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A letter to the media responding to an article in the Tucson Weekly attacking Anarchists for not being MORE peaceful...



(See original article towrds bottom)





Kelly carhater



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The Non-violence AND No Brainer Cult Speaks Out!~



Well it is so nice to hear Jeneine Schaffer and Joe Bernick say something outside of the little boxes they seem to inhabit.



The article in the Tucson Weekly ( November 3) featured a couple moderate \"Activits\" against a couple average – fairly moderate – American Anarchists. Its title would have been more interesting to expound on than the article itself: \"Activists and Anarchists need to ask themselves? Are we looking for a fight? \" If she means a fight between \"us\" anarchists and the do-nothing moderate activists (they are about as radical as the Democratic Party was 15 years ago)... I sure hope so. A good fight clears the airs, releases tension and sometimes teaches both sides...



First let me say that I have many problems with the anarchists (both those in the article and many across the country). I think that everyone is in denial about the place of the USA in the world – and what has to be done to stop it. Much of anarchism has turned to fashion and the pacifist nature of lifestyle politics. And they are not aggressive or violent enough. But all of this (everything important) is way beyond the scope of this essay (or its audience!).



Jeneine claims to have been to many protests and direct actions: always prepared with backup personal support. And she says that everyone cooperated and planned and then she backs this up with lies from some lady saying that in the 60s rude behavior was intolerable. All of this is the kind of middle class mentality that lies so easily with omissions and generalizations. I wish Jeneine had just made this up – ignorance is easier to tolerate than pre-meditated lying.



She is supposedly using her examples to prove that Anarchists are causing innocent people to get hurt at rallies or protests. She mentions the 1999 Seattle protests as proof that planning \"works,\" failing to mention that thousands of people were gassed, beat up or terrified – people who had no idea that the police would riot – as they always do: Miami FTAA, Chicago 68, or The LA Democratic Party Convention (Rage Machine!). In Europe and Latin America - anywhere outside of the US - this debate would be laughable – they would smile at the naive, immature Americans and let us babble and they poured cocktails – the Molotov kind!.



Once I was at a permitted environmental march and when we left the Court House to return to our cars ( everything peaceful – so far) we were told that we did not have a permit or insurance to return to our vehicles – or to leave the area – and then the police – some on horse – attacked us and arrested many people. This shit is common just ask ROb the Rich Thaxton how he got years in prison by being trapped and attacked by the Eugene, Oregon police.



I could call Jeneine and Joe Bernick (Psuedo Communist Paltry Chairman) fascists for their words and their lying attempts to hold their pitiful con-job moderate (non-violence-Man) Peace and Greeny (weenie) Campaign together for a few more years (until Bob Kerry can loose again – even with Hillary!)... But I would like more information from them about the world and their strategy of change before I am sure they are modern fascists.



I disagree with every statement made in the article – try this one for instructiveness: \"I never knew anarchism to mean that one has the right to put others at risk without their knowledge or consent.\" I wonder If Jeneine frets over this every time she turns her \"rising value\" cottage light switch on or starts her nice car ( translated as: HYPOCRICY!). Did the Navahos get consent to be strip mined or the Iraqis bombed so her gas tank would stay full? But I am waning global – shame on me – (imperialism is just a fashionable \"Concept\" not a reality that kills 40 million kids a year.). The real mistake in her statement is that any protest carries risk, every confrontation with the police carries risk – as one of the anarchists pointed out in the original article. This is her Middle Class narrow focus on process and cooperation that clouds and screens her from the real world of oppression, war and conflict.



People like Jeneine and Joe like to honor Gandhi or Martin Luther King – this is so funny... really! Gandhi thought that pacifists like Jeneine - et al - were the worst evil – well – actually – that is, after an economic system like the one that feeds Jeneine and her little brat kid ( oh – and the fat lazy Big Bucks environmetalist who is her hubbie!). Did everyone who went to a civil rights march in the south in the 60's have backup and support and a certainty that the cops would be nice – shit! How can we be having such a lame and juvenile discussion as this – 70 years after Gandhi and 40 plus years since MLK.



