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GEO GROUP PRISON INDUSTRY HACKED & DEFACED BY ANONYMOUS ON #FUCKFBIFRIDAY UMAD??
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wiped off the net: geogroup.com thegeofoundationinc.com geogroupcareers.com
geocareinc.com thegeogroupinc.com
Welcome again to another round of attacks on our most favorite of days,
#FuckFBIFriday. We hope you got a quick laugh out out of that Dayton Ohio
Infragard defacement earlier. But rest easy fellow pirates, more mayhem is on
the way.
As part of our ongoing efforts to dismantle the prison industrial complex, we
attacked one of the largest private prison corporations in the US - Geo Group.
Despite the well documented history of corruption, scandal, and atrocities that
companies like GEO perpetuate each and every minute our friends are locked
behind their prison walls, the private prison industry is still booming. While
most folks are suffering under the economy, many billions of dollars are being
funneled into this sinister conniving alliance of capitalist and statist forces
to try to build dozens upon dozens of new prisons across the world.
What they did not figure into their plans was a determined effort to shut them
down.
What did they not expect was that anonymous has been lurking their shitty
windows vhost for months, and finally pulled the trigger.
Umad?
We are acting in solidarity with all those who have ever been wrongfully
profiled, arrested, brutalized, incarcerated, and have had all dignity and
humanity stripped from them as they are cast into the gulags of America. On
February 28th, our fellow anons and occupiers will be marching in the streets of
the US to demand an end ot the suppression of the occupation movement. But our
solidarity does not extend only to occupiers or political prisoners: we do not
give any legitimacy or credibility to a justice system that look after their own
prosecuters and pigs who get away with brutality and corruption, while they
routinely murder innocent people on death row and locks up immigrants they deem
"illegal" while profitting by forcing them to labor for far less than minimum
wage.
When our comrades are locked up struggling against a repressive regime that has
no concern for due process, we do not forget.
When our comrades are ripped off their civil liberties and human rights, we do
not forgive.
We will abolish their prisons in all forms, and run the pigs off of our
streets. We will burn down their prison society, because only on the ashes of
the old world can we hope to rebuild a new one.
Solidarity means attack!
*** On February 28th, fellow anons and occupiers will take to the streets to
demand an end to the suppression of the Occupation movement. BE THURRR!!!!
The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
The GEO Group Cashes In Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
Connected to geogroup.com (50.115.112.244).
220 Microsoft FTP Service
Name (geogroup.com:mysql): geogroup1
331 Password required for geogroup1.
Password:
230 User logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftp> cd httpdocs
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -al
227 Entering Passive Mode (50,115,112,244,245,108).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
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02-21-12 06:53AM 18018 facts.asp.new
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06-16-11 09:32AM 31 faqs.asp.LCK
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08-17-10 09:13PM <DIR> geoMerger
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02-13-12 05:33AM 13920 GoingGreen-BI.asp
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02-13-12 05:33AM 13510 GoingGreen-DetentionCorrections.asp
02-13-12 05:33AM 12471 GoingGreen-GEOCare.asp
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10-27-09 12:28PM <DIR> HDWASPFormCaptcha
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02-13-12 05:33AM 12336 Healthcare.asp
06-15-11 12:59PM 31 Healthcare.asp.LCK
02-13-12 05:34AM 20329 history.asp
02-13-12 05:34AM 12950 home.asp
02-13-12 05:34AM 10273 home_merger.html
08-12-10 06:09PM 59438 home_merger.swf
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12-25-11 06:22AM <DIR> images
10-27-09 01:17PM 970 images-about.xml
10-27-09 01:17PM 808 images-benefits.xml
10-27-09 01:17PM 811 images-Community.xml
10-27-09 01:17PM 746 images-History.xml
10-27-09 01:17PM 1041 images-Offices.xml
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11-11-11 11:48PM <DIR> img
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01-23-12 09:59PM 16630 index-MONDAY-SEP19.asp
02-21-12 06:48AM 16937 index.asp
02-13-12 05:33AM 24780 InfoforMedia.asp
02-13-12 05:34AM 16152 international.asp
09-02-11 08:54AM 31 international.asp.LCK
02-13-12 05:34AM 15267 internationalservices.asp
02-21-12 06:26AM 13681 investorrelations.asp
10-27-09 01:08PM <DIR> javascript
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04-21-10 06:25AM 37 jse_form.js.LCK
04-21-10 08:08AM 78157 jse_form_000.js
04-21-10 09:35AM 78157 jse_form_001.js
04-21-10 06:25AM 37 jse_pdfpagenumbering.js.LCK
