The

Deprived and Depraved

By: Hybachi LeMar
Acknowledgements

LeMar Anthony DeBooth, Relly Marie, Booker T Edwards.Jr(RLP.). Norma L.
DeBooth, Celestia LeMar (RLP..Jerna Jones and Rachel Johnson. Kelly Marie.
Jonika Lynn Jackson. Aunt Joan Cravwl,imumy Miguelito Smith, Uncle Somny, Aunt
Disne Smith. my cousins Rasheeda. Sophis, Cltus Kivera and Tito Sanchez.
Bubba, Diamond. Donte, Rahkei Burley, Rockmond. Aunt Gloria Lynn, Grandma
Kinley. Aunt Antoinette Uncle Buddy (R.LP. who remains a role mode fo me to
this day and Aunt Georgine (RLP), Grandpops DeBooth and Edwards (RLP).
'BAD- 1. Nicol Thomas (RA). Larry Gross (AKA ‘PEP"), Brian Roberts aca Lil.
Smee (who | grew up with in juvenile pacement, RLP), the DeBooths.the
Edwards,the Smiths in Reading, Pennsylvania, Matthew Muchowski, Randy
Jarmrok, Haley, and Keavey from IWW GHQ in Chicago.Jimi DelDugan, Anthony
Rayson and Mike at 5. Chicago Anarchist Black Cross Zine Distro, Lorenzo
Komboa Ervin and Sisa.JoNina Ervin, Brota Fodali, Ras Munyiga Sherrele Diggs.
“ristan Tristan, Jef and the entire Black Autonomy Federation, The d B. Wells
‘Coalition, Sean Swain, Coyote Shef, Christopher M. Gonzalez Victor “Trayway."
"Muria Abu-Jamal (fm running with everyhing we politicked on while in the
Hibrary and the departin leter you ef me at Mahany, Brotha; Preston Kelly
(a2 PX) - youte a real good Brotha. . Keith Brown-EL, Cherry, Carl Gree,
Brianna Peril and Joe Hillily, Lly . Vay. Sam Anderson from the Ashland &
Division Paw Shop near the EL E-Well Papo, Dolface, B (and Li1]. vellyn.
"Magie, and the whole Logan Square. Belmont-Craigin and Englewood
neighborhoods in Chicago. Ms.Joyce and the Sherman Park Librasy. Antwon and
the Brothas on the Throop and Elizabeth sides and those who support what we're
doing throughout the Wood; 5d Prise (my friend). K. Bunny and the Asylum
Collctive the (now boarded-up) lowercase collective ‘rades, Fancy & Ezra
Mercedez Lowercase, Donte, Linneah, Rose, Mike Lucas, Pillip Rz and the
entire Incarcerated Workers' Organizer's Commitie, Gale Ahrens Joyce J. Hood.
Pamela Holmes, Dave and Amy Verdin who feed the people n Logan Square -
thaniks for the 300d coffee and writing sace; THW. Ms. Phyllis (RLP), Eager
Monikey. Chiri and Lewis from Chicago ABC. Lena Lenin. Elis George from the
“Town. Miya G. DeBaker, Subway and Ron from Locked-Out, Goodic, Twin
Thought. Moyo, Tokay from the second tier at Huntingdon and To-Kay who |
used 1o have crcle-a meetings with in Chester, P-man. Skl Big Mo, Mike D
‘Tommy. Foot, At Loco, Tamumy and Theresa. Fee. Chi and the whole AP crew
and 2 sreetsodiersin Alletown. PA. and all who | may have left out n the
midst of getng this out.

INTRODUCTION 3

Behold, dear readers! You've gotten your hands on an
important, serious, explosively written, passionate-assed
zine! 1 first got with Hybachi Lemar in 2006 or so. He was
like many incarcerated young Brothers ~ desperate and
angry and brilliant!* He was looking for some real answers,
while his body pulsated with detestation for the system
that so suppresses his people, my people — every, single
person! 1immediately recognized his powerful writing
ability and his youthful urgency to get on with the struggle.
1did what I always do for the Brothers & Sisters who
write me. I sent him some zines from my distro, in hopes
that he would actually receive them. For, the closer you get
to the truth, the more dangerous life becomes. But, you're
also more prepared to face the endless dangers much more
effectively. I wrote him a letter and we quickly struck up a
comradely relationship. He comes straight from the Black
ghetto hell that America has created for herself. He called
himself an anarchist! And, he was ready to voice the
common cry of yearning, desire and articulated revolution.
So, here is a remarkable compilation of his work. His
first zine, When All Else Feels Lost, anarchist writings, 2008
came in my mailbox, basically all ready to go. I didn't have
to do much at all to it, to get it ready for printing up and
sending in. It was a real “breath of fresh air” for me to see
and read this. Hmmm, I thought... people are starting to
get with it. Anarchism /s global and does offer the best
chance at a real and free life, for everybody, especially the
most oppressed, vilified and demonized - the still enslaved,
Afrikan prisoner, right here in the belly of the fucking beast!
Lemar (his two names are interchangeable) gets it about
solidarity, while speaking and acting from his own sense of
mission. He works the streets and he works pen and paper.
His writing style is a real treat! He's very blunt and to
the point, with a lot of references to back up his arguments.
But, he also riffs off with these sort of window pane journeys
of revelatory hallucinations. I like to call it “the literature of
revolt!” A spectre's haunting Amerika - 1,2 many Lemars!!

~ @nthony of South Chicago ABC Zine Distro ~
Table of Contents

Autobiographical Sketch
Anarchitudes

Preface
CHAPTER 1: When Al Else Feels Lost
CHAPTER 2: RESIST! REBEL DEFY!
. Anonymous in an Anonymous Crowd
An Understanding of Social Forces
. Of Sedition, the Vices of Established Morality, and the Inclination Toward
Universal Rebellion
A World of Slums: Breeding Ground for a Generation of Anti-Imperialist
and Anti-Authoritarian Rebels
Prisons as Breeding Grounds for Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Authoritarian
Rebels
.. The Hood as Breeding Ground for Anti-Imperialist and Ant-
Authoritarian Rebels
.. Social Takeover! From the Iron Grip of the Governmentinto the Rightful
Hands of the People

CHAPTER 3: DISPOSABLE OUTCAST
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- An Analysis on Social Inequality and Anarchism as a Revolutionary
Science for Poor Peoples' Liberation
From Gang War to Class War: The Acquisition of and Redirecting of
Community Firepower
COINTELPRO: Gang Warfare is a Government Plot
- On the Autonomous (Liberated) Zone and Labor Union Alliance

NoMore Patriotic Nationalism: WE WANT WORLD-WIDE
INTERCOMMUNAL (Community-United) LIBERATION!

- The Three Pillars of Govemment Power
... Beight Future : (You're Not Alone)
Chapter 4: SOUL POWER: A Revolutionary Relationship With the Universe
.. A Note on the Text

Autobiographical Sketch ¢

1 writ this sutobiographical sketch by candicigh n bosrded-up building on the
South side of Chicago. haven't catentoday so [ may b a it lightbeaded while:
penaing this. I find it somevht ineresting, howeve,tat my hungerfor something o
il m stomach right now pals in compaison o my sppetitcfor insillinga rlevant
purpose ino the minds and hearts of those outcaste from the workd ofthe privleged,
nd 0 mission o the marginalize. This purpose... his mision, i Revoluion, ad s
one tha' being bome out ofsher necessty!

1 was bom amidst thunder and lightning on Thursdy, July 7, 1977 in Reading,
Penasylvania,an industrial iy f sbout 80,000, was the nly cild, and spen ot
of hours by my adio and alking 0 myself i my room or whalever place | could fnd
that could cover me from th embarrassment of not finding 8 way o/t n. 1 didn't
fee ke | fitinanywhere in the sociable workd. My motber (*Nimmy”) worked in a
factory 2. seamtress & single parent who stroggied throughout my formative years
o make cnds mee. | neverdard el her these dark seres about me o how deected
1 fetaround my grade schoo pers outoffer of being rejcied by er, and being
ooked at 2 someone who'd he athr have boried a bisth

‘We bounced from homelesssheltes o soup kitchens and for some ime livd in a
buiding on Spring Garden Sret thatlancd half-way and orward oward the
sidewalk, with no unning wate o phumbing. Liquor & drugs were s commonplace
5 he rats & the roaches ' flng off theKichen table.

‘Amid the siect poverty, however, sh'd instill in me concept ke “A sharp pencil
means sharp mind; s, “Never it awomn, she ll aheays remember i " with a
Took n hr éye o make urethat | understood. A victm of physical abuse, hesef,
she grew up menaced by the Klu Klux Kian n Templ, PA., was beate by aled
fther-fguresin front of me unil when | was ten years of ag, she was shot n the
neck with a 410 gag shotguninour Kitchen on Schuyicil Avenue, resuing in e
becoming a recovering quadrplegic. My love for her remains unconditional.

My fther, Booker T. Edwards Jr (‘Boo Boo”) was a member o alocal Black Panther
Chaptr in Reading, PA and had met my mother while he was serving the community.

He and my mother paried when | was three 501 don't know 100 much mare about him.
He passed away when | was 14 or 15 years ol

From the age of twelve | grew up pretty much on my own, bouncing from one:
juvenile facility and one city 1 another.

Like many of those rom my surounding, | grew up i a whirwind of violence; of
robbing people, gang banging and seling drugs in the housing projects.

Earlyon, however, | couldn’t help but fe trongly affecied by a conglomeration of
personal character defctstha et intensely about rdding myself of. The only true
guide I ultimatcly had, was Experience,it elf. | beat myself up over every fear that |
had until | ventured to conquer ther one by one. By the ime | was an carly teen, I'd
alrady been shot atand stabbed. | began chalienging every authoriy | once feared
‘and began robbing people who were twice my size. Unbeknownst to others around
‘me, 1 stil felt myself incxplicably suffring in my reclusive caccoon of manic.
depression, behind closed doors. | painfuly sirggled with a self-hared and would
off-handedly question the reason for my existence.
‘There'd betimes where I'd wonder if there were anyone els in the world, like me,
who felt abandoned into such a wormbole o aenation. In 3 comidor of incorigible
‘melancholy, where the doors of the temple ofreason slams closed at the approaching
sieps of Depresson. A
1'd retum lat ino the e, high off a ot of reefer and would fall onto my matirss
with hat,shoes and coat sl n, and drift 0 sleep with whatever drug money 1'd made
through the day (which wasn't much) with my loaded .12 gage beside me. Throughout
the few months | spent in pubic High School, I'd carry my 357 Blackhawk with me
nd would spend meny an hour day dreaming out the window during cass; wondering.
‘wha life might be ike for the “normals” who didn't have 1 grow up in 8 roken
home & juvenile facilities and as Aave-not with a growling stomach.

1'd engage in numerous lings and flceing romances, when | was alone, however, |
s @ “cuttcr” who'd sit my arm and my wrist. This became a very personal habit
‘which staried mainly aflr being sent 1o prison for 3 -1 years following my shooting
of a stranger on a nighborhood bridge walk-way; bridge which mercly weeks
before, I'd asked myself, “If 'd die or would do half a decade in prison somewhere -
what woud i even matier, anyway?”

Anti-social & dubbed “botiom of the barrel” by a local paper, if | coukddescribe my
existence in two words - t would"ve most likely have been “disposable outcast

Meanwhile, more peopie in my *hood were geting shot up and locked down. | began
‘considering deeply the newspaper clippings I'd read of peopl | grow up withcither
eing killed on the street or being sentenced (o life inprison for homicides, shootings
or drug offenses. Sometime in 2003, I was transferred 10 a prison within the prison for
a cellfight and-for allegedly assaultng the prison guar in the way of the fight st
‘which time I spent 22 months in solitary confinement i the supermax facility st SC1 -
‘GREENE, in Pennsylvania. Upon my arival in long-term isolation, 1 observed
brutality at the hands of prison guards, te tampering (and depriving) of food and
reduce human beings around me into atatonics and maniacs succumbing to smearing
feces on thir cell wals and doors; many of these prisoners let with decades lef o
serve in these sub-human conditons. It was during this peiod when | was introduced
1o radical papers.

Neighboring prisoners and | would carefully pull the strng from our towels, nough
1o reach practicaly every ccll on the unit We'd then poke a smallhole through one of
the ends of satc-ssued cnvelope o tie loop in i, and slide our sringed.cavelopes
under our cel doors and “connect ines,” passing everything that could ftunder our
doors ~ from handwriten messages to newspapers & pamphles. | nitially had aken
intrest n a Maoist paper (MIM Notes), and began learing new words and ideas and
‘would beam with cathusiasm every time my cyes would come across the word
Revolution in all the Communist witings 'd read, only to find myselF witha sense of
fecling unlibersied and in the end.

One day, a fellow prisoner “fished a prisoner resource lst under my cell door
containing contact information of pen pal services & organizations providing free
lierature o prisoners. At firs, 1 nly responded 10 a pen pal agency. | ached fo share:
some kind of mental rapport with someone from the outide world. 1 was approsching
‘my second yearin solitary confinement, and began wondering if the outsde world
still existed,or if another Bin Laden attack occurred again. This may sound strange to
‘many, but indefnit sreiches of isolation miles away from the nearest civilian
population —“out n the stcks" makes knowledge & prisoner’s most coveted of
possessions, next o a knowledge of Self. There were many meals when prison guards
‘ould't feed us, and when one of us wouldn'tbe fed, we'd allkick our cell doors in
defiance. Many times we’d hear prisoners defiantly kicking their meial slabs on

adjacent el blocks i the hle s wel. (many times we'd join in icking our doorsin
solidrity with them; ot eaizing a the ime that what we were doing was ulizing
the solidaity actic of what many activst n the strets would aptly dentify 353

Noise Demonsiration, » Noisc Demo. It was i is avirohment whe | wroe 0 onc
wasthe pivlal moment that changed the course and histry of

1 first acknowlediged myself a5 an anarchist in 2007 afer receivin literature from
Anthony Rayson of South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross Zine Distro. He acquainted
me vith the wriings of Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Emma Goldman, Sean Swain, and
his own remarkable litratre, incuding hand-writtn correspondence. Before I

formally became introduced to anarchism, (quite frankly & ignorantly) thought it
was abou “white people and craziness;" $o aturaly, when | discovered what t really
means, and how relevant it is 1o my Iif€ —in my opinion — it was only natural that
found it worthy of my atintion as 3 underprivileged, oppressed and imprisoncd

person of color. It inimately “clicked” with me i a profound & personal way. It

srengthened me carly on with the understanding tht | in fact, was nofalone;that I'm
actually partof a cultur of Class Struggle against domination, which is world-wide!

“The frst wo times | made paroe, the only work | could find were facioryjobs
hrough Temporary Employment agencies (Temp.service). I the Winir 'd caich
rostit at work, andin the Suminer, 'd come home (0 me and my ex-wie's
apartment exhausied, humiliated and broke afer paying the Temp Agency, Parole
Supervision Fees, and ent.

7 painted MancistTom Big Warrior's ome fo extra money wile he'd ieach me
Dialectical Maierialism. We'd dilogue decp into the night debating ideas and we
remain good iinds o thi day.

Returning from my faciory job ach work day,eyes re from exhaustior, I'd descend
into my cella where d open and rflecton M. Ervi's writings, no having the
sightst idea that we'd end up ot oly meeting and protesing behind th barricades
in person merely a few yeas ino the future!

“The hid time | made paroe, n 2010, 1 escaped fom a halfway bouse in
Pennsylvania and weai clandestinely 1o Chicago where | joined the Indusirial
Workers of the Worid and co-founded the Urban Squaties’ Commitice- Chicago

Chaptr
Vet the quick-wited,phenomenalbread and buttr aarchist Andbony Rayson, who
intally inroduced me 1o Anarchist thought and we became hands-i-th-mud
comrade nthe Resistanc ogethe romth door. Antbony would help me with rain
fareand fd me rom his home offce where I'd asis i replying o pisoners’ mal,
forwarding themzines & publications. He nroduced me 1o th oneofthe most
luminating suralssthe world may ever meet, Gale Ahrens, who'sntroduction in
Lucy Parsons's Freedom, Equality Solidarity s nothing short of ateniion-grabbing!
Yo had the pleasure of mecting Keith M Heny,co-founder of Food Not Bombs,
and became active inthe Occupy Movement. d eturn o the buikling | Squated”
(b lowercas coliecive) from an another collectiv around th comer, caying.
iroicaly a copy of Kropaikin’ The Conguet of Bread in oo hand, and bag of
Food Not Bombs'bread nthe ther

“The majority of my reading was done in prsons, Chicago alleys and abdndoned
buidings — takeovers.

On Chicago’s South ide, d regularly fulfill book requests with the Midwest Books
for Prisoners Collective and corrsponded with imprisoncd anarchist sich 1s Coyoe
Sheffand Victor Trayway, from soup kitchens, under my assumed alias.
Meanwhile, the pigs on the East Coast were tying fo hunt me down. Stae Police 7
stormed my mama's house with arms, and the paole offce used propagand to
insinuate erroneous & fcitous information about me. By the way, peoplc who
choose FREEDOM as an outlaw instead of pison: remember the many and vicious &
ity tactics they use. What doesn’t break you down can only make you stonger once
the spirt ofliberation i aive and wakened within you; and such counter-nteligence.
tacticsonly strengthened my ireconcilable resolve (n living 1 fight ) while
advocating to expedite s impending destrction.

-monthly “Relationship Anarchism” mectings,co-faciltaed by former
Weatherman, Bl Burns, was a school of eamning how to flectively communicate
with Self and others in productive and liberting way. These meetings hav taught
‘me skill 1 desperatcly needed, especialy afer years of soltay confinement.

1 then went underground o Atlanta & was plesod withthe anarciss acive i protcst
fighting cvicions and home freclosres n he OId 4% Ward. One o the gy |
maintyseptin wasan abandonod sl the Occupicr in Atlant hd akenover,
‘wheresome ight hundred homeles poor pecple siep ineach igh. 1 bgan to minly
resid o thethir flor withthecommsty orgaizers & adicas, umounded by
protes ostrswhere about hiry or 0 other anrchits commaniss & socaits
slepton various matresse o the floor with weekly scheduis fo acons & leflist
sgendas. We'd cat ogether and watche radicl documentarics o0 DVD's
eviewing welldocumenied,though-provokin & formatie fime, ke Zeigeis
and Imnacula Decepion. Not waning o b complacent, howeves 1 wanied o
9pen new base arcaof eisance and with the atstanc ofan Atlantean somrade,
singled out wooden, bandoned shack in the Vine ity neghberbood beind he
‘Georgia Dome. During the day, d rap with some ofthe peopeIn e hood,leting
them know | was acive inthe Occopy Movement, ubly confrmingtht 1 vas i he
Strggle for the people 0 cae ny woriesof whee 1 wascoming fom. Thi
paricularneighborhood (he Vine Ctyneghborhood, locied ight beind the
‘Georgia Dome where the Alanis Havwksplay nd ake in billionsoffrevenue)
epite with Black povery and rn-down ahandoned willings Th buing | pcked
outwas on il Someone had donaid blt-cutrs o the Movement 50 pogpin the
mastriock was rlativelycasy, and immediaily set out 1 cleaning the pace.
I this ncighborhondin the Atants, 4 hear bourslon shootouts voughoot the
night, s in Chicag, whil hanging proest postes on the wal and cleaning the shack.
I the room I slept on a matrcss i, there were two bulc-hles which 1 used 3 peep-
holesand ecal glancingat a funera procession through them couple days aftes e
s0und of AK-475 and shogun revrbersied hroughout he ghett 1 phone Mr.
Rayson and et him know I was workingon pojectand sk i ko i me .
packageof zines from South Chicago that 1 coukl buld a erature 3ble with,
501 coukd pas anarchist wriings from the squat and my backpack. He e me two
ey packages of relevantieratre, butthe day | wasto canvssfhe mteials, | e
re-amestedfor “Occupying lacard buikling:”ad afler four months in Ao s
sent back 1 prison in Pemeylvaia fo ioaing parolesfcs sbowt 3 yea on e .
ith nly a few months remaining on my 15 yer stence.
Once back nside, | co-organized the i Relstionship Archism-Prison Chapier
iththe ssstance of Bill Bums nd comrade Zach whld send o Frison Chpuer
Tterature and eiers of Sldariy from Chicago. Polical psoncs an o i
revolutionay, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who'd us been elcase o the peion's Genens
Population from Death Row aftr thiy years,and | wouldalso mee t cerin times
inhe prcon . Our conversatos wer et surce of moivaton o
Forelavingthe prison in January, 201, he wote me a e, ecoursging e 10,
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s my belif thatthe more people who grow sick of this impoverishing system in the
‘hetos and prisons, the more ofus wil ecognize the ned o overthrow it

“The more the Idea of anarchist revoluton spreads,th closer we have-nots will come
1o liberting oursclves from the socia frces that dominate our exisience; ecause
‘when it comes down o it - when is llsaid and done — iberaion lies within our own
hands.

Each one Teach one.

Bondi Hybachi LeMar
Septembe, 2014
Chicago

“The government resists; it is savage in its repressions. But,
though formerly persecution killed the energy of the oppressed,
now, in periods of excitement, it produces the opposite result. It
Provokes new acts of revolt, individual and collective; it drives
the rebels to heroism; and in rapid succession these acts spread,
become general, develop.

~ Peter Kropotkin
Anarchitudes e

Beloved are you who neither rule nor accept being ruled by any.

Embraced are you whose conscious revolution returms you collected from the
attefield of Mind's ambivalent struggle.

Be ot ashamed if society shuns you as an outcast
Better 10 lead one’s life an outcast than follow an order of nuts n frankensteinian
ayme.

Let notthe soulbe disquieted in you who'd rather rest in the arms of liberation
than reawake at midnight & prisoner fo your own Conscience.

Beloved are you who uplif the discouraged.
‘The world is much in need of you.

Cherished, the autonomous nature that reaches where no arms are powerful
‘enough to institutionlize the truths that iberate her; which confides in me, in
her intimate whisper that my psyche is meant o be governed by none other Self.

For the liberty of my Reason, and yours, were never theirsto domesticate; and
‘where Understanding s widened, ignorance becomes swallowed up unil it is
purged in the shaking o every anarchist society gives birth tot

“Every human being who is not devoid of fecling and comman
sense is inclined to .inarchism. Everyone who suffers from w;

<, from the evil, corruption, and filth of wur prese
2 is instinetively sympathetic to narchy. Everyone whos:
heart is n to compassion and fellow sympathy must be
interested in furthering it. Everyoue who hus to endure poverty
and misery, tyrauny and oppression, should welcome the coming
of anarchy. Every liberty and justice-loving nian and woman
should help realize i..”

~ Alexa

PREFACE "

The scnmaty depive bein - wising ad sappng witin the uting shcts o

one's nbibitions - exposes an ever-shifing silhouett i the fabric of conditons which
sruggles n vain to contan .

