"Either you respect people’s capacities to think for themselves, to govern themselves, to creatively devise their own best ways to make decisions, to be accountable, to relate, problem-solve, break-down isolation and commune in a thousand different ways … OR: you dis-respect them. You dis-respect ALL of us. "
the fear factor in rev organizing
is the the main challenge for revs today? not the state but the state within us?
Speaking at humboldt U.
2007-04-27 05:00
2007-04-27 07:30
Etc/GMT
the pic must come down. be at the student center on 4th and imperial
Our Culture, Our Resistance introduction
[Introduction to Our Culture, Our Resistance: People of Color Speak Out on Anarchism, Race, Class and Gender, 2004]
The white fathers told us, "I think, therefore, I am" and the black mother within each of us – the poet – whispers in our dreams, I feel, therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and chart this revolutionary demand.
– Audre Lorde
Here we are, and the APOC phenomena continues. From the Detroit Conference to the build-up for the Republican convention and onward, folks of color with anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics are making a presence. And it couldn't happen at a better time!
Black Anarchism [transcript]
[Following is a transcript of a speech given at Hunter College, NYC, on October 24th, 2003, sponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the Student Liberation Action Movement. Transcribed and introduced by Chuck Morse]
Many classical anarchists regarded anarchism as a body of elemental truths that merely needed to be revealed to the world and believed people would become anarchists once exposed to the irresistible logic of the idea. This is one of the reasons they tended to be didactic.
Fortunately the lived practice of the anarchist movement is much richer than that. Few “convert” in such a way: it is much more common for people to embrace anarchism slowly, as they discover that it is relevant to their lived experience and amenable to their own insights and concerns.