12-13-11 10:33AM <DIR> Kathy_htm_MMtmp65063255
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02-13-12 05:34AM 23996 legal.asp
04-21-10 06:25AM 37 localization-english.js.LCK
04-21-10 08:06AM 10441 localization-english_000.js
04-21-10 09:33AM 10441 localization-english_001.js
02-13-12 05:34AM 10550 locations.asp
02-13-12 05:34AM 13097 locations_au.asp
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02-13-12 05:33AM 17399 ManagementBios.asp
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02-13-12 05:34AM 14265 northlake.asp
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10-27-09 01:19PM 2859800 Paws1Movie.wmv
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02-13-12 05:33AM 14059 QAcompliance.asp
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01-23-12 03:24AM <DIR> Scripts
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04-21-10 06:25AM 37 settings.js.LCK
04-21-10 08:10AM 15058 settings_000.js
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02-13-12 05:34AM 543 showHide.asp
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03-22-11 01:18PM <DIR> _mm
02-21-12 07:02AM <DIR> _notes
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10-15-09 01:28PM <DIR> _vti_log
10-15-09 01:28PM <DIR> _vti_pvt
10-15-09 01:28PM <DIR> _vti_script
10-15-09 01:28PM <DIR> _vti_txt
ftp> cd database
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (50,115,112,244,245,242).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
06-11-11 10:35PM 64 Document.ldb
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01-12-12 07:58AM 1236992 Facilities.mdb
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226 Transfer complete.
ftp> cd ../documents
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (50,115,112,244,247,198).
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
02-18-10 08:45AM 37 124820GEOworld.pdf.LCK
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God Only Knows What Devils We Are
an apologia for the black bloc from the community that has no community
courtesy of the Institute for Experimental Freedom
Have you ever worn the mask one-two one-two,
(M) to the (A) to the (S) to the (K)
Put the mask upon the face just to make the next day,
Feds be hawkin me
Jokers be stalking me,
I walk the streets and camouflage my identity,
My posse in the Brooklyn wear the mask.
My crew in the Jersey wear the mask.
Stick up kids doing boogie woogie wear the mask.
Yeah everybody wear da mask but how long will it last.
-The Fugees
That’s why I live illegal
All my life I live illegal
Don’t give a fuck bout the law
When my pockets reaching zero
I’m fresh out the ghost town similar to your town
I’m probably where it goes down
He pretends he tolls down
-Ski Beatz & Freddie Gibbs
For thirteen years, for over a decade, I have donned the black mask. “
Seattle”—that word still means “the days the world stood still” to me. “Genoa”
still holds more terror and perversity than the North American September 11. In
experiencing anonymous collective force, I have gained far more than a diversity
of tactics in my tool box. The black bloc is not merely a tactic, as so many
anarchist apologists claim; it’s more of an aesthetic development in the art of
street confrontation. The black bloc is a methodology of struggle; it goes
beyond a single color, and its intelligence reaches beyond the terrain of
protests. The black bloc is irreducibly contemporary because only in its opacity
can a ray of light from the heavens finally reach us. Allow me to explain.
I.
It’s the summer of 2000. Many of us have given up on both Democrats and
Republicans. The sense is that “anti-globalization” poses the only alternative
to advanced capitalism. The Democratic National
Convention: I am marching, drenched in sweat, through the catacombs that
hosted the Rodney King riots. Sadly, the only remnant of those fateful
days is a militarized police force that anticipates our every move.
We walk into an enormous play pen—the “free speech zone”—surrounded on all
sides by a sea of navy blue wielding pepper balls and batons. Amid the most
dreadful speeches and rebellious rock music, we find each other: the stupid,
isolated, alienated, and utterly lost children of capital, just beginning our
downward spiral—just beginning a precarious life, without promise and without
hope.
We organize ourselves at the center and proceed to the margin, where things
are unpredictable. Someone climbs the tall fence, reaching the limit of free
speech; and then another, and another. A black flag is unfurled, and a figure
waves it with pride, claiming this as a site of freedom with that stupid
gesture. The pepper balls crash against your skin; they collide against your
frail bones, exploding on impact and releasing a furious burning that traps
itself in your oily clothes and sweat. The crowd collectively gains intelligence
and transforms the signs bearing socialist slogans into shields for cover. We
brace each other and press the signs against the fence. Shot with pepper balls,
a figure falls from the apex of the fence; arms and femur bones snap against the
concrete.
