Translating Anarchy by Bray Mark

Author:Bray, Mark [Bray, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78279-125-6
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2013-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Ben Reynoso (29), an organizer active with Info and DA, told me that he “wouldn’t use ‘anarchist’ early on.” Instead he would focus on direct democracy and cooperative enterprises. But by the time we spoke in June, 2012 he was “tending to [speak openly about ‘anarchism’] more now.” He added that “At first I thought it would scare people away, but now I think it’s important to bring that into the conversation so it doesn’t scare people away and to show people that normal people are anarchists.”81

Sitting around a big table in the front office of WBAI public radio in New York, Luke Richardson (26), an organizer involved with Media and the Occupy radio show, explained to me that,

In the beginning I was very much focused on Occupy as an action and broadening its appeal and not giving them anything to really pigeonhole about …For, I would say, the first three weeks I didn’t say ‘anarchy’ once. Not once …you attract more flies with honey and it worked. We brought a whole lot of people in. Then the anarchist literature table came up. And all of a sudden you saw that people were actually interested in anarchism …and then we all started to come out of the closet a little bit.82

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