The VAST majority of people who get involved with POG leave because if they don't agree 100%, with a couple of cultish personalities in the group, they are isolated and ridiculed. The truth of the matter is, most anarchists in Pittsburgh have no involvement with POG and if it were not for this summit...they would probably never work with POG. That being said there are a couple of really cool people in POG that for some reason have not managed to break the fuck out of it.
The above poster is right, POG doesn't do shit anymore, and when they do...it is small, weak, and horribly innefective. Why? Because they have successfully alienated a large portion of the radical population of pittsburgh throughout the years.
The Organizing for the G20 is a prime example of POG trying to stack, and dominate other radicals in PGH. For example, that stupid ass write up they released BEFORE the first meeting of a large radical group opposing the G20 even took place. It wouldn't surprise me if some people in POG wanted to make sure there was a plan already in the works so that it would be incredibly difficult to organize outside of that. Also, look at their updates every week. Why is POG giving this update if they are not the ones organizing for the G20? Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the g20 resistance project? POG...trying to get famous, again.
Maybe after the next hunger strike there will be enough liberal support to get some real shit done...right?
Really? I feel like that is
Really? I feel like that is bull shit.
The VAST majority of people who get involved with POG leave because if they don't agree 100%, with a couple of cultish personalities in the group, they are isolated and ridiculed. The truth of the matter is, most anarchists in Pittsburgh have no involvement with POG and if it were not for this summit...they would probably never work with POG. That being said there are a couple of really cool people in POG that for some reason have not managed to break the fuck out of it.
The above poster is right, POG doesn't do shit anymore, and when they do...it is small, weak, and horribly innefective. Why? Because they have successfully alienated a large portion of the radical population of pittsburgh throughout the years.
The Organizing for the G20 is a prime example of POG trying to stack, and dominate other radicals in PGH. For example, that stupid ass write up they released BEFORE the first meeting of a large radical group opposing the G20 even took place. It wouldn't surprise me if some people in POG wanted to make sure there was a plan already in the works so that it would be incredibly difficult to organize outside of that. Also, look at their updates every week. Why is POG giving this update if they are not the ones organizing for the G20? Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the g20 resistance project? POG...trying to get famous, again.
Maybe after the next hunger strike there will be enough liberal support to get some real shit done...right?
Wrong.