Disobedience against War, direct @ction meeting 12/11/02
disobedience | 11.11.2002 15:26
Meeting of the newly formed disobedience against war
network is on Tuesday 12th November at 7.30pm.
Venue: LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London E1.
network is on Tuesday 12th November at 7.30pm.
Venue: LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London E1.
Disobedience Network was set-up by a group of people
involved in various anarchists and grassroots direct
action groups from Reclaim the Streets, WOMBLES,
West London Anarchists and Radicals and AYN.
The idea was to apply creativity, confrontation and horizontal methods of organising gained from experience from J18, N30 and Mayday actions to the top-down, SWP/CND dominated anti-war movement. We have so far participated in the first [and probably last] STW coalition day of action on October 31st with a call to occupy the Houses of Parliament, an adventurist, stuntist and spectacular call of action.
So what next? The Stop the War Coalition thinks direct
action is about handing petitions in to Downing Street or organising ineffective demonstrations, the next being
planned for February 15th, 2003. What about in the meantime, there are many possibilities.
Making sure that the 'war on terrorism' becomes a part of our everyday lives, the new BAe systems advertising campaign, who also sponsored the British legion's red poppy campaign, are promoting themselves as the new 'acceptable' face of capitalism. BAe, the UK's No.1 arm manufacturer with profits of £13.1Billion, are spending millions of pounds in advertising for the UK civil market whilst making billions supplying weaponry to the UK and others.
One way of bringing the war home would be to target the industries which profit from these wars be they
arms manufacturers and there subsideries [many companies involved in car manufacture], oil companies
and the armed forces itself.
Tedious A to B marches won't stop this war, no matter
how many people turn out. It's only when we cross the
thin blue line can real impact be made.
Be realistic, think the impossible!
involved in various anarchists and grassroots direct
action groups from Reclaim the Streets, WOMBLES,
West London Anarchists and Radicals and AYN.
The idea was to apply creativity, confrontation and horizontal methods of organising gained from experience from J18, N30 and Mayday actions to the top-down, SWP/CND dominated anti-war movement. We have so far participated in the first [and probably last] STW coalition day of action on October 31st with a call to occupy the Houses of Parliament, an adventurist, stuntist and spectacular call of action.
So what next? The Stop the War Coalition thinks direct
action is about handing petitions in to Downing Street or organising ineffective demonstrations, the next being
planned for February 15th, 2003. What about in the meantime, there are many possibilities.
Making sure that the 'war on terrorism' becomes a part of our everyday lives, the new BAe systems advertising campaign, who also sponsored the British legion's red poppy campaign, are promoting themselves as the new 'acceptable' face of capitalism. BAe, the UK's No.1 arm manufacturer with profits of £13.1Billion, are spending millions of pounds in advertising for the UK civil market whilst making billions supplying weaponry to the UK and others.
One way of bringing the war home would be to target the industries which profit from these wars be they
arms manufacturers and there subsideries [many companies involved in car manufacture], oil companies
and the armed forces itself.
Tedious A to B marches won't stop this war, no matter
how many people turn out. It's only when we cross the
thin blue line can real impact be made.
Be realistic, think the impossible!
disobedience
e-mail:
disobedience@riseup.net
Homepage:
www.disobedience.org.uk
Comments
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Why?
11.11.2002 17:12
And btw. organising demonstrations with half a million participants is definately very effective, because they are a very concrete expression of what a large number of people think, whereas with direct actions you will only get a far smaller number of people to participate. Different people have different ways of making themselves heard, it's silly to dismiss those that agree with you but don't necessarily feel they should take it as far as you. The diversity is a strength - Don't introduce the Tories' selfdestruction techniques to the anti-war movement.
pir
Theres a time for everything
11.11.2002 20:59
scooter
e-mail: scooter@yahoo.com
This action should be on a Saturday as well!
12.11.2002 09:43
Harlequin
Oh Harlequin...
12.11.2002 11:17
It's not just numbers which count, it's what we do with them. This is why the huge in September would achieve nothing on its own.
blacknred
It must be at the weekend!
12.11.2002 18:32
And by the way people wont walk out of work to disrupt the war effort as was shown by the poor turnout at the last day of action!
Harlequin