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We Who Stand the Most

By, Hybachi LeMar

DEDICATION 3
For my love "Celestria"; my cousin Kiki & all
suffering on Death Row; the social outcest and all
I've wronged before becoming Conscious (except the
State).
For the struggling mother; the 'cutter' & contemp-
lator of suicide. The desperate & lonely addict: the
homeless; my dead homies, & french-inhaling spliff-
rollers holding their heads in the Struggle. For the
broken-hearted Jover & those who lose sleep in the
night. To P.K in Frackville, the comrAdes @ Ely;
South & N.W. Chicago ABC;220;A.P.; the Hungry &
every 'hood consumed with the [ire to Resist,Rebel
& Defy.

BACKLASH

"Hanged in Chicago, Beheaded in Germany, garroted
in Xerex, shot in Barcelona, guillotined in Mont-
brison and in Paris, our dead are many: but you
haven't been sble to destroy anarchy. It's roots
grow deep. It sprouts from the bosom of a rotten
society that is falling apart; it is a violent
backlash against the established order; it stands
for the aspirations to equality and liberty which
have entered the lists against the current author-
itarianisn. It is everyvhere. That is what makes
it indomitable..."

- Emile Henry (1872-18%) to his

jailer shortly before his execution

for detonating a hand-made exlosive
. at the Gare Saint-Lazare.

THE SHELL: The observable exterior - it appears easy to
grasp; to conveniently manipulate or kick sround at ones
own dis/pleasure. Common, it seems; insubstantial and
harmless. But existing deep within its seemingly passive
& controllable state lies a core, a nerve-center within
which harnesses all which the fingers of society, & the
existing order has manufactured & discarded into the
resevoirs of the collective social subconscious.

Its Potential; unacknowledged.

Its Volatility: Obscured.

Beware, any tyrant or tyrannical institution who would
s0 carelessly (mis)handle such an one.

Anonywous In An Anonymous Crowd

Uefore the switch was pulled on Sacco & Vanzetti;
before the last words: "Long live Anarchy!" were
transmitted from the reluctant restraints of the
electrocutioner's chair®, Italian anarchist
Bartolemeo Vanzetti described himself in his

A Proletarian Life as "anonynous in an anonymous
crowd.

* Nicola Sacco, "Viva 1'anarchial”

Bartoleneo Vanzetti Nicola Sacco

Upon his arrival into the States on June 19,1908
the dreams of entering a country rich with the
nmystique of new optimisms were shattered as were
those of many other emigres who migrated into
the bowels of the amerikan “hell pit". In fact,
though he lived fairly decently in his native
Jand - moving principally to "put the seas S
between" him & the grief of losing his mother to
cancer - he found civilian life in this country
much crueler & much harsher than the one he'd
left.

In a letter to his aunt, he conveyed how he'd:

seen human greed and egotism poison every mout!
~ful of food...darken the glory of the sun,
violate natural law...nurture corruption,
plant hatred...every kind of shame, every kind
of misery.”

The repressive round-ups of radicals, people
being killed on picket lines, mass deportations
& framing of thousands of socialists - many who
were anarchists - protesting Exploitation as wel!
as the Great War, were becoming countered with
the knee-jerking reflex of Propaganda By Deed.
It was a time when violent retributions were
called to the fore, & frustrated radicals across
the country were responding to the cal

Tngeniously crafted home-made explosives wers
nailed to heavy-duty exploiters across the
country, including John D.Rockefeller himself,
in manila envelopes concealing metallic , slug-
laced dynamite sticks & slim vials of acid.
Inconsolable communiques from The Anarchist
Fighters denouncing the tyrannical institutions
of the amerikan power structure reverberated
with the detonation of midnight bombs in New
York, Pittsburgh, Boston, and New Jerse
Moreover, a Red Scare was beginning to include a
a number of fearless blacks.

A manual, entitled " La Saluts
(" The Health is within

Galleani, further educated many with a short fuse
for government violence in the incendiary craft.

In one instance, one unfortunate ( but brave ) &
attentater accidentally blew himself up after
tripping on porch steps down the street from the
not-yet President Franklin D. Rosevelt's home in
a D.C. suburb.

In 2008, as the buzzing gate clinked behind me
upon my discharge from SCI-GREENE, I couldn't
help but feel anonymous in an anonymous crowd,
and I'm sure many ex-offenders & have-nots
perambulating the urban pavements across Amerika
can relate; an understanding "intimately felt" in
those of us who find it harder & harder to ignore
the creakings of our conscience which those who
govern our lives so tempermentally tamper with.

As inheritors of the disinherited Voice which
calls for EQUALITY WITHOUT COMPROMISE and
FREEDOM WITHOUT RESTRAINT, let's further examine
the state of society we co-exist in; how ve

how we relate to others in STRUGGLE across the
world; and see where we can try and push the
envelope toward activating a more idyllic way of
life without trippin and blowing ourselves up in
the process.

AN_UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL FORCES

While cthe quote which opens this writing may
bombard some with feelings of apprehension &
antipathy, many from other walks of life -
including our own - can relate in a way that may
appear taboo to the more privileged of this world.

From the vater polluted slums of Haiti to the
single mother struggling to make it - even crying
- deep into the night of Amerika: the excessive
demands we've been thrown by an exploitive
establishment are cocktailed with perpetual
Inequality, inexplicable Oppression & pervasive
violence of prison guards & a host of other supp-
ressive realities bombarding the underprivileged
masses. And fortunately, for society and the love
necessary to develop & nurture its growth; you
can only hold down so many upside-down cups in
the sink of Poverty for so long until ome, then
two shoots up and rises to the surface. 7

Emma Goldman relates these fierce bombardments to
to the brewing of a stor:

"To the earmest student it must be apparent
that the accumulated forces in our social and
economic life, are similar to the terrors of
the atmosphere, manifested in storm and
lightening."

and that:

" To thoroughly appreciate this view, one
must feel the indignity of our social wrongs;
onme's being must throb with the pain, the
sorrow, the despair millions of people are
daily made to endure.” (3)

While it is a necessary step - forward for soci-
ety to evolve from the primitivity of violence,
it would be naive to ignore the hostile hand so
many have so honorably resisted with practical,as
well as idealogical refutation.

