Burn, baby, burn. Bring some marshmallows. I doubt Solnit won't notice; he'll be too busy trying to white guilt his fellow pseudo-anarchos into voting for Obama. Kevin Keating --- On Wed, 9/17/08, emailaddress@xxxxxxxxxx <emailaddress@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: emailaddress@xxxxxxxxxx <emailaddress@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AUT] Fwd: will the real battle of seattle please stand up
To: proletaire2003@xxxxxxxxx, "Autonomia, Operaismo, and Class Composition" <aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 11:12 PM
we're going to burn a solnit effigy at the premier.
> ""The story of popular resistance to the World Trade
Organization
(WTO) in
>
> Seattle in 1999 is a story of how people power can change the world."
>
>
>
> This is the most rank, self-deluding,
self-indulgent load of
> halucinatory protest ghetto bullshit that I've seen since I stopped
> going to peace demos.
>
>
>
> The Seattle riots were good for what they were, very briefly intheir
> time and place -- unfortunately, like everything else that flows out of
> the left-liberal protest ghetto, the relevance of this event is limited
> by the small fact that it went effectively ignored by virtually the
> entire wage earning class of the industrialized world. And to the
> degree that working people did pay any attention at all to it, their
> attention was one of passive spectatorship -- the Seattle events did
> not lead to any kind of large-scale direct collective action by working
> people around
their own needs on their everyday life terrain; where we
> work, where we shop, and how we get around. It was probably a
> great place for hippie protest
tourists to hook up, though.
>
>
>
> It's not surprising to see an insufferable termenally sanctimonious
> anrcho-liberal compulsive protest scenester like David Solinit shitting
> out these kind of self-serving illusions. All his puppets look
> just like him or like his hideous sister Rebecca Solnit -- uggg!
>
>
>
> How many people reading lines like the ones I've quoted above really
> believe this sort of stuff?
>
>
> Kevin Keating
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 9/16/08, dr.woooo <dr.woooo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: dr.woooo <dr.woooo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AUT] Fwd: will the real battle of seattle please stand up
> To:
aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 7:46 PM
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: dr. woooo
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> Date: Sep 17, 2008 12:37 PM
>
> Subject: will the real battle of seattle please stand up
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>
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:07:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Chris (Stayhydrated)" <chrisd@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Subject: [colours] (US) WILL THE REAL "BATTLE IN SEATTLE" PLEASE
STAND
> UP?
> To: COR list <colours@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Check out this email regarding the forthcoming fictionalized film about
> the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. This will be an important
opportunity to
> challenge mythologies about what happened in Seattle. I encourage folks to
>
> check out <http://realbattleinseattle.org> and post our own accounts
and
> analyses.
>
> Best,
>
> Chris Dixon
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: david solnit <dsolnit@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Please Forward:
>
>
> WILL THE REAL "BATTLE IN SEATTLE" PLEASE STAND UP?
>
>
> On September 19, Battle in Seattle, the new fictionalized movie about the
> mass direct action shutdown of and week-long street resistance to the
> World
>
> Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999, will open in
theaters across the
> US.
> Some global justice and anti-capitalist activists will intervene on the
> opening day of the movie to urge moviegoers to get the real story and make
>
> some
history themselves.
>
>
> Can you help us get out "Real Battle in Seattle" invites (see
downloadable
> resources below) to moviegoers on Friday September 19 in San Francisco,
> San
> Rafael, Seattle, Minneapolis and Washington DC (later on in Sacramento,
>
> Pittsburgh, Detroit, LA, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, OH, Irvine, Santa
> Barbara, Philadelphia and Plano, Texas, San Diego, San Jose, Denver,
> Charlotte, Cleveland, Portland, Philadelphia, Nashville, Austin, Dallas,
>
> Houston, Sant Antonio, Madison, Milwaukee and Olympia), and out to our
> communities? Some folks will make guerrilla announcements (masking up
> optional) before or at the end of
each screening (Get as many folks as you
>
> can up front before and/or after screenings and announce the site and tell
> people what they can do to take action in your community). Send us a
>
report!
>
>
> For the last two years, since before the Battle in Seattle was filmed, we
>
> have struggled with how we and the movements we are part of should relate
> to
> the movie. Some of us have also engaged with and struggled with the
film's
> director Stuart Townsend and fought to intervene in and improve the film,
>
> with a small bit of success. Out of these discussions we have created the
> Seattle WTO Peoples History Project, an indymedia-style, participatory
> peoples' history website of our movements' own accounts, photos,
videos
> and
>
> reflections from the Seattle WTO shutdown and resistance.
