Class: Tute Bianchi Documents
posted by Michael | 2/01/2007 09:59:00 PM
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5 Comments:
1. In the readings on The Body as a Weapon for Civil Disobedience, one paragraph states the following in reference to the history of civil disobedience: “Although civil disobedience has its history with Gandhi, the civil rights struggle in the United States in the sixties and in peaceful statements of protests throughout the world, Frederico Mariani explains that ‘after 1994 there was a change. The zapatistas made a great contribution with their proposals for building a new politics, without fighting for power. We are trying to translate the message and the forms they are proposing.’” How does the Tute Bianchi compare with the tactics of the Zapatistas?
2. In a busload of lies, the Tute Bianchi attacks allegations made by supposed Black Bloc members. In this article, the Tute Bianchi repeatedly refer to this group as “anarchists” but do so in quotations. From my understanding, both groups fit into this category. Why the emphasis on using the quotations?
3. In the article called White Overalls from Finland, the Tute Bianchi basically listed five groups of people from the Finland Radical scene and later compared them to the Tute Bianchi illustrating the differences between them and the other groups. I was curious as to why they did this. Was it to clear up misconceptions or to bash other groups while praising their own?
1. In the address to civil society, why does the speaker emphasize the holding of hands so much in the first paragraph?
2. With the changes the tute bianche would like to see in the world system, how do they plan to guard against individuals who may take advantage of this system emphasizing the community?
3. What specific methods of protest do the Tute Biachi utilize that differ from the Zapatistas?
1. If Tute Bianchi admire and somewhat model the Zapatistas, what is the logic behind changing their name-doesn't this confuse people?
2.What are the Stalinist distortions of Marxism?
3.I think I am confused. Why does Tue Bianchi address so many issues at once? It would be more affective tofocus on one or two main issues at a time? Are they for or against a world political leadership? What is the difference between that and globalization?
1. They said "we are trying to create a new area within it which we are calling 'disobedience'. We haven't called it civil disobedience, but social disobedience". What is the distinction between the two?
2. "Therefore any expression or act of leadership is only temporary." If this is true doesn't it make the organization unstable and therefore not very effective?
3. This is a quote from one of the Tute Bianchi: "We are not armed, we are acting as citizens, putting our persons at risk, in order to demonstrate that the democracy of the IMF and the World Bank is tanks and armed police.We are not criminals, they are suppressing citizens exercising their rights. We want to show that it is possible to rebel against the order using our bodies as weapons." While they do not have traditional weapons the group itself aknowledges that their bodies could be used as weapons and couldn't it be argues that the government was armed with tanks and such to prevent the dignitaries from being hurt? Couldn't that many people in a mob mentality eaisily hurt the delegates from the IMF and World Banks with or without guns?
Aren’t “civil disobedience” (disobedience by the people) and “social disobedience” (disobedience by society... which is made up of the people) the same thing?
Winston Churchill once said, “What is history but the biographies of great men?” or something to that effect. In light of the Julias Caesar’s, Constantine’s, FDR’s and Martin Luther King’s of the world, how can the Tute Bianchi justify a leaderless system?
If the Black Bloc are anarchists, how are they any different from Tute Bianchi’s would-be community model?
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