Anarchy in Wisconsin!

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) is Wisconsin’s biggest lobbying firm, financed by business and industrial elites to craft the legal policies that govern us and permit the transformation of all existing life to the that of the commodity. They want more clear-cutting and tree farms instead of wild forest, more mines where pristine rivers carve through wetlands and ancient rock formations. They want more factories, more pipelines, and more sprawling concrete highways that connect dispossessed workers to the infrastructure and technology that is turning the planet into a smoldering pit of death. They wish to keep us imprisoned in this world of work, alienated from the land, each other, and the activity that makes up our daily lives.

They have also recently been pushing hard toward further industrial development in the Lake Superior region, specifically, opening the Bad River Watershed (where 40% of Lake Superior’s wetlands are located) and the Penokee Hills up to open-pit iron mining. We understand that this will significantly affect people’s subsistence strategies, particularly the Bad River Ojibwe who are directly downstream from the proposed mining site and rely on the walleye and wild rice that the pristine waters give to them in order to survive.

It should come as no surprise that people hate WMC and rise out of their despair to attack. We did so last Wednesday evening during the annual “Day of Action Against WMC”.

As expected, the Day of Action Against WMC started out with the usual leftist circus: professional activists did their routine speeches and unenthusiastic chants and sang a few labor union songs, in their censored version, free of the “confrontational” verses they once had.

They chanted for “fair elections now!”, taking the “money out of government!”, called for society to “tax the rich!” and demanded a limit to WMC’s power.

Because of this, we knew we had to do something else.

We don’t want to “take the money out of government” as much as we want to destroy money and government.

We don’t seek to “tax the rich” or socialize the wealth produced by the capitalist mode of production. We want to destroy capitalism and the means of production. Making capitalism “better” is not a prerequisite for destroying it.

We don’t want “fair elections now” as much as we want and an end to all representation and electoral charades. We want to live in a world where we can organize ourselves and we know that elections can never give this to us.

We do not seek to limit the power Wisconsin Manufacturing and Commerce (WMC) has on our lives, we seek to abolish all manufacturing and commerce .

Oftentimes (and this is especially the case in Madison, land of yuppie liberals), people who support reform over revolution, do so because they have a comfortable place within the status quo and they perceive themselves as benefiting from the current social arrangement. We on the other hand, have nothing to lose in this miserable world.

This is why we descended on WMC’s arrogant, enormous office on the strip. We lobbed several paintbombs, decorating their walls and extremely stupid corporate artwork with pink, green, and purple splashes. We also threw projectiles through their windows and glass door, broke a light and disabled two security cameras. We then scattered into the darkness of the night.

It was fun and easy. Step it up, “wisconsin”.
Solidarity means attack.

-anarchists