That putrid smell, the eyes glossed over in tears, the stomach churns and
nausea overwhelms you. Vinegar-soaked rags help to soak up the poisonous clouds,
but you can hear screaming everywhere as the blue tide comes rushing in, and
your nerves twist and vibrate as the CS gas and police mutate into a single
hostile terrain.
Suddenly, I am with six or ten people. I don’t know who. We’ve
found a large road sign and we’re lifting it slowly. Plastic bottles soar
impotently overhead. A small rock or two hits an officer. We press with what was
once our labor power, straining to hurl the worthless product of our
grandparents’ toil back at our overseers. The object tilts over the fence and
falls to other side: clong. We cheer and revel in our functionless
gesture. “Fuck the police” resounds throughout the night, however foolishly. A
few bank windows collapse in glittery confetti. Spray paint decorates a wall. We
journey to the end of the night; at its perimeter, we share drinks and laughs
over our absurd gestures. Finally, back at the union hall, we crash in our
sleeping bags, exhausted and dehydrated, to dream of the abolition of
capitalism.
I am irreparably transformed.
II.
Lets rewind. Sixteen years ago, I am an adolescent teenager. I have entered
Alcoholics Anonymous—somewhat earlier than most of my family. There, I witness
one friend’s overdose, another friend’s relapse and subsequent incarceration for
manslaughter, and the spread of methamphetamines throughout my neighborhood. I
watch Requiem for a Dream some years later, horrified by the cinematic
juxtposition of “normal” and “marginal” addiction—it feels so familiar.
I am watching 20/20, an episode exposing Nike sweatshops. Through some
extended leaps of logic, I recognize a link between those exploited by
sweatshops and my own condition. With this heightened sensitivity, I conclude
that
1) addiction has an economic function
2) the economy includes industries that tend to harm people—through
exploitation, alienation, and immiseration, the reproduction of addiction being
a subset of the last of these
3) the economy tends to hurt people generally.
My initial moral indignation passes; my sensitivity shifts from a moral
compass faulting individuals for their choices to something more like class
consciousness. The broke-ass cars in the yard appear starker. The drive-by
shootings in our neighborhood gain a new meaning. The empty refrigerators’
sad grumble reverberating in our empty stomachs, my many stepbrothers’ sweet
mullet haircuts—these bring me a certain revelation: I am white trash.
Seattle: the anti-globalization summits and corresponding riots. The
beautiful rhythm: work, misery, chaos. They kill Carlo and we meet at the intersection of Colfax and Broadway
to block traffic, frantically trying to show our tears and rage. The war. My
sister is deployed to Iraq. We wear helmets and anachronistically chant “Bring
the war home!” We spray slogans and burn effigies. We block the flows of the
metropolis. As if to baptize our newfound agency, we are showered in pepper
spray. Tear gas spreads across entire continents. We go from basement hardcore
shows to warehouse parties. Our friends learn to DJ. Cocaine comes back into
style and claims two victims; heroin gets a few more. The boredom and stupidity
is suffocating. We attempt to wrest the noose from our necks. Democracy sweeps
Bush back into office. We’re trashing a gentrified district of Adams Morgan. My friend
records an MP3 of her heartbeat, shouts and heavy breathing accentuated by
shattering glass and anxiety.
In the US, we hit a lull. Everywhere else the world burns.
As we get older, we find new ways to survive. A small meeting of coworkers
transforms into an
ambitious conspiracy. Without making any demands of the boss, we increase
our pay and our quality of life. We eat well, we can afford cigarettes, we
travel where we want to: Scotland and France, Italy and Germany.
Can’t stop the chaos.
In Europe, the black bloc means “no media!” I watch a snitch in a tie go down
among the kicks and punches of the hooded ones. A car burns. As the police
battle two thousand rock throwers, a couple hundred advance through the
marketplace, smashing everything. “Tremble Bourgeoisie!” is scrawled across a
temp agency service.
Back home, our own temporary involvement in the economy—our precarious
life—is reflected in the windows of the temp agency, the retail shop, and the
café. The image of our desire is captured in the commodities to which we have no
access. Our needs are displayed in advertisements that sell us happiness and
grocery store aisles that mutate our tastes and relations to other living
beings. Smashing, burning, and looting make sense to us in this context like
nothing else could.
