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Organic Revolution
27th September 2007, 07:18
Riot Manifesto (International Anarchist Conspiracy)

Disclaimer: This is a top-secret document and should not be disclosed to anyone outside of your regimented cells. When it has been read, contact your local IAC witch and have her take you through the Black Portal to the Black Citadel. There you will receive further instructions.

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Instructions for a riot(Black Block).

I: The Black Block is not a group. The Black Block is a tactic. Not a group. We understand the appeal of identifying with what you believe in and finding some solace in a world bent on its own destruction. On the street however, the color Black is there for your protection and to aid you in your quest of attacking the capitalist system, authority, hierarchies and control.

The state supplicating media has played a large role in spreading the myth that the Black Block is a tightly run group similar to the IAC. It is not. The first step you must take is to eradicate the last remnants of that tired illusion. Once that has been done, the true beauty of the magical Black Block can become clear.

If you look like the person next to you and they look like the person next to them…you all look the same. The greater the uniformity the better. Same hat, same jacket, same pants, same glasses, same bags, same everything. The pig’s feeble little eyes and their shiny new cameras merely see one Black mass. As long as you do not get nabbed, they cannot identify you, thus allowing numerous opportunities to engage in Black Magic.

Or at least more opportunities than a haphazard conglomeration of individuals with no unifying understanding of what needs to take place on the streets. And we have all seen many of those. Numerous people with no understanding of magic at all. But once our magical Black Shrouds are fully utilized, we can bewitch entire buildings and curse the animals in blue confronting us.

II: When witches and wizards are engaged with the police directly in front of you, do not run. DO NOT RUN. The police can only effectively target and detain those at the front. Those at the front are making a conscious choice to be there. If you do not wish or are unable to be at the front, support those who are engaged in Magic by NOT RUNNING AWAY. The risk of your arrest is more minimal than you have been lead to believe by the government’s propaganda.

When there are 10 witches and 2 cops, do not let them control you in any way, shape or form. When there are 50 wizards and 10 cops, make them move away from you. When there are 100 witches and wizards and only 20 cops, take out your wands.

If you can prevent a witch or wizard from falling into the evil clutches of the internal military, prevent them from falling into the evil clutches of the internal military. This can be done by magically pulling a comrade away from a pig while simultaneously magically pushing the pig away from them. With your wands. But this can only take place when there are enough of you present to keep each other safe and the police afraid (see above paragraph).

If enough force is being exerted on the police and the front is hundreds of comrades thick (to be adequately safe for most people), objects can be made, with your wands, to fall on the pigs. Objects like candy canes and rubber ducks and carrots and glitter filled balloons. Because all we will ever throw are those things and nothing else. Naturally.

The pressure has to be able to be maintained for this, though. Off-spray from a blast of pepper spray will not disable you. But a full blast covering your entire body will disable you. A shield can turn a lot of a blast into off-spray. Shields, if enchanted enough, can also stop rubber bullets. Pepper spray and rubber bullets are frequently used at the front in the United States. These things can stop you cold without protection. If rubber bullets or pepper spray are the only weapons being used by the police against you, you can protect yourself enough to maintain a front long enough for objects to fall from the sky, conjured by your Black Magic.

Unfortunately one of our greatest creations, Black Powder, fell into the hands of our enemies and is used against us on the streets in the form of concussion grenades. Until we can counter our own spells, we will have to live with it. Eye protection, head protection, and a good eye kept on the police are about all we can come up with.

Motorcycles without pigs on them can be tipped over with the merest flick of a wand. As long as a pig is still on its bicycle, you can keep it pushed back or knock it over. By using your wands. A cop car with no cops around it is a cop car with no cops around it. A cop on the ground is a cop on the ground. To make the connection read the above paragraphs.