In Brazil the MST puts their women and children in the front lines when they confront the police and death squads after illegally seizing some valuable farm land. In Colombia kids less than 10 years old are drug couriers and armed militias. In Iraq women harbor insurgents knowing that this could easily kill her children – Allah be praised...



Jeneine says that 500 people peacefully marching are a massive protest.



I hate the peace keepers, but they can be used too...



You can easily identify a cult person – just question them enough and they get super evasive. Watch this issue develop and you will see that none of the characters involved will open up and say what they feel. Of course the media will not cover this discussion – including the anarchist media!



Susan Thrope is a Tucson activist??? Middle Class ( or much worse!) and whinny for sure, but, I asked around – not having lived there much the last 3 years (usually up in ole Humboldt County). And all i heard was that she kind of cared about the environment.



What the cops respect is numbers and controlled force. Use the peacekeepers to inform the cops that if they do not comply that all hell will break loose – warn them nicely.



Joe Bernick claims that the anarchists just want to disrupt the nice planning meeting. Were all of the participants at the protest at the meeting Joe? Why not?



Jeneine wants a family friendly overthrow of the government. \" The last thing that I want to see is a \"SIGN\" \"SIGN\" \"SIGN\" \"provoking a fight.\"



There is really a vast universe of interesting and relevant topics that we could all discuss ( fascist designs for global warming, the next USA invasion or why conspiracy stories are stupid) – but – if this childish debate is really necessary – \"Let's Roll... !\".



I would like an apology from all of the people in the article for being so dishonest and misleading the public ( A capital offense if I ever saw one). Then I would like them, to explain their thinking and their plans with all of us.



If you – or anyone – prefers then we could have the debate – off line – and then return with a polished edition for the world to discuss. Let's get really grassroots – let's have grassroots truth and a general understanding of what we are doing, why. when, how and ... who.



Who are the change agents?



Where's the beef?



P.S. – The Tucson Weekly is a pretty worthless magazine. But it has been slightly open to community letters expressing this issue in the past (Check those archives!). Perhaps this discussion could sell some newspapers ( well its a free paper – so, sell some advertising for middle class stuff!) . Also I thought that the article that said that regular legal housing development was a vastly superior crime to the couple cactus that some kids cut down was a pretty goood example of my complaint s against the moderate activists, the Kerry Campaign and even the anarchists.





For a related debate about how pitiful and violent the nonviolence activits are see:

Stan Goff's experiences – www. freedom road.org



For some neo-thinking and yuppie middle class Earthy rantings see:

jeneine.blogspot.com



also visit:



This below is not exactly related (its in the fourth grade curriculum), but it expresses a bit of the world view that most of the world has::





Serial killers are usually mentally disturbed or unique – When a large group of people – like the 300 million strong – USA–dominated - global elite class conspire for decades to design public and private economic policies to increase and defend their wealth – it is the purest of EVIL !!



These are premeditated, profit calculated, technically proficient – indeed almost invisible – like the 2 million prisoners in the US, half of who are minorities. Proficient and clean and wholly unnecessary. Even Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hanoi are justifiable compared to the nuclear bombs of hunger and privatizations that scour the weak into early deaths and keep wages down. A thousand times as many children die each year from vitamin deficiencies than from the NYC 911 bombing. Defenseless and unsuspecting their fates 40 million are sacrificed each year by the international financial system of which the prime beneficiary is the USA. – Many more will die from this structural violence and from the wars that the USA will wage to keep its wealth. It is this suffocating structural violence of poverty that Gandhi thought was more evil than war, than torture or police state oppression. Gandhi knew that the world could not support a US style lower-middle class model – NOT EVEN AT THE LEVES OF CONSUMPTION THAT THE US HAD IN 1950!



If the churches would speak to this global genocide\/ecocide – then they could tell us what is self defense, war or terror. And we would hear that Gulf War I, Afghanistan, the Iraq sanctions and the Gulf War II are immoral, unconscionable and wrong. The money, the alliance with death squads and the massive civilian murders are far outside the realm of decency or propriety. US arms sales and arms donations to Israel, Egypt, Colombia and Jordan-Turkey-Saudi Arabia are destructive and dangerous for everyone. Past, present and future war crimes and crimes against humanity are built into US foreign, energy and military policies.



