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Well, by now everyone in the Occupy movement is hotly debating “nonviolence” vs. “diversity of tactics”, as recently so in, “Chris Hedges and Kristof Lopaur of Occupy Oakland debate black bloc, militancy and tactics,” February 8, 2012, on KPFA in Berkeley, California.
Both Lopaur and Hedges made some critically weak, flawed, at times somewhat disingenuous or self-contradictory and, in Lopaur’s case, often specious arguments in their radio debate. This so, even though I politically agree with Hedges, and although Hedges’ recent commentary, ”The Cancer in Occupy,” seemed poorly supported journalistically. But, Hedges is dead on about, ‘Go do violence under your own name, not the Occupy movement’s.’
Hedges would have been better off just writing his opinion, presented analytically, but he deserves great credit for using his stature to get an “Anarchist”-suppressed, but mortally important, debate firmly out in the open and over progressive airwaves. Let me say that both of them have respectively done very good progressive work.
This is my partial, but most important, analytical response to Kristof Lopaur’s (and those he represents) support for Black Bloc, or otherwise, ”diversity of tactics” in the Occupy Movement. My main point: Occupy Oakland, and the Occupy movement, cannot have both a diversity of people and a ”diversity of tactics” at this time – and the movement can’t shortcut the process of attaining, and retaining, the first by jumping to the second.
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Read more:
http://daveyd.com/ http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/the-activism-entry-point-critiquing-the-cancer-in-occupy-debate/#comment-30137 (with photos and comments section)
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http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2012-02-14 http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2012-02-14/article/39305?headline=The-Activism-Entry-Point-Critiquing-The-Cancer-in-Occupy-Debate--By-Joseph-Anderson (plain text copy, good for printing)
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My great appreciation to Becky O'Malley, publisher of the Berkeley Daily Planet in Berkeley, CA, and San Francisco Bay Area-based journalist Davey D of KPFA, Berkeley, CA, and publisher of DaveyD.com.
All Together in The Struggle,
Joseph Anderson
Berkeley, CA
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Joseph Anderson bio blurb |
bio |
Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 at 9:58 AM |
The Cancer in Occupy movement is Undercover Cops & Agents Provacateur doing Violent Acts |
Undercover Cops & CIA Agents Provacateur |
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just like @ Portland IMC |
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