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Edited on Wed Sep-01-04 09:31 PM by lostnfound
What's happening in New York now is incredibly interesting. If you haven't seen DemocracyNow! this week, and following Indymedia, you are missing out on some incredible stories. (Putting mainstream media as a major protest target today was awesome. And did you know the mock unemployment line was 3 miles long, about 8000 people, today?)
Diverse direct actions in a short period ...The use of group text messaging to allow coordination between multiple affinity groups (to alert other people about need for Indymedia photographers, or to warn them about paddy wagons and mass arrests, or to spontaneously re-organize routes etc) is also leaving a trail of eyewitness reports.
This is populism exerting its power without taking up arms. Kind of a controlled chaos. I really don't know what to think, but I do think it is revolutionary. And wonder, if the election gets stolen again, would this be a useful recourse?
This morning on Free Speech TV there was actually something of a documentary about yesterday's events, produced by an Indymedia group (called Unconventional News?), aired on Manhattan Neighborhood News (www.mnn.org). It showed -- *video of the poor peoples march, *interviewed some of the organizers, *showed an action by a 6-person affinity group who simply rode the subway dressed in black with white cream on the faces, wearing signs that said 'War Dead' -- they were arrested *interviewed the head of the NYCLU (ACLU) and National Lawyers Guild about treatment of activists etc. and the "total control model" being used by police to micromanage dissent into blandness.
Don't miss the Indymedia & DN! coverage of the protests this week. Don't rush to judgment over irresponsible protesters until you see it through the eyes of alternative media. What's happening in NY is truly remarkable.
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