nettime Fwd: Prelude to the G8: Tearing it up in Hamburg
-- Forwarded message -- From: *severino de giovanni* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 29, 2007 1:50 PM Subject: Prelude to the G8: Tearing it up in Hamburg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] please forward!!! Prelude to the G8: Tearing it up in Hamburg By the Anti-G8 Action Faction http://hatetheg8.blogspot.com/ May 28th 2007 On their way to block the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, anti-capitalists from all over Germany and the world stop in Hamburg to confront the Asian-European Meeting (ASEM). Finally, something was happening. We were on the move again. It's been a while and we're a bit out of shape, but it's all coming back now. After linking arms in flanks for five hours straight in a huge, permitted march, we were getting antsy. As the first major demonstration in the lead up to the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, everyone wanted to start it off right. The city of Hamburg needed to send a message to the world that they have the violent demonstrators under total control. The cops must maintain discipline and it will all go smoothly. The protestors wanted to tear the city apart, to show the G8 leaders that they are not welcome here, and anyone who tries to host them will have to pay. With a thousand black clad anarchists in the front and thousands of others behind, the tension was thick. Screaming fight the system, fight the state, fight capitalism, fight G8, the demonstrators were not willing to comprise either their vision or momentum. But who would provoke who first? Would the cops use the water canons? Would the anarchists break through the lines and go off the script? Will the G8 2007 be the opening salvo of a new cycle of struggle against capital, perhaps the final one given the scope of the current ecological crisis? For two years the German autonomous movement in general and the Dissent Network in particular has organized across the world, from the USA to Turkey, for this coming week of action. The stakes have never been higher: until now the War on Terror has cast a pall over the movement, yet in Germany we anarchists and autonomists could again re-seize the stage of history by scoring a decisive victory against capital. Move swiftly. Stop. Fight a bit. Grab something. Then Run. Turn around. Watch out for the Snatch Squad. Which ones are they? Wearing all black with red diamonds on their back. Shit, there they are. They're gonna try and grab us. Move! But who are those ones? Don't worry, it's just the green team. Green team? Yeah, green uniforms, they're like the national guard. They won't arrest you, they'll just tussle a bit. And them? Who? The darker green and dark blue. Oh them, well, they're here to stop you. Be careful. The modern incarnation of the autonomous movement is distinctly anarchist, mostly young, and quite, quite punk. Even though the movement had been ebbing over the last few years, it appears the arrival of the G8 in Germany, combined with the police raids in early May on anti-G8 centers of activity, have united the often divided and self-critical Autonomen. To the chagrin of the police, the raids also backfired in the popular press, and now it appears that most of the media, and even much of the public, are on the side of the dissidents. Furthermore, in Red Hamburg, the home of insurrections, pirates, and a famous anti-fascist football league, it is often hard to tell the locals from the Black Bloc while in the streets. Shhh. What? Be quiet, they're looking for us. OK, hold it . . . hold it . . . NOW! The police are nervous, very nervous. And rightfully so! For months, the cars of the officials have been burned, and now internationals are streaming into the well-run convergence center in Hamburg, the former theatre Rote Flora that has been squatted for nearly two decades. The dynamic of the police is Freudian to say the least: the police would like nothing better than to release their inner fascist and ruthlessly clear the streets of all protesters. Due to such factors as public opinion and their brutality backfiring on them in the courts, they simply cannot just beat the protesters without pretext. So, instead, the officers express their frustration with an anal-retentive attention to detail about the smallest of the rules regarding banner size, demonstrators masking-up, and so on; they often stop demonstrations for up to thirty minutes or more for the most minor of infraction of the rules. The bridge was a trap and everyone knew it. That's exactly where they wanted us to end up and there we were. Yeah some fireworks were shot off, rocks thrown, and a couple arrests, but come on, it was their turf. We had no chance. They've surrounded the Rote Flora. What? The convergence center, you know, that huge squat. Are they going in? Not likely, I think they'll get a beating if they try. Barricades are going up, let's get behind them. The water canons are coming out. Well,