From the peaceful Salt-March protests of Ghandi
in the face of the arms-wielding imperialist
government of Britian over India - to the "By Any
* Means Necessary" defiance against Power of Malcom
X, and the demonstrations tear-gassed in the face
of the parasitic G-8 Commission, in Pittsburgh at
the end of 2009.
It's been a historic struggle against the ides of
dominance; and until Liberty is no longer an
empty word, our inner being " throbs " for the
inception of this higher ideall

An understanding of social forces is a pivotal
step in the life of an individual and society en
masse. b4

It's the Peculiar Awakening within the human
being.

It's the hour the light "turns on" in the
faculty of Reason.

It's the moment we look inte the mirror, and
"questio:

The first step in resolving a crisis is to
first recognize that a crisis “exists."

The every-day crises we struggle in subjection
to are ( and quite literally ) overwhelming;
and it makes its presence known in a restless
way.

Outside ( and even “within" ) the wired monot-
ony of social life today in amerika, we wonder
why we feel so uncompromisably isolated; so
relentlessly held back and subjected to the un-
yielding scourge of these intolerable forces.
These pressures are what becomes of life within
the demeaning hands of dictation & coercive
authority.

To exist so unnaturally bound to the mercy of a
foreign will, summons within, an existential

" war - cry " that refuses to be ignored,
calling forth all the latent forces of the soul
which inhibitedly aches beneath the bridles
it's been belligerantly leashed to.

Alexander Berkman gave this careful attention
when he noted how:

" Beneath the spirit of intolerance and '
persecution is the habit of autority:
coercion to conform to dominant standards,
compulsion - moral and legal - to be and
act as others,-according to precedent and

rule." '( "ABC OF ANARCHISN" )

When we look at our 1i es & of those around us,
we see that many of our lives (many "millions")
have been turned upside - down due to poverty,
imprisonment, dis-ease, & the arduous struggle
to £it into Something in which our nature
forbids.

We know that noone deserves the hand from this
"set-deck" we're perpetually dealt - that it
doesn't "sit right" in us knowing that we
serve such an insatiable " machine " which so
apathetically ignores the grumbling in the
hunger pain of Conscience.

It's a painful truth for this country to swal-
low that many of us find suicide* a more
tolerable alternative than life under these
seemingly unresolvable conditions.

" Government " is nothing more than a pawn -
mover which serves to gratify the appetite of
of a parasitic elite.

And the advantage of Privilege among the elite
is only as secure as the disadvantage mainta-
ined by the masses they dis-empower.

The princes of eastern India went so far as to
use living people in chess games on checker-
board pavements from the veranda they amused
themselves on in their courtyard. - Much like
prisoners & society, today; but with less
rhetoric and upgraded sophistication.

The philosophy of Anarchism teaches that when
we move without kings ( presidents, land-
lords, bosses as well as any other who would
govern our existence ), the fundamental strife
that comes with "advantage" & "disadvantage”
would not only cease to exist, but would be a
practical & rational advantage to all -
morally, economically, & spiritually, as well.

"No man has the right to govern
another man." - Francisco Ascaso

*It's estimated that one person every 20 min-
utes commits suicide in the U.S: 30,000 per yr
Of Sedition, the Vices of Established
Morality, & the Inlination io
Toward Universal Rebellion

" Many claim that it is insane to

resist the system; but actually,
it is insane not to. "

An insurrection against constituted

authority.

2. Conduct consisting of writing, or
acting against an established gov-

ermment. or seeking to overthrow it

by unlawful means: resistance to

lawful authority.

tany inquisitively ask:'"Why Revolution? Life is
more than Revolting; it's more than Rebellion/ to
which T reply that to abstain from standing up
to a life of injustice is to fall in cooperation
with every injustice extant.

History is loaded with seditious spirits unafraid
to challenge the “morality" of their respective era
- mot only ideclogically, but "practically"as well.

In ancient Rome, when the slave-owner Lentulus
Batiates satiated his moral appetite by pitting his
trained slaves against each other in gladiator
school, 76 of his prisoners (including the infamous
Sparticus) decided to revolt against their

condition - devising a well-planned insurrection
*Humia Abu Jamal
managing to steal knives from the cook shop,
ultinately leading to their escape & eventual
organizing with local agricultural slaves who I/
swelled their numbers.

No longer would they bend the knee of their
Conscience to the dictates of their Roman lords.

In the not-so-istant past, the moral constitution
of amerika was also met with seditious opposition
by many of its slaves & their abolitionist
camrades who understood all teo intimately the
necessity in rebelling against the mores of the
established order ( mich to the reproach of the
riost adamant authorities ) - even in the face of
Death itselft

These were the Nat Turners and the John Browns of
the era whose defiance remind us that our humen
dignity is a code more worthy of living by than
custons & values Capitalism seeks to confine us
to.

Oriental Sedition.

Moreover, before the Soviet Revolution brought
Leninisn to China (1917), the majority of social-
ists on the scene were anarchists who challenged
the institutional mores.

""They elogquently put forward ideas of egalitari-
anism, especially emancipation of women from
femily bonds and of the peasantry from exploita-
ion that would become part of the Chinese vocab-
ulary of revolution."*

Proudhon, Kropotkin, & Bakunin were studied, &
with articulation the need to revolt against the
aristocratic Confucianism was indefectibly broken
down: This seditious ideology of Bquality went
2geinst every moral principle the ancient dynast-
ies of imperial rule had stood for.

