The world is waking outside my window Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao Drags my senses into the sunlight For there are things that I must do Wish me luck now, I have to leave you Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao With my friends now up to the city We're going to shake the Gates of Hell And I will tell them - we will tell them Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao That our sunlight is not for franchise And wish the bastards drop down dead Next time you see me I may be smiling Bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao I'll be in prison or on the TV I'll say, "the sunlight dragged me here!"
The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left-wing anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy, a movement composed of anarchists, communists, socialists and also by militant anti-fascist partisans. The author of the lyrics is unknown, and the music seems to come from an earlier folk song sung by riceweeders.
Finding some glorious stuff on a new link of translated Italian anarchist writings:
Intellectual Vagabonds
"Oh, intellectual vagabonds! Pale, unrepentant subverters! The ones who gallop on and on through the endless regions of their capricious imaginations that create new things"......."There, where the state ceases to exist… but watch a bit, my brothers: don't you see the rainbow over there and the bridges to the overhuman?"
"Listen, listen! It is the piercing roar of my wild laughter that is rumbling overhead, in the heights!" (I love that line, is that what all those strange noises are? LOL)
"The sudden entry of the unknown into daily life shakes up the reign of enigmas. This is shown by all the cases of men and women who "go out of their heads", as they say, in other words, who are no longer able to bring their social identity and the perception they have of themselves into agreement. But it is demonstrated still more clearly by what occurs in the course of revolts, of riots, of ins...urrections.....Because, in the course of these social tempests, individuals become more intelligent. Because the tricks of power become banal when men and women cease to be so. Because insurgents, in the community of unique ones, change their own lives and hence their understanding of the world. Because amazement, which is the source of all authentic thought, stands out above habit." ý"That these moments of suspension of habit—and thus, of norms—are often only excesses of fever of an organism that then returns to the normal temperature (the zero degrees of survival), only serves to confirm the enigmatic relationship that exists between intelligence and revolt. The arrogant wave of the latter leaves its pearls on the shore for the former, then it retreats. But where?"
"The reader participates in the effort of the writer and the writer in that of the reader. Even if the two movements are separated from each other, they are not so in the fact, which has not been much considered, that the one who writes is always (simultaneously) a reader of the text she is writing, and the one who reads is also himself (simultaneously) the writer of the text that he is reading."... "Dressing reality is thus the primary activity of the human being, the condition for acting and itself an action, the essential form of action, insofar as thought itself is the process of clothing reality (a fact that is not much considered). What could we "do" without the capacity of "reading" reality. We would find ourselves before a dark mass of foreboding and fear. The most important question is not that of the greatest clarity (easiest words, dressed most modestly, linearity in the correspondences), but rather, and maybe contrarily, that of the greatest richness (different words contrasting the commonplaces, dressed in the liveliest colors, uncertainty of correspondence). The word is also enchantment, marvel, joyous invention, fancy, evocation of something other, not the seal of the already seen, the confirmation of one's certainties."
"Here and now, history is conflict, not happiness. The periods of happiness appear to us as blank pages" "History begins here and now. The spontaneous, the immediate, the present are the beginning of history. The past is an introduction that, like all introductions, is written about things that have been done, after they occur, in reflection"
''Black Blocs do not represent any specific ideological, or for that matter anti-ideological position. Black Blocs have tended in the past to be made up primarily of anarchists but most contain participants whose politics vary from Maoism to Social Democracy. They are not united by ideology, or lack of ideology, but merely a common feeling that creating a bloc of people with explicitly revolution...ary politics and ready to confront the forces of the order through more militant tactics if required, is, on the particular occasion when they assemble, a useful thing to do. It follows one can no more speak of “Black Bloc Anarchists,” as a group with an identifiable ideology, than one can speak of “Sign-Carrying Anarchists” or “Mic-Checking Anarchists.”'' David Graeber
I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York. I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs.
me: there's a poster been going around, if you dont like abortion, dont get one, if you dont like gay marriage, dont get one, etc ~ well if you dont like black bloc tactics, dont use them! Trying to force other people to do what you think is right is exactly the same. If youre sitting at home (as admittedly I am) and dont like that aspect of protests, then how about hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters turning up and showing that it can be done peacefully. It's not about making everyone else do it "the right way" according to your own beleifs. Where is the change in that?
ATTENTION: All you rule-breakers, you misfits & troublemakers, all you free-spirits & pioneers...don't forget the rules about breaking windows
"And from there we kind of went around this whole "is this right?" "is this wrong?" kind of thing.... but every single time I was able to go to a GA there was something wrong. There wasn't the same spark... the same motion forward we had going until we hit that blockade. I don't know what happened to be honest."