nettime THE NEW YORK CITY INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER RESPONDS TO THE DEATH
http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77958.html THE NEW YORK CITY INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER RESPONDS TO THE DEATH OF BRAD WILL October 29, 2006 New York City Brad Will was killed on October 27, 2006, in Oaxaca, Mexico, while working as a journalist for the global Indymedia network. He was shot in the torso while documenting an armed, paramilitary assault on the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, a fusion of striking local teachers and other community organizations demanding democracy in Mexico. The members of the New York City Independent Media Center mourn the loss of this inspiring colleague and friend. We want to thank everyone who has sent condolences to our office and posted remembrances to www.nyc.indymedia.org. We share our grief with the people of our city and beyond who lived, worked, and struggled with Brad over the course of his dynamic but short life. We can only imagine the pain of the people of Oaxaca who have lost seven of their neighbors to this fight, including Emilio Alonso Fabian, a teacher, and who now face an invasion by federal troops. All we want in compensation for his death is the only thing Brad ever wanted to see in this world: justice. * We, along with all of Brad's friends, reject the use of further=20 state-sponsored violence in Oaxaca. * The New York City Independent Media Center supports the demand of=20 Reporters Without Borders for a full and complete investigation by Mexican authorities into Oaxaca State Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz's continued use of plain-clothed municipal police as a political paramilitary force. The arrest of his assailants is not enough. * The NYC IMC also supports the call of Zapatista Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to compa=F1eros and compa=F1eras in other countries to unite and to demand justice for this dead compa=F1ero. Marcos issued thi= s call especially to all of the alternative media, and free media here in Mexico and in all the world. Indymedia was born from the Zapatista vision of a global network of alternative communication against neoliberalism and for humanity. To believe in Indymedia is to believe that journalism is either in the service of justice or it is a cause of injustice. We speak and listen, resist and struggle. In that spirit, Brad Will was both a journalist and a human rights activist. He was a part of this movement of independent journalists who go where the corporate media do not or stay long after they are gone. Perhaps Brad's death would have been prevented if Mexican, international, and US media corporations had told the story of the Oaxacan people. Then those of us who live in comfort would not only be learning now about this 5 month old strike, or about this 500 year old struggle. And then Brad might not have felt the need to face down those assassins in Oaxaca holding merely the ineffective shields of his US passport and prensa extranjera badge. Then Brad would not have joined the fast-growing list of journalists killed in action, or the much longer list of those killed in recent years by troops defending entrenched, unjust power in Latin America. Still, those of us who knew Brad know that his work would never have been completed. From the community gardens of the Lower East Side to the Movimento Sem Terra encampments of Brazil, he would have continued to travel to where the people who make this world a beautiful place are resisting those who would cause it further death and destruction. Now, in his memory, we will all travel those roads. We are the network, all of us who speak and listen, all of us who resist. The New York City Independent Media Center www.nyc.indymedia.org 4 W. 43rd St., Suite 311 New York, N.Y. 10036 USA / EEUU 212-221-0521 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime May Day 2006 Report from NJCRDC
what a day... more stories at: http://deletetheborder.org/node/1059 onto Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] May Day 2006 Report from NJ Civil Rights Defense Committee The first national general strike in US history occurred yesterday. It was also the largest strike of any kind in the nation's history. At least 1.2 million people participated in day-time rallies in the just the largest cites, with many hundreds of thousands more in 100 or 200 events around the country. Although not all at the rallies were taking off from work, undoubtedly many took off work and did not go to the rallies, so between one and two million workers struck yesterday. This is 10-20% of the entire immigrant workforce. AP estimate of the biggest rallies: 400,000 in Chicago 400,000 in LA 100,000 in San Jose 55,000 in San Francisco 15,000 in Houston 30,000 across Florida In New York City, estimates of size were all over the place, but the 3-mile long March could not have been smaller than 150,000 In certain areas and industries, the strike was almost complete. Agricultural production across both Florida