>
>
> We are a
small collective of global justice, anti-capitalist, community
> and
> independent media organizers and activists--most of whom were involved in
>
> organizing to shut down the WTO and many of
whom live or lived in Seattle.
> This website project, at RealBattleInSeattle.org, is an experiment that
> has
> the potential to popularize the "Battle of Seattle" in our own
voices and
>
> from our movements. This potential can only be realized if friends from
> the
> movements step up, participate, post their accounts and reflections and
> get
> the world out widely! We aim to create a culture of memory and
peoples'
>
> history within today's movements to take seriously documenting,
> popularizing
> and fighting for our histories and our victories.
>
>
> At the US Social Forum in Atlanta in the summer of 2007 a couple dozen
of
> us
>
> participated in a forum to discuss how to relate to the Battle in Seattle
> movie and to our own Seattle WTO history. At the time we wrote up a
> statement signed-on by over 100 Social
Forum participants from many parts
> of
>
> the movements. In part, it reads:
>
>
> "In the fall of 2008, a major motion picture called "Battle in
Seattle"
> will
> come out in cities across the country. The movie is a docu-drama?a
> fictional
> story based on real events?that features extensive archival footage. It
>
> alone may shape what most people in the US and around the world think
> happened for decades to come?unless we speak up. We call for social
> movements to take action: to reclaim our history, our stories, and our
> future.
>
>
>
> "The story of popular resistance to the World Trade
Organization
(WTO) in
> Seattle in 1999 is a story of how people power can change the world. It is
> a
> dangerous example for the global elite, and a powerful one for movements.
>
> For eight years, the US
corporate media, global elites, and their police
> have been twisting and marginalizing the truth, in order to invent their
> own
> story of Seattle 1999 and the stories of social movements' resistance
and
>
> victories. These lies and revisions of history have been used in an
> attempt
> to criminalize and repress our protests, movements, and
mobilizations."
>
>
> It's time that we in the social movements tell our own stories,
reclaim
> our
>
> own histories, and publicly fight damaging myths of our movements past and
> present. We must intervene in the public understanding of what happened,
> what is happening, and
what it all means. Stories are how we understand
> the
>
> world and thus shape the future?they are part of our fight against
> corporate
> power, empire, war, and social and environmental injustice and for
the
> alternatives that will make a better world.
>
>
> Let's link the 1999 resistance to the WTO in Seattle and globally with
>
> building support for today's 2007 resistance that is continuing the
fight
> for global justice on many fronts: against war and occupation for
> environmental and climate justice; for workers, immigrants, women, and
>
> farmers rights, etc. We call for commemorations, public events,
> performances, media, interventions, interruptions, educational events,
> performances, screenings, gatherings, and celebrations."
>
>
> Please circulate this email, and check out and participate in the
>
>
RealBattleInSeattle.org.
>
>
> EDUCATE! PARTICIPATE! LIBERATE!
>
>
> Heather Day, Jeremy Simer, David Solnit, John Dudas, Kate Khatib
>
>
> of the Seattle WTO Peoples History
Collective
>
>
> Contact:
>
>
>
wtopeopleshistory@xxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc344.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wtopeopleshistory@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> ********************
>
> RESOURCES:
>
> **********
>
>
> Download color or black and white two sided 4x6 inch cards (layed out four
> on an 8 1/2x11 page):
>
> http://realbattleinseattle.org/node/31
>
>
>
> Schedule of Battle in Seattle Movie screenings (official movie website):
>
> http://www.battleinseattlemovie.com/tickets/
>
>
>
> Article analysis about the Battle in Seattle
Movie:
>
> http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2850
>
>
>
> Post your story/reflection, photos or video to the Seattle WTO Peoples
> History site:
>
>
http://realbattleinseattle.org/node/add/reflections
>
>
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>
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>
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>
>
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>
> http://www.pochanostra.com/dialogues/
> http://www.aspaceoutside.org/wp-content/uploads/Space_Outside_Reader.pdf
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> http://noborder.org
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>
> http://ainfos.ca
> http://www.metamute.org
> http://lists.perthimc.asn.au/pipermail/blackgreensolidarity/
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity
> http://www.metamute.org/en/Precarious-Reader
> https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/ipsm-l/2005-July/000781.html
>
> http://www.deletetheborder.org
>
http://www.nettime.org
> http://www.pochanostra.com/dialogues/
>
> http://www.aspaceoutside.org/wp-content/uploads/Space_Outside_Reader.pdf
> http://www.prol-position.net/
>
> http://stateofemergency.nomasters.org/
> http://www.infoshop.org/inews
> http://www.eco-action.org/dod
>
> http://www.16beavergroup.org/drift/overview.htm
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