Comment on black bloc "recruiting poster" by Jaggi Singh

Subject: Re: First Black Bloc Recruiting Poster Ready for the Street!

i wish i checked out the "gandhi is dead" poster earlier, but i guess it's better to respond later than never ...

[for those who haven't seen it, it's at: http://www.sinkers.org/DC-streets/gandhi_is_dead.jpg.]

it shows a gandhi-figure getting run over by a dc cop's motorbike. the caption reads "gandhi is dead, because he didn't strike back! support your local bl@ck bloc!"

From Issue #11 of FREE RADICAL: chronicle of the new unrest

by L.A. KAUFFMAN

What if there was a revolution and nobody noticed?

OK, "revolution" is too grand a term, but the event in question is undeniably historic: the creation, in the United States, of a direct-action-based alliance across racial lines, between the predominantly white movement against corporate globalization and the predominantly people of color movement against criminal injustice.

You won't read about it in the mainstream media, but then, they didn't see Seattle coming either. More troubling is how little discussion there seems to be in radical and progressive circles about this nascent alliance: its necessity, potential, and pitfalls.