a cool trick
if i were bent on world domination
would be making propaganda that
was designed to fool the reader
into THINKING they had anarchist, statesmashing tools
when they would just fuck themselves up if they "followed instructions as written."
i would call it COINTELPRO...nah, BUllSHit, I'm
not that smart...
Injunctions
Posted by: "lukekuhn"
lukekuhn@hotmail.com lukekuhn
Date: Sun Aug 12, 2007 1:57 pm ((PDT))
I was reading this shit about an injunction sought against
protests, and realized that this was something we defeated years ago
in Washingtion DC in the U$A.
In 2002, IMF/World bank protests included something called the
"People's Strike," a sucessful anarchist-oriented effort to shut down
the Central Business District the day before the IMF meetings started.
With a week to go, the police chief was talking injunctions, and
anarchists responded with warnings that we would deploy anyway, with
the further reminder that most affinity group members would not be
named as they would be unknown to the cops.
Warnings went out that even a mass arrest the night before that
caught 95% of us would not stop us from shutting the city down. Why
was this? because our strategy was to block bridges, highways, and
transit all at once in rush-hour, and if just THREE affinity groups
got through and hit the right targets, rush-hour would become a three
hour nightmare!
As a result, the effort to get injunctions was abandoned and instead
the police chief went on radio and TV saying "if you come into town
that day you'd better bring a cup of coffee and a good CD." As a
result, the city shut itself down, and would have done so even if we
did NOT deploy at all.
The 600 people we got(after a tropical storm at bus loading time bit
off 50-75% of our turnout) was not enough to defeat the cops on empty
streets, but would have been more than enough to utterly clobber a
normal rush hour!
Even as it was, five subway stations were shut, and burning tires
blocked one bridge and one freeway. Another was nearly paralyzed by a
lockdown, and roving bands of protesters and bikers sowed potential
disruption everywhere. The cops were able to dominate the empty
street and mass arrest most of us(I was one of the bikers that got
away), but we had already won.
We won because our stated objective was to shut the city down, and
it was shut down. Financial papers said it ran at "1/3 speed" that
day. All the mass arrests did was increase the price of that victory,
won by checkmating the cops with a week to go.
Injunctions
Posted by: "lukekuhn"
lukekuhn@hotmail.com lukekuhn
Date: Sun Aug 12, 2007 1:57 pm ((PDT))
I was reading this shit about an injunction sought against
protests, and realized that this was something we defeated years ago
in Washingtion DC in the U$A.
In 2002, IMF/World bank protests included something called the
"People's Strike," a sucessful anarchist-oriented effort to shut down
the Central Business District the day before the IMF meetings started.
With a week to go, the police chief was talking injunctions, and
anarchists responded with warnings that we would deploy anyway, with
the further reminder that most affinity group members would not be
named as they would be unknown to the cops.
Warnings went out that even a mass arrest the night before that
caught 95% of us would not stop us from shutting the city down. Why
was this? because our strategy was to block bridges, highways, and
transit all at once in rush-hour, and if just THREE affinity groups
got through and hit the right targets, rush-hour would become a three
hour nightmare!
As a result, the effort to get injunctions was abandoned and instead
the police chief went on radio and TV saying "if you come into town
that day you'd better bring a cup of coffee and a good CD." As a
result, the city shut itself down, and would have done so even if we
did NOT deploy at all.
The 600 people we got(after a tropical storm at bus loading time bit
off 50-75% of our turnout) was not enough to defeat the cops on empty
streets, but would have been more than enough to utterly clobber a
normal rush hour!
Even as it was, five subway stations were shut, and burning tires
blocked one bridge and one freeway. Another was nearly paralyzed by a
lockdown, and roving bands of protesters and bikers sowed potential
disruption everywhere. The cops were able to dominate the empty
street and mass arrest most of us(I was one of the bikers that got
away), but we had already won.
We won because our stated objective was to shut the city down, and
it was shut down. Financial papers said it ran at "1/3 speed" that
day. All the mass arrests did was increase the price of that victory,
won by checkmating the cops with a week to go.
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