Lately I hear a lot of what we need to stop, to pull away from, to protest against, to amend. Especially since Occupy and the social revolutions taking place in America, people seem to have large opinions based on little to no research. Mob mentality is largely effecting passionate individuals, and while the ideals are just - I challenge those passionate anarchists to perhaps lay some plans for rebuilding, re-educating, open forums of discussion and public debate, and stop shit-slinging, widening the class-gap, raging, graffiti’ing, and otherwise dragging the mob into an all too familiar violence that won’t get humanity ‘any’where.

To destroy a crippled structure it just takes a bulldozer. To build a new home, it takes blueprints, discipline, teamwork, and countless hours of labor. I don’t see a lot of the latter in most of what I’ve seen of today’s generation. Get perspective, do your research, be humble, try only complaining about what you engage in to change.

-N.J.Ransley
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How do we respond to the forces actively destroying the landbase, the economy, any possibility of social solidarity? Rage is a potent emotion, and one that many cannot help but feel when engaging in a struggle and coming up against the overwhelming force of those who would maintain our suicidal status quo. How that rage is channeled is indeed very important, however. A fire has been lit in many. What do we do with it? Some are trying to organize a forum sometime soon at Evergreen entitled “what does anarchism mean to me?” I really like the idea of public forums, open discussion, and what not. However ACTION is also needed, and needed soon. So I would love so see a lot of these greeners stop talking about social justice and labor and environmental rights and put it into some sort of tangible action…..
I mean, the image of a ravenous mob descending on frightened police may be the picture the media paints, but it is simply not factually true. Always, Always, every damn time, the tear gas and the flash bangs and the rubber bullets come first, after a gathering is declared an illegal assembly. Rocks and bottles are thrown by fleeing and desperate crowds being attacked with chemical weapons. Take for example the events in Oakland this weekend. People were trying to turn an abandoned building into a thriving community center. The police lined up in full riot gear to defend it, to defend the property of those they serve, as they always will. But you must also realize that anarchism is much, much more than an urge towards destruction. It is community autonomy, horizontal decision making, mutual aid. it is not no rules, just no rulers. Do not buy into the good protester/ bad protester dynamic. They will try to drive a wedge as the movement grows, divide and conquer as they have always done. But we will need all types and degrees of militancy to affect real change. Radical/liberal, each without the other is generally Useless
—J.M.—