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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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7/30/2019 Polemic #7 Nov. 2012
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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/