and California came to a halt. Contstuction workers in Florida struck in large numbers. In the Midwest, all three largest meatpackers war forced to close, knowing that if they did not, their workforces would have walked out anyway. In Los Angeles, the garment workers closed the huge garment center and the wholesale food workers struck as well. The independent truckers shut down the ports of Los Angles and Long Beach. Except for some of the meatpackers, none of these groups of workers were in unions. By comparison, in all of last year, labor-union strikes involved 100,000 people. Workers have found the US in 2006, as they have found in other places and at other times that there is another way to fight than traditional union strikes: the political mass strike. What demands for wages or working conditions alone could not do, an ambitious political demand--for the legalization of ALL immigrants--has accomplished. At the same time, the immigrant rights movement, now clearly a movement of the immigrant section of the working class, has discovered that bold, uncompromising demands--for Equal Rights, no deportations--and bold tactics--a general strike-- can achieve unity , while timid realistic demands and tactics cannot. In New York the crowd was overwhelmingly Latino, so the sort of unity achieved among various immigrant groups in Chicago has not yet come to New York. Nor were many native-born in evidence, so the unity of the peace movement and immigrant movement is also yet to be achieved. But it was a joyous and militant crowd. The sure-fire applause lines were all those calling for legalization for all immigrants and equal rights for all. Those were the demands that unified everyone and that had brought them there. At the rally, Saleh Ajaj spoke for NJ Civil Rights Defense Committee on the demand, adopted by the May 1 coalition, to free all detainees. He movingly spoke of being himself detained for 14 months. We then paraded in the midst of the huge crowd with our FREE ALL DETAINEES banner, which got into many photos. Of course, the local English-speaking press declined to publish any of the demands. Importantly, the coalition passed out tens of thousand of flyers calling people to a New York metro regional conference on June 17 and to the next meeting of the coalition, tomorrow night,. Hopefully through these flyers were will bring into a new democratic organizing process some of the key grass-roots activists who mobilized this strike in workplaces and communities. That will be the key to building an ever-growing movement for immigrant and worker rights. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Minutemen Threaten to Shoot Protesters (and their mothers)
Full report with photos, audio, video http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/109981.shtml -- The video we have submitted with this press release shows us attempting to engage the California Minutemen in a lighthearted, humorous manner and their response. Because we were more than 300 yards away, there are limited visuals, but you can clearly hear threats such as you come down here and you will be engaged in a firefight, ...I will shoot your motherfucking ass, and you wanna play, let's play motherfucker. http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/109906.shtml MinuteMen Threaten to shoot protesters, 27MB =3D -http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2005/07/109907.mov This footage was run on Channel 7/39 tonight, the San Diego NBC Affiliate. Tapes were also given to KUSI 51, KFMB 8, and ABC 10. PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release Subject: Minutemen Threaten to Shoot Protesters (and their mothers) From: The Buenas Noches Brigade, an affinity group of Gente Unida Incident Date: July 16, 2005 Incident Time: Approximately 11:30pm Location: Campo, CA (along the U.S./Mexico Border Fence) BACKGROUND: On Saturday, July 16th the Calilfornia Minutemen (formerly known as the Border Patrol Auxiliary) began armed civilian patrols of the border near Campo, CA. In response, more than 150 anti-Minutemen protesters converged in Campo to send a message that they should go home. A primary purpose of the protest was to disrupt the California Minutemen's ability to conduct their patrols. Numerous individuals and affinity groups focused on daytime activities, conducting two protests at the VFW office (one at 12:30pm and another at approximately 5:00pm). The protests clearly aggravated the California Minutemen. The Buenas Noches Brigade was formed to draw attention to the location of the California Minutemen during their evening patrols. Our goal was to subvert their ability to conduct their vigilante activities. In a sense of irony, we chose to adopt tactics similar to when the California Minutemen intercept people who cross their path (as dictated by James Chase on their website). Their tactics include: introducing themselves (Buenos noches, Senor), floodlights, non-physical engagement and friendly dialog. INCIDENT: Our efforts at applying said tactics were met with intense