State violence and movement strategy
…let’s face it, the state has all the firepower, all the guns, and all it takes is an excuse and they’ll use it…
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Building to revolution
….all the things that people understand [come through struggle], not by some theoretical discussion, [but] by creating an action based on what it is people want and when you do that action, the action itself leads to awareness….
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Multiple paths
…our strategies are influenced by the [institutional] foothold we have and us wanting to hang onto that.
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The limits of success
…our success in one area limits our ability to be a real agent for wider change, so I think that’s a barrier in the long term if not necessarily right now.
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Violence, clarity, and context
Diversity of tactics – really what it boils down to is black bloc versus no black bloc and that…gets turned into violence versus non-violence [but] they don’t line up.
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Outrage, movements, and institutionalization
You can’t sustain a white-hot movement indefinitely without becoming an institution.
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Talking strategically
I think that we…[talk so much] about tactics that we don’t ever talk about strategy