Post by DAAA Collective on Oct 20, 2006 17:45:01 GMT -5
Welcome!
Modesto Anarcho is a project of the Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians (D.A.A.A.) Collective, based out of the central valley town of Modesto CA. The purpose of this journal is to reach out and create dialog and discussion on issues facing oppressed, working class, and young people in the local area. Through this project, we would like to give an autonomous, revolutionary, militant, and non-reformist look at local struggles and issues, and provide critique and analysis outside of the general leftist and liberal view points. This is the first issue, and in the future we hope to be putting out issues quarterly. For further updates on what’s happening in Modesto, please view our contact information. We are looking for local submissions, as well as letters, interviews, action reports, news, reviews, etc.
In existence since 2003, the D.A.A.A. Collective is an autonomous group of anti-authoritarians and anarchists, who are local youths, workers, and students. We have become fed up with the reformist activism in this city, and instead opt to engage in revolutionary struggle against capitalism, the state, and white supremacy. We also seek to give solidarity, and help to other working class and oppressed individuals, groups, and campaigns that are self-organizing in the local area. Class and community struggle happens all the time outside of the mainstream unions, political parties, non-profits, and we want to include ourselves in this ongoing autonomous struggle. We do not desire to be a “vanguard”, or “leaders” within this struggle however, but we do want to create dialog and move forward through action with our neighbors, co-workers, and fellow community members. We believe that the self-organization of oppressed and working people’s struggles holds not only the greatest revolutionary potential, but also can pave the way for the creation of new systems of social interaction; and thus, social revolution.
But while possible co-conspirators are everywhere, so is the state, capital, patriarchy, racism, hierarchal relationships, wage-slavery, and the things which make our lives miserable through the perpetuation of the class system. Their production of capital, is the animation of our alienation, boredom, and physical and mental slavery to the mechanics of private property and class society. But things don't have to be that way. Every street is still a battlefield, every pig remains an enemy, every shopping center a festering cancer of industrialism, and every city council an occupying force of domination.
We urge those tired of the world dominated by capital, industry, and politics to hurry in attacking in new, interesting, and sexy ways. The anti-politics of class struggle seek to engage the oppressed, exploited, and alienated. Let sabotage and direct action be the new poetry. Let us write songs in the streets, tearing down the old world of coercion and lies, as we build a new one in it's place based on cooperation and trust. Workers councils, general assemblies, dual power, horizontal structures, economic sabotage, community organizing, consensus process, these are the new weapons. Let us begin to put faith in nothing but our own abilities to attack, destroy, and create alternatives to state and capital. Let us be careful with each other, so we can be more dangerous together.
Currently, the massive protests around the country on May 1st have brought back the words “general strike” to the lips of thousands, as people re-act to the realities of racist and class society. In Modesto, we were pleasantly surprised as over 10,000 people held the streets illegally in Modesto on May Day. Also locally, police continue harassment of anarchists, as well as their brutal handling of the local population, (both discussed in this issue). The class war is still on, racism still exists, and the state is still the servant of capital. We’ve got some big enemies, both here in our backyard, and across the world - we’d better get started in knowing our friends.
Modesto Anarcho is a project of the Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians (D.A.A.A.) Collective, based out of the central valley town of Modesto CA. The purpose of this journal is to reach out and create dialog and discussion on issues facing oppressed, working class, and young people in the local area. Through this project, we would like to give an autonomous, revolutionary, militant, and non-reformist look at local struggles and issues, and provide critique and analysis outside of the general leftist and liberal view points. This is the first issue, and in the future we hope to be putting out issues quarterly. For further updates on what’s happening in Modesto, please view our contact information. We are looking for local submissions, as well as letters, interviews, action reports, news, reviews, etc.
In existence since 2003, the D.A.A.A. Collective is an autonomous group of anti-authoritarians and anarchists, who are local youths, workers, and students. We have become fed up with the reformist activism in this city, and instead opt to engage in revolutionary struggle against capitalism, the state, and white supremacy. We also seek to give solidarity, and help to other working class and oppressed individuals, groups, and campaigns that are self-organizing in the local area. Class and community struggle happens all the time outside of the mainstream unions, political parties, non-profits, and we want to include ourselves in this ongoing autonomous struggle. We do not desire to be a “vanguard”, or “leaders” within this struggle however, but we do want to create dialog and move forward through action with our neighbors, co-workers, and fellow community members. We believe that the self-organization of oppressed and working people’s struggles holds not only the greatest revolutionary potential, but also can pave the way for the creation of new systems of social interaction; and thus, social revolution.
But while possible co-conspirators are everywhere, so is the state, capital, patriarchy, racism, hierarchal relationships, wage-slavery, and the things which make our lives miserable through the perpetuation of the class system. Their production of capital, is the animation of our alienation, boredom, and physical and mental slavery to the mechanics of private property and class society. But things don't have to be that way. Every street is still a battlefield, every pig remains an enemy, every shopping center a festering cancer of industrialism, and every city council an occupying force of domination.
We urge those tired of the world dominated by capital, industry, and politics to hurry in attacking in new, interesting, and sexy ways. The anti-politics of class struggle seek to engage the oppressed, exploited, and alienated. Let sabotage and direct action be the new poetry. Let us write songs in the streets, tearing down the old world of coercion and lies, as we build a new one in it's place based on cooperation and trust. Workers councils, general assemblies, dual power, horizontal structures, economic sabotage, community organizing, consensus process, these are the new weapons. Let us begin to put faith in nothing but our own abilities to attack, destroy, and create alternatives to state and capital. Let us be careful with each other, so we can be more dangerous together.
Currently, the massive protests around the country on May 1st have brought back the words “general strike” to the lips of thousands, as people re-act to the realities of racist and class society. In Modesto, we were pleasantly surprised as over 10,000 people held the streets illegally in Modesto on May Day. Also locally, police continue harassment of anarchists, as well as their brutal handling of the local population, (both discussed in this issue). The class war is still on, racism still exists, and the state is still the servant of capital. We’ve got some big enemies, both here in our backyard, and across the world - we’d better get started in knowing our friends.
