Anarchy in the US

[Henry]

Oh boy, oh boy!

How about we all go next year, or whenever the next one is?  It'd be more Pynchonian than Burning Man....

HENRY MU
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu 

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From: Dave Monroe 
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Anarchist group meets in Waldo woods
By ERICA PEREZ
eperez at journalsentinel.com
Posted: July 17, 2008
Waldo - Some 150 anarchists from throughout the United States and
Canada descended on a strip of private land this week in this
Sheboygan County village for four days of workshops, including some
focused on strategizing for demonstrations at the upcoming Democratic
and Republican national conventions.

On the Web
CrimethInc.: www.crimethinc.com 

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The 2008 CrimethInc. Convergence was the sixth annual communal campout
organized by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, an international
underground network that since the mid-1990s has published widely read
anarchist texts such as "Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook."

The group also has drawn the attention of FBI agents trying to
infiltrate the protest movement. At the 2004 CrimethInc. gathering in
Iowa, an undercover FBI operative met Eric McDavid, a California man
who was found guilty last year of conspiring to burn or blow up a
federal facility.

CrimethInc. texts eschew government, capitalism and conformity. The
collective has no members and no leader. But the convergence had
plenty of policy and procedure. Decisions are made by consensus, and
there are no drugs, drinking, photography or exchange of money
allowed. And definitely no police or corporate media.

"The locals are welcome," media liaison and local circus performer
Pinkerton Xyloma said. "We have a no-media policy because the media
are not considered individuals. It is a concern that people from the
media will not respect people's consent or consensus."

Xyloma would not say why the group was gathered in Wisconsin or what
participants were discussing. He said they had no interest in violence
or terrorism.

On its Web site, CrimethInc. describes itself as a place where "the
secret worlds of shoplifters, rioters, dropouts, deserters,
adulterers, vandals, daydreamers . . . converge to form gateways to
new worlds where theft, cheating, warfare, boredom, and so on are
simply obsolete."

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