‘What We Are Doing Is Building That New World Now’: Left-Wing Radical Lisa Fithian Gives ‘How-To’ Course on Disruptive Activism
- Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:00pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Did you ever wonder just how Occupy Wall Street and its various satellites learned to be such a teeth-grinding pain in the side of civilized people? After all, reading Che Guevara, Mikhail Bakunin, Karl Marx, Cloward and Piven and Frantz Fanon in college is one thing, but someone had to teach these kids how to commit vandalism, obstruct the police and evade arrest with the almost gang-like level of expertise that so many of them employ.
Well, thanks to a set of little-watched Youtube videos, now we know at least one of the people who teaches this stuff. In fact, thanks to those same videos, you too can be privy to eight minutes of the “training” that Occupiers and their ilk enjoy, and learn it at the knee of one of the most experienced agitators out there.
First, let‘s meet the teacher who’ll be guiding us through these training exercises. Class, this is Lisa Fithian:
Now, some of you might be thinking – Lisa Who? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. You see, like a lot of Leftist agitators, Fithian is successful precisely because she doesn’t put herself out in front of the camera, but rather trains stool pigeons to do it for her. Some of those stool pigeons might be familiar to you, however. Witness this 2005 National Review article devoted to Fithian’s influence on a very famous protege – Cindy Sheehan:
Although she has received virtually no attention from reporters covering Sheehan, Fithian has been part of the Crawford protest from the very beginning. In a telephone interview with National Review Online on Sunday, she explained that she was with Sheehan in Dallas at a meeting of the antiwar group Veterans for Peace during the first days of August when the decision was made for Sheehan to go to the president’s ranch. On August 6, when Sheehan went to Crawford — in a bus with the words “Impeachment Tour” emblazoned on the side — Fithian went along. “I came the first day and helped her [Sheehan] set up the initial encampment,” Fithian said. With the exception of one brief absence, she has been there ever since.[...]
In November 2003, Fithian was profiled by The New York Times Magazine as she prepared to take part in protests at the Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting in Miami. As she did with NRO, Fithian demurred when asked if she was a leader of the demonstrations — she claimed that the movement was “nonauthoritarian” and “nonhierarchical” and had no leaders at all — but the Times was not convinced. “To say that Fithian is not a leader is an admirable political idea, but it’s not entirely honest,” the paper reported.
And she was a tough-minded leader, not at all a peace-and-love type. Her specialty was action; she wanted to break in, cut through fences, and shut things down. “You don’t go to Fithian when you want to carry a placard,” the Times profile said. “You go to her when you want to make sure there are enough bolt cutters to go around.” Asked for a fuller explanation of her role in the protests, Fithian said, “When people ask me, ‘What do you do?’ I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.”[...]
“I guess my biggest thing is that as people who are trying to create a new world, I do believe we have to dismantle or transform the old order to do that,” Fithian continued. “I just fundamentally don‘t believe it will ever serve our interests as it’s currently constructed.”
Fithian even has made a previous appearance here on the Blaze, in an article discussing the infamous black bloc tactics employed by some occupiers. From that article:
In a video posted Sunday, veteran activist organizer Lisa Fithian — who has provided training for Occupy Wall Street-affiliated groups — discussed the black bloc tactic and its origins in Germany in the 1970s. Fithian said she doesn‘t personally like black blocs because they’re vulnerable to infiltration — undercover police officers can easily slip in — and prefers to “work strategically, but know that we have different ways that we need to work.”
Here’s the video in question:
So now that we’ve discussed who the teacher for these sessions is, let’s dive right into what Fithian actually teaches the would-be destroyers of capitalism who are her students. The two videos of her training that have been located by the Blaze are – presumably – meant to be watched consecutively, and so we will be tackling them one at a time, starting with the two minute introductory video where Fithian puts her students through a set of bizarre warm-up exercises:
Fithian begins by telling the participants to run around in place while visualizing a shape around them. Why?
