New wave of repression in the US
Apr 22 2006 12:13
Admin - split from this thread where it was mentioned there was nothing on the forums about an US govt. crackdown on progressive groups
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Bear in mind, the americans make enough noise without libcom's help
I meant more on the boards. There's no reason for it to go on the newswire or anything because it's all over the place as you say. It's just that most of it is bare facts, which is useful, or crap about witchhunts and hysterical discussions about fascism and going underground or whatever.
I guess there's just not much to say about it, beyond, 'the FBI have gone on the offensive'.
Apr 22 2006 12:15
#2
Could someone post a link with a basic run-down of what's been going on? And what prompted it? That sounds pretty crazy - and Wills, what do you mean by "suicided"? any links?
Apr 22 2006 13:37
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Yeah, it'd be interesting to learn from your experience for when it (really) happens to us. 
Apr 22 2006 13:59
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The main attention seems to be on "eco-terrorists" from what little I've seen.
Looks like the Common Ground people (New Orleans group) have had some attention as well:
Apr 22 2006 16:28
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The main attention seems to be on "eco-terrorists" from what little I've seen.
Aye, as I said,
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groups who have rather catholic notions of what direct action is (martyrdom)
This was split off from libcom critique, right?
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That sounds pretty crazy
how so, 'crazy', John?
I don't know how to post links but the suicide was of a memeber of Catalyst infoshop, implicated in a bombing. ELF, yes.
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William C. (Bill) Rodgers, aged 40, of Prescott, Arizona, was found dead in a jail cell in Flagstaff early on December 22nd. The Coconino County sheriff's office and medical examiner said that he had committed suicide by placing a plastic bag over his head while he was in his one-person cell.
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"I can understand why Bob Avakian has drawn so many ardent supporters. He speaks to people's alienation from a warlike and capitalist society, and holds out the possibility for radical change."
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
(commenting on Bob Avakian's memoir, From Ike to Mao and Beyond
Plus he is a 'celebrity co-signer' on teh World Can't Wait drive/front, along w/Gore Vidal and some other heavies. May sound ephemeral, but Zinn pulls a lot of weight here...think he wrote an intro for Avakian as well, will check up.
Not trying to be sensationailst at all , this is all quite plain. The IWW stuff you can get at their site or in the Industrial Worker, a Wobbly dancer from Atlanta was grilled on her politics/affiliations, etc., and more.i'm sorry I don't have time to elucidate all the links (would for a magazine tho) but I thought this was all common knowledge.
Apr 22 2006 16:45
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WillsWilde - you can post links by just cut and pasting the url
If it's a long link or if you want to be really tidy you can use
[url=http://www.willswilde.com]willswilde[/url] to turn a word into a link.
like this: willswilde
Apr 22 2006 16:52
#7
so the brackets bury themselves but provide the link? I'm sorry, we are not all computer literate.
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WillsWilde - you can post links by just cut and pasting the url
If it's a long link or if you want to be really tidy you can use
[url=http://www.willswilde.com]willswilde[/url] to turn a word into a link.
like this: willswilde
Apr 22 2006 16:57
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yup thats it, i have pasted catch's post into yours. Now u can hit edit on your post and see what it looks like.
The [code] [/code] tags are used when you want code not be used by the board (i.e. processed) but u just want that code to show up so ppl can see what u r tlaking about.
Apr 22 2006 17:00
#9
Aye cheers, I'll be a linkin fool from now on.
Seems anyone who can paste a link (cite references) can be a 'journalist'.
...but no more outta me till someone writes in the situ-chain poem, heh, heh. 
Apr 22 2006 20:17
#10
It's basically all this: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/future/greenscare/.
We've had people dying in custody, agent provocateurs and paid informants: all the same stuff that happened in the sixties and seventies, although not quite on the same scale. This coupled with an apparent increase in low level harrassment (IWW members getting picked up and interviewed, Food Not Bombs being subjected to 'environmental health' inspections and that sort of crap) and a few people that look like they've been simply been fitted up (http://www.supportdaniel.org/).
Apr 22 2006 20:21
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So are people who burn cell phone towers down and the IWW the same kind of people in the US?
Apr 22 2006 20:24
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Not necessarily. We know each other, though. I am non violent/non-pacifist...would like to raise children...all these quaint, unheroic things, heh, heh. I respect all those who fight but question tactics most heavily and am deeply saddened when I find that young idealists are getting locked up. It's a safe bet that most Anarchs in the U.S. with any organizing experience are being watched, there are many proven cases of infiltration leading to arrest, all been discussed here already. State powers of surveillance are out of control now.
Apr 24 2006 21:19
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Catch wrote:
http://www.willswilde.com
"safari can't find the server"
Apr 24 2006 21:34
#14
see this thread if at all interested, would be great if foks are up for it!
Apr 24 2006 21:38
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newyawka wrote:
Catch wrote:
http://www.willswilde.com"safari can't find the server"
It was an example 
Apr 24 2006 21:52
#16
damn. fooled again.
Apr 24 2006 22:29
#17
actually for nut's sake our 'bands' site is http://thewillswilde.com/ but it is completely obsolete, we have myspace tho.
Point being ther needs to more communication in the english-speaking world, in the Anglo-American empire, libcom are doing well but the gravity of the situation for ant-authoritarian activists in the U.S. is no small matter. It hasn't yet reached 'cinematic' levels of paranoia, but there are some very fucked up things going on. There is solidartity between the various group, but if it's traceable you cang get your ass in a sling.
People are getting busted, Wobs are being hauled in for interrogation, an infoshop was raided and members jailed (one suicided), there is a general and palpable unease/unsettling tenor of paranoia especially amongst groups who have rather catholic notions of what direct action is (martyrdom). There's much more, Libcom has more news than I can recount here, AWA indymedia/IWW/etc.
The best chance is for highly visible, community-oriented resistance initiatives squared aroud 'border issues' and the war...around imperialism..around global capital. Statist-Communist groups have claimed a huge toehold on the anti-war movement in the form of front organizations. Howard Zinn has all but endorsed the 'Revolutionary Communist Party'. This may seem like goofy exaggeration'conspiracy shit, but the RCP has an office in the Mission -same building as my credit union...which has a mural of Emma Goldman on the front sidewalk (she spoke there when it was the labor temple.)
We know something's bound to happen, we don't know what our how to prepare. America sleeps with the TV on. The lies invade our very dreams.