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Anarchist Call to Resist the Inauguration in DC
Anarchist Call to Resist the Inauguration in DC
All out for an anarchist mobilization against centralized power…at the 2005 Presidential Inauguration: Washington, DC - January 15-20th.
As George W. Bush is coronated on January 20th, the question is not if there will be protests, but what shape these protests will take. Thousands are organizing to oppose Bush's Inauguration. As the liberal and authoritarian groups negotiate permits with the powers that be, it’s time to put forward an alternate vision of protest; one of resistance to, not cooperation with the authorities.
Four years ago anarchists marched on the Inauguration, hundreds strong. The police set up check points forcing thousands to adhere to bag and body searches, in response - we smashed a secret service check point, opening up the parade route for all. While some waved the American flag, we burned it. While some booed, we pelted the motorcade with trash. Bush was crowned, but the black flag was hoisted high on that cold January day. In the four years that have passed, the country has grown afraid and the Left docile. As we have always known, it’s not just Bush – it’s the system, and his campaign of fear makes us more fearless everyday.
This January, let the world see not a display of American Patriotism from the right and American “free speech” from the left but a massive resistance to the latest representation of 200+ years of murder, slavery, greed and genocide that has been the American way from George Washington to George W. Bush. There's nothing left to salvage in this empire that is the U.S. government. It's time to bring it down.
We Are Resisting
For those of us who envision a world without rulers, a world without borders and a world with freedom for all, not just those within a particular nation, class, race, gender or religion – the time to act is now – with all out resistance to capitalism and centralized power. From empires, occupation, and colonialism by governments, to a
culture based on patriarchy, domestic violence, child abuse, and so many forms of oppression - the system is broken. It cannot be fixed, or reformed as many will try and tell us. It is from the ashes of the system, that the new world that we envision can arise.
The U.S. Presidential Inauguration is one of the grandest ceremonies of the ruling class in the land. As anarchists, it’s a prime opportunity to shatter these illusions of grandeur by crashing this decadent display of arrogance and wealth. This, Jan. 20th, let’s bring anarchy to the streets of DC - make resistance visible, and
ring in the next four years with a smash!
A Week of Anarchist Action: Jan. 15th-20th, 2005
From direct action to childcare to popular education, anarchists in DC are organizing for creative, vibrant protests to the inauguration
--- if you can, come early and get involved. Form affinity groups and (seriously folks) plan and carry out autonomous actions, help Food Not Bombs cook for protestors, get information out on the protests to people in DC, assist groups working on local issues, such as work against gentrification, poverty and public financing for a Major League Baseball stadium in DC. The list goes on.
It didn’t start in Seattle and it didn’t end on September 11th. These protests are not the beginning and certainly not the end, but one
stop in an ongoing struggle. What we build as we organize is just as important as what we produce in the protests itself. Use Jan. 20 as a focal point to build relationships and networks within your community and the movement that last long after Jan. 20. Use it as a basis for political discussions, tactical discussions, something to raise energy and action around. Put in practice new ways of organizing cooperatively, while breaking down social oppression so common in our day to day lives.
To create the world we want, we all need to participate. The power to change the world is not in the hands of Bush, the Democrats, or anyone else, it’s in our hands – the hands of people everywhere, including you. Come to DC, there are thousands of others out there who can’t wait to join us.
Yours,
DC Anarchist Resistance (http://www.anarchistresistance.org)
(A collaboration of some DC area affinity groups and individuals organizing around Jan. 20th)
If you're with this call, pass it on and send us your endorsement to sign on: anarchistresistance (at) hushmail.com
This goes out in solidarity with the Organic Collective's call for A Global Disruption of the Empire on Jan. 20th (http://www.organiccollective.org)
Stay tuned for a series of updates regarding anarchist resistance to the 2005 inauguration. Expect more updates in the following weeks
about more specific actions and events as they shape up at http://www.anarchistresistance.org
As George W. Bush is coronated on January 20th, the question is not if there will be protests, but what shape these protests will take. Thousands are organizing to oppose Bush's Inauguration. As the liberal and authoritarian groups negotiate permits with the powers that be, it’s time to put forward an alternate vision of protest; one of resistance to, not cooperation with the authorities.
Four years ago anarchists marched on the Inauguration, hundreds strong. The police set up check points forcing thousands to adhere to bag and body searches, in response - we smashed a secret service check point, opening up the parade route for all. While some waved the American flag, we burned it. While some booed, we pelted the motorcade with trash. Bush was crowned, but the black flag was hoisted high on that cold January day. In the four years that have passed, the country has grown afraid and the Left docile. As we have always known, it’s not just Bush – it’s the system, and his campaign of fear makes us more fearless everyday.
This January, let the world see not a display of American Patriotism from the right and American “free speech” from the left but a massive resistance to the latest representation of 200+ years of murder, slavery, greed and genocide that has been the American way from George Washington to George W. Bush. There's nothing left to salvage in this empire that is the U.S. government. It's time to bring it down.
