From marco to brian and others

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hey marco…. liked what ya wrote... i pretty much see it the same way... i'm definitely into putting more focus around local anti-capitalist organising...but i'm not sure that i think we should entirely quit organising around summits. I've seen a bunch of good things come out of them too....and i think maybe something we need to build on is how to effectively take the benefits out of these big days of action and (like tonnes of new folks coming together) solidify them...
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The protests have definitely put anti-capitalism on the media-map again and it inspired old and new ‘activists’. The main point is not that these kind of summit protests are wrong al together but that it can not do much more for us then it already did. We have to keep on moving and surprising our enemies otherwise they will find ways to infiltrate and manipulate the movement. Genoa was an other clear example of this.

An other equally as important thing is that we have to build (local groups), collectives which can confederate into larger networks and federations. I can only speak for Holland and i tell you we have not welcomed many new @-organisations the last few years. We did however find 400 dutch in prague (and i assure you that is a lot compared to the number of organised radicals). I dont have any numbers on Genoa…

In stead of putting so much emphasis on summits and summithopping i think we should put emphasis on building decentralised network of @-minded collectives and organisations. Secondly we should bring ‘evil capitalism’ back to level which folks around us can visualise it into there own lives. Thirdly we should create alternatives to capitalism besides the political organisations of resistance.

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the CLAC in quebec for instance have remained as a group to organise the networking and solidifying of projects initiated around the FTAA summit battle... and in Windsor for the OAS last year...we saw a tonne of new groups spring up in small towns all over the area that continue today....
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that is great. I have heard similar good stories from the Quebec protests which lots of locals also participated or at least supported. I also heard both things were probably partly a result of the particular situation in Quebec where supposedly still exists a strong social network (in contrary from most of the netherlands). It is really important to here more from this. Unfortunately most of the alternative media coverage around Quebec was also very spectacle-orientated.