At the least the West is guilty of theft, slavery, and criminal negligence on a world scale. At the worst... THEY ARE THE WORST!



Shall we talk about US foreign aid genocide and the lies US people swallow – THE LIES OF THE LEFT RIGHT AND GREENS ...share that with friends --





PP.S. The article by Guest Commentary - What Randy did on his late-summer vacation by RANDY SERRAGLIO (10-27-2005) was at least honest - honest about how Randy is burning petrol having a cruise vacation and unafraid to sound yuppie and defeated...





ORIGINAL ARTICLE:



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PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 3, 2005:

Guest Commentary



Activists and anarchists need to ask themselves: Are we looking for a fight?



By JENEIENE SCHAFFER





When I first moved to Tucson in 1997, I became active with Earth First! I later became involved with Food Not Bombs and the anti-war movement. Getting tear-gassed, pepper sprayed, manhandled and arrested, both here and across the country, was routine. And planned for.



Never did I go into the fray of a rally or protest without a plan and friends who worked with me as support. The folks who were not planning to get arrested were also aware of our intent and made appropriate space for us. At the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, this approach worked beautifully, and we were able to shut down the trade talks.



It takes a lot of planning and cooperation to pull off effective protests.

So, I've been mystified lately at the trend by so-called anarchists who promote spontaneous autonomous action, whereby one has the right to pull an action out of one's sleeve at the last minute. Under this scenario, trigger-happy officers are even more willing to use over-the-top force at a demonstration.



I never knew anarchism to mean that one has a right to put others at risk without their knowledge or consent.



These concerns have been echoed in Tucson's activist community for years and have recently bubbled to the surface in the wake of recent massive anti-war and anti-Bush rallies and protests. More than 500 folks here marched at the Sept. 24 anti-war march, but it revealed a microcosm of conflicts currently in sway. Many participants appreciated the peacekeepers (liaisons with the police). And still others felt restricted by them. Most were there in a peaceful spirit, while a few anarchists held a sign declaring, \"We're ready for a fight!\"



When Mary Denton was first involved in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, there was a more peaceful atmosphere among activists which made rude, aggressive behavior intolerable. \"What I'm finding today,\" says Denton, \"is when anarchists do show up at planning meetings, which they do infrequently, you get shut down as 'too weak' if they disagree with you.\"



Lenny Molina with Chuk'shon EF! and a self-affirmed anarchist, takes issue with what he feels is too much control. According to Molina, \"Restrictive rallies with the presence of peacekeepers stifles creativity and leaves out segments of the community.\" When he was told that some folks feel that this attitude actually keeps more folks away because they fear getting arrested, he reaffirmed that anarchists should have the freedom to do what they want.



Another Tucson activist deeply disagrees. Says Susan Thorpe, \"Not advising people before actions is not fair--it kind of tricks people into getting arrested.\" She welcomes peacekeepers as an intelligent wedge between the police and the protesters. \"The cops become increasingly more cooperative when we take more responsibility for ourselves,\" says Thorpe.



Another local anarchist, Christian Guerrero, doesn't trust the cops. \"It could be that you're totally cool but just protesting the wrong issue (to the police). ... It doesn't matter how you act; they'll crack down if they want ... so relax and do what you want.\"

Joe Bernick, the hard-working force behind Tucson Peace Action Coalition--the group behind most major local rallies--has pretty much seen it all since 1964. \"The difference now,\" says Bernick, \"is the rise of a new anarchist movement. They don't come to meetings or try to work with us. They come to fuck with us.\" He adds, \"I resent them coming in at the last minute trying to change the issue or direction of our rallies and protests.\"

So, the question remains: Where do we go from here? Is our goal to keep demonstrations to the least common denominator to attract as many people as possible? In future protest gatherings, this will continue to be an issue.

What we need according to Bernick are \"militant activists who have their own smaller actions, and that would be where the direct action happens.\"

Makes sense to me. When I show up to a family-friendly march with my small child, the last thing I want to see is a sign provoking a fight.

