Saturday, December 27, 2008

Jan 20: An invitation to ungovernables

Dec 20, anarchists across the US made gestures of solidarity with the rebellion in Greece. Putting into practice some of our earlier experiments from the summer and before, nodes in a network of revolt made attacks on monuments of capitalism and the state -- but our force of attack was limited. Our capacity could not meet the demands of urgency because we are dispersed over such a large geography. We would like to meet again to share more, and to do this as a force with a central point of entry.

Dec 20, anarchists across the US made gestures of solidarity with the rebellion in Greece. Putting into practice some of our earlier experiments from the summer and before, nodes in a network of revolt made attacks on monuments of capitalism and the state -- but our force of attack was limited. Our capacity could not meet the demands of urgency because we are dispersed over such a large geography. We would like to meet again to share more, and to do this as a force with a central point of entry.

Jan 20, a president will be inaugurated in Washington DC. There is already a call for an anti-capitalist manifestation to converge at a location away from the inaugural address and make capital and its appendages our object. We want to use this opportunity to extend the gestures we made on Dec 20, but in a more social context. In global capitalism, what happens in Athens, what happens in Marseilles, and what happens in St. Paul, inhabit the same worlds. The insurrection in practice does not begin at this or that location for this or that cause, it merely manifests at different frequencies. This is what Greece knows and what we have yet to see unfold. January 20, we want to put to use the diversion of politics in order to expose a local, organic practice of insurrection – our embodied potential for care and destruction.

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