‘Where th restcsslmbs of every neglected need protrudes from the unacknowledged

exisence it s0 relessly writhes in.

‘What cruel force has summoned the fngers of Reason 1o wrap themselves so
sadisticallyaround the throat of our inner reak? - That abnormally formed organism,
it for an uncurious world conformed 1 condemn it s 8 conorted "monstrosity”.

W gagitinthe center of our psychic-cellar & switch the light outon it slamming
thedoor beind us!

We deadbolt & lock it with a tousand laches of logic, and desperaely rn as far as
the imagination wil sccept us.

But shways, eventually, we're wakened by the adamant legs ofthe chair that we've:
ound it 0 s they begin toratl i revoling thrusts of Deflancel And desptc how
desperately we slam our eyes closed 10 i, it becomes inescapably clear how vainly we
stuggle o writhe ourslves free of its mufled leas!

How much longer must we g0 on like this?
For how much longercan we go on ivin this way?

For how much longer must we suffer by denying who we truly are & what we
desperately need, before we free urselves from the unyiclding leash ofa deprived &
depraved existence?

Inthe darkest it of amerika,thre exists an unslept soul, aching o regurgiat s
xistence from this consuming social esophagus; nly 10 feelth calloused fingers of
Formality squecze tightr..and ighter.

For, formality - 0 feak - s a ltany of motioless choirs invoking discord from the
door of aniredecmabl sensual nature; where the incessant preaching of alien morals
sruggles o cthicaly govern & exorcize th spri of Resistance from the laboring
bodies t disempowers

‘Gyrting in an orgy of uncetintis, Reason gasps through th arching of each out-
sieiched throat, for LIBERATION. To be delivered. It gulps 1o b released from the
unnatural demands that conventional decency so cuelly equires!

T vt sttt ot ety e g

possesing authority, and governed class who ar dominated in some way, shape o
form by such authoriy. The underprivileged recognizes which side of the fine they.
walk on and tha thei lives ar regarded with less value than others in commanding
social positons. The underpivilged ofien g o cross that lne, ot 0 destroy the.
system of inequality, but o become a erson in a commanding social position, s well;
the System (of Dominaton) is sillitact, however, s even though the class - crosser
may help some (such as hisher family or immediste friends) millons remain
impoverished, starved & brutalized on a daily bass.
Govermments are,for the most part, not "loved" bul feared by the deprived & 12
depraved who they govern.

‘There cxists an unresolved resentment against the rich in every ghetio and shum & an
ieverence for cvery law perpefuated against the class of the poor.

‘The deprived & depraved reach th inevitable conclusion that government polticians
provide nothing but ip service and pillow talk o the poor who only end up geting
“screwed over” once those government politciansare elected; tht govemmens arc
nder the mecy of banks and therich & clie few, nd thatthe people who put on
uniforms 1o invade other countres fo them are manuverable pawns in th fingersof
imperiaist powers.

‘The deprived and depraved areraised in an atmosphere of desperation and violence,
and those of us who by chance sarvive long enough toseck afier Truth and question
‘ourplace n this world become a formidable threat threat 1o notonly unwanied
domination but 1o the very idea of suthorty itsel.

“The deprived and depraved find themselves reading obscure books & radicalizing
literature thatthe wardens of Reason, and dominators of sciety don't want them 1o
read. But they become coveted allthe more; their phrases, intimately memorized and
silently whispered aloud i the dark. What would've previously been taken as "cazy”
i now considered more intently and read in private & shared in th circle of others
who can relate. The hand which fits perfecly into the glove of this sort i the is of
liberation which ise o fre society and the self from al coercive forces of
domination.

“The deprived & deprived among us know, perhaps more than anyone lse, that our
desire o iberate ourslves remains even when allelse fels lost

Anonymous in An Anonymous Crowd

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words: “Long live Anarchy!* were transmitied from the restrsints of Nicola
Sacco's electrocutioner's chai, lalian anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetidescribed
himself in his A Proletarian Life as “anonymous in an anonymous crond.

efore the switch was pulled on the lves of Sacco & Vanzett; befre the last

Bartolomeo Vanzetti Nicola Sacco
Chapter 1 3
When All Else Feels Lost

b» can cither allow ourseivs to become burmed out by the perpeual breath of

‘Complacency or become empowered by the ingenuity of the wind! As we stand
aflame the candle o reason which Purpose has waxed us, on trth can by po means
be ignored: the leaves are rusting; their branches, bleak!

(On the global from): All over, civil wars ae esupting - from South Amerika o the.
distant East for Independence. imperialism runs amok on the hybrid fee of capralsts
and forcign policy makers; and through al th swekter, abou sx bllon ons
reenhouse emissions are released each year as the mind - boggling wave of mass
proft polutes th ccosysteminto unprecedented evels of global warming.

(Here in Amerika): 1200 youths run away cach day. The prison indusirial complex is
exceeding a staggering 1175% over-population. Homelcssness is a trans.cossal risi.
where 2 ourist doesn' ncd 10 book a lght rom New York fo Califonia - where at
any given moment, twenty thousand people sleep & wake up on a four - lock
perimeter in Central LA to estimate what such authorty genuinely values

These are but few of the harsh reliies in which we, the marginalzed, find ourselves
‘confronted with in 21st Century Amerika.

Athe forking of our Reason, one may ask: "Well, mankind is by natue evl f he
powers that be became no more, ‘anarchy would come about and people would do
Whaeverthey could and as evlas hey could, and the world would allapart *
espond st by aking what tha nquistive mind docsit scefoling apart righ no.
Toillusrat a few more examples:

“The 2007 Human Rights Watch Report reporie that ss many as twenty thousand
people were slaughtered during the thiry-six years wa in Guatemala - he vast
majoriy of which has been atributed fo government orces,

n April 06, when the People’s Movement Jana Andolan) in Nepal dethrocd King
‘Gyanandra after 19 days of public demonsraton, civilian casuaties decreased in the
cease - i between the people of Nepal and the goverment. The outcome: the
govemment breaking the ccas - fire afier only three months; engulfing nearly every
‘one of thei seventy-fiv disrct, oaring the civilian casualty ratc and leaving the
country on the brink of disaster;

and wihin 24 hours of you reading this, 27,000 chikdren workd - wide will have died
from hunger and treaable diseass.

‘Secondly, Td ask that individual where /he was fed thei defiition of anarchism.
From those who are in favor ofthe people being governed, or from those who uphold
thatthe people have the human ight 10 govern ourselves. And were those ceds fod by
the hand of a governing pretxt of which heartiss laws are so unnatural they need
peremnial eammending, orfrom the heart & human conscience, which beckons.
wolman 0 think for onesef and o examine the nature of one's own conduct and
Avarcsm s Liberrianism agains Auortariansn.. ey rlrshp 1
exercisd by one et of men over others s the reult of nvasive compulsion on the

asis that Might makes Right wich s wrong, wastcul, armfuland ecdies” (Emma
‘Goldman). It was use derogtorly by governments (some say tothe [8th and 19th
century English and French revolutionarie) as an insut 1 those “radical thinkers
‘whose social views conflted with he rling minrit who exerted power ver thrn.
Normalpeople ke you and 1 who saw the way things were and defiantyrebelled
against ife pepetualy maimed by the teeth of the parssic eitc who ran amok in

hei day.

Anarchist knowledge.

"Knowledge is power... Knowledge only ever gives you
power over those who are ignorant of it. This is why those
‘with authority
are clandestine and tell untruths: they need others to be
unaware of what is going on to maintain their position.

- David Southwell
I he.

and “archie* (meaning "rule); it etymologically transatesinto meaning ot rule.”
1t means that no human being has the rght to govern another human bein;
cmphasizesthat the govemment of one human being over another human
slavery.

Anarchism opposes all forms of coercive authority and confirms that not only are
societal governments harmful, bu that they are inherently unethical, needless and
works in oppositon o the dignity ofiberaion and the slf - eterminaion of scity,
25 well. Contrary (0 what governments siuggle o deceive the pwople they govern
into believing, anarchism doesrit mean chaos or disonder, but rther, harmony andl
social equality without government rule.

1€ under govemment, in fact,tha society inds "chaos* and "disorder.” Al one must
dois simply reflect o their own lfe and look out their very window at this truth.
From thesiruggie to make ends meet, o the drug addictions we've been reduced o in
our efforts 1o mientaly cope. From prison profiters ike the Corrections Corporation
o America o the wide gulf between the haves and the have - nots.

Anarchiss uphold tht the idea of *might makes right" is wrong; hat povery in
‘world of plenty is unnccessary and that no human being is superor nor nferior to
‘another. It encourages you to ook boldly into the ee of any who would claim of
authority over your existence and understand the relevance of human dignity and the
dignity every other human being deserves (as a human being).
Anarchism is a philosophy of social freedom embraced by common people of very
complexion, with decp roots nurturing the spiri o Liberation in cxploiid and
‘oppressed people all over the planet: from Pierre Proudhon in France to Emma
(Goldman & Alexander Berkman in Russia. From Durt, and "Paco" in Spain, o the
‘anarchists in China, Korea and throughout Asia.

word *Anarchism" comes from the Greek root word gn” (meaning "not®),

ing is

Anarchist colecives (organizations) such as Zabalaza in Johannesburg, South Africa
scively serve the people for iberation, and brilliant revolutionary actvists sich as
‘Sam Mba produce flerature relevant all of s in the Struggle. I America,slone,
‘Anthony Rayson, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Jane Do, and an indefaigable host of
others continue o inspire millions with an understaning & need for we, 5 3 pople,
o govern ourselves. 3

Al laws are directed against the working people (our socal clas)...

Even the school serves only the purpose of furaishiag the ofspring of the

wealthy with those qualicies necessary 1o upbold thelr class domination...

(The people) thersfore can expect no belp from aay capitalist party in
their struggle agaiast the existing system.

‘They must achieve ther lberation by their own efforts." - Albert Parsons

As poltical science, anarchism challenges allsysiems of oercive domination:
‘economic domination, gender and racil inequality, and psychological domination, as
well

Itassists in the developing of many of us i the ghetos & n th prisons (the cye of
‘Oppression'ssiorm) from shiftiess thugs into unthwariable revolutionaris.

As social philosophy which promotes equality there are many non-ligious as well
s self-proclaimed religious people who acknowledge themselves as anarchists. There.
are anarchists who happen o be atheists as wel as anarcho-Christians and Muslims
‘who recognize the necd for we as human beings 1o lve in freedom & harmony
regandiess of our various relgious or non-rligious perspectives.

Anarchiss are not only an-authortarians, we arealso ani-captaists who fight 10
replace the impoverishing captalist scicty with collective socialism & Mutial Aid.
“The aims of anarchis-communism involves our communities (the people, urselves)
10 - through organized struggle - e catalysts n liberatng the factories, warchouses &
farms from the hands o government corporation into th rightfl hands of the people:
Who work them. Anarchiss recognize that government corporations exploitthe peopl
a5 wage - slaves who labor for their profit while we,the workers ofthe world,
‘continu t live hand-to-mouth i spite of our sweal.

There are pacifsts in the Movement who believe in achieving these aims through non
- violent means; and there are other anarchists who recognize that though pacifism
ideal, those in power will never give the people economic & social freedom without a
fght Both, however work together as human beings in a united Siruggle confronting
injustice and societal lls through a diversty oftactics with love in our hears and.
collective frecdom on our minds.

Afree society - a free world - is one that st governed by coercive autbority; it s one
Wwhich i governed feely and co-operaively by th people, ourselves. Is a living.
virtue which ises sbove the concept of master and slave.

‘When we ook down the pah where Reason inds no place or xplotation, we fnd
{hat 2 ollecive, many f today'srising social funcions ar anarchist n atur i
{hat they don' rly on he government 1 ok ou fo society when socity' n ncc.
“The Anarchis R Cross i lssic cxampe, s wel s the more modem,such as the
decenralized Food Not Bombs (PNB), Earth Liberation Frond (ELP), ad he
Anarcis Black Cross collecivs, whoseinspiraton and dedicaion toward the
individual awakening of e most marginlzed people is summoning an
undersanding for the necessity for dirctdemocracy i contadistincion i facade

of representative democracy which socity i becoming cver more disilusioned with.
Diret democracy offers a hands - i - h - mud pproach o Liberton in broader
circles amida rsing wave o ofhercollecives sprouting o ourish the many,
ffnsive osds the powers ta be ffnsvely eglecs, s demonsrtd nNew 1
‘Orleans, where on August 29, 2005 the world shook ts head inrepulsion a nearly
0 thousand lives were los and thousands more, displaced in Hurricane Katrina,
Peaple everywhere watched and wondered: "Wher s their govenment?", and years
after the disaster ask the same question, drawing humanitaian attenton, ncluding
871 volunteers (common,everyday people) on February 28th, 2007 to provide health
care 1o the poor and neglected survivors - about 4,000 patiens fom tents, who came.
‘without permission fom the govemment - the same powers we watched take four
days 0 send a FEMA truck -as fellow human beings with knowledge in nursing,
‘medicine, health care work and mostly, the spirit and heart came to help, strnghen
‘and provide needed support.

“This exemplifies th spritof what animated the body of Willim Godwin's (1756-
1836) teachings, and inspircd him 10 pen that, "Duty i that mode of action on the part
ofthe individual which consittes the best possble application of his capacity o the
‘general beneft. Our New Orlean loved ones il suferfrom the storm in many
‘ways; psychologically, as wel as economically. (By the end of 2007, for example, the
ot of rent rose 45 % higher than pre-Katrina) a0d with on-going supportdeserve.
‘our commendation as survivorsin deed who peservere, even in ime of need, as with
all who find ourseives standing inthe breaking of our leves.

RESIST! REBEL!
DEFY!

BACKLASH

"Hanged in Chicago, beheaded in Germany, gorroted in Xere, shot in Barcelona,
guillotned in Montbrison and in Paris, our dead are many: but you have not been
bl 1o destroy anarchy. Is oots grow deep. It sprouts from the bosom ofa otlen
society that is faling apart; it i a violent backlash against the establshed order, it
siands for the aspiration 0 equalityand Iiberty which have enlered th lss agains1
the current authoritarianism. t i everywhere. That is what mates it indomitable..

- Emile Henry (1872-1894) o his jailer shorty before his execution for detonating
hand-made explosive at the Gare Sain-Lazare

THE SHELL:

‘The obscrvable exirior -t appears casy 1o grap: 1o conveniently manipulaic o kick
around at one's own displeasure. Common, it seems, nsubstantial and harmless. But
‘xisting deep within s seemingly passive & conrollabl state lis a core, nerve.
enter within which hamesscs all which the fingers of society and the xisting onder
s manufactured & discarded nto the resevoirs o the collecive socia subconscious.
s Potental; “wnacknowledged."
1ts Volatilty: Obscured.

Beware, any tyrant o tyrannical intitution who would 5o carelssly (mis)handlc such
anone.
Upon his arrival into the States on June 19, 1908, the dreams of entering a country
ich with the mystiqe of new optimisms were shttered a were those of many
othrs who miggatedintothe bowelsofthe amerkan “hel pi.” 17
T act, hough'he had ivd fairly decently in his native and - moving principally
10 "putthe scasbetween bim and th grif of losing his mother o cancer - he

found civilian i inthis country much crcler and much harshr than th ane be'd
e

Ina leterto his aunt, he conveyed how hed,

*..seen human greed and egotism poison every mouthfl of food...darken the glory
o the sun, violate natural law..murture coruption, plant hatred..very kind of
‘shame, every kind of misery.*

‘The repressive round-ups of adical, people being killed on picket ines, mass
deportations & framing of thousands of socialists (many who were anarchists)
protesting Exploitation as well s th first World War, were becoming countered.
with the knce-jerking reflex of Propaganda By Decd.

Tt was a time when violent retributions were being caled to the fore, and frusrated.
radicals across the country were responding to the call.

Ingenuously crafted home-made explosives were maled o heavy duty exploitrs,
including John D. Rockefeller himself,in manila eavelopes conccaling metallic,
sug-laced dynamite ticks & slim vial of acid.

Inconsolable communiques from The Anarchist Fighters denouncing the tyrannical
insttutions o the amerikan power structur reverberated with the detonation of
midnight bombs in New York, Pitsburgh, Boston, and New Jersey. Morcover, a
Red Scare was begining to include a nurmber of fearless Blacks.

Amanual, catitled "La Salute e n ¥oi!” ("The Health is within Youl®), by Lui
Galleani,frther educated many with a short fuse for govemment violence n the.
incendiary craft,

In one instance, one unfortunate (but brave) attntater accidentally blew himself up
afer ripping on porch stcps down the stret from the not-yet-President Franklin D.
Rosevelrs home in 2 D.C. subur.

In 2008, the buzzing gate clinked behind me upon my discharge from SCI-
‘GREENE, could'thelp but feel anonymous in an anonymous crowd; and
I'm sure many ex-offenders & have-nots striving on the margins of sociey can
elate. Is an understanding tht s intimately fel in those of us who find it harder
& harder 10 ignore the creakings in our Conscience which those who gove our
lives 5o tempermentally amper wih.
As inheritors of the disinherited Voice which calls for EQUALITY WITHOUT
COMPROMISE and FREEDOM WITHOUT RESTRAINT, le€s futher examine
the state of society we co-cxist in; how we relate o others in STRUGGLE across
the world; and sez how we can push the envelope forward to activating a more.
idyllic way of living without tripping and blowing ourselves up n the process.

To Contact Hybachi Lemar, write to:
IWW General Headquarters (GHQ)
P. 0. Box 180195 / Chicago, IL 60618
‘apprehension and antipathy, many from other walks of lfe — including our own —
can relatein a way that may appear taboo 1o the more privileged of the world

From th water-pollied sums of Haiti o the singl mothr stuggling t make
ends mest; cven crying, dcp nto the ight of Ameika. The excesive demands
and way of ife we've been forced 0 obey by this cxplotive csablishment re
cocktailed with perpeual ncquality, incxplcable appression and pervasive,
instiutonaized violence. Thisand hos of other suppesse et borparding
the underprivileged masses, And forunatcl,for society and helove ecessary 10
develop and nurturecollctive growih: youcan only hold down so many upside-

down cupsin the sink of Poverty 5o long until, then o, shoots up and rises t the
surfacel

Emma Goldmen relats these ferce bombardments 1o the brewing of a storm:
“To the earneststuden it must be apparent that the accumulated forces in our
social and economic I, are similar 1o the terrors of the atmosphere, manifested
i storm and lightening. "

And that,
10 thoroughly appreciate this view, one mst feelthe indigity of ur social
wrongs; one's being must throb with the pain, the sorrow, the despair millons of
people are daily made 1o endure.” (3)

‘While it is a necessary step forward for society o evolve from the primitivity of
violence, it would be naive to ignore the hostile hand many have so honorably
resisted with practical (as well as ideological) refutation.

From the peaceful Salt March protests of Ghandi i the face o the arm-wielding
British imperialit government (over India) - o the “By Any Means Necessary”
defiance against Power of Malcom X, and the demonstration tear-gassed in the
face of the parasitc G8 Comission, in Pitisburgh at the closing of 2009: s been
a historic siruggle; and until Liberty is no longer an empty word, our “inner being™
throbs for the inception of this higher ideal!

An understanding of social forces is a pivolal step in the lfe ofan individual and a
society, a5 a whole.

1 the Peculiar Awakening within the oppressed human being. I’ the momentous
hour thatthe light “tums on” in the faculty of our Reason.

16 the moment we look into the mirror, and question.

“The first stepinreslving acriss st frst recogaize that a crsis “exist” The
every-day crises we sruggle i subjection t0 are (and quit htrally)
overwhelming, making theirprescnces known in a restess way

Outside (and even within) the monotonous chaos of social life today in amerika,
‘we wonder why we fel 50 uncomprehensively isolated. Sorelcnilcsly held back
and subjected to the unyiclding scourge of these intolerable forces.

These intense pressures arc what becomes of e within the demeaning hands
dication and coercive authority.
To cxistso unaturally bound 10 the mercy of foreign will summons withi, an
cristentil war cry;one that efses to be any onger gnored calling forth e
Iatent forces of thesoul which aches inthe bridied inhibiions 1 b v
rebelliously leashed to. 19

Alexander Berkman gave this careful attntion when he noted how,

Beneath the spiri of intolerance and persecion isthe habit of authoriy
coercion to conform to dominani tandards, compulsion - moraland legal - 1o be
and actas othrs, according 1o precedent and rule.” (ABC of Anarehismy

When we look at our lives and of those around us, we ses that many of our lives
(many milions) have becn tumed upside down, due to poverty, imprisonment,dis-
case, and the arduous sirggle o it into something our nature forbids,

‘Govemment s nothing more than pawn-mover which serves o graify the
appettc of a parasiic citc. Ao the dvantage o Privilege smoog the el is cnly
a8 secure asthe dis-advantage maintaincd by the masses they disempower

e princesof castem India went 0 far as 10 use ving people i chess games, on
checker-board pavements from the veranda they amuscd themselves on in ey
courtyards; mauch ke prisoners and society, today; but with lessthetori and with
upgraded sophisication.

he philosophy of Anarchism teaches tht once we operate without kings
residents, landlords, boses, a5 well as anyone lse who would lay dation (o
ind detrnine our eisicace) the undamental st that comes wih “advantage”
and “disadvantage” would no only cease 0 exist,but would be a pactcal and
ational advantage 10 all - ethicall, economically, and spiritally, g wel.

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

OlsedificnfluvicfloflfllbfishedMamfi!y,mdme
“Many claim that it i insane toresistthe syséeas; but ctualy it s insanenot 1"
~Mumia Abu-Jamal
Sedition.1. An insurrection against constituted authority. 20

2 Conduct consiting of writing o acting against an etablished
‘government or seeking 1o overthrow it by unlawful means,resistance to lawful
authority.

Many inquisitively ask: “Why Revolution? Life is mor than revolting; it’s more
than Rebellion,” to which I eply tht t abstain from standing up o a lfe of
injustice is o fllin co-operation with every injustice extant.

History is loaded with seditious spirits unafraid o challenge the “morality” of their
respective era; not oy ideologically, but practicaly, as welll

In ancient Rome, when the slave-owner Lentulus Batiates indulged his moral
appetite by piting histrained slaves against cach other n gladiator school (and
bouts), seventy-sx of his prisoners (including the infamous Sparticus) decided to
revolt against their condition devising a well-planned insurrection, managing to
steal knives from the cook shop, ultimately leading to thir escape & eventual
organizing with the local agricuitural slaves who sweled their numbers.

"No longer would they bend the knee of their Conseience to the dicttes of their
Roman lords.

In the not-so-distant past the moral constiution of amerika was also met with
seditious opposition by many of s slaves & their abolitionist comrades who.
undersiood all o inimately the necessity in rebellng againstthe mores of the.
established order (much tothe reproach of the most adamant authorites), even in
the face of Death,iself.

