Welcome to the website of the Friendly Fire Collective!
This site is a collection of media that closely reflects our views and which we believe has significant value for movement building. As our project builds we hope to develop a large library of printed articles and interviews, audio, video, graphics, music, and much more. As of now we have mostly reproduced the work of others, which we will continue to do, but we hope to continue to produce more of our own material as well.
Recently we added to our collection of articles a piece by CrimethInc.
about countering the upcoming Democratic and Republican National
Conventions entitled What to Expect from the Conventions. Since
then we have spoken with organizers from Unconventional Denver who are one
of the main groups organizing against the DNC and they voiced their
concerns and objections over some of the information CrimethInc. put
forward in their writing.
When we published What to Expect from the Conventions we were most
interested in the discussion over strategy and the response CrimethInc.
put forward to the important and ongoing question: Should we organize
against summits? After reading the article we thought it was a good
written work containing points that should be put forth to the larger
radical community both in hopes of expanding upon this discussion and, in
our view, bringing people out to the conventions—both the DNC and RNC.
According to Unconventional Denver, CrimethInc.‘s article had some
misinformation as to what will be taking place in Denver during the DNC
and they have written a response in order to clear up some of
the confusion and further encourage participation in both
counter-convention actions. As no members of Friendly Fire are directly
involved in the organizing around either the DNC or the RNC we are taking
the word of the organizers from Unconventional Denver as to what
statements are facts and myths, as we did with CrimethInc.‘s What to
Expect at the Conventions.
We are happy to assist Unconventional Denver in getting their response out
and hope that we have not added to the confusion. Nonetheless we still
find much of what CrimethInc. wrote in terms of strategy to be important
and useful and encourage readers to read both articles:
What to Expect from the Conventions by CrimethInc.
See you all at the conventions!
-The Friendly Fire Collective
Here is some more of the latest material we’ve added to the site:
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“Will Obama stop the war?” by Anthony Arnove
“The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions” by Fred Magdoff
“Lessons From A Sean Bell Verdict Protest” by Elliot Liu
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“A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn”
“Labor Beat Remembers Utah Phillips”
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Building a popular Anarchist Movement in Ireland
Please check back often as we will be updating with new material constantly!
Enjoy the site!