III: Not everyone has to be a part of the Black Block. Not everyone has to desert the Black Block. The Black Block is keeping those behind it safe. Numerical support is ESSENTIAL. Not everyone has to be engaged with the police. Numbers always make the piggies gulp a bit harder. The more people engaged the better (in the opinion of the IAC).

The Black Block can be utilized to create massive disturbances which (if repeated and sustained) will affect institutions or city governments monetarily and physically. If a city government cannot sustain itself with the existence of a detention facility, an invasive corporate superstore, a military-aiding port or any other comparable target within its borders, that city will move to flush the disturbance-causer away. This will not cause the police force to disappear or the local government to collapse. But it will put pressure on the national structure of targeted organizations and cause a harmful entity to leave your area. By doing this, the Black Block can aid people who cannot cast spells that day or the day after because they have been cursed by those with power over them.

The Black Block gives you time to get away. The Black Block has lost people at the front keeping the cops at bay, however temporarily. Our Black Shrouds and our skills with magic can protect those not wanting to be involved in aggressive action. We CAN work together. We CAN do more than we have been doing. Respect and autonomy are absolutely vital for cooperation. Otherwise it cannot take place.

Many of us have had awful experiences fighting against “leftists” in front of the cops. Those categorized as being in the “left” who are as equally dissatisfied as us with the state of “resistance” in the US can work with us. And we can work with them. Us witches and wizards travel in the Realm of the Shadows and are generally secretive people. We cannot always be visible to those who wish to see. The tide of oppression in this country keeps us flying our broomsticks at night. But we are there whenever we can be there. And if people wish to help us and magically communicate certain things into the abyss, we will listen. And we will patiently think. And maybe, maybe, maybe, we might be there.

IV: Fascism and Anarchy, authority and harmony, death and life. They rely on their ability to steal from us. We rely on each other. We can be more powerful than them. When we all finally wake we will find them on our backs. And we will knock them off. They have been keeping us asleep for so long and have crushed us so many times over the centuries. We have one advantage over them: we belong to ourselves, they belong to their things.

The age old conflict between Anarchy and Fascism is entering its most critical phase. They are killing the planet and WILL kill it if they are not stopped. Our glitter can only keep us mesmerized for so long. The time to act is NOW, NOW, NOW. We know our upsurge will not happen at once, but the bright future awaits us all. By the end of next summer, we will not be where we are now.

We will be watching lighting fall from the sky and feeling love pulse through the walls that once trapped us. A dead end has been reached and light is beginning to flow through the cracks. We must train our eyes to see those cracks. And make them wider. Alone we can be destroyed. Some of us know that a lot more than others. Alone we can be terrified into the shadows. Together, we can fight them.

This is not “the way.” This is an idea. A general idea which many of us witches and wizards can agree with (ie: wearing the same thing, not running away, moving forward, etc.) The details can mutate on the street and when more Seeing Stones are distributed there can be more communication in the Realm of the Shadows. Many of you know what we have been talking about. This is for you and for everyone else who does not know what we are talking about. What we are talking about, everyone, is this: cooperation.

Not on our terms. The above manifesto discusses what many of us want to do and can do and how others can remain safe around us. Do what you want to do. But please, listen: we have been doing nothing for long enough. Doing nothing to stop the slaughter of millions of people all over the planet and doing nothing to stop the rape of the Earth. Not just in this country but in every country.

The International Anarchist Conspiracy is in fact operating all over the world, from the Philippines to Brazil to Greece. Western Civilization is rotting and its heart, the land of the rosy-hued sunset, is burning. But we are here to fan the flames away from ourselves and towards the monsters who ignited them.

Beloved comrades and lovers, witches and wizards, we beg of you…smile. And then get ready take out your wands, point them at the demons that haunt your daydreams and let the magic pour out of you.

In Love,

The International Anarchist Conspiracy (IAC)

RedStaredRevolution
27th September 2007, 11:29
brilliant, entertaining, and funny :P . thanks OR

bezdomni
27th September 2007, 17:21
That was cool.

