Post by Modesto Anarcho on Feb 26, 2008 19:17:05 GMT -5
Cook Cops Not Meth - Rob Banks Not Each Other
By crudo
“We tired of being victims to these capitalistic drug dealers.” - 2Pac
Dedicated to the insurgent proles of the valley like Jessica Flores, who is now locked up by the Merced pigs for appropriating with her co-conspirators over $3,000 in store goods while working at Mervyn's and for refusing to snitch on them after her capture.
Any revolutionary struggle that seeks to abolish the state, capitalism, hierarchy, and industrial production will have to go outside of the law. We don’t want to work within the system, we want to smash it until it breaks. During this struggle, we will engage in a diversity of tactics, with little regards for their “legality” because we refuse to look upon the state as legitimate. The state is a monopoly of violence and it’s laws, police, prisons, courts, fines, judges, and detention centers are just the manifestations of that violence directed against a population that grows more and more insurgent against law and order. But, more often than not, this desire to risk our freedom by breaking the law does not come from a wish to tear down this system which has us sick to our stomachs in the first place - but instead pits us against each other instead of our real enemies. It happens in prison, on the streets, in the schools, and in the courts.
In some places of Modesto, crime has risen by 300%. People break into other people’s homes, tie up their neighbors and steal their possessions. People steal each others cars and Modesto is one of the cities leading the nation in car-jackings. People cook drugs in their homes, which then they sell to other people, causing death, addiction, and depression. Instead of spending our time bettering ourselves and working to overcome the obstacles in our lives - much less have a good time - we busy ourselves with escape. The meth epidemic hits us hard. But just as hard are the affects of alcoholism, rape, child abuse, and other ills that plague our communities. The stress and misery of a life dominated by school, work, traffic, prison, coercion, boredom, and chemicals does not foster a desire to fight back but a desire to escape.
What’s sad as well is that so often so many of us are willing to go outside of the law. Some gang-bang, some steal, some sell drugs, some write graffiti, some do whatever dirt comes their way. But who among us is really willing to confront the real horrors of our lives and actually bang on the system itself? What if we turned the tables around and decided that perhaps if we’re willing to take risks to get high or just get by, then perhaps we’re willing to take some risks to get free?
In South Side Modesto, there are some places where for the most part the police won’t even enter. In these places, cops are openly dogged and told to get the f**k out. People know a pig when they see one and they don’t see a hero “protecting and serving” when the black and whites drive by, they see an enemy. In these areas where the police already have so little control over, where the physical determination of the people is against the dominant social order, there are a lot of possibilities. What if we could link this into other patterns of proletarian resistance, such as squatting and stealing from work? What if in our autonomous zones we could build not places where we self-destruct, but places where we can live free from authority, work, and hierarchy?
What if we took the mantra “Stop Snitching” for real? What if people robbed banks and not each other? What if when houses went abandoned we took them over and gave people a place to stay so they wouldn’t have to work the streets in order to find a place to sleep? What if we took over abandoned plots of land that exist all over the city and started growing food so we wouldn’t have to buy it? What if we got organized with our neighbors and homies to mob corporate stores to get what we need so we wouldn’t have to pay for it? What if we hooked up with our friends with jobs and started hitting those rich mother-f**kers back who forced us to spend hours working jobs we hate for nutsty pay. What if we resisted the police coming into our communities by any means necessary, not just because we don’t want them to bust us for holding, but because we truly want to see a world without police, prisons, and bosses? What if we squashed all the gang beefs and started banging on the real gangs in this city: the city council, the police, and the developers? Let’s create real communities of resistance where we can be proud to know that certain people and forces of oppression won’t dare to step foot in. Whatever they throw at us, together we remain ungovernable.