‘These were the Nat Tumers and the John Browns of the era whose defiance
reminds us that our human dignity s a code more worthy of living by than the
customs & values Capitalism seeks to confine us o.

Oriental Sedition.
Moreover, before the Soviet Revolution brought Leninism to China (1917), the
‘majoriy of socialsts on the scen were anarchists who challenged the institutional
“They eloguently put forward ideas of egaliarianism, especially emancipation of
women from family bonds and of the peasantry from eploitation that would
‘bécome part o the Chinese vocabulary of revolution. " (John Fairbank, "China; A
New History,"1992)

Proudhon, Kropotkin, and Bakunin were studied, and with artculation the need fo
revolt against th aristocratic Confucianism was indefectibly broken down: this
seditious ideology of Equality went against every moral principle the ancicnt
dynasties of imperial rule had stood for

Fucled with well-aticulated resistance, the anarchists in China played a significant
role n the overthrowing of the Manchu Dynasty, which before 1911, was a
preoccupying ambition in radical circles

‘One of the founders of Chinese anarchism, Li Shizeng, defiantly voiced that while
radicals for the new republic “advocate overthrowing the Manchu govemment st
because it is Manchu,” (there were racialtensions between the Han & the Manchu)
the anarchists, on the other hand, “advocate overthrowing the Manchu govemment
just because it is govemment.” (Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture, by P.
Zamow) 21
Among the reasons forthis was in Shizeng's shared view that “omen's oppression
was certainly shaped by the clas system.. Much of the blame (was placed) at the
door of superstition and a false moralit, promoted by men to enforce their power
over women, as well as by authoritaian philosophics ke Confcianism." (see
‘Black Flame, Schmidt & van der Walt)

‘While hisoric unrest was unraveling in China, two other martyred anarchists i
Japan voiced Sacco's seditious “Viva Fanarchial™ outery from their own native
tongue, the same defiantproclamation escaped the lps of Denjiro Kotuku and the
“lotus flowes,” Sugano Kano, who were among the twelve sent to the gallows in
the 1911 High Treason incident.

“It s necessary 0 arouse the people of society,” Kano entioed amidst th throes of
heavy govermment violence, “by instigatin riots, underiaking revolutionary action
and engaging in assassination.”

Kotuku - who'd already translted the Communist Manifesto before geting.
pinched for anti-imperialst activites — emerged from his prison cell with a new,
Seditious translation of Kropotkin's The Conguest of Bread. In the Philippines, the
anti-authoritarian transations of Reclus' writings circulated in the Tagalog.
Tanguage, as well

From Bast to West,the unyielding spirit of virtue has known the existence of
government as vice - a vice worth ebellng against!

“(itis necessary) 1o rally o a e, but all, countriesin asingle plan of action (for
‘an)international revolution..(toward) universal world-wide revolution.”
“Mikhail Bakunin

‘The Wisdom of Sedition.

Alexander Berkman also goes on to refute the idea of “laziness,”describing a so-
Called Iazy person as a “square man in a round hole... the right man in the wrong
place; aticulating that we become “lazy” when were overwhelmed with doing.
things we don't want o do; when we'r pressured o doing things our hearts simply
aren'tin o,

‘The wisdom of Sedition teaches that once we subtract Inequality from the equation
i the social environment, then correspondingly,the amount of Envy will naturally
decrease. Make the capitalist satc thng ofthe past, and consequentially th less
ltonous the future of any saciety will become.

Privileged skeptics & those in posiions of power promote the conception that
seditionis immoral, worthy of nothing but confinement and condernation. But if
such seditious prociamations are truly immoral, then mmorality iself s
undeserving of th ethicalcross to which mankind has nailed it

“Look outfor number one" i a prescription for demoralization, corruption, &
limately general catasirophe.. Cooperationfr the common good & concernifor 7 5
the rights and needs of ohers must replace the disma search for maximization of
personal power & consumpiion ifthe barbarism of capitalist society is 10 be
overcome.

~Noam Chomsky, Radical Priorides

Itis the weed of “civilizing " which chokes the individua’s reasoning powers that
S/he may grow accustomed to the idea of forfeiing their liberty at another's
‘convenience. But when the individual, stunted from reaching his o her essence is
able to reach becomes fed up th fecling disempowered, the inividual then
becomes aware that $he's been duped — that actully, i s government which is the
inventor of war; that it s is legisiations that evokes disorder and the chaos which
all of us sce manifesting itelf i the here and now,

‘When one overstands tha o be compelled o pay for rent,to tax-tithe and to pay
for such for fundamental human nceds, such as food and water,that it boils down
0 nothing less than “legalzed extortion,” the individual seditiously opens their
€S o the fruh, isenchanted from the pendulum of the amerikan dream which
has govermed them intheir somnambalistc state. S/he sees and rightly assets their
right to esist and is confronted with the choice of either exercising of not
exercising thisright.

Though the vices which virally predominate society are as od as established
society tself, we can liberate ourslves from its dementing sironghold by
dismembering ts moral fiber and foundations and rebuilding our lives with the
virtues of anarchisttheory and practice.
‘The world, of course won'tbe entiely fre of imperfections, but considering the
‘countless and life-amesting struggle destroying us day in & day out, we can
understand where Alexander Berkman was coming from with better clarity when
he stated:
" “Certain other crimes will persist for some time, such as those resuling from
Jealousy. passion. and from the spiritof coercion and violence which dominates the
world to-day. But these, the ofspring of authority and possession, wll gradhally
disappear under wholesome conditions with the passing away of the aimosphere
that culivared them. "

In conclusion

In Anarchist Moraliy, Peer Ksopotkin elates Human Thought to the swinging of
a pendulum, which ~ through time “Jrees herselffrom the chains with

which..rulers, lawyers, clerics have carefully enwound her:
“She shattes the chains,” he went on o clocidate. “She subjects o criicism all
that has been taught her 23

“The brevity of lfe & its circumstances confirm tht i time for us t0 uilze the
momentum of our restrained desires and froe ourselves from the leash of every
governing force holding us back: Here and abroad.

One NPR broadcast receatly aired, for example, how many emigres are voicing,
how desperately the N. Korean government nsulates the masses from the “outside:
world™

While thei love for thei country's profound, i€ when many fles to South Korea,
China, and elsewhere that they're able to sec — from the outside looking in — how
deceptively media has so carfully distorte their world-view.

‘Where represion i this severe, thre can only (naturally) grow an inclination
toward an ever-amassing wave of popular revolt.

“The represive force i, consequentially,able to giverise o rsisance
reminiscent (but uique) of the infamous 1919 uprising against the Japancse.
occupation, and the Uiyoltan (Band of Heroes), Korean Anarchist Federation
(KAP) & Black Flag Alliance which aroc i s wake.

‘Reminiscen, inthat, mass resstance s a conccivable threat should the people at
large resistthir own invasive government, s nuclear thrca and media-musclng
technoloy.

Unique, in that, whereas major revolts (ike the Kirin Revolution in neighboring

Manchuria [ 1929-1931] ) were primarily peasant uprisings, the dynamics of
resistance are shifing towand a more rbanized setting.

Lite Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta
(1853-1932) observed that humanity
s “ensiaved from the rple
viewpoint, economic, political, and
moral”

Concening the lttr of the three — the moral
enslavement- t should be remembered that therell always be people in this world
‘who attack you morally as you advance toward 4 sef-actuslized existence.
‘Whether you'e dealing with people in positions of power, ealous-driven
individuals, orthe judgmental & self-righteous who get off on demoralizing and
bringing you down in the world. The key is to make a menal note of it and move.
on; refusing to be "enslaved.* Savery of every form is the very thing that we aim
to destroy. Everything that imprisons the human potental, be it cconomically,
politcally or "moraly” motivated.
16 a prioriy that we shar asresponsibl, dedicated (and radical) beings. And fs a
daring, courageous defiance against our previous faults as well 1 allsuch moral
‘and character assassination attempts 24

Chomsky understands the importance of this when he communicates to us that:

Anger outrage, consions of overhelming gl may be god hrapy: heycan
alsobecome a barrier o i o, whchcan aveys et o
incommessurable wih h enorniy o e erime. Noin s s o o mopa
e orm of selfindgence.no s debilaing ha thes he o spapy. T
danger s sbstnial. I s hadly o novlinsght ht conessions of i cm be
instinonaled as o echiqu o oading whot sk o ot
Priorkien

o free ourseives from this self-destructve indulgence,ifs important we never lose
sight of our Purpose (Our Purpose s o assist in picking up and freing our people)

in:a world that needs us not o give up whenever we're momentarly thrown o the
ground!

Remembering that you'e never alone - regardiess of wherever you arein lfe - is
grounded i a5 much truth as Lou MarinofFs words, when he advises the morally-
targeed reader o:

“See if you can praciice moral selfdefense by refusing 10 accept an offense next
ime i is offered 0 you. Al the elementary level, do not take the offense personly.
you are not obliged t.” (Therapy for the Sanc)

Regardless of whatever history you may have,emember that no onc's i flawless
‘and that i ourcall o see the stumbling blocks i our lves as stcpping stones, hat
e may be able to overcome them; and not only this, but o help thosc at the
bottom of socity’s barel overcome them, as well

The very future depends on us reexamining the pitfall of our past. It depends on
the rebellous breaking-away from individual as well as universal cocrcion!

"Siruggle! For (o siruggle s o live, and the fierer the siruggle the intenser the
e. Then you will have lived: and a few hours of such e are worth years spent
vegetating " eter Kroporkin

Resist Imperialist Wars!

Imperialism. (n) The policy of extending a nation's authority by acquistion of
terrilory or by the establishment of hegemony (the influence of one state over
others) over other nations

“Ifthe Nurembers laws were applied. then every post-war American president
would have been hanged -

~Noam Chomsky

‘We impoverished Blacks, Hispanics and all other non-white & Marginalized in
‘amerika share an inalenable affnity with all who systematicaly thrive in the
throes of class sruggle.
he advantages of resisting the tate machine is't confined to the amerikan prison
crisesand day-to-day survival n the strets: s advantageous o the

underpriviieged masss whose hands ar tid behind our backs i cvry ciy, 2 5
prison, andcapitalit-run nation around the world!

We live menaced by its Get down on the ground and say down dictationsand only
through a wansnational display of soldarty can we unharmessthe lovesht can
upliftus fom s parasiic Despai. We will retum o thisbut before we'do; i

should be noted thatthe amerikan government is rsponsible fo bombing at least

40 counricssince World War Il

Herearea few:

China: 194546
Korea: 1950-53
China: 195083
Guatemala: 1954
Indonesia: 1958
Cuba: 1959-60
Congo: 1964

Laos: 196473
Peru:1965
Vietmam: 196173
Guatemala; 1967-69
Camboia: 1965-70
Lebanoa: 198384
Greaad: 1983

AWORLD OF SLUMS: BREEDING GROUND FOR
A GENERATION OF ANTI-IMPERIALIST AND
ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN REBELS

Hlaorae s ot over 2o o st s i
b —————
et o each he il k.01 39 by e S0
Consdeing o o e 474 il el o v I povarty 5 Ui
S v s n s cqtion it of s o e .
e i s ey populed e s wh et

The acquisition o tritory has been an obvious method for gaining control since.
colonialism began.

‘The surviving 0.9% of Native amerikans are painfully aware of tis fact and so are
many of us (Blacks) who are familiar with the history of the Middle Passage,
despite the despoti effortsof the goverment t distrac us rom theso truhs in our
‘overydaylives in the stress. In the havoc of rying to mentally make it out the
‘walls of s marginalized existence we feelclosing unmerciflly in on us and our
inherent potential,
In reviewing this development, researchers Peter and Ginger Breggin focused 26
intenly on thiscolonalstc phenomenon ascarly a5 1995, observing that - Over
many decades following the Civil War, blacks were drive from thef land (n
amerika) and forced o migrate o mjor ciis insearc for industrial jobs and
domestic work." They calculted how, "Black and los exceeded 6 billon acres by
1974." Thats, considerably, an enormous amount o production power o be
stripped from a peopl, 0 say the least!

On an cven wider scal,the imperialit government of amerika flexes s muscle on
every country it can raise s ars i, coerce, impose it force upon and xplot.

‘With about 13 million currently servicing its Reserves WORLDWIDE, an
astounding 20.6 % of govemment spending was on "National Defense" in 2008;
nearly 1.1 millon soldiers serving its armed forces serving its anmed forces in the
US. and s "teitories.”

‘Over 85,000 stationed throughout Europe. Some 70-0dd thousand force-servers
across Russia, E. Asia and the Pacific. Over 8,000 shroughout Afriks, the ncar East
& South Asia, including 2,500 in Afika's subsaharan regions!

‘Whil many may imagine tha such "Occupationl Leverage” i safe and well.
intentioncd, and tht forcign policy s paioically fvorablefrom whats seen on
. (especally on be ll you can b, jon the amy” commercials), mor and more
of amerike's brutalized & oppressed are becoming lon disilusioned. Neary two
and a half millon

A large percentage of prson uirds we witnes oppressing us and have history
of serving in the milicary

ke Haifo instance. Clerly it no coincidence tat such a humaritaria relief
effor forthe hundreds of thousandsof impovershed ives lost inthe January 2010
carthquake was 50 heavily broadeasied the way that it was. I was uring war tme;
war-ime in which many rightwing conservatives were beginning t visbly grow
10 loathe & demonsrate alongside those on the et (Al the Tea Party; Ron Paul,
) Hai had been sufeing s the poorestcountry o the wester heisphere for
two whale ycar,prior 10 th sudden outcry for world atenon. 1 the Amcrikan
Bovemmen was 50 cancemmed, why wasn’ the xtreme povery cisis i Hait
covered as an agend it when news on th Haitan President (Jean Berrand
Aristide) being ousied was being covered a recenly as 20047

1tsays.a lot, when not only two years prior- when war-time sympathizers were a
lile more visible the amerkan government,tel, was being charged with
withholding $54 millon rom Haitifor poltical leverage over the country. Mony
{hat was meant (0 provide clean water (for the “pooret counry on the westem
hemisphere;”remembez)

1t speaks volumes to reflect how when this pictures of torture (water-boarding) of
political prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were unearthed, president Obama refused to
‘expose the images 1o the media to show the public. It bears light (o te factthat
Capitalism has no Conscience, and the imperialist am of amerikan capitalism is a
‘aggressive instrument that must be amputated from the politcal lfe of our social
existence.

‘Occupational amerika is a missile magnet for the forcign and domestically
disinherited who openly declare a *get away from me - I'm not for you; if anything,
T'm AGAINST you" wcry of rescniment
Cindy Sheehan and the Code Pink activiss are bull-homing ant-war alles in the
face of govenment hostlty in California; and during a December 4th, 2009
protest | was active in,the president's limo was welcomed with vulgarity on the left
and shouts of "go bome!" on the right, in Pennsylvania. 27

“This shared fecling of us here in the amerikan slums and those in the Middle East
is nothing new: Understanding the amerikan government’s use of Israclas 3
‘strategic asset in the wake of Israe’ invasion of Lebanon n 1982, Thomas L.
Friedman cited these widely-held sentiments of one Senior Kuwait offcial:

“Yois have lost where it matters mast-on the humanitarian level. Whatever respect
thr s inthe A vord o theUnid S o sy b b
(Published in the New York Times, Nov.22, 1982)

Ina more recent aticle, Diana West, a writer for United Feature Syndicate, asked
Iragi, Parliamentarian Ayad Jamal Alden whether o ot Shile Iran would work
with Sunni al Oaiida & Sunni Taliban (1o test i on a "Washington myth"),he
replid: "They allhave one cnemy. The U.S. - Shia and Sunni differences don't
matter to them when it comes 1o the common encmy.”

This “common enemy” realizationis what prompted Black Panther Party s0-
founder Huey P. Newton o shake hands with Arafa i their memorable photo in
the generation preceding our ow.

PRISONS AS BREEDING GROUND FOR ANTI-
IMPERIALIST AND
ANTI-AUTHORITAIRAN REBELS:
ATHOUGHT

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

1f 8 prisoner inthe States celled-up with an imperialized prisones of war from
abroad, ifd make for some interesting conversation (provided, of course, one were.
bi-lingua or had a cll-neighbor o intrpret while car-hustling through the vent),
1fd be intriguing to e how empathy would be shared between the two who'd
bviously woulds'tbe nafve fo the fac that ifs an cxistential necessity 1o resist
oppression from the psyche,cell, and socity,al the samel

‘Surely it leave an impression on the mind to watch them read from the same.
‘paper on the war and nod their heads in agrecrment that necessary libertis are

wherever Governments are found to exist. And 10 hee the respective.
backgrounds of both cultures and how both have (a least a some point in the
lives) have shared a sense of utter contempt toward the bourgeaisic in both
countries & how their generation before theirs - their mothers, uncles & aunts -
have fltthe same, as well
‘The same malevolent grin the beaten & bare-naked pile of prisoners observed in
the face of Charles Grancr s the torture photos at Abu-Ghrahib were being flashed
in 2004, the same face that U.S prisoners were looking ito at SCI-Greene less
than five years before, in Pennsylvania, USA. (Prisoners fled numerous Grievance
Reports on Graner only to have the forms retumed tothe prisoners'cells, ruled as

“frivolous") 28
‘Though countries like Lebanon may tend to desert the average mind of the:

‘amerikan public s litl (or nothing) more than a distant geographic locale, th fact
that an overwhelming 87% percent of the Lebanese live "urban” alongside a rising.
82% percent of us here in the U.S reveals a correspondence that's not 5o far-
reaching.

While our cltural lives may differin many respects, both share a marginalized
existence. Both have Toods that are armed to the tecth, and are hungry.

Inside-outside. Exploitation workd-wide i the cultivator of th resistan sentiments
itincubatorily breeds.

“The Prison Industrial Complex and the Miitary Industrial Complex are sadistc
bedfellows.

Insurrectionist anarchists share this ant-militaist ffnity and have so, for
hundreds of years, as well. As far back as 1897, for example, the insurrectionist-
‘anarchist Michele Angiolio declared a hi tial that his act was not only a esponse
0 the repressive force against Spain's anarchists- but was also for “Spain's
atrocities in s colonial wars in Cuba & in the Philippines.” (Black Flame,
‘Schmidt & van der Walt).

Wi prison abolonits whoae p 1 the Fct hat tht s tave b i he e ndutralcomplex.
1w o suppies n ey dustil compln ol e helmes i h Gul Wa, o exumpi,were
manutactred by prisners i peria) shoukd udertad et he oy of ot ey s ot ptctial
il ally, s work oward e cllectv sruglespint o domesti nd forign ey eoring
o evryday the merikan goverament.

The 'Hood As Breeding Ground for Anti-Imperialist
and
Anti-Authoritarian Rebels

‘Those of us who know what ifs like 1o tum on the kitchen lightat night to the
scatter of roaches; 1o open the refigerator door with nothing - o next to nothing.

de it, and nothing in the freezer but ice. A can or two of evaporated milk on the
‘cabinet shelf - we know what it means to be "marginalized "

‘We know what it fecls like to have our stomachs touching our backs. To face being
tumed away atter standing for over an hour at the bread-Jinethat runs on a first
ome, firs serve basis. To have the thoughts of sellng crack race through the mind

before the idea of RESISTING to live a life so manipulated by an cstablished order
s entertained.

16d be nave o ignore the fact that our day-to-day sirgle has an impact on our
View of government which demographicaly domimatesus.
s exciting t know that more o us are refusing o ignore any longer that we exist
more as the possessed thanthe Possessors (over our very fves!) 29

Capitalism on a broader scale
Imperialism - being capitalis on a broader sale - i a powder keg packed with
the horrendous potential of exploding in any

In fact, V. Dedije, inhis stdy, On Military Conventions, analyzed how the true:
nature of capitalist soicties engage " the process of giving birth 0 the monsier
of total war."

One reason i due tothe fact that, "Rivalries between industrial nations , who fight
‘over the new markets engenders the permanent hostliy which s expressed in the
theory & pracice known as ‘bourgeois nationalism.”

Politcaltensions between the elitst powers are loaded with “permanent hostility”
etween they and the offended powers as wel as the disempowered masses who
they exploit And this may come off a5 a somewhat unusua thing t think about o
many of us who grew up teritorial-minded in the steets, but many of us start off
mutating into "bourgeois nationaliss,”ourselves.

How?

Rivalry between gang nation fighting over new hustls (crack, woed, dope, straps
[guns/firearms], ctc) has engendered a hostiliy that' cost many of s with
extreme revolutionary potential our lives. Many of u, in fact, come from second,
third, and even fourth generation gang rivals.

Farthermore, "pushin’”™ (drugs, eic.) can quickly raise any impoverished person nto
‘middic (and even upper clas) status; eaving us further facing the ife/death
hostility from those who've alrcady comered the market. From those who *locked
the spot down” and wha'll always sce you as competition in the streets where the.
politcs of the hustle microcosmically mirrors politica tensions between eliist
powers.

I essence, it becomes a war over money and turfin the city (or suburb), not muich
differen than whats taking place in Afghanisian & beyond.

S0 we see, an individual docsn'tnecessarily have to walk with thir pants up thir
butt to fulfil the quaificaion of being “boojee.” We must declare war against
‘every parasie of our people here and abroad. And for those of us who grew up in
the strees - we know just how much a society of cut-throatsis "always in the
process of giving bith to the monster of total war;” whether we efer o cultural
genocide or nuclear warfare.

‘The middieclassis vanishing righ n front of our eyes.
‘The divide between the rich and the poor continues 1o visibly widen.

Amidst the rubble, however, exist maneuverable terain for urban guerrillas from
the destitute margins of society t0 scethe logic and necessiy for organizing
resistance across the shum-belt.

o't had to see why goverment faces hostiltyinis foreign policies abroad &
concentration of power here - why ' threatened with popularrebelio at home
and beyond. The genocide reduced slums, bridge-bottom homeless camps &
‘cardboard-box citcs in this country is First World Amerika's domestic Third
World. 20
As Jean-Paul Sarte reminds us , “The name given by the French to their
‘conquesis - possessions doutre mer (overseas possessions) - indicates clealy that
they had managed to obtain them anly by wars of aggression. The aggressor secks
o the adversary on his own ground...in the under-developed counties..”
Whether we look at the situation through the cyes of a foreigner who feels the heat
of imperialst occupation, o through our own when they redden in blood-shot
resentment when acially profiled on the amerikan sireets we're colonized in; No
reief rom the occupying forces on foreign soi, nor from those positioned at rban
checkpoints in our cities will b found without a collaborated effort to overthrow
i

“[NJothing will change uniil mass popular movements develop, here and abroad,
that can struggle effctively against the violence of the siate, directed and
‘organized by those who rule the state by virtue of their unchallenged
domination..”
~Noam Chomsky, Radical Priorites

Social Takeover: From the Iron Grip of the 3/
Government into the Rightful Hands of the People

"Revoluon i rebellon become conscious of s aim.”
‘Alexander Berkman, ABC of Anarchism

Inthe treets and prisons that we truggle inli a reservoir of epressed lfe-cnergy
just aching and throbbing to be relcased!

