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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> November 11, 2004 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, The seventh, and final, essay in our seven-part series from the book, "We Are Everywhere," is titled "Walking: We Ask Questions." �When a movement stops asking questions, of itself, of the world, it becomes an orthodoxy � an idea that has run out of ideas,� write the authors. �It becomes fixed, static, brittle, rather than fluid. Water can resist the most savage of blows, ice shatters. It is only armed with our questions that we can change history.� This essay walks through the stages of the past ten years of autonomy movements as voiced, when describing movements of the past century, by Mohandas K. Gandhi: �First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.� The essay envisions a �second stage� of the movement that has converged from Seattle to Prague to Quebec to Cancun at the summits of the world's economic powers to one �of working closer to home, a stage where mass action on the streets is balanced (but not entirely replaced) with creating alternatives to capitalism in our neighborhoods, our towns and cities�." The authors, from the Notes from Nowhere Collective, write: "Yet returning to our neighborhoods, we must not fetishize the local, retreat into subcultural ghettos, nor forget that we are the world�s first grassroots-led global political project. We must not undo the ties that bind us together in a worldwide network.� The questions asked are those on the minds of all strategic change agents: �How can we discover the paths we should take? How will we know they are the right ones? For is there any revolution in history that has not taken a wrong turn eventually, ending in bloodshed and betrayal � ultimately in failure? �The idea of a revolutionary movement that genuinely listens is itself a paradox. Revolutionaries normally shout, they chant, they try to make their screams heard above the roar of a system that bulldozes their means of living, their desires. Yet the idea of listening is central to many in these movements.� >From our perspective in the Narco Newsroom, a movement that counts better listening among its demands sings in certain harmony with the Authentic Journalism renaissance. The idea of listening is central to good and authentic journalism. Listen poorly, and one reports badly. If you�ve ever attended an event reported on by a Commercial Media organization, you�ve probably wondered if their reporters listened at all, and if so, to whom. And if you�ve tried to correct them, or talk back, you already know about the obstacles they�ve created to any effective rebuttal. That�s one of the reasons why, early this year, Narco News invited all its participants � journalists, readers, contributors, activists � who have invested time, labor, or resources into this project to enter The Narcosphere, where any one of us can ask questions of any other about the stories we report. It�s a forum where we challenge and help each other to do better. One of our motives for publishing these seven essays from We Are Everywhere is to listen, together, to the words of colleagues who have been listening to what the autonomy movements of the past ten years have been saying and doing. In many ways, it�s the same movement that we are part of. And in other ways, we have separate priorities and paths (as do so many of the local, regional, and national movements that the mega-movement embraces). But making history is making history no matter where it is being made: the commonalities � especially in the tactical and strategic challenges � are so great that movements must learn from each other, especially from those that can point to demonstrable success. Whether one agrees with some or all of the goals of the so-called anti-globalization movement, nobody denies that it has won battles and already defeated the sense of hopelessness that �nothing can be done� against gigantic financial interests and their plans for the world. Without exception, all movements from below face similar � often the same � powerful special interests and fixed rules of play, and the same set of systemic disadvantages. How one breaks or changes the rules, and therefore the momentum, is of paramount interest to all. So, at this hour when the strategies and tactics of the Authentic Journalism movement, the international autonomy movement, the drug policy reform movement, the medical marijuana movement, the legalization movement, the harm reduction movement, the coca growers� movement, and all others have just entered a new global set of circumstances, this is the time to speak � and not too softly, please � with one another about the road we take from here� Read "Walking: We Ask Questions": http://www.narconews.com/ This chapter begins with a quote by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano (interviewed earlier this week on Narco News): �Utopia is on the horizon: when I walk two steps, it takes two steps back�. I walk ten steps, and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking.� Walking, with you, through a country called Am�rica, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ new email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Narco News is supported by: The Fund for Authentic Journalism P.O. Box 71051 Madison Heights, MI 48071 USA http://www.authenticjournalism.org The Fund receives online donations at this web page: http://www.authenticjournalism.org Apply for your co-publisher's account, here: http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.php Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscr�bete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en espa�ol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes Inscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do �ltimo minuto em portugu�s brasileiro: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasil _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! 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