hostility and threats of violence. The video we have submitted with this press release shows us attempting to engage the California Minutemen in a lighthearted, humorous manner and their response. Because we were more than 300 yards away, there are limited visuals, but you can clearly hear threats such as you come down here and you will be engaged in a firefight, ...I will shoot your motherfucking ass, and you wanna play, let's play motherfucker. (Full transcripts follow). Our main intention for sending this release is to illustrate the two faces of the Minutemen. They portray themselves as law-abiding, peaceful, public servants but only slight provocation results in a willingness to use lethal force. They are clearly dangerous and their presence in California should not be tolerated. The Buenas Noches Brigade will be in Campo as long as the California Minutemen are in Campo. CONTACT INFO: Due to the serious nature of the threats made by at least one Minuteman, and our desire to not get our motherfucking asses shot, we would prefer to keep our identities anonymous. We are, however, willing to reveal ourselves to reporters as necessary. TRANSCRIPT (partial): Minuteman: ...let me make this very clear to you, we are armed and we will defend ourselves. This is not like the VFW. You come down here and you will be engaged in a firefight if necessary. Get the fuck out and go home. Buenas Noches Brigade: So what kind of song do you want to hear (laughter)? Minuteman: We are going up the hill to see your ass. Buenas Noches Brigade: I don't have that song (laughter). Minuteman: If you engage me with a gun, I will defend myself and I will shoot your motherfucking ass. Buenas Noches Brigade: We're being threatened with guns. So you are threatening us? That's a threat. Tell him we have video cameras...(loudly) We have video cameras. Minuteman: Listen assholes, you wanna play? Let's play motherfucker, let's go! Buenas Noches Brigade: Let's get out of here. Thanks, that'll be live on CNN tonight, l'm gonna shoot your ass, motherfucker. Minuteman: Play it any way you want, asshole. Buenas Noches Brigade: CNN, ABC, NBC... Minuteman: That's your mother on all three channels! # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Attempts to shut down SWARMtheMinutemen.com
From http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/108912.shtml - A Scottsdale-based Internet company said Monday it will force one of its=20 Web site clients to stop encouraging harassment of the Minuteman Project=20 or face being shut down. http://Swarmtheminutemen.com is encouraging=20 people to go into the desert border areas to blast their radios or bang=20 pots and pans together in an effort to confuse and harass Minutemen=20 volunteers. Web site vexing to Minutemen By Victor Allen, Tribune A Scottsdale-based Internet company said Monday it will force one of its=20 Web site clients to stop encouraging harassment of the Minuteman Project=20 or face being shut down. http://Swarmtheminutemen.com is encouraging=20 people to go into the desert border areas to blast their radios or bang=20 pots and pans together in an effort to confuse and harass Minutemen=20 volunteers. The Web site also prompts site visitors to engage in activities such as=20 sending repetitive anonymous e-mails and fax messages to the Minutemen,=20 and even come up with other ideas to disrupt the project. The Minutemen, a volunteer program founded by Chris Simcox of Tombstone,=20 has operated in Arizona as a private border enforcement group, relaying=20 information about illegal border crossers to authorities. Dozens of people from across the country went on patrol in April in a=20 display that received international media attention, and project=20 organizers said smaller operations are still continuing. The anti-Minutemen site claims knowledge of people who intend to . . .=20 physically interfere with their operations. . . . They will go wherever=20 the Minutemen are in their area and stop them from operating. The site=20 says information about the location of Minutemen operations will be made=20 available to the public. A person claiming to represent the group responsible for the Web site=20 declined to give his name. An Internet search for the site registrant showed the owner used privacy=20 domains provided by Domains by Proxy, a subsidiary of the Go Daddy=20 Group. The company provides private domain names for Web sites in which=20 the Web site authors can hide their identities. After being advised of the Web site=92s content, officials at the company= =20 took quick action. Nick Fuller, communications manager for the Go Daddy Group, said the=20 company=92s Abuse Department and legal counsel had reviewed content on th= e=20 site. I know there=92s some stuff on the site that could be in violation of ou= r=20 terms of service, Fuller said. They=92ve been asked to remove them. If=20 they refuse to do so we will take the domain down. That doesn=92t mean the site will not exist if it does not comply. Fuller= =20 said it is possible for the registrant to use another provider.