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The Pinks and Silvers Best Tacticians - Genoa

Melody Ayre | 25.07.2001 07:22

If we are going to talk successful tactics then why not analyse the various tactics used last Saturday to see which one group was the most successful at achieving the desired target.



The results were posted at the height of the march. see :
tactical maps of the marches - italy.indymedia.org

The Pinks and Silvers had by far the best tactics, and the best results. They reached the fence first by dancing, giving off heavenly vibrations, swirling, twirling, wafting out incense, laughing, singing, chanting, blowing bubbles, but, I was so sorry that nobody picked up on Subcommander Marcos's idea, to throw 'piles of little leaflet darts over the fence, outlining our objections to the G8, with a bold statement like " 'opulent idlers' hiding inside a steel cage" - as our friends in the African press reminded them today in, "African Press Accuse G8 of Humbug and Global Apartheid." [BBC African Monitor July 24 2001]

So really there is no contest. Pinks and Silvers tactics are the most successful at demonstrations and if we want to "Raise the Tempo" as * Monbiot* would say, well surely that can also be arranged? see: Monbiot; " Raising the Temperature." [Guardian July 24 2001]

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Melody Ayre

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tactics for what

25.07.2001 14:05

I loved the Pink and Silver march, it's really a pleasure, but the idea that these are the "best" tactics seems a little short to me.

The totally opposite tactics of Attac (5 of whose members got in the fence btw) are pretty effective - associations with thousands of members in 20 or so countries.

The tactics of the Genoa social forum getting total of 200.000 people there and then making the whole thing into a national political debate are some damn good tactics.

And the Pink and Silver tactics are superb - maybe not "the best", but as they say, "If I can't dance at your revolution..." !!!

Brian Holmes
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25.07.2001 17:58

I have been with the Pink/Silver group in Prague and Genoa, and have to say that the P/S group indeed have the most dynamic strategy, and also the most mutably (read tactical) directly democratic decision making apparatus. I intend to write a dissertation on the Pink & Silver bloc, as I believe it sums up much of what the anti-capitalist movement is about. Keep an eye to Brussels (December) for an even better prepared pink & silver bloc.

For anarchy!

ZeroZero
mail e-mail: anarchy@cyber-rights.net