‘We've been looking for every possible way tolet it outbefore t consumes us;
every possible way - except the one in th direction leading o the source of our
siruggl.

‘While this everyday struggie can consume us with an appetite 1o destroy; 10 g0 out
settrippin’ and gang bangin', o even by putting the gun to our own heads, the
result has always ended up being that an extreme dissatisfaction with lfe remains.
“That we stillinevitably el ik walking time-bombs, regardiess of the havoc we.
k.

‘The Establishment has remained unmoved by the madness & still stands.

‘As Berkman schooled us,

“[T7he social evoluion we have in mind i 10 accomplishthe work tht many
penerationsof e hav been lboring 1o achieve..The reason i foo such a long
e and i not ended yet i becaus people did ot know what the rel rouble
was: they fought aganst hs anfo tha, theychanged kings and formed new
governments,the put out o ruier only o set up anher..

“But ey secured only new masters, because however desperately and nobly they
Jought they never ouched the real source of trouble, the principle of authority and
government. "

Channeling our epressed energy to mabilizing and fighting the real source of our
disempowerment in more consiructive ways will arm us with a collective arscnal
of vitriol necessary fo taking over our ives

‘We must attack from every angle and this includes stiking at ideas when the
legitimacy of them needs o be challenged: and, as George Jackson wrote shortly
efore his assassinaton, deals cannot be killed with violence.

BLOOD IN MY EYE
DISPOSABLE OUTCAST
32

“The revolution has for allies all who suffer oppression and
exploltation. Let it appear and the universe stretches it arms 10 i.”
~Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

S —

the concentrated, patint ipping apart of the skin.

I the ignoble gide of the razorsedge as it qietly i
of the unflexed wrist while i lay across the cap ofthe knee.

way across th belly-side

‘Wit breath-heaving anicipaton, ths cool,slow, scaring burn s enough to make one.
gulp (and even gasp ) with unpalatable pleasure when lcked - where, ormenied
behind the door of an undelivered desire cower ones who hokd themselves with thir
very arms whie rocking back & foth i isoatory darkness.

Enough to draw onc o i
danceto

back thir head in closed-eyed gratification as endorphins.
s ceremonial silling of blood in Bacchanalian bliss.

Overwhelming feclings of guilt and of Poverty - temporarly suspended.
“The sense of not-belonging and of socia rejection - remedially released!

“There's an alleviaton which is even longer ivin for the termirally marginalized in
the shadow of th day and darkness of night; wh suffer a5 -product of the deplorsble:
‘conditions which have razed society o such adegree of depravity; a depravty the
most deprived among us rave deliverance from.

“Thisalleviation isin the histori cal 0 the oppressed & impoverished commnites
fom by despair; and who heas the unexpected “hiss” in the inhaling hufTof
anicipation

1t beckons 10 ou, who ache within your rbellion, whom this social order has
abandoned and discarded.

Disposable outcast,join the anarchist revolution!

'MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

“ltis better 10 oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than 0
‘endure them.”

- Huey P, Newton, Revolutionary Suicide
The amerikan smpire faces a abalion boing boted wp insmidst. 33

One - thid of this Gontains the ol of an articulaled Idea which has the
marginalized fuming with the act ihat the average Black maie now spends &
thirdof his e imprisono t bears that inequaityis the resuit of

Wwherever froedom is confined fo serve the interest of s exploters.

‘The remaining two-thirds of this concociion i fusled by the gasoline of
anguish on a social as wall s an individual level, which is aways has and
ahways will bo - wherover t is permitod 10 stand - the inevitable resul that
‘comes with govemmen ie.

‘Shaken amidst these socio-politcal pressures, the supprossed of sociely
‘becomes a throat to any authoriy that iationlly resorts o Reason o 1 to
contain . For, Reason becomes a rag of indignation when it by a people
stripped of ts Dignity unti they imeverently clash with the empire in
iluminating social upheavall

'ONE THOUSAND TO SIX

In every urban & metropolitan ciy n the United Stales, th citzens outnumber
Iaw enforcement employeos civiian and swor offcers - on an average of
1,000106.

In other words, for every 6 of them, there are 1,000 of us. In the advent of a
‘wellorganized uprising the police force would be easily overwhelmed.

‘While some may scoff at the nofion of the ood taking on and fending off a
forco as well armed and notoriously violent as the poiice as orezy” of &
thought entertained by one disposed to a mental imbalance, to many of us, an
‘acospiance of things as they currenty stand sounds ridicuious and as
phiosopher J. Krishnamurt once exclaimed, “t is no measure of health to be:
‘considered wel-sane in a profoundly sick society.”

The reasons for such an organized moblization in our communites are many
‘and are iterally a matter of il and death. One of socialberly or domination;
of fraedom of our people or homeland authoritarianism at the squeeze of a

rigger.
In‘he diy of Cricago alone, batwoen 2007 - 211, over 196 (predominanily
people of color) wero shot andior kiled by police. Some were as young as 15
years of age, male, female and transgender aik. I the vl heaping of sacial
Iniustice, we see tis organized violonoe robbing s out o vry LIFE soll
(and unjustiably s0,a thtl When someone i our community s found Kiling
e of these gun-wielding enorcers ofaw for example, we're automaiicall
given the Deaih Peraty. f not outright Kiled on the spol.

When the police murder us, however, not only is kmostly “ustfed”in the
courts; ften the offcer() s suspended with pay. We waich them murder us
‘andgel away wih t every month in America
AN ANALYSIS ON SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND
AANARCHISM AS A REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE FOR
POOR PEOPLES' LIBERATION 3

There are some 47 millon people in america lving below the poverty line;
‘another 150 million or 50 (an astounding two-thirds of the population) just
barely making it

Mors than a quarter of Blacks and Latinos woke up n poverty nationwide at
the dawn of 2012; and n the Bronx (NY) which is 90% Black & Latino - 27.6
percent ive below the poverty fne, ranking i he poorest county in the nation
this period.

“This “is not accidenta," as Kai Wright of Coloriines observed in an article
published in a January issue to The Nation. I the resultof decades of
poliical choices that first created ghettos and then leftthem prey 10 a st
‘growing industry that profis from their existence." (1)

“The gross disparity n the prison explosion is also revealing. Some 2.7 millon
clizens are behind bars in the U.S. today. Sixty percent of them are Black &
Latino, though they only make p twenty-six o the couniry's population. Over
20,000 of the 2.3 miion people in state & federal prisons in the United States
‘are confined in soltary confinement on a regular bass.

It also teling that, as Michelle Alexander reveals in her book, The New Jim
Crow, there are more Black people in the Correctional sysiem today than were
‘enslaved on the plantations before the signing of the Emancipation
Prociamation in 1850.

In the San Francisco Bay View, she articuialed how “Miions of people,
primarily people of color, have been swept info the criminal system...branded
criminals and felons, then are relegated to a permanent second class sialus,
for lfe, whers they are stripped of the right o vote, automatically excluded
from juries, and legaly discriminated agains: in unemployment, housing,
‘access fo publication and public benelits.” She continues by adding that “This
i about a system of laws that have been put ino place as a rosull of &
poliical system that has found it conveniont o scapegoat and demonize poor
Tolks of color for the poliical gain of a fow.”

s also important for we poor people of color 10 grasp that we arent alone in
the plight against poverty and domination as poor whites can be seen pan-
handiing, on food stamps & in soup Ktchens alongside us. “Poor medical
care, job securiy, the bane of old age, lack of proper education, and the
‘nagging sense of mistrust of a sociely in which you aro a productive member
‘Who does not seem (o share in the fuit of that production - these issues
pervade every cultural group, creed, race, and refigion." (Walter Mosley)

We've been bound info the status of disposable outcasts before the world of
the privileged.

‘Nothing short of a social revolution wil liberate us from the impoverishing ant-
social conditions we've been disposed to.

Anarchism provides a revolutionary altemaive by arming the unconented
slave with the boll-cutter of a revolutionary science based on the
understanding that:

‘The authority of one human being over another is an unnecessary evil
which produces a system of Inequality which must be robelied against in
‘order that a life free of social subordination is to be gained.
Social Inferiority can only be effectively outmoded once social

‘superiority is rendered obsolets; both being complexes responsible for

many of the societal s which savagely piagues humanlty & the nature
of it - from overwhelming depression to Imperialist wars.

35
FROM GANG WAR TO CLASS WAR:

The Acquisition of and Redirecting of Community Firepower

“Those who make peacelul revolution impossible makes a vilent revolution
inevitable.” John F: Kennedy

It would be illogical to conceive that a future free of being justif gunned-
‘down & exploited will be reached without such an element of

(1. amed rabalion) under an exploitive order whose hisory s founded &
mainained by he use of ilent orce and he (obvious) deadly eat of s
pover

Many gang bangers alreadly possess the germ of a revolutionary, unawares.
‘So many of us who grew up n this atmosphere know poverty on a personal
level. A lot of us come from marginalized upbringing; bearing the emotional
scars of a broken home. Many of us were even physically, sexually and
mentaly abused.

Thrown in juvenile detenton & devoid of adequate family attention, we.
desperately sought to rlieve ourselves from alienation by forming fralemal
bonds.

“The hugs we didi fnd i the household, we found in gang-affiated
handshakes out in the ood and ju-v. We grew up knowing poverty, warfare
and the necessty for organizaton, first-hand.

Class war i the social conflit resulting from inequaites n a society based on
hierarchy and priviege (e.g. 8 society where there are "haves" whil there are
“have-nots,*“privileged" and "underprivileged”).

It the Struggle deep in the ancestral oots of our anti-colonial culture
‘which dares to resist fox dignity & Self-Determination of the People all over

the govemed world.

‘The genocide which has been kiling us off, in actualy, bear witness 10 the
degree of arsenal we have at our immediate (and potential) disposal should
our firearms become collectively redirecied in a united struggle for social
‘The Zapatstas in southem Mexico who've freed themselves from
‘govemment rule since 1994 well understood Emiliano Zapata when he
avisod: Do no approach th government wlh hl in han bu with il in
‘The liberation of a communiy from govemment force requires an assisting
organization of anti-govemment rebels with arms.

Al governments are viscerally opportuniss and can't cease from 34
descending into democratically-deprived community any more than a

vulture can a victim of starvation defiriously staggering along the path of
dostruction.

‘The purpose for arming ourselves along these revolutionary lines include:

- 1o prevent forced evictons & to protect neighborhoods engaging in
urban squatting & Rent Sirkes

- 1o protect our communities from unwanted aggressors (esp. law
enforcement); in shor, to defend ourselves in every sector of the Resistance
by use of ams when such reinforcements are needed.

The Movement will also find it exponentially substantial to manufacture our
‘own artillery. The information on how 1o do this can easly be found in
various books.

We share a responsibilty against the Forces of social domination, and as
revolutionary anarchists we must strive to make our practice our theory and
‘our theory our practice.

COINTELPRO:
GANG WARFARE IS A GOVERNMENT PLOT

“Nover interfore with an enemy who is in the procoss of killng himselt.”
~Napolean Bonaparte

Gang banging & warfare among the underprivileged is government plot
implanted by high-ranking offcial, principled in the tactics of Divide and
‘Conquer. ts dynamics are Napoleanic in nature, consisting of overt
‘methods to reinforce covert domination over those they expioit.

‘The U.S. govemment' fear of the peopl freeing themselves from their
political-economic leash s a living one. Afear so much alive that they step
out of the bounds of their very laws, preparing woll-documented strategies
in their attempt to quell this fear. It the fear of a United Rebellion against
the burden of economic bondage and unwanted coercion. The collectively
wakened consciousness of the govemed is every government's worst
nightmare.
The Counterinteligence Program (COINTELPRO) was found using such
mathods - rom 1956 againsttha Communist Party;than with the

Black Panther Part (and athers) in the ollowing decados.

‘According 1o FBI documents: 37

“FBI fleld agents engaged in operations using unsavory and vicious
tactics...including anonymous attempts to break up marriages,
disrupt meotings, ostracize persons from their professions, and
profile target groups into rivalries that might resuit in death.”

(Foderal Bureau of Investigations, Colebrating a Contury,(1908-2008)

Futthermore, they:

“succeeded in discrediting civil rights leaders by disseminating
derogatory information to the pross and demoralizing New Left
leaders by disseminating disinformation within their ranks.”
(iid)

These extralegal govemment tactics are in ful force today and wa must
grow as ight s the fist o Soldarty that we dafiantly raisel I of alarming
importance that we (and tha fiberated commiunity) don' permit the
govermment powers from sowing disunty among ourselves.

Every hood and every federating community must stand inconquerably
undivided in our determination to keeping all govemment (and non-
govemment) wolves al bay.

We outnumber their forces in every hood 1,000 10 .

The goverment's most dangerous woapon is us; I tma that we tur this
weapon against them.

“The reason the govemment wants to crush street gangs has nothing
10 do with drug dealing, guns, or violence. It has everything to do with
history and national security. It is a historical fact that the Black
Panther Party, (esp. the chapter in Los Angeles), came out of the
‘gangs, so did the Young Lords Party.

Since the government is well aware of this, and since many
‘government officials were and are gangsters themselves, they know
that f the street gangs are sufficiently politicized, they could be
loading a revolution.”

(Quoted from Black Autonomy Federation Facebook page)

Black Autonomy Federation
P.0. Box 16382
Memphis, TN 38186-0382
Phone: (901)674-8430

organize.the.hood@gmail.com

On the

Autonomous (Liberated) Zone and
Labor Union Alliance

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pollination of a solidarity betwoen those in the workplace and the community
that decides 10 resist.
More powerful than gunpowder is the weapon of worker's soldarty s
strength in workers' ity of which no govemment force can withstand once
defiantly bonded together. For, as the anarchist Alexander Berkman once
wrote, “You can shoot a people fo death but you can' shoo ther to work.*(2)
‘We of the working class who can stop the molor of production in a General
Stike possess the technical know-how 1o keep i in moton, as well.

‘Commurity members in overy hood aspiring 1o iberate it wil find it invaluable
o link with a tabor union, such s the Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW), for the purpose of acquiring communal sel-sustainabilty through the.
seizing of the basic means of survival - from Goverment power {0 People’s
power. In other words, to participate in the brocess of socializing the means &
instruments of production and distrbution, with the growing number of union
members united in various trades.

'Newl formed grass-root organizations, such as Cabbiss For Justice in
Chicago, are a motive force on the road 10 a potential socializing of the means.
‘of transportation which is aiready happening in certan perts of Greece and
need as much support from us in the Tood as they can get; knowing they
have the hood fo back them.

Unionized workers are our sisters & brothers (as well a5 aunts & uncies)
who've been collectively fighting for the rights of impoverished workers &
workers' families for well over a century and our numbers in these sectors
‘continue to swell(al over the worid),

Often referred to as anarchist-communism, a revolutionary union of
workers, united with a community willng o stand in solidarity o the point of

‘arms, wouid be a necessary and quaitative leap forward in the Strugge for
the seli-determination of a federated Resistance.

“This wil, in addiion, assist in the reduction of crimes" associated with
robberies, as the people of the community wil share unimpeded acoess to the
machinery with the Urion.

The un-skilled and those whave been desperately looking for work will also
share uninhibited access 1o leaming the trades of thelr desires freely and on
an “Each One Teach One" basis.

On an ethical level tis will greatly impact the spiit of the formerly
‘govemment-dependent communtty; consequentially boosting social morale.
The hours needed for work wil, in tum, become shorte, in proportion 10 the.

‘amount o laborers working together, and the crisis of ‘mass unemployment”
wil vinally disappear. 29

“The siogan Power (o the people’ can only be putinto practice
When the power exercised by social elies Is dissolved info the people.
Each individual can then take control of his day iife. if Power to the
~people’ means nothing more than power (o the Yladers” of the people,
then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as
~powerless afte the revolution as they were before.”

“Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism

As Mr. Ervin explains, the possibilty of actually winning liberated zone in the
advent of a mass revolt (such as the ones in Los Angeles following the Rodney
King verdict, and the insurrection in Missourifollowing the killing of unarmed
Michael Brown by Ferguson police) “exist i the people are properly armed and
educated...” read “Anarchism & the Black Revolution, 3d editionp.")

Networking withpissed-off, abandoned war ves from organizations like Irag
Veterans Against the War can prove educationa in many respects; as well as
provide a potenially resourceful avenue topick other things along the way on, as
well (such as weapons, ballet proof vests, manuals on demolitons! explosives-
raining, emergeancy first-aid ) The Tood has been lousy i i target practice
‘We've been killing the wrong people- n purpose as well s by accident- and would
benefit from sharpening our shooting skils by aking targe practce at a local
un-range o i the woods) - arget praciice wth the artillery we expopriate from
gunstres, etieve from gu auciions, an already have on ourselves, nthe sree.
Shit, man the folks comin' back rom Iraq with P:5.D, could even jon- we could
dialog with each other on “fiendlyfire.” From th very ingeption and on a regular
bass, i should be effectvely commnicate to the commnity in arms, who, i all
actuality are our “alis” and who are te present nd historical enemies. Who are
(and would be naturally sympathetic) o our positon, and who wouldtbe. The
uncertain will ncvitably have to be confronicd with what perhaps would be the
‘most important decisions oftheir life. Many of s have aready made this decision-
we wer forced o, within ourselves aftr being pushed around for so long, of
experiencing violen, social contradictions so personally, o violently.

Ho

‘The people must be educated in knowing our true history. That our so-called
‘amerikan “Founding Fathers" were ruthless, conniving, racisi, murderers of
innocent peoples. That George Washington had 200 slaves; that Thomas Jefferson
had over 276 slaves, and that just aboutall the amerikan presidents up to Lincoln
i fact were slave-owners

‘The people must be properly educated as well 10 he factthat Lincol's purpose for
frecing the slaves” was 1o save the North/South union ata ime when a bankrupl-
driven govemment was vulnerable to outside invasion. That while Abrahiam
(*Honest Abe”) Lineoln preached equality to win votes in Chicago, in Souther
inois (in Charleston), he openy and unequivocally stated, from his own lps:

“1 il ay,then, that | am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about

any way the social and political equaliy of the white and black races; that |
am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or Jurors of negroes, nor
of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white peopie..

“And in 23 much 25 they can not 5o ive, while they do remain together there
must be the pesition of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man
am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”

- Abraham Lincoln
1 our Libeation Schools, books like Howard Zinu's A Peaple’s History of the
United Staes: 1492-Presen; Paulo Frcir's Pedagogy o the Oppressed, and
Lorenzo Kombon Evi's Anarckism and the Bick revoaton somiabe . 4 |
mandatory readin. The people must b idelogicaly armed withtruth s a weapon
and understanding a shicld

Moreover,as is. JoNina Ervin and Bro. Lorenzo articulated in The Coming Storm,

“We need 1o build a new radical

protest movement a this time, a movement that challenges the stale i the street,
e need o radicalize our thinking and tactcs as activists, and ot accept the
limiations of the state. ™

Our communal sel-defense units (and essentially the entir hood, isel) becomes
stronger (we strengthen our revolutionary 'hood power) the more we arm those.
sympatheic 1o what we'r doing and invie them to the range (or the woods) along.
with us; unti the majority (i not al ble-bodied soldier of Conscience i hip to
‘xactly what it i that we'e doing, of why we'e organizing the way we are/ why
e doing this for and casts thir lot with us - the underprivileged masses in the
"hood determined io win, which we collectvely can, largly by having knowledge
of the enemy to measure oppositiona strength, allowing us o attack as wel a5
defend ourselves with a greater confidence.

Our task as catalystsin thecolletive building of a new society i the shell of the
ok, is o build dual power —a Peaple Power to replace the goverment-dependent.
e it torments us with, with s capitalistic, and wolfish pursuit. One tha i anti-
‘apitalist a5 well as ani-authoritrian in it infrastructur.

Providing the basic means of survival: Food, Clothes, Shelter, and Love arc
fundamental building-blocks necessary for eecting structues of Dual Power in the
“hood.
I terms of Shelter,al it takes is 2 $25.00 boltcutter from Home Depot o unlock

a plethora of possibilitis! One bolt-cuter alone can b instrumental i liberating

an entire neighborhood of occupiable buildings. Housing is a Human Right. Not
only i it an important slogan, i’ also an important thng for each one of us to

il gras and intimately undersiand in the very depth ofourhymanity. & o

Regarding Clothing, a foctory full of working:class union members can refuse to
work uniil business folds, and then take the factory over for free, liberated,
‘communal use. (Hence, the prime importance ofjlning the Unior).

Food (from rural farmers working in affinity with us, s wel as food grown from
‘community gardens on what were previously vacant lots)can also be packaged,
Inventoried, and distrbuted more efficiently through such a coordinated aliance,
as welll

NO MORE "PATRIOTIC NATIONALISM": WE WANT WORLD-WIDE
TioN!

Our ideals about the importance of infercommunalism are based on a i
belief that only a federation of froe peoples wil bring rue Black power 1o the
masses. Power (o the people’ does not mean a govemment or polilcal party
10 rulo in their name, but social and poitical power in the hands of the people.
thomsolves *
~Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, (Anarchism & the Black Revolution)

“A nation of sheep wil soon have a governmont of wolves.”
Edward R. Murrow

A unification of people serious enough about social iberation from

poliico-economic domination for every human being (which includes
‘oneself) recires a renunciation of allegiance from nationalism & national
forces they've boen formerly subservient to.
In other words, It requires a lfe of of No Master and No Slave; a
denouncement of favoriism, the idea of national borders, prejudice and
culural bias.

‘While certainly no one shoud forget where they come from, an authentic
understanding & desire for social equality must be full grasped i order
that we - as a movement fighting for social equalty - are to know where
we'e going
“To claim a partcular nation as one's own requires a sense of separation

(separatism) from the rest of the socializeable world. It poisons Yz,
the atmosphere of transnational solidarity with “patriotc pride, and is

un at each other rather than seaing each other as Equals and of the
same specie. The human specie, possessing what's known as a human
nature. Al of s, alike; geographically coexisting in a workd whers less than
one percent ofthe population owns more than the battom ninety-fve of us,
‘combined: this less than ono percent” being the unrepentant masters
‘manipulating the unconsciously blind and unrebeling masses beneath
thom. Lawrence Zitha of the Tokologo Afican Anarchist Colloctive sums
1tup when he defines Nationalism a5 “the idea that your nation is more
important then your class.”

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Banded together as unsubservientintemationalsts (or ather,infer-
‘communalists) we become able t fratemally federate & collectively
‘overcome what wo can' whilo in astate ofintemal warfare.