* John Fairbank, "China: A New Ristory," 1992

IL's the weed of “civilizing" which chokes mun's
reasoning powers that he may grow accustomed to
the idea of forfeiting his liberty at another's
convenience. =
But when the individual - stunted from reachiny
the Ideal his or her essence is destined to attain
becomes fed up with feeling disempowered, the
individual then becomes aware that s/he's been
deceived - that in actuality, it is government which
is the inventor of war; that it is its legislations
which evokes "disorder" and the chaos which all

of us see manifesting itself in the here & now.

And when he overstands that to be compelled to pay
for "rent", and tithe taxes for such life-necessit-
ated requirements as water & food, that it boils
down to nothing less than "legalizedextortion",

the individual awakens, disenchanted from the
pendulum of the amerikan dream that subdues him.

He sees his right to resist.

Though the vices which virally predominate society
are as old as established society itself, we can
begin to purge ourselves from its dementing stronghol
d by dismembering its moral fiber & foundations

and rebuilding our lives with the vitues of anarchist
theory and practice.

The world , of coursewon't be entirely free of
imperfections, but considering the countless & life-
arresting struggling destroying us day in & day

out, we can understand vhere Alexander Berknan was
coming from with better clarity when he stated:

“Certain other crimes will persist for some

time, such those resulting from jealousy,

passion, and from the spirit of coercion and
violence which dominates the world to-day. But these,
the offspring of authority and possession, will
gradually disappear under wholesome conditions with
passing avay of the atmosphere that cultivated them."

Fueled with well-articulated resistance, the Chinese anarchists
played a significant role in the overthrowing of the Manchu
Dynasty; which before 1911, was a pre-occupying ambition in
radical circles. 13

One of the founders of Chinese anarchism, Li Shizeng, defiantly
‘voiced that while radicals for the new republic “advocate
overthrowing the Manchu government just because it is Manchu.™
(there were racial tensions between the Han & the Manchu) the
mhixu,onflieoflmhmd,“advouleflvfimlvwilutbeMmu
government just because it is government.” (Anarchism and
Chinese Political Culture, by P. Zarrow)

Among the reasons for this was in Shizeng’s shared view that
“wWomen’s oppression was certainly shaped by the class
system...Much of the blame (was placed) at the door of
superstition and a *false morality,” promoted by men to enforce
their power over women, as well as by authoritarian philosophies
like Confucianism.” (see Black Flame, Schmidt & van der Walt)

‘While historic unrest was unraveling in China, two other martyred
anarchists in Japan voiced Sacco’s seditious “Viva I'anarchia!™
outery from their very own native tongue: the same defiant
proclamation escaped the lips of Denjiro Kotulku and the “lotus
flower” Sugano Kano, who were among 12 sent to the gallows in
the 1911 High Treason incident.

“It is necessary to arouse the people of society, " Kano
enticed amidst the throes of heavy government violence,
“by instigating riots, undertaking revolutionary action.
and engaging in assassinations. "

Kotuku — who'd already translated the Communist Manifesto
before getting pinched for anti-imperialist activities ~ emerged
from his prison pit with a new, seditious translation of Kropotkin's
‘The Conquest of Bread. In the Philippines, the anti-authoritarian
translations of Reclus’ writings circulated in the Tagalog language.
as well.
From Eastto West: the unyielding spirit of virtue has known the
existence of government as a vice - a vice worth universally
rebelling against. 1y

(It is necessary) to rally not a few, but all, countries in a single
plan of action (for an) international revolution... (toward)
universal world-wide revolution. ”

~ Mikhail Bakunin

The Wisdom of Sedition

Berkman also goes on o refute the idea of “laziness,” describing &
so-called lazy person as a “square man in a round hole... the right
man in the wrong place;” expounding that we become “lazy” when
we're overwhelmed with doing things we don’t want 10 do: when
we're pressured to do things that our hearts are simply not into.

The wisdom of sedition teaches that once we subtract inequality
from the equation in the social environment; correspondingly, the
amount of envy will naturally decrease. Make the capitalist state a
thing of the past; and consequently, the less gluttonous the future
of any society will become.

Privileged skeptics & those in positions of power promote the idea
that sedition is immoral, worthy of nothing but confinement and
condemnation. But is such seditious proclamations are truly
immoral, then Immorality itself is undeserving of the ethical cross
to which mankind has nailed it.

Lok oul for mumber one is a prescription for
demoralization, corruption, & ultimately general
catastrophe... Cooperation for the common good &
concern for the rights & needs of others must replace
the dismal search for maximization of personal power
& consumption i the barbarism of capitalist society is

10 be overcome.
Noam Chomsky (Radical Priorities)

In conclusion.

In Anarchist Morality,
Peter Kropotkin relates

Human Thought to the
swinging of a Pendulum,
which-through the course
of time "frees herself
from the chains with
which. ..rulers, lawyers,
...have carefully
enwound her.

“She shatters the
chains," he went on to
elucidate."she subjects
to criticism all that
has been taught her."

The brevity of life &
its circumstances
confirm that it's time
for us to utilize the
momentum of our restrained desires & free
ourselves from the leash of every governing
force holding us back: Here and abroad. T

One NPR broadcast recently aired, for example
how many emigres are voicing how desperately
the N.Korean government insulates the masses
from the "outside world."

While their love for their country's
profound; its when many flee to S.Korea
China, etc. that they're able to see - from
the outside looking in - how deceptively medi
-a had distorted their world-view.

Where repression is this severe, there there
can only (naturally) grow an inclimation
toward an ever-amassing wave of popular
rebellion.

The repressive force is, consequentially,able
to give rise to a resistance reminiscent (but
unique) of the infamous 1919 uprising against
the Japanese occupation, and the Uiyoltan
(Band of Heroes), Korean Anarchist Federation
( KAF ) & Black Flag Alliance which arose in
its wake. Ib

"Reminiscent": in that mass resistance is a
conceivable threat should the people at
large resist their own invasive government,
its nuclear threat and media-muscling
(tecknology) .