III.
What Chris Hedges fails to understand about black bloc activity
is that it arises from a real need. The “cancer” that Chris finds so
disturbing—the contagion of an anonymous collective force—is precisely why and
how it continues to outlive every social movement from which it emerges. These
generations—we who fantasized about Columbine and now only know metal detectors
at school; we who expected September 11 and now only know the politics of
terror; we who grew up as the world crumbled all around us and now only know the
desert—we need to fight, and not just in the ways our rulers deem
justified and legitimate.
As workers, we’re excluded from unions, from collective arrangements of any
kind. When we manage to find employment at all, it is meaningless labor that
corresponds to our own superfluousness in the economy. We were raised by a
generation so thoroughly defeated that it feared to pass on its history. We are
the inheritors of every unpaid bill, of every failed struggle, the products of
the insanely selfish individualism of advanced capitalism in North America.
Our entire environment feels hostile. Hence our hostility.
Chris Hedges cannot understand this because he misses the real historical
conflict expressed in contemporary struggles. As David Graeber points out, his exhumation of the decrepit
journal Green Anarchy shows how out of touch he is. The black bloc
spreads because of a real need to take back force, which has been
monopolized by the police. The black bloc spreads because it is a living
practice of collective intelligence, redistribution of wealth, and
improvisation; it spreads because it interrupts the ways we are confined in our
identities as subjects within capitalism. The black bloc is tuned to
the uneasy pulse of our time.
A paradigm of life is coming to an end. The black bloc is irrevocably
contemporary because our age of unrest is reflected in this gesture. Populations
everywhere are becoming ungovernable and doing so by casting off the fundamental
assumptions of government, the techniques of policing, and laws of the economy.
The paradigm of sovereignty is collapsing.
To see what is changing, we have to understand the nature of sovereignty. The
modern state is founded upon an anthropological fiction of human nature and the
surgical extraction of violence from living beings. Thomas Hobbes
argued that the establishment of the civil state conveyed the human being from
the state of nature—a war of each against all—to the loving arms of the
sovereign, rendering him a citizen-subject on the condition that he leave
“nature” at the door. But this discourse separates each being from collectivity:
the subject of sovereignty is always already an isolated individual. And the
arrangement keeps war at the center of the state, as the sole dominion of the
sovereign. Ironically, what the subject lays down in return for security—the
capacity to use force—is precisely what the sovereign must wield in order to
ensure it: and this is wielded above all against subjects.
The form of sovereign power shifted as democratic governments replaced
autocracies, but the content of state sovereignty remains. The modern state has
shifted from techniques governing territory to techniques governing populations.
It is increasingly difficult to distinguish between totalitarian and
democratic governments, as policing is identical under both. The police
have the power to let live or take life—biopower—and the distinction between democratic and
totalitarian becomes even more muddled as management and medicine also gain this
power, determining who can access fundamental human needs. The mediation of
capital creates a hellish environment in which practically everyone is
integrated into a single hostile terrain, subject to its violence and its
justice. If the cause du jouris enunciated as “fuck the
police,” this is because the police are the living embodiment of Hobbe’s
Leviathan, the state that keeps us at arm’s length
from our own potential.
“The police” includes all who police; policing is an array of
techniques, not all of which demand uniforms. Hedges’ cancer metaphor exposes
his penchant for order, translating it explicitly into the language of biopower.
Remember how Oakland’s Mayor, Jean Quan, and other authority figures used
the discourse of health and risk to justify the repression of occupations around
the US? Hedges continues this work of policing with his metaphor of an
unhealthy social body in need of surgery. Whenever the basic
assumptions of sovereignty and capitalism are called into question by those who
defy state violence and the sanctity of property, the police are mobilized to
discipline them. This disciplining is carried out by both the armed
wing and the necktied wing of the police. It’s not a coincidence that Hedges
invokes biopolitical language just as a portion of the population is beginning
to discover the power of their bodies.