“We all have a certain amount of energy around our bodies,” Fithian says. “We can use that energy to disappear, we can use that energy for figuring out what’s near you or where to move away.”
What Lisa Fithian apparently believes
However, being a socialist, Fithian can‘t restrain herself from taking away her students’ freedom to imagine whatever shape they choose around themselves. Instead, she tells them to imagine either a square, a circle or a wedge around themselves. What follows is a minute or so of sheer pointlessness, as the various protesters run back and forth across the green, trying to avoid each other with varying degrees of success.
The second video, however, is where things turn from comedic to troubling, as it includes far more practical advice about actual protest tactics from Fithian:
Some highlights of Fithian’s lecture:
“So we walk in the foot steps of those that came before us, and everything we do right now is laying the grounds for your children. Right? We may not see the revolution in this moment, but our children are coming ahead and our work is for them. We’re laying the groundwork for them. What we are doing is building that new world now. So it’s really f–king important what we’re doing, everybody.”
“We’re programmed not to do this stuff.”
Over the course of the rest of the video, Fithian runs through demonstration exercises to show the participants how to run away from the police, as well as how to mob and physically intimidate cops in order to prevent arrests. She even tells them which finger to apply pressure on in order to escape from a police officer’s grip (it’s the thumb).
She then concludes with this:
“So let me say this one thing. You know, de-arresting might work, might get more people past, you never know. Sometimes, like if they were coming to (unintelligible) me, it doesn’t f–king matter if I get arrested. If I was an undocumented immigrant, I would much more want you to intervene on my behalf. So there’s a lot of times when we mean well and we want to help, but we sometimes put ourselves in places where we may not be wanted or needed.”
Truer words have never been spoken, Ms. Fithian. And one makes bold to say that your trainees are not wanting or needed almost anywhere in America right at this point.
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Comments (141)
pamela kay
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:00pmUnbelievable.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:47pmNo… Study your Enemy
Report Post »Cat Ballou
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:01pm“We may not see the revolution in this moment, but our children are coming ahead and our work is for them.”
Thankfully, most of them believe in abortion, same sex relationships, or not having children at all. Maybe our children will outnumber their children.
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:38amTalk about making a freight train take a dirt road, sheesh, why do all these loony seasoned hippies all have that same look to them, like Golem from the Lord of the Rings. I guess decades of hate and insecurity shows. Ugh.
Report Post »ME
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:50amUS birth rate with illegals included just over 2, Muslim birth rate above 8, these morons might hit .5 range in there life time they are only paving the way for the caliphate that will never need a sword. Our Culture is done, this is Rome burning these people know it and this is how they are expressing there frustration, misguided but better then most that still have there head in the sand and don’t even sense the impending blade at there neck. There are only strings to grasp at that will see the W.A.S.P. culture survive. Study them?? they are but a symptom they are not bright enough to be the enemy, please look at the whole chess board and not just the pawns. Understand tactics and roles then look out side the board for the real players to study.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:39amLiberals are the homely children who were never picked for dodgeball……..that’s where the anger stems from…….
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:13amHey JZS,
Is that your mom?
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:04amI’m sorry, I didn’t catch that…. How much does she get paid for teaching these sessions?
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:47amUseful idiots.
Report Post »subic
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:22amAnother old leftist haaaaaag!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:31amShe and they are agitators alright, just like the pimple on my butt! One day they will be popped!
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:49amSo do I take a breath first and then make myself a circle or is it wedge, breathe, square..????? I tried it in my living room but my energy knocked a lamp over. My wife won’t let me play this game inside anymore….
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:00pmBecause these people believe what they are doing to achieve a New World Order is right I feel sorry for them.
Report Post »What they don’t understand is that the people that will be in charge are mohommedists with Sharia Law as their guiding light. They haven’t a clue what that means. Most of these people are Atheists or Anti GOD so they think they are in full control.
