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> From: Mark Mendoza <markanarch at gmail.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 2:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Graeber responds to Hedges
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>this is the third or fourth time i've heard David claim he 'started' OWS --
>any thoughts, folks? (the cynic in me wants to recall the classic
>stereotype of contemporary anarchists as those who, lacking their own
>theories and movements of substance, irrationally claim others as their
>own: e.g. the Peter Marshall method: Gandhi? he's one of us! MLK?
>anarchist to the core! etc. lol)
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>On 9 February 2012 12:30, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'd been waiting for this one.
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>> "I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who
>> wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was
>> deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York.
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>> "I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. While I
>> have never personally engaged in acts of property destruction, I have on
>> more than one occasion taken part in Blocs where property damage has
>> occurred. (I have taken part in even more Blocs that did not engage in such
>> tactics. It is a common fallacy that this is what Black Blocs are all
>> about. It isn’t.)
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>> "I was hardly the only Black Bloc veteran who took part in planning the
>> initial strategy for Occupy Wall Street. In fact, anarchists like myself
>> were the real core of the group that came up with the idea of occupying
>> Zuccotti Park, the '99%' slogan, the General Assembly process, and, in
>> fact, who collectively decided that we would adopt a strategy of Gandhian
>> non-violence and eschew acts of property damage. Many of us had taken part
>> in Black Blocs. We just didn’t feel that was an appropriate tactic for the
>> situation we were in ..."
>>
>> http://nplusonemag.com/concerning-the-violent-peace-police
>> --
>> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
>> lytlað."
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