This article appears in Modesto Anarcho #4. For ordering info (or to just skip all that crap and download it for free), or check out our distro list, go to: www.geocities.com/anarcho209 or www.myspace.com/modanarcho
Feedback, hate mail, marriage proposals: anarcho209@yahoo.com
Modesto Anarcho
PO Box 3027
Modesto, CA 95353
By crudo
“We tired of being victims to these capitalistic drug dealers.” - 2Pac
Dedicated to the insurgent proles of the valley like Jessica Flores, who is now locked up by the Merced pigs for appropriating with her co-conspirators over $3,000 in store goods while working at Mervyn's and for refusing to snitch on them after her capture.
Any revolutionary struggle that seeks to abolish the state, capitalism, hierarchy, and industrial production will have to go outside of the law. We don’t want to work within the system, we want to smash it until it breaks. During this struggle, we will engage in a diversity of tactics, with little regards for their “legality” because we refuse to look upon the state as legitimate. The state is a monopoly of violence and it’s laws, police, prisons, courts, fines, judges, and detention centers are just the manifestations of that violence directed against a population that grows more and more insurgent against law and order. But, more often than not, this desire to risk our freedom by breaking the law does not come from a wish to tear down this system which has us sick to our stomachs in the first place - but instead pits us against each other instead of our real enemies. It happens in prison, on the streets, in the schools, and in the courts.
In some places of Modesto, crime has risen by 300%. People break into other people’s homes, tie up their neighbors and steal their possessions. People steal each others cars and Modesto is one of the cities leading the nation in car-jackings. People cook drugs in their homes, which then they sell to other people, causing death, addiction, and depression. Instead of spending our time bettering ourselves and working to overcome the obstacles in our lives - much less have a good time - we busy ourselves with escape. The meth epidemic hits us hard. But just as hard are the affects of alcoholism, rape, child abuse, and other ills that plague our communities. The stress and misery of a life dominated by school, work, traffic, prison, coercion, boredom, and chemicals does not foster a desire to fight back but a desire to escape.
What’s sad as well is that so often so many of us are willing to go outside of the law. Some gang-bang, some steal, some sell drugs, some write graffiti, some do whatever dirt comes their way. But who among us is really willing to confront the real horrors of our lives and actually bang on the system itself? What if we turned the tables around and decided that perhaps if we’re willing to take risks to get high or just get by, then perhaps we’re willing to take some risks to get free?
In South Side Modesto, there are some places where for the most part the police won’t even enter. In these places, cops are openly dogged and told to get the f**k out. People know a pig when they see one and they don’t see a hero “protecting and serving” when the black and whites drive by, they see an enemy. In these areas where the police already have so little control over, where the physical determination of the people is against the dominant social order, there are a lot of possibilities. What if we could link this into other patterns of proletarian resistance, such as squatting and stealing from work? What if in our autonomous zones we could build not places where we self-destruct, but places where we can live free from authority, work, and hierarchy?
What if we took the mantra “Stop Snitching” for real? What if people robbed banks and not each other? What if when houses went abandoned we took them over and gave people a place to stay so they wouldn’t have to work the streets in order to find a place to sleep? What if we took over abandoned plots of land that exist all over the city and started growing food so we wouldn’t have to buy it? What if we got organized with our neighbors and homies to mob corporate stores to get what we need so we wouldn’t have to pay for it? What if we hooked up with our friends with jobs and started hitting those rich mother-f**kers back who forced us to spend hours working jobs we hate for nutsty pay. What if we resisted the police coming into our communities by any means necessary, not just because we don’t want them to bust us for holding, but because we truly want to see a world without police, prisons, and bosses? What if we squashed all the gang beefs and started banging on the real gangs in this city: the city council, the police, and the developers? Let’s create real communities of resistance where we can be proud to know that certain people and forces of oppression won’t dare to step foot in. Whatever they throw at us, together we remain ungovernable.
This article appears in Modesto Anarcho #4. For ordering info (or to just skip all that crap and download it for free), or check out our distro list, go to: www.geocities.com/anarcho209 or www.myspace.com/modanarcho
Feedback, hate mail, marriage proposals: anarcho209@yahoo.com
Modesto Anarcho
PO Box 3027
Modesto, CA 95353
