rationalreview.com — Anarchist group Kansas Mutual Aid is helping with disaster relief in the wake of the devastating tornado that hit Greensburg, Kansas. Read KMA member Dave Strano?s report. ?The city was in chaos, not because of the storm, but because of FEMA and the police.?
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There's some recent history that might put this event into perspective:<a class="user" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8599">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8599</a><a class="user" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/7718">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/7718</a><a class="user" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/7161">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/7161</a>So, in the case of Katrina, we see that while the government disaster relief effort became a second disaster itself, the Common Ground Collective, an anarchist (or rather, anarchist-leaning, as not all members were necessarily anarchists themselves) relief group organized on anarchist lines (note: anarchists do not oppose organization, they oppose involuntary, hierarchical organization in favor of voluntary, non-hierarchical self-organization) did a good job providing disaster relief.I suspect that rather than any fears about Kansas Mutual Aid making trouble, this really came from concern that they would do a good job providing disaster relief, with the attendant good publicity for anarchists and anarchism and bad publicity for government.