AmbitiousHedonism
27th September 2007, 18:07
This was kind of weird. I also want to take issue with:


Numerical support is ESSENTIAL. Not everyone has to be engaged with the police. Numbers always make the piggies gulp a bit harder.

"Numerical support" is good but not essential. It is not good when folks dress up in black bloc and run away at the first signs of confrontation. It's not good when no one has a plan and everyone is waiting for the 'real' black bloc to take the initiative.

Organic Revolution
27th September 2007, 23:51
Originally posted by [email protected] 27, 2007 11:07 am
This was kind of weird. I also want to take issue with:


Numerical support is ESSENTIAL. Not everyone has to be engaged with the police. Numbers always make the piggies gulp a bit harder.

"Numerical support" is good but not essential. It is not good when folks dress up in black bloc and run away at the first signs of confrontation. It's not good when no one has a plan and everyone is waiting for the 'real' black bloc to take the initiative.
What you quoted doesnt mean that people are running from a fight, but that they are using a diversity of tactics.

Ultra-Violence
28th September 2007, 05:43
Isnt this from a pamphlet? i belive if read it before.

Anarchist have way more fun :P

Organic Revolution
28th September 2007, 07:32
Originally posted by Ultra-[email protected] 27, 2007 10:43 pm
Isnt this from a pamphlet? i belive if read it before.

Anarchist have way more fun :P
Im not sure where it directly came from, but I picked it up from unconventionalactions.org

AmbitiousHedonism
28th September 2007, 21:51
Originally posted by Organic Revolution+September 27, 2007 10:51 pm--> (Organic Revolution @ September 27, 2007 10:51 pm)
[email protected] 27, 2007 11:07 am
This was kind of weird. I also want to take issue with:


Numerical support is ESSENTIAL. Not everyone has to be engaged with the police. Numbers always make the piggies gulp a bit harder.

"Numerical support" is good but not essential. It is not good when folks dress up in black bloc and run away at the first signs of confrontation. It's not good when no one has a plan and everyone is waiting for the 'real' black bloc to take the initiative.

What you quoted doesnt mean that people are running from a fight, but that they are using a diversity of tactics. [/b]
I don't get what you mean.

I wasn't talking just about the article, I was contrasting the idea of that paragraph with reality. Often in massive black blocs in the US, a large number of folks dress up and 'play' black bloc without actually being prepared. Black Bloc is the tactic, and it involves more than just wearing a costume and looking tough/sexy/blahblahblah.

Large numbers of kids running away at the first sign of & during confrontation is dangerous b/c it means folks who are willing to step up can't accurately judge their numbers. A 1000-strong bloc charging at police might intimidate them at first, but when half or more of the folks scatter when pepper spray hits the air or the pigs start swinging batons, it actually generates more panic and confusion.

On the same note, a small, tight & prepared black bloc can do a lot of things a larger group can't.

Therefore, numerical support is not essential, which is the point I was trying to make.

guerilla E
30th September 2007, 09:02
Originally posted by AmbitiousHedonism+September 28, 2007 08:51 pm--> (AmbitiousHedonism @ September 28, 2007 08:51 pm)
Originally posted by Organic [email protected] 27, 2007 10:51 pm

[email protected] 27, 2007 11:07 am
This was kind of weird. I also want to take issue with:


Numerical support is ESSENTIAL. Not everyone has to be engaged with the police. Numbers always make the piggies gulp a bit harder.

"Numerical support" is good but not essential. It is not good when folks dress up in black bloc and run away at the first signs of confrontation. It's not good when no one has a plan and everyone is waiting for the 'real' black bloc to take the initiative.

What you quoted doesnt mean that people are running from a fight, but that they are using a diversity of tactics.
I don't get what you mean.

I wasn't talking just about the article, I was contrasting the idea of that paragraph with reality. Often in massive black blocs in the US, a large number of folks dress up and 'play' black bloc without actually being prepared. Black Bloc is the tactic, and it involves more than just wearing a costume and looking tough/sexy/blahblahblah.

