Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 19:13:26 -0700
From: Mike <havokinc-AT-crosswinds.net>
Subject: Re: Top Anarchist Events of the Century


At 01:44 PM 12/31/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>From: Chaos912-AT-aol.com <Chaos912-AT-aol.com>
>>But if you can't attack the cops, then whats the point of attacking the
>>stores?
>
>
>Here's why.  (From the Black Bloc statement on Dec 4th)
>
>*****
>On November 30, several groups of individuals in black bloc attacked various
>corporate targets in downtown Seattle. Among them were (to name just a few):
>
>Fidelity Investment (major investor in Occidental Petroleum, the bane of the
>U'wa tribe in Columbia)
>
>Bank of America, US Bancorp, Key Bank and Washington Mutual Bank (financial
>institutions key in the expansion of corporate repression)
>
>Old Navy, Banana Republic and the GAP (as Fisher family businesses, rapers
>of Northwest forest lands and sweatshop laborers)
>
>NikeTown and Levi's (whose overpriced products are made in sweatshops)
>
>McDonald's (slave-wage fast-food peddlers responsible for destruction of
>tropical rainforests for grazing land and slaughter of animals)
>
>Starbucks (peddlers of an addictive substance whose products are harvested
>at below-poverty wages by farmers who are forced to destroy their own
>forests in the process)
>
>Warner Bros. (media monopolists)
>
>Planet Hollywood (for being Planet Hollywood)
>*****
>
>It's obvious the property destruction was strategically and specifically
>targeted direct action against corporate interests.
>
>What to do in the future?  It's been suggested the best action would be a
>real, sustained, raucous international riot. Damn straight.
>
>Best quote in a mainstream media outlet on the destruction:  Newsweek.
>
>The nose-ringed young woman in the thick knit poncho looked admiringly at
>the twisted letters on the marquee of the Nike store. "Man," she said, "they
>fd that up good!"
>
>Fuck Work,
>
>Tom
>
>
>

You kno what's sad, I wear sum Nike...once had a pair uv 30$ silk boxerz by
them...kinda feel stoopid for doin that now, lil waste uh money...that waz
mi whol b-day money for that year...G'DAMMIT!!! Now I wear Karl Kani and
other stuf which iz ALSO probably made in swet shops, hope not tho, Kani's
a decent buziness man...(<--oxymoron?)


Laterz,
Da Kryptik Messiah
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