RAAN tags y graffiti

[Nachie]

Recently (end of last year) we started asking RAAN crews to send us pictures of any network-inspired street art they happen to find around their cities. This is what's been sent in so far (minus a couple pictures that were too dark/blurry to be used). Enjoy!

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/1.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/2.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/3.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/4.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/5.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/6.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/7.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/8.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/9.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/10.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/11.jpg

please post any you happen to know of, or just PM it to me or somebody else from raan on these forums...

More info: http://www.redanarchist.org

[Everyday Anarchy]

What exactly are in those bags in front of the church? Do they have a certain meaning pertaining to the church?

[Fawkes]

Why is heterosexuality boring?

[OneBrickOneVoice]

All of those look like they were done on or in your apartment, anyhow, I like the first 2. No one will give a fuck enough to know what the 4th is.

[Black Dagger]

Sweet, hopefully more pics will be coming soon :)

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Originally posted by Everyday [email protected] 20, 2007 11:08 pm
What exactly are in those bags in front of the church? Do they have a certain meaning pertaining to the church?
umm trash probably, and now that you bring it up, its quite a good metaphor for "religion is garbage" however I'm sure that was unintentional.

[Nachie]

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/12.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/13.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/14.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/15.jpg

http://www.redanarchist.org/images/graf/16.jpg

[Red October]

where are those tags? it looks like a rural area

[which doctor]

Kentucky I think.

[Nachie]

at least a handful of different states. some of them (like the bluegrass insurgency one) are definitely from kentucky, though.

[Black Dagger]

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7074/aheartpinkjv4.jpg

[Nachie]

Are you suggesting perhaps that we should try incorporating some of those?

(i am not opposed)

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by nachie
Are you suggesting perhaps that we should try incorporating some of those?

I'm showing you a picture of some graf that someone has already done ;)

[Zero]

I love the Bluegrass Insurgency one =).

[Black Dagger]

Another bit off graf that i found :o

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4409/offthepigij1.jpg

[Nachie]

shocking.

SHOCKING!

[An archist]

:huh: it looks... fluorescent

[Black Dagger]

It appears to have been down with a silver metallic chrome paint, the glow is the light from the camera flash hitting the surface of this paint. It glows from a distance with just street light as well... at the appropiate angles.

[welshred]

Good way to get the message accross, using glowing paint!

[Forward Union]

No idea who's behind it yet Black Rose ?

;)

[Black Dagger]

My guess? Local youths :P

[Enragé]

bah fuckin riffraff these days

shouldnt they be in school learning something useful?!

[Rollo]

Out of curiosity why do RAAN use the hammer and sickle? ( a bolshevik creation ).

Also, I really like anything that incorporates a heart into it, this is my latest design.

It's still a WIP and pretty much just conceptual but I like the way it's going.

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7659/hammerandheartik1.png

[Nachie]

that's a pretty neat idea for a design...

there was actually a short article about the symbols of RAAN in Emotional Poverty #5. The idea is that RAAN itself doesn't use the hammer and sickle (or the sickle-a, or circle-a, for that matter) but that people who are autonomously reproducing RAAN might be choosing to use it to represent themselves. because of RAAN's unprecedented hostility towards Leninists, whether or not we use the hammer and sickle isn't such a big deal and RAAN affiliates are encouraged to just not use it if they don't feel like it, or find other symbols for RAAN and, through their activity (like graf or banners or whatever), raise them to prominence.

but on a personal note, i think the hammer and sickle is awesome and has a really magnetic power to it that is irresistible to a lot of young folks coming up looking for ways to express their denial of this society (this was true for me, at least). if we can use that magneticism and channel it into anti-authoritarian expressions, awesome.

oh yeah and here's another one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/xdanasaurusx/IMG_2303.jpg

[Rollo]

Originally posted by [email protected] 07, 2007 06:11 am
that's a pretty neat idea for a design...

there was actually a short article about the symbols of RAAN in Emotional Poverty #5. The idea is that RAAN itself doesn't use the hammer and sickle (or the sickle-a, or circle-a, for that matter) but that people who are autonomously reproducing RAAN might be choosing to use it to represent themselves. because of RAAN's unprecedented hostility towards Leninists, whether or not we use the hammer and sickle isn't such a big deal and RAAN affiliates are encouraged to just not use it if they don't feel like it, or find other symbols for RAAN and, through their activity (like graf or banners or whatever), raise them to prominence.