In a peaceful march, we are not looking for a fight. We are attempting to get across a peaceful message. Whether anarchists can understand that distinction and act accordingly remains to be seen.





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The Non-violence AND No Brainer Cult Speaks Out!~



Well it is so nice to hear Jeneine Schaffer and Joe Bernick say something outside of the little boxes they seem to inhabit.



The article in the Tucson Weekly ( November 4) featured a couple moderate \"Activits\" against a couple average – fairly moderate – American Anarchists. Its title would have been more interesting to expound on than the article itself: \"Activists and Anarchists need to ask themselves? Are we looking for a fight? \" If she means a fight between \"us\" anarchists and the do-nothing moderate activists (they are about as radical as the Democratic Party was 15 years ago)... I sure hope so. A good fight clears the airs, releases tension and sometimes teaches both sides...



First let me say that I have many problems with the anarchists (both those in the article and many across the country). I think that everyone is in denial about the place of the USA in the world – and what has to be done to stop it. Much of anarchism has turned to fashion and the pacifist nature of lifestyle politics. And they are not aggressive or violent enough. But all of this (everything important) is way beyond the scope of this essay (or its audience!).



Jeneine claims to have been to many protests and direct actions: always prepared with backup personal support. And she says that everyone cooperated and planned and then she backs this up with lies from some lady saying that in the 60s rude behavior was intolerable. All of this is the kind of middle class mentality that lies so easily with omissions and generalizations. I wish Jeneine had just made this up – ignorance is easier to tolerate than pre-meditated lying.



She is supposedly using her examples to prove that Anarchists are causing innocent people to get hurt at rallies or protests. She mentions the 1999 Seattle protests as proof that planning \"works,\" failing to mention that thousands of people were gassed, beat up or terrified – people who had no idea that the police would riot – as they always do: Miami FTAA, Chicago 68, or The LA Democratic Party Convention (Rage Machine!). In Europe and Latin America - anywhere outside of the US - this debate would be laughable – they would smile at the naive, immature Americans and let us babble and they poured cocktails – the Molotov kind!.



Once I was at a permitted environmental march and when we left the Court House to return to our cars ( everything peaceful – so far) we were told that we did not have a permit or insurance to return to our vehicles – or to leave the area – and then the police – some on horse – attacked us and arrested many people. This shit is common just ask ROb the Rich Thaxton how he got years in prison by being trapped and attacked by the Eugene, Oregon police.



I could call Jeneine and Joe Bernick (Psuedo Communist Paltry Chairman) fascists for their words and their lying attempts to hold their pitiful con-job moderate (non-violence-Man) Peace and Greeny (weenie) Campaign together for a few more years (until Bob Kerry can loose again – even with Hillary!)... But I would like more information from them about the world and their strategy of change before I am sure they are modern fascists.



I disagree with every statement made in the article – try this one for instructiveness: \"I never knew anarchism to mean that one has the right to put others at risk without their knowledge or consent.\" I wonder If Jeneine frets over this every time she turns her \"rising value\" cottage light switch on or starts her nice car ( translated as: HYPOCRICY!). Did the Navahos get consent to be strip mined or the Iraqis bombed so her gas tank would stay full? But I am waning global – shame on me – (imperialism is just a fashionable \"Concept\" not a reality that kills 40 million kids a year.). The real mistake in her statement is that any protest carries risk, every confrontation with the police carries risk – as one of the anarchists pointed out in the original article. This is her Middle Class narrow focus on process and cooperation that clouds and screens her from the real world of oppression, war and conflict.



People like Jeneine and Joe like to honor Gandhi or Martin Luther King – this is so funny... really! Gandhi thought that pacifists like Jeneine - et al - were the worst evil – well – actually – that is, after an economic system like the one that feeds Jeneine and her little brat kid ( oh – and the fat lazy Big Bucks environmetalist who is her hubbie!). Did everyone who went to a civil rights march in the south in the 60's have backup and support and a certainty that the cops would be nice – shit! How can we be having such a lame and juvenile discussion as this – 70 years after Gandhi and 40 plus years since MLK.