(Nots: and i for this very reason why the anarchist fag is black -
Sanitingskeganc o 10 nator govemed b nanegoveming roe.) Pure

“Belter o be laughed at and safe from the storm than o be caught in the.
‘storm just because you didn't want fo be laughed at."
“Maloolm X

Defending neighborhood blocks from invasion is, in act,taking place
alroad albet in counter-progressiva fom) in gang terrories such as in
LA. & Chicago. So effectvly in fact, tha banded togethr - those who
force us to pay for everything under the Sun would be in serlous trouble
shouid the people i these communiis tum from genocidal gang bangers
into antigovemment rebels. Those interested in tactics may find it
beneficial to consider the folowing a5 polential ideas n the struggle for
liborating a zone.

With (2) armed non-visible look-outs" trtegically positoned on each
‘comer of the perimeter of a neighborhood block (in buldings, etc.) in
addilon 10 (2) comrades on four surrounding roofiops wth a loas 4 riles
with scopes - one for each roof -they can effectively assist in protecting the
perimeters against potential aeral gherto bird) and ground invasion. This
an bo dono by homies (comrades) taking shits i the hood i rank-and
-fio organization; with no centra “commander”, co - operating on
concensus approved deision making hancied about n regular commurity
meelings. Whoever ries 1o “assume command” is o be admonished with
the waring of ex-commuricaton, as woll a5 with any group ying o
positon their salf as “revoluionary vanguerd.

Roaris Poor Kiopotin resse ey voming bt “Ditteshp
~even the most wel-meaning one - eads to the death o the Rovolution.”
For an autonomous communiy is one that isn1 choked by the
fossiized idoas of a polical party; but one that embraces the fluid motion
of the progress of the Peopl; serving as catalyss free o arlculate various
views without a monopolization of powr. 4y
An armed crew of esponsible-mindod revolutionaries who ara
conscientously criven have niqus opportunites fo utizing urban guerila
taciics. Poting an armed ambush from abandoned brick bulings al
nightfall can be used for various purposes; or acauifing moro Weapons,
‘dwindiing of theic numbers, the ulfiling of communiques, ot The Gangsler
Disciples and Black P. Stones of the Cabrini Green housing projects in
Chicago have revealed how effective shooling from buildings against
invading groups (police included) can bo in urban guerlla werfare. The
task, of course, i 0 - twough poor poople’s ity - consolidato our al-{oo-
familar feeling of being fed p with a if of social domination and turn it
against an al-fo-familar enemy, the govermment and their ammod terrorists
who profile s, brutaize us and who defend is fe-mprisoning social
‘agendas. Whie there are certainly many assaull ifes with scopos in the
stroets they sill aren't ahways that easy o acquire especialy for poor folk
desifing o obiain them. The stockpling of bricks & ready-made Mololov
cocktais aro another ffective (and choaper) resource fo have al
neighborhood's disposa, are extremely diffcut {0 extinguish, and are even
Known 10 bring down tanks in cetain instances. Rebels have found this
useful in putting govemment forces on thei hoel in racent sireat battes in
Groece. Inthe advent of a police k- aftack, the wben guerilla can
potentilly sow confusion through the biowing of dog whisties. This

can be usefulin time-sensitve situations where a moments time can mean
abreach in securty.

And in any event, ther are "kindred spirits" in every state wiling o donate.
10 the Cause of the Revolution. The more sincere and commitied we.
become in our daily affirs in the Struggle, the less dificult they become to
acquire.

Communications: To modify one's voice when communicating with non-
progressive media sources, or in delivering communiques (as in a potential
offensive, for example) the simple inhaling of an infiated rubber balloon will
suffice in altering one's voice without recourse to hard-to-find mechanical
devices.

By strapping a black cloth beneath a remote-controlled, toy helicopter (say,
from a roofiop, for instance), one can operate it to land on a street-pole.
‘camera as a drape o blind the invasive eye of the law. This can effectively
‘serve to bind unwanted surveillance in a iberated location. The same
‘mechanism can be utlized by those with more explosive ideas, as well
While call phones are currently widely used in keeping watch over gang
teitories, they can easily be tracked through the power lines. One
altemative is simply 10 destroy the power lines. (Many comrades are doing
this across the country-sides in Haly by nigh, undetected and with
surprising success.) Another way is to communicate by more manual
means.

We are in a class war, and communication plays a crucial role in warfare as
its used for conveying (mis/)information and methods of tracking. We must
work toward socializing the means of communication in the final analysis -
from stale power 1o People’s power.
The Three Pillars of Government Power
4<

In the ABC of Anarchism, Alexander Berkman informs us that, conditions are
ot desiroyed [by) braaking and smashing hings. You can't dosiroy wage
‘lavery by wrecking the machinery in the mills and factories. You wonit
desiroy goverment by setting fire 0 the Whill House.” Numerous isolated
‘bombings on govemment buildings by dissidents, such as those actions.
caried out by The Weather Underground and other impassioned radicals

attest 0 this fact,

S0 whatis to be done 1o overthvow it? Storm Clouds Gathering provides a

fundamental understanding worthy of reiteration and reflecton in “Revolution:

‘An Instruction Manual. In this maual, they emphasize that,

“Revolutions are about puling the pillars of power out from under the Stals,
‘one by one, until I fals.”

‘What are thesa pillars of power? | wil outine them here and expound on them
in 3 way which will be plain, simple and easil layed out.

- CONTROL OF THE GROUP MIND, IDEAS, AND BELIEFS.

‘When you control what a person thks, you don't have to worry about their
‘actons. Ideological control s perhaps the most deceplively sublle of restraints
that binds the people i a governed sociaty to acquiesce 1 its rule.

s of the year 2000, for instance, the majority of the programs

‘seen on American television are owned by only 6 corporations. In other
words, as of 2000, 6 corporations defermine wha information is mediated 1o
the mind of the general amerikan public. These Wall Street tycoors, n their
‘ambition to generate capital (make a proft) off the people and working in the
goverments intarest. fiter what's o b televised out of fear of inctemen.
‘Goverment systems are mcocirinaling systems and utiizs corporate media
outlets as instruments for social engineering.

Narco-hypnosis, defined s ‘the blending of mind allering drugs with carefully
‘hypnolic programming," apty descibes the psychological warfaro being
'waged behind the prison wire, whers, prisoners are mandated to take
‘psychotropic medications as a condiion for parole, in adiion to them
‘successfully completing pre-arranged programs before consideration for
parole s given. Defintively (and praciically) speaking, this s an
Instiutionaiized form of narco-hypnosis.

Religion, understood by Kar Marx as the *opium of the masses" has
been understood as another poitical strategy for maintaining social control.
As arly s 1517, Nicoolo Machiavel, the “father of modem power poifics™
wrote of "how much impartance should be given Religion; and how Haly
‘because the medium of the Roman Churc was lacking, was ruined. (see
"Discourses on Livy,* Niccolo Machiavell)
“The monopolization of ideas inthe banning of radical erature and the
repression of fs distributors by those in power characlarize the level of fear
hat comes i the contagion of iberating deas. Wo smash this pillar by waging
an deological Revoluton; one that questions everything and by ideologically
challonging the legitimacy of their authority. 4

2. THE CONTROL OF MONEY, FINANCE and thereby HUMAN
ACTIVITY (through taxation and inflation).

Under a govemment where money delermines f we eat, whether of not we'l
be homeless, have clothing, can oblain medical coverage - the necessary
needs of survival - as wel as other important incidontals ik

ransportation, those who suffer the brunt of lack of | most understand the
society we ive in as out of (our) control.

We render this pillar of power obsolete and move toward a ife where we have
‘controlof human aciivity through strategic noncompiiance, such as by
‘engaging ourselves in General Work Strikes.

“The goal of Strategic Non-Compiance is o inferrupl the chain of obedience
for as long as possible; as many times as possibie; 1o publicizo that
interuption on s large as a scale as possible; o document the police and/or
miltary brutalty that folows and to distribute that footage large and wide.

'3, THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE. AND THE USE OF INTIMIDATION
TO EXTRACT OBEDIENCE BY FEAR,

n the aftermath of the revolutionary George Jackson's assassination by a
prison guard in the yard at San Quentin, Georgia Jackson (George's mother)
made the following comment which the maforit of people (especially
marginalized people) in amerika can personaly elate {0. “Peopie don't fove
this country 50 much; they're afraid of whiat their own country willdo fo them.”
s through the use and fear of violence by an aggressor as notoriously violent
s govemments that compels society 10 o the things we don't want ( L¢; the
paying of taxes, of rents, etc) that keep “the people in ine."

Gun-banning laws, are inherently laws agains! the people from defending
themselves.

“Thomas Jefferson himsell, declared that: “The strongest reason for poople o
rotain the ight o keep and bear ams is, as a last resorl, (o protect
themselves against tyranny in goverment.* Quoling Cesare Becarria,
Jefferson continued by adding, Laws that forbid the camying of ams...make
ihings worse for the assaulod and better forthe assailants; they serve rather
fo encourage rather than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be
attacked with groater confdence than an unarmed man.” (And thiais coming
from an Amerkan President who owned over 276 siaves!)

“The prohibiting of ex-prisoners from purchasing firearms has

racial connotations since the majorty of peopl in prison are Biack! people of
color. The racial disparlty in the penal colony,therefore, reflects a disparity in
‘human right: the right to Seff Defense and SoflPreservation of millons of
‘marginalized people of olor. Considaring the wave of polical Consciousness
‘awakening oppressed and swealshop-laboring prisoners throughout the
counity and who come o realze tht ey re essentaly poica prisoess,
prsoners of (dlase) war: koeing i darmed vpon raasseirios 47
Socly ha poco Geproporionall raie oppress, exr & mure s
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We kick down this pilr by taking tho monopoly o violence out of the hands of
1o curan ropime. i cannol oy merlyincucecoss-cniy
hrannicides (ihe conscientously-ustlabio kilng of tyrants), but by making
those who serve the Machine iose fathin the comupt system which they serve
in the process; by getting the miltary and the poiice themseives even, io see
thatthey aro exploied slaves as well and 10 see the relevance and necessity
‘o lake of their badges and o side wit the people.
Wikhail Bakurin, widely recognized s the father of modern anarchism, was
an offcr in the Russian army beforo he became Conscious and oblained a
Knowledge of selland society, becoming one of e most dedicated freedom
fghters ofrenown.
Afer winessing the horrors the peasants were subjected to, Peter Kropotkin
renounced his prinoeship in the Corp of Pages and dsveloped the theorstical
praciion of Mutual Ald 8 an allemaiive to ut-troat capitalism. TOJnce you
have seen unrghteousness and rocognized it as such - inequality in fo, a o
in science, orsuffring inficted by another,* he wrote in Anarchist Morait, -
se i revolt against i iniquty, the e or the Injustice.” Many vets reuring
rom ver (such s Iraq Veterans Against the War) reveal the human being's
abilty o revolt against what we come lo understand as social. niquitios, los
‘and injustice.” The poiioe and the miltary are the amned wing of the
ovemment and without them they'e praciicaly rendared defenseless.

~ANOTE OF CAUTION -

Anote of caution concerming intermet - use i long overdue as comrades
take a serious risk of geting “rapped” i the World Wide Web in their quest
for knowlodge & dissemination of propaganda.

Freedom fighters are being captured lft and rght as well as collecives
being hunted down and having their computers seized.

“This is no coincidence. In 2004, *(he FBI launched the Investigative Data
Warshouse," a “centralized ropository for countertorrorism that swelled to
695 millon records - including inteligence reports, Social Socurity fles,
Driver Licenses, and private financial information.* (3)

These have been “accessible {0 13,000analysts who were making a million
o oy s grown oo 1l ay prtecton o
privacy.* (4

Furthermors, in May, 2009, the Obama Administration “announced
plans...o estabish a new cybercommand wihin both the Pontagon and
NSA (National Security Agency), that would effectively miltarize

, attacking enemy computers and repeliing hostie counter
attacks on U.S. networks - with scant respect for whal one genoral
callod ‘soversigniy in the cyberdomain. ™ (5)
The Resistance needs as many comrades as possible on the streetd o
avoid capture. We seo this becoming more and more relevant in the world
of digital warping and drag-netting. y
And though some may perceive the modemn radical who becomes 5
disenchanted with cyber-use as simply a *romantic, the new underground

s the re-emergence of the Zine and printing pross in this age of Big Brother

surveillance.
BRIGHT FUTURE: (You're Not Alone)

Abright future awaits, and is our for the embracing. In particular, to we - the
undesirables - Whoss lives ara bul maraly a scar bonoath the sloovo of a
soclety mutating el in the wrelched comers of ciiizaton. I reachos out
10 every spasmodic wooking in the marginaiczed who cringe behing ciosed
doors, vacant basements and underpasses

In the shouler-shuddering shiver among the 17,000 homeless children
who sleep in shelters in New York City each night and within the 1/5th
of the Gountry's youth who thrive below the povarty ine.

In the unbrided and tormeniod wallof the 80 percant of mothers in
Californa's welfare system who suffer a5 victims of domestic abuse;
withn the unacknowledged midstof the 5.7 millon wage-siaves who've
been out of work from the Spring to the end of 2011.

It reaches amidst the 20,000+ prisoners systemically repressed in the
hole o isolation units in amerika on a regular basis paignanty affecied
WWWHM‘Mflhmmmflhhw
of doors “materializes” reverberatng in the echoing wing of satary
confinement. I the wormihole of aienation where the parian tichas to
roo the Self rom every authortarian forca in ufetirsd exhloration!

There's a digniy in the undying ember within us all which the fingers of
Repression have been unable 1o diffuse or cease from glowing ever more
brighter! A spark which fickers and could never be put out 50 long as
there's oxygen o give it breath, revealing that every circumstance in our
Socia lfe s sumountable.

‘Thrust yourself into the revolution.

"W are the ones who refused fo be captured without a fight, who staged

daring
raids on enemy supply lines...We aro the ones who made longer, sharper

spears,
and e ur bocksancotasaatngings. 49
“.-Wo are the ones that whispered 'srike now’ to Nat Tumer...We aro of the
‘same blood as
General Harrot Tubman.

"And when the so-caled Negroes fol for the farce of Reconstruction, we
had fong boen
organized and waiting for the Kian.

..o aro the anes who left the right wing Nation of Nation of siam with
Maicom X.

.."We are tho onos who organized the ghettos, from Caifornia to Phily...
“Wo are the ones who brought you Kuwasi Balegoon, Dr. Mutulu Shakur,
Nehanda

Abiodum, Fulani Sunni Al Safiya Bhukari, Yassmyn Fula, Afeni Shakur,
Sundiata Acol,

‘Sekou Odinga, Jall Muntagim, Hermn Bell and all other stalwart bearers
o beraton.
Wo aro the onos who know tha Tovolution without worhen aint
happonin’
*.We are tho ones the enemy calt, criminals, tarorsts, gangs,"
racicals, fominists," Worstof tho worst."and enemy combatants.
Whatovor.* (6)

FOOTNOTES
(1) Kai Wright, "Hard Knocks in the Bron,” The Nation, 2 Jan. 2012:31
(2) Alexander Berkman, ABC of Anarchism

(3) Alfred W. McCoy, Policing America‘sEmpire: The United States, the
Philippines and the Rise of the Survelllance State, 2009.

@) ibid.
(5) ibid.

(6) Sanyika Shakur sin Kody Scott, "Who are you?,” San Francisco
Bay View, Feb. 2012:18.
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A Revolutionary Relationship With the Universe

A NOTE ON THE FOLLOWING TEXT

dorminates it
FRevolution - being the overthrow of an established order o thigs - therefore,
must not only be external
but “internal” as well.
A revolution against that which disempowers and does violence to you.
A evelution against anything preventing you from heling others in achieving
liberation from their oppressions.
A revolution against the notion of feeling defeated in moments of spiritual
(psychological)criss
o not revlt (n some way, at east) against these forces of compuision i to
feelthe legs o one's sanity franicaly ick about e being dragged away b the
madiening screams of societal norms.I's to throb in the turmoil of one's
abandonment where compulsion viscerally twists every inch of composare untl
spontaneously combustsin a flame. It an hour when the anguish of feeling
isconnected rom the scietyof the Understood eats away a the Iing
conditon; a spiritualundirstanding of Freedom and our ailty to acquire It
becomes a elevance of universal importance.

The laws of (human) government are as suspect a their capacity and reputation
for being amended; therefore, they - being imperiectand everhanging..lesves,
imtum, an imperfect and unbalanced people who are ordered by such.
Eovernment to obey them.
talian astronomer Gafleo Gallei was sentenced to house-arrestfor lfe for

scentifically proven the Erth st the center of the universe, and this despte his
presenting the evidence to confirm it
twas also a crime punishable by one hundred ashes for a slave found able to
read or writein Amerika, and ths was but merely a century ago

Relationship Anarchism stresses a mission t inspire a relevant truth In
the soated ones of society o the outcasts & those wrestlingtofree thamselves
i a socio-sirtual way, knowing we aren'talone n the crcumstances we fing
ourslves I, and that neither are we alienated from the iter-connectedness &
ving mechanisms operating in the universalorder ofthings.
This i for you, as much as it s for me.

Int, we find an ir of optimism which can serve to Inflate the lungs of humanity

and provide an opportunity to respirthis sense of not-belongin through the
pursed lips of a iberatory iestyle. s3

In the following work, | extract ancient Kemetic wisdon from the Seven Universal
Princples of the Kybalion and render them in a way which can prove.
indispensabl in the arsenal of the Revolutionary and modern reader

L
THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM

-_—

“The Allis MIND;
“The Universe is Mental-
- The Kybalion

“An individual itting alone in a room, giving birth to an idea, can do more to
change the
course of history than generai who commands thousands on the field of battle
or a political
who demands the loyalty of millions. - Mark Booth

E

What one person may conceive as a chair another may consider a a reliable
writing desk.
What can be viewed s a stumbling bock can understood as something
resourceful o build with.

very definable thingis what we perceive t o be with our mind.

What's taken as an Exit today might be grasped as an Entrance, tomorrow.
Outside of Consciousness, I sef, every tangibl thing that we can think of i fac,
s made up of nothing more than atoms;of energy. Of protons, neutrons and
electrons in motion. s how we perceive everything with our mind that makes all

the diference.
1t we who give objective reality defintion and who - when we wil -

substantially
re-define i, whether for the worse or for the better
The Principle of Mentalismis a universal law and one that s of particular

Importance i the process of self-becoming; In becoming the “ideal Sef” that we
desie to be. sY

Jean-Paul Sartre, in Exstentialism and Human Emotions, understood this Universal
Principle when he professed that, "Not only is man what he conceives himsef to
e, but he s aso what he wills himsef o be ofter is thrust toward exisence.”

The Existential philosophy, which afirms that existence precedes essence,
‘encourages a relevant & responsible understanding that “Man is nothing efse but
what he makes of himself* (1)

Our relaionship with the Uriverse is an interlogical one, undivorceably wedded
‘with the minds of others around us, s well
Misunderstandings are the result of the way impressions are relayed or received -
Whether these signals are Intentional or unintentionally misconstrued.
For the most part however, we all yearn to be Understood. There's enormous
potentialin the power of Thought; and each one of us possesses the abity to
‘change the world os we know it

In the dusk of thisindustrial wasteland, the thist for a way to effectively
‘communicate can feel overwhelmingly arid
We crave psycho-spirtualstimulation throughout our essence. To the point of
‘delrum society aches for it ke thunder n the grime-ridden night of power
politcs and monopolization

A revolutionary mind declares a conscious dissent against deological repression,
25 well a repressive ideologies that require our mental savery.

o
THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE

*As above. 0 below; as below. so sbove.*
- The Kybalion

“To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves. However smail may be
the worid we
ive n. f we can transform ourseives, bring about a radically different point of
view in our daily
existence, then perhaps we shall affect the world a large, the extended
relationship with others.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
I

hierarchy & coercive authority perpetuates extreme social marginalization, the
darkness of alienation can feel opaque and consuming, Sell-enightenment
requires eflection, and to reflect, a correspondence between object and lightis

‘necessitated s<

I every which way we ook at the universe we're able to find a fitting reflection
‘which confirms that we co-exist n t i a very relativ way. Everything on Earth
fives in space, and the fire that burns in the center of our solar ystem is akin
it the one burning in the solar plexus of human society.

1 our inherent need o find our place in this world where the chaotic sense of

Neither of us are aienated from the universe - which consists of everything n t -
regardless of how "out of place we may feelinthis worl.

Our physial consttution i fat, s Iving proof that the greater i revealed inthe
lesser; not n virtue but in design.

Solar systems are made up of Suns as our human organ systems are made up of
atoms; and as Suns have planets which revolve around them in the celestal
sphere, 50 do we have electrons orbiting the nucleus of our atoms on our
‘molecular level,

Moreover, we can' rid ourselves ofthe drive for revolution any more than the.
planets around the Sun and the Sun, s galaxy. We'r in syncopation withthe
Perpetuation of evolution, whether we refer to our socia consciousness o the.

cosmos.

“The relationship we have with the Universe s a corresponding one with fa-
reaching implications;in paticuar, to we in the revolutionary resistance.

I our natural inclination to fulfl our revolutionary mission we foster an
affinity with the sef-governing tendency of galaxies, stars and planets inthe
nether reaches of space. Even Pluto - which the Empire no longer acknowledges
25 2 planet in our solar system - continues It revolution every 248 years around
the Sun, nevertheless.

Noless naturall should we refuse to allow any “leading thinkers" to define our
relevance and iing truths in the vitiolc spontaneity of the Movemen.

The Princple of Correspondence s an inter-personal one as well. No one s 5o

deologlcally unaligned with others that we can't find a relation in human feelings
Feelings o fea. Of pain and of leasure. Of anger and the capacity o knowing
peace, regardiess of where we come from - be it Rwanda or North Amerika.

1fwe screwed ina ight bulb and peered close enough into each other's eves, we
would begin to see a rflection o our sell. Revolution i a corresponding
‘experience for every being and collctive of beings who freely engage inthe
beratory endeavr.
‘Through seeing our corespondences we're able to channel feelings ina
evolutionary way. Ina way that canliberate each other from undesirabl stations
of disposition. By choosing o face together what', i essence, a Common
Struggle, we allow each other to see eye to eye and inso doing, we find our

relevant place in this brief moment we know as LIFE. s
“Out of the revolution must emerge self that takes full possession of il ie,
ot a dail ife that takes full possession of the self, The most advanced form of

class-consciousness thus becomes self-consciousness - the concretization in
dally lfe ofthe great liberating universals.” (2)

.
THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION

“Nothing ress; everything moves; verything vibrates:
~The Kybalion

“Monis not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of

- Benjamin Disraeli
and everything i in a perpetual state of ibration. Everything vibes. We're not
alone in our feelings of which everything i in reach.

karound you; for where you're seated is where you stand in the universe,

Pythagoras of Samis (c. 572-497 B.C.) i noted as being able to hear the *harmony
of the spheres” - the music of the planets in motion revolving i varying rates of
vibration n thei respective proximity to the Sun. The tones of the planets
nearer n theicswitter movements around the sun released sharper sounds than
the ones farther from Its ravitationsl pull.

