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Lately Occupy Wall St. affiliates and related movements have had angry liberal White men accused of plotting to blow up bridges and even firebomb the President’s Chicago Campaign headquarters.
” Angry White men! ” is a phrase usually associated with conservatives and Far right hate groups.
Fairness dictates asking are these cases on the Far Left isolated or symptoms of something more sinister… and widespread?
A progressive activist friend called me today with the same concern. He doesn’t want to associate with anyone preaching violence in any way, shape or form. As a Free Security! activist alternatives to criminal use of force are my specialty.
Black men know only too well that our words can be spun to whip millions of frightened White folks into a politically useful frenzy. The same holds true for angry liberal White men. Images of long haired anarchists terrify Mainstream ( i.e White ) America to its core.
From a security perspective please consider anarchists don’t look ” suspicious ” like, say, Arabs  or Black folks  They blend in with the general populace and thus don’t raise threat flags unless they go out of their way to call attention to themselves. Akin to demonic possession being Anarchist While White causes policy makers; homeland security and police officials sleepless nights.
That’s why a White man who calls himself an anarchist makes the alphabet soup more nervous than a dozen brothers holding Black Power theater at a press conference somewhere. Unseen; unsuspected, Anarchists While White can be anywhere; at any time and are impervious to the usual ( sometimes bias driven ) methods of identifying security threats.
Angry liberal White men are a thorn in the side of a Democratic president seeking to hold the center so he can win another four years. More press on Far Left political criminals could mean more reasons for White Independents to vote for a candidate with a more stable base.
But, raging at the machine is a young man’s birth right. Becoming criminals abusing legitimate causes isn’t being a protester- it’s being a predator! Populist activists should keep that thought firmly in mind in coming days. If the system you critique is so wrong and heavy handed you should be the last ones using violence as political expression.
Had the Chicago NATO Summit plotters been successful in fire bombing the President’s Campaign Headquarters and Mayor Emanuel’s home their only accomplishment would have been crossing the aisle to join ranks with civil rights era church bombers; abortion clinic targeters, etc to name a few felons.
Notice bombing people as a sick form of protest isn’t Far Right or Far Left- it’s just wrong!
Angry White liberal males might be on the rise at precisely the time when such rage is better spent registering voters; peacefully protesting and lobbying decision makers. They’re free to choose criminal acts but should understand they’re on their own if they do.
Nobody has the right to hurt people in the name of so-called political expression.
Angry liberal White men who do so are no better than Angry Conservative ones they scapegoat!
FULL DISCLOSURE: My Free Security! activism led me to become involved with Occupy NOLA here in New Orleans. I addressed safety and police liaison issues with this overwhelmingly non-violent group of reformers. They don’t riot; they try to reform society.
Occupy NOLA did however have one would-be mastermind of a foiled murder/robbery in its ranks http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/02/former_lucky_dog_vendor_booked.html
NADRA ENZI AKA CAPT BLACK promotes creative crime prevention and founded the Face Book group, Real Life Superheroes ( RLSH ) 4 Obama. (504) 214-3082

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MY SQUEEGEE-FRIENDS,
TIMES ARE TOUGH IN AMERICA. THE ECONOMY, HEALTH CARE, AND FOREIGN RELATIONS ARE A SQUEEGEE-MESS. MANY AMERICANS CITIZENS HAVE SQUEEGEE-LOST THEIR HOMES AND JOBS. AND WHEN IN THESE DIRE TIMES AMERICANS TURNED TO THEIR PRESIDENT, HE DID NOTHING. IT IS TIME THAT AMERICA SQUEEGEE-RENEWS ITS HOPE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE AND SQUEEGEE-RESTORES ITS CONFIDENCE IN ITS LEADER. IT IS UP TO EVERY AMERICAN TO SQUEEGEE-ELECT A NEW PRESIDENT WHO WILL SQUEEGEE-LEAD US INTO AN ERA OF SQUEEGEE-PROSPERITY. BUT WHO? AMERICA NEEDS SOMEONE NOBLE AND COURAGEOUS, A DEFENDER OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND A DEFEATER OF WHAT IS WRONG, SOMEONE TO STAND UP AGAINST WHAT IS BAD AND FIGHT FOR WHAT IS GOOD, AMERICA NEEDS MORE THAN A MERE MAN, AMERICA NEEDS A HERO… AMERICA NEEDS A SUPERHERO!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT’S WHY I, SQUEEGEEMAN AM PROCLAIMING MY CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!! I PROMIS TO MAKE AMERICA SQUEEGEETASTIC AGAIN, BY SQUEEGEE-LOWERING TAXES, SQUEEGEE-ENSURING THAT ALL AMERICANS HAVE SQUEEGEE-HEALTH CARE, SQUEEGEE-IMPROVING EDUCATION, SQUEEGEE-WINNING THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGANISTAN, SQUEEGEE-BRINGING OUR TROOPS HOME, SQUEEGEE-GIVING THE WORLD DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM, SQUEEGEE- FIXING THE ECONOMY, SQUEEGEEING CORRUPTION OUT OF WASHINGTON, SQUEEGEE-CLEAN UP WALL STREET, MAIN STREET, AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, AND SQUEEGEE-RESTORING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY TO THE WHITEHOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!
