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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><span
style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Times","serif"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Outside
Agitators
& White Vigilantism: A Reportback from Oakland</span><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><b
style=""><span style=""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><span
style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Times","serif"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">Written
on
July 22nd, by a Collective in the Bay Area</span><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"
align="left"><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">“</span></i><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";">I'm tired of the marchin', the
rallyin', the
protestin'<br>
We hoopin' and hollerin', still we gettin' no <span
style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">justice</span></span><i
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Dead
Prez, ‘</span></i><a
href="http://rapgenius.com/Dead-prez-made-you-die-trayvon-martin-tribute-lyrics"><i
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Made You Die</span></i></a><i
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>In the past week, the city of
Oakland, along with the rest of the nation, has been shaken by a series
of
large protests and small-scale riots in the wake of George Zimmerman’s
acquittal in Florida. The Oakland Police Department (OPD) and City Hall
were
largely taken by surprise by the massive outpouring of grief and rage
of local
residents, and both struggled – as a result of several </span><a
href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/06/24/1m-settlement-reached-in-oscar-grant-protest-case/"><span
style="">high-profile court settlements</span></a><span style="">
which have forced the OPD to
reconfigure its crowd control tactics – to contain a growing unrest
which
picked up greater and greater momentum as each day passed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>Even as Oakland business leaders
applied enormous pressure on the OPD to restore order, whether through
the use
of micro-policing procedures (such as the increased enforcement of
pedestrian
or minor traffic infractions, which closely resemble stop-and-frisk
techniques)
or full displays of force, (seen later in the week, in which mobile
cadres were
supplemented by snatch squads and vehicular surveillance units) City
Councilman
Neil Gallo </span><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Tactics-may-put-Oakland-police-at-a-disadvantage-4673932.php"><span
style="">lamented</span></a><span style=""> their inability to quell
the sporadic
uprisings, commenting that “protestors are better organized than our
Police
Department.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>And, of course, we have seen the
predictable return of the ‘outside agitator’ narrative, in which both
‘white
anarchists’ and other ‘vandals’ are characterized as representing an
alien and
invasive force whose interests lie only in terrorizing the residents of
Oakland
as a whole, and hijacking otherwise ‘peaceful’ demonstrations. <span
style="color: rgb(148, 54, 52);"><span style=""> </span></span>Yet
despite this focus on the threat of the white ‘outside agitator’ or
‘anarchist,’ the OPD continue to target and arrest more young black men
than
white ‘agitators.’<span style=""> </span>For example, of the
nine individuals arrested last Monday night, only two were officially
arraigned
on felony charges. These two men are black.<span style="">
</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style=""> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>As was also predictable a large
proportion of Oakland residents have accepted the onslaught of the
state's TV,
radio and newspaper campaign wholeheartedly and the effects of this
strategy
have, to some small extent, been witnessed in the dwindling signs of
popular
revolt - in the space of one week.<span style=""> </span>Some
of that was to be expected as an embryonic movement decides whether to
grow or
even to exist.<span style=""> </span>But as a Bay area
collective we have observed other things in the streets and in the
media during
the last week that need addressing. Specifically, we would like to
tackle two
key issues:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"
align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="">The
emergence of black youth as organic leadership and the attempt to deny
this
reality</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"
align="left"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="">The
emergence of white mob violence in the defense of private property and
against black
urban rebellion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>We will, to the best of our
abilities as participants and observers, attempt to provide a brief
overview of
the most significant events of the last week, address each of the
aforementioned points individually as well as explain why they are
significant
and, finally, offer some thoughts on how we might best confront and
overcome
the difficulties we now face in the aftermath of these brief flare-ups.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><b
style=""><span style="">A Basic Clarification
of Recent Events<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“Fuck all that bullshit,
protesting for justice</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I feel like the Black
Panthers, let’s start a fucking riot!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Zoeja Jean, ‘All Black in My
Hoodie’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>On the evening of July 13<sup>th</sup>,
2013 several hundred angry and saddened demonstrators gathered at Oscar
Grant
Plaza in response to the announcing of the Zimmerman acquittal that
same day.
During a particularly emotional speak-out, one speaker expressed her
distress
over the verdict, but told the transfixed crowd she was encouraged by
the
diversity of attendees, and was happy to see everyone there, “whether
white,
black, or brown.” After several other rousing speeches from attendees
the
speak-out began to taper off, and the crowd began to look around
wondering what
our next move would be. At this point, another speaker jumped atop the
makeshift pedestal – a young, unnamed black man – and made a simple
proposal:
either we stay and continue talking, or we hit the streets and march.
