What is the point ?

I'm also in High School and post on this forum semi-regularly.

Get into the culture. Learn about the Music and Literature around Anarchy. Talk about Anarchy and I can tell you, Facebook is reallly great about that (I piss people off pretty much once a month and get my views sharpened through this). Spread it to other people. Try to spread it. Graffiti desks and lockers.

Also, join Debate. You won't get to choose your arguments but certain ones like Capiltism might benifit you and you will learn the art of arguments. One thing my school hates is that freak with the fucked up hair debating for them .

Join the Young Democrats/Liberals club. Again, we may gain more comrades through this if you are loud about your ideas.

And question Social Studies, Health and English CONSTANTLY when they say something against Anarchy. You might feel nervous or seem stupid but just say that fucking thought.


A lot of this is about recruitment, but hell if you have no one around you this is better than nothing.

 

As already noted by ungov, organising 'action' thru this forum has a number of nearly insurmountable difficulties, firstly that we live all over the place; and secondly, that we only know each other via the internetz. However, that shouldn't be taken as an indication that we don't organise or do anything outside of this forum (as an example-in the least self-aggrandising way possible - i'm currently involved with this group, edit a roughly bi-monthly newspaper and previously co-edited a now dead anarchist journal/zine, amongst shit load of other things, not all of them any good - plus there are obvious reasons why others may not be so forthcoming with their activities).

Beyond that, talking through yr politics, reading about stuff other anarchists in other parts of the world are involved/interested in, etc, imho, are as important as action; aims determines strategy which determines action. Moreover, i think this forum has been good for some ppl (probably not for others), often young ppl in small towns with no anarchist groups or whatever, to (i don't know how to phrase this without sounding like a hippie..) find some validation of their politics thru finding others with common politics. Well i guess i hope we've done that sometimes, and if so, that's valuable within itself.

As for the lack of a local anarchist group and organising, its probably worth bearing in mind that most of the groups i've been involved in has usually been 3-4 active members, a lot of anarchist/'radical' groups in australia are tiny handfuls of ppl (and i guess is the same in a lot of places in the US), so you don't need many ppl to do shit; but you probably do need to find some ppl...
As we are so few, often anarchists may be involved with other things rather than an explicitly anarchist group. For example, here is Aus anarchists can be found in unions, Indigenous solidarity groups, unemployed workers' groups, community radio, etc. The groups in yr town may be different but there may be an anarchist or two in yr town, you've just not met them yet. Perhaps it'd be worthwhile getting involved in groups/campaigns/etc where, if they exist, they could be hiding. Involve yrself in things where yr likely to meet like minded or sympathetic ppl.

Of course you can just try and start shit yrself, follow some of SOADcore's suggestions, but also bear in mind that you actually want to contact the ppl who see and like yr graffiti or whatever, yr trying to build a group capable of action after all. Sometimes its best just to be totally open and start something daft like an anarchist reading group or whatever, then when you poster the shit outta yr town with yr rad anarchist agitprop you can add a blog and email addy for yr reading group or whatever (although maybe its better to split these up and have anon anarchist graffiti and distro flyers and posters thru legal channels - depends on how big yr town is, and if the cops are bored enough to chase ppl for postering, etc).

 

I agree with alot of the posts on here that there can be no real "change" so to speak, because this page is global, but you can just do things yourself to promote whatever form of Anarchy you desire......An army of one can be strong, and in most cases is more effective than a large group, lone Wolf mentality goes along way.........