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Hotel Hellideology formed mostly by 20-something white kids through bad translationsof French theory that believe in total negation, has been sadlymore extensive than I would have liked, not just through Station 40 (ananarchist space), which I’ve used as a semi-public living room a few doorsdown from the lockdown of the Altamont. The Insurrection’s abolitionistimagination omits residence hotels, institutionalization, and the capacitiesof different bodies.If The Insurrection’s vision of abolition doesn’t include communitybuilding then what is all that rage really about? Following the initial 100-plus Oscar Grant arrests, I asked why anyone hadn’t beforehand contactedthe National Lawyer’s Guild (NLG) to provide legal support to all therandom people who joined the march from Fruitvale to downtown. I wastold that if the NLG was really on their shit, they wouldn’t have needed tobe contacted. This recalls a practice in The Insurrection of attacking consensualpolitical discourse as ineffectual and irrelevant: it is the unspokenpremise that the essential kernel of Insurrectionary impulse exists nativelywithin every person, waiting for one “moment” of conflict to draw it out,like how super powers are often activated by stress in comic books. TheRoot Queen’s anger swells on this contagious destruction of discourse ina way, which will always carry how helpless I felt with Wednesday’s death.I first began to notice this crypto-nihilist organizing style shortlyafter CR10, when I got arrested for holding a black flag, running beside ahuge banner reading “POLICE OUT OF GREECE! US OUT OF THEWORLD! [punctuation mine]” when we stormed a mall right during theDecember holiday shopping season. When the initial plan to occupy theabandoned New College building on Valencia in solidarity with the 2008Greek riots, those gathered decided to just keep going. A week-long rioterupted in Greece following the police shooting murder of 15-year-oldAlexandros Grigoropoulos. Nobody seemed interested in having a discussionabout this organizing model afterwards. Peter J. and I were of thefew people that tried to keep track of the subsequent court dates of therandom people who joined our crazy march from the Mission to downtownSan Francisco.This is not an indictment of The Insurrection in particular, but thisexperience insists on a commitment to the bodies, which participate inthe space created in any direct action. What differentiates this vacuumof accountability from other anti-street culture technology, such as publicdesign features that prevent one from sitting or lying down? Howmust direct actions examine themselves as forces of displacement? These97