anarchy is how I see the world

Anarchy is something I do

It's a way of seeing the world

That's really what I subscribe to

These living, dynamic set of ideas

That are open-ended

It's more than just a political reference

Or an identity

Our struggles are tied together

Building and exercising power from below

Outside of economic institutions, or electoral institutions

Or even activism

Anarchy is something I do

Activism in the United States, I would say, is pretty broken

We should begin to see ourselves as more than activists, voters

Or consumers

Resist on one hand, but also create and build on the other hand

We're great at being fire brigades

We're the first ones in the barricades

Over and over again to say

This is wrong, that is wrong

And that needs to happen

But what's happened is that we've atrophied

For what is it that we're for

Anarchy is something I do

Anarchy is something I do

Everybody knows that shits bad

What we need to do is

Stop the tide of young black people being killed

Black and brown people who are largely being killed

What are the alternatives?

I want this to make sense to the brothers and sisters on the block

I watched power fall

That invisible stranglehold that's on us all the time

I watched it completely give way

Anarchy is something I do

Common Ground volunteers took direct action

Don't wait on governments or corporations

We take actions when we need to

Building our power from below

We're born into capitalism, we're born into these hierarchies

We assume that they've always existed this way, but they haven't

Capitalism, as we know it, will fall someday

So what do we want to do, to begin to replace it?

Anarchy

Anarchy is something I do

Anarchy is something I do

Everything in our lives brought us to this moment

Culturally, politically, geographically, personally

Brought us to this moment

Every moment is a new moment to begin

To open that crack of history

Anarchy is something I do

Take the blinders off

Take the would, could, should, out

We can do anything that we want

So if you're standing on the edge of potential

How's it going to look?