Just listened to an interview with Cornel West. He's a jazz lover, music lover. He expressed how music can bring folks together; give us a sense of cummunity and humanity. For sure you know very well how centering and calming and honest and soul searching music can be. When music is used as a tool, a very strong tool, for hatred I can see how that would get you protesteing on the street. Keep on keepig on Paul.
It is fascinating to see how even a small group standing up for what they believe in has the power to make others think. The fact that the cops threatened to arrest them for "alarming and disturbing others" only shows how powerful their message was. Though it may not have changed anyone's mind immediately, it is an important step towards creating change.
Being anti-fascist is always the correct response. It has a long history in the U.S. One of my earlier arrests was for burning a Nazi flag. So rather than fighting with each other and weakening our limited resourses, leftists might better consider how to work together or at least not shoot at each other. As Malcolm X always reminded us, the West ain't the world and those fighting against racism, imperialism, ecocide and fascism are the majority of world's peoples. Keep on keepin' on!
Paul, I guess I am just wondering if someone has tried to burn a flag at a Pentagon briefing. Or a Biden “press conference “. Or, even more to the point, has anyone in your organization expressed support for those who are confronting
You assume too much, Paul. I have studied Avakian's politics through their many twists turns. (Even his 'New Constitution,' but especially starting with Red Papers#5 I knew you shared a 'aim the main blow at Obama' through all the varieties of fighting fascism. And I though at the time, 'this will lead him into Avakian's camp.' I even did a public program--not with him, but a 'REVCOM,' when Jerry Harris and I first published our piece, with accompanying powerpoint, of the rise of the theocratic right in the 1990s. Every once in a while, Clark Kissinger inserts a note of a little sanity, but the REVCOM approach at the movement is a variety of youth syndicalism and self-expression and spectacle via flag burning. I'm neither a flag waver nor a flag burner, but I can see the appeal to anarchist youth.
Racist MAGA morons like Aldean deserve nothing but disrespect and disruption. But Aldean has not led us to the brink of nuclear annihilation. The warmonger in diapers who resides in the White House is pushing us in that direction. Where are the demonstrations at his rare press conferences or other propaganda presentations? Isn’t the warmongering imperialism of the two major parties a much greater immediate danger then Jason Aldean? What can I do about that?
So you are now in the deep end of politics as self-expression with Chairman Bob's Revcoms. Makes sense to me, but I'm in the other pool, politics as strategy, not spectacle.
Addressing the Audacity Gap: Why the Revcoms Lit Up the American Flag at Jason Aldean’s Fascist Shit-Show in Tinley Park
The LA Times took notice: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-09-11/protesters-demonstrate-jason-aldean-concert-chicago. of course the Streetwriter's piece benefits from Paul having been there...thank you!!
Just listened to an interview with Cornel West. He's a jazz lover, music lover. He expressed how music can bring folks together; give us a sense of cummunity and humanity. For sure you know very well how centering and calming and honest and soul searching music can be. When music is used as a tool, a very strong tool, for hatred I can see how that would get you protesteing on the street. Keep on keepig on Paul.
It is fascinating to see how even a small group standing up for what they believe in has the power to make others think. The fact that the cops threatened to arrest them for "alarming and disturbing others" only shows how powerful their message was. Though it may not have changed anyone's mind immediately, it is an important step towards creating change.
Being anti-fascist is always the correct response. It has a long history in the U.S. One of my earlier arrests was for burning a Nazi flag. So rather than fighting with each other and weakening our limited resourses, leftists might better consider how to work together or at least not shoot at each other. As Malcolm X always reminded us, the West ain't the world and those fighting against racism, imperialism, ecocide and fascism are the majority of world's peoples. Keep on keepin' on!
Paul, I guess I am just wondering if someone has tried to burn a flag at a Pentagon briefing. Or a Biden “press conference “. Or, even more to the point, has anyone in your organization expressed support for those who are confronting
the real armed fascists in Ukraine?
You assume too much, Paul. I have studied Avakian's politics through their many twists turns. (Even his 'New Constitution,' but especially starting with Red Papers#5 I knew you shared a 'aim the main blow at Obama' through all the varieties of fighting fascism. And I though at the time, 'this will lead him into Avakian's camp.' I even did a public program--not with him, but a 'REVCOM,' when Jerry Harris and I first published our piece, with accompanying powerpoint, of the rise of the theocratic right in the 1990s. Every once in a while, Clark Kissinger inserts a note of a little sanity, but the REVCOM approach at the movement is a variety of youth syndicalism and self-expression and spectacle via flag burning. I'm neither a flag waver nor a flag burner, but I can see the appeal to anarchist youth.
Racist MAGA morons like Aldean deserve nothing but disrespect and disruption. But Aldean has not led us to the brink of nuclear annihilation. The warmonger in diapers who resides in the White House is pushing us in that direction. Where are the demonstrations at his rare press conferences or other propaganda presentations? Isn’t the warmongering imperialism of the two major parties a much greater immediate danger then Jason Aldean? What can I do about that?
So you are now in the deep end of politics as self-expression with Chairman Bob's Revcoms. Makes sense to me, but I'm in the other pool, politics as strategy, not spectacle.