Does OWS have the internal wherewithal to expel malignant disruptive forces? Would seem to be a basic weakness of this anarchist organizational form.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:
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> Unfortunately there is one individual who is NOT a drummer but who claims
> to speak for the drummers who has been a deeply disruptive force, attacking
> the drumming rep during the GA and derailing his proposal, disrupting the
> community board meeting, as well as the OWS community relations meeting. She
> has also created strife and divisions within the POC caucus, calling many
> members who are not 'on her side' "Uncle Tom", "the 1%", "Barbie" "not
> Palestinian enough" "Wall Street politicians" "not black enough"
> "sell-outs", etc. People have been documenting her disruptions, and her
> campaign of misinformation, and instigations. She also has a documented
> history online of defamatory, divisive and disruptive behavior within the
> LGBT (esp. transgender) communities. Her disruptions have made it hard to
> have constructive conversations and productive resolutions to conflicts in a
> variety of forums in the past several days.
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