Nadim Fateh on the difference in Toronto Occupy and Egypt
A riot is the language of the unheard," said Martin Luther King. And Oakland is a city of the unheard, a city of tremendous institutionalized violence, a city of empty and blighted bank-owned homes, a city that saw riots and mass arrests just a year ago in response to police brutality, all before Occupy has a name or public face. Regardless of where that riotous energy is focused next, Hedges and others would be well served to spend some time in Oakland and its occupation in order to better cover it.
January 28 was not supposed to turn out the way it did. After Occupy Oakland failed to occupy its first two targeted buildings and had a short-lived street battle in front of the Oakland Museum, police in riot gear contained the march of nearly 1,000 in a public park. There was a dispersal order, bu...
"There is the reality that each of you generates, and that is the official reality. That IS the real reality, and no other power is setting its rules or guiding it greater than you. There is no outside manipulation.
Therefore in the appreciation and the value of every individual - for every individual is an expression of essence, of consciousness; every individual is equally as valuable as ever...y other individual; none are more valuable and none are less valuable - and in that, if every individual is unique and valuable and an expression of consciousness, and if every expression of consciousness in that value is worth in equal measure, how may you determine what is absolutely right and what is absolutely wrong, or what is absolutely good and what is absolutely bad?
Not one individual within this forum presently this day incorporates all of their focuses as what you now in this present moment would consider to be moral, good, ethical individuals. Regardless of how right you view yourselves to be now, you all incorporate some scoundrel within your focuses. And why? For you choose to be engaging this physical reality to explore and to experience, and if your purpose is to experience, why shall you not choose a tremendous variety of experiences?
Let me express to each of you - for I remember and am quite pleased with the remembrance! - I may express to each of you that those scoundrels, those knaves, those individuals that you view to be dark and evil are quite colorful, and they perceive themselves to be quite right also and would view you to be quite wrong; for this is what motivates all of you, your rightness in whatever you do. And the scurvy knaves believe themselves to be quite right also and within their rights to be generating whatever choices and actions that they incorporate. They do not view themselves to be scoundrels; they do not view themselves to be wrong. They view all other individuals to be wrong, as many of you do now. "It is not I that am wrong - it is the rest of the world!"
The rest of the world is not wrong, either. You merely incorporate differences in your perceptions, and this motivates you in different actions. The significance is to recognize that your rightness in whatever you generate is associated with your truths, and your truths are not wrong but they are YOUR truths, and they are not absolute to your world. "
Elias
ELIAS: Judgment in any area is the lack of acceptance, and this is a very major movement of this shift in consciousness. ALL individuals upon your planet are and shall be addressing to these issues of acceptance, not only of belief systems but of themselves and of each other, and this is why this shift in consciousness is expressed in such a long period of your physical time framework, for it moves slowly in the direction of acceptance.
me: there's a poster been going around, if you dont like abortion, dont get one, if you dont like gay marriage, dont get one, etc ~ well if you dont like black bloc tactics, dont use them! Trying to force other people to do what you think is right is exactly the same. If youre sitting at home (as admittedly I am) and dont like that aspect of protests, then how about hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters turning up and showing that it can be done peacefully. It's not about making everyone else do it "the right way" according to your own beleifs. Where is the change in that? ATTENTION: All you rule-breakers, you misfits & troublemakers, all you free-spirits & pioneers...don't forget the rules about breaking windows
ELIAS: Judgment in any area is the lack of acceptance, and this is a very major movement of this shift in consciousness. ALL individuals upon your planet are and shall be addressing to these issues of acceptance, not only of belief systems but of themselves and of each other, and this is why this shift in consciousness is expressed in such a long period of your physical time framework, for it moves slowly in the direction of acceptance.
There are so many layers to this... so many ...but I am proud of the human race. A most incredible undertaking .
"Greek police issued arrest warrants against the representatives of the Troika-ECB, IMF and EU-charges of "extortion" of "disguised promotion of the elimination or reduction of our democratic political and of national sovereignty "and" interference in legal processes essential "state.
"There are warned that, as legitimate representatives of the Greek police, we will require that warrants be issued to you by a large number of crimes under the law and according to the Greek Penal Code, "he says in a letter the Panhellenic Federation Police Officers (POASY). Recipients are Poul Thomsen, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Servaz Deruz, European Commission (EC) and Klaus Mazuch, European Central Bank (ECB)."
Una asociación de la policía griega exige el arresto de la troika www.publico.es
The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left-wing anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy, a movement composed of anarchists, communists, socialists and also by militant anti-fascist partisans. The author of the lyrics is unknown, and the music seems to come from an earlier folk song sung by riceweeders.
me: there's a poster been going around, if you dont like abortion, dont get one, if you dont like gay marriage, dont get one, etc ~ well if you dont like black bloc tactics, dont use them! Trying to force other people to do what you think is right is exactly the same. If youre sitting at home (as admittedly I am) and dont like that aspect of protests, then how about hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters turning up and showing that it can be done peacefully. It's not about making everyone else do it "the right way" according to your own beleifs. Where is the change in that?