And I think what happened to it was very illuminating. Pigs waited like a year, then enlisted a local bootlickers group to tear all the barricades down alongside city workers in the early early morning, while the cops held back several blocks away. Then the local media reported all of it as "local citizens decide that GFS has gone on too long" or whatever. People tried to rebuild the barricades in the week or so after, but it was no use.
They've gone to significant lengths to make it seem like they didn't actually change much- kept up all the artwork and "just" allow traffic to move through it. But GFS is dead, and they killed it in a way that was a PR masterstroke
Yeah the commune idea has it's limits but I bet GFS was insightful to the people who were a part of it. As long as the pigs are on the other side, they'll beat you, so eventually you've got to go over and take them out too. Either that or you've got to take up guerilla war and put them on the defensive. Even though it's repeating the mistakes of the past, I think to some extent it's useful to rehearse these things in this century.
That's what George Floyd Square was.
And I think what happened to it was very illuminating. Pigs waited like a year, then enlisted a local bootlickers group to tear all the barricades down alongside city workers in the early early morning, while the cops held back several blocks away. Then the local media reported all of it as "local citizens decide that GFS has gone on too long" or whatever. People tried to rebuild the barricades in the week or so after, but it was no use.
They've gone to significant lengths to make it seem like they didn't actually change much- kept up all the artwork and "just" allow traffic to move through it. But GFS is dead, and they killed it in a way that was a PR masterstroke
Yeah the commune idea has it's limits but I bet GFS was insightful to the people who were a part of it. As long as the pigs are on the other side, they'll beat you, so eventually you've got to go over and take them out too. Either that or you've got to take up guerilla war and put them on the defensive. Even though it's repeating the mistakes of the past, I think to some extent it's useful to rehearse these things in this century.