He also found striking the stimulating effects which yres and futes play in their

relationships with the varying lenghs of theirstrings and pipes. He intimately

rasped that there is strength in numbers, and ths underlying, vibratory force
permeates every reaim of acivy.

‘The musical octave, for instance, vibrates on a scale of“sevens,"the elghth note
eing the beginning of a new octave with a coresponding pitch in a different
scale.

The color spectrum also vibrates on a scale of sevens, as does the septennial
maturation of he human physical body during clldivision.
As devoted revolutionaries who mature with experience, we find that we're
able to generate an atmosphere of progressive ideas in the sphere of human
relations. Reflecting on these relationships hghiight to s the answers as o why
we're ina particular "ibe” that we're in.
s7

Schwaller de Lublcz also understood this Principle when he noted that our

“individuol sense of harmny i related to our individua stot of consciousness.”

‘Through the consclous act of improvisation ( by improvising - which s a mental

act), we can alter these rates of vibration by spontaneously creating, inventing

‘or arranging "a known experience into the unknown, thereby creating a new
experience.” 3)

Understanding that thissense of individual harmony s within reach is
Instrumental intsef for those who ve the philsophical fe. The philosopher
Socates certainly fltthis when he aticilated, I tink it better for my ye to
b out oftune, and for most men to disagree and contradict e, than that
L.should be in contradicton ond out of tune with myself*

Ina similar fashion, the fies of affny can be measured by the development of
ur socal awareness with every being the desie for beration and harmony
resonates with.In other words, we can essentialy free aself-governing existence
in a revolutionary way by reconstructing realty as sef-defners.

“The best effectoffine persons is fet after we have let thei presence. - Ralph
‘Waldo Emerson

.
‘THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY

“Everything is dual; everything has pols; everything has its pair of opposies;ike

‘and wnlike are the same; opposies are identical in nature, but different in degree;

extremes meet;al truths are but half-truths; ll paradoxes may be reconsciled”
- The Kybalion

“Because the awakened one puts himself behind, he steps ahead.
‘Because he gives way, he goins.
Because he isself-tes, he fulflls himse!
“too Ty

duolity
‘When nothing seems to be left nothing seems to be right.
‘When we look around us we're confronted with poverty, dispossession and the
unequal distrbution of power.In a capitals society where austerity measures
drive many insane, remembering what we stand for and who we've chosen to
‘become willssit in keeping us centered.
Sg

This "elf-embracing of the ideal self* will balance us with the strength to
persevere and to continue unieashing our revolutionary potentia. The ole that
this "embrace” plays in the Principle of Polariy - of rather, the role that the

principl of Polaity plays in 1 is applicable In every aspect of human behavior:

On an inter-personal evel, opposing views can either lead to potentially death-
dealing conficts or o common ground by gaining an understanding of where the
other person is coming from. In a world where absolutely no one s immune to
‘making mistakes in if, it are the ones who are "on the level” wh are found most
deserving of such respect - even I i's only one’s sel§ whoinitially does the
respecting. Whoever refuses to acknowledge this s theoretically speaking,
naleve, harboring hypocriical inclinations.

Living truth, possessed, is the source of Soul Power, and "Everything and
every being contoins o fixed nucleus that nelther putrefication {rottenness) nor
fire can destroy.” (4)

Ona social level, society's poor can efther wallow In the mire of poverty - o, In
poverty see a Potential and co-exert their energies into freeing themselves from
‘oercive domination in clean conscience. Every aspect of socety - as well s those.
of our Indiidualcharacter that we don't ke - we can change by doing s opposite
& ving in opposition o every force undermining the potential for harmony.

Those passionate beings who In the Movement feel alienated from the poorer
should also be encouraged by this Principle which affirms that “ail paradoxes may
be reconcied.”

The same holds true for every FREEDOM FIGHTER regardiess of complexdon or
gender as all are of the same race (the Human race). Al are simply degrees of the
same substance.

The suffering feeing of shame can have a substantialImpact on person fand
consequentially a Movement as a whole); especialy on a person driven o uplif
and lberate sockety'sdown-cast. As even Marx understood however, “Shame is o
revolutionary feeling.” An it must be intimately remembered that the
responsiilty of a revolutionary i to make revoltion

‘Ancther potentially dangerous obstaciein the path of revolutionary development
s the feeling o guif, which can Inhibit the revolutionary from individual and
social liberation. The revolutionary must tur this nto a weapon for doing battle
‘against an undesirable way of ife that one chooses to no longer ive
subservient to.
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“Try not to lose your mind. Try not to lose your mental balance. Try not tolose
Your sense of perception..AlWays try to be self-sufficient n yourselL.”
- Marcus Garvey
V.

‘THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM

“Everything flows out and i everything has istides; allthings ise and (all;
the pendulum-swing manifess in everything; the measure of the
swing 0 the ight, i the measure of the swing o the lfl thythm compensales.
~The Kybalion

“The end i the beginning of llthings..."
1. Krishnamrti

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right.
“The gravitational pullof the moon draws the ocean tides torise In remarkable
‘waves before they recede.
We walkin a signature rhythm & make hand gestures in conversation.
“The puplls of our eyes diaate as f“on-cue* in the dark.

Indeed, the movement of the Universe i impartial o the Princple of Rhythm and
a5 Emma Goldman once expressed, "It sn't my revolution I | can't dance to .
The motion of existence s a movement we coud ever be out of sync with. Each

ofus e n 3 grooweregardless of what requeicy we'e tuned into ‘o

These hythms have an nflutialefecton usail - rom the music we bob ot

heads 0,0 the cadence inour commuricaton with everyone and everythig

tha' around us. Fom th ebb & low ofemotions o the atracton & replsen

inherent i evoluionsofvarious kinds:momentum s receved s well s ctsaed
inevery concehiabe (re/Jaction.

Peter Kiopotkin began the opening nes of Anarcist Moraity b relting the
perdulum of this Princpe o the isoryof human though when he pers et
T istory of human thught recals th swinging of pendlum which tokes
centuries to swing. After
21ong eriod of tumber comes a moment of owakenin. Thn though rees
those interested urs, lowyers, clercs - have

herself rom the chains with which
carefly enwound her
tosevere citicsm ol that has been taught

“she shatters the chains. She subjects
e, andloys bare the emptiness of te religiou, poltical,lega, and sociol
prejudices omid whichshe hos vegetated. Sh starts rescarch in ew poths,

eniches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences -

There's a hythm in the ways that we interact with each other as well which is
relevant in our apport with nature in s quintessence, and a5 Bookehiy
xplined, “I's impossibl to achieve o harmanization of man and nature without
creating o human community that ivesina osting bolance with ts notura)
environment* (7)

The governed human being i a bing osclting between the forces of Reason

204 Madness; and aCapitals government requies - ut of s own necessry - the
estricted flow of compassion. Fo, i

neration, sprtual stagnation and

consequence is moral dege
monatony of "big fish eat ltle fish* depravity.
way o iving we must reciim

n our ambition to attune ourselves toward an iylc.
our minds and exgropriate our spiri for freedom from every opportunist with
perfect resolve. We have within s the capacity 1o pirate the raci station o gur
existence from every networking power which as 5o savagely selzed .
eneath every repressed wist i pule throbbingto strengthen a colectvely
nce against coercive authority. The Socisl

classroom or penitentiary cell

Revolution i 2 redemptive act Fanon wellunderstood, andin the adventof a
revolutionary situation fr poor people’siberation, he articulated how,
women who fluctuate between madness and suicide are restored to sanity,
et o acion
and toe ther il place.-on the mve.* (8) 61

We can work to successfully relieve ourselves from every repressive force by
revising the hythm of our relationship with everyday .
Extending Mutual Ald, engaging in Direct Democrocy and community-buiding s a
ecessary revolt against the established order of an Impoverished and parastic
society.

Putting our heartinto the Movement requires acts of love; and in so doing, we
nfuse nto the world a highly motivational wave of optimism. For Compassion s
2150 a revolutionary act which allare in need of and can be attained when we.
‘aspie for harmony and a keener level of understanding.

“This is important because as Rosenberg reminds us, “Certain woys of
communicating alienate us from our natural tate of compossion,” by placing
‘moralstic judgements on others where “attention s focused clossfying,
analyzing, and determining leves of wrongness rather than on what others need
and are not getting.* (9) The more we focus on what we need and how to get it
the sooner we'll be able to acquie these needs, and free ourselves rum every
socialpressure & power that has authority over our lives. Human nature is so that
t respects such a llberating exchange and It's revealing i that healthy
elationships are those where people socialize without dictation

An appreciation for harmony and ts alleiatin effect i found where ever people:
are assertive without hierarchical tones.
We can individually reset the tempo oflfe when we endeavor to (to paraphrase
Socrates) act a5 person of thought and think as 2 person of acton.

The lock-step invasion of Amerika's imperialist forces proved unable to pacate
Vietnamese guerrilas who grasped that "When the enemy advonces, we retreat;
‘and when the enemy retreats, we advance." (10) Whether we refer to the rhythm
of a liberation movement or a musical scal, the melody in the measure ofIfe is
ours for the makne.

aiy lifeis the measure of everything: of the fulfilment or rather non-
fulfiliment of human relationships.”
- Guy Debord

“Where the content of the action fasifiesits meaning, one must modiy not the
meaning...but the content tsel."
- Simone de Beauvoir
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'THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

“Every Cause has s Effect; every Effect has s Cause.
- The Kybalion

“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”
~Miguel DeCervantes.

pIug alamp from a socket and the light goes out. The electrical charge de-

activates through the disconnection of electical power.
The lower the economy crumbles, the more desperate the people become and
the amount o unrest, expropriation and vilence increase.
Cause and Effect i a universal phenomenon.

The Principle of Cause and Effect is impartal inthe Interplay o subjective &
obiective realiy. It an inescapeable Principle which can either impoverish or can
empower.

I his Hierarchy of Human Needs, the behaviorist Masiow ascribed human
development t0.2 pyramidic construct.

‘The fundamental requirements such as sheter, love, and food lay at the base of
the structure, with Seff-Actualzation being the apex of individual growth. Without
first having acquired these basic necessitie, he asserted, the lumination of a
self-actualzed existence cannot be reached. I other words, according to
Maslow, "Self-Actualization" -at its very base - Is determined by the levelof free
reign a person or peaple have to the fundamental needs of survival.

The effects of society allng short of actualzing s inherent potentia - learly
seen i the rampant poverty & dissatisfaction of every prison, slum and have-not
suffering in it - hasits causes In the depths of domination.

To have consolidated economic power s to have priviledge and (high) clas status.
The majority ofsocietyis underpriviedged.
Hence, we can only change our status by colectively selzing controlfrom every.
Power-holder monopolizing the means of existence.

In similar fashion, so many of us suffer In the darkness of emotional and mental
‘despair when we grant others the priviedge of authority over our feelings and
thoughts.
It's iy after we resolve o revolt against allowing anyone to dictate our most
personai feelings and thoughts that we become able tofree ourseives from such a
Subordination & reach a level of seff-empowerment.

Morcover, we gain a keener insightInto other peopl’s stations in fe when we
clrify what we observe without belng stereotypical or placing preconceived
evaluations. And I’ only air a5 human beings that we ask the same from others.
hen we el that such mutus espects belng comprimised. /3

I his reply o a question a the Milltant Labor Forum, Malcom X confided tht:

“whenever you ind people who con't forget their diferences, then they re more
Interested in their personal aims and objectives than they are n the conditions of
the whole.”

It also important to remember that whenever some may refuse to extend a

mutual level of respect there are others in this socializable world who would
certalnly appreciate the company of this sort

vita that n the Struggle we remove from our feeling in our
individual and social revolution every reactionary notion of ailure.
There i nosuch thing as falure.
Faiure s only an lusion.
What we think are “failures n ife are really oly results.

Thomas Edison, who made numerous "mistakes" before nventing the ight bulb
understood this when he conceded that “every attempt discorded is another step
forward."

When you feel overwhelmed by darkness, and others turn the light o thelr
company off on you, it oly becomes revesling that that moment is an
‘opportune time to tum the ight on within yourseff.

10 lght of this, we, 2 Revolutionaries practicing hands-in-the-mud poltical

science, will benefit society by actively engaging in 2 Cause for a more fe-fulfiling
Effec. An Effect to generate “Ije” amid degenerate views and Inspire others to be.
catalysts i the overthrow of this degenerate social (disorder, as well

We can inspire others to smill by merelysmiling, ourselves.
We can transform the prison houses of oppression into Schools of iberation.
We can overwhelm every onti-social sentiment with Soldarity.
We can remove from humanity Marginalizotion through onti-authoritarian
unification!

“The State i a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode
of human behavior;
‘we destroy it by contracting other relationship, by behaving differently.”
- Gustav Landaver
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
- John Dryden

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'VIL THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER

“Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles;
‘Gender manifess on all panes
- The Kybalion

“Vesterday, through today, has engendered tomorrow.*
-RA. Schwaller deLublcz

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possesses a multiplicity of characteristics. Humaniy s an unavoidably
transgendered phenomenon. Universally speaking, Gender is not a binary but a
polyessential unification.

‘The Principle of Gender lsn't to be merely confined to sex. s far deeper than that
and to see it as confined to sex s o blind oneselffrom the totait of this
transformative Principl.
The root word of gender comes from Latin and means "o beget; to procreate; to
generate;to create; to produce.”
Hydrogen combined with oxygen (H20) produces water. Water and fire
‘generates steam. Love and passion engenders romance; and in the sphere.
o human rghts,repression inevitably leads to resistance.

Using our very planet as an example, every 2,160 years s the Earth, in s axial
rotation, makes visble a new ign in the zodiac on (spproximtely) March 215t -
the first day of Spring, It moves on a slight, backward wobble known as the
“precession ofthe equinoxes." It completes one full course through the twelve
constelations roughly every 25,920 years in what's known as the Great Solar or
Platonic Year Much ke the Earth i its axal movement engenders thesigns of the
visible zodiac n it entirety, 50 do we as Revolutionaries engender various aspects
that can collectivel assist n the social movement.
Every aspect should be undertaken; from learning Non-Violent communication to
soclall coexist with the People — to Armed Training In guerrila warfare against
Impertalst and armed miltary aggressors.
Every aspect of our potential o generate an atmosphere where higher deals can
‘be made manifest should be embraced and poly-essentially shared; i such a way,
the individual and the Movement that the individual plays part in wilully
unieash the latent orces of Soul Power
“(T)he revolutionary movement...must ry tofive the revolution i alts totality,
ot only participate in ...
The power of a man over man can be destroyed only by the very process in
‘which he not only ‘discovers"
himself but, more meaningfull, in which he formulates his selfhood in all s
sodal dimensions.” - Murray Bookehin is

HIP
SELF

[E HAS WITH

“The greater part of our lves is spent with ourselves, no matter where
or with what other people we may live...Our imagination is the only
companion chained to us for the whole of existence.” - Charlotte Wofj

00 35 our “in-reach." Of allthe elationships we have in the breviy of the Ife
that we ive, none is more personal than the one we have with our self.

To “not” revolt against coercive domination i to sufer unfree, where one writhes
religiously lagellting the spine of twisted sanity. A "sanity” recolling in the
comer with the flagelaof fixed morals while murmuring aimlessly,torn,
tormented and unredeemed of affictions.

In the sanctuary of ConsclousnessIs a iberatory nclination anticipating to be

Iiberated by s naturall-given possessor. t'sibidinally driven with the desire to

break the scourge of an existence which has prostrated before every compulsion
left uncombated against.

There's scourge of irony n the factthat in a world of bilons of people, s0 many
are suicdally languishing in oneliness. .
“The anti-socialaffiction is an extension of s politically ant-social counterpart
collectively leaving laves inthe wake of an individuality we close our eyes
0. Wage Slaves, o every empire that thives on corporate greed & goes
undissented agains. deological saves of government Induced mis/education and
the entrenchment offossiized customs. Emotionally-dependent slaves torm in
‘wo. Slaves of superiority syndromes and iferiorty complexes which are mutually
uniiberating]

Dependency and Freedom stand in diametrical opposition, and to gain iberation
‘emotionally and socio-economicaly alike - we must inwardly and outwardly revolt
against every established order that renders the individual human being into @
psycho-sociopathic serf
We must earn how to be comfortable in our own company and intimately.
understand that we can be alone and experience solitude without being lonely.
In standing firm in our convictions forthe lberation of
the people from every unwanted governing power, Is essential that we establish
a solidarity with our selt. m

“(DJeep down the colonized sublect acknowledges no authoriy. He is
dominated but not domesticated.
He ls made to feel inferior, but by no means s convince of hisinferlority:
~Frantz Fanon

“The sick soul can, and must heal tsel - by reflecting day after day, on how to
‘become better, heaithier, more upright and firm, more free and just.” - James
Mille (paraphrasing Senecs)

The embracing of asense of sef i a revolutionary science and realization within
feach of everyone who'd not only break free from but tear down the pilars of
hierarchy and domination.
History s rich with wisdom handed down through generations o those -to “we” -
who've chosen to liberate the Selffrom the internalized oppression afflicting an
‘externally oppressed human being.

Pythagoras taught that, “Deciining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented
aths, " an aphorism of Self-Determination advising non-conformist approach
for the seeker after Freedom & Truth.

The kernel of the Stolc Seneca's idea, he corresponded, was an admonishment
that we “say what we feel, and feel what we say; harmonize talk with Ife.”
Michel de Montaigne revolutionized philosophy in the 16th century by accounting
“0 candid description and anolysis of himself, ond the world, a he directly
experienced them,”in his Essays. (11) In is turn inward to study himself and to

‘compose himself anew;" he confded:
I have put il my efforts into forming my Hfe. That s my trade and my work."

n the Orient, the Dhammapada teaches that Vigilance s virtue i renouncing a
e o savery for one that is "Sel-Possessed.” It teaches that,

“The renunciate who delights in vigiance ond shuns heedlessness [ the act of ot
taking heed t things ] advances ike a grass fire, consuming obstructions great
and sml,"

and that,
“The renunciate who defighs n viglonce and shuns heediessness is protected
Jrom regression: such a one approaches iberation.” (12)

It teaches that possessing sef-restaint, practicing honesty and maintaining
dilgence in our everyday lives are actions of those who renounce a ife of
Subjection for one that becomes FREE.
Anarchist Anthony Rayson aptly inspies the depraved of society with a well
necessitated understanding with the following intimate truth L7

“A ot of people have done bad things in this country, o themselves and to other
‘peaple. But we can all b redeemed. Everyone has a natural talent that is
needi n the coming revolution. Our job s o discover that talent and how

best to add It to the mix...t's about genuine redemption and about true, real

‘Genuine Hberation.” - (Anthony Rayson, in a interview conducted by Abigail and

Coyote)

-

Every single human being, strangled inthe binds of Subserviency must fiberate
themselves i the deliberate snapping away of ideological stronghoids.

To rebel against everything that that enslaves and rend apart every vestige of
coercive authority as thoroughly as one possibly can is o aspire for freedom n the.
‘most revolutionary of ways
s to feel our very essence rejuvenate and bask i the Osirian glow that comes in
the dawning of SelfEnlightenment and Self-Actualization!

It'sinthe revivfying renunciation of dogma and the fear of Unacceptance;
Freedom i the science of universal intimacy.
1t not a curriculum that we gt creditsfor in college and neither is it religion. s
an intimate and unmediated connection with ife!
What was once derided as "reprehensible,” the "scum of the Earth, the "lowlife”
and "bottom of the barrel thug” becomes now the residue from which the
most revoling of revolutionaries emerge. As free as i i to el unenveloped from
seclusion i the cremation of social contracts and to permeate the universe in
B e e 5

“Come sit down beside me',
15aid to mysel,
‘And although it doesn't make sense,
1 held my own hand
As 2 smallsign of trust
And together I sat on the fence.

- Michael Leunig, “Stting on the Fence"

- FoOTNOTES,
(1) Jean-Paul Sarte, "Existentialism and Human Emtions,” (Philosophical
Ubrary, New York, 1957), 15.

12) Murray Bookehin, “Post-Scarcity Anarchism, 3d. ed, (AK Press, Oakiand,
CA, 2004), 10-11.

(3) RA. Schuwaller de Lubicz, “The Temple of Mon,* trans, (inner Traditions.
Intermational, Vermont, 1998), 23.

4) Quoted by R A de Lubicz, “The Temple of Man, trans. {laner Traditions
Intemational, Vermont, 1998), 34.

(5) Murray Bookchin, “Post-Scarcity Anarchism,*3d. ed, (AK Press, Gakiand,
A, 2004),15.

6) Malcoim X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (Ballantine Books, New
York, 1964).

(7) Murray Bookchin, “ost:-Scarcity Anarchism,*3d. ed., (AK Press, Oakiand,
€A,2000),21.

(8)Frantz Fanon, “The Wretched o the Earth,* (Grove Press, New York,
1963), 82

9) MarshallB. Rosenberg, “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of
Ufe,"29. ed., (PuddieDancer Press, 2003), 5.

(10) See Sun Tou, “The Art of War"

(11) James Millr “Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche, (arrar,
Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011), 172.
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ARTICLES OF RESISTANCE
70

ANARCHISM
and BLACK AUTONOMY

By, Hybachi LeMar

i bettr o die on your feet than 10 live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata

A a person of colo, a5 a have-not who grew up in poverty in the shums of
amerika, | consider Anarchism s the highest degree of digaity & the most
advanced and undiluied expression of Iiberation. No ther philosophy teaches the
human being to refusc being dictated by any who would lay claim of authority over
one's existence; whether ethically-wise,socially-uwise, or emotionally-wise, as

well

It shouldrit be any surprise as to why 5o many of us - and n partcular, blacks - are
refertng to ourselyes as anarchists once we discover for ourselves its e
definition.

1t shouldrtbe as o any surprise as to why the governmen and those in positions
o authority now finds a growing number of us in the ghetto reaching a common,
down to carth, ant-authoritarian understanding.

Blacks in this country have been resisting coercive authority since we were
Kidnapped and drug by the chains of colonialism t this country against our i,
and neasly 100 million of our kidnapped Afrikan ancestors didnt make it alive!
‘Goverment power has been lynching us for centuries & to tis day continues to
ynch us, Oscar Grant style, in th strets in our neighborhoods and on every coast
s county.
/ve enslaved s and continue to legally enslave us i the prisons for corporate
t - and are protected (0 40 so under the 13th Amendment.
i shouldn' be any surprise a5 to why 50 many of us blacks are tuming into.
anarchists once we've discovered what ts true meaning is. It shouldn'tbe any
surprise, at alll

Anarchisim teaches respect for oncsclf and for one's community, and to have
‘enough digity to not et anyone convince you that they're superor over you
because of your complexion o because of your sx.

It teaches that the govemment of one human being over another human being is
slavery; and no one who s govemed can inright conscience claim that they're
e It teaches that each of us has an inherent worth no govermment force can lay
claim 10, It teaches to get your tail from between your legs;to grow some
backbone; and o respect yourself and each othe as human beings.

