From: David McKnight <D.J.Mcknight-AT-liverpool.ac.uk> Subject: Re: A POLL..... Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:09:32 +0000 (GMT) For those of you who have'nt seen the following leaflet you may find it helpful in making your 'decision': This is the text that was handed out the day before N£0 in Seattle: THINK FOR YOURSELF - RECLAIM YOUR MIND! The day of action in Seattle on november 30 has brought together 1000's of people from all over the world - people with their own experience and strategies of struggle and resistance. Each of us has suffered differing levels and forms of oppression; each of us has fought back in slightly different ways. We have a tremendous amount to learn from one another. Why then rely on a small group of paid, professionalised activists to tell us how to fight or rather how not to fight! Pitting the 'non-violent' against the 'violent' is a concept that divides and rules from the inside - it is a symptom of the disease. Pacifism is not 'right'; neither is 'violence' wrong. It is a question of what is appropriate and the measure of that is not whether we get beaten up worse or locked up longer. It is hard to create a revolution sitting down, and chanting "love-a-cop" is probavly not an effective tactic for shutting down the WTO. Why confine ourselves to the limited tactics of passive resistance and abstention from property damage ? We should use tactics which will further our struggle and help us realise our goals - without fetishising either pacifism or violence. We must not go into action, or in-action, on November 30 with a preconceived set of ideas about how we must behave. Rather we should be flexible, spontaneous and free to seize opportunities as they arise. "I am a direct activist and I do not prefix the term direct action with the description non-violent. Does this mean that I embrace violence? Give me a break. The State has nucleas weapons, armies, guns, tanks, police, courts, cellls, prisons, bosses, landlords, banks, corporations and the mass media on it's side. But no-one puts "violent" in front of the word " government" everytime they use it. yet it is expected of me - as omeone who struggles for change - to present myself in the first instance as a non-threat. In disgust at this hypocrisy, I refuse" Remember: The ends justify the means Don't get caught! On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:39:43 -0800 (PST) C <bm755-AT-scn.org> wrote: > No-WTO > > > In response to this poll, I would like to instead reply that this tactic > of "dialogue" is a subtle effort to pin two sides of the left > against each other on what is an important forum. Please make this poll > ineffective and do not reply. > > On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, gumby cascadia wrote: > > > No-WTO > > > > I'd like to take a poll on this here listserve........ > > > > ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF "PROPERTY DESTRUCTION" AS A VIABLE TACTIC, please > > answer YEA! > > > > ALL THOSE WHO THINK PROPERTY DESTRUCTION IS VIOLENT AND NON-PRODUCTIVE > > please answer NAY! > > > > If you have "mitigating circumstances" or comments (brief), please include > > them, also. > > > > Please direct your responses to me personally so as not to clog this > > listserve. I will post the results on the list, soon. > > > > Thanks, > > Gumby > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, write to no2wto-unsubscribe-AT-listbot.com > > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to no2wto-unsubscribe-AT-listbot.com > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------- dewimc-AT-liverpool.ac.uk
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