[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] 08/30: forum and campaign - Discrediting Representative Government

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Discrediting Representative Government
Providing Revolutionary Alternatives to corporate politicians and the
two-party system.

*Public Forum*
Saturday, August 30, 2008, 2:00 pm
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street (at Copley Square)

*Street Theater* Mock wedding between a Elephant and a Donkey, as
performed by the Boston Rat at 12 noon at Copley Square.

      At the end of this summer, while anarchists and other
revolutionaries swarm the streets of Denver and the Twin Cities to
protest the physical manifestations of the two-party system, we,
Boston members of the Northeast Anarchist Network, will hold events
in our city to take advantage of this heightened public attention,
with the aim of providing and promoting an anarchist alternative to
corporate candidates and the two-party system. The campaign will
consist of leafleting and flyer posting, street theater, banner
drops, perhaps a march and rally, picketing, posters and stickers,
distribution of literature, maybe a literature table combined with
some soap box oratory, a public forum, production of a brief
documentary, and so forth.

     Many leftists and even some anarchists have hopped on the Obama
band-wagon, but considering the Democratic Candidate's recent
right-wing lurch, our reservations about Obama's vision of "change"
have been shown to be well-founded. Regardless of Obama's personal
beliefs, in a capitalist two-party system, candidates must cater to
and represent the interests of the corporations and the rich. The
hopes, dreams, and needs of the working class are not on the agenda,
even if we are tricked into falling behind one candidate or the other
in a "grassroots" campaign. This Labor Day weekend, we aim to
demonstrate that the working class has no candidate and, luckily, the
working class needs no candidate. We are building a revolution
towards a new society without the meaningless presidential races and
the corporate-controlled government behind them.

     As part of this campaign, we will hold a forum at the Community
Church of Boston, where speakers will dismantle the weak logic behind
representative government and provide visions and glimpses of the future
and ideas and strategies to build for toward that new world. We will
promote real change, sweeping social change, because we reject the
practice of "changing the guard:" the meaningless trade off between
corporate-backed and -funded presidents.

     Our forum will fall on August 30th, smack-dab in between the
Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Republican National
Convention (RNC), and between two weeks of decentralized direct
action carried out by revolutionaries in Boston against the electoral
system.

Speakers Include:
-Ashanti Alston, former Black Panther, BLA prisoner and anarchist
author/speaker;
-Cindy Milstein, an anarchist activist and educator, organizer of the
Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference and board-member of the
Institute for Anarchist Studies;
-James Herod, author of Getting Free: Creating an Association of
Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods, and has been in the anarchist
movement for forty years.
-Bill, Member of the N.Y. Free Mumia Abu-Coalition, the Northeastern 
Federation of Anarchist-Communists and the American Postal Workers Union

*Time and Place of Forum*
Saturday, August 30, 2008, 2:00 pm
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street (at Copley Square)

Questions? Email Jake at trenchesfullofpoets at riseup.net
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