the movement is only just getting started
jmp | 10.10.2001 14:13
Although i cannot find the article that i was sent quotes from (Financial Times) i respond anyway, generally, since the idea of that article was to be suspected. It announces that the 'anti-globalisation' movement (i never liked that "name", considering that globalisation is the strength of the movement) has come to a halt, but i think that it is wishful thinking. So here goes:
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There is no particular problem faced by 'the movement', and it is only still a child. The networking has only just begun. Counter-summits for autumn 2002 are already in the planning, - elaborate planning i might add. The contemporary social movement of people has far from peaked, as it is composed of networks all around the globe, of which many are still eager to host an event. Behind groups in Seattle, Prague, Quebec, Göteborg and Genova etc. many are waiting for their 15 minutes of fame.
The reason that there is no particular problem faced is that this so-called problem right now is the same as has always existed: the manipulation and spin of the powers that be (read:the corporations that Bush and Blair openly admit to being representatives of).
September 11 came like a saving angel, and when the whole world is watching the illegal media war, repression is coming hard down on political and community activists, but it is past the point of no return. The momentum gained by the movements in people around the globe cannot be stopped: we have reached a critical mass!
Many attempts to capitalise on the uprising have been made, noteworthy those of ATTAC, Globalise Resistance (in the UK) from within the movement, running along with the state/corporations' divide and conquer strategy, but that just makes the movement stronger and determinism to survive grows. This is not a counter-cultural movement, it is a counter-culture!
The recent attempts by Blair and Bush to categorise constitutionally legal protest forms as terrorism, and the sad and obvious moves to use the terrorist attack to come down hard on anything that is counter to privatisation, exploitation and environmental destruction cannot prevail. Lies die out. The good honest work of social activism will endure, no doubt.
If the streets of Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and most of Italy and elsewhere in the so-called great European tradition of democracy and freedom continue to be displaying offensive arrays of uniforms and arms, more people will ponder reality. The CIA (or whoever is running Bush-Boy Jr.'s administration) cannot succeed to set us 'back' 50 years consciously. People will refuse to enter a Philip K. Dick scenario and let our everyday be dragged in to the paranoia that characterises Washington, Langley and wherever they hide out the cowards that do killing for a living. It would be far to pessimistic to assume that a couple of conspiring profiteering exploiters can sustain a lie that so many people see straight through.
Alternative media is ever rising and provides those cutting edge information channels that our children are suckers for: decentral, anarchic and not-for-profit.
The continuing repression and state terror against political activists will not kill us, and one of the only goals that can be reached by such an attack of civil liberties is radicalisation, and that means more civil terrorism. There is nothing new to that and it is a strategy of the state(s) to divide and diminish social movements, as we all know, that they will have great difficulties pulling off in a 21st century media war that at some point will demand a definition and analysis of terrorism. And an analysis and definition of terrorism will reveal that it is caused by state terrorism and repression and is nothing but the most natural response to unjust treatment by the system.
The current paradigm of corporate control and profit for profit's sake, that knows no ethics, compassion or justice, is exhibiting its weakness by needing an army to protect when they meet. The last cramps, is what we are witnessing. The evil dragon is out of fire, simply firing randomly. Globalisation has undermined the lies of the cold war and a transparent global society can be sensed somewhere out there and we can reach it, when we first smell it. A global society will not accept the destructive politics of a few corporations and their marionettes.
Soon the media circus will collapse on its clowns (here referring to especially to Tony Blair).
As the whole world is watching Afghanistan being destroyed and the Afghan people is awaiting the winter that will kill most of them, people are mobilising, planning, organising and taking a well deserved rest. We are everywhere and we will be back to confront!
The movement is ever growing and the latest war is only bringing more groups together. More networking and more coalitions are being build. Groups that thought that the Seattle, Prague and Genova events did not appeal to them are now holding meetings with, and getting to know many of the groups that shaped those events. People are coming together!
The show has only just begun. Wait for second act.
