File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9912, message 361


Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 13:47:01 -0500
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: Wave the flag


"Shawn P. Wilbur" wrote:

> Yep. Definitely time to make our bright, shining faces show in our
> communities. That's probably something we should do more of anyway. I'm a
> "solid citizen," local business person and university instructor, and i
> don't make any secret of my politics. Since i'm basically a nice guy, and
> well-informed on a fair number of things, the fact that i'm prone to
> wearing "Keep Warm, Burn Out The Rich" t-shirts may confuse folks, but,
> hell, i'm 36 and notoriously "serious" (probably more notoriously than
> actually, but...), so nobody is going to think "this is just a phase."
> I've spent a lot of time this last week explaining things about anarchism,
> WTO, the N30 protests, etc. I made up a stack of "officially unofficial
> anarchist cards" to celebrate our present notoriety, and have been handing
> them out to anyone even remotely sympathetic.

BTW, I'm looking for personal accounts of anarchists who were in
Seattle. I'd like to include your age and where you are from. You can
use your real name or a made-up one. I'd like to post this on the
website to show journalists and hypercritical Leftists that there was a
broad range of anarchists in Seattle last week.

> > I'm also recommending that people spraypaint and marker circle-As in as
> > many corporate spaces as possible. I even saw a circle-A defacing a
> > corporate ad on the Washington Metro this past weekend.
> 
> Tag the corps if it makes sense in your context. (It wouldn't here. This
> is a small-town America, and we can still sometimes deal with our
> differences face to face.) But let whatever you do to "wave the black
> flag" come out of your specific conditions and place in your
> community. One of the things we have going for us is our diversity and, at
> least theoretically, our respect for individual expression. Let's be sharp
> and creative. Politics as usually is so, sooooo boring...

Shawn makes a good point. Tactics should always be sensitive to your
local conditions. If you live in the suburbs and are surrounded by Best
Buy and GAP box stores, tag away. Needless to say, we all should make an
effort to be more involved in community campaigns.

-- 
Chuck0
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