Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 11 2003 @ 07:38 PM CDT

So let me ask the first two tough questions:

1) Would I be correct in assuming that this federation is based on a set of existing collectives that have expressed a desire and need for a federation?

2) What kind of local issues are you working on?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 12 2003 @ 08:02 AM CDT

read the article

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 12 2003 @ 08:07 AM CDT

I\'ve read the article and I still don\'t see answers to my two questions. The essay mentions something about organizing in the Pilsen/Little Village neighborhoods, but that is pretty vague.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 12 2003 @ 08:52 AM CDT

right now FRAC is in lansing, mi, cleveland, oh, and chicago, il with a couple other collectives interested from other mid-west @ist collectives

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 12 2003 @ 03:00 PM CDT

Thanks! Good luck!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 13 2003 @ 03:53 PM CDT

Sharp exchange with the Basque group? I thought that was one OVER the Basque group (with the judge who indicted Pinochet.)
I see close and increasing ties with ETA as possibly a problem for the EZLN down the track...not that I care that much if their Che loving wheels fall off.

Yeah,Good luck.You\'ll need it.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 10 2003 @ 11:56 PM CDT

Thanks for the questions Chuck.

1) Yes FRAC is a federation of three collectives. BRICK anarchist collective in Chicago, Night Vision anarchist collective in Lansing MI, and Burning River Revolutionary Anarchist Collective in Cleveland.
We are interested in developing the group to include more members and collectives and currently we are having discussions with anarchist militants from Minneapolis, Detroit, and Columbus.

If any one else is interested from the Great Lakes region, please get in touch. If you are not in a collective presently we can help you organize one.

2) Speaking just for BRICK here, we were heavily involved in anti-war activity including the mass take-over of Lake Shore Drive; a 400-strong demo in the Mexican immigrant community of Pilsen; getting an antiwar resolution passed at Teamsters 705; organizing in defense of Palestine with the Al-Awda chapter, putting on benefit shows; taking over intersections with the Pink Bloc ( a radical feminist art/performance group); distributing and wheatpasting the FRAC \"resist the war\" poster, active participation in ARA on a number of fronts.

Since the war ended (not!), we have been trying to refocus. We are continuing to do agitation in the Pilsen/Little Village neighborhoods- several collective members are Mexicano. We are continuing work in ARA and the ARA Network. We are doing solidarity work with the libertarian Magonista comrades in Oaxaca. We just sent a team to Benton Harbor to help BANCO build for their mass demonstration there on Saturday. I\'m sure I\'m forgetting things. . .

3) pr, your sincere wishes are most appreciated. You are wrong about the EZLN though. Check the Struggle webpage for more on the sharp exchanges between EZLN and ETA. \"Vanguardism is shit\"- Marcos.

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