Yesterday i went to an anarchist potluck and had a lot of stimulating conversation with 'anarchists'. They were selling home brewed beer at their potluck, they had cranberry, eucalyptus and peppermint flavours (the cranberry tasted like cheese but the peppermint was delicious).
Apparently they are already getting organized for protests for the 2010 olympics. It sounds as if a lot of activists are going to be helping Canadian first nations protest the olympics. The goal is to teach foreigners the truth about Canada: that we're not such a peaceful place and we have an evil state just like all other countries.
The most interesting think i heard all night was during a conversation i was having about direct action. I was considering direct action to be when a group of protestors are willing to resort to violence if the police attack them. But one anarchist thought that every moment of one's life could be direct action. Instead of buying a carrot from the grocery store, he uses direct action and grows his own carrot (and brews his own beer). Every movement of his body is an expression of his political beliefs. Pretty cool.
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that's awesome Barry! I like that direct action thing..and it's cool to think that there will be a huge protest at the olympics.. A true expression of free speech! Well I think we have to start trying to network more with other people who are downright fed up with the system.. I spoke to a powerful woman yesterday who suggested it and she is right.. we need to start getting together somehow, and I know there are groups out there as we speak.. we need to combine groups of groups and make this thing go further.. they had a revolutionary hip hop performance on saturday which means there are a number of like minded folks out there.. between the greens, the anarchists, the socialists and progressives I'm sure we could throw something together and give it a lasting quality.. we have to accumulate
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Sorry, did you say anarchists organized themselves to protest?
Where did he buy the carrot seeds?
Where did he buy the brewing equipment?
Where did he buy the cups to put the beer in?
Where did they get the dishes to put their food in?
Why do they think its their right to deprive athletes, possibly the only group who have it harder than artists, their one chance to do that which arguably their bodies are built for?
Anarchism works individually. That guy sounds pretty clever, but obviously not an anarchist. Meetings aren't anarchism.
They're simply forming an anarchist political party, which will lead nowhere. Anarchism doesn't have parties, political or otherwise.
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