Audacity is all that is needed.

[resisting arrest with violence]

One ounce of audacity will outweigh all the revolutionary tomes on the bookshelves.

http://www.yetiarts.com/riot/shatter.jpg

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/wto/gallery/photo/photo2.jpg

http://www.nodo50.org/x-files/imago/rev_01/1999_seattle_buscando_casa_okupable.jpg

http://www.nocompromise.org/images/starbucks.jpg

http://www.raw.at/galerie/images/seattle/seattle_069.jpg

http://ch.indymedia.org/images/2003/09/13861.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Spain_barcelona_20030326_01.PNG

http://www.fastfoodweblog.nl/www/images/demonstration_-_muslim_protester_points_his_toy_gun_at_ronald_mcd onald.jpg

http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/image/MCGE_Wiri_11May04-002.jpg

http://www.jawz.us/uploads/211069091XmrevN_ph.jpg

http://www.americandigest.org/mt-archives/ronaldcrimespree-thumb.jpg

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/images/0513-11.jpg

[codyvo]

WOW!

Some action, where is this?

[resisting arrest with violence]

Seattle: where they really know how to party like it's 1999---in protest of the W.T.O.

[OleMarxco]

Sure does, I have just one word to say: KICK ASS!
To convey most of my feelings on this subject! When does the killin's start?

Those are alot more brave of than me, 'tho. As for now, I'm full of alot of Bravado, am I not? Well, I'm a relatively "new" Neo-Commie, so, meh, who the hell knows. When time comes...meh! Are those in one of the pictures breaking up with a wire-breaker on a military supply depot? That clown on the last pic, 'tho, however, weren't really..shall we say, RESISTING ARREST WITH VIOLENCE :D

[codyvo]

I would have guessed Seattle, it has always been a radical city, and although Starbucks started there I hear most the people hate starbucks, anyways, if I wasn't in Florida the farthest away part of the country I would be up their.

[KptnKrill]

Pfft, destruction is easy. I'll be impressed when I see something positive being done.

[codyvo]

Thats true, things like this just produce even more hate against us leftists, I really shouldn't have been as impressed as I was, but it is so rare that anyone does anything.

[redstar2000]

Look carefully at photo #4 (from the top) -- dumbass climbing into Starbuck's window. Notice large and pointed piece of glass hanging right over dumbass's head. Imagine glass, already weakened, falling from frame and removing head of dumbass.

Theory is not without utility in revolutionary struggle. :lol:

http://www.websmileys.com/sm/cool/123.gif

[KptnKrill]

Originally posted by [email protected] 31 2005, 11:30 PM
Thats true, things like this just produce even more hate against us leftists, I really shouldn't have been as impressed as I was, but it is so rare that anyone does anything.
I was too :) It *does* look cool taking on capitalists like that, but that's only short term and I'm 99.99% sure that with such impaired vision they'll never get anywhere.

I mean just look at that idiot in #4 like redstar said, he's just looking for a beheading. It's just a bunch of kids causing mischief and nothing more.

[coda]

That ain't just no ordinary clown, Ole Marxo,

That's Ronald McDonald!!!


and you can't be sure, which side he's really on.

[codyvo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 31 2005, 11:38 PM
Look carefully at photo #4 (from the top) -- dumbass climbing into Starbuck's window. Notice large and pointed piece of glass hanging right over dumbass's head. Imagine glass, already weakened, falling from frame and removing head of dumbass.

Theory is not without utility in revolutionary struggle. :lol:

http://www.websmileys.com/sm/cool/123.gif
Damn, after looking at that again, I realised, he got lucky, I mean even guilletines don't look that dangerous.

[Clarksist]

As said before, this isn't really amazing. It is a bunch of people spray painting and rioting. Not very "revolutionary". Once I see some actual change from it, will I think positively on it.

It's too bad that its so easy to destroy things, but so difficult to create things.

[tambourine_man]

riots are great

[Jazzy]

That would not be a constructive method of a revolutionary movement, as it has already been stated, it would just bring more hatred upon us. In order for the revolution to really work, their would definately need to be some order to the action of which we take. Those photos just show anger, immaturity, and destructive behavior. Have you ever heard of Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King busting out windows and spray painting and basically being common vandals? I know anger boils inside you and you feel like you need to do something, but you need to do it in a mature fashion. Get your voice out there to be heard, start PEACEFUL protests, start a group of potential revolutionaries and discuss tactics and stratigies that are good for the people of the world and that would not generate any more violence and hatred in the world. By that I do not mean do not use self defense or anything like that.....but those pictures were just destructive behavior and really the only message I saw with those pictures was that they were angry. I did not see the real message of what I'm sure they were trying to get across. The world has enough hatred and violence in it already, as revolutionaries, we do not need to be adding to it but rather we need to change it.

