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Submitted by psynobi9 on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 9:53pm.
Remember the power of a united women's movement and the solidarity of a community of autonomous factions that supported them in the face of injustice, slander, and the threat of physical violence on the night of November 13, 2007. Corporate media and the local authorities are trying to cloud the truth about what happened in Olympia, an All-American City. By sensationalizing the police-initiated violence that broke out in the latter half of the night, neglecting to mention the initial blockade as a women's movement, and re-arranging the facts in order to implicate disorganization and violent anarchy as the causes of the 45 arrests that night, they are attempting to obscure and cast doubt upon the actions of a group of 41 of our sisters, all arrested before any outbreak of violence. These are 41 sisters whose adherence to active non-violence should serve as an example to everyone that women not only can or could have power, but that they do, and that power can galvanize and unite a community to take decisive and definitive action against inequity.
Submitted by psynobi9 on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 6:38am.
The colonized world is a world divided in two. The dividing line, the border, is represented by the barracks and the police stations. In the colonies, the official, legitimate agent, the spokesperson for the colonizer and the regime of oppression, is the police officer or the soldier. In capitalist societies, education, whether secular or religious, the teaching of moral reflexes handed down from father to son, the exemplary integrity of workers decorated after fifty years of loyal and faithful service, the fostering of love for harmony and wisdom, those aesthetic forms of respect for the status quo, instill in the exploited a mood of submission and inhibition which considerably eases the task of the agents of law and order. In capitalist countries a multitude of sermonizers, counselors, and "confusion-mongers" intervene between the exploited and the authorities. In colonial regions, however, the proximity and frequent, direct intervention by the police and the military ensure the colonized are kept under close scrutiny, and contained by rifle butts and napalm. We have seen how the government's agent uses the language of pure violence. The agent does not alleviate oppression or mask domination. He displays and demonstrates them with the clear conscience of the law enforcer, and brings violence into the homes and minds of the colonized subjects." --Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth p 3-4 Why are we physically protesting the usage of the Port of Olympia to transfer armored Stryker vehicles fresh from Iraq to Fort Lewis? As the pro-war agitators so articulately query, are we simply delaying the inevitable maintenance and return to action of these war machines and the soldiers that operate them? Indeed, are we just preventing the distribution of valuable tools and manpower to a military action that is badly in need of both? Yes. We are doing both of those things, but the entirety of the reason behind our resistance is far deeper than the answers to such shallow, leading questions as our antagonists pose to us.  |
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