I know this struggle may be new for you, but I think too few of us realize that this struggle has been going on since the first two men teamed up to farm the neighbors rather than the land.
We do it, too.
Not all of us do it by road pirating, but when you participate in crapitalism, you exploit your neighbor's inability to do things for your own well being.
It's just a fact of the math.
At least, you are not a road pirate, eh?
Kris Hermes: Mass Arrests in 2020 Echo the Brutality Endured by RNC Protesters 20 Years Ago
By Kris Hermes, August 1st, 2020
Originally posted on Truthout
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Police surrounded a West Philadelphia warehouse on the afternoon of August 1, where more than 70 protesters were making puppets.
Multiple Pennsylvania state police officers infiltrated the group of “puppetistas” days earlier and, that afternoon, the deputy police commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) claimed that protesters had bomb-making materials inside.
Everyone was arrested, including the owners of the warehouse.
That was 20 years ago, but it could have been yesterday given the repressive events over the past several weeks in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer.
The “puppet warehouse” arrests occurred during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in 2000, with more than 400 people arrested in total that day.
As I wrote in Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000 (PM Press), no bomb-making materials were ever found, but people paid the price for blocking roads by spending up to two weeks in jail and years of their lives defending themselves in court.
After more than three years of court battles with an acrimonious district attorney, nearly everyone’s charges were thrown out.
Then, civil lawsuits ensued.
In some ways, Philadelphia and its methods of policing have changed dramatically over the past 20 years.
In other ways, the city has managed to keep — or even enhance — its repressive playbook that harkens back to the era of Frank Rizzo, the city’s notorious police commissioner-turned-mayor, whom the current district attorney recently referred to as “neo-fascist.”
In some ways, Philadelphia is still living down its reputation of having one of the most brutal police departments in the country, and it got that reputation under Rizzo, who was also well known for his anti-Black racism and bigotry.
As mayor, Rizzo opposed school and housing desegregation and oversaw the 1978 siege on the house of Black liberation group MOVE, which resulted in conviction and decades of imprisonment for nine members accused of killing a PPD officer in the police-instigated melee.
Story continues detailing the struggle to be free of rule by force in Philly.
Many of you here like to call yourselves anarchists, and all I can say is be sure that you have earned the title, people have been murdered for using that name.
If you are following every rule you can find, and pride yourself on that fact, please, use agorism, or some other label, please.