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Who is Lorenzo Komboa Ervin?
A short biography of Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
Who is Lorenzo Komboa Ervin?
Ervin was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party.
In the summer of 68 in Hamilton County, Tennessee a so-called "Black Power" Grand Jury was convened to investigate the Black Power movement's role in creating "disturbances" in the city of Chattanooga, where Ervin had been organizing. He was summoned to testify on purported "gun-running" charges against him. He went underground and tried to escape from the United States but was found and arrested. He was set up by a racist jury in Georgia and sentenced to two life sentences. He served almost 15 years as a political prisoner, organizing and writing in prison. Since his release in 83 he has been a community organizer in the South working against the prison industrial complex, specifically police brutality.
Ervin is the author of "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" a book that articulates a new Black Autonomous politics. Ervin has worked to weave together the anti-authoritarian core of anarchism and many of the principles of revolutionary Black nationalism. His book has been widely read and discussed in anarchist movements around the world. His analysis played a major role in pushing the discussion of white privilege in majority white radical activist movements, while simultaneously inspiring countless radicals of color. He has been involved with the Industrial Workers of the World, Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation and numerous projects advancing Black Autonomous politics.
For more information on Lorenzo's bay area tour, contact RACE at anarchistcolor@yahoo.com or visit their website.
SF-IMC Coverage of Chattanooga 3 Trial
Ervin was a member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party.
In the summer of 68 in Hamilton County, Tennessee a so-called "Black Power" Grand Jury was convened to investigate the Black Power movement's role in creating "disturbances" in the city of Chattanooga, where Ervin had been organizing. He was summoned to testify on purported "gun-running" charges against him. He went underground and tried to escape from the United States but was found and arrested. He was set up by a racist jury in Georgia and sentenced to two life sentences. He served almost 15 years as a political prisoner, organizing and writing in prison. Since his release in 83 he has been a community organizer in the South working against the prison industrial complex, specifically police brutality.
Ervin is the author of "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" a book that articulates a new Black Autonomous politics. Ervin has worked to weave together the anti-authoritarian core of anarchism and many of the principles of revolutionary Black nationalism. His book has been widely read and discussed in anarchist movements around the world. His analysis played a major role in pushing the discussion of white privilege in majority white radical activist movements, while simultaneously inspiring countless radicals of color. He has been involved with the Industrial Workers of the World, Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation and numerous projects advancing Black Autonomous politics.
For more information on Lorenzo's bay area tour, contact RACE at anarchistcolor@yahoo.com or visit their website.
SF-IMC Coverage of Chattanooga 3 Trial
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If you don't like the state of things as they are now, blame yourself. It's been thirty years and people of color have made great strides despite the obstacles.
One needs to work at it and those that don't want to work are now still belly aching about the racist garbage......
Anarchists are increasingly pushing their politics to the exclusion of other groups and it will dimish you over time. Have no doubt.
Anarchists think they are independent, but they are little different from the ISO and other assorted groups when it comes to pushing their agenda.
Lorenzo is a snake oil salesman.
Anarchists are increasingly pushing their politics to the exclusion of other groups and it will dimish you over time. Have no doubt.
Anarchists think they are independent, but they are little different from the ISO and other assorted groups when it comes to pushing their agenda.
Lorenzo is a snake oil salesman.
and please do talk more about lorenzo being a "snake oil salesman."
Anyone who makes a life out of advocating a mythical society to the exclusion of viable alternatives, is a snakeoil salesman.
Have you read anything by him? Such as "Anarchism and the Black Revolution"? He's got some really interesting things to say and some concrete suggestions, plus some lessons from his own history.
SF Indymedia cannot be considered an anarchist front-group because it is:
a) Not all anarchists. There are Marxists, liberals, anarchists, and people in between.
b) Not always in line with anarchist ideology. Most of the time the center column has nothing to do with anti-authoritarianism or anti-capitalism.
c) Democratic. The process for making decisions, although not ideal, is ten times more open and horizontal than a Marxist-Leninist front group like O22, IAC, RAIL, APSC, or something like this.
The reason anarchist stuff is prominent right now in the center is Marxist-Leninists have no-one of interest left speaking for that ideology. And if you do, the dozens of "vanguard" parties are fighting tooth and tail over them. Or maybe we should get Bob Avakian, or Chairman Omali, or some other cult leader to speak on behalf of your rediculous, historically rejected, conception of "communism."
As for anarchy as snakeoil--why don't you take a look at some historical examples of societies close to anarchy? The Paris Commune, southern Ukraine 1917-1921, Russian Soviets prior to Bolshevik counter-revolution, the 1956 Hungarian worker's councils, the anarchist commune of Korea prior to Stalinist counter-revolution, the Iroquois Federation, etc. Instead you MLMers have a history of blood and suffering at the expense of tyrants like Lenin and Mao.
I guess participating in SF IMC is too unimportant when you could be memorizing quotes from the Red Book and reciting them to your bust of Mao.