on an diversity of tactics
x - 02.10.2010 15:50
Considering what happend yesterday evening and the discussions here on indymedia we wnated to share this very fitting call-out, lifted from the editorial of the latest breekijzer, an irregular amsterdam squatters zine.
About diversity, solidarity and the squatting ban.
"The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work.
This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and non-violence.
The only way i like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window." - William S. Burroughs
If you dont like any of the actions that are happening, instead of staying home (you still have one, but what about next week?) do something else! Only criticizing each others actions is like trowing a stone in the head of a friend 'cause you where too lazy to take a propper aim at that cop a bit further away. Friendly fire can be the biggest bitch of all.
We, the squatters of Amsterdam and else where, have been shamefully quit and inactive lately. Let's face the facts; we are not an threat to anyone or anything anymore. This was all fine and peachy when squatting was still legal but now its time to dance to the beat of a different drummer.
Being a threat doesn't necessarily mean trowing stones at everything that wears a uniform (although that can be fun too) or burning every single dumpster you find (but if you feel like it then by all means, go for it). Being a threat, being radical, means not giving up. It means fighting for what you believe in. It means still having a heart, in this society made out of power structures, advertising slogans and state-sponsored violence.
It is important that we don't let ourself fall into these false categories of good squatters and bad squatters, the hippies and the hooligans. This only distracts us from real problems, and anyway we know that we are all so much more complicated than that. We know that the same person can cook and serve free food during the day and smash windows of their local cop shop during the night. We fight in courtrooms and on the streets. With words but also with sticks and stones. Let's not start thinking we are as one-dimensional as the media likes to present us.
After the revolution there'll be plenty of time to discuss who's first up against the wall - the reformists or the insurrectionalists? But now our common enemy, the kraakverbod, should unite us.
Its time to get off our arses and do everything we can do to fight back, be that in whatever way someone feels comfortable with.
Different ways of taking action are not our enemy - inactivity is.
Let's not be diveded and conquered.
Peace, love and petrol bombs!
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