by David Zlutnick, of The Friendly Fire Collective
Why Would I Go to Another Summit?
Largely, summits are not extremely appealing to me. I feel that our battle as revolutionaries, anti-authoritarians, anarchists, or whatever we may call ourselves, is for hearts and minds. Our overall goals are to change social relations, fundamentally change the way people interact with one another, develop new values divergent from individualism, accumulation, and ascendancy, and bring about social equality while abolishing hierarchies. To me it seems that in order to do this we need to lend ourselves and our resources to struggles at the local level, jumping in for the long haul, participating in the day-to-day organizing not near as sexy as the summit.