Vote nobody pirates
I got dragged into an action the other day. It was the first time I’ve done any activist stuff in ages (apart from going drinking with people - not sure whether that counts). Autonomous Students did a vote nobody action, which involved dressing up as pirates waving black flags, disrupting an “election day” and knocking over the conservative students table while handing out “vote nobody” leaflets. I think they disrupted an election meeting also, later but I wasn’t there. We were chased out and some people were threatened by security guards. It was weird - I haven’t been chased by and cops/ hired goons for quite some time. I was a little worried, however, that dressing in black and marching to disrupt a n election meeting could have been interpreted as crazy fascism.
I’ve been reading Nozick today - a crazy right wing anarchist, who thinks that we have natural property rights (I thought he would have justified private property on utiltarian grounds instead). We had a lecture on Mill and Nozick and freedom, and the lecturer spoke about laissez faire capitalism creating “strong individuals”. It’s interesting going to these philosophy lectures, and then revising microeconomics stuff in which the individual fufils their potential by choosing the right combination of eg. burgers and pizzas.
Just realised that the autonomous students page on the union site descibes us as “libertarian socialists.” Quite pleased with this - it’s a much better description than anarchist.
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Tim, admit it. You’ve made Rachel up, haven’t you? She’s Bobby Digital to your RZA.
Comment by Alistair @ 4/29/2005 8:02 am
“we are against the party affiliated groups that try to dominate student activism and end up scaring students away by their appraisal of totalitarian states that they claim are ‘anti-imperialist’.”
Does this mean they supported the liberation of Iraq then?
Comment by Marty @ 4/29/2005 9:13 am
They were talking about the stalinists on campus.
Comment by rachel @ 4/29/2005 2:32 pm
Alistair, I’ll take the implied RZA comparison as a compliment, but Rachel is, in fact 100% 4 REAL.
Comment by Tim @ 4/29/2005 5:36 pm
Course lil Rach is for real, shes been haunting the nay sar’rs and wrong do’rs at sussex with us autonomous pirates since the start oh this accademic year.
You hinking of comming up north with us for the g8 rach? Gowan
Comment by d @ 5/24/2005 12:14 am
Oh, and marty, coup d’etats of Iraqs kind don’t surmount to liberation, or the daily bombings. Neither does supporting kurd crushing turkey, dissent crushing Egypt, saudi, indonesia, thailand, columbia, nigeria, israel, etc, etc.
If the west wants to talk about liberation, then it has to follow hippocrates’ tired old saying, ‘first, do no harm.’
But that aint profitable.
Hence autonomous fights in solidarity with struggles against these fake humanitarian gestures, alongside those displaced, and against capitalism, because free people are not profitable.
Comment by d @ 5/24/2005 12:28 am
sorry if none of that made no sense.
i blame corporate britain.
;-)
Comment by d @ 5/24/2005 12:30 am