Everyone, for reasons that were completely ahistorical, is really surprised by the emergence of things like the black bloc or…the Ya Bastas from Southern Europe. There was…this moment where everyone was like, ‘oh! Where did all of this come from?’
[it] was very interesting…and inspiring to see Six Nations, which is this Indigenous group that has the oldest surviving democratic constitution in the world, who have been actively fighting colonialism for five hundred years, who have retained a great deal of their culture in the face of genocide, and still works by those sorts of principles that we were trying to discover in 2001.
I’m not interested in creating a world or being part of a project that creates a world that revels in parochialism.
The Zapatistas offered a vision that other worlds were still possible.
the day you don’t have to justify yourselves for being in solidarity with everybody else is the day that that’s achieved.
we had developed a fair amount of respect for each other…[and] many of those debates were had in pretty fraternal ways and played out better than maybe they have most recently.
In union organizing drives and on picket lines…I’ve seen…racism, sexism break down.
