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DESCRIPTION:"Fight the Power, Build the Power" Tour hits West Coast in March\n\nThis 
 March, a West Coast U.S. speaking tour brings together a diverse section of 
 activists addressing the need for radical alternatives to our current 
 political structure. Doing so, they advocate, requires people challenge 
 white supremacy and privilege, and building a national organization to work 
 toward that.\n\nThe tour, titled "Fight the Power, Build the Power: A 
 Revolutionary Movement for the 21st Century," will make the following stops 
 across the West Coast:\n\nMarch 10 - Seattle, Washington\nMarch 11 - 
 Olympia, Washington\nMarch 12 - Portland, Oregon\nMarch 15 - Bay Area 
 (Oakland), California\nMarch 16 - Los Angeles, California\n\nThe tour is 
 the brainchild of the Phoenix, Arizona-based Ruckus collective (not 
 associated with The Ruckus Society). The Ruckus collective formed in 
 Phoenix, Arizona, in 1997 to discuss revolutionary politics at a local and 
 national level and to develop a revolutionary praxis. Its main contribution 
 locally has been the creation of Phoenix Copwatch, which has been 
 patrolling the streets since early 1999. In the summer of 2000, Ruckus 
 activists began talking about the need for a national or continental 
 revolutionary organization. This led organizers to embark on a program of 
 study with the goal of creating a proposal for a membership-based national 
 or continental revolutionary federation.\n\nDuring this time, Ruckus 
 members studied a number of past revolutionary groups, focusing 
 particularly on their politics, program, structure, and strategy. In 
 developing this proposal, Ruckus studied the politics, programs, 
 strategies, and structures of various revolutionary or radical 
 organizations, including the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic 
 Society, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and assorted 
 political tendencies.\n\nLast year, the collective released its “Bring 
 the Ruckus” proposal, available in English and Spanish at 
 www.illegalvoices.org/ruckus. Most significant, Ruckus organizers stated 
 that white supremacy was a key issue \n\n“White supremacy is a system 
 that grants those defined as ‘white’ special privileges in American 
 society, such as preferred access to the best schools, neighborhoods, jobs, 
 and health care; greater advantages in accumulating wealth; a lesser 
 likelihood of imprisonment; and better treatment by the police and the 
 criminal justice system,” Ruckus activists state in the proposal. “In 
 exchange for these privileges, whites agree to police the rest of the 
 population through such means as slavery and segregation in the past and 
 through formally ‘colorblind’ policies and practices today that still 
 serve to maintain white advantage.\n\n“The central task of a new 
 organization should be to break up this unholy alliance between the ruling 
 class and the white working class by attacking the system of white 
 privilege and the subordination of people of color... The glue that has 
 kept the American state together has been white supremacy; melting that 
 glue creates revolutionary possibilities.”\n\nSpeakers for the tour have 
 united from various points of the United States to tackle various topics 
 related to the development of a cadre group, white supremacy and more. 
 Appearing at various dates of the tour:\n\n-> Alan Rausch, co-founder of 
 Black Cross Health Collective; participant in Seattle,1999 and the 
 international anti-globalization movement\n-> Traci Harris, Ruckus 
 collective; Phoenix Copwatch\n-> Heather Ajani, Ruckus collective; Phoenix 
 Copwatch\n-> Ernesto Aguilar, Anarchist People of Color; Anarchist Black 
 Cross Network\n[organizations/affiliations listed for identification 
 purposes only.]\n\nThose who wish to assist with or attend a tour stop in 
 their areas should contact ruckus@illegalvoices.org.\n\n-30- \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/4333.php
SUMMARY:"Fight the Power, Build the Power" Tour
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/4333.php
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