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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> November 7, 2004 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, At this moment in history in a country called América - after all the elections last week in the United States, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela and Chile - there is a lot of thinking to be done. When it comes to changing the world, or one's town, we have to look back at elections and ask, "Is that all there is?" The Notes from Nowhere collective, authors of "We Are Everywhere," bring the good news that the answer is "no." That strategies of "seizing power" (including elections) are fast becoming secondary to those that have shown to change the power dynamics in society. Thus, part six of this seven-part series of essays on Narco News, is especially timely for all of us wondering where we go from here: Power: Building It Without Taking It http://www.narconews.com "Power: Building It Without Taking It," is an essay that leans heavily on the Zapatista strategy of not trying to seize state power, but rather, of replacing it by strengthening the positions of Civil Society outside of and over the State. “The desire to conquer the state maintains the illusion that the state is the foundation of sovereignty and autonomy,” the authors reflect. “But in the networked world of global capital, the state is merely a node in a web of power, woven between the banks, stock exchanges, corporate headquarters, and multilateral institutions.” This essay delves deeply into recent events in one of the countries we report on, somewhere in América: Argentina, and its social struggles that have toppled presidents and defied dictates of the International Monetary Fund. The discourse, though, is applicable to any social cause. For example, in seeking a better journalism, do we merely want a column of our own in the New York Times or our own half-hour on a major TV network? Or do we create a more compelling newspaper, even if only online, that answers to different motives and principles than the money-driven mission of media that is dependent on advertising dollars? Or, take the drug war: Many reformers are obsessed with the laws against drug use and the use of state power that ruins millions of lives through its prohibitionist policies. And yet what of the private sector ruination of the lives of peaceful pot smokers through, for example, compulsory urine tests and loss of livelihood for those who don’t comply? Not all the threats come from the state, nor can the state protect us from all drug prohibitions. The obsession with the state detours us from creating the world and community we desire. 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