies
are designed to be manipulated by anarchists. Thus we condone those
who condone those who condone childish but dangerous provocation and
let them lead us into a dark period of reaction that will smother any
revolution they promise.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Nicholas Roberts
<nicholas at themediasociety.org> wrote:
> you don't hear much about Occupy Oakland anymore, and I'd say, this is why...
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> How the Black Bloc Occupied Oakland
> Can the movement be sustainable if it won't condemn violence?
> By Rachel Swan | November 09, 2011
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> http://m.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/how-the-black-bloc-occupied-oakland/Content?oid=3036670&showFullText=true
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