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28th February 2012 <http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/post/18454574225/rac-ola> Post <http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/post/18454574225/rac-ola> with 1 note White OLA Fucks Up Local Communities<http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/post/18454574225/rac-ola> *Background: Reformist members of OLA have been holding a picnic, without GA approval, and with the overt opposition of Radical OLA, in Macarthur Park. After Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC)<http://revolutionaryautonomouscommunities.blogspot.com/>politely told picnickers to be more cognizant and respectful of the local community, the picnickers were asked by Radical members of OLA to find an alternative location. They refused. On Sunday, February 26th, this happened: * *(They then posted my statement (below) on this matter. Alongside that was this the statement from the Radical Arm of OLA: * OLA AntiSocial Media <http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/> - Archive <http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/archive> - Subscribe <http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/rss> - Contact <http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/contact> We are the Radical arm of Occupy LA. We have come together in an online black bloc against the Obstructionists, the Reformists, and the Liberals who have occupied the choke points of presumed power and leadership roles within our leaderless movement in order to further oppress marginalized voices, promote lies, and foist their own insidious agenda of abusive control upon OLA. We are a dynamic and evolving community who eschew authorship, believing it provokes ego and craving. We promote anonymity, collective decision-making, community and truth. The Black Bloc, erasing identity and promoting solidarity, is our symbol against the corruption inherent within our own movement, representing that of the wider world. http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/post/18454574225/rac-ola _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *(JAI: Occupicnic is a shoot-off from Occupy LA Movement which for a bit over a month have been having their meetings at the same time as the RAC-LA Food Program 50 yards from us. Coincidence, I don't think so.) * * * *Time to Put Occupicnic on Blast as a Member Calls the Police on RAC-LA* *Lessons for the Occupation Movements * * * It was a sure sign that 'God' loves RAC-LA and don't like ugly. RAC-LA which has for 4 years and 4 months operated a free Food Program by, with, and for the poor, homeless, migrant and unemployed residents of the MacArthur Park area found the police called upon us because we were blocking off a space so that trucks bringing food and carrying away compostables (the bins of which weigh can easily weigh above a hundred ponds.) Lately the park has seen an opportunistic invasion on Sundays as some people who call themselves 'The Occupicnic' seeking shelter for their 'picnic' in a working-class area, i.e. where cops are less likely to bother them. A woman named Debbie' (SEE PHOTO ATTACHED) pulled up and demanded this spot because she had a handicap sticker. Being handicapped she had no more 'right' to the space than any other of the many cars that had passed by looking for a space Sunday--or the 10s of thousands that have passed by us since we've been here--saw what we were doing and got on. There was a handicap space right across Wilshire and two more around the corner on Wilshire. Pitiful piece of shit playing the victim so as to dictate her will. This woman strikes me as a professional victim whose been playing 'cards' all her life. She had no greater 'right' to the space than the over 100 vehicles that had passed by today or the thousands since we've been there and respected what was being done. Or the at least 3 cop cars that had passed todau and the hundreds if not thousands of time they had passed us us 'breaking the law' for 4 and a third years. 4 and a half years the cops have passed us by and said nothing about our cones blocking off parking after some initial confrontations that ceased with our workers having acquired the support that the local residents give us. Now, she done put it in the cops faces that they ain't 'doing their jobs' and we expect to be under pressure with this for a while now making it difficult to take food off the trucks and putting compost bins on the truck. This is where the problems with these people has been all along: they assume that their 'work'--if you can call it that--has to be more important than anything the locals (whose territory they are invading (not occupying)) could possibly be doing. Saw that about a month ago when one of them came and started to get some of our cardboard (that a member recycles) without *asking.* Another did the same prior to that with fruit. Its rankest privilege. Its the assumption that what they're doing is certainly more important than anything that the mere working class might have organized itself to do. Its the assumption that these neophytes and wanna-bes are entitled because they think they are what they think they are. There is also member of OLA whom I have witnessed communicating with the police, inviting them to food. RAC-LA does not cooperate with the police. We survived their harassment of us at the beginnings and periodically since by the strength of our membership and those we give food to in staring down and, occasionally, standing them off. This situation presents complexities seemingly not understood by members of OLA. When I went down and called them out one silly m'f'er said I'll tell ya what to do...Get your people to stand with you. What the fuck did this young jerk know about anything? He hadn't a clue to the years of hard work that RAC-LA had put in and faced down with the cops. It ain't just a sign off a lack of class consciousness its signs of plain old self-important rudeness. Here's where I blame that group as a whole in the park: They apparently gave no time to brief their members on the neighborhood. This itself might indicate that they themselves took no time to find out about it. And, in spite of this woman calling the same m'f'ers who beat up and kicked out Occupy LA, they took no action to kick her out which is the only way that they might have salvaged some of the motivations that caused the group to be formed in the first place. Salvaged some credibility. If she's is yapping to the cops about us over a goddamn parking space what else might she be yapping about. This fucking snitch ought not be welcome anywhere anybody is trying to do anything about the state of our class. 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