"Unique"-"in that whereas major revolts
(like the Kirin Revolution in neighboring
Manchuria [ 1929-1931 ]) were primarily
peasant uprisings, the dynamics of resistance
are shifting toward a
more urban setting.

As mentioned - they
definately have anti-
authoritarian roots.
KAF, alone, had
branches in Manchuria
(KAF-M) and China
(KAF-C) as early as
1929. And there was
already an East Asian
Anarchist Federation
which, according to
Schmidt & van der
Walt, "linked anarch-
ists in China, Korea,
Japan, Taiwan
(Formosa), vietnam,
i and apparently
India."*
They- as exampled -

have a history which

Shin Ch'aeho

swings in their favor

as we do in the West!
Without a doubt, we share a common thread
with anti-government forces throughout the
world who we-in more ways than one- move in
ideological sync with.

Who of us in the prisons & slums o

£ amerjka
can't relate to Korean anarchist Shin

Ch'aehos
"Korean Revolution Manifesto"**. - That
seditiously resonant call to rise to

"destroy the system of economic exploitation,
...destroy servile cultural thoughts...

We can't help but feel an inalienable 7
affinity with the heart of every have-not who

knows that "moral decline" is a product of
government power !

It'd be "unethical” to turn our heads away
from the truth that world - wide liberation
calls for the organization of universal
rebelliont

* TBlack Flame: The Revolutionary Class
Politics of Anarchism & Syndicalism"

** 1923

African
Socialism

Sam Mbah & I.E.
Igariwey

Like Kropotkin, Errico
Malatesta (1853-1932)
observed that humanity is
“enslaved from the triple
viewpoint, econonic,
political,and moral.” | §

In having devoted this
chapter to the third view
point, it should finally

be remembered that there’ll
alvays be people in this
world who attack you morally
in the struggle toward a
self-actualized existence.
Whether you're dealing with
people in positions of pover,
or the judgemental § self-
righteous who get off on
demoralizing and bringing
you down in the streets:

The key is to make a mental
note of it & move on; refusin
to be enslaved. (Enslavement
of every form is the very
it we ain to destroy. everything which imprisons,

thin

be it cconomically, politically or "morally" motivated.)
It's u priority that we share as responsible, dedicated
(and radical) beings. And it's a daring, courageous

defiance against our previous faults as well as all such
moral assassination attempts.

Chomsky poignantly stresses the importance of this in
recalling tha

"Anger, outrage, confessions of overwhelming guilt
may be good ctherapy; they can also become a barr-
ier to effective action, which can always be made
to seem incommensurable with the enormity of the
crime. Nothing is easier than to adopt a new form
of self-indulgence, no less debilitating than that
the old apathy. The danger is substantial. Tt is
hardly a novel insight that confessions of guilt
can be institutionalized as a technique for evading
what must be done.”
To free ourselves from this self-destructive indulgence,
it's dmportant we never lose sight of our Purpose in

a world that needs us to not give up when we're moment-
arily thrown to the ground.

Remembering you're never alone - regardless of wherever
you are in life - is grounded in as much truth as Lou
Marinoff's words, when he advises the morally-targeted
reader to: ] 7

"See if you can practice moral self defense by refusing
to accept an offense next time it is offered to you.
At the elementary level, do not take the offense
personally: you are not obliged to." (Therapy for
the Sane)

Regardless of whatever history you may have had,
remember that noone's is flawless & that it's our call
to see the stumbling blocks in our lives as stepping
stepping stones, that we may be able to overcome them;
and not only this - but to help the world around

us overcone them as vell.

The future depends on us reexamining the pitfalls of
our past.

It depends on the rebellious breaking - away from
individual as well as universal coercion.

"Struggle! To struggle is to live, and the fiercer
the struggle the intenser the life. Then you will
have lived; and a few hours of such life are worth
years spent vegetating." - PETER KROPOTKIN

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Notes for lanovative Defiance iatism

Officially born in 1916, the Dada movement ‘was, according to
Cnlthuu\kim,“mmemmjnsumfimlpiuwmdm
society Mloflfledil;m:lmdadmythingmvmfiand&
sacrosanct - government, literature, art... “(It) itself was never an
art movement. It was first and foremost a revolutionary state of
mind, a violent assault on all accepted values.”

Hatehed from the upheaving flame of defiance agains! the 1%
World War, its ideological vein extends as far back as the
anarchism, which convlsed the order of Europe throughout the
1880's. Young, anti-conformist minds rebelliously withdrew from
their warting counties to the neutral town of Zurich, Switzerland,
where this contorted, amalgamating creature was given its breath,
It emerged as the ant-art movement. The slanted print amidst a
world of straightencd convention. The mustache on the Mona Lisa
of moral custom & value.

More than simply a nest for artistie nibilism, the Cabaret Voltaire
(see preceding page) became a large, narrow room for daring
idealists to breathe rebellion into it nostrils; animating the
revolting wings of the movement. It sucked its teeth at the.
mundane imagination of established order, taking Surrealism,
Abstract Expressionism, pop Art & every artistic expression

Jean Arp ~ one remarkable innovator from the Cabaret —
Jess imagination than a worm & has, in place of a heart, a lrger.
than-life-sized com which troubles him where there is change in
the weather - the stock exchange weather,”

Artstic revolutionary Marcel Duchamp upheld the Dada
mnvflnemhehelpedinililr,m“amofnihflifln...lwnymw
outof a state of mind - {0 avoid being influenced by one’s
iwunedinmvimmmbythepux‘mgulw-yfivmdiflh&—
(o get fre.” -a freedom that was certainly ached-afer by one
typographical outlaw (Jules Heuberger), who spent a lot of time in
& out of the slammer for publishing anarchist leaflets.

‘What we can do today is bring something signature to the world of
artistic expression. We can tum our very own basements that we:
record in over spliffs, into incubators of next-level radical culture.
Al it takes is delving deeper into the freer, untapped side of our

spirits & uilizing oue immediate resources in an imaginative way.