The crowd
overwhelmingly responded that it was time to march. As we snaked
through the
downtown Oakland streets, numerous storefronts were smashed, small
barricades
dragged out and lit ablaze, and a BART patrol car destroyed. Folks
driving by
honked their horns in support and, on several occasions, individuals
who had
been waiting for the bus stood up and joined in the fracas. All told,
the march
would cause over $30,000 worth of damage in the downtown area and</span><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span><span style="">only one
arrest was made.</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>On July 15<sup>th</sup>, scores of protests
occurred across the United States, with large demonstrations taking
place in
New York, Atlanta, and elsewhere. But the most shining examples of
militant
black self-activity would take place in Oakland, Los Angeles, and
Houston.
While some groups in other cities called for Department of Justice
(DOJ)
intervention, court reform, or the repeal of Stand Your Ground laws,
for many
angry black youth in these cities, calls for ‘justice’ rang empty.
Instead,
these places would erupt in clashes with police, sporadic flash mobs
and, of
course, highway shutdowns which occurred almost concurrently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>In Oakland, organizers had scheduled
a rally and march in response to the national call-out issued by the </span><a
href="http://trayvonoc.wordpress.com/"><span style="">Trayvon
Martin Organizing Committee</span></a><span style="">
days earlier. However a struggle quickly emerged within a small group
of
collectives over the question of destination and goal of the
demonstration. <span style="color: red;"><span style=""> </span></span>Following
several
speeches and some internal debate, the local black nationalist O.N.Y.X.
Organizing Committee seized control of march logistics and explained to
the
crowd that we would march to the OPD station. Upon arrival, they told
us, we
would continue to rally, then return to Oscar Grant Plaza. As the crowd
of one
thousand approached the intersection outside of OPD headquarters a
large cordon
of riot police blocked our path, forcing demonstrators into the middle
of the
major downtown intersection and effectively blocking all lanes of
traffic.
However, OPD officers did not block off the I-880N freeway ramp,
choosing
instead to concentrate all their forces on preventing approach to the
headquarters. As O.N.Y.X. spokespersons urged the crowd to stay put and
allow
the rally to continue as they had planned, a small group of black youth
on
‘scraper’ bikes ignored their pleas. These youths broke away from the
intersection and charged up the freeway off-ramp. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>Some of the O.N.Y.X. organizers
motioned with their arms to come back and seemed to disapprove with the
decision to take the freeway, but hundreds in the crowd began following
up the
off-ramp with great excitement. Several cars honked in support of the
exuberant
crowd. Once on the </span><a
href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/bay-area-protests-over-zimmerman-verdict-continue/nYrXY/"><span
style="">freeway</span></a><span style="">, a large section of
demonstrators
formed a human chain across northbound and southbound lanes,
effectively
bringing traffic to an absolute standstill. After nearly a
half-an-hour, OPD
and California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers began to mount the
freeway, and
demonstrators scattered in a disorganized manner.<span style=""> </span>When
the police did not make arrests,
concentrating on clearing the highway, marchers were able to regroup
near
Chinatown. This gathering weaved back through downtown Oakland, marched
around
Lake Merritt to Piedmont and eventually grew into a much larger march
that
would continue late into the evening, and culminated in an assembly
before the
steps of the Superior Court of Alameda County.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><b
style=""><span style="">We Are All George
Zimmerman: Drew Cribley and White Vigilantism<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“The police said, ‘If they're
breaking in your property, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">do what you gotta do and leave
their bodies on the side of
the road.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">‘Roper,’ White Vigilante from
Post-Katrina New Orleans<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“And the police are simply the
hired enemies of this
population. They are present to keep the Negro in his place and to
protect
white business interests, and they have no other function.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">James Baldwin, “A Report from
Occupied Territories”</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>As demonstrators filed back toward
Oscar Grant Plaza following a brief interlude in front of the heavily
guarded
courthouse, a large section of black demonstrators began filing home.