=20 Swarmtheminutemen.com has been on the Web for less than a week. Gary=20 Cole, operations manager for the Minutemen, said the organization has=20 filed a complaint with the FBI about the site. So far, interference with=20 border patrolling has been a minor annoyance, he said. We ran an operation this weekend, a very successful one, Cole said. Bill Bennett, office administrator at the Tumbleweed Newspaper owned by=20 Simcox said, We=92ve gotten a lot of harassment calls. Basically what=20 they=92re doing is just try to keep us on the phone. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=3D41472 http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=3D3353250 Homepage:: http://SWARMtheMinuteMen.com # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Towards a Critical Analysis of Media EmergenC
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/107671.shtml --- Towards a Critical Analysis of Media EmergenC Introduction - From October 6th-9th, as the National Association of Broadcasters was holding their annual Radio Road Show in San Diego, a group of media activists converged to try to illuminate what is wrong with the corporate media and to strengthen independent, community autonomous media. This convergence was called the Media emergenC, highlighting the two themes of emergency and emergence. With 4 days of talks, film screenings, marches, panels, forums and independent media making, the media activists, mostly composed of members of San Diego Indymedia and radioActive sanDiego, but including media makers from as far away as New York and Philadelphia, tried to confront the NAB as had been done in many other cities, but also to challenge the independent media movement and push it forward. For an overview of the events, see: http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/106129.shtml Independent Media Coverage -- The Prometheus Radio Project, after trying out a community reporter program at the Philadelphia NAB Radio Show in 2003, was eager to take this program to San Diego in 2004. Prometheus secured local reporters in Philadelphia, as well as some community reporters who'd be coming in from the Chesapeake Bay, and others from Baltimore, NAB press passes. Community radio stations, primarily Low Power FM stations all over the country, provided the press credentials to these reporters. Then, these reporters collected audio inside the NAB convention, which would otherwise cost between $400-$700 for entry. This audio was processed into headlines, print articles, and longer audio pieces for some of these stations. The same stations, for the most part, provided credentials to local San Diego reporters, as well as reporters flying in from New York (!) and other exotic places. These reporters went into the NAB in San Diego, and collected a wide variety of audio for production. What were the goals here? First, to form relationships between community reporters and community radio stations all across the country. It was originally a hope of Prometheus and some of the participating stations that these reporters and their contacts at the home stations might decide to work together in the future, and provide regional/beat reporting to the local stations even from far away. This ties in to the larger goal of networking stations to other stations more effectively, and sharing content/beats. Second, to get representatives of independent media into workshops and forums where they almost never go. The National Association of Broadcasters is a very closed organization, and its behaviors have a great impact on community media and its ability to proliferate (ex. the LPFM expansion). If our reporters can hear about the planned strategies of the corporate media, and bring them to the stations who might suffer the impact, or those community members who might want to fight for more accesses, then we've succeeded in really penetrating the NAB. Third, to teach ourselves audio production, and try to bring new community producers into the larger stream (Free Speech Radio News, Critical Mass Radio, Indymedia audio). New blood! Fourth, to form relationships between reporters. New allies and friends! Fifth, to create finished pieces that told the story of NAB resistance, in a fashion that could be widely distributed amongst a wide variety of radio stations and communities. Mixed between resistance outside, the counter-conference, and reporting inside. How many of these goals were met? Were relationships between reporters and stations made? Nope, not really. We didn't turn in most of the audio, because we didn't finish producing much in SD and followup work wasn't kept up after the convergence. Did we get representatives into the NAB? Yes. And they asked amazing questions of people who everyday community radio folks never get to engage, like head counsel of the FCC, John Cody, and John Hogan, the president of Clear Channel. And they were present as community radio stations, showing themselves to this community of commercial broadcasters, large and small. That simple visibility makes a difference when the community of the NAB is using its girth to affect regulations at the FCC. If they, even for a moment, remember the motley crew inside the NAB, asking challenging but well-thought out and responsible questions, then that might make a difference. (This is not a radical analysis, rather it is grounded in changing the NAB and its constituents from the inside... we are, however, interested in working on and discussing radical analysis) Did we learn audio production? I think so, to a large extent. But in San Diego we hadn't prepared an editing lab that made it easy for
