Notes on the Black Power Mixtape #anarchives #OccupyHistory

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{The following notes were taken as part of the Anarchives project at Occupational Art School, Node #0 [presently located in Fort Collins, CO].
They are the foundation for a series of Wiki articles in the Anarchives thru wiki.occupy.net.}

Intro: Swedish film
- came with expectations to see what America was like
- “freedom of speech”

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1967

Stokely Carmichael
*This guy is clearly a badass
A Boycott is a passive act, the most passive political act, because the boycott said “We will not ride your buses”
- not even violent
*If you are nonviolent and suffer, your opponent will be moved to change his heart; however, in order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience, which America does not.

People need radical opinions in order to get a sense of the difference of opinion?  In order for more of the population to be mobilized to action? 

I want to be like Stokely Carmichael…and interview my Mom.

“I was born in jail.”
I want to jam with Stokely.

“This is for the FBI.”
Jez3Prez has opened his archives to everyone; special invitation to the FBI.

Why were the Feds listening in to Talib Kweli’s listening habits, i.e. listening to speeches of Stokely Carmichael from 40 years ago?
Because he’s the guy who invented black power.

——1968——
*Note to self: compile a soundtrack of all songs in BPM.

I still believe I am more Malcolm than King.  He is a bit more realistic in his analysis of

They kill everyone that stood up for the black man.  People say its a conspiracy…I believe it is
There is no future…for the nation itself.

The people

The birth of this nation was conceived in the GENOCIDE of the Red Man.

Occupy was important as a Broad-based (nation-wide) movement at its inception, and collected activists and growing regional, decentralized movements into the same movement.  Apotheosis of an idea!

“From the three of these pigs we have a choice of…They’re not for us, they do not represent [US], they do not represent the best interests of this country…thinking in this country, in fact they represent the very worst tradition that was ever to crawl from beneath the rocks of this bankrupt country.” Black Panther Minister of Information, 1968

1969

Gun, pick up the gun, pick up the gun put the pigs on the run.  Pick up the gun.  What does this song sound like?
- Na, na na na na, na na na na nanana nanana, na na na na…
[Land of a thousand dances ~1962]

Would you choose exile over death?  It appears that Stokely chose exile…where Martin chose death.

Why did Algiers/Algeria fail? [From an anarchist perspective, the answer is always the same] Eldridge Cleaveland wanted to establish a government that would be recognized by other “leaders”.

I wonder if anarchists can legitimately be critized for being anti-governance.
To think that Americans have a more “real” perspective of their country is a pillar of American egotistical nationalism.

One for the jailed
Once upon a time, a young DJ at a humble college radio station received a call on the request line. 
It was from the local prison; the automated operator asked if she would receive a phone call from “Bob”. 
She hung up the phone.
“Bob” called back and our young DJ accepted the call.
“Bob” requested if she could play a song, a nice song, something that didn’t quite fit the show this DJ was doing, but something reasonable nonetheless.
For fear of disappointing him & worried that he might come after her, she hung up the phone. 
The moral question of this story is,”Do prisoners have human rights?”  Moreover, do we even offer them the opportunity for human dignity & respect?

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Angela Davis trial
It’s not even clear that Angela Davis knew the people who comitted this.
charged with accomplice to murder for being the owner of the gun (a crime punishable by death) There’s no evidence to involve A Davis
It shows only that she owned the guns…but because of the inflammatory press, they could put enough pressure to get an indictment.
She was clearly a political prisoner,

Bradley Manning in jail for ???? days?!?!
Jeremy Hammond in jail 200 days w/o

Revolution consists not in violence but in the principles and the goals that are to be achieved.
NOTE: certain people love certain revolutions…

Where was that Angela Davis speech at -

Who was Assata Shakur (charged with murder of 5 policemen)?

How judgmental is that Swedish bus tour?  How realistic?

OD-d; one less. [cop said]

Young people dying from overdose; the war on drugs.  By mere name alone: violence, casulaties, explosions, pain, messiness, enemy combatants.

Would that guy of the Black Book store, be better to call this the Black is Beautiful Mixtape?
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break for discussion of fascism, bureaucracy, freedom, power, flows/flux
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CIA infiltrates black power communities with Dope, junk

Harlem is the metaphor for black experience in America. — Talib Kweli

Louis Farrakhan:
THIS GUY SEEMS LIKE MAD JUDGEMENT.
- makes everyone feel bad
(Nation of islam was filled with thuggery, corruption, and assasinations ; sounds like a mafia)
“Malcolm X is worth more dead than alive.”
[reminds me of the guy Helia likes in Weeds.]
WHY THE HATRED ON THE SWINE?
I feel like we should not attempt to OUTfanatacize the fanatics. [Bill Maher]
- i feel like this guy is an overconfident dick

If William S. Burroughs doesn’t convince you that heroin is fucked up, then the stories in this section will.
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1975

Who is Robin Kelley?

When we allow ourselves to document history, we tell our own stories.

Note2Self: watch Stonewall documentary on Netflix

Bobby Seal, Huey Newton,

This is a Lifetime Job; talk about the 1% that run everything;
*I prefer to talk about the structures that keep them in place!