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Activists Increase Militance in Wake of Bush's Re-election

In the wake of Bush's re-election, a string of militants are rising up and taking direct action against Republican, military, and corporate targets. You are cordially invited.
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North Carolina: Vandals hit GOP Headquarters
rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/

Illinois: Republican office vandalized
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-041110vandals,1,3569909.sto

Kansas: Vandal hits headquarters of county GOP
www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/186086

Wisconsin: Tires slashed on 20 GOP vehicles, Milwaukee police report
www.jsonline.com/news/state/nov04/271676.asp

Peaceful protests protect America
technicianonline.com/story.php

Vandals cause major damage to Wal-Mart
www.citizen-times.com/cache/article/buncombe_news/60486.shtml

We held our signs high. We passed out flyers. We've marched in the streets. We've blocked traffic. We made noise and cried out against the war, against oppression. We went home with uplifted spirits, again preaching to the choir and irking passersby. We even went out and voted.

But the monster is still in office. There is to be four more years of absolute terror in the white house. Four more years behind a veneer of moral values and nationalism. We are fucking mad.

The resistance will not be hindered by this election. But if we are to survive, we are going to have to call into question our tactics and whether they are effective. The same protest and black bloc tactics have become predictable. The FTAA in Miami and the RNC in New York City proved that they are ready to handle whatever we can throw their way. Direct confrontations with police are only going to get us beaten and arrested while newspapers and politicians laugh at us. Stripped searched, scoffed and spat upon.

We won't get anywhere by bargaining with them. We need to stop them, put the pressure on, and make them feel afraid. They need to go go to sleep every night pissing their pants in terror.

We need mass decentralized actions, fucking shit up at night. In every city, against, against military recruitment centers, against republican offices, against banks, against walmarts, and against - every component of the military industrial compex.

DIRECT ACTIONS GETS THE GOODS

You know what needs to be done. You know how easy it is to throw a brick. How much magic flows out of the tip of a sharpie. How a fire can destroy and create at the same time. How easy it is to pour it down a funnel into the bottle. It's amazing what you can accomplish with two or three people at night in the shadows. It's all up to you now. We are everywhere.

www.crimethinc.com / www.infoshop.org / www.autonome.org / www.counter-inaugural.org
 
 

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Re: Activists Increase Militance in Wake of Bush's Re-election

I still say these kind of tactics paint the resistance as a bunch of "violent whackos"- we've seen how a large chunk of the country is ready to believe any proaganda the right throws their way. Let's not add fuel to their fire.
Nonviolent resistance doesn't work overnight, and no one has ever said it did. These kind of movements take years to get results, and as disheartening as it is, sometimes all you can do is wait.
I don't mean wait sitting on your hands, but waiting while we still drum out the same message: the war has to end, the wealth needs to be redistributed, the system is corrupt. Since the "election" I've seen and heard people that would never consider joining a demonstration get out on the streets, and more are joining us, with every assault in Iraq, with every poor decision made by the administration. We're going to win eventually, but not if we alienate the bulk of the U.S., which using violent and destructive tactics will definitely do.
 

Re: Activists Increase Militance in Wake of Bush's Re-election

a wrong but predictable response, given the way the a lot of resources of the peace & justice movement were funneled into the sham s'election. violence isn't the way, not yet anyway, besides we already have too many political prisoners rotting in jails in this country. there will be plenty of violence in the near future w/ peak oil & economic collapse. in the meantime, we need to become smarter, more coordinated & more aggressive as opposed to more violent. protests combined w/ strikes, combined w/ boycotts, combined w/ better use of technology, combined w/ networking & outreach across class & color boundaries, will build a movement too strong & numerous to ignore. it might be easy to call 30 million people a focus group, but what happens if a billion or so people stop buying pepsi, coke, mcdonalds, stop shopping @ walmart? and isn't it possible to start a boycott of american products with a global network of activists? what happens when more soldiers start refusing orders or refusing to go to war when drafted? what happens when there's a general strike?

i know its frustrating, & we got A LOT of work to do, but i think the s'election woke a lot of people up. and if an investigation of the fraud goes through (not to give the election to the other warmongerer, but to further expose all the bastards) it will wake up even more. so work with us a little longer. i can feel the energy my elders felt when they got things moving in the right direction. we're gonna reach our goal this time.
 

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