Large numbers of kids running away at the first sign of & during confrontation is dangerous b/c it means folks who are willing to step up can't accurately judge their numbers. A 1000-strong bloc charging at police might intimidate them at first, but when half or more of the folks scatter when pepper spray hits the air or the pigs start swinging batons, it actually generates more panic and confusion.

On the same note, a small, tight & prepared black bloc can do a lot of things a larger group can't.

Therefore, numerical support is not essential, which is the point I was trying to make. [/b]
There is a lot of truth to this; Black Bloc is not a trend. We all forget that the Black Bloc is a tactic, not a movement, and there is too many people in the media and even amongst the leftist circles who are under the impression that the Black Bloc is a group.

The rev kids who dress up like 'Black Bloc' are making a fundamental mistake - you don't dress to be in a Black Bloc, you dress in black and the bloc is the general tactical movement which may arise. If everyone is wearing red, you wear red, if everyone is wearing white (example; Arterials in Melbourne) you wear white.

Last thing any demonstration, hell any type of conflict in history, needs is a rout made by 500 panicked front ranks who thought they were tough shit when they were taking photos of themselves geared for battle. The second last thing we need are the kids who know they're cowards but throw from the back. Both these things cause injuries and sometimes for people to die, it is not a joke nor is it 'fun' - front lines have a job to do, that job to be done by responsible people who know the risks and more importantly accept them.

We really should get a thread about tactics or something.

Ultra-Violence
1st October 2007, 06:30
There is a lot of truth to this; Black Bloc is not a trend. We all forget that the Black Bloc is a tactic, not a movement, and there is too many people in the media and even amongst the leftist circles who are under the impression that the Black Bloc is a group.

The rev kids who dress up like 'Black Bloc' are making a fundamental mistake - you don't dress to be in a Black Bloc, you dress in black and the bloc is the general tactical movement which may arise. If everyone is wearing red, you wear red, if everyone is wearing white (example; Arterials in Melbourne) you wear white.

Last thing any demonstration, hell any type of conflict in history, needs is a rout made by 500 panicked front ranks who thought they were tough shit when they were taking photos of themselves geared for battle. The second last thing we need are the kids who know they're cowards but throw from the back. Both these things cause injuries and sometimes for people to die, it is not a joke nor is it 'fun' - front lines have a job to do, that job to be done by responsible people who know the risks and more importantly accept them.

We really should get a thread about tactics or something.



I agreed with every thing you said here very good stuff man when shit hits the fan you see whos really in the Black-Block To man the front lines and whose their to take pictures of themselves and post it on thier myspace

guerilla E
1st October 2007, 10:16
Originally posted by Ultra-[email protected] 01, 2007 05:30 am

I agreed with every thing you said here very good stuff man when shit hits the fan you see whos really in the Black-Block To man the front lines and whose their to take pictures of themselves and post it on thier myspace
thanks for that mate; and your damm right - just conduct a search on myspace and you'll find a 100 people with their black bloc photo.

When we run the bloc; we have a job of protecting the middle and back ranks - this is the way it's been for a long time. People think black bloc came up in Seattle, not true, Black blocs or 'armed' blocs have been around since the 60's. Basically it was a line of armed, experienced, battle ready revolutionaries clad in masks or scarves, protecting the main body of the rally from police attack.

Those men and women knew the risks, knew the worst outcomes, accepted their responsibility not because they were told to, but because they knew they were able to. So now we have blocs made up of 40 people who know the risks and how to fight - and 400 who will flee at the first gas bomb thrown.

AmbitiousHedonism
1st October 2007, 19:39
When we run the bloc; we have a job of protecting the middle and back ranks - this is the way it's been for a long time.

