noted. 03/29/2012

• Shareable: Occupiers Steal Trains

  tags: nyc strike mta

  • But this morning a project calling itself the "Rank and File Initiative" chained open subway service gates around New York City, opening them free to passengers, in act of disobedience and reclamation. In a letter sent to the new site Strike Is A Verb, the saboteurs explained their actions by linking the Metro Transit Authority's budget cuts and Wall Street wealth

• CWC Texts : Recent Features : The Illegitimacy of Violence, the Violence of Legitimacy

  • In this state of affairs, there is no such thing as nonviolence—the closest we can hope to come is to negate the harm or threat posed by the proponents of top-down violence. And when so many people are invested in the privileges this violence affords them, it’s naïve to think that we could defend ourselves and others among the dispossessed without violating the wishes of at least a few bankers and landlords. So instead of asking whether an action is violent, we might do better to ask simply: does it counteract power disparities, or reinforce them?

     

  • If you’ve attended enough mobilizations, you know that it’s often possible to anticipate exactly how much violence the police will use against a demonstration by the way the story is presented on the news the night before. In this regard, pundits and even rival organizers can participate in policing alongside the police, determining who is a legitimate target by the way they frame the narrative.

• Rick Roderick Interview - YouTube

  tags: rickroderick philosophy education lectures nietzsche

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