Hakim Bey's transcending 60-paged work on “Immediatism™
(1994) cradles the potential of nciting the type of radicalization
‘which can sister (or even ‘mid-wife") the social revolution we're
working on building. A rejection of capitalist socicty’s work /
consume / die structure, Bey’s Immediatism reminds us “the body
itself s the least mediated of all media.™

A direct outlet with lfe, as living beings, s a iving revolt against
virtal slavery - a alling-out rom the marching-in-lockstep
“zombification” (as Anthony Rayson puts i) pervading society. In
unmedisted gratification, esp. in this programmed & over.
survellanced & insitutionalized age, les germ of a counter-

new life for the movement — if only for its anti

nature, alone. It can stimulate in a sense - a higher form of
freestyle. A self-actualizing existence & from an authentically
anarchist platform at that!

Bey analyzes where it can head when he writes that:
“If Immediatism begins with groups of friends trying not
just 1o overcome isolation but also to enhance each other's
lives, soon it will wan 10 take a more complex shape: -
ruclei of mutually self-chosen allies, working (playing)
10 occupy more & more time & space outside all mediated
structure & control. Then... a horizontal network of such
autonomous groups ~ then, a “tendency” ~ then, a
“movement” — then, a kinetic web of *temporary
auionomous zones'"

We're ready to culturally ovolve. Society's itching for a social
revolution. Iftaken seriously, Immediatism can give to our
counter-culture spiitually’ what the union can give to it
materially & living, autonomous expression of freedom.

Resist Tmperialism

Imperialism (n.):The policy of extending a
nation's authority by acquisition of
Lerritory or by the establishment of hegen-
omy (the influence of one state over others)
over other nations. 24

1o impoverished blacks, hispanics & all other
aon-whites & macginalized in Amerika sharc an
inalienable affinity with all who systematic

ally Lhrive in the throes of class struggle.
And the advantages of resisting the state
machine isn't confined to the prison crisis &
day to day survival in the streets:it's
Gavantageous to the underpriviledged masses

whose hands are tied behind our backs in
avary city,prison, & capitalist-run nation
srd the world!
We lived menaced by its get-down-on-the-
ground dictalions and only through a pa
ate display of solidarity can we unharness
the love which will uplift us from its para-
s Despair.We'll return to this; but bfore

: a List of countries the U.S governmen
has bombed. * B3 Aene

*since Wi

"

China: 1945-46 Grenada:
Korea: 1950-53 Libya
China: 1950-53 E1 Salvador

Guatemala:1954 Nicaragua

Tndonesia:1958 Panama :
Ccuba :1959-60 Irag :
Congo :1964 Sudan

Laos :1994-73 Afghanistan :

Peru :1995 Yugoslavia
73 Afghanistan
Guatemala:1967-69 Irag
Cambodia:1969-70

Vietnam: 19!

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1983
1986
1980+
1980+°
1989
1991-99
1998
1998
1999
2001-
2001-

A WORLD OF SLUMS: BREEDING GROUND FOR A

GENERATION OF ANTI-IMPERTALISTS
il

Half of the entire world is urbanized-over 3.2
billion people; and with the rapid 2.2% percent
annual urban growth the Census beaureau antici-
billion mark in 2017; and 4.9 billion by the
Year 2030-
Considering 47.4 Million living in poverty in
this country, have a significant share in this
Ganned nko the —heavily populsted urben ress-
fs7vel1 Cateutated

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The “acquisition of territory: has been an
obvious method for control since colonialism

began. The surving 0.9 % of Mative amerikans

Kknow it and so do many of we. though the matrix

of this pseudo-reality we wake up & close our

eyes to can obscure & blow its authoritarian

motives from the palm of our everyday thought-

life in the streets. In the havoc of the mania

of trying to mentally make it to the next day.

In the struggle to make it out the walls af a
marginalized existence we feel closing ummerci-

fully in on our potential. Researchers Peter

and Ginger Breggin-in over looking this develop-
ment-focused in on this colonialistic pheno-

menon as early as 1998, observing that: "Over

many decades following the Civil War, blacks

were driven from their land [in Amerika] and

forced to migrate to major cities in search of
industrial jobs and domestic work;" calculating
calculating how: "Black 1and loss exceeded ;
6 million acres by 1974.” That's a whole lot of
production pover to be expropriated, to say the
least.

The imperialist government of Amerika Flexes its
muscle on every country it can raise is arms in,
coerce, impose its force upon and exploit.

With about 1.3 million servicing its reserves
world wide, an incredible 20.6% percent of gover-
nment spending was on "National Defense" in 2008:
million serving its armed forces in

vearly 1

tories."

5. and its "terri

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Over 85,000 throughout Europe.
Some 70-0dd thousand force-servers across Russic
E.Asia & the Pacific.
Over 8,000 throughout Afrika, the near Fast &
South Asia, including 2500 in Afrika's sub-
saharan regions.

¥hile many may imagine that such "Occupational
leverage" is safe & well-intentioned & that
foreign policy is patriotically favorable from
¥hat's seen on t.v., the streets ain't slow

and we've long been internationally disillus-
ioned.

Take Haiti, for instance. It's no coincidence
that such a relief effort for the hundreds of
thousands of impoverished lives lost in the
January 2010 earthquake has been broadcasted
the way its been during war-time. A warotime

in which even many right-wing conservatives are
groving to loathe & demonstrate alongside those
on the left against. Haiti has been utterly
suffering as the poorest country on the western
hemisphere for years.

It says alot, when not even 2 years prior-when
var-time sympathizers were a little more
visible-the U.S. Government,"itself" was being
charged with withholding $54 million from Haiti
for political leverage over the country.-toney

meant to provide clean water.

It speaks volumes to reflect how when the pic—
tures of torture (water-boarding) of political
prisoners were unearthed in Guantanamo Bay,
President Obama refused to expose the images to
the media to show the public,to show just how
much change we can believe in.

