Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 05:34:13 +0900
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: If the "anti-globalization" movement radicalizes...


on 2/11/02 02:02 AM, cwright at cwright-AT-21stcentury.net wrote:

> It depends on a lo of things.  The type of action has a big impact.  The
> anti-poll tax movement garnered a lot of coverage because they had a massive
> base and did things very creatively.  The anti-WEF protests did not have
> that kind of base and had been under attack since the moment of the protests
> were announced.  Also, the refusal to answer stupid questions was not
> unreasonable under such hostile circumstances.  Any reporter could have read
> the fucking banners (not swearing at you, but disgusted at them) and figured
> it our quickly enough.  Plus, the demo did not have a single, unified
> message besides fuck the WEF, fuck capitalism.  Well, the first was obvious
> and the second they did not want to publicize in any serious way.
> 
> I don't really think that 'media friends' would have helped much here.  This
> was a concerted effort and a police/surveillance testing action for the
> media and the state (see the NY Times article on how all of the police
> cameras were giving live feeds of the demo to a single warroom, allowing the
> central policing agencies to pick out and isolate specific people and
> groups.)
> 
> In other circumstances, it might help and there is nothing wrong with
> cultivating honest relationships with reporters for mainstream sources.
> But certain things will never get televised/mediatized in our favor no
> matter what.  We cannot ever depend on that or even put much faith in it.
> Plus I am sick of Leftists doing everything as a media event.  'March
> downtown because we will get press coverage'.  Course, it will suck if we
> get any at all and it will not replace reaching people in communities where
> they live and work, so I am kinda media-hostile right now.
> 
> For what its worth.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
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> Subject: Re: AUT: Re: If the "anti-globalization" movement radicalizes...
> 
> 
>> Hello Chris, Michael,
>> seriously though, do you either of you think (or
>> anyone else) that befriending some mainstream
>> journalists could be a useful tactic? i think
>> alternative media is growing, but probably not that
>> fast...
>> 
>> i was just thinking about this b/c at the WEF rally
>> demonstrators were acting really antagonistically to
>> mainstream journalists, whereas i didn't see this in
>> either seattle, or the philly rnc protest... not that
>> journalists have ever reported things accurately, but
>> could anything be achieved by building bridges with
>> mainstream journalists? or is this a useless endeavor?
>> in struggle,
>> -Sean
>> 
>> --- cwright <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net> wrote:
>>> As Gil Scott-Heron said, The Revolution Will NOT Be
>>> Televised.
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Handelman" <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
>>> To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 8:01 AM
>>> Subject: AUT: If the "anti-globalization" movement
>>> radicalizes...
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> ...will this mean that the mainstream media will
>>>> ignore it completely?
>>>> 
>>>> I hear ocassionally the media talking about the
>>>> aims/goals of the protester, but they are always
>>>> referring to the reformists in the movement...
>>>> 
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MIYACHI TATSUO
PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT
KOMAKI MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL
KOMAKI CITY
AICHI Pre.
JAPAN
miyachi9-AT-gctv.ne.jp

It is silly question
Whether anti-globalizaition may radicalize or not, problem is whether the
political aim is right or not.
Why do you demonstrate? do you want to show the demonstration to main media?
If so, you should stop struggle and get a jop in media and report
demonstration 



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