Do you see a black bloc as merely an appendage to a larger liberal march or an activity in its own right? That the black bloc 'protects' others is kind of ridiculous because - let's be honest - the black bloc often initiates confrontations with police or attacks property first. Plus, plenty of times the pacifist demonstrators don't want to be protected, as they think returning the police's violence will escalate the situation. The black bloc should flow freely and its goals and targets are generally decided by the participants within the bloc.

guerilla E
2nd October 2007, 17:52
Originally posted by [email protected] 01, 2007 06:39 pm

When we run the bloc; we have a job of protecting the middle and back ranks - this is the way it's been for a long time.

Do you see a black bloc as merely an appendage to a larger liberal march or an activity in its own right? That the black bloc 'protects' others is kind of ridiculous because - let's be honest - the black bloc often initiates confrontations with police or attacks property first. Plus, plenty of times the pacifist demonstrators don't want to be protected, as they think returning the police's violence will escalate the situation. The black bloc should flow freely and its goals and targets are generally decided by the participants within the bloc.
You just perfectly demonstrated this new trend about how the black bloc is viewed, when did it become an offensive force? The bloc was a defensive force against oppressive police responses, because in most countries 'pacifist rallies' get brutally suppressed (and we had one just like that about 3 days ago in Istanbul), yet more often than not rallies featuring forces capable of self-defence will not get attacked outright, they might be provoked or treated with more care than people who just sit down and think the justice system gives a shit about police brutality (when riot police aren't wearing name tags).

The bloc is not a movement nor is it a political idealogy, that is where this whole thing gets mixed up - if you want to aggressively throw shit and conduct property damage then do so AWAY from the main rally body, if you want to protect the rally then join the bloc that is doing that. It can be the communist bloc, it can be community blocs, whatever - the point is that the black bloc only became a hooligan excuse after the surge of people who thought it was a movement dedicated to smashing shit up and conducting hit'n'runs. The Black Bloc is nothing more than a tactic, not a seperate part of a rally nor movement, and its clothing is not a symbol, shouldn't be treated as such, but a form of self-defense.

bcbm
2nd October 2007, 20:42
You just perfectly demonstrated this new trend about how the black bloc is viewed, when did it become an offensive force? The bloc was a defensive force against oppressive police responses, because in most countries 'pacifist rallies' get brutally suppressed (and we had one just like that about 3 days ago in Istanbul), yet more often than not rallies featuring forces capable of self-defence will not get attacked outright, they might be provoked or treated with more care than people who just sit down and think the justice system gives a shit about police brutality (when riot police aren't wearing name tags).

Black bloc as an offensive tactic used against the police, whether as part of or completely separate from the main manifestation, is just as old as its use as a defensive tactic, if not older.

Tower of Bebel
2nd October 2007, 20:58
Originally posted by Ultra-[email protected] 28, 2007 06:43 am
Isnt this from a pamphlet? i belive if read it before.

Anarchist have way more fun :P
Right wingers have more fun in the case of black bloc attacking the police. Black bloc should only be defensive.

bcbm
2nd October 2007, 22:39
Originally posted by Rakunin+October 02, 2007 01:58 pm--> (Rakunin @ October 02, 2007 01:58 pm)
Ultra-[email protected] 28, 2007 06:43 am
Isnt this from a pamphlet? i belive if read it before.

Anarchist have way more fun :P
Right wingers have more fun in the case of black bloc attacking the police. Black bloc should only be defensive. [/b]
Rubbish. The bloc can, and has, fought the police effectively.

Tower of Bebel
2nd October 2007, 23:37
What is effectively, what is succes? And by fighting, you mean defenisive move against the police?

bcbm
3rd October 2007, 00:50
Originally posted by [email protected] 02, 2007 04:37 pm
What is effectively, what is succes? And by fighting, you mean defenisive move against the police?
No, I mean taking the offense, attacking the police line and either breaking it or forcing them to move back significantly.

guerilla E
3rd October 2007, 08:00
Examples please; I'd especially like to get some of any offensive black bloc, remember the tactic has to be identifiable, before the 1970's.