It sheds light on the reality that despite its
shimmering fascade, the Government is Capita-
listic and the imperialist empire of Capitalism
has no conscience.

2¥

Occupational Amerika is a missle-magnet for the
foreign & domestically disinherited who openly
Geclare a "get away £rom me-I'm not for you; if
Snything I'm against you' outcry of resentment.
Cindy Sheshan and the Code Pink people are bull
horning anti-war rallies in the face of govern-
ment mijitancy in California; and during a Dec-
ember 4°% 2009 protest I was active in,the
president's limo was welcomed with vulgarity on
the left and shouts of "go home" hostility on
the right, here in PA.

Though the current war has the Middle East in
the spotlight of the everyday get-byers in
Amerika who've long have lost respect for the
system, the hoods in the Middle East have shared
hostility toward the Establishment for decades.
Understanding the U.S. Government's use of
Istael as a strategic asset in the wake of
Istael's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Thomas L.
Friedman cited these widely-held sentiments of
one Senior Kuwait official:

"You have lost where it matters most-on the
humanitarian level. Whatever respect there was
in the Arab world for the United States as a
moral authority has been lost."

(Published in the New York Times,
Nov.22, 1982)

In a more recent article, Diana West, a writer
for United Feature Syndicate,asked Iragi,
Parliamentarian Ayad Jamal Alden whether or not
Shiite Iran would work with Sunni al-Oaiida &
Sunni Taliban (to test him on a "Washington
myth*), he replied: "They all have one enemy.
The U.S. -Shia and Sunni differences don't
matter to them when it comes to the common
enemy."

This “common enemy" realization is what prompted
Flack Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton to
shake hands with Arafat in their momorable photo
the generation preceeding our own.

Prisons as Breeding Ground for Anti-Imperialist
A Make for Good Conversation.

"The treatment of prisoners gives a certain
insight into the nature of the conquering
army." -Noam Chomsky

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I think if a prisoner in the States celled-Up
with an imperialized prisoner of war abroad,it'd
make for some interesting conversation. Provided
Of course, one were bi-lingual or had a cell-
neighbor to interpret while ear-hustling through
the vent.

1t'd be intrigueing to see how much empathy can
be shared between the two who aren't maive to
the fact that it's an existential necessity to
resist oppression from the psyche, cell, and
society alike

Surely it'd leave an impression on the mind to
watch them read from the same paper on the war
and nod their heads in agreement that liberty
is supressed wherever Government s are found to
exist. And to hear the personalized backgrounds
of both respective cultures & how both have
shared 2 sense of disdain toward the bourgeoise
which exist in both countries & how their gene-
ration before theirs-their mothers, uncles &
aunts-have felt the same way,as well.

The same malevolent grin the beaten & bare-naked
pile of prisoners observed in the face of
Charles Graner as the torture photos at Abu-
Ghranib were being flashed in 2004, is the same
face U.S. prisoners vere looking into at SCI-
GREENE less than 5 years before, in Pennsylvania
USA. (PA prisoners filed numerous Grievance
Reports on Graner only to have them returned to
the prisoners' cell, as "Frivolous")

Though Lebanon may tend to desert the everyday
mind in Amerika as nothing more than a distant
geographic locale,the fact that an 87% of the
Lebanese live "urban® alongside a rising 82% of
us in the U.S. reveals a correspondence that's

not so far-reaching.
Though our cultural lives may differ respect-

ively, both share a marginalized existence. Both
have hoods which are armed to the teeth and are

“hungey . 30
Inside-outside. Exploitation world wide is the
cultivator of the resistant sentiments it
incubatorily breeds.

The 'Hood As Breeding Ground For

3
Anti - Imperialist Rebels

Those of us who know what it's like to
turn on the kitchen light at night to the
scatter of roaches; to open the refriger-
ator door with nothing - or next to
nothing inside it, with nothing in the
freezer but ice. A can or two of evapor-
ated milk on the cabinet shelf - we know
what it means to be "marginalized

We know what it feels like to have our
ch touching our back. To face being
turned away after standing for over an

stor

hour at the bread-lime that runs on a

lst come - lst served basis. To have the
thoughts of selling crack race through the
mind before the idea of RESISTING to live
a life manipulated by an established order
is entertained. )

It'd be naive to ignore that our day-to-
day struggle has an impact on our view of
government which demographically dominates
us.

It's exciting to know that more of us are
refusing to ignore any longer that we
exist more as the "possessed” than the

Possessors ( over our very lives! 32

With the middle class dismantling, the
divide between the rich & the poor cont-
inues to visibly widen.

Amidst the rubble exists maneuverable

terrain for urban gorillas from the
destitute margins of society who see the
logic & necessity for organizing
resistance across the slum-belt.

Tt isn't hard to see why the government
faces hostility in its foreign policies
abroad & concentration of power here - why
it's threatened with popular rebellion at

home and beyond.

The genocide - reduced slums, bridge-
bottom homeless camps & cardboard-box
cities in this country is lst world
Amerika's domestic third world.
Jean-Paul Sarte brings to our attention that:

“The name given by the French to their
*conquests’ - possassions d'outre mer
(overseas possessions) - indicates
clearly that they had managed to obtain
them only by wars of aggression. The
aggressor seeks out the adversary on his
o ground. ..in the under-developed coun-
Fries..."
Whether we look at it through the eyes of a fore-

inor who feels the heat of imperialist occupation,

or through our own when they redden in blood-dhot

resentment when racially-profiled on these streets
're ‘colonialized’ in:

- 33

No relief from the occupying forces
on "foreign soil", nor from the brutality
& surveillance saturating the city streets will be
found without a collaborated effort to
overthrow it L ¢ 1t 111

" [Nlothing will change until mass popular
movements develop, here and abroad, that
can struggle effectively against the
violence of the state, directed and organ-
ized by those who rule the state by virtue
of their unchallenged domination.
- Noam Chomsky
("Radical Priorities")

Capitalism On A Broader Scale
Inperialism - being capitalism on a broader scale -

is a powder keg packed with the potential of explo-
ding in any territory it can roll into.