We Are Resisting
For those of us who envision a world without rulers, a world without borders and a world with freedom for all, not just those within a particular nation, class, race, gender or religion – the time to act is now – with all out resistance to capitalism and centralized power. From empires, occupation, and colonialism by governments, to a
culture based on patriarchy, domestic violence, child abuse, and so many forms of oppression - the system is broken. It cannot be fixed, or reformed as many will try and tell us. It is from the ashes of the system, that the new world that we envision can arise.
The U.S. Presidential Inauguration is one of the grandest ceremonies of the ruling class in the land. As anarchists, it’s a prime opportunity to shatter these illusions of grandeur by crashing this decadent display of arrogance and wealth. This, Jan. 20th, let’s bring anarchy to the streets of DC - make resistance visible, and
ring in the next four years with a smash!
A Week of Anarchist Action: Jan. 15th-20th, 2005
From direct action to childcare to popular education, anarchists in DC are organizing for creative, vibrant protests to the inauguration
--- if you can, come early and get involved. Form affinity groups and (seriously folks) plan and carry out autonomous actions, help Food Not Bombs cook for protestors, get information out on the protests to people in DC, assist groups working on local issues, such as work against gentrification, poverty and public financing for a Major League Baseball stadium in DC. The list goes on.
It didn’t start in Seattle and it didn’t end on September 11th. These protests are not the beginning and certainly not the end, but one
stop in an ongoing struggle. What we build as we organize is just as important as what we produce in the protests itself. Use Jan. 20 as a focal point to build relationships and networks within your community and the movement that last long after Jan. 20. Use it as a basis for political discussions, tactical discussions, something to raise energy and action around. Put in practice new ways of organizing cooperatively, while breaking down social oppression so common in our day to day lives.
To create the world we want, we all need to participate. The power to change the world is not in the hands of Bush, the Democrats, or anyone else, it’s in our hands – the hands of people everywhere, including you. Come to DC, there are thousands of others out there who can’t wait to join us.
Yours,
DC Anarchist Resistance (http://www.anarchistresistance.org)
(A collaboration of some DC area affinity groups and individuals organizing around Jan. 20th)
If you're with this call, pass it on and send us your endorsement to sign on: anarchistresistance (at) hushmail.com
This goes out in solidarity with the Organic Collective's call for A Global Disruption of the Empire on Jan. 20th (http://www.organiccollective.org)
Stay tuned for a series of updates regarding anarchist resistance to the 2005 inauguration. Expect more updates in the following weeks
about more specific actions and events as they shape up at http://www.anarchistresistance.org
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A few details of what people do that day could affect the outcome and minimize the number of victims going through months of legal proceedings when 2000+ police officers are on that parade route.
First, I would encourage the democrats to be the ones to go to the parade route w/o signs and to do their backs, as they are currently organizing. There are a lot of democrats around who would be happy to do this. Anarchists won't be able to carry anything in, and shouldn't stake so much on being able to get anything done like in 2000 with eggs or fighting the police who now will have all this antiterrorism garbage on their side as well.
Go develop some other focii in cities around the country, and locations in other parts of DC. Lift your black flag at an INS or IRS office on the outskirts of the Beltway and so forth. The country is a big place, and the media probably won't cover people bunching up right at the parade route very well anyway, so just let the back-turning democrats take care of that angle.
First, I would encourage the democrats to be the ones to go to the parade route w/o signs and to do their backs, as they are currently organizing. There are a lot of democrats around who would be happy to do this. Anarchists won't be able to carry anything in, and shouldn't stake so much on being able to get anything done like in 2000 with eggs or fighting the police who now will have all this antiterrorism garbage on their side as well.
Go develop some other focii in cities around the country, and locations in other parts of DC. Lift your black flag at an INS or IRS office on the outskirts of the Beltway and so forth. The country is a big place, and the media probably won't cover people bunching up right at the parade route very well anyway, so just let the back-turning democrats take care of that angle.
If you cant afford to go to D.C., we are trying to bring together a big action w/ street theater here in our city of Modesto Cal. Email us....bring yerself, yer loverz, friendz, idea's, art, & yer raised fist's!!!
When: Jan. 21rst
Where: Modesto ca, downtown, corner of 10th & J.st in front of City Hall & Brenden theater.
Time: 7pm
"let's make some noise & history in redneckville"
When: Jan. 21rst
Where: Modesto ca, downtown, corner of 10th & J.st in front of City Hall & Brenden theater.
Time: 7pm
"let's make some noise & history in redneckville"
don't follow a dead man!
think for yourself.
think for yourself.
Oh, just stay away. You won't get near it. Secret Service and military searches of everyone lining the parade route have been announced. You try what you did last time and you'll get shot. Enjoy the protest pen in Virginia.
>stay away, snipers, oh the fear, oh the horror, you are getting sleepy...
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, leo. blah.
ok. now that that is out of the way: why should anyone listen to your constant drivel? you're obviously a spineless, brainless follower of those who aren't acting in your interests (and if you think they are, you're a fool) -- or you're paid to stir things up. either way, it's not gonna work. go back to whining with your fellow freepers, or shut the f up.
