File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0108, message 148


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




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