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BLACK ANARCHISM by Ashanti Alston
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| Lordpatch User Info... | BLACK ANARCHISM by Ashanti Alston Summary: This talk explores the history and possible future of black anarchism. It covers anarchistic elements in African traditions, anti-authoritarian moments in America�s black liberation movement, and the possible contours of a black anarchism movement. Credits: Producer: dv [email protected] Uploaded by: [email protected] Notes: Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and former prisoner-of-war (Black Liberation Army). He is presently a member of Estación Libre/People of Color Zapatista Support Group, a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and the Northeast U.S. Coordinator for Critical Resistance. The Institute for Anarchist Studies is a nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism. We are primarily a grant-giving organization for radical writers: we have funded over thirty projects by authors from countries such as Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria, Germany, South Africa, and the United States. The Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) is a multi-racial student and youth organization dedicated to defending public education and resisting the still-growing culture of incarceration. mp3 download: http://ftp.radio4all.net/pub/archive/12.22.03/blackanarchism24oct03_22050_64 http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=8022&nav=& - Sun, 28 May 2006 10:05am Edited: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:08am | ||
| Lordpatch User Info... | peace, this was dropped by bruh cosa. i thank him. however, the thing about ashanti is that he never says anything in this speech and in doing that he does say a lot: nobody move nobody get hurt b.u.t. we should M.O.V.E. what seems to be offered is an impotent anarchism -- as most people who profess anarchism tend to be -- these days. it has become a playground for the middle class. it is one that is not willing to join the world struggle b.u.t. to coopt it's battle cries and hold a lot closed *samethink meetings* -- angry young man and kitchen sink agro. it's surrendering our struggle for a label that sounds cool b.u.t hasn't been affective since the early days of industrial era and the poor and the working class still had a hand in the movement. “Barbarians, savages, illiterate, ignorant Anarchists., men who cannot comprehend the spirit of our free American institutions,” of these I am one” -- August Vincent Theodore Spies -- Autobiography of August Spies\ "Revolution is Bloody" http://ender.indymedia.org/?q=node/91 now it is has become a bourjois trend. a real anrachist never admits to being an anarchist because it concerns taking down the state -- we're told that's terrorism. however the people in prison, being tortured and killed, harassed, black listed are not admitttedly part of this elitist political theory -- a theory taught in university and they have "anarachist" professors, now. now isn't that a bit ironic/contradictory.how legitimate/effective could this popculture movement be? i find anrachists, these days, a big filibuster to the real social movement. ashanti deffers most black struggle and movements to the eurocentric one which he fails to see is just as old, if not older, than what he claims is old ideologies of black struggle. also, he plays off the racisl stereotype that black/nonwhite/noneuropcentric social struggle and movements are sexist and nonegalitarin. only this, elitist, eurocentric philosophy has any legitimacy. b.u.t. it's a cool title. however, far more played/played out/over used than any theory that huey p newton ever had. palitude is not a social movemet nor is it a revolutionary attack nor is it resistence. resistenc is struggle resistence is what will get you killed. anarchism will get you a credit at college or university and invited to cool parties with a token rasta in the kitchen faking a jamaican accent. there are 6 million ways to rebel choose one? kh - Sun, 28 May 2006 11:22am Edited: Sun, 28 May 2006 6:22pm | ||
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