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In The Event of War, London Stops

disobedience | 11.03.2003 22:41

The first working day after war starts:
meet at Edgware Rd tube station - 7.00am
meet at Old Street tube station - 5.oopm
For Direct Action!

The first working day after war starts:
meet at Edgware Rd tube station - 7.00am
meet at Old Street tube station - 5.oopm
For Direct Action!

Sabotage the War Effort
Disobedience Against War are calling for street blocking actions to bring London to a standstill if war cannot be averted.

Capitalist power resides in their control of our labour power and their control of the state; our power resides in our rejection of work and in the streets, where we live and congregate. In recent history, direct actions have focused on disrupting the motions of everyday life, in Reclaim the Streets parties, the fuel protests, anti-roads campaigns, Maydays... By confronting power in the streets, we see the vulnerability of capitalism and the potential we possess of changing our future by bringing this system of death and misery to a halt.

IN THE EVENT OF WAR, LONDON STOPS

“Ultimately it is in the streets that power must be dissolved: for the streets where daily life is endured, suffered and eroded, and where power is confronted and fought, must be turned into the domain where daily life is enjoyed, created and nourished.”

disobedience
- e-mail: disobedience@riseup.net
- Homepage: http://www.disobedience.org.uk

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Delia says..

12.03.2003 00:19

stop people going to work, not going home ;)

ukc


Also

12.03.2003 11:58

also on the same day blockade of London Bridge, called by youth to stop the war. Website up shortly

@-yoof
- Homepage: http://www.youthstopwar.org.uk


"In the streets" not enough

13.03.2003 11:39

"Ultimately, it is in the streets that power must be dissolved." I disagree. It is in the way we live that power must be dissolved. Ivan Illich wrote: "Peace is not just the absence of war, peace is a way of life."

The manufactured products that we make and currently buy - these stem from our ways of living. No amount of direct action to throw sand in the wheels of the present system will change anything structural.

There's no alternative to building different economies and social institutions in our local neighbourhoods. Surely the only alternative to Globalisation of the economy is Localisation of the economy?

Doubtful


"In the streets" not enough

13.03.2003 11:40

"Ultimately, it is in the streets that power must be dissolved." I disagree. It is in the way we live that power must be dissolved. Ivan Illich wrote: "Peace is not just the absence of war, peace is a way of life."

The manufactured products that we make and currently buy - these stem from our ways of living. No amount of direct action to throw sand in the wheels of the present system will change anything structural.

There's no alternative to building different economies and social institutions in our local neighbourhoods. Surely the only alternative to Globalisation of the economy is Localisation of the economy?

Doubtful


"In the streets" not enough

13.03.2003 11:41

"Ultimately, it is in the streets that power must be dissolved." I disagree. It is in the way we live that power must be dissolved. Ivan Illich wrote: "Peace is not just the absence of war, peace is a way of life."

The manufactured products that we make and currently buy - these stem from our ways of living. No amount of direct action to throw sand in the wheels of the present system will change anything structural.

There's no alternative to building different economies and social institutions in our local neighbourhoods. Surely the only alternative to Globalisation of the economy is Localisation of the economy?

Doubtful