March marshals and peace police are a huge fucking problem not just in terms of institutional control but in terms of leftists just like not giving a fuck mostly out of respect for organizations or labor or whatever social capital organizing culture that writes disagreeing with tactics publicly off as a petty no-no. Fuck that tolerating that shit is liberalism. This is my happy space. Gr.

diversity of tactics is the most under utilized argument or underpinning common point of solidarity (looking at you, peeps who want unity) for resistance/ alternative action outside of dominant accepted political process. libs and fucks will recruit people and build capacity against resistance to capitalism and empire, even criminalizing people who resist and apologizing for the police. it's not about evading critique but about opening up and expanding /challenging the dominant ideas of acceptable or appropriate tactics. aka diversity of tactics/ deviating from pacifism/ usually *unfortunately* still nonviolence, but agitating the narrative of what violence is. accountability is important but to whom? who speaks for the community? who represents it? oppressed communities are not homogenous tactically and are usually subordinated back to a liberal bottom line of passive appeal. why is tactical escalation always discredited as tactics taken by white males? or racist state rhetoric of *outside agitators*? if you think agitating and risking arrest is useless, or de-arresting someone, or blocking arrests, or taking streets / whatevs sometimes you get targeted for some stupid shit! that's cool don't do it then but those actions aren't exactly exclusive of a broader long term strategy. and people immediately question the tactics, strategy or intent of people who end up involved in any sort of disruption. so since that is the dominant tendency i think it's necessary for us to counteract that in ways that solidify our own intent/affinity and make us prepared for repression (both by the state and by liberal or institutional organizations for change) reform utilizes and recuperates more direct agitational tactics for its own gain at the expense of the people who are resisting directly. it benefits from #diversityoftactics. DoT means bottom line you don't criminalize people whose tactics you disagree with. you are not complicit in state terrorism against people who are resisting regardless of whether you support their tactics or strategy. also sorry if i'm not crying about critiques of syndicalism or mainstream labor reform or reform in general which is not just a tactic but the dominant violently enforced process of change that excludes and reassigns power up the hierarchy

revolution is practice. not theory. ? it can take strategy but at this point constantly practicing agitation is necessary to demonstrate that resistance is possible. that managers and liberals can be challenged; city and local governments and police discredited; property disempowered.  the situation is dire; i could not scream loud enough. drones overhead and advertisements in my ears.

but all these are words. and almost everything has been said. aren't you ever frustrated? it won't get better without direct intervention toward alternatives and disruption; insurrection. it won't get better; it just depends on whose terms. 

"Whoever tries to prevent you from protecting the sacred lands, whoever proposes to destroy the sacred lands—they are the enemy—they do not deserve to be defended or pardoned, they do not deserve your sympathy—their driving force is not justice or virtue or goodness, their driving force is profit and they are willing to take your life as well as the lives of other beings in order to advance their profitable agenda. They are monsters. To attempt to reason with them, to attempt to have a dialogue with them or attempt to persuade them is illogical--they chose the side they stand on consciously and advance their agenda continuing colonization deliberately—that is enough of a reason for one to not even waste" our time with requests and to instead respond unapologetically with our actions."

peace policing as fuck at the prison solidarity action today... using their bodies to intimidate people off of the street saying that taking the street is like violence. using slurs and threatening shit. called us provocateurs.

guess what. the police tell organizers that if the organizers don't act a certain way or tell people what to do that they will then have justified reason to act out violently against us;  when you act on this information you are legitimizing their authority. this is a common tactic used to cause division and to try to get the organizers to control all actors in a potential situation thus limiting our potentiality/practice. or making us, like today, as ineffective as possible. when is the appropriate time to have these conversations? let's talk tactics or gtfo. 

don't speak for a group.  don't tell the police you can keep people in line and then expect people to fall in line. it's called CONSENT. or for godsake put your 'nonviolence statement' (taking a street is not violent) or tactical parameters on the internet so people can actually consent to what they are going to and have the time to challenge it beforehand. 

fuck radicals who think they have authority. you don't speak for the struggle. we're not here for your photo opppppppppppppppp get real. you aren't keeping me safe. don't get in my face and tell me you're keeping me safe! you don't get to speak for undocumented communities in order to control tactics. if you want a green zone for children and people who would like that, then let's do that. but don't talk about people's oppression and risk and use it as reason to stop and limit how we show solidarity. what does solidarity mean to you!?!?! DON'T FUCKING GET ON THE PODIUM AND TALK ABOUT UNITY LIKE ITS A PRETTY WORD TO SAY ON A MIC.

