London Wobs have any plans for Global Day of Action Against Starbucks?
Jul 4 2008
On an extended visit in London from the States and wondering if any London Wobs had plans for the GDOAAS? I know it's short notice, but if there's anything going on, I'm quite interested in attending...
Jul 5 2008
#2
Kind of pointless to have a global action against Starbucks when they're technically losing. They just had to close about 600 branches in the US, or so I've heard. I suggest getting geared up to target the next new Big Evil Corporation. 
Jul 16 2008
#3
er... what? the reason the global day of action took place was because some union activists got sacked. 
Jul 16 2008
#4
treeofjudas wrote:
Kind of pointless to have a global action against Starbucks when they're technically losing. They just had to close about 600 branches in the US, or so I've heard. I suggest getting geared up to target the next new Big Evil Corporation.
Wake the fuck up.
Jul 17 2008
#5
My apologies, mistook this for some activist shit. Every time I hear a "global day of action against [enter big international corporation here]" that's my automatic assumption. I was wrong. Mea culpa. 
Jul 17 2008
#6
Phew!
Jul 18 2008
#7
Jul 18 2008
#8
Yeah, that's what I've heard from activists in Israel. I once helped an activist friend of mine cook for a bunch of high-minded assholes from one radical leftist organization or the other. They're used as cheap labor. Of course, it's for "the cause", so that's okay. Still, really off topic for this article.
Am I to assume that you're not actually from Jordan, then?
Jul 18 2008
#9
anarchyjordan wrote:
http://situationist.gq.nu/activist.html
So after a rambling, useless, rehash of a much better situationist critique of the role of the militant you add a conclusion saying its ok when you do it. Genius.
Quote:
Should activism be forbidden? Of course not! But let's understand what this "activism" is really all about. If it's a profession of faith, as I've described it above without exaggerating, well then, we should banish it from our midst. However, activism as a way of citizenship, which is the original meaning of the term, a way of taking a critical approach to a situation, to all situations, a way of creating, a way of adapting a collective practice to make social change...well OK then, in that case I'm all for it.
Jul 22 2008
#10
i didn't write it, i just translated it.
i thought that conclusion was a little lame myself, but the guy's right in a lot of places...
as for why i translated and posted it if i don't agree with everything in it, that's just what i like to do sometimes. if i feel like translating something i pick something and do it... i don't waste time on crap i can't agree with anything about, but stuff like this that i like the majority of is ok for practice and for the english-only 'public' (as limited as my website's readership obviously is - only 30,000 some views) to be able to check out.
http://libcom.org/forums/announcements/solidarity-picket-starbucks-support-sacked-workers-1pm-sat-5-july-new-oxfor
answers that question....