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Edinburgh University Anarchist Society
POLEMIC
ISSUE 7.NOVEMBER 2012.FREE.
SELFORGANISING SELFDIRECTING RECLAIMINGOUR LIVES AND FREEDOM
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Violence and the Fetishismof Non-violence
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SomeThoughts about the Social Struggles inSouthernEurope
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No r ea l s oc ia l c ha ngE
has ever been
br ought a bou t w it hout
a r evo l u t ion
Revol u t ion is bu t
t hough t
ca r r ied in t o ac t ion Em m aGo l d m a n
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Are You An Anarchist? The AnswerMay SurpriseYou!
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Building Just Anger
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The more radical theperson is,
the more fully he or she
enters into reality so
that,knowing it better, he or
she can transform it.
This individual is not
afraid to confront, to
listen, to see the worldunveiled.
This person is not afraid
to meet the people or to
enter into a dialogue
with them.
This person does not
consider himself or
herself the proprietor of
history or of all people,
or the liberator of the
oppressed
but he or she does
commit himself or
herself, within history, to
fight at their side...
Paulo Freire
PEDAGOGY OFTHE OPPRESSED
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Taking things for granted
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Cities Prisons...
What can we do when our cities become
prisons..?
When our mentalities are moulded by
consumption, property, profit, xenophobia and
alienation from the natural environment and
ourselves?
When cameras and cops are a constant
companion in the streets?
When as little kids we learn to live in fear
and to be supressed?
When we try to fill our real needs with material goods?
When we exchange our real friends with efriends, our real pets with e
pets and our real life with elife?
When we cant act outside the standardized behaviours created by
commercials?When free, outdoors, team games essential for our social and emotional
development are rare?
When we have become lonely, competitive beings?
When a person means merely a consumer?
When we cant conceive sharing without financial exchanges, or any kind
of exchange?
When it has become an imperative need to assign experts to understand,
process and realize our desires?
When we are limited in our own, individualistic cages, where we are
consuming and being consumed?When our lives are characterized by this imperceptible feeling that we
have to be on time, that we have to be on top?
When we become wage slaves in order to acquire more
and more but in substance getting back nothing?
When our imagination struggles somewhere between schools, lecture
theatres, universities, classes, libraries, desks, offices, wage labour?
When we keep postponing our life for later? when it seems that we live
more in our agendas and plans than in the moment?
When we spend our minimum freetime in impersonal malls, shopping and
with fake smiles?There is nothing left to do but to destroy these cityprisons.
To meet... to get together in the streets, parks, and squares... to discuss
and get to know each other... to act... to selforganize, to selfeducate
and to stay in solidarity...
to experience the liveliness of collective creativity and action... to break
the artificial separations, the sociallyconstructed identities and the
unbearable flow of normality...
to experiment with our only goal to experience the beauty of all the
things we can achieve in the present, acting collectively... to refuse and
to resist all the institutions that maneuver our social and personal wants,our dreams and lives.
To live in anarchy, peace and solitude...
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The Edinburgh University Anarchist Society was formed some
years ago as an attempt for students who wanted a forum for the
fermetation of radical ideas. Since then a lot of people with
different ideologies and points of view have contributed with theiractions to this attempt,the society itself as every "living" social
group evolved and took a lot of different "shapes" through the
years being affected from the people that were forming it, but in
all the cases there was the common believe for a world based in
social equality and freedom, for an anarchist society that will createthe proper structures needed to form social relationships based on
solidarity, mutual respect and mutual aid with no oppressors nor
authoritarians. In the present time the Society based on the
anarchist values mentioned above tries to find all the possible ways
and actions that will contribute in the social change. We don't havethe answers but we are searching for them through our constant
questioning of any antisocial structure they try to make us follow ,
we meet each other and form all these actions that will bring us
closer to a fair and free society. Feel free to meet us and
interact in any of our actions... Our meetings take placeevery Wednesday at 15:00 in Room 2.06 Appleton Tower
Join in theDebate in
http://euas.noflag.org.uk/