What is Digg?1 Comments
- 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.
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is