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Rolling Thunder #4 Rolling Thunder ISSUE NUMBER FOUR / SPRING TWO-THOUSAND SEVEN / A SALVO FROM THE CRIMETHINC. EX-WORKERS’ COLLECTIVE an anarchist journal of dangerous living They have carved up the whole world; if you’re lucky they’ll offer you a piece of it back, at a price— they call that freedom. But it is still possible to be free in thoroughfares reserved for soulless traffic, in locked buildings slated for demolition, in the ruins of forests bulldozed to make way for warehouses, in cities in which everything is for sale, even under the martial law of soldiers who shoot to kill— provided that you march, that you trespass and occupy, that you plant new gardens and defend them, that you give and share without measuring: that you resist. “We must be the trouble we wish to see in the world.” –Friends of Brad Will table of contents Opening Salvo 2 About the Cover: Brad Will Presente! 3 A Big Yes and a Little No Letters and Words 5 Letter to Infiltrators (Read at the CrimethInc. Convergence in Winona, 2006) 6 Glossary of Terms, part IV OAXACA RECYCLES Brand News 11 Resistance in Oaxaca, August to November 2006: Timeline, Testimony, and Photoessay 24 The Saga of South Central Farm: The Defense of the Last Green Space in Los Angeles Testimonials 34 The Really Really Free Market: Instituting the Gift Economy 43 The Art of Staying in Limbo: Stealing Houses in the Rust Belt Bottles are lined up at Cinco Señores barricade, ready to be trans- 51 Not Fighting for an Occupation: Inside the CPE Protests formed into molotov cocktails for the defense of the city’s last 59 Report from the Press Box: Mainstream Media Confidential autonomous radio station. Mexico leads the world in the consump- tion of Coca-Cola, the worthless commodity par excellence—but Art the refuse of this world can become the seeds of a new one. 62 Entartete Kunst: The Exhibition and Suppression of XVII Degenerate Art in Nazi Germany Old News XV 66 Lucy Parsons: Forerunner of 21st Century Anarchy A requisitioned bus serves as a barricade and as sleeping quarters for those who guard it. In the era of neoliberal capitalism, when commodities move freely across borders but human beings must sneak across them in fear for their Recipes for Disaster lives, it is only possible to move forward by shutting down the routes upon which we are running in circles. 69 Urban Exploration 75 Prisoner and Defendant Support Reviews 84 Featuring Books on Trespassing, Arson, and Consensus Comics 88 Selection from “Abolish Restaurants: A Worker’s Critique of the Food Industry” Music 91 The Big Rock Candy Mountain, drawn by Nate Powell OAXACA TRAVELS Children’s Fiction “All this gave Francois a new lease 98 The Secret World of Terijian (excerpt) on life. He would shake me and say, ‘What a ball! Just think! What a Activity Pages celebration if after all this there is not 99 Message in a Bottle! a chance! They are just ghosts, the 100 Stencils ones who think people fight to win! They fight because they like it.’” Backmatter 102 Catalog –And There Was Light, 104 Prometheus Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, blind hero of the French Resistance “If you survive me, tell them this: I never gave up. a big That’s a quote, all right?” –Brad Will to a friend with On Monday, October 30, solidarity demonstrations took and a little no a video camera in Amsterdam, November 2000 place at Mexican consulates across the US; some consulates YES were occupied or physically damaged. On November 11, ! hundreds of mourners packed St. Mark’s church in New to power to to power over About the Cover York’s Lower East Side for a four-hour memorial service in to human beings in all their to the UNIVERSAL PRESCRIPTIONS OF Brad Will was an activist, independent media reporter, Brad’s honor. Afterward, a marching band led the raucous complexity MORALITY AND LAW and anarchist who gave his life to the struggle for a better crowd in an unpermitted parade throughout lower Manhat- world. In the 1990s, he squatted and defended buildings tan. The march eventually arrived at the bolted doors of to FREEDOM and GIFT GIVING to FREE MARKETS and FREE TRADE and gardens in New York City, and traveled the country Charas Community Center, which had served New York’s carrying out guerrilla theater and speaking about gentri- Puerto Rican and radical communities for twenty-two years to communities coming to superstition, shame, and fication and squat defense. Long before most of today’s before the city closed it down. Locks were cut and hinges together every Sunday morning REPRESSION anarchists attended a broken, and the crowd surged summit demonstration, into the building. The walls to fancy clothes, ACTION-PACKED