Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:22:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: AUT: A New Type of Demonstration As we head toward the demonstration against the World Bank/IMF, I would like to talk more about the nature and purpose of demonstrations. Commie00 said something a few weeks ago that I liked. He posted that maybe we should do something positive in the DC neighborhoods, pick up trash in poor communities etc. That makes a whole lot of sense to me. A lot that goes on in demonstrations seems like a useless media spectacle to me. We throw some rocks through a window. So what does that prove? Well, it proves to the other adolescents in your collective that you got balls...you're a tough guy...it's a sort of machismo. I am not going to vilify somebody for doing it, I just dont see the purpose. I hope some of you read Casarini's article. As he said, we certainly are in no position at this time to militarily take on the state. We'd get disposed of fast. They've got control of the media. I dont know how much good it's going to do to play ring-around-the-rosy at the White House. And as usual there will be a neverending number of petitions to sign. What happens to all those petitions? But just think of the power of the Zapatista's march to Mexico City...how many people they met on the way, talked to. This intermingling of subjectivities and the raising of consciousness. Why cant we here in the USA have demonstrations more like that where we actually organize a huge amount of people to go into poor and working class communities? Why even go to the White House...it's not like Bush is going to listen to us and change his mind. I mean, there were marches like that during the Civil Rights movement in this country and they were extremely powerful. Anyway, I would like to hear other peoples' ideas on this. Thomas ====Thomas Morgan Seay 984 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 tel. (415) 643-7045 email: entheogens-AT-yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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