I've listened to accounts of old DevSol and DevGenc (RevLeft ..hah.. and RevYouth) members in Turkey who formed defensive black blocs with masked armed gunmen as early as the 1970's - the most prominent actions, all defensive, took place in 1980's coup. The Sisli Square massacre and its following funeral rally was a prime example.

Maybe you are making a mistake in seperating offensive from defensive, because even saturating a place with rocks or other objects can be considered 'defensive' as your ensuring area-denial and blocking police movement.

AmbitiousHedonism
3rd October 2007, 17:57
The black bloc throughout the entire anti-globalization phenomenon was offensive: Seattle, Prague, Genoa, DC... the black bloc rampaged through Rostock this summer during the G8, black bloc tried to attack the US president's motorcade during the inaugural parade in 2005 and later that night ransacked corporate targets in a yuppie neighborhood. Black blocs in the US have attacked recruiting centers in the middle of the night when not part of any other protest. Not to mention countless attacks on neo-nazi rallies in the US, Germany and Europe.

Guerilla - why are you being so insistent that the black bloc is only defensive?

Tower of Bebel
3rd October 2007, 18:06
Is there a case where the BB was able to break the lines of the police force?

guerilla E
3rd October 2007, 18:57
Originally posted by [email protected] 03, 2007 04:57 pm
The black bloc throughout the entire anti-globalization phenomenon was offensive: Seattle, Prague, Genoa, DC... the black bloc rampaged through Rostock this summer during the G8, black bloc tried to attack the US president's motorcade during the inaugural parade in 2005 and later that night ransacked corporate targets in a yuppie neighborhood. Black blocs in the US have attacked recruiting centers in the middle of the night when not part of any other protest. Not to mention countless attacks on neo-nazi rallies in the US, Germany and Europe.

Guerilla - why are you being so insistent that the black bloc is only defensive?
Firstly, I dont know about Seattle, but BB was provoked in Rostock. Snatch squads shouldn't of stormed the concert and they only did so to provoke people into action - is it any suprise that some of the BB members were civil cops?

Secondly I'm being persistent because the Black Bloc, this perceived new-age image of it, is not reserved for just the conflicts that took place in recent times - I'm trying to outline that a new trend has emerged where the Bloc is being shown only as a offensive force or one that was primarily a offensive force. It was not.

And yes there are examples of the bloc breaking police lines, in Gate 2 near the security perimeter in G8 Germany some members of the bloc were able to (until the cops got reinforced) push back flanking police from forming a 3-way flank of the people facing watercannons.

same thing happened in Taksim Square, well in Ok meydan (translates to Arrow Square) where 30-40 revs pushed back 150-200 police by slings and rocks. The cops got reinforced and then saturated the area with gas attacks.

Arterials in Melbourne managed to outflank main riot police, trap two officers next to their bus, trash the bus (two guys even got inside and stole shit) before being pushed back by light mobile police. The backdoor of the hotel also got within reach when different groups managed to get face-to-face and gradually push back the riot cops guarding there (they got cut off from the back by horses afterwards).

There are examples of BB or offensive groups pushing back police, but generally they get badly put down. I was refering to the more historic role of the BB tactic, not the group that it has turned into, because the difference or change is the reason we'r having this debate.

bcbm
3rd October 2007, 19:29
There is no change. The BB was technically developed in the 80's or so by the European Autonomen, coming out of the squatter scene primarily. It was a tactic used in mobilizations to, yes, defend the demonstration from attack but it also initiated conflict with the police. Going back even earlier to armed blocs, there are plenty of examples of offensive actions. The Days of Rage in Chicago were certainly not "defensive," nor were the Italian autonomi breaking off from the main march, smashing shit up and then shooting the police.

guerilla E
3rd October 2007, 20:11
I'll agree to that. :)