A listeners’ response to our Occupy/Black Bloc Panel discussion

The following post was contributed by Dave Warren, a member of the extended RevolutionTruth Community. I think the recent RevolutionTruth panel discussion on the Chris Hedges Black Bloc article took many unintended turns and twists but, guided by serendipity, it ended up being very illuminating on a number of counts even if it juked from its initial topic on Black Bloc. I will save actual comments on the tactics of…
Read more...Tags:Black Bloc , Cari Machet , Chris Hedges , Dr. Margaret Flowers , Georgia Sagri , John Boehner , Kevin Zeese , Lucas Vasquez , Michael Moore , Nancy Pelosi , Occupy , Panel , Tangerine Bolen
What We Talk About When We Talk About Solidarity

Natasha Stoudt from Occupy Portland contributed this post to RevolutionTruth Over the past couple of weeks, the internet has exploded with responses to Chris Hedges’ article “The Cancer in Occupy.” I’m going to sidestep the issue of what was wrong or right with Hedges’ article or the many responses to it, and focus on the deeper subject of the debate it spawned: the debate about tactics. This debate is a…
Read more...A Community Member’s Response to the Occupying Beyond Divisions Panel

This post was written by Eoin Garland, a member of the extended RevolutionTruth Community, in response to the Occupying Beyond Divisions Panel. Just listened to this in full………. I sit in a small unimportant corner of the world looking and learning about Occupy. I am small and unimportant. I am suffering from what has been caused by corrupt politics and the economic system. I’d like to think I’m a regular…
Read more...Tags:Anarchy , Black Bloc , Cari Machet , Chris Hedges , Georgia Sagri , Occupy , Panel
Public Statement Regarding Occupying Beyond Divisions Panel

On Wednesday February 15 RevolutionTruth produced its first “flash panel” (produced in a matter of days rather than months) and its second panel on Occupy. After resounding upset over Chris Hedges’ piece on black bloc, we felt it important to provide a platform for a deep discussion on some difficult topics. Unfortunately, the discussion failed to unfold as we had hoped. We had made it very clear to all panelists…
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