Tactics for not allowing tyranny to smash us! (tags)
With Legalization of 'COINTELPRO'-styled official attack, challengers to status-quo must adopt the techniques of a *resistance of consciousness* and *mass-jiu-jitsu*, or continue to be completely dominated.
Decisive weakness of Right-wing: Lack of public, open forums for dialogue (tags)
The hype and manipulation of emotionally-potent over-simplifications by reformers on each wing is quite similar, except for one thing: The Right-wing persists in categorically not allowing forums for open-ended dialogue.
Strange Goings-on in Tucson, usa--with 3 peaces of art (tags)
Unbridled artist syndicate interactor and *crucial arts* promoter, Carin Elliot, has been "messing with" devoutly "Normal" vibes in the last many months. Especially about the 'everyday war'. The art tells the biggest story, so enjoy and pass around, no copyright! (All email will probably be blocked/monitored by the usual soldiers)
Trials of a Solo Challenger May Be Instructive For Others (with art) (tags)
a human message from an artist who is feeling that things are coming more and more "to a head", re: suspicious interactions with acquaintances while on a state-controlled camera
When Demonstrators Think They Can Use "the Master's Tools" (art) (tags)
History (as documented by Howard Zinn and others) shows us that when comparitively weak groups imagine that they can utilize "The Master's Tools" *when it really counts* they often find themselves *being tooled* instead. This art questions the value of engaging domestic implementers of policy in traditional formal ways. anti-copyright art
One way we can inform ourselves and others! (flyer art) (tags)
This is a flyer I've been passing out to hundreds of people where I am. I hope you will find a flyer of this type--broad demystification orientation--valuable enough to either use this same one or make one even better. The trick is, make one that may "bridge" with as many people as possible, instead of the usual "single issue" (usually topical) flyer we see all over. The beauty of this method is that it undermines all the "us vs. them" hysteria that most anti-war protesters are facing when they remain stuck in the single issue of the situation in the middle east.
If You Understand Policy-Makers' Mind-set, You Can Better Do Mass Jiu-Jitsu (tags)
Here are two extremely crucial links, in my estimation, to understanding the *bigoted* mind-set of policy-makers (and those who own society). Both come from the trenchant institutional analysis of Noam Chomsky, in his book _NECESSARY ILLUSIONS: Thought Control In Democratic Societies_ which is available online in full!