our struggle is not just against white supremacy, authority, misogyny and institutionalized patriarchy/heterosexism, the state and it's protection of capitalist wage slavery systems... our struggle is against the dominant narrative that keeps people consuming politics and ideas and the struggle of others without RESPONDING themselves. against passivity, the pacified mass, the dominant narrative that keeps us holding onto our comfort, looking for stability, and assimilating.

our struggle is against every urge within and outside of ourselves to commodify and manage resistance; against our learned response to avoid controversy, to police and socially coerce each other (and each others bodies), to pass and plug and play into the desires that have been created for us by capitalist imagination. 

we are taught to limit our own potential based upon preconceived moral practices so disconnected from our practical needs we are literally respecting the 'morality' of an oppressor: the oppressive dehumanizing war machine relying on hierarchy/subordination/surveillance and mass economic class war. the morality of warmongers deserves no respect. we are being attacked day in and day out; we are in a social war that dehumanizes and structures us into subordination on a psychological level. 

we have been captured by the capitalist creation of needs, passive choices made into 'obligations' we learn and appease to fulfill socioeconomic expectations. consuming and buying and performing roles, but also organizing ourselves for change in ways recuperated by liberalism and mythmade 'equality', supporting political practices that serve to keep the social order unchangeable. like the non-profit industrial complex, or the evolving academic-industrial complex that reinforces intellectual elitism. or student debt indentured servitude in hierarchical institutions we use to try to reclaim "learning", given access to privileged spaces in the hopes we can reappropriate knowledge to serve our communities... just to be recuperated into capitalist wage slavery so we can take care of our familias.

our struggle is against the cooptation of our struggle by the white apologist middle class agenda and the pacifying narrative of 'progress' or religious inevitability. we will not apologize for our repression and say thank you for listening to our pleas. our struggle is not just against the many transgressions and microaggressions that society and the privileged are entitled to treat us to- but against what we are told to do about it. 

revolt is a beautiful word.

"and what happens when that rage builds up and becomes a compulsion?"

revolt.

just so we're clear about March Against Monsanto

This is dangerous!

I will be posting this on other forums to demonstrate how some of the rhetoric here is intensely exclusive to those of us who do not adhere to pacifist principles. Also, if you are going to issue declarations please try to refrain from using ageist language such as "we must behave like adults not stoop to the level of violence" equating self defense or communities that are ridden with violence to childlike behavior or juvenile angst.  An assumption which only enables and justifies the use of state violence against us.

One wonders what you mean by 'bringing violent language' to your event page. Does my questioning or challenging of the 'tactical parameters' you've outlined here amount to 'violent language'? The tactic and language you are using- to appeal to the media and set an 'example' because you are not 'joking' is also very disrespectful of those who employ diverse tactics that are not strictly nonviolent, and are at times, directly more effective. Yet they are targeted, arrested, incarcerated and murdered. I assure you those who do take direct risks, and are then subsequently labeled eco-terrorists, are not joking.

All luck to you people. As long as your goals are within the confines of constructed legality, you will not be effective. You may achieve some awareness, appeal to some false status quo mass, gain some meaningless legislation, but the fundamental problems and systemic subordination will be left unaddressed. In all effect this is a very poorly written statement (clearly you were not being cognizent of more marginalized or less privileged perspectives) that very clearly aligns itself with the dominant police and mainstream narrative. Safety is not an excuse, considering it is the predominant excuse used by the state to ensure control and fascism.

The only reason you feel empowered to say these things about your event is because you have a permit, which gives you control over the space with the backing of the city. Please know that if you engage in this narrative at the expense of people who take more direct action because you disagree with their tactics, you should be aware that you are complicit in police terrorism against militants and you are no better. I will be sure not to be anywhere near your event, so feel free not to fearmonger about people who don't abide to your ideology anymore than you already have. I think you should define what you mean by 'instigate', considering you are threatening people with police violence which will be noted and spread.

So you are aware this part "Please be warned if you are an instigator you will not be tolerated at our march and we our organizers will ask you to stop or leave. If you continue we ourselves will politely and calmly ask a Police officer to remove you. We encourage all organizers to be open and talk with your local police and make clear to them that these events are family events and we will cooperate and work with them to remove anyone who incites aggression." very clearly illustrates that fascism is well on the rise with the mass complicit support of so called social justice advocates. State terrorism will be fought, it is not a matter of IF. it is a matter of WHEN.

lord-of-the-sad-n-lonely replied to your post: i wrote this long thing, like a fucking long...

thanks :) merp. it's one of the most enjoyable topics for me to write/talk about to be honest. so if i find the time i will try to write some shit up one of these days, but honestly, it's really hard once you articulate something to try to re-articulate it. and kinda demoralizing.. :( but you are all very sweet.