but on a personal note, i think the hammer and sickle is awesome and has a really magnetic power to it that is irresistible to a lot of young folks coming up looking for ways to express their denial of this society (this was true for me, at least). if we can use that magneticism and channel it into anti-authoritarian expressions, awesome.

oh yeah and here's another one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/xdanasaurusx/IMG_2303.jpg
I really like that circle with the arrows, it doesn't have the ' cheap punk band ' feel the circle A is commonly placed with.

Does anybody know the exact story behind the symbol?

[Enragé]

donno

Strike Anywhere (a punk band) use it a fuckload though :P

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by [email protected] 07, 2007 04:08 am
Out of curiosity why do RAAN use the hammer and sickle? ( a bolshevik creation ).

Also, I really like anything that incorporates a heart into it, this is my latest design.

It's still a WIP and pretty much just conceptual but I like the way it's going.

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7659/hammerandheartik1.png
That's really cute :)

[Keyser]

Nice tags, Nachie.

The guy in the last pic, with the scarf, very cute! :wub:

[Inithias]

it looks loke the symbol of Rise Against, a lil bit

[Inithias]

Strike Anywhere, yeah sry,
I always switch those 2 :P

[Leo]

Also, I really like anything that incorporates a heart into it, this is my latest design.

It's still a WIP and pretty much just conceptual but I like the way it's going.

Rollo, that was fucking beautiful.

[manic expression]

Originally posted by Rollo+March 06, 2007 09:11 pm--> (Rollo @ March 06, 2007 09:11 pm)
[email protected] 07, 2007 06:11 am
that's a pretty neat idea for a design...

there was actually a short article about the symbols of RAAN in Emotional Poverty #5. The idea is that RAAN itself doesn't use the hammer and sickle (or the sickle-a, or circle-a, for that matter) but that people who are autonomously reproducing RAAN might be choosing to use it to represent themselves. because of RAAN's unprecedented hostility towards Leninists, whether or not we use the hammer and sickle isn't such a big deal and RAAN affiliates are encouraged to just not use it if they don't feel like it, or find other symbols for RAAN and, through their activity (like graf or banners or whatever), raise them to prominence.

but on a personal note, i think the hammer and sickle is awesome and has a really magnetic power to it that is irresistible to a lot of young folks coming up looking for ways to express their denial of this society (this was true for me, at least). if we can use that magneticism and channel it into anti-authoritarian expressions, awesome.

oh yeah and here's another one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/xdanasaurusx/IMG_2303.jpg
I really like that circle with the arrows, it doesn't have the ' cheap punk band ' feel the circle A is commonly placed with.

Does anybody know the exact story behind the symbol? [/b]
This is the story I heard while I was working with an antifa group:

The three arrows stand for "equality, liberty and solidarity" (I probably messed up the order). There are a ton of theories of how it originated, but nothing concrete. One of the stories is that it used to be a Nazi symbol, but resistance groups during WWII turned it upside-down and started using it as an anti-fascist symbol. Regardless of its origin, it is a symbol of anti-fascism.

[Fawkes]

"equality, liberty and solidarity"
If I recall correctly, that was actually the motto of the French rebels during the French revolution except "solidarity" was exchanged with the word "brotherhood".

[Inithias]

there needs to be solidarity in a brotherhood, or else you can't call it a brotherhood

[Black Dagger]

Well i think the point was that 'brotherhood' as a concept explictly excludes women, hence 'solidarity'.

[Inithias]

hmmm :^)

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by black [email protected] 19, 2007 03:31 pm
Well i think the point was that 'brotherhood' as a concept explictly excludes women, hence 'solidarity'.
:lol: Even the revolutionary slogans are politically correct...

[YSR]

Why shouldn't they be inclusive and correctly worded?

