AWAF: on the Occurances the week of March 4th, 2010 at Arizona State Universities West Campus

From sowhatifallthecollegesburndown

Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall...
Over the last 72 hours, two actions on Arizona State University’s West campus were taken; both of which were almost rendered invisible to everyone other than the accused oppressors. The actions while direct, were intentionally temporal in nature in order to instigate a test of reactionary censorship. Our expectations were not only fulfilled, but exceeded. Within only a few hours time, they ripped the tape holding the written iteration of an active dialogue straying from the norm of placating pacifist vomit from the walls. They brandished their knives, shredding ropes holding banners with messages thicker than the ephemeral echos of ‘hope’. The validation that our ideas transcribed into words can instill fear in those we hope they would, gives reason enough to spread them in ways that better stick. If our verbal blueprints are taken as a threat, when the attack lashes out, imagine the swift blow effect.
Can you hear the foundations begin to creak?

Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall...
Just as they are blind to their privilege, it is their privilege that blinds them. The pedestal from which they work leaves them to be the last one to hear the rumbling of the ‘subversive’ voice, the last to see the products of hands continuously creating, the last to smell the smoke from our sparks. This arrogance allows them to believe that they can put all fires out by sprinkling one flame with water, gives them the illusion that by shredding what they don’t want to be read, they can contain anything.
The higher you sit, the farther you fall.

And all the Kings Horses and all the Kings Men couldn’t put Humpty together again...
The events over the last 72 hours, and the ones occurring while you read this, are only the foreshocks to the quakes that are forming. Observe the vibrations as they begin to crack the walls, as the glass colonial trophies of conquest begin to creep nearer to the edge, threatening to shatter. This is the start to an intricate series of chain reactions. We want nothing to do with attempts to hinder the complete destruction of this violent and oppressive system.
While they work to glue the pieces of the shell cracked by this week’s actions back together, you can join us in burning their castles.

-AFAW-
March 4th, 2010

Sprouts, Sparks, & Solidarity

Our Comrades in Tempe

http://sowhatifallthecollegesburndownblogspot.com

http://asuresist.wordpress.com

Our Comrades in California

http://occupyca.wordpress.com


Go Tea Baggers. You show

Go Tea Baggers. You show them that current government is broken and we need to fix it now! Wake up sheeple!

Yahweh bless William Cooper!

why do you keep insisting

why do you keep insisting this to be a Tea Bagger movement? Because it's not. Some teabagger just stole that video and put it up as "evidence" of a teabagger student movement.

Because anarchists-f.ags and

Because anarchists-f.ags and teabaggers are the same. You both want change, but aside from juvenile antics, you never never go beyond the keyboard.

...except that instead of

...except that instead of trying to repeat a failed history, anarchists try to create a functional future.

Pretty big difference i'd say.

Also, we're not racist.

...or fascist.

...and we can read.

...and we don't go around spreading obvious lies (like "death panels").

...yeah. Pretty big difference I'd say.

What is this communique

What is this communique actually saying? Banner drop?

this communique is terrible

this communique is terrible - you could pull of 40 actions in the time it takes ot make sense of it?

im guessing banner drop?

write it so people can read it.

Please, stop overwriting and

Please, stop overwriting and using too many commas and semi-colons. Express yourself without the purple prose! Use semi-colons and commas to aid comprehension and style, not just for the hell of it!

I love purple prose... When

I love purple prose... When the substance is fantastic, not realistic.

-Squee

yeah what actually happene?

yeah what actually happene?

I was reminded in the past

I was reminded in the past couple days that I was raised with a bigotry of sorts. I understand this particular prejudice is a common one amongst the "working class". It is an anti-college-person stance with attitudes that range from a general suspicion to outright hatred to amused derision. It does not necessarily include anti-intellectual. When I read stuff like the above, I grok the negative attitude.

How do you tell you are in the presence of such a one? How about the forms of writing that strings together a lot of excellent words - especially ones rarely used or are currently IN - without saying all that much of interest. Uninteresting if for no other reason than there are a lot of truly enjoyable things to do instead of deciphering. And then there is the authoritarian - even when nice and polite - attitude that insists on a superior level of knowledge about whatever they are talking about.

