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- clore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1There's some recent history that might put this event into perspective:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8599
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/7718
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/7161
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.
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