Optimistic: anarchy. Be realistic, demand the impossible - now! ;-}}}
~~~jmp~~~
nephridium unlimited
ps: ~join the whispering campaign~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There is no particular problem faced by 'the movement', and it is only still a child. The networking has only just begun. Counter-summits for autumn 2002 are already in the planning, - elaborate planning i might add. The contemporary social movement of people has far from peaked, as it is composed of networks all around the globe, of which many are still eager to host an event. Behind groups in Seattle, Prague, Quebec, Göteborg and Genova etc. many are waiting for their 15 minutes of fame.
The reason that there is no particular problem faced is that this so-called problem right now is the same as has always existed: the manipulation and spin of the powers that be (read:the corporations that Bush and Blair openly admit to being representatives of).
September 11 came like a saving angel, and when the whole world is watching the illegal media war, repression is coming hard down on political and community activists, but it is past the point of no return. The momentum gained by the movements in people around the globe cannot be stopped: we have reached a critical mass!
Many attempts to capitalise on the uprising have been made, noteworthy those of ATTAC, Globalise Resistance (in the UK) from within the movement, running along with the state/corporations' divide and conquer strategy, but that just makes the movement stronger and determinism to survive grows. This is not a counter-cultural movement, it is a counter-culture!
The recent attempts by Blair and Bush to categorise constitutionally legal protest forms as terrorism, and the sad and obvious moves to use the terrorist attack to come down hard on anything that is counter to privatisation, exploitation and environmental destruction cannot prevail. Lies die out. The good honest work of social activism will endure, no doubt.
If the streets of Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and most of Italy and elsewhere in the so-called great European tradition of democracy and freedom continue to be displaying offensive arrays of uniforms and arms, more people will ponder reality. The CIA (or whoever is running Bush-Boy Jr.'s administration) cannot succeed to set us 'back' 50 years consciously. People will refuse to enter a Philip K. Dick scenario and let our everyday be dragged in to the paranoia that characterises Washington, Langley and wherever they hide out the cowards that do killing for a living. It would be far to pessimistic to assume that a couple of conspiring profiteering exploiters can sustain a lie that so many people see straight through.
Alternative media is ever rising and provides those cutting edge information channels that our children are suckers for: decentral, anarchic and not-for-profit.
The continuing repression and state terror against political activists will not kill us, and one of the only goals that can be reached by such an attack of civil liberties is radicalisation, and that means more civil terrorism. There is nothing new to that and it is a strategy of the state(s) to divide and diminish social movements, as we all know, that they will have great difficulties pulling off in a 21st century media war that at some point will demand a definition and analysis of terrorism. And an analysis and definition of terrorism will reveal that it is caused by state terrorism and repression and is nothing but the most natural response to unjust treatment by the system.
The current paradigm of corporate control and profit for profit's sake, that knows no ethics, compassion or justice, is exhibiting its weakness by needing an army to protect when they meet. The last cramps, is what we are witnessing. The evil dragon is out of fire, simply firing randomly. Globalisation has undermined the lies of the cold war and a transparent global society can be sensed somewhere out there and we can reach it, when we first smell it. A global society will not accept the destructive politics of a few corporations and their marionettes.
Soon the media circus will collapse on its clowns (here referring to especially to Tony Blair).
As the whole world is watching Afghanistan being destroyed and the Afghan people is awaiting the winter that will kill most of them, people are mobilising, planning, organising and taking a well deserved rest. We are everywhere and we will be back to confront!
The movement is ever growing and the latest war is only bringing more groups together. More networking and more coalitions are being build. Groups that thought that the Seattle, Prague and Genova events did not appeal to them are now holding meetings with, and getting to know many of the groups that shaped those events. People are coming together!
The show has only just begun. Wait for second act.
Optimistic: anarchy. Be realistic, demand the impossible - now! ;-}}}
~~~jmp~~~
nephridium unlimited
ps: ~join the whispering campaign~
jmp
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