In a story that would bring a tear to the eye of my mate Jack (where are you?): Bigger than Hip Hop: Meet Seattle’s Dred I Movement (December 26, 2006) by Davey D. From ThugLifeArmy.com no less!
GCLI noted that the [boneheads] were moved out of [Seattle] when an unlikely loose alliance was formed between some of the Black gangs, black militants and revolutionaries and the Anarchist who made their presence felt during the Battle in Seattle. He described one memorable incident where Anarchist were clashing with [boneheads] and the erupting melee spilled over into a Crip neighborhood. The rest is history as the Anarchist and Crips teamed up to do damage. The guys from Dred I also noted that in their attempts to quell some of the police terrorism which has resulted in a number of Black residents being killed [check Mulrunji], the Anarchist have been close allies who seem to have the right approach in terms of NOT trying to take over and tell a community what to do and how to lead their movement…
dRED.i – “Hu$tle and Flow” in tha 206… | Davey D | @narchist Panther | Anarchist People of Color | Berkeley Copwatch | The Koori History Website
“Either you respect people’s capacities to think for themselves, to govern themselves, to creatively devise their own best ways to make decisions, to be accountable, to relate, problem-solve, break-down isolation and commune in a thousand different ways … OR: you dis-respect them. You dis-respect ALL of us.”
— Ashanti Alston
Just letting you know that the anonymouslefty and boltwatch blogs to which you link have been taken over by a hacker (See: http://hackedlefty.blogspot.com)
The blogs have been recreated at anonymousleftyinexile.blogspot.com and boltwatchinexile.blogspot.com
If you would care to update your links, that would be most appreciated. (I’m very disturbed at the prospect of people visiting the hacked sites and thinking it’s me.)
Cheers
Lefty.