TODAY IS A HISTORIC DAY – A SQUEEGEE-HISTORIC DAY. I HAVE GIVEN YOU MY SQUEEGEE-CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOW GIVE ME YOUR SQUEEGEE-VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!
SQUEEGEE-THANK YOU AND SQUEEGEE-BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
SQUEEGEEMAN
 

Photo essay originally published online at Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University
“Yo comparto la idea de que tiene que haber una transformación de la política económica, y si la política económica se está dictando desde Wall Street, desde el Departamento de Tesoro […] el gobierno norteamericano tiene un papel sustancial en diseñar esta política económica … Por eso, lo que yo estoy haciendo es atacar por los dos lados. Con la organización social, con la gente en movimiento, con propuestas de modificar la propiedad económica, y con la candidatura a la presidencia, para modificar de fondo esta política. Y sin dar el beneficio de la duda, en la cosa de la candidatura, podemos perder aquí, pero no podemos perder en el movimiento social.”
The Future is Now
In favor of progressive transnational politics via what can be understood as global gobernance, Superbarrio 1995’s electoral campaign for US president proposed that the citizens of the Americas must have the right of self-governance by having control over the US electoral vote. In other words, Latin Americans, and Latinos/as alike, must be able to participate fully in the US electoral process by having a representative voice. Superbarrio Gomez for US president against the “politics of fear” was the logic consequence.
Nine years later, from September 20, to October 4, the “Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride”, a national march organized by labor and pro-immigrant rights organizations toured the US nation. Their claims, the provision of voting rights to non-US citizens. In the tradition of the 1961 “Freedom Rides”, more than 120,000 immigrants arrived to Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, the largest pro-immigrant march in US history. Predictions attest that by 2080, Mexico’s north and the US southwest will unify. The Mexicanization of California has already taken place long ago, now we are in the North East.
“Voy a estar en Harvard el próximo viernes, y me da miedo encontrarme a los mexicanos ahí, porque son ellos los que están pensando en qué va a hacer nuestro presidente, y hoy están estudiando un material nuevo que se llama: desastres económicos nacionales. La gente tiene una politización muy alta, tiene una conciencia social también muy alta, la gente ha desarrollado sus aspiraciones y sus formas de organización. El gobierno no ha sido recíproco con este sacrificio.”
“The problem of NAFTA is not about workers, it is about corporations because they are the ones benefiting from this situation….the corporations take the industry to México because the conditions are different, that is the problem. When the workers can find and meet each other, when they can talk between them, the problem is clear…it is not our problem it is the corporation and the government’s problem. We want to be a voice that identify these problems and think together about the solution. The workers from Canada, the workers from the U.S., from México should think together what is the solution about the problem of unemployment, social security, and work with unions…”
“…una política económica de carácter CONTINENTAL en donde también se puedan tener medidas para las plantas nacionales.”
While John Kerry, Rudolph Giuliani, and George W. Bush propose an America to reconcile either class division or national security promises, in 1995 Superbarrio’s campaign proposed an America comprised of alternative transnational political cultures. Superbarrio’s unified America, in conversation with Benito Juarez “America for Americans”, incorporated the participation of Latin American and Latino/a civil societies within and beyond the US.
“El concepto americano hasta nostros mismos lo hemos tenido que asumir, ya que nos hemos negado a nosotros mismos nuestra condición de americanos nacidos en el continente.”
Superbarrio has been a fundamental figure in Mexico City’s electoral concientization, the way in which winning for the majoritarian class became a real political imaginary. Superbarrio’s premonitory discourse further promoted the possibilities of global governance as the only consequential logic in a global world economy and its centralized accumulation of capital. Superbarrio’s candidacy for U.S. President promoted a cross-border alliance among workers in the search of what are human rights, decent working and living conditions. Because the U.S./Mexico border has been the location to rehearse and promote the dehumanization of the labor force, and NAFTA its later institutionalized model, Superbarrio’s transnational mobilization becomes the wrestling scenario to conceptualized “new geographies of governamentality” (Appadurai 2002). Superbarrio’s transnational activism became a fight for alternative forms of global citizenship in which to keep the mask on means to own one’s home within and beyond the Nation.