[resisting arrest with violence]

There's a saying by Oscar Wilde, "There is one thing worse than being talked about---not being talked about."

Actions like those depicted above get people talking about the real issues. It breaks through the propaganda propagated by the corporate news media. You think the average Joe logs on to Zmag or CommonDreams for their news updates?

[Jazzy]

Like I already said, violent reactions such as those depicted in the pictures, would only bring forth even more negative responses to the leftists as a whole. It would be better to get people talking through positive actions that would open their eyes to the truth of what is going on around them rather than strike an angry nerve with society.

[Fidelbrand]

Seems that Uncle Mac finally freed himself to have some real fun.

[OleMarxco]

Originally posted by [email protected] 31 2005, 11:49 PM
That ain't just no ordinary clown, Ole Marxo,

That's Ronald McDonald!!!

and you can't be sure, which side he's really on.
RIIIGHT. Whatever. And we all now ordinary clowns have names too, so why isn't that an ordinary clown? Just 'cuz he's the mascot of goddamn Ol' Uncle MacDonald the capitalist pig, doesn't mean he ain't no ordinary clown 'cept just beside a few things like bein' hyped up as stuff like an evil clown representing the global imperialism of America in the name of cheese-burgers with fries and extra milkshake?

There's NO DOUBT which side he's on - The one that PAYS best, and 'rats "good" ol' Uncle Sam! :blink:

[resisting arrest with violence]

Right before Seattle 1999 happened there was no public discourse on the matter of "globalization." Post Seattle 1999 the public and media were forced to look into the matter more closely. I remember watching Fox news post Seattle 1999 and those commentators---Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hanninity etc.--- there were just infuriated by the protestors.

[TC]

The thing is about theory that most of it in the west is a way of justifying inaction. Disrupting capitalism in an organized and systematic way is much more effective then disrupting it in a disorganized way...but disrupting it at all as they did in Seattle is more worthwhile then not disrupting anything!


In that sense i respect western Anarchists more then western Marxist-Leninists because even though i disagree with their politics at least they end up doing *something* practical...or they did until sept 11th 2001, afterwhich they got increadibly wimpy.

[KptnKrill]

Originally posted by resisting arrest with [email protected] 2 2005, 10:27 PM
Right before Seattle 1999 happened there was no public discourse on the matter of "globalization." Post Seattle 1999 the public and media were forced to look into the matter more closely. I remember watching Fox news post Seattle 1999 and those commentators---Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hanninity etc.--- there were just infuriated by the protestors.
Really? I don't remember the battle for seattle having any major long term effect on the masses. Who cares what Bill O'Reilly has to say or discuss anyhow. He's just out to make money.



The Revolution Cannot Be Televised.

Of course they want you on their television show, radio program, rock festival, major label. They don't care whether they're selling mouthwash or anarchist revolution as long as they can keep people watching and buying. They know that sooner or later people are bound to get bored and fed up with the mindless, passionless drivel that they normally have to offer, and they count on you to keep new ideas and styles coming for them to exploit; without that, they'd have nothing new to sell people. They know if they can find ways to sell your own expressions of outrage back to you, to cash in on the very frustration that their system creates, they've got you beat. They know that no message you could spread through their channels could be more powerful than the message that your use of their medium itself sends: stay tuned. No awareness you could possibly raise through television or CDs sold in shopping malls is more important than the awareness of the power of individuals to act for themselves. Television watching and supermarket shopping keep people passive, watching things that they can never take part in and people they can never meet, buying what is marketed to them by corporations rather than making their own music, their own ideas, their own lives. To motivate people to act for themselves, you have to contact them more directly.

That's blatantly stolen from Working "Within the System" (http://crimethinc.com/library/english/system.html) but it does of wonderful job of concisely stating why the tactics of the past simply won't work.

Post-left, all the way! :D

[Urban Rubble]

Most of those pics aren't even from Seattle.