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, leo. blah.
ok. now that that is out of the way: why should anyone listen to your constant drivel? you're obviously a spineless, brainless follower of those who aren't acting in your interests (and if you think they are, you're a fool) -- or you're paid to stir things up. either way, it's not gonna work. go back to whining with your fellow freepers, or shut the f up.
no discernable difference, except leo wanders further afield, sort of an "national sfres" if ya see what i mean.
i also think leo's a fat, impotent bald guy who needs reactionary politics to feel like he's in control of anything in his life or, more specifically, that someone is in control of it for him.
maybe with repressed-homosexual aggravating factors. oh i mean "straight-acting." and what an act it is.
just a speculation here but, thanks to his excessive, excrescent posting, one that's not entirely baseless.
he's certainly a he-- women are almost-invariably smarter than this pathetic wretch. no news there.
i think it's the perfect foil for showing the enlightened reason of any post he spits on, and should be left there to make even wingnut-leftie stuff aound reasonable by proximity, the long suffering of the bearers of the truth-- a motif that really appeals to christians, such as most of this country think they are.
leave this kitty's mewlings be, i'd say.
i also think leo's a fat, impotent bald guy who needs reactionary politics to feel like he's in control of anything in his life or, more specifically, that someone is in control of it for him.
maybe with repressed-homosexual aggravating factors. oh i mean "straight-acting." and what an act it is.
just a speculation here but, thanks to his excessive, excrescent posting, one that's not entirely baseless.
he's certainly a he-- women are almost-invariably smarter than this pathetic wretch. no news there.
i think it's the perfect foil for showing the enlightened reason of any post he spits on, and should be left there to make even wingnut-leftie stuff aound reasonable by proximity, the long suffering of the bearers of the truth-- a motif that really appeals to christians, such as most of this country think they are.
leave this kitty's mewlings be, i'd say.
[Oh, just stay away. You won't get near it. Secret Service and military searches of everyone lining the parade route have been announced. You try what you did last time and you'll get shot. Enjoy the protest pen in Virginia.]
interesting, isn't it . that the inaugural parade, with its historical roots in the open, public celebration of the new President, has been transformed into something akin to a Romanian Nikolae Ceacescu glorification of the leader kind of event
and, the security is a big part of it, Bush's Republican supporters enjoy this kind of intrusive security, as it makes them feel important, part of a privileged elite that must be protected from its enemies . . and, predictably, Christian fundamentalist supporters, with their millenialist beliefs, like it the most
can't wait for the inevitable stories about the seizures of signs, random detentions, etc., all designed to gratify the sense of exclusivity that Bush's supporters so crave as an essential attribute of the inaugural
someone here suggested that the anarchists go elsewhere, and there is some merit to this idea, at least enough that it should be explored, after all, why should we organize our events with a calendar and a map provided by our opponents?
--Richard Estes
interesting, isn't it . that the inaugural parade, with its historical roots in the open, public celebration of the new President, has been transformed into something akin to a Romanian Nikolae Ceacescu glorification of the leader kind of event
and, the security is a big part of it, Bush's Republican supporters enjoy this kind of intrusive security, as it makes them feel important, part of a privileged elite that must be protected from its enemies . . and, predictably, Christian fundamentalist supporters, with their millenialist beliefs, like it the most
can't wait for the inevitable stories about the seizures of signs, random detentions, etc., all designed to gratify the sense of exclusivity that Bush's supporters so crave as an essential attribute of the inaugural
someone here suggested that the anarchists go elsewhere, and there is some merit to this idea, at least enough that it should be explored, after all, why should we organize our events with a calendar and a map provided by our opponents?
--Richard Estes
In a dream I saw it raining pretzels at the pretzel parade.
I'll never forget it.
I'll never forget it.
For more information:
http://www.eces.org
thanks so much for sharing. please, keep doing so!
"raining pretzels" is the singularly most beautiful thing anyone's said around here in a *long* *time*...............
"raining pretzels" is the singularly most beautiful thing anyone's said around here in a *long* *time*...............
thanks so much for sharing. please, keep doing so!
"raining pretzels" is the singularly most beautiful thing anyone's said around here in a *long* *time*...............
"raining pretzels" is the singularly most beautiful thing anyone's said around here in a *long* *time*...............
thanks so much for sharing. please, keep doing so!
"raining pretzels" is the singularly most beautiful thing anyone's said around here in a *long* *time*...............
"raining pretzels" is the singularly most beautiful thing anyone's said around here in a *long* *time*...............
you should stick to making plans to replace newsom
it will never happen but you can dream.
it will never happen but you can dream.
I have been reading much about the anarchist demos that will be happenning in DC. I myself cant' afford to make it out there, so I was wondering if anything was happenning in SF on the 20th at the civic center. write back if there are.
burn dc to the ground! talk to bush with the only language he understands, violence!
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