nettime The Politics of Being Clandestine
Hello, I'm new here. I'm a dj at radioActive radio San Diego. I'm not sure if this appropriate material for the list, but I'll try. Here's an essay about the recent actions that happened in San Diego, CA on January 20th. Please critique, edit, post, dismiss, etc. I would love feedback. thanks. cheers, onto The Politics of Being Clandestine: RTS J20 SD --- http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/107453.shtml http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/107473.shtml --- The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Border Faction (CIRCA-BF) consists of 33 rotating members who come from different affinity groups, collectives, and disOrganizations. We are all locals; we are all multinationals. We are a network of bodies without organs. We are in your group, your class, your family, your television, your neighborhood. You don't see us, but that is exactly our strength: our invisibility. The Aestheticization of Politics To not exist is our goal. Until then, we will joyously work hard to construct the conditions that allow for moments of autonomy and spontaneity to occur. Unpredictability, Spontaneity, Risk -- these element s are being systematically eliminated from the practice of everyday life. We (dis)organized a Reclaim the Streets on January 20th in symbolic solidarity with the counter-inauguration protests in DC in order to retrieve the self-empowering aforementioned characteristics and import them back into the practice of everyday life. We believe that creative, nonviolent direct action is the appropriate methodology for achieving these ends. One does not need to read Foucault to note the formal similarities between prisons and schools, both temporally and spatially. The paths we think we freely move on, the words we think we freely speak, the media we think freely report and even the concepts we think we freely conceive are all heavily determined by inherited institutional, linguistic, and economic norms of power. For example, from one side, Reclaim the Streets was a successful action for the throngs of protesters and people who won the streets, broke innumerable laws, and gathered peacefully to dance, sing, chant, and share. From the other side, Reclaim the Streets was a success for the police who surrounded the route, contained the crowd at most of the times, protected property and allowed for the purely aesthetic manifestation of a political will to occur. In other words, the politics of Reclaim the Streets, like all politics today, can also be interpreted as purely aesthetic: self-expression under the guise of change. The aestheticization of politics is logical result of Fascism, as Walter Benjamin writes: Fascism attempts to organize the masses without affecting the property structure . . . Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life [via] an apparatus which is pressed into the production of ritual values. What does it mean to live in a country where expression is more important than change, where simulacra are more important than reality, where the possibility of political theatre is warmly received by all, but the reality of political resistance is dismissed as fantasy? The First Question of Political Philosophy But why do we adhere so closely to the regulative norms of power, language, and capital? In Empire, Hardt and Negri write: A long tradition of political scientists has said the problem is not why people rebel but why they do not. Or rather, as Deleuze and Guattari say, the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): 'Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?' The first question of political philosophy today is not if or even why there will be resistance and rebellion, but rather how to determine the enemy against which to rebel. Indeed, often the inability to identify the enemy is what leads the will to resistance around in such paradoxical circles. The identification of the enemy, however, is no small task given that exploitation tends no longer to have a specific place and that we are immersed in a system of power so deep and complex that we can no longer determine specific difference or measure. We suffer exploitation, alienation, and command as enemies, but we do not know where to locate the production of oppression. And yet we still resist and struggle . The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Border Faction is a movement