Less than seven years ago, in New Orleans an entire population was forced
into a concentration camp by militarized police forces acting on a juridical
state of emergency. The ones who did not obey this order could be gratuitously
shot down. The justification given during Katrina was the health and well-being
of the population. One can’t help but notice this same paradigm at work,
albeit with less racialized brutality, in the violent evictions of the
occupations. Safety, Health, Security: Necessity knows no law. These
police actions only deviate slightly from the norm in terms of intensity,
frequency, and grammar of “protection.” The deaths of Oscar Grant and Sean Bell
attest to the murderous day-to-day operations of the police. The other
casualties, the forgotten, continue to haunt every city block, where the police
function to eliminate useless surplus—either out of economic utility or
biopolitical necessity.
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document
of barbarism, as Walter Benjamin spells out in Theses on the Philosophy of
History. It is terrifying to face the wreckage of history that constitutes
the present. One loses count of the tragedies. Despair, recoded as “happiness,”
runs through every aspect of social life, increasingly reflected by Hollywood
and ironic television sitcoms as if to anesthetize us.
The arguments for orderly, passive demonstrations by Hedges and other liberal
pundits miss all this. One doesn’t sweep the floor in a house falling
off a cliff. In a world that feels absolutely hostile and alien, every
element of social life acquires a sinister glow. In this light, the black bloc
appears as a ray of optimism because it creates an opening that leads through to
the other side of despair.
The new struggles increasingly take place outside of legitimate and
traditional venues. When the factory was the contested site, the workers’
movement was the most vibrant and decisive space of contestation. During the
shift from a factory-centered economy to an economy integrating social life, we
saw the emergence of social movements contesting social spaces. Now that social
life has been fully subsumed within capitalism, the mutant offspring of the
proletariat and the counterculture is appearing outside the legitimate
parameters of the old movements. This explains the spread of anti-social
violence, anomic play, self-destructive revolt, irony. Chris Hedges may
wish to turn away his gaze, but society is imploding.
We accept our conditions and get organized accordingly. Compared to the
fatal and fatalistic strategy employed by school shooters, terrorists,
and isolated individuals marked as insane, the black bloc, rioting, and
flashmobs are collective and vital forms of struggle. The Left is
obsolete—rightfully so, as it still clings to this collapsing society at war
with its population. Society is decomposing and nothing will or should bring
back the the good ol’ days—the days of slavery, hyper-exploitation of
women, apartheid, homophobic violence, Jim Crow. We wager that organizing our
antagonisms collectively and attacking this society where we are positioned,
without anything mediating our force, is our best chance for a life worth
living.
Remarking on how the black bloc assaults the sanctity of property, Chris says
“there’s a word for that: criminal.” Even here he is behind the times.
Once, it seemed that crime designated specific transgressions of the law, such
as breaking a window. Today, this fiction is evaporating as crime is openly
integrated into the economy. The black market, the gray market, the war on
drugs, the war on terror. Branding criminal is not simply a maneuver in a public
relations war—though it is that too; crime is the excess of law.
Security cameras and Loss Prevention are not there to stop shoplifting
and workplace theft any more than borders exist to stop illegal immigration. The
designation of criminal is simply one more tool for managing populations,
another line along which to divide and exploit.
The cynicism of the justice system is surpassed only by capitalism itself.
There’s not enough money circulating any more for us to be fully integrated, so
entire economies of ultra-flexible, superfluous, and precarious work have
arisen. We don’t do anything that appears to matter, but somehow we have
to do it all the time. Just to count as people, we have to
gain all sorts of stupid commodities—a cellphone, a laptop, a specific knowledge
of culture. Because our wages are so low and we work so much, our only options
are illicit. Petty drug dealing, sex work, and pirating movies and music have
become at once a normal practice for us and a constant opportunity for the
police to rein us into the justice industry. The black bloc makes sense to us
because it offers an intelligent way to do what we always have to be
doing without getting caught.
If Chris Hedges is really concerned about crime, perhaps he shouldn’t praise
anything in the movement of occupations. What attracts us to the black
bloc is exactly what draws us to the occupation of a public square: all the
different people with different experiences coming together to steal back the
time stolen from us by work and the spaces stolen from us by ownership and
policing, the collective crime of revolt. Hum the national anthem all
you want and sing “dissent is patriotic” to the media, but the reality is that
anything that breaks with the way things are is categorized in the same sphere
of crime as “violence” and treated accordingly. So why not do it
together and with intelligence?
IV.
Above all, the black bloc is contemporary because it is a site of
self-transformation. Even the abused corpse of Gandhi is in accord: if we want
to change the world we must change ourselves. To take this further, we might say
we have to abolish
ourselves.
