Arabian Sights (2011-10-18) Dismantling the Politics of Comfort ..... Fake Revolutions
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| | Dismantling the Politics of Comfort (For more details of this excellent article/interview, scroll down to the bottom) "... The obligation is to effect a measurable change. If you conduct your protest activities in a manner which is sanctioned by the state, the state understands that the protest will have no effect on anything...There's a whole feel-good ethic out there. It's not [to] effect any substantive change. It's to bear moral witness to make the person feel good, to assuage their conscience in exactly the fashion you were talking about: they can then posture as good and decent people, while engaged in active complicity in the crimes they purportedly oppose. Complicity of acquiescence: that's the "Good German Syndrome...
You can gauge the effectiveness—real or potential at least—of any line of activity by the degree of severity of repression visited upon it by the state. It responds harshly to those things it sees as, at least incipiently, destabilizing. So you look where they are visiting repression: that's exactly what you need to be doing.
People engaged in the activity that is engendering the repression are the first people who need to be supported—not have discussion groups to endlessly consider the masturbatory implications of the efficacy of their actions or whether or not they are pure enough to be worthy of support. They are by definition worthy. Ultimately, the people debating continuously are unworthy. They are apologists for the state structure; [and] in [effect], try to convince people to be ineffectual...
For all the rhetoric, there is no nonviolent context operating here—not at all. The more you become in any sense effectual, you're going to be confronted with the violence of the state to maintain order of a sort that perpetuates its functioning. So nonviolence renders one vulnerable to the lethal counter-force of the state. So there's tangible fear. It's basically, politically a consecration or concession of physical force to the state by those who purport to oppose the state...
Basically, nonviolence as it is practiced, espoused in the U.S., is not Gandhian. Gandhi never articulated anything that precluded personal sacrifice. This is a non-Gandhian appropriation of his principles for the purpose of confirming personal comfort. So it's a politics of the comfort zone..."
Ward Churchill 
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." Chairman Mao 
If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." The revolution lives on not in words to live for it, but in one's heart to die for it. In a revolution, one triumphs or dies (if it is a true revolution). Che Guevara 
Fake Revolutions: The Civil Society Revolution Consulting Business Tony Cartalucci  |
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| Occupy Wall Street and "The American Autumn": Is It a "Colored Revolution"? Michel Chossudovsky | | Historically, progressive social movements have been infiltrated, their leaders co-opted and manipulated, through the corporate funding of non-governmental organizations, trade unions and political parties... |
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"Manufacturing Dissent": The Corporate Financing of the Protest Movement
Michel Chossudovsky
Occupy Wall Street Protesters suckered into a trap
Paul Joseph Watson
"A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, 'I'm going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.' No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing 'We Shall Overcome'? Just tell me. You don't do that in a revolution. You don't do any singing; you're too busy swinging..."
Malcolm X
An Indigenous Platform Proposal for "Occupy Denver"
"...In observing the "Occupy Together" expansion, we are reminded that the territories of our indigenous nations have been "under occupation" for decades, if not centuries. We remind the occupants of this encampment in Denver that they are on the territories of the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute peoples. In the U.S., indigenous nations were the first targets of corporate/government oppression. The landmark case ofJohnson v. McIntosh (1823), which institutionalized the "doctrine of discovery" inU.S. law, and which justified the theft of 2 billion acres of indigenous territory, established a framework of corrupt political/legal/corporate collusion that continues throughout indigenous America, to the present.
If this movement is serious about confronting the foundational assumptions of the current U.S. system, then it must begin by addressing the original crimes of the U.S.colonizing system against indigenous nations. Without addressing justice for indigenous peoples, there can never be a genuine movement for justice and equality in the United States. Toward that end, we challenge Occupy Denver to take the lead, and to be the first "Occupy" city to integrate into its philosophy, a set of values that respects the rights of indigenous peoples, and that recognizes the importance of employing indigenous visions and models in restoring environmental, social, cultural, economic and political health to our homeland.
We call on Occupy Denver to endorse, as a starting point, the following…"
http://www.russellmeansfreedom.com/2011/an-indigenous-platform-proposal-for-occupy-denver/
American Indian Movement of Colorado
An Indigenous Platform Proposal for "Occupy Denver"
"...When John Baptized Jesus, he said I baptize you with water but there is one coming after me that will baptize you with fire. Why fire? Because nothing remains in its present form when fire touches it.
America must be burned.
Listen to me because I really do not care no more about what anybody thinks...
America is no good at all...if you had made a promise that you do not keep what are you? You are a liar.
Did they promise the native Americans?
Did they write it in treaties? Did they fulfill it?
Did they promise us 40 acres and a mule? Did they fulfill it?...
Cannot you open your eyes and see the house is burning.
We are dying everyday and we are in a hell of a condition because we made a covenant with a government that is death itself, with a PEOPLE that have lied to us, decieved us and murdered us and robs us good on one side and kicks us on the behind on the other.
You are a decieved people.
If you do not have the testicular fortitude to say what needs to be said then sit down and stop saying that you speak for our people, and the hurt of the poor...
so do not look to them look to God, to yourself, break your covenant with hell and death and make a covenant with black America and let us help implement a road map that will free us and the whites that will be freed can be freed by this. The Mexicans, the hispanics can be freed by this road map.
We are universal people. But those at the top their only way [is] to hell. And if I have any power I want to push them into hell as fast as I can..."
Farrakhan Speech
Tavis Smiley "State of the Black Union"
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