Editor's Note

For anyone who read our very first post on this blog, an essay entitled Deep Organization: A Call to Possibility, here's a small retraction addendum editor's note.

Our article juxtaposed two different case studies: on the one hand, an anti-authoritarian response to Katrina a la the Common Ground Collective; and on the other hand, an anti-nazi rally turned community rebellion in 2005 in Toledo, Ohio.

We claimed that Common Ground offered the better example of "activist" networks coordinating with historically-oppressed communities, and we criticized the Anti-Racist Action and International Socialist Organization organizers in Toledo who (we felt) failed to forge sustainable ties between their network and those of the black community on the city's north side. Our argument drew a range of responses, too -- from the pointless drivel of nazi leader Bill White to the insightful criticism of Toledo-area ARA folks.

Some critiqued how our article implied that ARA and ISO organizers came to bolster resistance from outside Toledo, and abandoned the community in the aftermath of the rebellion -- when in fact Toledo boasts some longstanding ARA formations. What's more, a recent look at the A-Infos Newswire tells us that the 2005 Toledo Rebellion has spawned some badass, continuing anti-racist organizing in Toledo -- cool, right?

For a brief overview of anarchist movement in Toledo, and its continuing fight against the racist power structure, check out the "Organizations, Groups, Projects" and "Direct Action" sections in this A-Infos article!