Capitalism has only managed to stave off revolution by constantly reordering
and diffusing social antagonism. At the center of the economy, it is
increasingly difficult to distinguish between citizens and police, yet at the
same time they appear to be at war with each other. At the margins, everything
that once made antagonistic groups into “revolutionary subjects” is
extracted—think of the fate of the Black Panthers—and the remaining husk works
to gain entrance to the center or manage the disorder of the margins. Only an
immediate break with the process by which we become subjects can open a window
of potential. This self-transformative gesture is where tactics and ethics meet.
If liberal commentators can’t handle the implications of this, this just
shows the widening abyss between those who would defend citizenship and those
who refuse to be governed.
Allow me to elaborate from our side of the barricades.
The black bloc is an anonymous way of being together. Anonymity allows me to
shed the mask I have to wear at school, at work, in your parents’ house, in
casual conversations at the bar. The black bloc enables us to interrupt the
processes that make us into subjects according to race, gender, mental health,
physiological health. Here, we can cease worrying about how power will extract
the truth from us, and we can reveal truth to each other.
The black bloc assumes an intense ethics of care. Hedges alleges that it is
“hypermasculine.” Not everyone who dons the black mask reads feminist and queer
theory—Bell Hooks, Judith Butler, Selma James, Silvia Federici, Guy
Hocquenghem—but these are extremely influential on our discourse. Had Hedges
taken the time to research his subject, he would have found multiple discussions about the gender of anonymity.
Via the black bloc, we open the space to play with power. We radically
reverse its operations on our bodies. Casting off the assumption that our bodies
need to be protected, that we should give them over to the care of the state, we
collectively re-inscribe them as as source of power. We also reverse the notion
that freedom ends at the boundaries of individuals. I want you to put me at
risk: in this axiom, we find the basis of love, friendship, and death, the
three irreducible risks of life.
The black bloc is the site for a new sentimental education: a
political reordering of our sentiments. We learn new sensations of love,
friendship, and death through the matrix of collective confrontation. In the
obscurity of the black mask, I am most present in the world. This
unfamiliar way of being compels me to focus and intensify my senses, to be
radically present in my body and my environment.
In the black bloc, I have to reconceptualize geographies. The event of the
riot gives us a new mobility and space, a laboratory in which to experiment with
public space and the relations of property and commodities. Moving through a
one-way street backwards, I note how a slight displacement causes the flows of
capital to malfunction. The metropolitan environment ceases to appear as a
neutral terrain: suddenly I can identify all the ways it functions to channel
all activity into a very narrow range of possibilities.
Drifting thus through urban centers, I become attuned to all the apparatuses
at work and to how they can be caused to break down. Newspaper boxes and
dumpsters can be moved into the street, blocking police from entering the space
we are creating. Cars—the individualizing apparatus par excellence—can
be put to collective use. All the pretty commodities in the window, usually the
breadth of an entire social class away from me, are now a mere hammer’s distance
from my proletarian hands. I can move through these spaces in which I am not
authorized to be, transforming them. I can dance with mannequins or use them to
smash out the windows of a storefront. I can trade the insanity of everyday
misery for a collective madness that devastates the avenues of wealth.
For those of us who were excluded from the community of good workers, there
is the black bloc. Like the myth of the historical proletarian community, it has
no single organization, no membership, no written constitution. Through the
black bloc, we find collective power, a sense of camaraderie, a historical
tradition of living and fighting. It offers the possibility of immediately
changing our conditions and immediately changing ourselves. Those who say it
doesn’t act in the workplace misunderstand the forms work takes today and
where it takes place. The black bloc has been instrumental in the recent port
blockades on the West Coast and in the occupations of universities through
Europe, the UK, the US, and Chile; the method is constantly being appropriated
and adapted. When coworkers outsmart the cameras to take money from the register
to share—when the hungry pocket goodies from an expensive health food store—when
Anonymous strikes the credit card companies—wherever we use
anonymity offensively, there is black bloc.
As I write this, Greece burns yet again, and more of the flexible,
unemployed, and immigrant populations appropriate the tactics of the hooded
ones—and vice versa. The black bloc can’t be cut out of the
movement of occupations: there is no surgery that can extract the need for
redemption from history, and there is no method better tuned to that task than
this vital opacity. On the contrary, the so-called cancer will grow,
spread, and mutate—and the movement of occupations, like other movements, will
increasingly be indistinguishable from the black bloc.