Some
remained, though, and another segment of the march began to ‘bloc up’
to
prepare for another run through downtown Oakland. Several windows were
quickly
smashed, including one belonging to the Men’s Warehouse building.</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"><span style="">
</span></span><span style="">The OPD had quickly amassed near the </span><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";">courthouse,
following behind the remaining protestors before launching a flash bang
grenade
and arresting several individuals, the majority of whom were </span><span
style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Times","serif"; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">black
and
brown</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">.
</span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Following
these arrests<span
style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">,
a white man who was originally
arrested on the most serious charges had them reduced to misdemeanors
while a
young black man</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";">would be</span><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span><span
style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "Times","serif"; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">arraigned
on a felony.</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>Demonstrators fought back against
OPD officers, and the police lines would soon retreat slightly. The
march then
continued its way back towards the ‘Uptown’ zone (a name given by
developers to
a recently gentrified section of downtown Oakland), where marchers
would be met
with a sight not seen in recent years. Outside of a nearby storefront
along
Broadway stood a string of predominantly white workers and business
owners –
side-by-side – wielding an assortment of blunt objects and weapons,
including
hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, bats, and Tasers. In an instant, a
young
‘bloc-ed up’ youth sprinted out of the march and attempted to knock out
the
window of Flora, a local small restaurant. This individual was met by
two white
waiters, one of whom attempted to grab the protestor and the other
following
with his weapon raised high. The youth, in an effort to avoid being
hit, swung
their small hammer and hit the first waiter firmly across the side of
his face.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>Much has been said about </span><a
href="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9176784"><span
style="">Drew Cribley</span></a><span style="">, the young white Flora
waiter who was
hit with a hammer. In media coverage, Cribley is portrayed as an
innocent
worker who was trying to ‘deter’ protestors from breaking Flora’s
windows when
he was viciously attacked with a hammer. Even self-identified leftists
and
progressives have taken to Twitter and Facebook to condemn the attack
as
‘anti-working class.’ Yet, what the media didn’t say is that Cribley
was doing
more than simply trying to deter protestors from breaking windows. In
reality,
Cribley and his co-workers decided to mob up and arm themselves with
wrenches
and hammers to attack protestors, the majority of whom, of course, were
black
youth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>In defending Flora - a
self-described "Art Deco restaurant" in the heart of Oakland - from
the rage of black youth, Drew Cribley was defending the private
property of his
boss. By doing so, Cribley made the conscious choice, a choice that
many white
workers have made before him, to organize himself and his white
co-workers to
violently police black people in order to preserve and protect the
racial and
economic order. In this sense, it was Cribley’s actions that were
‘anti-working-class.’ Like George Zimmerman, Cribley has been portrayed
as a
victim who acted in self-defense when he decided to physically confront
those
who were breaking Flora’s windows. But Cribley is neither a hero nor a
victim.
He is a white vigilante desperately attempting to hold on to what
Dubois called
the ‘wages of whiteness’ in the face of black rebellion and economic
precarity.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>So while we may never know why Drew
Cribley decided to arm himself in order to defend the private property
of his
employer, we think it’s equally important to ask, why didn’t he join up
with up
those who were attacking Flora, or at the very least, why didn’t he
stand
aside? Above all, what we find most important in Cribley’s action is
that he
was not alone. On the night of July 15<sup>th</sup> other white workers
in ‘Uptown’
organized themselves not to fight their bosses or sabotage their
workplaces
but, rather, to defend the private property of their bosses, through
the threat
of violence. In essence, these workers acted as a vigilante mob, who
took it
upon themselves to do what they felt the police wouldn’t. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" align="left"><span
style="">While the media, the Chamber of Commerce and local business
owners decried the Oakland Police Department’s supposed ‘</span><a
href="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9173743"><span
style="">hands off approach</span></a><span style="">’ during the
riots, they seemed to have
no problem with the groups of white people who decided to arm
themselves and
patrol the streets looking for rioters. This contradiction can only be
understood as tacit approval of the use of organized, white mob
violence as a
strategic tool. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><b
style=""><span style="">The Outside Agitator
and the Invisibilization of Black Self-Organization</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"…Injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment
of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Never again
can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator"
idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered
an
outsider anywhere within its bounds."</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Martin Luther King, Jr.<span
style="">
</span>"Letter from a Birmingham Jail," 1963.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>In recent weeks, we have seen
several variations of ‘outside agitator’ discourse deployed by
different state
actors and agencies, all with similar strategies of fragmenting and
separating-out the ‘disruptive’ elements from those recognized as
engaging in
more appropriate or legitimate political activity. The OPD (and even
co-founder
of the Black Panther Party, </span><a
href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23697836/oakland-protests-leave-many-weary"><span
