From: "Peter Jovanovic" <peterzoran-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: AUT: recent riots
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:00:24 +1100


hi all

I've noticed that there has been an increasing number of mostly small, 
mostly not explicitly political riots in at least some Anglophone countries. 
For instance in Australia there was the brawl in the Sydney pub I just 
mentioned as well as a small riot at Goulburn prison last April; a riot in a 
small town in Queensland when a publican who allegedly murdered an 
aboriginal youth he'd caught burgling his pub was seen back in town out on 
bail; five out of seven of Australia's notorious immigration detention 
centres burned around New Year and a few weeks ago riot police attacked with 
battles and stones when they tried to break up a teenage party in Perth that 
had gotten out of hand with gatecrashers. In Canada there were riots in 
Vancouver last summer when the band Guns 'n' Roses failed to show for a 
concert (see: 
http://www.geocities.com/insurrectionary_anarchists/appetitefordestruction.html) 
and at the annual fireworks competition (see: 
http://www.geocities.com/insurrectionary_anarchists/fireworksclashes.html). 
In the US there were Halloween riots in Madison Wisconsin and the small town 
of Aurora, New York. The Aurora when was apparently partly inspired by 
anarchoid leaflets distributed in the local high school saying Halloween was 
the one time of the year that kids could fightback against the police state. 
There was a riot largely provoked by police  in Oakland recently after the 
Oakland Raiders lost the Superbowl with a cop apparently saying to reproters 
it was practice for bigger riots. And in El Paso Texas last week 1000 
highschoolers fought the cops after they walked out of school in protest at 
changes in the school timetable.

Anyway it seems to me that increasing numbers of proletarians are prepared 
to take on the cops, often around the use of public space and that 
especially in North America the cops are afraid of any large gathering of 
proletarians and try to break these gatherings up thus provoking a riot.

Sorry for all the emails today.

cheers
peter


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