‘We can never be respected as human beings as long as there' a system which
backs us inio the depraved comers of desperation. We can never be respecied as
decent human beings as long s we willingly allow othes to strong - arm us into
positions of powerlessness and poverty of our social and our spiitual lives!
‘We'e intimaiely aware of this fact, we blacks, hispanics (and poor whites, s wel),
the majority of we who grew up in hard knocks in soup kitchens & homeless
shelters & who find ourselves oppressed & beaten down by authority n the
prisons.

e —— 7
We know how to calulae one plus ne.

We know that workin fo someane 10 pay whal we ca 0 that someone cqusts
1 usbeing "husted.* We ache for autonomy from being govemed from every
compelling force.

We lay awake at night with veins in our eys, nd loaded guns by our vicascd

bodics, with an ineffible longing to fel in some way, shape or form the very
essence of Hberation.

Liberation, in society where there ar those who govern and those who are
‘govemed, can only be attained by revolutionary means.

Revolution is an overthrow of an established order. When striving under asystem
‘which everywhere around us we see disorder abound,

‘The recognition of the need 10 overthrow wh i responsibl for (domestc and
forcign) wars of aggression and socio-economic inequality is virfu; t ot
recognize this need and to act accordingly againt i, i a ice.

‘The brutal police killngs of black people ( ablack person is killed by law
enforcement approximately every 36 hours in Amerika ) demands that we form
autonomous communities of revolutionary, anti - govermment rebels.

[From Gang Banger to Anti - Government Rebel

1 you've been an active gang banger, the anarchist resistance encourages you o let.
those who you're bangin' with know that you've chasen to no longer acknowledge
them s a rival and that you've joined the ranks of the Liberation for your people -
for our people; for the have - nos for social revolution. At the end of the day it
‘bout respect; and everyone who grew up in poverty & who knows that we s a.
‘eople haven'tbeen given a fair shake can espect that, Especially when it comes to
our people. Our peaple. If yo'te going 10 go out of this world and leave a legacy,
20 0ut 5 a revolutionary for the people. The children, youth & clders in
generations to come will look up (0 you, and will defend your name whenever they
ook at your picture, and your name will be venerated forever.

Most o all you'l be playing a pivolal role in picking up and liberating our people (
including yourself ) up from the muck and mire of poverty and the insanty that

comes with trying 10 survive as exploited and masginalized people todsy in
amerik.

Black autonomy is the realization of revolutionary freedom for black people:
mobilzing against the genocide of our race and for the iberation of the human
face,as a whole, from subjection 1o unnecessary & unwanted authority.
Organizing in defense of our commnitis and for our human right a a people:
includes the understanding that housing is as much a human right s food and
medicalcare. We are organizing to secure these human rights; and every last one of
s knows tha f we want what rightfully belongs to us and its being withheld from
s that we must ake i

72,

It s very important 1o wrest the mass influence of the racial equaity movement
outof the hands o th lei - lberal Democratic wing of the ruling class. The lefi
{iberals may talk good fight. but as long as they are not overthrowing Capitalism
‘and sniashing the Siate. they will betray and sabatoge the enire struggle ogainst
racism." - Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

The Anarchist movement calls for bangers (o take up the banner of Revolution It
calls for you not 0 throw away your guns, but o reserve you fircpower for amed
siugale againstthe State, and 10 prepare yourselfin the defense and forming of
‘autonomous zones.

IFyouite on the run from the law, before you turn yourselfin - consider joining the
underground resistance as arational altemative o the oppressive confines of the
prison cell.

Study ourlterature from your apartment buildings. Discuss with your neighbors
what Anarchism's sbout and organize your hood around principles which revolve
around dignity and self - determination.

‘We're organizing across the country (and around the world)!

‘The mission o our generation i to organize, declare and maintain ourselves
autonomous from govemment that we may gover ourselves s rational human
beings.

“(W)e must organice for inter-communalism, or world relation betveen
Africanlpeople of color in America and other communitis,ribes,
neighborhoods and their revolutionary social movements around the world,
instead of building unity with their governments and heads of siate.»

~Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution

"Each generation, out ofrelative obscurity, must discover it mission & fulfll or
betray " - Frantz Fanon

Zineophobia

The prison indusrial complex s lving with astifling gulp i it throat. This
“gulp" is What can be defined as zincophobla: the fear of sincs.

' a fear thatthe authorities have been unable o fx.

10 fame that rehashes in the dark places of Amerika, and i aphotic lock-down
units across the globe!

Inthe 13% century, sate insttutions bumed books & used public toture as a way
of extracting information & s an overt method of instillng a elgious fear &
‘maintaining authority with an ron fist.

‘Contrary views were subjected tothe rack. Individuals burned alive and faced
other sadistic twists offae i the name of Religion.

1t was a iving nightmare for many, indeed. 73

While centuries have elapsed since the days of public scourging, the methods of
contrl enforced today are 1o less barbaric

They've only become more sophisticated. More covert & confincd.

Today.in the name of Homeland Security, the State is banning zines, and uses
torture — such as with the San Francisco 8, and waterbosrding in Guatanamo,
much like the thumbscrew - 1o exract information

To a greater (and less publicized degree), they work to instill socio-politca fear

10 untold millions of us who they daily oppress; tming soltary confinement ino &
living nightmare.

Authority is maintained behind lock and key with an iron fst!

“Those of us who radically dare 10 open our heads in a book instead of a wall

quickly discover that the ssociation between the body rack and the book rack i &
reltive one.

1 notice things about myself when such literaure s deprived me.
1lick my lips from the dryness of an irepressible wa

1 feel my nose infate.

Their hatred for us reading them makes me lust afer them even more.

Morcaver, the fact tha the war against the (imprisoned) poor islosing ideological
‘round in the “frec” disribution ofthis medium reminds us that what we value is
priceless (and should be for al

“The cruel suppression of these brutal truth writings become 1o my mind what
chastitybelts are o the amorously aflicted.

1 burn with every denial knowing my hands ar tied and yet even the most
‘malevolent gin grlled by the Securiy Team is unable 1o mask their stink of fear!

1 appear unveadable o the pison ibrarian, but inconsolably ache within these
epressve confins (o REBEL with everyinch of bidinal fusration that nature
endows me: knowing they always have & always il - for a lon as tey have

the power o repress — drip buckets of sweat before the exercising muscle of an
incxorable Idea

For you who are reading this from the “other side,” ask yourself:

‘What conclusion would you arive at i, without provocation or warning, the poice.
outinely confiscated your papers, booklets & publications? Or to have cverything
You write - from the most intimate to the mundane violated by their unyiclding
eyes at any time?
And would you give up on the idea of Freedom?
‘Would a fear of writing consume you?
‘Would the persisten threat of isolation deprive you of the notion of fre thinking.
and depth?
Liberating literaure i arefex of Nature birthed from the contracing wormb of
Liberating ideas 14
‘The fac that any authority can suppress i any insttution notonly confirms how
dangerously aliverepresson tuly i, butthat idcas themseives may be tken from
human beings as “coniraband.” And where ideas ae confiscaied as contraband,
ther (00 do we ind the mostconfinin & calloused crusaders against Libery.

‘What we strugle for s ot merey t cmphasize “the Sruggle” we perpetually fve
in, but to sabotage the cogs in this industrial machine by monkey-wrenching its
stronghold over imprisoned minds.

100 inspirea very logicl(and necessary)reistance aganst oppresion among
the disempowered & l i coercive and draconian vice.

Tl Aboliton, may every imprisoned writing hand continue o fee the next.
May cvery ABC and distro publishing the brutal truh know that through these steel
bars my fst of solidarity israised & feel my love and my fervor.

And may every devoted warden of life be haunted with the unhushed whisper of
pencil moved in the silence of hollow cell

Hybachi LeMar
anarchist

Manifesto to the Industrial Workers of
the World

WORKERS:

M there were ever a time for us who live in Struggle to take solidarity
10 the next level, the time is now.

‘The amassing body of the One Big Union will find a repressed Vitality
in Faw form incubating where Exploitation is most compulsive:

The prisons.

Tho U.5. penal colony - which pays an average of .26 cents an hour to
the prisonor, while yanking over 347 billion a year from the taxpayer's
Pocket - is a biatant afiront o the anti-exploitist within us all

Over 2. million workers - many forced to either work or face isolation in
those sub-human conditions - make up this isolated block of the labor
force across the countryl

The work - rolated realities which push the imprisoned 10 the brink of
striking back not only includes the fact that prisoners are paid 12 to 38
times loss than standard minimum wage earnings in the so-called free
world. In PA. alone today, when prisoners are injured, the cost for

medical attention far exceads the sweatshop wages of $15-30 dollars
2 month.

Moreove

iany are cuffod and drug to the darkest holes of Amerika as

a form of disciplinary action for “disobeying a direct order;” where &
ife of (3) five minute showers per woek, brutal cell-extractions, &
camcorded cavity-searches humiliate all who resist this involuntary
Servitude to the State. 7s

- stripped from their labels - standing side-by-side, Mother Earth
horself would have a hard time tolling the two apart! :

Both abor to produce a profit for the wealthy while living in
insuforable struggie. Both seek an end to a Machine which operates.
through productive power and domination.

Solidarity between freedom fighters & unionizers, however lsnt a
‘pocullarly new idea. History Is Wuminated with our ever-evolving
legacy of standing shouldor to shoulder against Capitalism.

Reniown activists - such as Emma Goldman - labored for peanies n the
Prisons they despisad, with aspirations of one day seeing Its profit-
making machine dismantied, in the previous contury.

During the resistance against the System's condemning 2 imprisoned
comrades (Sacco & Vanzett) to death, corporate minions collapsed.
undor the weight of General Strikes erupting throughout the world!

In addition, since the years preceeding the Spanish Revolution, the
‘GNT (Confederacion National dol Trabajo) have been diatomicaly
linked with the militant FAI (Federacion Anarquista therica).

FAI mombers were confined in various prisons, such as the Sevilla, the
Modelo prison of Barcelona & the lilbegotten prison in Zaragoza -
Where the Prison Support Committee In 1922 fused with the CNTistas,
agrocing even to a General Strike with shouts of Viva the honorable.
prisonerst,” and "Viva the CNTT"

in fact, it was In the viclent crack-down & imprisonment of the

workers I that same reglon from which the term “chain gang (cuerds
de presos) s derived

These are but fow examples of such pulse-pumping comraderle, and
ow the shared struggle - inside & out - has tremendously assisted In
fueling the Movement for effective mobilization.

Today.

At prosent - the anti-capitalist spirt is an ever-developing twist In the
stomach of the prison Indusitrial complex which perpetualy aches for
successtul robellion against our mutual mastert

Indeed, the numbers of prisoners who, while confined, develop a soclo-
political awareness are swelling at an Irreprossible ratel
e i ooty 60-400 o et s
e Comeery pepeeo o o N
fustad by e (v ety sworecd comptonied methodwhicn

penitontiary wall, itselfl
The outcome - which some (mostiy the non-strikers) may have viewed
1085 - was by hundred others of us from these 3 prisons alone,

‘Spirits are not isolated ones; even while
Physically contained within the iron grip of our cages.

&t anothor prison, in 2010, a coll-neighbor who was inspired by a South
Chicago zine, brought to

Yot. these are only a few ripples amidst the rising wave of
Syndicalist momentum sweeping the consciousness of the
overcrowded American archipelago.

o Sppatita for unified direct action is spontanecusly unsettiing the

Prisons to daclare a hunger strike, in 2000,
500 prisonors in 38 different prisons striked in March 2002; and after an
uprising In May, more than 250 prisoners engaged In work strike, with
strong support from the streets.

And In the U.K., the call o “Say No To Slavery...Say No To Witkes" (a
company profiting on cheap prison labor, offering no union ighte)
furthor attosts that the struggle of the caged siave is Insoperable from
the wage-slaves' In society, here & abroad.

Explolted workers; w live in 3 time & place whars there are mor prisoners than
In any other In documanted history (excluding Stain's Russia).
The ever-expanding Incarcaration rate s proving more than a sure-profit gain for

s Alexander Berkman abserved:

“Capialism thrives not s0 much on division of work as on division of the

rorkers...The sirength of the xploltng class lies n disurited, divided labor. But
the soclal revolution requiros the unity of the toling masees.

The call is baing mads for such a solldarity 1o be brought together (and
strongthened) by this eflort.

Prisonerst

Prisoners! You 560 overy day how your'o treated less-than by those paid to wisld
theic authority over you behindlock and key. Analyzs and reflect on the vl of
fospoct your explotist commandors convey to one another, and thon, wits ey
much disrospoct & disrogard they perpetually axtend you!

fyou're fod up by the fact that the grievances you file are time & again retumed
28 frivolous

Brothers & Sistars In chalns, I his draconian environmant has ever reduced you
15,3uch a lavelof despale whare you even bagin o question your own humaniy:
Joln us who passionately understand, i this grassroots cal io mobli.
Broductively against our common Exploltr (ina Sate), hrough protracted
Struggle and love by and for those in Strugle. I we con't des with our esues,
‘our ssues willInvitably doal with us!

In Solidariy,

~Hybachi LoMar
AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INSURY TO ALLI1!

Manifiesto de los Trabajadores Industriales
del Mundo

TRABAJADORES. 8

Sialguna vez hubo un tiempo para nosotros que vivimos en Ia lucha para tomar
1a solidaridad alsiguiente nivel el tiempo es ahora.
El cuerpo de acumulacisn de la Union Big One se encuentra una vitalidad
reprimida en forma cruda incubacién donde Ia cxplotacion es ms compulsivo.

Las prisiones.

La colonia de los EE.UU. penales - que paga un promedio de 0,26 centavos de-

dolarIa hora para cl preso.mientras que dar un tiém mis de $ 47 mil millones al

o del bolsillo del contribuyente - e una afrenta flagrante a a lucha contra la
explotit dentro de todos nosotros!

Mas de 2.3 millones de trabajadores - muchos ven obligados a dejar de funcionar
o ¢l alslamiento cara en estas condiciones infrahumanas - componen este blogue
aislado de la fuerza laboral en todo e pais'
Eltrabajo - realicades relacionadas que empujan a los presos a punto de golpear
de nuevo 1o sl incluye el hecho de que los presos se les paga 12 a 38 veces
+ menos que el estindar de ingresos salariales minimos en ¢l mundo llamado.

libre. En PA. hoy en dia solo, cuando los prisioneros se lesiona, ¢l costo de la
atencion médica es muy superior al salario explotacion de $ 1530 délares al

Por otra part. muchos son esposadas y drogas alos miks osciros agujeros de
Amerika como una forma de accién disciplinaria por desobediencia a uns orden
directa. donde uns vida de (3) cinco duchas minutos por semana, brutal
extraccin de células.y camcorded cavidad brsquedas humilla a todos os que se
resisten a cta servidumbre involuntaria al Estado.

"De hecho, lostrabajadores explotados y explotadas prisioneros son tan sinnimo.
de que - despojads de susctiquetas - Parado al ado a lado.Ia Madre Tierra
tendria un momento dificil decirle a los dos separados!
“Tanto trabajo para producir un beneficio para ls ricos féntras vivia cn I lucha
insuftible. Ambos buscan un fin a una miquina que opera a través de Ia fuerza
productiva y a dominacién.
La solidaridad entre os luchadores por a libertad y unionizers, sin embargo. no
s una idea nucva peculiar. La historia est iluminado con nuestra constante

evolucion legado de pie hombro con hombro contra el capialismo. 79

activistas de renombre - como Emma Goldmar - trabaj6 por centavos en las
éroeles despreciaban, con aspiraciones de ver un dia sus ganancias-que hace
miquina desmantelado, en l siglo anterior.

‘Durante la resistencia contra el sistema de condenar dos compaferos presas
(Sacco y Vanzeti)a la mucrte, los esbieros de las empresas se derrumbd bajo ¢l
peso de las hulgas generales en erupeién e todo el mundo!

‘Ademis, desde los aios anteriores a Ia revolucidn espanola, la CNT
(Confederacién Nacional del Teabajo) se han diatomicaly vinculados con el
militante FAI (Federacién Anarquista Thérica),
miembros de I FAI furon confinados en varias cirocles, como el Sevilla, la crcel
Modelo de Barcelona y I prision malos nacido en Zaragoza - donde ¢l Comité de
‘Apoyo prisién en 1922 fusiond con el CNTistas, aceptando incluso a una huclga
‘eneral con gritos de WViva los prisioneros honorablel - Viva la CNTI -
'De hecho, fu en Ia violenta ofensiva contra y encarcelamiento de los
trabajadores en la misma region de a que ¢l término “bands de la cadena®
(Cuterda e Presos) derivada est

Estos son sl algunos ejemplos de ales pulso de bombeo de camaraderia, y como
1alucha compartida - dentro y por fuea - ha ayudado crormemente en ¢l
fomento del Movimiento para la movilizacion de efectivos

Hoy en dia

Enla actualidad - el espiritu anti-capitalista es un giro cada vez ms en
desarrollo en cl esidmago del complejo industral d prisones que.
‘constantemente sufe por rebelion exitosa contea nuestro amo mutuo!

'De hecho, el nimero de presos que, mientras que limita, desarrolla una
conclencia socio-politica son hinchazon en una tasa incontenible!

‘Confinado en el SCI-Greene, fuitestigo de primera mano este fervor conscinie
inspirar a aproximadamente 300 a 400 companeros de prision a boicotear la
prision de Comisario del Departamento, en 2008,
Enfurecido por e método de entonces) nueva forzadas informatizad en n e 3
‘menudo se rechuza prescnado ls hjas de la burbuja'.y alimentada por os
rumores de SCI-Somerst y pesos C1-Fayete boicot a st sin cerebr” st
- muchos de nootros paricipa en uestra primera mis boicot e deris de la
pared penitenciario st b4l

Elresltado - que algunos (sobe odo los no huelguisas) pueden haber viso
como una pédida - fue por ofros centos de nosotrosde estastescireeessolo.

ficilmente entendido com una utidad indiscutible.
‘Una ganancia de saber que muestros espiritus nio estin aislados unos, aunque
fiicamente conenida el pufo e hierro de muestrs jaulas.

Una ganancia de experiencia en la utilizacion del instrumento de solidaridad. en
el entendimiento de que sus rajces socio-economica que da lugar a las
instituciones i todos, debemos atacart

Enotra prision. en 2010, una célula del vecino que se inspird en una revista sur
de Chicago. me trajo a I conciencia de una inerupeien del trabsjo tom parte
en 1o muuchos aios antes de conocer a conocimiento de los dems.

Estas alimas impulsado 1a conciencia-se somefieron a una accién disciplinaria
nevitablemente,arriesgando su libertad condicional e principio, més dué por el
mero hecho de centavo a subir en su salario que resulté de su desafo colctivol

También, como una revista ha publicado recieniemente revela. oprimidos
uchador por 1 libertad.Jerome White-Bey. ha fundado la prision de Missouri
Sindical (MPLU). se ha enfrentado (2) alos en régimen de sislamiento como
consecuencia de elo.y continia a extendeér I conciencia detds de I cerradura
y clave,a pesar de un problema de salud que amenaza la vidai

Sin crubargo, estas son 610 algunas ondas en medio de I creciente ola de un
‘movimiento sindicalista radicalde la conciencia del archipiélago estadounidense
de hacinamiento,

Elapetito por I accién directa unificado espontancamente inquietante es el
vientre de la besta en fodo el pais,como puede verse en el hambre varias huelgas
a conocer a través de Ia Coalicion por os Derechos Humanos (CDH):- En michos

cuya pasion sc hace eco de Ia agitacion en las mazmorras de Estados Unidos que
e los Que actuaimente sumido en las huelgas generales a través el Atlico
I Espana de hoy. por ejemplo, Ia dominacion violenta adminisirado por ¢l
VIES unidades de aislamiento levo acerca de 400 presos en 21 cArceles diferentes
a declarar una huelga de hambre,en el aito 2000.
500 presos en 38 careeles diferentes tachado en marzo de 2002 y después de un
Jevantamiento en mayo. msde 250 presos participan n a huclga de trabsjo,
con un fuerte apoyo de s calles.

e el Reino Unido, Ia lamada a"Di noa I esclavita... i o a s Wilkos (ans
empress aprovechando a mano de obra barata d prison,sin orecer derechs
sindicales) una prucba mas de que a ucha de Iosesclavos cnjaulados e
inseparable e ls saarios esclavos en I sociedad. aqui y en ¢l extranjero

s trabajadores explotados, vivimos en un tiempo y lugar donde hay ms
prsioneros que en cualquier ofro en la historia documentada (con exclusion de
Rusia de Staln).

La tasa de encarcelamiento en constante expansién estd resultando mis que una
‘ganancia segura de lucro para el capitalisa, es también una mazmorra
industriaes de pared que se cierne sobre todas lasideas de Ia libertad:

Con abolicionistas e hoy Ia prision ambicioso, activistassindicales y prolterians
encarcelados en a licha de trabajar en estrecha colaboracion, las ortalezas de la
‘constitucion capitalsta consecuentemente se debiltan
¥ romper con a resistencia colectiva.

Como Alexander Berkman observt.

“H capitalismo no se desarrolla tanto en la division del trabajo como en la
division de o trabajadores .. La fuerza de a clase explotadora se encucnira en
desunidos, el trabajo dividido. Pero 1a revolucién social requiere Ia unidad de las

‘masas trabujadoras.

La llamada se hace a una soldaridad que se reunid ( fortalecr) por este
estuerzo.

Esth ¢ una propuesta audaz y necesario teniendo en cuenta que los rechusos que
demucstran 040 acto de desobediencia o e ls concede el mismo derecho a

reunirse pacificamente como los que en el exterior y 1a represicn que enfrentan
os huclguistas fucra manifesiantes a menudo son ajenos . Y., sin embargo, la
wnenazay uso de la fuerza del Estado ha sido incapaz de dominar alos reclusos
e la explotacion de reunion a I llimada de la solidaridad (com se ha visto s
ecientemeute en Georgia, donde I huelga de circel mas grande de la historia de

ELUU. se ha desarrolado)

Hacemos wn amaniiento a la conciencia dentro de 1a quema a todos a unirse con
nosotros en I aceion directa a un ivel s organizade.
deas paa Io que debe y se puede hacer. los debates sobre Ia forma en que puede
toma hasta el nivel e resistencia colectiva (de dentro y fuera de los muros de la
prision) también son temas importantes que desean tener reuniones con los
activos de las mentes. 3

Presos
Presos: Usted ve todos s dias com se esth tratada de muunera menos-que por los

pagados a ejercer su autbridad sobre t detrds de la cerradura y lave Analizary
relexi

i sobre el vl de respeto sus comandantes explotist rausmiten wnos &
otros y. a confinuacion. con Ia cantidad de fala de respeto y desprecio que
constantemente se ampliat
Siesas cansado de los menos-que-humano desprecio, Ia servidumbre perpetua
falta de respeto e involuntaria a Ia esclavitud institucionalizada;
Siess harto de ener su comida manipulada o comidos por los guardias cuando
estis en l aguiero;,
S esta alimentado por el hecho de que las qucjas que presente son l tiempo y
otra vez volvio como frivolas';

Hermanos y hermanas en las cadenas, si este ambiente draconianas te ha
reducido Ll nivel de desesperacion en el que incluso empiezan a cuestionar su
propia humanidad. inele a nosotros entendemos que con pasién, en est base
lamada a movilzar productivamente en contra de nuestra comin explotador (el
Estado ) través de lucha prolongada y el amor por y para los de lucha. i no se
‘ocupan de nuestros problemas. muestros problemas,inevitablemente,tratar con

nosotrost

En solidaridad,

- LeMar Hybachi

“The whole value of education consists in respect for the

physical, intellectual & moral faculties of the child.”

