Submission
“These texts were written in response to our various experience during the first day and night of OccupyICE. While the encampment has changed a lot since, we feel that the power dynamics and social situation still warrant these critiques.”
[Zine Web]
This is straight up embarrassing. Y’all true and real anarchists can’t even hold your own against Vest Socialists and your response is to write a zine to suggest things for them to do. There’s no will to enforce even your own desires and I’m gonna go ahead and laugh as you sulk back to the night.
I feel like the existence of this text better serves as a message to the so called “red anarchists” that infect organizing circles in the city. We know socialists aren’t going to listen to us but as an avenue to highlight the power dynamics that occurred, I feel like it does a decent job
response to comment at 9:00am
this zine is not the only interaction anarchists had with vest socialists, it’s a text responding to the first night’s dynamics. anarchists continued to show up despite the vest socialists, despite being “kicked out” multiple times by authoritarians. there were a number of fruitful and frustrating conversations. anarchist perspectives and practices were shared and elaborated upon. anarchists participated in small conversations and the large assembly. interpreting this zine as anarchists folding to leftist authority is a stretch at best.