[imc-pilipinas] bayan and indymedia-pilipinas

[soluble fish]

to all,
 
i would like to inform that we from the autonomous collectives and individuals in the anarchist movement are not using incendiary words, we are just expressing our sense-perceptive experience with the hostilities of the maoist-left or the national-democtratic movement to our small and marginalized movement in the philippines. and this hostilities are commonly experienced during street protests where the left imposes their ownership and authority of the space they have in the streets and create their own police (peace police) to violently prevent us to pass through beside the space that they occupied. read: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/07/23/8914850
 
the maoists are actually the one who calls us incendiary words by naming us as drug addicts, lumpens, and counter-revolutionaries. and now they are implying us as anti-communists according to tonyo's statement. yes, we are critical to the left and the whole communist movement for that matter because we are against the authoritarian practices of the left that has nothing to be different with the current practice of the oppressive state.
 
so far, the critical anarchists in the philippines is not yet silenced by the power of the maoists guns and armed militias; but this idea is not impossible to be done to us because the maoists themselves killed their own comrades because of being critical to the stalinist practice of the maoist party in the philippines.
 
i would like to clear out, BAYAN is not being singled out, we are just proposing a decentralized local indymedia. bayan and us cannot work out inside a one single collective since we have big political conflicts with them and therefore cannot build trust to each other for the mutual relationship to work, plus we are not for a centralized and hierarchical imc-pilipinas media center. a decentralized local indymedia organizing is a resolution to this, since indymedia philosophy and principles promotes diversity for a possible broadest union of networks. we are suggesting bayan to have their own local indymedia since they have a pool of media volunteers inside their ranks. if possible, they can create for ex. imc-kalookan city while we are maintaining the imc-manila city.
 
the only possible means to cooperate is through networking and respecting the autonomous group dynamics of each and every local imc-collectives. through this, we can be more democratic.
 
we also like to clear out that during the anti-estrada/oust-the-president struggle we dont belong to the hegemony of the maoist left campaign during that time (1999-2001). the Anti-Capitalist Convergence- Philippines- a national convergence of local anarchists was/has never been into the class collaborationist/opurtunist ideals of the maoist-left, because we are critical to the oust the president campaign which means only an exchange of another bureaucratic upper class leader. WHAT WE ARE CALLING DURING THAT TIME WAS AN ABOLITION OF THE STATE (OUST THE STATE) and the GOVERNMENT. this campaign was participated by the Local Anarchist Network (LAN), Food-not-Bombs!-manila, EarthFirst!-Philippines, Dumpling Press, Davao Anarchist Resistance Movement (DARM), Far South Anarchist Resistance Movement (southern tagalog), Cebu Anarchist Liberation Movement (CALM), ReQlaim Queer Collective, Students for Radical Action (SRA-Cebu) and Youth Collective for Animal Liberation (YCAL). under the
 banner of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence.
 
we suggest tonyo to read the philippine anarchist statements at: www.infoshop.org
 
FOR A DECENTRALIZED AND DEMOCRATIC DIRECT PARTICIPATORY INDYMEDIA,
jong pairez (imc-manila)


 


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