I should have added to this that there were people of color there. A few but there.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:07 PM, John A Imani <[email protected]> wrote: > (JAI: Posted on My Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/johna.imani ) > <http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/post/18454574225/rac-ola> > > 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. > > JAI > > Member RAC-LA > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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