Direct Action Agaist Isreali Invasion...

[Forward Union]

Please distribute this callout!

// EMERGENCY ASSEMBLY CALLED TO PLAN DIRECT ACTION AGAINST ISREALI INVASION
OF LEBANON AND PALESTINE!

// TUESDAY 1ST AUGUST

// ROOM, H216, CONNAUGHT HOUSE, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS


In response to the actions of last Tuesday and Saturday it has become clear
that there is an overwhelming desire to do more than peacefuly protest the
masacre happening in Lebanon and Palestine. Currently over 300 Lebanese have
been killed while the governments and populations of the world watch. At the
same time the media is speaking about balance, to try to fool us into their
'neutral' coverage. The systems of power are attempting to silence any form
of unconventional dissent. Once again, demonstrations have been called in
which people march along prescribed routes and listen to planned, boring
speeches. We've seen this play before with the run up to the Iraq war. We
now know that peaceful demonstrations alone are not sufficient to halt the
war machine.

To combat this, we are putting a call-out for an emergency assembly to plan
direct action against the Isreali invasion of Lebanon and Palestine. The
assembly will take place on Tuesday, 1st of August at 18:30.

Venue: room H216, on the second floor of Connaught House, London School of
Economics. Connaught House is on Aldwych; for a map and directions see

www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/Default.htm

[Whitten]

what sort of "direct action" are we talking about here?

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2006, 12:58 PM
what sort of "direct action" are we talking about here?
Not really appropriate to say on a message board, but not decided anyway, this is what the meeting is for.

[Keyser]

I'd like to be counted in for this.

I totally agree with the sentiments expressed in the statement and I made the point of having direct action in Israel, in the thread about the Communist Party of Israel/Peace Now protest and the photos of it.

It has shown to be true, time and time again, that peaceful rallies done with the consent of the police (for fucks sake!) and everything planned to the point of utter predictability, means that the ruling class and the capitalist state can ignore the rally, for they simply know how little of a threat or disruption it will cause to them and their interests.

We need a co-ordinated strike of direct action across the UK, Forget a largish (any StWC demo now will never get the same numbers as the 1.5 million person demo in Feb. 2003) demos in one place. Action across the country and action which causes disruption is needed.

Anyways, I'll make the effort to be there and do my bit.

[TC]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2006, 12:58 PM
what sort of "direct action" are we talking about here?
i'm gonna guess its the type of 'direct action' that looks a whole lot like indirect and purely symbolic action.


Running around with masks and black flags isn't direct action anymore than marching with red flags and no masks is.

Blowing up weapons shipments going to israel, storming the israeli embassy and holding its staff hostage, sending money and supplies to hizbollah, thats what would be direct action.

...and those are not the types of actions discussed in public meetings


...so be assured that there will be no 'direct action' simply self-aggrandized symbolic protest being called direct action

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by TragicClown+Jul 27 2006, 10:31 AM--> (TragicClown @ Jul 27 2006, 10:31 AM)
[email protected] 26 2006, 12:58 PM
what sort of "direct action" are we talking about here?
i'm gonna guess its the type of 'direct action' that looks a whole lot like indirect and purely symbolic action.


Running around with masks and black flags isn't direct action anymore than marching with red flags and no masks is.

Blowing up weapons shipments going to israel, storming the israeli embassy and holding its staff hostage, sending money and supplies to hizbollah, thats what would be direct action.

...and those are not the types of actions discussed in public meetings


...so be assured that there will be no 'direct action' simply self-aggrandized symbolic protest being called direct action [/b]
Why do you have take a stab at anarchists in every post you make?

Does it make you feel better?

Do you have self-esteem or jealousy issues?

[The Feral Underclass]

This thread is to discuss that call out, not to discuss ideological differences.

[Kid_A7]

Seing as this thread really isn't ideological but action-directed, let me just say this:
Being as Radical leftist as I am in Israel, isn't easy. Yet still, I always find myself far from the consencus to the left with a proud heat.

But in this here case... well folks, i'm just there in the middle.
Israel is not to be blamed for waging this just war on Huzballa. Lebanon is a host nation for a hostile Shiayt Milition with all intet to impose Iranian Nuclear order upon the middle east. Should Israel destroy Huzballa, it just might start a new era in Lebanon. Don't be fooled by the claims that peace ruled Lebanon before hand. WE all remember the shaky situation with Syria and we know well that Lebanon can rise like the phoenix only with Huzballa behind.

As for Palestine...
END THE OCCUPATION, NOW!

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 12:31 AM
...so be assured that there will be no 'direct action' simply self-aggrandized symbolic protest being called direct action

Just fuck off.

The criticism you have raised; that much of this 'direct action' is simply symbolic and practically worthless, is one that anarchists do indeed raise all the time, against themselves. Indeed, a lot of direct action does end up being ineffective and simply symbolic. Other times however, it gets the job done.

I wish you would understand the nature of 'productive' self-criticism. It is likely this meeting will involve a lively debate about whether or not any "direct action" we plan will be worth actually doing. If ideas seem to be nothing more than some symbolic action, that will end up with arrests and nothing gained, we will discuss it democratically, and (probably) kill the idea.

You obviously have strong and 'useful' opinions on the matter. If you want to argue that we should avoid symbolic direct action, and think you have the courage to stand up in a room and confront someone who is proposing such a thing, you'd be more than welcome to come along. But please don't turn this into more of your really boring anti-anarchist bullshit.


Blowing up weapons shipments going to israel, storming the israeli embassy and holding its staff hostage, sending money and supplies to hizbollah, thats what would be direct action.

Embassy occupation, or sieges, destruction and sabotage of military equipment, is nothing new to the anarchist movement, only a week or so ago the Russian Chamber of Commerce was occupied. The ideas you have suggested are honestly not that radical or outside the sphere of potentiality. Although we are not going to support Hezbollah.