What they don’t get is that they are the useful idiots that have been used for years and years to achieve the dreams of the Dictator wanna bees and Socialists and Commies. So this beheavior is going to bring about a response that they can’t imagine. But 75 million American dead, as a result.
So teach away and enjoy your time in the spotlight it will be brief.
MittensKittens
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:25pmAs long as they stay in the sh!tholes of the cities like Shitcago, Lost Angeles, Pukeland and the like, have at it. But don’t bring that crap to the country where good people live, you’ll find out what disruptive gunfire looks like!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:29pmLord Father? I do not want to live in a world created by these people, is there anything you can do?
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:49pmThey are so lovely! We should send this dangerous idiots to a summer camp in North Korea, with no return ticket..
Report Post »alpha2omega47
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:59pmThese anti-American Communists are posturing and brainwashing the sheep on the path to self-destruction, the loss of their freedoms and the destruction of their country and their future ~ what fools these idiots are.
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:14pmlets pray that we can stop the destruction of America before it is too late.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:48amI have seen Fithian on TV before… and like Dohrn & Piven… she is a Nihilist: Destruction & Chaos brings CHANGE! They are Terrorists… and we are Suicidal for Protecting them!
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:58pmLisa Fithian is a community organizer,,
that qualifies somebody to be President doesn’t it…
from an ex anrcho-leftist Soros, Fithian etc…
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1kZzLsHowA
TurboCat
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:13amIf a tea party supporter ever did this, they would be arrested for ‘incitement to violence.’
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:32amOf course, that is “social justice” not “equal justice”..
Justice is applied based on WHO commits the act..
and that is tyranny and rule of man not laws..
This is socialism/communism/progressivism, everyone is equal but some are more equal than others…
Report Post »Blitz
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:50pmWhat a tool…… of the evil one.
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:51amFind out who is paying her and where she maintains an office and that will explain what her real purpose is. Nobody works for free when they are ‘organizing’ for revolution.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:49pmTo achieve their revolution they will exploit a weakness in our outlook. We expect police and armed citizens to be reasonable. Therefore we have come to expect that all protesters, even violent ones be essentially treated with kid gloves. If a protester is injured by police during a riot it is always portrayed as police brutality and thus unacceptable. Knowing this, a small violent minority can have a huge effect on civilized society.
Now imagine if things were a bit different. Protesters haul out the bricks and molotovs. Police sharpshooters move in. Protesters start to throw rocks and firebombs at police. Cop aims, shoots and down goes a protester, molotov in hand. Perhaps a second one is also targeted before the crowd realizes they are outgunned and decides to go home.
All that would be necessary is to accept the principle that reasonable people have the right to use a judicious amount of deadly force on unreasonable, violent people. In such a society it would be impossible for a small minority to effect a revolution through violence because they would simply end up shot or imprisoned.
Instead we refuse to defend our culture, our society, and ourselves and let revolutionaries like Filthian determine our destiny.
Report Post »EODGhost
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:23amExactly. We must defend our liberty or it will be gone forever. Have the courage to take back what is rightfully yours, otherwise your children will be greater slaves than you.
If you won’t fight for your country, then it’s really not your country to begin with, is it?
Lock and load people.
Report Post »FANGS
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:46pmAmericans are taking note. Who These people are Where they sleep and What they do every day. Occupy are not Americans Occupy are Community Organizers such as Acorn and Siera club. Very soon, America will erupt into Civil war and we will open up on these groups and these people where they Congragate. There’s so much Socialism now, It’s not hard to find 20 or 30 of these Drones in one Group. Happy hunting, America.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:40pmGive her a rifle, a box of magazines and a box of ammunition and she wouldn’t have a clue.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:52pmGive her one bullet. She wants action to save our children. How fast can she run. Give her that One bullet. See how she reacts to being hunted.