In Brazil the MST puts their women and children in the front lines when they confront the police and death squads after illegally seizing some valuable farm land. In Colombia kids less than 10 years old are drug couriers and armed militias. In Iraq women harbor insurgents knowing that this could easily kill her children – Allah be praised...



Jeneine says that 500 people peacefully marching are a massive protest.



I hate the peace keepers, but they can be used too...



You can easily identify a cult person – just question them enough and they get super evasive. Watch this issue develop and you will see that none of the characters involved will open up and say what they feel. Of course the media will not cover this discussion – including the anarchist media!



Susan Thrope is a Tucson activist??? Middle Class ( or much worse!) and whinny for sure, but, I asked around – not having lived there much the last 3 years (usually up in ole Humboldt County). And all i heard was that she kind of cared about the environment.



What the cops respect is numbers and controlled force. Use the peacekeepers to inform the cops that if they do not comply that all hell will break loose – warn them nicely.



Joe Bernick claims that the anarchists just want to disrupt the nice planning meeting. Were all of the participants at the protest at the meeting Joe? Why not?



Jeneine wants a family friendly overthrow of the government. \" The last thing that I want to see is a \"SIGN\" \"SIGN\" \"SIGN\" \"provoking a fight.\"



There is really a vast universe of interesting and relevant topics that we could all discuss ( fascist designs for global warming, the next USA invasion or why conspiracy stories are stupid) – but – if this childish debate is really necessary – \"Let's Roll... !\".



I would like an apology from all of the people in the article for being so dishonest and misleading the public ( A capital offense if I ever saw one). Then I would like them, to explain their thinking and their plans with all of us.



If you – or anyone – prefers then we could have the debate – off line – and then return with a polished edition for the world to discuss. Let's get really grassroots – let's have grassroots truth and a general understanding of what we are doing, why. when, how and ... who.



Who are the change agents?



Where's the beef?



P.S. – The Tucson Weekly is a pretty worthless magazine. But it has been slightly open to community letters expressing this issue in the past (Check those archives!). Perhaps this discussion could sell some newspapers ( well its a free paper – so, sell some advertising for middle class stuff!) . Also I thought that the article that said that regular legal housing development was a vastly superior crime to the couple cactus that some kids cut down was a pretty goood example of my complaint s against the moderate activists, the Kerry Campaign and even the anarchists.





For a related debate about how pitiful and violent the nonviolence activits are see:

Stan Goff's experiences – www. freedom road.org



For some neo-thinking and yuppie middle class Earthy rantings see:

jeneine.blogspot.com



also visit:



This below is not exactly related (its in the fourth grade curriculum), but it expresses a bit of the world view that most of the world has::



Serial killers are usually mentally disturbed or unique – When a large group of people – like the 300 million strong – USA–dominated - global elite class conspire for decades to design public and private economic policies to increase and defend their wealth – it is the purest of EVIL !!



These are premeditated, profit calculated, technically proficient – indeed almost invisible – like the 2 million prisoners in the US, half of who are minorities. Proficient and clean and wholly unnecessary. Even Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hanoi are justifiable compared to the nuclear bombs of hunger and privatizations that scour the weak into early deaths and keep wages down. A thousand times as many children die each year from vitamin deficiencies than from the NYC 911 bombing. Defenseless and unsuspecting their fates 40 million are sacrificed each year by the international financial system of which the prime beneficiary is the USA. – Many more will die from this structural violence and from the wars that the USA will wage to keep its wealth. It is this suffocating structural violence of poverty that Gandhi thought was more evil than war, than torture or police state oppression. Gandhi knew that the world could not support a US style lower-middle class model – NOT EVEN AT THE LEVES OF CONSUMPTION THAT THE US HAD IN 1950!



If the churches would speak to this global genocide\/ecocide – then they could tell us what is self defense, war or terror. And we would hear that Gulf War I, Afghanistan, the Iraq sanctions and the Gulf War II are immoral, unconscionable and wrong. The money, the alliance with death squads and the massive civilian murders are far outside the realm of decency or propriety. US arms sales and arms donations to Israel, Egypt, Colombia and Jordan-Turkey-Saudi Arabia are destructive and dangerous for everyone. Past, present and future war crimes and crimes against humanity are built into US foreign, energy and military policies.



