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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.01,0:00:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Earlier in the show, I told you \Nabout a militant action
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.33,0:00:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which a branch of the RBC \N(|Royal Bank of Canada) went kaboom.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.96,0:00:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Predictably, any time brave peeps \Ntry to take shit to the next level,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.14,0:00:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so-called radicals bring out the same \Nold tired arguments.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.85,0:00:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The blowback from this action \Nwill make it harder to organize."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.49,0:00:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This action takes the movement \Nback 20 years"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.14,0:00:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"These people are irresponsible..."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.70,0:00:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blah blah motherfuckin' blah.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.44,0:00:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seriously.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.51,0:00:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These folks act like prisoners in a penitentiary
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.61,0:00:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who suck up to the guards to get special privileges,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.23,0:00:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while snitching on those trying to start a slave revolt.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.42,0:00:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they had it their way, these motherfuckers \Nwould have us organizing marches and die-ins
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.84,0:00:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,til the end of the fucking world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.08,0:00:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"According to my source, the end of the world \Nwill be on February 14, in the year 2016"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.25,0:00:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Valentine's Day.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.83,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bummer."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help us unravel why this annoyance keeps happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.80,0:01:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and since we have less than 4 years to go til \Nthe whole fuckin' thing goes to shit,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.58,0:01:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bring you Peter Gelderloos, author of \N"How Nonviolence Protects the State".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.67,0:01:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey Pete, how the fuck are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.82,0:01:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PG] Um, doin' pretty good today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.65,0:01:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SubMedia} So Peter, how the fuck \Ndoes nonviolence protect the state?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.43,0:01:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PG] Basically the idea is that...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.03,0:01:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well especially in north america...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.81,0:01:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pacifists and non-violence advocates have had \Na very defining role, and even a censoring role
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.58,0:01:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in determining what other people's participation \Ncan be in a whole range of social struggles,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.51,0:01:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the way that they have affected social struggles
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.51,0:01:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been, has made it very much easier for the state \Nto control those social struggles.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.09,0:01:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That non-violence plays a function \Nof recuperating social struggles,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.18,0:01:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of taking out their teeth,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.18,0:01:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of making them harmless,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.72,0:01:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they can just exist in this, in this sort of, um
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.76,0:01:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cesspool of democratic plurality
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.24,0:01:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which everything is ok,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.79,0:02:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing can really be challenged or changed,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.82,0:02:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ideas, opinions can be expressed uh, infintely,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.96,0:02:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without ever having any real impact,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.77,0:02:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without really translating into action.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.34,0:02:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, a lot of times, people will justify non-violence
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.79,0:02:19.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making the very common sense, very simple \Nand ultimately false argument
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.13,0:02:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that violence is the government's strongsuit,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.28,0:02:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it makes no sense to fight the violence of the \Ngovernment with violence of our own.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.13,0:02:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what they're doing is conflating \Nvery very different activities,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.54,0:02:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're suggesting that somehow \Ndefending yourself against police violence
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.01,0:02:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or destroying commodities,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.76,0:02:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or taking over property,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.10,0:02:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting to free prisoners,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.77,0:02:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indigenous people fighting to take over stolen land,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.28,0:02:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, things of this nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.85,0:02:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somehow has any similarities with \Ngovernments carpetbombing villages,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.66,0:02:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or using landmines,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.37,0:02:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or police torturing people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.70,0:02:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or putting someone in prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.14,0:03:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that just because by some linguistic coincidence, \Nthese difference things can be described as violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.90,0:03:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that somehow there's not only similarities \Nbetween them, but that they're the same thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.41,0:03:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that one is going to reproduce the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.36,0:03:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When in fact, by fighting back,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.09,0:03:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people actually raise the stakes of repression \Nand oppression for the state,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.44,0:03:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actually make real short term differences,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.01,0:03:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think also have a greater potentiality of \Nultimately destroying the state and capitalism,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.58,0:03:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helping us create those worlds that we want.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.10,0:03:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SM] Why is militant resistance celebrated \Nthroughout history?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.55,0:03:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like for instance the American Revolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.92,0:03:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when it happens in the present tense \Nit's discouraged?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.31,0:03:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PG] I think it's because the left, \Nto a large extent subconsciously
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.82,0:03:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has as its primary role to make resistance harmless.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.55,0:03:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,States have recognized that resistance \Nwill never disappear,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.28,0:03:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that struggles will never disappear,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.98,0:04:01.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the past they tried suppressing struggles \Nthe first time that they showed their heads,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.47,0:04:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there was any signs of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.92,0:04:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that proved ineffective,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.14,0:04:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so nowadays the ways that states rule
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.61,0:04:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is by accepting the inevitability \Nof conflict and resistance,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.72,0:04:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just trying to manage it permanently.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.23,0:04:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the best way to manage it \Nis to also have people in the resistance
