AK Tactical Media
Things are getting really weird around here. In hundreds of cities people are finding their voice. And we are all listening. Has the inequality gap just become too intolerable—especially to those 99% who see only a future of mindless toil and crippling debt? Is the democratic system as we know it “broken”? Is it time to repeal corporate personhood as codified into law? Are taxing the rich and dismantling portions of the financial services sector enough to help restore dignity in our lives? Or do we want the works…?
It’s times like these that put ideas to the test. The radically egalitarian veneer of the Occupy movement makes us anarchists a bit giddy. General Assemblies coast to coast, and not a vanguard party in sight. (And on the 125th Anniversary of the Haymarket Affair!) Strangers meet as equals, work on common goals, and pursue tough discussions about issues that distance allows to fester. It’s like a national teach-in on capitalist economics, governance, class, and other vital topics not usually uttered in polite society. It’s also gritty and frustrating at times, but it all feels REAL, doesn’t it?
There’s a lot of serious, strategic decisions to be made in the coming weeks and months, and as movement publishers, it’s our job to try and provide the resources we need to make those sorts of difficult decisions. So we reached out to friends far and wide and assembled the reflections that will make up the pamphlets produced by the AK Press Tactical Media Squad. They’re intended to help us expand our intellectual horizons as we collectively ponder the fate of this country’s people and those outside its borders, and to catalyse conversations about a self-managed society, unburdened by capitalism and financiers. Perhaps you do want the works. We sure do.
The media on this page is available to you to download and distribute as you see fit. Have fun. Change the world.
Anarchy & Occupy #1: Occupy the System!
With contributions from Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank; Team Colors; Eric Laursen; Deric Shannon; and the AK Press Collective (October 2011)
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Anarchy & Occupy #2: Democracy Is Direct
By Cindy Milstein, excerpted from Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press, 2010)
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Anarchy & Occupy #3: Dancing With Dynamite
By Ben Dangl, excerpted from Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America (AK Press, 2010)
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