This is What Democracy Looks Like

The film documentary "This is What Democracy Looks Like" intrigued me, the fact that it appeared our democratic society was more of a Chinese/North Korean communist society. I was fascinated how the major corporations controlled the media to show people around the US that the protestors in Seattle were creating a huge disturbance, being physical which made the police take action. Also how the police said on television that nomore than 20 people were injured, meanwhile that was only a glimpse of the people who were beated, pepper sprayed, and i think it was OC spray which led to chromosomal mutation, birth defect, and more problems.

It was amazing how many people came together united for one purpose and that was to stop WTO. I was very suprised to find out that this event where over 5000 people joined together for this purpose only occured 9 years ago. When I was watching the documentary I was thinking to myself, "Where the hell was I? Why have I not heard of this?" Yea I was only 9 years old but you think something at this magnitude of an event, that I would at least remember hearing something related on the news.

What also amazed me is how the mayor, and the police took away the protestors rights to asemble and freedom of speech. At one point people were not even able to have pis or look like they were part of the protestors. The protestors were very peaceful and it was astonishing how they were treated by the police. After a couple days, most of the people were being arrested, even people who were not even part of the group. The police would constantly lie to the media. The best part of the documentary was when the corporation leaders were complaining that its unfair how the protestors are preventing people from not going to their stores. That it is such a tragedy because its in peak season where they get the most money.

Overall I was amazed how a simple very peaceful protest would turn wrong because the buisnesses did not want to lose money. I am happy that the protestors achieved their goals. I believe the major cororations and WTO can shove it.

Milstein on Anarchism

Cindy Milstein points out many ways in which Anarchism, Liberalism, and Socialism, have interacting themes, and she also points out how anarchism is not all negative. The three ideologies push for individualistic freedoms/impowerment. The difference between the three is how they recieve or achieve the freedom or sense of impowerment. Anarchism and Socialism are probably most similar in being that " All anarchist are socialist, but not every socialist is an anarchist". She states that "anarchist maintained that people could attempt to build the new world in the shell of the old", which is how anarchist difer from socialist, since socialist wait until the old world withers away. I do not believe this would work for anarchist because, I do not see how implimenting a new system into an old one would work. I do not see everyone accepting a new system because most people belive that there is nothing wrong with the old, and what's not broken does not need fixing.