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.37,0:04:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are managing it for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.27,0:04:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's really the role that non-violence plays,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.67,0:04:25.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's really encouraged, um, \Nby the media,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.37,0:04:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by various dominant political discourses,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.07,0:04:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the state is allowed to use violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.22,0:04:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but people who are rebelling,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.70,0:04:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who are angry,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.73,0:04:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who are trying to um attack the system,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.57,0:04:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are aggressively isolated, slandered, \Nbadmouthed, punished,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.93,0:04:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they ever use violent tactics.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.73,0:04:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[REPORTER]* From the burned out shell of \Nan Ottawa bank in a quiet family neighbourhood
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.10,0:04:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}come loud cries of condemnation against the \Nself proclaimed anarchists who blew it up.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.52,0:05:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}If blowing up this bank is advanced notice or a way \Nto boost the ranks of a murky anti-globalization movement,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.28,0:05:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}it may have backfired.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.97,0:05:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Michel Juneau-Katsuya, "Security Expert" {\i0}] \NThere's been a wave of criticism
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.68,0:05:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}coming even from other special interest group.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.37,0:05:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}REPORTER{\i0} ] On the same website other activists
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.72,0:05:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}call the fire bombers everything from idiots to \Ndomestic terrorists who crossed the line, too radical.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.76,0:05:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Tom Quigley, Canadian Centre for Intelligence and \NSecurity Studies] {\i1}The mass of protesters in Canada \Ndon't support violent activity to start with,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.45,0:05:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}but there will be a minority that sees this as an inspir-\National message in order to carry out further violent acts.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.13,0:05:33.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, in this way, the state and the media train -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.94,0:05:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially more professionally-minded activists \Nwithin the resistance --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.77,0:05:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to enforce this code of non-violence so that they \Nnever incur that loss in popularity or that bad press.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.00,0:05:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this creates a self-policing function that...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.87,0:05:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people who are sort of politicians of the movement \Nare more succeptible to it
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.75,0:05:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're thinking often in terms \Nof their own careers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.67,0:06:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1} Stimulator{\i0} ] Give me some examples of how militant \Nactions have helped the motherfucking resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.60,0:06:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1} Peter{\i0} ] The revolutionary Anti Racist Action \Nin the Netherlands...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.60,0:06:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we're talking about a very bourgeois \Nand democratic society, a wealthy society,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.75,0:06:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also, this was um, this was a group \Nthat was active in the 80's,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.69,0:06:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so relatively recently, the 80's \Nand the beginning of the 90's-
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.98,0:06:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they participated in a broader movement against Shell Oil company
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.61,0:06:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specifically demanding divestment from South Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.08,0:06:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is part of the larger anti-capitalist struggles \Nand anti-racist struggles
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.11,0:06:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had along their path certain goals \Nthat they wanted to achieve,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.70,0:06:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain things that they were fighting for \Nand more immediately
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.50,0:06:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so this group, Revolutionary Anti-Racist Action,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.07,0:06:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually carried out a number of bombings \Nand sabotage campaigns against Shell,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.51,0:07:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and were successful in winning uh... that divestment, \Nin forcing Shell to pull out of South Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.90,0:07:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by causing them such immense amounts of damage,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.28,0:07:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also in the context of many other tactics,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.98,0:07:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including informational campaigns and boycotts \Nand protests and all these other things,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.29,0:07:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working together, had a very strong effect.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.29,0:07:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1}Stimulator{\i0}] Any time someone brings up the idea of \Ndoing some gangsta shit, these punk asses bring up Gandhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.22,0:07:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the fuck?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.15,0:07:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ {\i1}Peter{\i0} ] Advocates of non-violence \Nthey frequently say that non-violence works,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.82,0:07:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the principal examples they use of that are \NGandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the U.S.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.11,0:07:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem with that is that this represents a great, \Nthis constitutes a really great historical whitewashing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.06,0:07:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That in fact the resistance in India \Nwas incredibly diverse,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.35,0:07:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Gandhi was a very important figure \Nwithin that resistance,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.73,0:07:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the resistance was by no means \Npacifist in its entirety,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.06,0:07:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there were a number of armed guerrilla groups, \Na number of militant struggles,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.06,0:08:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very important riots and other strong clashes,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.53,0:08:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which were a part of the struggle \Nfor Indian independence.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.41,0:08:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So on the one hand Gandhi basically got negotiating \Npower from the fact that there were other...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.55,0:08:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other elements in the struggle which were \Neven more threatening to British dominance.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.44,0:08:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the British specifically chose \Nto dialogue with Gandhi
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.54,0:08:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he was perhaps for them the least \Nthreatening of the important elements of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.97,0:08:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if those other elements had resisted, had not \Nexisted, if those other elements had not existed,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.48,0:08:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they simply could have ignored Gandhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.48,0:08:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1} Stimulator{\i0} ] Thanks Peter.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.84,0:08:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that about does it for this edition of It's The End Of \NThe World As We Know It And I Feel Fine,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.82,0:08:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A triple cheese whoopwhoop w/bacon to the following slaves \Nfor keeping this pulpit of vulgarity operational:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.99,0:09:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\b1}[SPELLING?]{\b0} Gordon, Audre, Britain, Marine, Johal, Michael, Steven, Vincent, Secuda, Edwin, Jim, Peter, Michael, Rodney, Matthew, Dan, Bella, Carlos, Anastasios, Ryan, and Rhea...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.56,0:09:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd also like to let you all know that I have uploaded \Na new piece of my upcoming film "End Civ"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.07,0:09:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for links to militant actions or to comment \Non this show, just visit my fucking website
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.95,0:09:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now go out there and smash pacifism.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.86,0:09:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}remember kids, you can ___ \Nhigh quality video of this show at:{\i0}