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Occupy Philly: Machete Issue 3 Occupy Philly: Machete Issue 3 At five o’clock on Sunday, But there has been nothing usual bonds we have built, the organizations November 27, a group of occupiers sat about the occupation, in Philly or we have formed. This is not the end down in Dilworth Plaza facing west elsewhere. From the second planning of Occupy, but neither is it a grand on Market Street. On Saturday, Mayor meeting at Arch Methodist, which was beginning. We have joined together, we Nutter had stated that eviction would attended by seven hundred more than have learned, we have shared history, and proceed in the 48 hours following five attended the first, the Occupation has now we will go forward together. o’clock on Sunday. The occupiers linked been an ever-rotating group. I met new We present this third issue of arms, surrounded by a crowd so large it people at each General Assembly I went Occupy Philly: Machete in two parts. The required a double human mic. A group to, and there were many new faces at first is a snapshot of Dilworth; the second of police stood in the street facing the Dilworth on Sunday. We have had no concerns Occupy beyond Dilworth. We occupiers. Tension built as helicopters roadmap, no idea what will happen; we also include in this issue the first in a two- hovered lower, television news crews have pushed on by affirming in each part series about the human mic. The illuminated the scene with Hollywood other that anything can happen. We second part will be in Issue Four. We do action lighting, and the police shifted have held Dilworth since October. We not know where things will stand then, from foot to foot. By Monday night, have fed each other, taken care of each but we’ll be there. Join us. the police still had not moved in, other. We have formed a community. and Occupy Philly was able to hold a Our ideas alone will not carry us -Sid Rothstein General Assembly as usual. beyond Dilworth. Our strength will be the Eviction and Occupation The crisis of Occupy Philly’s eviction more in the lobby of the Comcast Building completely. It has been confronted with has revealed its contradictory relationship a short time after that. The November 17th the necessity of becoming either entirely to the political and economic processes protests and arrests on the Market Street innocuous and permitted, or of attempting in Philadelphia. But the crisis has also Bridge were followed the next day by more a more transgressive (and more uncertain) opened tentative possibilities for recogniz- arrests in Wells Fargo. path. ing those processes for what they are, and But a tendency to respect private This contradiction is a result of the for developing new kinds of occupation and public property and to work only with- fact that OP is embedded in two kinds of rit- that break with the deadening ceremonies in the political-legal system was always ualistic time: political and economic. The of the status quo. present. A need for legality structured the political system in this city and country is a Nutter, just before evicting OP, movement from its first mass meetings in kind of ceremony we’re allowed to take part claimed that it had become “dangerous” early October, when seeking a permit from in every two to four years. The eviction of and “intolerable,” that it stood against the Nutter was a condition for beginning the OP reveals that outside the circumscribed good of the community by blocking jobs protest. The issue of permits has become ceremony of voting, agitation for political at Dilworth Plaza, and that it was simply an overbearing one, dominating every or economic change is blasphemous and illegal. But Occupy Philly’s confrontations discussion at the GA for weeks before OP’s if it keeps up will be “dealt with.” This is with Nutter and City Hall over the last two eviction. This tendency to obedience, not why, to Obama, we’re simply a “frustrated” weeks have revealed a contradiction at the transgression, was clearest in the bitter mass, and why Nutter in his eviction notice heart of the occupation. A more transgres- arguments which broke out in the GA over sneered at “what they [the occupiers] call sive tendency has led OP to take over spac- arrests and civil disobedience. democracy.” Both are saying we can only es and transform them, even when this led The contradiction so far dominating have a voice if it’s expressed within the to breaking with the political and legal sys- OP is that it has been simultaneously trans- existing, two-party political process, and tem. The occupation reconfigured Dilworth gressive and permitted. It has been a sanc- so only if we give up our voice completely Plaza, of course, but it was two weeks later, tioned use of a public space “granted” by to the existing order through the ritual of at the protest against Eric Cantor, that the City Hall (as Nutter has constantly remind- voting. Our economic lives are ritualized movement occupied a private building for ed us), but also an attempt at taking over as well. The working day returns endlessly the first time (Huntsman Hall at UPenn), and temporarily transforming spaces in and we’re required to faithfully go through even if only briefly. This tendency devel- protest of the political and economic order. the motions: to work, then back home oped quickly, and on October 24th several OP’s crisis of eviction is an exacerbation of where we prepare for the next day, only to protestors were arrested in the street out- this same problem. The ambiguous legal- repeat the cycle. Our weekends and week- side the police roundhouse, and several ity of its camp at Dilworth has evaporated nights are those parts of the endless ritual repetition which prepare us to do it all over and establish itself. But its subsequent from which it arose, but the nature of which again. Our consumption, too, is ceremo- attempts at transgression have often re- it hasn’t really confronted yet. But eviction nialized. With the arrival of the holiday mained almost ceremonial. The arrests opens OP to a possible new horizon. First, season, annual rituals of buying like Black beginning on October 24th were highly an opportunity arises not simply to main- Friday, Cyber Monday, and the entire planned, pre-announced, and by definition tain or multiply the occupation but also Christmas season arrive once more. The temporary and limited appropriations of to begin making it a rupture in the rituals endless repetitions of making, selling and space. As a result, only slight modifica- of politics and economics in Philadelphia. buying don’t end after Christmas but struc- tions were needed by the city’s political and This is the chance to occupy not only space ture our lives by keeping money and goods legal machinery to plug these events into but also the processes and flows of the city and people flowing smoothly towards the a “normal” flow. The process has gone like in ways capable of disrupting and rear- maximization of profit. this: the police escort the protesters to their ranging them. Occupy Oakland attempted Of course, these two ritualized times destination; then, the police cordon off something like this in its general strike, an are not really distinct. They work together those planning to be arrested; and after a act of occupation that rerouted some of both locally and na- the ritual movements tionally. Locally, the of bodies and goods problem that OP poses through the city. This to City Hall is that it tendency has already threatens not only to emerged in Philadel- disrupt the normal phia in budding at- political ritual-time by tempts to prevent the acting outside the vot- foreclosure of a home ing booth, but it also in North-West Philly.. houses a possibility for These examples rep- rupturing normal eco- resent different, more nomic functions (like disruptive and creative the project at Dilworth kinds of occupation Plaza). Nutter’s poli- that don’t simply take tics is designed to put over and maintain down whatever could a certain space, but rupture the normal also jar loose the flow of money and deadening, ritualistic goods through this processes into which city, and nationally, the we’ve been locked. Citizens United ruling Second, it’s possible ensures that unlim- the eviction can open ited corporate money the movement to a can flow into political deeper understanding campaigns. The de- of the systemic nature regulation of finance of the problems it’s since the 1970’s has confronting. It’s be- made it so that prof- coming more and more its are increasingly obvious that politics private and risks are and economics are increasingly public, processes that rein- i.e., corporate losses force one another at a are eventually bailed systemic level: both in out by the people. (Da- the recent coordina- vid Harvey calls this tion of mayors around “neoliberalism.”) In the country to evict other words, our cur- those protesting the rent politics and eco- political-economic nomics are rituals that situation, and in Nut- work together to hold ter’s politics aimed at the status quo in place. forcefully plugging the Through them we’re movement back into supposed to faithfully the normal economic perform the same ac- functioning of the city tions again and again and country. without question. With the crisis of Such ritual time paves eviction, then, comes over any real “present” a chance to move past in which new, transformative action could prescribed period of time the arrests begin.
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