March 18, 2010

Debates on diversity of tactics

A reply from the old times ...

«If you tremble with indignation about any injustice, you are my comrade (...) True rebels don't wear hoods, for one more reason: During the revolution, people should be able to recognize the revolution’s avant-guard in their faces. Peoples don’t take pride in associating with hooded persons.»

Ernesto Che Guevara




Given the nature of recent debates re: diversity of tactics, below are
some specific resources for your information. While the ORN has come
together under a basis of unity that explicitly respects a diversity of
tactics (http://olympicresistance.net/content/about), the articles and
videos below covers a range within the debate.

* For coverage, reports, and analysis on the Convergence as awhole please
check Vancouver Media Co-op and other independent media. Also, ORN
statment celebrating success of the Convergence:
http://olympicresistance.net/content/orn-celebrates-success-convergence-0

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VIDEOS:

Report from Heart Attack
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/video/2752

The National Lawyers Guild vs BC Civil Liberties:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/video/2779

Debate on Diversity of Tactics
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/video/2916

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GENERAL INFO:

Solidarity and Unity Statement:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/2739

"Criminal Element” is VANOC and IOC
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/2742

Setting the Record Straight on Violent Protest and the Olympics
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/commentary/2010/02/07/setting-record-straight-violent-protest-and-olympics

Assessing the Anti-Olympics Protests in Vancouver
http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=2017

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ON DIVERSITY OF TACTICS:

In defense of the black bloc: A communique from Olympic resisters
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/2792

Thoughts on the anonymous communiqué from members of the Black Bloc by
Andrew Loewen: http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/2790

No action is sufficient in itself, black bloc or otherwise - A response to
Judy Rebick, Andrew Loewen, and others:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/blog/oshipeya/3044

Breaking Windows is not a revolutionary act by Judy Rebick:
http://transformingpower.ca/en/blog/breaking-windows-not-revolutionary-act

The Black Bloc and the 21st Century anti-Colonial Movement at the Olympics
-A response to Judy Rebick: http://www.peaceculture.org/drupal/node/492

Activists Debate Vancouver Olympic Protests by Derrick O'Keefe (with
extensive debate within the comments):
http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=1053

Response to Derrick O'Keefe about the black bloc and Heart Attack demo:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/oshipeya/3029

Tactical Considerations:
http://resistrantrelax.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/tactical-considerations/

Some Thoughts on Vancouver and the Black Bloc by David Rovics:
http://mostlywater.org/im_better_anarchist_you_some_thoughts_vancouver_and_black_bloc_0

Black Blocs, ‘Violence’ and the Possibilities of Action:
http://peaceculture.org/drupal/node/485

Black Bloc vs. Liberal Shlock
http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/10839

Rhetorical Militancy for a Rhetorical Mass Movement? If Only We Could Make
Them Like Us
http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/john-garvey/3040

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