to buying them from our enemies he attended the Active Re- were painted with messages of ENTErtainmENT, and vegan delicacies at the expense of our lives sistance gathering at the hope for those in Oaxaca and Democratic National Con- merry voices once again ech- to adventure, romance, and humor to adventure movies, romance novels, and the comedy channel vention in 1996; he went oed in rooms where Brad’s had on to organize for and years before. The photo on this to parlor games and field sports to video games and spectator sports participate in the historic I have this really vivid memory of looking down from the second issue’s cover was taken from WTO protests in Seattle floor of the convergence space building and seeing Brad Will the sca≠olding looking over the to the enjoyment some to the monoculture that and the series of demon- amidst a sea of people in the courtyard and he was singing that crowd in front of Charas. derive from soy products produces them strations that followed Desert Rat song, fiercely, loudly, proudly: Although Brad’s death is to do-it-yourself them in DC, Los Angeles, So I called upon you brother, and you asked what I would do a tragic loss, his life stands to subcultural Prague, and elsewhere And I told the truth dear sister when I spoke these words to you as a courageous triumph. punk rock and all other isolation and all around the globe. He I will stand beside your shoulder, when the tear gas fills the sky Few who die of old age have expressions of rebellion and independence provincialism then turned his attention If a National Guardsman shoots me down I’ll be looking him in the eye ever traveled the country by to Indymedia work, and I will wash their pepper from your face and go with you to jail freight train, lived rent-free in And if you don’t make it through this fight I swear I’ll tell your tale. to the Jewish kibbutz to Israeli Zionism traveled South America I will stay with you in the prison cell in solidarity New York and in the canopy documenting resistance And I will not leave that cursed room ’til you walk out with me of old-growth forests in the to AUTONOMY for all peoples, to NATIONALISM, however ANTI-IMPERIALIST, movements there. He For we the people fight for freedom, while the cops just fight for pay Northwest, studied with their including the Lebanese including that of Hezbollah was known throughout And as long as the truth is in our hearts we’re sure to win someday. favorite beat poets, stopped anarchist communities I will not falter when that iron fist comes out of the velvet glove wrecking balls and chainsaws to the French uprisings of to the glamorization of the Situationists I will stand beside your shoulder to defend this land we love. as a brash, tireless, joyful and bulldozers with their MAY 1968 & 2005-2006 and overseas rioting in general free spirit with an iron in –from Sascha Scatter’s In Memory of Brad Will: bodies, made love on top of a just about every fire. The Old Friend, Mad Revolutionary, Taunter of Death grain silo in a thunderstorm, to all who fight for to OPPORTUNISTS and AUTHOritarians, even in the ranks of groups like APPO, who would editors of this journal last or fought the police—and freedom, in Mexico and turn popular struggles to their own advantage or saw him at the CrimethInc. convergence in Minnesota, sometimes won!—on three continents. To die at thirty-six around the world impose limits upon them not long before he left for Mexico. having done all this is a victory, and a reminder for the rest On October 27, 2006, at age thirty-six, Brad was shot of us that we, too, can do such things—and probably even to constructive criticism and to the grudge matches of to death by government o∞cials while filming the defense live to tell. We all die one day, anyway; the question is what analysis career theoreticians of Barricade Three in Oaxaca. He had traveled to Oaxaca happens first. to cover the popular uprising described elsewhere in this No charges have been filed in Brad’s slaying as of this to all the heartache and tragedy TO THE UNNECESSARY SUFFERING AND issue; in his last report he had written about another victim writing, even though he caught his murderers on video and TRAGEDY WE POINTLESSLY INFLICT UPON life inevitably contains OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER of the paramilitaries, Alejandro Garcia Hernandez. The the footage has been viewed around the world2; the scum Mexican government exploited Brad’s death as a justifica- who took him from us will never be brought to justice so to making entire meals with food from tion to send thousands of militarized federal police into long as their bosses make the rules.
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