Report Post »Gregb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:15pmwhich side of the rifle?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:28pmShe is NOT worth a bullet…
Report Post »Small World
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:39pmMaybe we could use that Impeachment Tour bus for Obama.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:28pmwhat most people don’t know is that we will be given basically three choices (hopefully the Lord will rapture us out of here before that happens.) but they all are encompassed in a world government with you know who in charge.
1. capitalist one world government
Report Post »2. socialist one world government
3. unknown
Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:34pmThere will be no capitalist one world government. When global government becomes a reality it will be a tyranny like no other before it.
Report Post »Truthurts
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:49pmAgreed. Capitalist one world government is the ultimate oxymoron. The U.N. is all the evidence needed.
Report Post »possom
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:41pmno, there will be too many people fighting for the top spot’s so all we can expect is chaos.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:27pmDid some mental hospital let these people out and they just don’t want to admit it. What utter nonsense. The most unproductive group of people on planet earth. God help us if they turn out to be our future.
Report Post »BuggiOlleo
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:04pmSo far, most chicks are shaving their pits; god help us if it gets hairy–again. Sheesh.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:37amOh, all right, nitpicker. I’ll shave under my arms.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:27pmoops they forgot that the children are being aborted by these types of numbskulls.
Report Post »Fithian- you can’t have it both ways
Skee
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:27pmMy Grandma baked cookies.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:30pmDont tell people your grandmother shoved things in ovens they might think she is like this idiot.
Report Post »leloli78
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:26pmCollege is the hiding place for people who cant do anything else and who hate those who have!
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:25pmWhy are ALL left wing radical women so ugly. Hmm
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:08amAre you saying “that it” was a female? YIKES!
Report Post »Bete Noire
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:24pmWell fair is fair. I acknowledge Fithian’s right to her 1st Amendments rights provided their activities do not break any laws. In return I expect her to respect my right to get in her face and disrupt her activity in a lawful manner.
However, if in the course of her or her crew conducting “disruptive activism” they threaten or act to injure me, my family or my property I will exercise my right to self defense up to and including as a last resort, lethal force.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:24pmOh, gee, more bull from the nanny stables…. YUCK!
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:22pmCULTURAL MARXISM: The Corruption of America
video,,, the basics,,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M
…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:22pmSo she is one of the teachers of terrorism and radical structuring to the Occupy lunatics and their anarchist useful idiots? When the time comes, if she is breaking any laws, let justice be done.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:19pmA liberty movement in the works to ally with.
Report Post »Truthurts
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:44pmHow much liberty is to be expected from a totalitarian state?
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:32amJust another brain dead troll Truthhurts…..might as well ignore it.
Report Post »Sharon Rose
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:13pmPlease leave our Country & take your ilk with you.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:10pmThey’re on my side. The side of peace, happiness, compassion, and perfection.
Longing loving shout-out to my baby who is still in hell. Don’t carry a gun.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:29pmThere is no way in hell you will ever reach perfection. They don’t want peace, if they wanted peace they would not be protesting. Don’t be ignorant about what is going on. The New World you want, is a fantasy utopia that will never exist. Grow up.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 10:54pmYou’re in hell.
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:09pmWe need change alright, we need to get rid of all the left-wingers.
Report Post »They are slowly but steadily destroying the USA. They are of
no use to society, they only consume and bitch, they produce
nothing.
TurboCat
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:16amWhat these people need is an attitude adjustment. That would entail six months of surviving in the North Korean gulags. Guaranteed that if they lived to tell it, they would not be so ungrateful!
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:08pm…because learning is half the battle!
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:45pmReally? You can’t even get the GI Joe quote right?
“Knowing is half the battle” close, but no cigar.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:59pmThe other half is stragicically-altered or scratch-built farm equipment. Gore-fest is so much better than bloodbaths, no? :)=
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:06pmPox’s mom, in his sweatpants. Sweet.
Report Post »ldaopines
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:05pmOWS types don’t need lessons on how to be lazy, violent, crude, destructive, and disruptive. That’s why they are attracted to “the cause” in the first place.
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