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Justice Through
a Broken Window
As we enter into 2017, there is a smell of change
beyond the Gregorian calendar much more pun-
gent in the air. Not a campaign promise or a party
victory, but a true paradigm shift. With the election
of the most unpopular president in history, impend-
ing climate disaster, economic uncertainty, and
disillusioned youth, the countries largest genera-
tion is realizing that the American system has not
failed, but is functioning exactly as it was designed
to. The iron is hot and Americas youth actively
seeking real alternatives to a system that sold
them out.
Even liberal democrats are flooding back into the
streets after eight years of deafening silence, turn-
ing out in their largest crowds since 2003. And they
are bringing their historically ineffective one-
pronged tactic with them. After nearly a decade of
conspicuous indifference, they are returning to the
streets and condemning, alienating, and betraying
those who never left. Championing white-washed
and censored versions of MLK and Gandhi, baby
boomer pacifists who still pat themselves on the
back for the end of incursions into Vietnam and the
civil rights movement (conveniently leaving out the
struggles and effectiveness of the Viet Cong and
the Black Panthers) return and appropriate the
organization and groundwork that radicals have
been fighting and dying for before AND after Bush
left office. Cooperating with, paying, and asking
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permission from police, and turning in those who
dont, even making radical a dirty word, relegat-
ing anyone who dare step into more effective wa-
ters than passive vocalization as paid infiltrators
or police provocateurs, enforcing the partisan
false paradigm. We see milquetoast liberals, who,
as Dr. King famously named in his Letter from a
Birmingham Jail, are more devoted to order than
to justice; who prefera negative peace which is
the absence of tension to a positive peace which is
the presence of justice.
Crying for broken windows more than broken
heads. Calling for change from the ballot box or
the picket line, surrendering to the governments
monopoly on force. Preaching to disenfranchised
move through this time with loving kindness and
clear that the electoral left is only a different side of
the same coin. It is clear that neither voting or sign
holding alone will bring about the shift we so des-
perately need. People realize this now more than
ever.
Window breakers are not the enemy.
Protest after protest, they not only intentionally
separate themselves from activists, but they hold
the outer perimeters of the movement, putting their
bodies on the lines to prevent police crackdowns
from reaching the women, children, and pacifists
within the blockades. Black Bloc activists disrupted
Donald Trumps inauguration, letting the establish-
ment know that we will not go quietly into the night,
and stood in peaceful solidarity with the Women's
March the next day. But were disowned and side-
lined nonetheless, demonized by those who co-
opted their movement and were invited, in good
faith, into organizational meetings, only to call for a
purification of dissidents, a thinly veiled advoca-
tion of turning in revolutionaries. Black Bloc activ-
ists punched Richard Spencer in the face, signal-
ing that overt racism will be met with resistance,
and as empowered as the alt-right might feel un-
der the current administration, they are not wel-
come here. This sparked a heated liberal debate
about the moral implications of punching Nazis.
Blac Bloc activists shut down Milo in Berkeley, sig-
naling that we will not tolerate fascism and white
supremacy. Suddenly repercussions for hate
speech are an infringement of free speech. This
serves only to further disillusion the young and
educated. The two-party paradigm is crumbling,
and we must not let its death throes corrupt our
burgeoning rebirth.
We need solidarity between all factions and tacti-
cal preferences. We need horizontal organization
and constant vigilance pointed not only towards
our fascists opponents, but also the leftist statists
beside us, who will throw us under the bus at the
first offer of compromise. We need to wear the
badge of radical proudly, as reassurance we are
something different than those who have come
before us. Frederick Douglass famously observed
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If there is no struggle, there is no
progress. Those who profess to Fa-
vor freedom, and yet depreciate agi-
tation, are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground. They
want rain without thunder and light-
ning. They want the ocean without
the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one,
or it may be a physical one, or it
may be both moral and physical, but
it must be a struggle. Power con-
cedes nothing without demand. It
never has and it never will. So we
must demand. Demand with our
wallets. Demand in the streets. And
demand through support and soli-
darity with our anti-fascist, anti-
capitalist, anti-sexist, and anti-racist
brothers and sister behind the black
mask.
-Matt Rodriguez
A local revolutionary theorist who
fled the USA for Vietnam recently.
A Mothers Call for
Revolution:
-Shira
Thank you to the ancestors, thank you to every-
one who has come before me on this path to lib-
eration. Bless the transformation and paradigm
shift that is upon us and allow us grace as we
empathy.Thankful for the current political climate
which has the potential to radicalize the masses
and move us as a society into a new paradigm.
The time to organize our resistances outside of
the established system is here. We have tried
to establish our needs using the legal system
and this has repeatedly failed. Marching is not
enough to make change.
How do revolutions happen? When we collec-
tively become aware of the harm we are proliferat-
ing due to our support of liberal-patriarchal-
capitalistic society and move beyond the scripted
separatism that such a culture endorses we can
heal ourselves, our culture, and our society. When
we stop using hierarchical paradigms to justify our
actions on all scales we have the opportunity to
face the reality of the world. We are destroying our
planet at increasingly frightening rates, we have a
fascist as the president of the united states. We
have been fighting this evil for a long time and
when legal and democratic means have repeat-
edly failed to achieve even the basic necessities to
protect our environment and our brothers and sis-
ters we need to move forward with other options.
We have proven that we cannot fight the system
with itself. The masters tools will never dismantle
the masters house -Audre Lord. So if we actually
care about the state of our world ecosystem, local
watersheds, homelessness, queer rights, clas-
sism, etc, then we need to face the reality as it
stands in front of us and move beyond the op-
pressive system and tap into the human place that
exists within us all. From this place we can heal.
With this awareness
comes a corresponding
responsibility to support those most
marginalized by our former system as
we hear their stories and learn from
their struggles.
There is the key to real
meaningful societal change.