"Check out "Burning Bridges", the new Southern Ontario Anarchist Publication! People do snap
People reach a breaking point. A point where the misery day after day in this concrete jungle is no longer tolerated. People fnd ways to express their discontents with this life of drudgery and isolation. As anarchists, rebels against this system, constantly assessing and challenging the ways in which we revolt, we constantly ask the question how can people put up with this shit? What the FUCK will it take to reach that breaking point?
The thing is, so many people do reach a breaking point. The ways in which people express their misery is often what we can’t easily identify with. We have chosen to express our misery and isolation by rebelling against the system that reproduces it. We have made a choice to focus this expression onto those who uphold the social structure that has maintained this misery.
Everyone has ways that they respond to their misery. Some harm themselves, by committing suicide, taking drugs, etc. Some take out their anger and misery on those around them, they beat their children or emotionally torment their friends and lovers. Too often we experience, witness and hear of domestic and street level violence. So here we are in a world of miserable people. A hell-a lot of people have reached a breaking point. They can’t deal with this shit anymore.
What really excites us is when people express their dissatisfaction in ways that we can relate with- like returning blows to this repressive society. Whether it’s robbing a bank, sabotage in the workplace, the police chief fnding his personal car broken into and bullets strewn on his front lawn or stopping the development that is gentrifying your hood… It seems to us that attacking the systems of exploitation that are responsible for our misery and isolation, the systems that are responsible for the destruction of the land and the suppression of free living, is more efective and fun towards creating a world that we do want to live in.
Even when we respond to our misery, against our oppressors, these small acts of defance don’t seem to break the isolation inherent in this society. Te reality of prison for anybody who breaks normalcy and obedience exists to keep people in line and to remove from society “dangerous elements” which challenge its control. What if we were to come together to share ideas, build strategy and strike collectively in order to break this isolation and lay the grounds for ever expanding confict? From this point prison may seem less isolating and perhaps even destructable.
Tis is for all those who are submerged over their heads, unable to handle this shit anymore. Our desire to be freed from these chains brings us together. In times when we realize the possibilities of freedom and joy, however brief they may be, our heads can come above the water and gasp fulflling breaths of fresh air.
Tis publication can be more than just another magazine for consumption; those who read it can take something and apply it to their increasingly unruly lives. We wish to use this paper to spark some real discussions and navigate a direction and strategy in which to struggle. Tis publication is no replacement for face-to-face communication. We don’t want to challenge its importance, but provoke it.
Let’s sever ourselves from this dead society, burn our bridges to it and watch the pursuing police cruisers roll of the clif. It’s with this separation that we defne our enemies, to leave nothing but confict between us.
Contents: A broad critique of the medical industry
Tactics and Strategy
History and Analysis
Social fucking war!
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Anarchist news dot org
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