second meeting of The Summit Against Everything

Submitted by Tacks on 9 November, 2007 - 10:31.

[Too delicious not to post]

Quote:
Following the first and succesful meeting to organise a summit of anarchists, anti-authoritarian and autonomists in London, we are meeting again this Saturday 10th of November at 4pm in room S50, St Clements building, London School of Economics.

See how to get to the LSE:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.htm

and here is a campus map:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm

(Original callout from http://www.occupiedlondon.org/against_everything )

It has been floating around everyone's mind for quite some time. In
fact - it has been argued from the very beginning of this wonderful adventure,
the manifestations against summits of the sovereign. The question has
always been there: Sure we need to meet - and our counter-summits are
an excellent opportunity for doing so. But why follow them around in their
summits, why give them the tactical advantage of selecting where and
when our battles are to take place?

We are not an anarchist travelling circus, nor should we be focusing
exclusively on the meetings of the sovereign to express our anger.
Their meetings merely represent and reflect a fraction of capital's
barbarism, inhumanity and exploitation. We know that and yet, for quite some years
now, so much of our energy is spent in co-forming predefined spectacles
with them; we are first role actors but the script is not ours.

For all its positive outcomes (and there were many), the counter-summit
of Rostock reminded us something we should have never forgotten. Win in
their game playing by their rules and you've lost. For a moment, we cried
“victory” in the fields and roads of Rostock. What had been set as our
counter-summit's main goal was achieved: All roads leading to
Heiligendamm, the venue of the G8 summit, were blocked off - and yet
those trapped at that very moment were us, not the state leaders.

Are we trapped? What direction do we go now, having achieved the aim of
our counter-summit, only to find ourselves back at point zero? This is
not an easy question and we surely do not intend to answer it alone. We
have booked a room at this year's Anarchist Bookfair in London, to allow for
some preliminary discussion*. We hope this will be the beginning of an
organising process leading to the first counter-summit against much
more than yet another summit of the sovereign. Rather than waiting for them
to decide where and when to meet, no longer running behind them, we'll
jump on the driver's seat and decide this for ourselves. For once, the where
and when questions should be answered by us.

Where? We say London. If there is one place that can aptly symbolise
all of global capital's barbarism, inhumanity and exploitation, this must
be our city. However, both this and the when question are to be answered
in the bookfair meeting and the ones that will hopefully follow them. We
do not pretend to have any pre-set answers to these questions, only lust
and energy to co-form the answers with all interested comrades. What we do
know is that it's finally time to move on from organising against
single-issued summits of power; it is time to attack capital in its
totality, in the everyday, in the spaces in which it rules. It is time
for a Summit Against Everything!

-(ends)-

so much fucking win grin

9 November, 2007 - 11:26

Seems to be the season for commemorative kettles. I guess the ten year anniversary of J18 isn't that far away..

9 November, 2007 - 11:32

Very cool name.

9 November, 2007 - 11:37

DESTROY EVERYTHING!

9 November, 2007 - 12:04
guydebordisdead wrote:
DESTROY EVERYTHING!

EVERYDAY!

(actual graffiti from greece)

9 November, 2007 - 12:07

Ladytron fans?

9 November, 2007 - 12:48
catch wrote:
I guess the ten year anniversary of J18 isn't that far away..

Now i feel old!

9 November, 2007 - 13:29

I think it's a pretty good idea.

10 November, 2007 - 19:06
Thora wrote:
I think it's a pretty good idea.

Even if you do say so yourself...?

11 November, 2007 - 00:47

You're uninvited Tacks.

11 November, 2007 - 14:19

rats.

11 November, 2007 - 14:39

Tacks, no offence, but why did you start this thread?

11 November, 2007 - 15:11

To bitch. And to hope Jack and revol would bitch along with him I'd guess.

11 November, 2007 - 15:22

I think it's a good idea, actually. It means we're on the offence against capital for once, and not just reacting to it's movements, not just responding to their plans. It's nice to see us taking the initiative for once.

11 November, 2007 - 15:41
Quote:
Rather than waiting for them
to decide where and when to meet, no longer running behind them, we'll
jump on the driver's seat and decide this for ourselves. For once, the where
and when questions should be answered by us.

cool

11 November, 2007 - 19:14
guydebordisdead wrote:
Ladytron fans?

... you touch. bad reference though.

