We are the Radical arm of Occupy LA. We have come together in an online black bloc against the Obstructionists, the Reformists, and the Liberals who have occupied the choke points of presumed power and leadership roles within our leaderless movement in order to further oppress marginalized voices, promote lies, and foist their own insidious agenda of abusive control upon OLA. We are a dynamic and evolving community who eschew authorship, believing it provokes ego and craving. We promote anonymity, collective decision-making, community and truth. The Black Bloc, erasing identity and promoting solidarity, is our symbol against the corruption inherent within our own movement, representing that of the wider world.

All our content is open source to those who are our comrades. We refuse to allow our words to be reproduced by any organization that is using this content for the purposes of soliciting financial or other donations. If you would like to use our words to solicit resources, ask us. We will say yes if we think the money will help those in the struggle alongside us. We will say no if it's going into your greedy Liberal 501c3 pockets or to some corrupt Presidential candidate.

24th January 2012

Link with 20 notes

Groups Distance themselves from Occupy Movement →

From this blog regarding why HARM (Hoosiers Anti-Racist Movement) has withdrawn support from Occupy Indianapolis:

  • … we find Occupy Indianapolis to consist primarily of armchair activists and internet warriors who will never have more than their non-involved sympathies to offer.
  • Because this collection of various websites and social media pages are unaccountable to any general assembly and keep confidential the names of admins, they are in violation what might be the two core values of the Occupation Movement, namely transparency and horizontal structure.
  • Because Occupy Indianapolis has systematically alienated, disenfranchised, and censored radical voices both during it’s physical occupation and via it’s online presence it becomes clear that the occupation is not about compromise and consensus between disparate elements, but rather a hierarchical neo-liberal co-option of a movement in support of the status-quo.
  • Because online censorship has been focused on antifascist and radical voices rather than all “fringe” voices, Occupy Indianapolis has become a safe place for conspiracy-theories, antisemitism, racism, anti-worker sentiment, pro-sweatshop propaganda, and religious intolerance.
  • Because the dogmatic Pacifists have neutered any chance of direct action coming from the occupation, we find their to be no chance at revolutionary change stemming from Occupy Indianapolis’s actions.

The parallels to the situation at OccupyLA (especially occupylosangeles.org) and the “Social Media Committee” therein are frightening. Is it only a matter of time before people withdraw their support from #occupyLA due to similar concerns here? Is OLA Social Media and Web killing this movement, locally, as HARM is implying those at OccupyIndy are doing there?

Stay tuned…


Tagged: HARMoccupylaoccuypyindyowsliberalsreformistschoke pointsauthoritariansleftfailoccupylosangeles.org