At the least the West is guilty of theft, slavery, and criminal negligence on a world scale. At the worst... THEY ARE THE WORST!



Shall we talk about US foreign aid genocide and the lies US people swallow – THE LIES OF THE LEFT RIGHT AND GREENS ...share that with friends --





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Nice themes ideas many of them look like normal people, but we can see their souls – sold who travel put and make them sleep walk and do bad things – or commune together – physical spirit or both - ? How after the battle of 7 martyred women the shadows avoided extinction by entering the souls of evil people – a bargain – re write next screen play – Horror to include the phx and Denver groups scenes the hunters hook up with thee groups and get some of them to switch priorities and help them, - collapse again at the end ??



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-Augusto Sandino

Augusto Nicolas Calderon Sandino, although born in an obscure Nicaraguan village called Niquinohomo in 1895, would go on to alter the history and heritage of his country, and become a world wide symbol of the

revolutionary Anti-imperialism. Augusto Sandino was born illegitimately to a peasant worker named Margarita Calderón and her married boss, Gregorio Sandino. His mother abandoned him at the age of ten and he went to live with his maternal grandmother. Later he was brought into his father's household but he was forced to earn his keep by working and was never fully accepted.

In 1921, He shot, but did not kill, Dagoberto Rivas a son of an important Conservative in the village in retaliation to some comments which Dagoberto had made about his mother. He then ran away to the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua and from there to various other Central American countries. He finally landed in

Mexico spending the next four years working for Standard Oil. While there, he began to get involved in several diverse radical groups which seemingly

influenced his perspective on life and hence his future actions.

Sandino's main thesis, although heavily influenced by anarchism was the support of nationalism and anti-imperialism, specifically the resistance of US

occupation and domination of Nicaragua. The United States had maintained a US Marine force in the country from 1912 on, with only brief periods of respite. The US had also intervened in internal affairs through control of the Conservative party and economic influence. Sandino believed in the glorification of personal heritage and liberty and once said, \"The sovereignty and liberty of a people are not to be discussed, but rather defended with weapons in hand\"

Augusto returned to his homeland in 1926 as the Statute of Limitations on his crime ran out. In June of 1926, Sandino met a troop of migrating workers and

traveled North, finding employment in the San Albino mines. Sandino began to agitate and urge the miners to sabotage the mines. In december of 1926 a rebellion against the coservative governamt broke out. Taking some of his personal savings, Sandino purchased some old weapons from gun-runners on the Honduran border to arm the miners and proceeded to attack El Jícaro but

where defeated by the garrison force because Sandino was inexperienced and fought with standard mass-army tactics. Sandino decided that in order to be effective he would have to have better weapons. So he communicated with the rebelling Liberal troops led by Commander General José María Moncada but was refused better weapons and more men. Sandino somehow managed

to acquire some more weapons, after becoming popular with the other important Liberals, Moncada was finally convinced to allow Sandino to stage independent attacks with the help of rebelling soldiers. Having learned from his earlier mistakes, he gradually refined his warring techniques into a guerrilla

hit-and-run style of fighting much like that used by the Viet-cong during the Vietnam War. This form of guerrilla warfare would later influence many

liberation movements around the world fighting against U.S. imperialism.

The United States, wishing to calm the rebellion and decrease the casualties being inflicted on its armed forces, created a peace settlement between the two

parties. The majority of the Liberals agreed to the peace settlemnt, except for Sandino who chose to keep on fighting until the US had left Nicaragua. Sandino

saw the war as more than a case of Nicaraguans against Nicaraguans, but a war for self determination of the poor and oppressed peasants and worker both against the ruling classes of Nicaragua and against U.S. Imperialism.

Even though Sandino was an idealist with radical political and social ideas such as having communal lands and a unified Central America, Sandino was always a man of action and organized the sentiments of the peasants into revolt. the common peasants provided the manpower to fight and die when needed as well as a constant information network for Sandino's Geurilla army.