style="">Bobby Seale</span></a><span style="">) pointed their fingers
at violent
‘anarchists,’ many of whom, according to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, had
most
likely come from San Francisco to “get off” on the spectacle created by
their
actions. And we should not omit Kevon Paynter, Kazuu Haga, and Black
Men United
who, in a particularly disgusting reformulation of the
illegitimate/legitimate
protestor dichotomy, insisted that “radical” black protestors were
portraying
“negative stereotypes” about black youth, and that it was these same
images or
representations which ultimately led to Trayvon Martin’s death.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>But the most potentially destructive
variation of the ‘outside agitator’ discourse has not come from the
mainstream
media or the OPD. In a recent Indybay </span><a
href="http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/basic-explanation-recent-events-july-13-15-2013-city-oakland-classified"><span
style="">article</span></a><span style=""> entitled “A Basic
Explanation of
Recent Events (July 13-15, 2013) in the City of Oakland (Classified),”
the
anonymous author (whether intentionally or not) uncritically takes up
this
discourse, essentially verifying an outright fiction – what’s more, a
fundamental staple of counterinsurgency procedure – to champion the
actions of
‘white anarchists’ which they claim make it possible for black people
to
revolt.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;" align="left"><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Given the brutal ways they are treated by the
police, black
people are less likely to commit random acts of vandalism in public.
However,
when people in a crowd begin to smash windows, write on the walls,
throw rocks,
burn garbage, and successfully avoid arrest, it encourages a sense of
safety
amongst all who wish to express their anger and rage. This sense of
safety is
founded on the trust amongst the crowd and the solidarity amongst them,
but it
is informed and shaped by the first acts of rebellion.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;" align="left"><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">…</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;" align="left"><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Let it be clear, the white anarchist outside
agitator is not
always white, nor are they always from outside Oakland. But they are
often not
from Oakland, happen to be white, and have a fixation on the most basic
actions
that have come to signify rebellion. Freedom inspires freedom, but some
people
are freer than others. Those with more freedom in this country can
choose to
either use it or squander it.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>Now, we are in agreement that it is
necessary for white revolutionaries or insurrectionists to evaluate
their
abilities to move and act in certain political situations in relation
to those
who cannot (or feel that they cannot) always do the same. These are
crucial
conversations and should be given serious reflection. However, taken to
its
logical conclusion, the author’s central argument boils down to this:
without
the vanguard activity of ‘white anarchists,’ black people would not
have
engaged in forms of militant protest. In this strange inversion of
Fanon, what
we are presented with is not just a profound erasure of the last
half-century
of political struggle in the United States (not to mention the last
near-decade
of revolt in Oakland), but simultaneously a re-articulation of the
colonial
relationship in which whites are recognized as active subjects or
creators and
‘non-whites’ as passive objects, who can only become political subjects
as a
result of the acts of their benevolent gatekeepers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>This is a terrible falsehood. How
can we accept such an absurd proposition when the events of July 13<sup>th</sup>
and July 15<sup>th</sup>, not coincidentally the occasions in which the
most
militant demonstrations took place in Oakland, tell us different? How
could the
author, if they were in fact present, so willfully ignore and
invisibilize the
most significant emergence of black self-organization and organic
leadership
since the Oscar Grant rebellions? We must be clear about one thing: if
there
was any feeling of ‘safety’ or power created in the streets of Oakland
in the
last week, it was largely made possible by the self-activity of these
presumed
‘fearful’ black youth – not by a self-appointed white vanguard force. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>This is not to say that black youth
acted monolithically, nor are we attempting to diminish the acts and
leadership
of our ‘white’ anarchist comrades. But we hold that it is this
re-emergence of
self-organization of black youth in Oakland that will, as we saw during
the
Oscar Grant rebellions, help reshape the trajectory of class and social
struggle in the coming years. Additionally, we believe it is an
unavoidable
task for all those consciously engaging in a revolutionary or an
insurrectionary project to encourage, learn from, participate in, and
help to
strengthen the autonomous, organic self-activity of all working-class
and poor
peoples. And if we make the mistake of positioning ourselves on the
wrong side
of these developments, we will be faced with great difficulties indeed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><b
style=""><span style="">Some Concluding
Remarks<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="left"><i
style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“Sick of the ride</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><br>
</span><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It's suicide</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><br>
</span><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For the other side of
town</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><br>
</span><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When I find a way to
shut 'em down”</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><br>
</span><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Public Enemy, ‘</span></i><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB4D-GbQ9A4"><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Shut Em Down</span></i></a><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>Throughout the course of this
long-form reflection and analysis – however incomplete or fragmented –
we have
attempted to clarify and explain several issues which have been
distorted by a
number of sources. We have tried to emphasize the spontaneous
self-organization
and activity of black youth as crucial formative elements of recent
events.