11 November, 2007 - 19:17

i remeber ladytron being alright. before the scene became the scene grin

laugh out loud

don't own anything by them anymore mind.

12 November, 2007 - 10:27
jimmer wrote:
Tacks, no offence, but why did you start this thread?

Jimmer, no offence, but why did you ask that question?

12 November, 2007 - 10:31
Thora wrote:
To bitch. And to hope Jack and revol would bitch along with him I'd guess.

bitch?! About what?

I thought it highly important that residents of london be made aware there would shortly be a summit against everything in their fair city. The time has come Thora - the lines are drawn.

Are you for something?

OR ARE YOU AGAINST EVERYTHING?

12 November, 2007 - 10:34
Thora wrote:
We do not pretend to have any pre-set answers to these questions, only lust
and energy to co-form the answers with all interested comrades.

oh behave! embarrassed

12 November, 2007 - 18:24
Tacks wrote:
jimmer wrote:
Tacks, no offence, but why did you start this thread?

Jimmer, no offence, but why did you ask that question?

Because at a time when libcom admins are being physically attacked for taking the piss out of ill conceived political endeavours, I think it's a bit inappropriate to start a thread that encourages more piss taking. I know you're not doing it to lump Jack/revol in the shit or anything (and to be fair anyone could've posted this, please don't feel I'm trying to single you out!), but I think you can see where I'm coming from!

Feel free to PM me if you want. smile

12 November, 2007 - 19:03

no need for PM - this event is organised by a group i am familiar with, and they are not attacking anyone. I think you can read too deeply into the other incident; for me, the lesson (if people want to learn it) is that you can take the piss - what you cannot do is utterly and totally cunt someone off. This is what i have always said. I enjoy the pisstakes and over the last year i have posted far too many myself - but going over the top and abusing people ruins it. Its not a pisstake then, is another depressing screaming fit. So far this thread is lighthearted and i expect it to remain so

smile

12 November, 2007 - 19:19

Sadly for some people political criticism and/or piss taking is enough to "totally cunt them off", I don't really agree with your assesment of 'the other incident' but I'm not prepared to have another thread discussing it. If this thread doesn't remain lighthearted it's going straight in the bin, and please don't encourage piss taking in the future!

More importantly, why are we even bothering to discuss this summit? grin

12 November, 2007 - 19:35
jimmer wrote:
If this thread doesn't remain lighthearted it's going straight in the bin, and please don't encourage piss taking in the future!

Fuck's sake. The terrorists have won.

13 November, 2007 - 09:47
Refused wrote:
jimmer wrote:
If this thread doesn't remain lighthearted it's going straight in the bin, and please don't encourage piss taking in the future!

Fuck's sake. The terrorists have won.

Exactly. We shouldn't censor piss-taking because some morons can't differentiate between different people. But then by the same token people will give a platform to should defend it, especially if people are having a go at us for things they themselves actually said on our site.

13 November, 2007 - 18:55

Perhaps I misphrased that, I don't think it's a good idea for people to start threads with no other purpose than taking the piss out of something that's clearly shit. Mainly because if somethings so shit that it's worth taking the piss out of, I don't see why we should even bother discussing it on the forums and give it the oxygen of publicity (what with libcom being the largest and fastest growing 'anarchist' site in the UK).

Obviously I'm all for free speech on the interweb etc. and think it's a bigger issue that some people don't quite get it.

13 November, 2007 - 19:01
Jack wrote:
I think it's a good idea, actually.

I just got the joke. grin

13 November, 2007 - 19:07

To make a valid criticism and not just take the piss. Libcom is often criticised for using 'big words' and being out of touch. Yet this event is so inward, as is the magazine calling for it. Articles by Baudrillard as well as pieces on the black bloc (what is it 2001?). A further push is required...

13 November, 2007 - 20:23

So you lot won't be coming to the summit then?

13 November, 2007 - 20:51
Thora wrote:
So you lot won't be coming to the summit then?

grin

13 November, 2007 - 20:53

i'd like to but it seems a but weird tbh neutral