Those of you who condemn the Black Bloc for acting too aggesively should learn the history of your imperialist culture and then decide if change should come sooner or later. The world does not have the luxury of peaceful protest, for they need change and they need it now!
In the condemnation of violence that so many comrades within the anti-globalisation movement rush to take, i can only respond with scorn. There are those who still think that this movement started in Seattle, and it is of express ownership to those within the West. You Westerners have the luxury of time on your side, parading through your cities with puppets and banners, forgeting that every minute that goes by, another person is a fatal victim of this capitalist, imperialist system. You ostracize those who move from protest to resistence because you have not yet fully appreciated what this struggle means to those who you claim to act in solidarity with. Peaceful protest is not a luxury available to most people in this world, through laws or by virtue of need for change.
Protesting with banners and puppers is but an appeal to the authority of the very institutions that we are calling into question. By asking for their attention and begging for a change in their policy, we are but reinforcing their sovereignty over us. Furthermore, protests earn little but the lowest common denominator. Very well, the people are protesting, so Bush will concede and start offering grants from the World Bank interest free. Still unacceptable, for strings are attached, such as structual adjustment policies. We need profound change in this world, and that means revolution.
Those of you who condemn the Black Bloc for acting too aggesively should learn the history of your imperialist culture and then decide if change should come sooner or later. If you do not agree with such aggresive tactics, then abide by the 'diversity of tactics', and no one will condemn you. But by condemning resisters, it is you who are the cowards. You desecrate the memory of Carlo Guiliani, as well as the many more poeople throughout the world who have died in the struggle.
It took me 12 minutes to write this article, and in those minutes, untold numbers of people have died for fighting for a better way of life. Move from protest to resistence.
A//E