Without reservation, we believe that if it were not for this leadership
we would
have been faced with an entirely different set of circumstances - or
defeats.<span style=""> </span>No one who was present in the
streets in the last week feels like these were battles without a cause.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>Therefore, just as we fight to
establish a counter-narrative to the state and mainstream media
discourse which
deliberately distorts the nature of a struggle for vengeance, we also
feel
compelled to fight against a false characterization of these uprisings
amongst
our own comrades, if necessary, especially to the extent that they
persist in
invisibilizing the self-directed activities of people who are also
comrades,
friends, and family. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>We have also sought to demystify the
actions surrounding and involving the attack of white vigilante Drew
Cribley.
The emergence of white working-class mob activity and the establishment
of
strategic partnerships with management against working-class and poor
black
rebellion are not – historically speaking – altogether new
developments. Yet
these moves, set against the backdrop of a continuing crisis in city
leadership
and policing, are likely to open up new and complicated terrains of
political
conflict which will require careful conversations about how we engage
future
campaigns and how best to defend one another in the process. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>These questions take on a greater
relevancy in Oakland as we quickly approach July 26<sup>th</sup>, a day
which
has been declared a national day of action to “</span><a
href="http://block4trayvon.wordpress.com/"><span style="">Block for
Trayvon</span></a><span style="">.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;" align="left"><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">The murder of a black teen is not the
exception, but the
norm; we are coming to fists with normal life in America. Hence,
#hoodiesup
must disrupt the places that sustain this normal: cities, highways,
trains,
ports, social media—all the flows that compose the false harmony of
America.
The sit-ins in Pittsburgh and Florida, the marches blocking streets
around the
country, the highway takeovers in Oakland, LA, and Houston, all share a
wisdom:
every place that politics and commerce carry on as if nothing has
happened is
ripe for disruption. Block everything!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style="">
</span>While we wholeheartedly support
actions and calls that to disrupt the flow of labor and capital, we
also know –
as direct participants and observers – what it took in 2011 to mobilize
for a
general strike in Oakland and, later in 2012, for a shutdown of the
West Coast
Port system.<span style=""> </span>It was an effort of
thousands of people, of scores of planning meetings and hours upon
hours of
outreach.<span style=""> </span>This call to action leaves us
with less than a week to cobble together a coherent strategy and plan
for
attack, one which must be especially well-honed if we are to find
ourselves in
direct conflict with a police force (aided by a growing manifestation
of white
vigilantism) becoming increasingly concerned with losing control of the
Oakland
streets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style=""><span style=""> </span>We
can’t help but wonder if, in our
particular context and political situation, whether it would make more
sense,
strategically, to exercise patience and wait for the beginning of
August when </span><a
href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/12/bart-union-leader-threatens-bloodiest-longest-strike-as-negotiations-set-to-resume/"><span
style="">BART workers</span></a><span style=""> will likely strike for
a second time
in several months? We ask all in Oakland to seriously consider this
question.
Such an approach, properly navigated, would open up many opportunities
for a
much wider social strike and establish crucial linkages between the
BART
worker’s struggles – many of whom are black – and the recent ruptures
created
by the actions surrounding the Zimmerman verdict. At the junction of
these
seemingly unrelated political battles we see the operation of a similar
logic
of economic exploitation and white supremacy and, if we hope to offer a
serious
challenge to this power, we must seek creative and potent mechanisms of
resistance that sustain and embolden us in our fight. We hope that we
have
constructively provoked our comrades, and we look forward to discussing
and
debating these issues in the coming days. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="">See
you on the barricades.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif"; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Contact:
</span><a href="mailto:Oaklandunity510@gmail.com"><span
style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Oaklandunity510@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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