It alvays affects the poor: those of us who exist
marginalized & locked in perpetual struggle within
a system which socio-politically "beast:

In fect, V. Dedijer, in his study On Military
Qonventions, analyzed how the true nature of
capitalist societies engage "in the process of
giving birth to the monster of total war."
3y
One reason - due to the fact that:

"Rivalry between industrial nations, who
fight over the new markets engenders the
permanent hostility which is exoressed in
the theory & practice known as

"bourgeois nationalism'

#hat is a bourgeois nationalist

A 'bourgeois nationalist' is a middle-class opooser
of class struggle who represents a nation that cap-
italizes on the disadvantaged & have-nots.

In the 'hood, we largely view them as internat-
ional wedgie-havin' cut-throats who snip the
ribbon on power deals while severing ties with
those of us who can see past their facade of
"success." (Not the type of success that serves to
uplift the people from poverty;but the kind of
success that the less naive of us suck our testh
at.)

Political tensions between the elitist pwers are
losded with "permanent hostility" between they &
the offended and disempowered masses whom they
exploit.

This may come off somehat twisted to mamy; but
frankly speaking - many Of us from the streets
start off mutating into "bourgeois nationalists",

curselves.
35

Without a doubt ~ many of s have never even heard of the words,
It alone knew what they meant; but we fell prey 1o its
disempowering ideology, while “cookin’ up,” slangin® & bangin’

How?

‘Well, “pushin’™ enough, can quickly raise anyone on the grind to
middle-class (and even upper-class) status. This, in tum also
leaves you with now facing the permanent hostility from those
who've already comered the market. From those who “locked the
spot down” & who'l always see you as competition in the streets
where political tensions between elitist powers are
microcosmically mirrored.

In essence ~ it becomes a war over money & occupying turf in
their city (or suburb) not much different than that of US. troops
deployed in Afghanistan & beyond.

And if the individual happens to rep. @ (gang) flag — whether onc
realizes it or not — by the very definitive act, it not only makes him
(or her) “boojee,” but as bourgeois nationalist as the govermment
politician.

S0 we see, an individual doesn’t necessarily bave to walk with
theif pants up their butt to fulfil the qualifications of being
“baojee.”

And for those of us who grew up on the sireels — we know just
‘bow much a society of cut-throats is “always in the process of
giving birth to the monster of total war;" whether we speak of
cultural genocide or nuclear warfare.

RESIST BEING BOOJEE AT ANY COST!
36

Social takeover.

“Revolution is rebellion become
conscious of its aims."®

In the streets that we struggle in & in the prisons
1ie a resevoir of repressed life-energy just aching &
throbbing to be released.

Ue've been looking for every possible way to let it out
so it doesn't consume us; every possible way - except
the one in the direction which is the Source of our
struggle.

¥hile this everyday struggle can consume us with an
appetite to destroy: to go out set-trippin' & bangin',

or even putting the gun to our own heads; the result

has alvays ended up_being that an extreme dissastifaction
with life remains. That we still inevitably feel like
valking time-bombs; regardless of the havoc we wresk.
The Establishment remains unmoved by the madness & still
stands.

This falls in line to vhat Alexander Berknan taught vhen
he wrote that:

“|CJonditions are not destroyed by breaking &
smashing things. You can't destroy vage slavery

by wrecking the machinery in mills and factories. ..
You won't destroy government by setting fire to the
Vhite House."

Channeling this repressed energy in o more "constructiv
vay will arm us vith the necessary instruments for teking
aver our lives.

For some, this may be through the the outlet of writing
(propaganda). For others - through insurrection. For

wany more, artistic expression will stimulate the culture
consciousness as much as music. And perhaps more
portantly is getting it into our minds the need for
rhe wage-slaves & the unemployed to take over the work-

Alexander Derkman speaking at an TW rally

at Union Square,N..C., 1914

vd concerning the lacter

out & those of us frustrated .

for those of us

th scraping what ve

to survive - is long overdue.

About 952 of those in prison ( roughly 2 million ) are
ant ©d Lo step out of the Revolving Door at some
point

Like many of us vith a criminal record in the 'hood, th
released prisoner has the most odds stacked against hin/
her in finding a job to meke ends meet.

It leads many to Feelings of despair & of giving up, and
<Jipping into a lifestyle ve feel there's no alternative
to.

There is an alternative, hovever, that the systen S8
foesn't inform the prisoner about before release, and
that those of us struggling with nothing nothing in the
ctreets haven't really been hipped to & will be to our
individual, s vell as collective advantage in checking
out.

This thing worth checking out, is the IWi ( Industrial
Vorkers of the World ).

Every released prisoner & unemployed striver looking for
work unable to find any - will find en electrifying
outlet of solidarity in plugging in with a union as
chis.

They've been around for a couple hundred years & their
revolutionary perspective revolves around the exploited
workers & unemployed.

“ans ex-fzlons ( lets face it ) have to resort to
factory jobs ( 3f we're lucky enough ), through some
Tomparary cmploynent sgency .

( Ironically - we're being thrown to the very location
where the ultimate battle-ground of the Social
Revaluzion wil be vaged! )

We scc Temporary Employment Agencies sprouting like
vecds 211 over the cities.

Many of these middle-man agencies ve see, in fact,
crushle under economic pressures or relocate their
office for better. leverage.

Temp. agencies only provide workers with a fractional
sum of vhat established workers are paid. They operate
on a platform of Inequality. - An Inequality in a
¢ vhere all are so-called "created equal”.

The ex-nffender and the immigrant worker are distant
zousins on the assembly-line of Capital.

