Climate camp hi-jacked
Antz | 07.08.2008 18:24 | Climate Camp 2008
In response to your current radio broadcast. 7. 08 pm show.
Please lets not confuse the issues or use this event to promote ones own agenda. Although some aspects of the climate camp may have similarities to what one may construe as being somewhat anarchistic, even the use of this word has far more trouble associated with confusion rather then action.
As this camp is intended to be a public transparent opinion held by many millions of people globally, lets please try to avoid any dogmatism that can ease ally be rethreaded back into the climate camp happening and thus nullify its meaning. Please , please lets not make that common mistake of pigeon-holing ourself s and so dis-empowering the intention.
I am somewhat saddened by the current speakers who seemed to have hi-jacked what is looking like a first, in people power where public strength and the issue of our survival is “policy”
I personally am suspicious of any known labelled concept, anarchy, socialism or any other ism of social organisation presenting itself presently, within the climate camp; as these “ism's” seriously cloud the real voice, that of millions of concerned individuals who feel a need to express urgency with regards to climate change.
Thank you for your time Antz in Germany
Please lets not confuse the issues or use this event to promote ones own agenda. Although some aspects of the climate camp may have similarities to what one may construe as being somewhat anarchistic, even the use of this word has far more trouble associated with confusion rather then action.
As this camp is intended to be a public transparent opinion held by many millions of people globally, lets please try to avoid any dogmatism that can ease ally be rethreaded back into the climate camp happening and thus nullify its meaning. Please , please lets not make that common mistake of pigeon-holing ourself s and so dis-empowering the intention.
I am somewhat saddened by the current speakers who seemed to have hi-jacked what is looking like a first, in people power where public strength and the issue of our survival is “policy”
I personally am suspicious of any known labelled concept, anarchy, socialism or any other ism of social organisation presenting itself presently, within the climate camp; as these “ism's” seriously cloud the real voice, that of millions of concerned individuals who feel a need to express urgency with regards to climate change.
Thank you for your time Antz in Germany
Antz
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bit of an overly dramatic title this "hijack"!
07.08.2008 18:45
there's lots of different people at camp, some with 'isms' some without.
that 'transparency' at camp is achieved through regular participatory meetings which try and reach consensus, in this way the politics is in the doing.
it would be great to think however that millions are also prepared to take direct action to safeguard the future :)
me
anarchy/anarchism
07.08.2008 19:05
yeah, erm, anarchy isn't a concept, it's a (so-far) envisioned state of social organisation. anarchISM is the concept that prefigures anarchism.
they are very different.
grammar fascist
Strength in diversity
07.08.2008 19:14
If one "ism" is being represented more than another, then wonder why, don't get upset about it. Surely it should be obvious to start with, just like the way the camps kitchens are vegan and not vegetarian. Anarchism is self-organisation and veganism is the eco-friendliest diet.
This camp only works because of the voices representing it, without the diversity from greens to anarchists to politicians and locals, there would be no support for the mass direct action movement that has swept the public off their feet (whether they like it or not).
More importantly, direct action is entrenched in anarchism, that's just the way it is.
Then we all work together