It's everywhere. The the factory, in the military, retail, schools...I heard plenty of this growing up: "A bunch of annoying well-educated dumbfucks telling you what to do when you've been actually DOING it for at least as long as they were reading about it...Had to go back and clean up the mess college-boy made...sure does cost a lot of money -but nly four years - to turn out idiots... "

Learning and thinking are excellent activities which do not require college. I suspect that unless you were careful, the the illustrious professors would have you continue the path of rapidly diminishing thinking and learning returns which started many years prior. Why does anyone go? To get a better paying job? That's a big maybe these days. If it is a scam to get parental or system cash while enjoying life, right on...just don't o thinking you are all fired-up special when you're done.

This article is such a perfect example...

-ow
captcha-shellac Government

"Over the last 72 hours, two

"Over the last 72 hours, two actions on Arizona State University’s West campus were taken; both of which were almost rendered invisible to everyone other than the accused oppressors. The actions while direct, were intentionally temporal in nature in order to instigate a test of reactionary censorship."

We put up some flyers which accused some people of doing some stuff, and we put up a banner with cheap polyester cord. We didn't use wheat paste on the flyers or steel cable for the banner, and made them easily accessible so that someone could tear them down and we could feel like "oppressed victims."

"Our expectations were not only fulfilled, but exceeded. Within only a few hours time, they ripped the tape holding the written iteration of an active dialogue straying from the norm of placating pacifist vomit from the walls. They brandished their knives, shredding ropes holding banners with messages thicker than the ephemeral echos of ‘hope’."

Our wishes came true. Someone ripped down the flyers and cut the cords on the banner and tore it down, too. We are now martyrs for the Cause. We will listen to emo music and weep.

"The validation that our ideas transcribed into words can instill fear in those we hope they would, gives reason enough to spread them in ways that better stick. If our verbal blueprints are taken as a threat, when the attack lashes out, imagine the swift blow effect."

Huh? Can't you speak English? "Swift blow effect"? Is this like "swiftboating"?

"Can you hear the foundations begin to creak?"

Dude. That's laughter, dude.

Overwritten, a little silly,

Overwritten, a little silly, and vague.

That aside, I for one remain excited that a variety of perspectives are emerging from all of this, and can't complain about anything new breaking into what can be ironically a very hierarchical atmosphere. I also am also highly uninterested in arguing about grammar, do we really fucking care, and if so why? I imagine the writers of this (based on the context of the other material produced this week from this group which I have not seen here, but that is on their blog) are chuckling at the critique of syntax and writing style directed towards a group that has come out as a proponent for burning the schools to the ground.

In fact I doubt that they will take the time to read these comments. It is unlikely that online forums for anarchists were their intended audience for this. They don't sound upset or like they want sympathy. The fact that they went to the trouble to write this in regards to "a few fliers and banners" initially gave me the same bad taste but of course I doubt they care what I think. When I read this it sounds like a (possibly futile) attempt to keep whatever small initiative for action that has developed on their (if the writers are in fact students) campus going. Good for them. Take the first paragraph which needlessly hints at actions we don't know about out of this, and it could have been something more worth reading. Good for them. Having visited ASU I am nothing short of shocked that any sort of action is coming out of there.

"Learning and thinking are excellent activities which do not require college. I suspect that unless you were careful, the the illustrious professors would have you continue the path of rapidly diminishing thinking and learning returns which started many years prior. Why does anyone go? To get a better paying job? That's a big maybe these days. If it is a scam to get parental or system cash while enjoying life, right on...just don't o thinking you are all fired-up special when you're done."

I think this is an example that without the context of the original communique from this group you lose all context. The above sounds like it could be a quote from the initial call. If they were the ones to post this to here, it was a poor choice that used this release rather than the initial one. http://sowhatifallthecollegesburndownblogspot.com

Anarchist propaganda is being given developed and spread to students in one of the most conservative states here. I think that is pretty fucking exciting, vague or not.

i can't believe there hasn't

i can't believe there hasn't been a single flowery communique from CA yet.

This is a) incomprehensible

This is a) incomprehensible b) doesn't say what happened and so is c) totally useless.

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