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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:37:14 -0500 
From: "L.A. Kauffman" <lak@free-radical.org>  |
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Subject: [free-radical] RADICALS ON THE WEB 


From: "L.A. Kauffman" <lak@free-radical.org> 


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                free radical: a chronicle of the
new unrest 
               
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ON THE WEB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .  Issue #1.5 
 
Movements aren’t born on the Internet. The
digital realm can’t supply the mysterious spark
that turns an obscure cause into a widespread
passion, that motivates scattered individuals to
take collective action.
 
But once people are in motion, the Internet is an
agitator’s dream: fast, cheap, far-reaching.
Grassroots movements of all kinds increasingly
use listserves and discussion groups to
coordinate their work. Email is beginning to do
away with the expensive chore of stuffing
envelopes, long a staple of activist life. And
with the planetary reach of the World Wide Web,
activist networks are globalizing at nearly the
pace of the corporate order they oppose. 
 
For radical and alternative media, the potential
is enormous. One striking example: During the
Seattle WTO protests and their aftermath, the
Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org)
logged a stunning 2 million hits on its website,
which broadcast firsthand reports from the
streets. 
 
However, a "digital divide" in computer and
Internet access remains between the haves and
have-nots, which in the United States often means
whites and people of color. Such disparities
carry over into grassroots organizing: Even a
group as large and media-savvy as Reverend Al
Sharpton’s National Action Network is not yet
online. 
 
What follows is a tiny sampling of what’s out
there, a guided tour to some of the best radical
gathering spots on the Web:
 
CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION
The best place to hook up with the fight against
corporate globalization is the A16 website
(www.a16.org). This site is the online hub for
the main coalition planning the
sure-to-be-splashy April 16 protests in
Washington, D.C., which will target the annual
meeting of the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund. 
 
Be sure to read Elizabeth Martinez’s influential
essay on this burgeoning movement, "Where Was the
Color in Seattle? Looking for Reasons Why the
Great Battle Was So White"
(http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Globalism/seattlkecolor.htm)
 
To study globalization issues in greater depth,
check out the excellent reading list offered by
San Francisco’s Modern Times Bookstore
(http://www.mtbs.com/globalization.htm). Or
subscribe to Essential Action’s Stop-imf
listserve, which posts 1-5 messages per day on
topics relating to the IMF, structural
adjustment, and Third World debt (Send email to
stop-imf-request@lists.essential.org with
"subscribe" in the body of the message).
 
Finally, a comprehensive resource guide on
corporate globalization can be found on Global
Exchange’s website
(http://www.globalexchange.org/wbimf/links.html)
.
 
DIRECT ACTION
At the upcoming A16 World Bank/IMF protests, you
can expect the streets to be filled with music,
art, exuberance, and blockades -- much as they
were in Seattle, until the police started lobbing
gas canisters into the crowd. 
This spirited protest style owes much to Reclaim
the Streets, a worldwide phenomenon, little known
in the United States, that was born five years
ago out of the convergence of England’s
anti-road-building movement and underground rave
scene (http://www.gn.apc.org/rts).
 
RTS played a major role in the even
less-well-known J18 protest, a crucial activist
watershed (http://www.j18.org). This June 1999
day of anti-capitalist action around the world
coincided with a G8 global superpower summit in
Germany, and pointed the way to Seattle and
beyond. Learn more at the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop’s
indispensable website
(http://www.infoshop.org/june18.html). 
 
For the latest news of radical direct action --
genetically engineered crops destroyed! pompous
capitalist pied! -- scan the voluminous offerings
from DAMN, the Direct Action Media Network
(http://damn.tao.ca/main.htm). And don’t miss the
Earth First! Journal website
(http://www.earthfirstjournal.org), filled with
frontline reporting and ruminations from direct
action movements around the world.
 
ANARCHISTS
Somebody give the mainstream media a clue phone:
Anarchists don’t all smash windows and wear black
masks. On the contrary, there are nearly as many
anarchisms as there are anarchists, and spirited
debates rage among them about tactics,
strategies, and political styles. 
 
Anarchist influences pervade many of the
liveliest grassroots movements today. The best
portal by far into this activist realm is the
sprawling Mid-Atlantic Infoshop site
(http://www.infoshop.org).It features daily news
updates, key texts and manifestos, extensive
links, and an excellent FAQ that dispels common
misconceptions about anarchism.
 
Of course, some anarchists do smash windows, wear
black masks, and so forth. Read what they have to
say in the "N30 Black Bloc Communique"
(http://www.infoshop.org/octo/wto_blackbloc.html),
written shortly after Seattle. And check out the
recently issued call for a "Revolutionary
Anti-Capitalist Bloc" at the A16 protests
(http://www.infoshop.org/news5/a16_call.html).
To get a sense of anarchism’s international
reach, peruse the multi-lingual A-Infos news
service (http://www.ainfos.ca). 
 
POLICE & PRISONS 
New youth movements are building throughout the
U.S. on an array of criminal justice issues:
police brutality, racial profiling, the death
penalty, prison expansion and privatization. 
 
>From the protests against the police acquittals
in New York’s Amadou Diallo killing to the civil
disobedience actions in response to California’s
Youth Crime Initiative, young activists have
brought new life and creativity to longstanding
campaigns. The Schools Not Jails website
(http://www.schoolsnotjails.com) details fiesty
teen actions against "the incarceration of a
generation" in California. 
 
Hip hop has been central to much of this
organizing. A key example is the Prison
Moratorium Project’s "No More Prisons" CD,
released in late 1999 (www.nomoreprisons.org).
For an overview of related efforts, read Angela
Ard’s nuanced essay, "Rhyme and Resist:
Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation"
(http://www.thenation.com/issue/990726/0726ards.shtml).
 
The Prison Activist Resource Center
(http://www.prisonactivist.org) includes
statistics, background materials, and links to
activist groups. Finally, for comprehensive
background materials on the "war on youth," check
out the resource guide available at the website
of ColorLines magazine
(http://www.colorlines.com/waronyouth/).
 
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
L.A. Kauffman (lak@free-radical.org) is a
longtime radical writer and activist whose work
has appeared in the Village Voice, The Nation,
The Progressive, Spin, Mother Jones, Salon.com,
and numerous other publications. Currently, she
is writing a history of American radicalism since
1970. She lives in New York City, where she has
been active in the community garden movement, the
Lower East Side Collective, and the Direct Action
Network. 
 
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