Reclaiming the streets from what? The 60's and that uninformed, banal slogan "Being kept down by the man" has been dead for quite some time. Sounds like a gaggle of spoiled suburban kids with nothing better to do. If you vie for change, become educated. Read, not the newspaper, but first hand accounts, books, blogs and the like. Taking on the Establishment in such a manner is going to get you nothing but tickets and broken heads. Do you know who Huey Newton is? Look him up and read what happened to him and his movement when he tried to take on "The Man". Idealism is fine. But it needs intelligence and foresight also. There are more effective ways to try and change the current paradigm you are "rebelling" against. Knee jerk reactions and making a public nuisance of oneself are actually counter productive. They are acts of isolation and desperation. Petitioning, boycotting, and lobbying would be more productive and positive. No one listens to a mob, and mob mentality (cohesion) quickly falls apart at the seams when positive dialectic from both sides is engaged. The mob is generally uninformed. They come for entertainment, not change or the desire for a positive outcome. Remember, only in America do our poor population struggle with obesity, cell phone bills, and the choice of air conditioning. What are you rebelling against? And are you informed? Informed enough to argue not only your position, but also the position of your adversary? If not, stay home, educate yourself, and do not blindly follow everyone who waves a "STOP CORPORATE GREED" banner. I wonder if the standard bearer of that sign has a car, phone, television, stereo, etc....How about "STOP PERSONAL GREED"? Just curious.
Tell me once in the past 20 years where "petitioning, boycotting, and lobbying" and voting for that matter has impeded the spread neo- conservative, facist, privatization. Beyond that the point of reclaiming the streets is to go beyond that and show symbolicly the destructive power of war, capitalism, hierarchy ect. Its about not relying on other people i.e. politicians and bueracrats, who simply do not care about making real social change, the durrastic change needed within our society and demonstrating an alternative to the timeless standing on sidewalks with a pray for peace banner, praying the empty sky will save your "moral witness" to the atrocities being done in our name as if to sugest the politicians, bueracrats, ceo's, execuatives ect, are not aware of the consequences of their actions or for that matter care. Have you ever been apart of a reclaim the streets? "mob mentality", "cohersion", obviously not. I'd say for over 95% of the people involved in such actions, it is the most liberating experiance they have had. It shows you the lie of authority and law. It shows you what you can do, far beyond what your told. It gives more inscentive to stop the "personal greed" you speak; dare say its bad to assume your average democrat, green, comunwhatever would not have more material possesions than anarchist or more darring radical regardless of affiliation or belief. Amelia is far too inteligient than to put herself in that situation if she did not have a strong desire to do so. Blindly follow? please. when 90% of society "blindly" follows empty gods and patriotic lies on any level, you cant even compare. When americas youth is so consumed by mtv the media ect. partaking in something that is liberating, ecouraging you to further cut off ties with that culture, is far more of a positive experiance then grinding your back in the political world untill our jadeness has you voting for a john kerry, praying to god the other guy doesnt blow the world.
your a very smart and strong dude josh thanks for having my back i think we all felt an astounding sense of brotherhood liberation reality and understanding love you bro
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Beyond that the point of reclaiming the streets is to go beyond that and show symbolicly the destructive power of war, capitalism, hierarchy ect. Its about not relying on other people i.e. politicians and bueracrats, who simply do not care about making real social change, the durrastic change needed within our society and demonstrating an alternative to the timeless standing on sidewalks with a pray for peace banner, praying the empty sky will save your "moral witness" to the atrocities being done in our name as if to sugest the politicians, bueracrats, ceo's, execuatives ect, are not aware of the consequences of their actions or for that matter care.
Have you ever been apart of a reclaim the streets? "mob mentality", "cohersion", obviously not. I'd say for over 95% of the people involved in such actions, it is the most liberating experiance they have had. It shows you the lie of authority and law. It shows you what you can do, far beyond what your told. It gives more inscentive to stop the "personal greed" you speak; dare say its bad to assume your average democrat, green, comunwhatever would not have more material possesions than anarchist or more darring radical regardless of affiliation or belief.
Amelia is far too inteligient than to put herself in that situation if she did not have a strong desire to do so. Blindly follow? please. when 90% of society "blindly" follows empty gods and patriotic lies on any level, you cant even compare. When americas youth is so consumed by mtv the media ect. partaking in something that is liberating, ecouraging you to further cut off ties with that culture, is far more of a positive experiance then grinding your back in the political world untill our jadeness has you voting for a john kerry, praying to god the other guy doesnt blow the world.
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thanks for having my back
i think we all felt an astounding sense of
brotherhood liberation reality and understanding
love you bro
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