~ Francisco Ferrer

“By becoming Anarchists we deciare war agaiast al this wave of deceit, cuning,
exploitation, depraving, vice - in a word, inequality - which they have poured into our
hearts. We declare war against their way of acting, against their way of thinking. *

=~ Peter Kropotkin
The RESISTANCE
From Squatter's Alley 34

‘The ambitions which have becn burning within us in these empermental times -
cannot ceas from spreading throughou the alleys we dumpster-dive i - any more

The fever of Resistance intensifies.Is chemical reaction burst forth. And due to
its scientifc nature - ouses the writhing flames which become more & more
diffcult to contain & put out!

From a social-scientific levl, were historicaly known as the lower,or "working
class:* The "Aave nots" who produce ll the wealth for the rich, whilo we live i
merciless struggle.

Degruded and - which is worse - unconscious of their shame, generaions
eceeded one another living in the mids1of wealthand abundance wihous asing
that happiness a ew: have monopolised. Withthe Earth belonging 1o afow; hose
14ho possess none of it must hire hemselves 1o those who do posses . f they are
10 keep their hides and skeletons on foot, 4+

wrotethe incendiary revolutionary Ricardo Florcs Magon

And that,

The huniliation of hir or hunger - hi s thedilemma which fores humanity

el to put on sel the chains o slavery ( i.e. wage-slavery ), i i would cwoc
perishing by starvation or giving itself up 1o crime or prosttution. e

A ot the"upper clas” (the capitalis class) who break their backs doing
onstruction work in the city. scraping to provide for themselves & thir children,
o class- s g wha siuggle at th botom and on the margins of socily -
Wwho perform all the physial abor!

A4 ur disempowersd (but massive) class wh've bult thes homes they throw us
Jutof s if we were ks than animals! Homes they clim it illegal to 1ve n f we
car't come up with the money (0 pay!

The effcts of this are socilly staggering.-and insuling, as wel!

Over 40720 popic, o, i othes words, 458 percent of Chicago's homeless
population are made up of families!

children who were homeless throughout he tate of linois n the 20082009
school vear—hirty-one percent or. nearly 13 of all children in.

<

The Poverty-ine, for family of 1, s an average annusl income of $10490.
In 3 household of 3, f the anaual income of $18,530 (or less), the people In t
houschold are said (o be living under the Poverty-line.

According o the 2011 HH's Poverty Guldelines:

Personsin Family 48Contiguous States & DC. Alaska Hawai

1 510,890 Si3600 si2s40
2 14710 1838 16930
3 18,530 B0 1320
4 2350 7940 28710
s 26170 270 30000
6 29990 750 34490
7 31,810 220 3w
s 37,630 00 o

Now, the average price for property in Chicago, is S103.635!

With over 1.5 million of usliving In poverty in linois; and at least 44 million
people living In poverty across the country, the axiom that "property is
thefi"++=* isnt some revolutionary thelorc - /s a living Reality!

I unecessary extortion, and worthy of our impulse to organize a necessary
resistance agains the stablished order of things. To purge our neighborhoods from
these parastic robber barons who feed off us in the name of law and order.

‘Were the hisoric struggle for liberation repeating iself against these and allforces
of domination. The Movement which stands unmoved despite relocation, arest and
repression.

Our Mutual Struggle as a

international Culture of Resistance

‘While the Paris Commune,in 1871 receives much historical attention as one o the
first expropriations of buikdings, on a mass scale,the resistance s certainly not
‘confined tothat monumental place & time.

In Copenhagen, a carly as November 12, 1897, revolutionaries in the abor
‘movement opened a headquarters, naming it "Folkes Hus” ("The People’s
House"), where such fircbrands as Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg would go
and

110 years late, in that same ciy, neaty 10,000 squattrs alled to occupy
Grondalsvacnge Ale 13; almost 1,000 of them trained for months for pofice
confrontation!

The defiant fervor which fueled collective resistance in revolutionary Spain (1936-
1939) has vt 10 be extinguished despite the violent repression of the Franep

fegime, and can be seen rehashing in squatter collectves, such as those in
Barcelona
Since Uctober, 2004, the KuioAmalia collective has been ative in the sruggle for
Iiberating teritory, and with the purpose of (accaording to one of s founders)
opening *a space to cary on politcal and cultural work in Barcelona,” where the
excrcise in directaction, expropiating a vacant buikling o provide housing for

i v o e kv I
i R Thunde: o smaeb st af e Wi

The rent-srike and squatter movement in South Afka "bankrupied local apartheid
sovemments;" and in Sowelo, 75% of residents refused to pay taxes, uiliy fees.
and rents troughout 1997.

In Alexandria, 97% of the residents refused to pay reat, in that same year!

The largest rent-stike in U.S. history to dat, took place at the Co-op City housing
development in the Bron (N.Y.C.), where 60,000 tenant reisted,in 1975-761
And before that (inthe same city),from 1963-64, 50,000 people collectively
efused 1o pay rent; the final result being that:

“The strike brought about lower renis and the enforcement o building codes, and.
here was a lower incidence of rental increase in buildings that participated in the
suike.”

(Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, #4849,
Winter lssue,2008)

As and-eviction/squatter campaigns spread throughout Latin Amerika (such as in
Argentin, southern Mexico and Brazl) - the Resistance here in the States
continues to grow like a contageon, from coast 0 coast.

The huge, black & red flag i front of our squat at the Lowercase Collective, in
Chicago's northside, waves i an unconsumed flame in solidarity with the
collectives acrossthe colletives across the city. Across the country. Acros the
world!

Ficry ugitators,such as Anthony Rayson and Jane Doe have come to our graffit-
<overed collective, and in addition to talki' evolution - have greatly assisied in
donating radical lterature, pens, cavelopes, and even a photocopying machine to
ssis in chuming out zines & sireagthening our base area of resistance.

In Slovenia right now, an entire hood (the Metelkova neighborhood)
refusing 10 acknowledge their former landlords unseasonable demands; and all
‘Would benefit ffom standing in collective defisnce agains ll and any.

who proclaim themselves the lord o the land)

The very fact, alone, if one would take enough time to reason - that we are forced
1o pay for oof ver our heads is nohing short of lgalized extortion”t

s our class who descrve & belong inthese buildings - no theirs!
‘This is not irational. It s Righteous!

As Ricardo Magon reminds us:

“The Earth s the Property ofal.
The firs owner appeared with he first man who had slaves to work is felds, and
ko, that he mightmake himself mastr of hos saves and of those ields,found
necessary totake up arms and levy war against a sl tibe. Volene, then, was
e orign of propertyinthe Land, and by vioence it has been upheld 10 our own

Tt should aso be remembered, that Nature - by her very essence - could never
conceive such a notion as sheltering ourselves (snd our children) as something
condemnable; only commendable! 27

In"The Conquestof Bread, Kropotkin wrote that "New Iife needs new
conditions," and that *when the revolution comes,(free housing ) wil be the first
‘question with which the poor will concer themselves.” So we see that at this point
of time of survival pending revolution, its only naturalthat we - the mass poor -
organize o bring about such new conditions, ourselves! 'Hood by hoo.

‘Our human natur is a burming counterpart of Nature as a whole; and just s the
Environment is suffring due to the exploitation of Nature, 50 ae we suffeing duc.
tothe exploitation of property & adequate housing!

We cant divorce oursclves from this reality any more than we can divorce

ourselves from the things our hearts & conscience know intimately as right, and
irue!

1t only naturalthat the atrocious force heaving down the impoverished neck of
ur neighborhoods becomes the fan of our growing and irrsistable flame!

o the squaters occupying social centers in Barcelons,Spain and throughout
Greece; to the MINDSETBREAKERPRESS collectve inthe Philippincs;

Tothe defiant bliz squattes in Norway the EKH in Ausria; to the Kopi callective
in Berlin and the Rota Flora in Hamburg, and squattrs all over the world:
The Resistance in North Amerika raises its clenched fist of solidarity with you all
Let's federate! Ler's communaly & intemmationally organize!

LAND FOR THE PEOPLE,
NOT FOR THE EMPIRE!

TURN THAT BOARD-UP

IFONVISISTH
40 VIYV dSVA V OLNI

“Fincw the

Prisons: An Anarchist Insurrectionary Quarterly, (2009)

“Tierra ¥ Libertad: Land & Liberty: ANARCHIST INFLUENCES IN THE
MEXICAN REVOLUTION

“*eihid

“Picrre-Joseph Proudhon

Tierra ¥ Libertad: Land & Liberry: ANARCHIST INFLUENCES IN THE
MEXICAN REVOLUTION

By Hybachi Levar 73

July,03,2014
- "What We Want- BAF Platform and Program" (4(a)

Rt g sseomsio s s

hrough sheer love and struggl - n my development ntothe revoutionary | am
today,

Resistance against what?

Resistance against umecessary homelessness (which disproportionately affect us
people of color)

For every 1 homeless person thereare § empty, renovatable houses n the Us.|

An estimated 1 millon are homeless throughout the country, with about 5 millon
renovatable buildings.

There are 400 abandone/undomiciled houses inour particlar neighborhood
{Englewood) alone -an all lack neighborhood in the heart of Chicago's

Southside where poverty, police harassment, and astiddering staccato of atillery
has become an hour-to-hour, genocidal socalimpediment.
"Do you fel th policeare racs in Englewood?” Ten out often people replied es

and inally,

“What's your vision of wht you'dlike to see here in Englewood as a resident of this
community?”

‘The answers ranged from Black unity o field Housing fo the neighborhood youth.
An overwhelming response was a vision of a more sanitary neighborhood; th issue.
of sanitation being a major concern.

To cate 1o this and the community's needs, we've opened the Englewood Uberation
Schoo,located on the corner of Garfeld and Elizabeth Avenues, Chicago, L 60636.

is. JoNina and Bro. Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin have been resourceful in roviding BAF
membership applications and revolutionary Iterature from Memphis.

‘Anthony Rayson of South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross and Matt Muchowski o the
IWW have also been resourceful in providing materialaid - from zine tables o chairs
10 posters, hammers and nalls. Support from rianna of the Ida . Wells Coalton in

Kansas Cty has been an enormous help in providing a phone that we can conduct
conference cals n directly from our location.

Get nvolved

fin the Chicago area, and interested i getting your hands i the mud of grassroots
revolutionary activism with us, the Englewood Liberation School brings a
‘motiating presense for community-consclousness raising and direct action.

The School wil consist of Téacvins.

Knowledgeable about something that could benefit others to know and wouldr't
mind teaching afew minutes orlonger on t? Calland we can schedule 3 time and
date for you to conducta Teach-n a the Schooll

‘The School serves as a center for conducting nelghborhood meetings.

Calland et us know wht community Isue(s) you may have and when you'd like 1o
use our School for communiy space.

The School serves a5 base area of mobilzation fo protests and demonstrations.

The Englewood Liberation School serves as a space forspeaking engagements for
rassroots community actvists and workshop tabling.
Those ot nth Chicago area who maybentresed i bidingthe Mvement. 10
crors h i bl n s a orain o o ot 10k e et
oftamlste o genrating -evloonarysmsghere st reponio e
immcite neds 4 long. e o of e poo commontg T ool

r receptie o evutonary s, r s o and v ety ot o e
oo ko n e et Yo v e st e

Hybachi LeMar
BAF Local Organizing Committee

Chicago Chapter

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(This is an article written on Day-3 of our sit-in at Whittier
Elementary School in a south Chicago ghetto. 9;

As wite thi, I can't help but periodically glonce ot a framed picture of
anarchist/wobbly Lucy Parsons (presented as an award tolast year's
demonstrotors) steeped a few feet off the ground, towards the front & center of
the schoo's gymnasium floor
Her eyes:sharp, keen, and loaded with love, sits with us os if wotching-on, and.
with on irreverent dignity those of us resisting tonight con not only e, but
intimately comprehend, as wel.

Day 3 of Sit-In at a School With No
Library Rouses Revolutionary Spirit of

Solidarity
6/24/11

“Conditions make the man, not the man the conditions. Some day, when society
has grow wise crongh and just enough to make conditions pleasurable for her
children, they will ot be possessed of those low, brutal propensites which cause
them to imbruc their hands i their brother’ blood, but those who say these
things are sneered at as “oranks and dreamers-*
(Licy Parsons, <Crime, Violence and Suicide?)

L0/ ——————
hostiltyon the srets of south Chicago. 92

“The It sit-in was demonstrated last fall (Seplember.2010),
‘Well over a hundred outraged & vigiant parents (mostly hispanic mthers)
‘occupie the Whitter Flementary Schoofsfied house,at 23rd and Damen Strects.

‘Their demands were simplc. The clementary students deserve a library; and they
demanded they haveone

“They also wanted a communiy-space o closer community involvement with the

Ao (13) impassioned demonstrators (mostly woumyin of color) lepton sir
maltresses o the loorsinside the school; and, aftr around 43 days of unyielding
esistance.the demonstrators (more importantly. the youtl echaicall” won &
were promised a library; but never received one.

early a year lter. community outrage has i,

Hordes o polce i in opportunistic wait outside community-<rected barricades.

bt sevolutionariesiconcemned activists, members from the Industial Workers of
the World (IWW) & the Anarchist Black Cross collctive are embraced amid the
soldarity & ake vigilance during our night-watch on this Sed day of the it

s adltion o thei unfulfilled prowises; and, long with the new threat of
emalishing the school. Cristo Rey - a private shool located around the coener from
\Whiter Elementary - wanis 10 take over the premises 0 transform ko a soccer

ficld for thei privae initatve.

Money and property - as is typical inallcapialst pursuits - lies i the root of this
assault o the mind of our youth and community

Upon being being offered $365.000 10 end th sitin.one concerned & ethically-
iven mther exclaimed. “This is a war over territory! Why don' they give us the
meneythei eying 1o destroy our childrensschool with o help n t development?
e fac ha this comumunity ivs in below poverty-line conditions;that
hose ({rankly non-whites) who ive here grow up systematicaly profled in the

Sreets they'e lft o strugle & strive in - gives the youth no ahernativein choosing.
alibrary aise 10 the alleys where conflictsare resolved with weapons rather

than words- 9z

‘Morcover, such asaulsbythe sa are genocidal i nature (senocidal. meaning the
extermination of an entire rac).

“The US. prison industry s disproportionately populated by blacks & hispanics.

‘The number of blacks i prison,for example. far outnurmber that of the number of
imprisoned whits.although blacks only make up 12.5 percent of the entire US
population.

“This takes on a decper meaning when we consider that an astonishing three-fourths
ofthe 2.3 milion people imprisoned in this countty are functionally illierate:

S0 we see that what we'ee engaged n i ot only a territorialtug of war over the.
land; but also, one over the mind.

Readers,if we want the future 1o be truly “democratically” ours & fre from

the competiton of cut-throat capitalist, our surest ( and historicaly validated )
‘means of fulfilling that wan i o take matters into our own hands through direct-
democracy®

For books not barst
For free societyin the generations which willfllow our v

I Solidarity withthe demonstrators atthe Whitir sit-in.
- Hybachi Lemar
0t was ever thus. The dream of one century. if it contained truth and justice became

the actuality o te next century.*
(ucy Pursons 1906,

They never wanied us o make it Evesything that we posess.
we had o ght (o) & tak it

(Tupac Shakur)
RESISTANCE ALIVE IN LATHROP
HOMES 94

Occupy the Projects!

o
Hybach Lot

“The expropriation of dwellings contain in germ
the whole socal revolution.”

(Peter Kropolkin, “The Conquest of Bread)

“All power comes from the people, and ail power must
also be vested in them. Anything olse Is theft.”
(Huey P Newton, “Rovolutionary Suicide")

“The peopl

and the people alone, are the motive force In the making of
history.”
(Mao Ze Dong, Aprl24,1945)

Tee ace wone vaoax suomos o Lo T HERE
ARE HONELESS PEOPLE I CHICAGO. T ap eton hehves .
10 hve-rots coninus 0 wdan, and oo u (sspocih) pool of
o rs b i oo ot Tkt oo

hoods in the cily. In the country. In the colonized WORLD, AT LARGE -
whether 10 be run-over withoul a fight, of o Resist!

On Thursday, September 6, at five o'clock n the evening, while (predomi-
nantly middle-class, white college) students Occupied Chi'downiown in the
financial district, a rally to save a housing project was under way among us.
(for the most part) peopl of color.
‘The residents of the Lathrop Homes and sireel activists in Chicago's north
side marched toward the south side of the projocts whara we stood with in-
terlocked hands, forming a human chain, while polce on foot-patrol spec-
tated from various locations within the winding labyrinth of the towering ten-
ement structures. 9

‘Over 100 marchers - made up of mostly black & hispanic youth and com-
‘munity organizers - mobilized what can be understood as a microcosm of
the growing Resistance, en massel

s supposed to be another one of those flerce Chicago winters,” one
‘speaker blurted out frankly at the demonstration; and anyone familiar with
with the sub-zero temperatures in the city knows just how much a diffr-

‘ence that having a warm buiiding to sleep in and not having one really
makes.

Since plans were announced in 2006 to tear down this 36-acre property for
the purpose of building a so-called “mixed income development- i ts
place, lenants and activists have been pressing Mayor Daley & the
Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) to cease from their attempt at destroying
their homes. The sound of "mixed income development “however, reeks
with gentriication, and is the rhetoric before the destruciion and mass dis-
placement, of which other urban Housing Communities such as the

Hanover Acres Homes Housing Projects in Allentown, PA, witnessed
in 2006,

1 asked two demonstrators in thei late teens, marching beside me i they.
‘were from Lathvop. "Bom and raised.” replied one proudly. “They just put
these fences up throughout the 'hood two weeks ago. They're (CHA) tryin'
10 say if's ‘cause of the bangin’ but none of us want these fences here and
they do everything they can to hype everything up!®

'he conversations | freely engaged in with ofher residents - young & old,
ke -led me to the conclusion tha the rest of the community arent thrled
with the penned-up atmospere tha these fences are fforcing, as well

Preservation groups are also joining us in the fight o save these three-

arte of 2 conury ol landmark buidings stuaed alongside tho Chicago
iver.

“These historic, brick buildings are structurally sound, st 75 years later.
‘They can easily be reconfigured for larger housing units,” assured Jim Po-
tors, president of Landmrk,llinois. "Structurally sound:* and yet, since
2007 these strong, red-brick tenement buildings which residents refer to as.
“home" has been under corporate attack.

To say the homelessness here in the Ch s bad, is an understatement.
As of this autumn, there are between 80,000 - 80,000 persons documented
s homeless in Chicago; however, there are over 100,000 bukdings cur-
rently unoccupied due to foreclosures, rent-evictions; and not to mention
the plethora of vacant lots n the city. A city where 31 percent of the youth
five n statistical poverty, and where 45.8 percent are made up of familis!

The situationin the Lathrop Homes gives a prime example of why the
homeless crisis we face in ANYHOOD, USA is not only unnecessary, but a
force of invokunary exchusion worth ising against. 9%

‘Only about 210 of the housing project's 924 units are being occupied. Two-
thirds of the Lathrop Homes are siting occupiably vacant.

National stastistics are no less fulfling. According to estimates, over the
‘course of a year, between 25 million and 3.5 million people will ither five
on the stroet or in an emergency shelte. In addiion, each year, over
600,000 families, with an excess of 1.35 million children experience home-
lessness in the United States.

From this foundation the framework of Resistance is being built. The nor-
linear cycle of Revolution comes full circle.

The iberatory Siruggle becomes cemented with a solidarily no wrecking

ball aimed at the buidings they force us to abandon is able to ever demol-
ish!

Murray Bookehin understood this when he wrole, how:

“Before huge crowds surged around the Bastile
on July 14, 1789, in Paris, or confronted tsarist troops on
the avenues of Petrograd on February 23 and
24, 1917, the people had already established vital
political networks in the slums and working-class neighborhoods
of both cities.

(THE THIRD REVOLUTION: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era
- Volume 1)

The revolutionary bonds being forged from these crumbling, social condi-
tions are giving rise 10 a Resistance among the colonially displaced against
not only Chicago Housing, but against State authoriy, itsell. An authority
which has waged a relentiess and apathetic war against the ‘hood in

its hustie to make a profit at our expensel

According to a recent report from DePaul Universily's Real Estate Center,
‘Cook County "will face a shorfall of 78,000 unis of affordable housing

by 2020.*

With the mass-mobilizing of the poor and resistant standing in solidarity,
however, as demonsiraled today, our chances of buikding a revolutionary
movement (o successiull fight displacement can only grow harder and
harder {0 overcome.
_Unifed in Sfrus

et the middle-class who bull-hom for reform with warm homes 10 go to,
continue occupying the sidewalks i center cily. As for us - who've already
been thrown out onlo the sireets ( and those of us who face being thrown
out due 10 our poverty ) - et us embrace a more revolutionary resolve by
occupying empty buildings so that we and our increasingly homeless youth
won'l ireeze 10 dealh, or suffer frostbite n the city this winter! | mean come.

on. well heih 9y

“This s autonomy and every day that we confront injustice and
initiate solutions to our problems, collectively and individually,

‘we are creating liberating spaces within our nelghborhoods and
‘most importantly within our minds because we rid ourselves of the
mentality that some leader has to swoop into our communities and

save us from Injustice.”
(Robert "Saleem" Holbrook, Biack Autonomous Movements)

i Solidarity with Residents standing up in the Lathrope Homes,

~Hybachi LeMar
of the Resistance

This book is dedicated to the cutter and contemplator ofsuicide; the.

ideological oddball; the oppressed prisoner sitting on the edge of their bunk:
all I'e wronged before becoming socio-poliically aware (except the State); to
those who've miade their ife personal revolution in tself and to the have-nots
o society who, like me have had 5o much taken from us that we litrally fecl

that we have nothing (o lose.
strive 10 oppress and exploit the working class, and gain power for themaelves,
whether they come from the right o lefi, will always be threatened by
Anarchism... Anarchists want to get rid of the greatest perpetrator of violence
throughout history: govermment!™

- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
South Chicago ABG
Zine Distro
P.O. Box 721
Homewood, IL 60430