[NetBehaviour] Community Building in the Era of the Patriot ACT...

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Community Building in the Era of the Patriot ACT;
Arrested for Stickering, Biking,
and other Misadventures (with Creative Direct Action).

by Benjamin Shepard

" My affinity group was the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army 
(CIRCA), a spin-off of Reclaim the Streets (RTS) New York. The group had 
morphed from street party organizers (see Duncombe, 2002) into guerilla 
theatre performers who had staged actions as the Billionaires for Bush 
and Gore at the 2000 RNC in Philadelphia (Boyd, 2002), the Students for 
an Undemocratic Society during the Bush inauguration in 2001 (Grote, 
2002), a skit between labor organizers and sweatshop owners the next May 
Day (Bogad, 2003), an Absurd Response to an Absurd War once war entered 
the equation (Shepard, 2003a,b), and later as Patriots against the 
Patriot Act once the notion total war would be used to restrict movement 
in public space."

more...
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/webonly/Shepard.htm