In 1933 Sandino and his peasant amry forced the the united states armed forces to leave Nicaragua. All in all, in spite of growth and recession of

Sandino's military strength, Sandino was still as great or greater a force as he had ever been when the US left. With his ideal fulfilled, Sandino agreed to

lay down his weapons and signed a preliminary agreement with the Sacasa government. The agreement was that, in exchange for peace, some men who wished to stay with Sandino could do so in a commune in the Río Coco commune. These men would be formed into an auxiliary military group under the president's supervision for one year. As the United States left, they formed a powerful National Guard under the head of Anastasio Somoza García which was supposed to create a solid, non- political force to allow the country to grow in stability.General Somoza was anything but apolitical and he rapidly began to turn the National Guard to his own uses.

In 1934, with the review of his \"auxiliaries\" getting ever closer, Sandino told the President that he might not lay down his weapons because he believed that the

National Guard was unconstitutional. Sacasa called Sandino to Managua to speak with him and when Sandino arrived he publicly announced that he thought that the National Guard was unconstitutional. Sandino's talks with the President resulted in an agreement which would, among other things, reduce Somoza's power through the National Guard significantly. On February 20, as Sandino returned from speaking with the President, the National Guardsmen under Somoza's command, fearing a loss of power, surrounded him and

his party and executed them. The next day the National Guard raided the northern commune, destroyed it, and killed most of Sandino's men, their wives, and children.

The revolution was finally subdued, and in 1937 the U.S client General Somoza became dictator. From 1937 to 1979, Nicaragua was ruled autocratically by two

successive generations of the Somoza family. Although Sandino’s revolution had failed, the seed of revolution had been planted. By the 1970’s, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) had grown in popularity and started to threaten Somoza’s hegemony. The Sandinistas, naturally, had taken their name from Augusto Sandino, the martyr who fathered the Anti-imperialist cause in Nicaragua. The Sandinista cause was supported by three major beliefs, “the three legs of the stool of Nicaraguan revolutionary democracy” . The first,

political democracy, The second, participatory democracy, the third, economic equality, meant a communistic economy and complete equalization of

wealth, incorporating both Marxist and socialist ideas.

The Sandinistas Political pursations were heavily influenced by Augusto Sandino his secular religious beliefs, his Marxist beliefs, and his close association with anarchism. Finally, they were influenced by the Christian Theology of Liberation.

With this philosophy, the Sandinistas justified their revolution as freeing people from social, economic, and political oppression. The Sandinistas were a

mixture of these influences, which made them a very unique cause, and very unique leaders.

On August 22, 1978, twenty-four Sandinista guerillas stormed the national palace at Managua, and by July 17, 1979, the Sandinistas had driven General Samoza out of power and began the process of making the dream of Sandino a reality.

(Note: Like many revolutions the Sandinista revolution fell short of its initial dream. Many things can be said about the period that the Sandinistas held power but none of them can be fully undersdood without the understanding of the U.S. led counter-revolutiuonary force of the contras. despite the U.S. 'TERRORIST' war against the sandinistas they managed to effect many

broad reaching changes in the social arrangment in Nicaruguara in favor of the the peasantry and poor working class.

The National Literacy Campaign of 1980 affected one in every two Nicaraguans . The literacy rate rose from 45% to 86% in one of the largest literacy campaigns ever, and the Sandinista government drew international

acclaim. Prior to 1979, about 4% of the landowners controlled about 52% of the arable land. The Sandinista junta set out to fix this, trying to make it an equal proportion. They directly started to confiscate Somoza family land, and other, similar land. The nationalization of Somoza’s property alone affected a total of 168 factories—25% of industrial plant in Nicaragua, valued at $200 million. This

initial confiscation led directly to the Agrarian Reform Law of 1981, which targeted unused farms, property of absent landlords, and unproductive land

for expropriation. From 1981-1985, thousands of acres of land were expropriated and turned into new, peasant collectives.Along with nationalizing aristocratic land, the Sandinistas began to nationalize certain industries. The Sandinistas issued reform that nationalized sugar distribution, commenced state

control over agricultural cooperatives, and started a limited policy of nationalization of business. By 1981, the state accounted for more than 30% of the industry of Nicaragua. The government also initiated control, with so-called ‘wildcat nationalizations’, over 20% of the cotton industry, 50% of the tobacco

industry, and 60% of the ‘staple cereal’ industry.