Both ace "outsourced” in their struggle to make a 3 9
living. - ( Outsourcing is a " system in which cheap

labor is hired by firms to do Jjobs previously unionized, )
Notice how many immigrant sistas & brothas (esp.Mexican)
and U.S.ex-offenders work for the same temp, agency as
many of us with"criminal records”.

It's truly no coincidence.We need unity & organization

is key.

While it oay feel gratifying to make an "honest living"
in the 'free world’ on the outset - which reflects our
80od intentions - the cost of living, being so profound -
is quickly felc in the revolting reality that you're
being released from one exploitation into another if
leaving the prison vall.

The prison adainistration's catch-phrase is "that is the
price of Froedom;" and that "It's better than the .1u¢

2n hour you're being paid in prison.” But ve value
Freedon to a higher & greater degree , and recognize their
vords as an unfeasible reason to exploit the poor to
profit the rich in the Establishment of Institutional
Greed. The elasticity of Freedom is to be resisted for -
beyond the penitentiary wall.

For many with good intentions, these realities (and liard
ones, at that! ) can be overbearing.

It's no wonder why so many of us "return" for drug-
possession & for selling a "controlled substance". I¢'s
D0 mystery why the majority of prisoners are reprocessed
for drug offences - vnether due to selling the the product
or beconing addicted to the mind-altering chemicals, ours-
elves!

As early as 1965, A. Kornhouser observed in his "Hentol
Healch of the Industrial Worker," chat:

“The asseably line worker tends to regard both his
job and himself with contempt.

H.Richard Lamb further expresses how:

Trapped in a monotonous, meaningless dead-end
occupation, he wants to 4o
escape that existence or,
at least, to see his children
escape. The conviction Lhat
he is simply an unimportant
cog in a giant industrial
machine lowers an individ
ual's feeling of personal
growth."
Ve know, more than anyone, how
short life is. Our climbing
out of this existentially
depraved hole is centered
around our Resolve: of con-
tinuing our lives as wage -
slaves to the grave, or taking
practical steps to finding new
Life among the living.
We've been struggling too Tong
in the suffocating bag of
Lucy Parsons Capitalisn, sucking the sanity

i from the heaving lungs of our
by going on the offensive can we gain a
o-economic grip on life from the governing hand short
changing us all. Our getting ahead is proportional to our
setcing Active.
Tt tncludes adding substance to the radical working-body

fonizing to strengchen the back of pre-social revolut-
tonary society.

includes strengthening the Fist of Solidarity with the
millions of vorkers who hate exploitation as well, that v
may 11 stiffen the blow of the General Strike: the organ
ized action of the refusal to work for the exploitist

roment on a mass level wit the ultimate goal of taki
fsncializing) the means of production or comon use.

lives. Only

‘a're seeing this happen today in Greece, due to pension &
salare cuts and tax increases of their government's bail

d'here in the U.S., there are currently millions unir
§7inu for a world without hosses: without exploitation. &
ur 2 self- managing sociery, as welll

The unjust institutions which work so much

misery & suffering have their roots in
B G A RS

Fuse

We're living in a time where the spirits of the hungry & de:
Are waiting for us to organize & get active, alrcady. The spi
these pre-revolutionary times is stirring for us to organize popular
rebellion & attack along anti-government lines of though here in
the U.S; in the factories, the pissy alleys & the prison celis.

While differing fundamental perspectives - such as violence, and
organization — arc definitely worthy of consideration, the fact
remains that the decibel level of conscious defiance i relatively
low in Amerika. 10’ time 1o tum the decibel level up a few
notches to a degree that cannot help but be heard.

1ts time we further co-operative efforts & get active in wiring the
revolution together.

Anarchist Biack Cross is doing explosive & tireless propagandist /
agitation work and are taking it to the next level in the prisons &
*hood. Other important lines of resistance can tum it up by
connecting closer with the streets, the prisoners, as well as in other
respects in these increasingly volatile times.

For example, dual unionism, in which syndicalists organize outside
the existing unions (e.g. the IWW’s), will find such a fuse more.
socially pyrotechnic than in the sparks produced in (factional)
friction. In light of this, the wave of collaborated resistance

against the current war can only fan the flames of agitation.

The soldiers fighting today in the Middle East are like the soldicrs
Who are ordered 1o shed blood by every government throughout
history. They're ~ for the most part ~ members of the working
class and children of hard-working class mothers & fathers who
struggled through the years to put food on the table & clothes on
their backs — like yours & mine. The syndicalist movement has a
history rich in spreading the anti-militarist message to those of our
social class, who've been drilled into serving the war machine with
unquestioned abedience.

Spain. Britain. Cuba - at the dawn of the 20" Century these ure
Only a few of the various locations anarcho-syndicalists have sown
the seeds of anti-militarism among wartire troops. .

Insurrectionist anarchists share this anti-militarist affinity & have
so, for hundreds of years, as well. A far back as 1897, for
example, the insurrectionist-anarchist Michele Angiolillo declared
at his trial that his sct was not only a responsc to the repressive
force against Spain’s anarchists — but was also for “Spain’s
atrocities inits colonial wars in Cuba & in the Philippines.”
(Black Flame. Schmidt & van der Walt)

So we see that while the tactical means between contrasting
perspectives vary, both desire a common end — which is equality,
the end of exploitation & the taking over of the means of
production; from the hands of the State into the hands of the
people. Asif we look close enough we'll see similar opportunities
organically (& spontaneously) become accessible around the table.

The offensive breath of “govemment order” is blowing at the wick
of volatility with tightly clenched fists & inflated cheeks. Al that
it needs is a more combustible fuse. Let’s give it what it needs.
Let's organically resist, rebel & defy!

“(AJnarchists believe that no effective conguest in the
economic field is possible 5o long as the means of
production remain the personal property of the capitalists.”

~ Luigi Galleani

“Revolutions are never made. Neither by individuals or secret
societies. They come about automatically, in a measure... the
current of events & facts produce them// They are long preparing
in the obscure consciousness of the masses.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

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