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by Permanent Revolution+March 20, 2007 05:28 am--> (Permanent Revolution @ March 20, 2007 05:28 am)
black [email protected] 19, 2007 03:31 pm
Well i think the point was that 'brotherhood' as a concept explictly excludes women, hence 'solidarity'.
:lol: Even the revolutionary slogans are politically correct... [/b]
Right, that whole 'new left' thing that happened in the 60s/70s, just PC bullshit :angry:

[The Advent of Anarchy]

Off topic but still on R.A.A.N, they scare me sometimes. I was once a "Leninist", but I'm just a Marxist now. However, I have Leninist buddies. DON'T BEAT EM UP OR I'LL BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF WITH MY GUMMY BEAR AK-47!

[Black Dagger]

The stuff about Leninists is just rhetoric, your friends have nothing to fear.

[SpikeyRed]

Originally posted by [email protected] 07, 2007 07:11 am

I really like that circle with the arrows, it doesn't have the ' cheap punk band ' feel the circle A is commonly placed with.

Does anybody know the exact story behind the symbol?
Like the other comrades said, the punk band Strike Anywhere use it.

I was reading about it on wiki the other day heres (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifascist_Circle) the link if you want it. Basic info, poor quality article, but sheds a little light.

It says it was designed to be able to cover swastika's easily, and so I tried it at school the other day and it worked :-)

[Dr Mindbender]

The one about bolshevism being 'bullshit' is sectarian. What a waste of paint.

[bezdomni]

Originally posted by Ulster [email protected] 02, 2007 07:14 pm
The one about bolshevism being 'bullshit' is sectarian. What a waste of paint.
Agreed 100%.

It isn't even like there is a huge bolshevik movement in Kentucky to be making graffiti against. :P

Also, why does RAAN always use spanish words? RAANismo o muerte, RAANista, tags y graffiti....

Are there large spanish-speaking groups where they are targeting? Or does it just have the effect of "sounding cool".

Does RAAN even have documents in Spanish? I have never seen them (not that I have even really looked.)

[Rollo]

Woah, I got some cool replies about my little design, but do something a little more finalised in photoshop a bit later.

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by SovietPants+July 03, 2007 06:11 am--> (SovietPants @ July 03, 2007 06:11 am)
Ulster [email protected] 02, 2007 07:14 pm
The one about bolshevism being 'bullshit' is sectarian. What a waste of paint.
Agreed 100%.

It isn't even like there is a huge bolshevik movement in Kentucky to be making graffiti against. :P

Also, why does RAAN always use spanish words? RAANismo o muerte, RAANista, tags y graffiti....

Are there large spanish-speaking groups where they are targeting? Or does it just have the effect of "sounding cool".

Does RAAN even have documents in Spanish? I have never seen them (not that I have even really looked.) [/b]
You think way too much about RAAN :huh:

[bezdomni]

Nobody could ever think too much about anything. ;)

I really don't understand why RAAN uses spanish suffixes on words when I have never seen them actually use spanish to communicate their ideas....nor do I imagine they are trying to bring their message to spanish speaking people.

I only ask because I live and work in a very large spanish-speaking environment and a lot of political work I do requires me to speak spanish very frequently.

[chimx]

Originally posted by SovietPants+July 02, 2007 08:11 pm--> (SovietPants @ July 02, 2007 08:11 pm)
Ulster [email protected] 02, 2007 07:14 pm
The one about bolshevism being 'bullshit' is sectarian. What a waste of paint.
Agreed 100%.

It isn't even like there is a huge bolshevik movement in Kentucky to be making graffiti against. :P

Also, why does RAAN always use spanish words? RAANismo o muerte, RAANista, tags y graffiti....

Are there large spanish-speaking groups where they are targeting? Or does it just have the effect of "sounding cool".

Does RAAN even have documents in Spanish? I have never seen them (not that I have even really looked.) [/b]
Nachie started using that stuff after he went to Venezuela, and anarchists down there turned him onto "raanismo o muerte", I think. He started using it when he returned and it caught on with some folk.

Most of RAAN's documents are in english only, due to a lack of translators. We were able to translate a few documets for communicating with Venezuelan groups, but that was about a year ago.

[bezdomni]

Most of RAAN's documents are in english only, due to a lack of translators.

In other words...a lack of spanish-speaking affiliates committed enough to translate RAAN's documents?


Nachie started using that stuff after he went to Venezuela

I thought it had something to do with Venezuela, since it is the only Spanish speaking place mentioned on the website. :P