MOBAREZEH HAMISHE

www.nefac.net

www.jerichoboston.org

Robin Merrill is a member of the Mobarezeh anarchist collective (NEFAC Boston) and a Member of the Boston chapter of the Jericho movement.

Posted by strugglemag at 09:47 PM

In Malcolm's Memory

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

It is a tribute to grassroots Black and socialist movements that the name of Malcolm X is known today.

His handsome, bronze image stares back from U.S. postage stamps. His autobiography continues to inspire new generations all across America, and around the world. The Spike Lee production, \"Malcolm X\", renewed his life story for a new generation, emblazoning the chiseled features of actors Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett in the minds of millions as the faces of Malcolm X and his beloved wife, Sister Betty Shabazz.

The Malcolm X who lived, struggled, was imprisoned, followed by the FBI (and other government agencies), whose words were like pepper in the bloody scars of America, became transformed, over time, into someone that he would barely recognize: a 'civil rights' activist; instead of a nationalist, a freedom fighter, a rebel to white nationalism, and, in his own words, one who fought for 'human rights.'

For a time, he was the voice and the most recognized face of the Nation of Islam, and the paper he founded, *Muhammad Speaks*, was sold from coast to coast, one of the few, rare undiluted published voices of an oppressed people. He set up temples of the emergent organization in a score of cities.

He was the dark counterpart to the 'love thy neighbor' speeches of his closest political competitor, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and indeed, his sparks of righteous indignation and anger made Martin's sweet entreaties that much sweeter.

Malcolm's Feb. 21, 1965 assassination in New York's Audubon Ballroom did not spark the same kind of public, nor political reaction as did the assassination of Martin some 3 years later. *TIME*, *Newsweek*, and *The New York Times* maligned Malcolm in death, with the *Times* calling him a \"twisted\" man. Carl T. Rowan, a Black journalist, diplomat, and head of the United States Information Agency (USIA) was no better. When African and Asian countries paid him tribute, Rowan was disturbed, saying he \"could not understand all the fuss about an ex-convict, ex-dope peddler who became a racial fanatic.\"

But while the Black bourgeoisie 'couldn't understand' the meaning of Malcolm's loss, Black poor and working class people certainly could. He was one of *us*, they reasoned, and his loss was our loss.

Malcolm's sharp, biting, and uncompromising criticism of White America, and the hypocrisy of its political leaders when it came to Black folks wasn't lost on Rev. King. According to theological scholar James H. Cone, Martin, in private, couldn't help but identify with much of Malcolm's insights:

Among close associates and friends King

did not hesitate to concede the truth of

Malcolm's analysis of the black condition.

He reportedly said to a friend: \"I just saw

Malcolm on television. I can't deny it.

When he starts talking about all that's been

done to us, I get a twinge of hate, of

identification with him.\" [From: James H.

Cone, *Martin & Malcolm & America:

A Dream or a Nightmare* (Maryknoll,

N.Y.: Orbis, 1991), p. 256].

It has been 40 years since a ruckus erupted in the Audubon, and gunmen slew Malcolm X in front of his family and followers.

He still continues to speak to new generations, who find in him, the resistance of distant ancestors, the anger and resentment of a people who know, in their hearts, that they were not dealt with fairly, and the necessity of self-defense against a system that is in perpetual war with Black America.

His life inspired a generation of young men and women to form and expand the Black Panther Party, the Republic of New Africa, the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, and myriad other groups. He brought countless white youth out of the cages of white liberalism and into movements for social justice and liberation. In a recent, somewhat amazing example, that of John Walker Lindh, who joined the Taliban in Afghanistan, his trek into the Third World began in the pages of *The Autobiography of Malcolm X*.

It has been generations, yet his voice continues to echo anew.

[*Sources*: *Cone, J.H., *Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare* (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991), p. 40.; Carson, Clayborne, *Malcolm X: The FBI File* (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991).]

[Check out Mumia's latest: *WE WANT FREEDOM: A Life in the Black Panther Party*, from South End Press (www.southendpress.org); Ph.

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