** PREFACE

*** SOME WORDS OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT

*** THE MOMENTARY SUSPENSION OF HISTORY

*** THEN HISTORY BEGAN AGAIN

*** A FEW ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

** INTRODUCTION: YOU BEGIN WITH RAGE, YOU MOVE ON TO SILLY FANTASIES ...

*** ABOUT THIS BOOK

*** STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK

** CHAPTER 1: NEW YORK DIARY: MARCH 2001

*** Thursday, March 1, 2001: Ya Basta! formation training, Manhattan, 7PM

*** Saturday, March 3: Meeting with Mohawks

*** Sunday, March 4: DAN meeting, Charas El Bohio Cultural Center, 6PM

*** EDUCATIONAL SESSION

*** Tuesday, March 6: FTAA Coalition meeting, 8PM

*** Thursday, March 8: Ya Basta! meeting, Manhattan, 7PM[5]

*** Friday, March 9: Coalition structure meeting at Amsterdam Pizza at 111th Street, 6:30PM

*** Meeting with Starhawk, 8PM

*** Tuesday, March 13: AUTODAWG meeting at the National Lawyer’s Guild, 8PM

*** Thursday, March 15

*** YABBA formation in Betty’s studio, 7PM

*** Friday, March 16

*** Saturday, March 17

*** Sunday, March 18: DAN meeting at Charas

** CHAPTER 2: A TRIP TO QUÉBEC CITY

*** Friday, March 23, 2001

**** We Arrive

**** Our Hosts

** CONSULTA DAY 1

*** Saturday, March 24

**** The Table Outside

**** The Room Inside

**** 12:10PM, First Breakout Session

**** 1:45PM, Back to the Plenary

**** 4:30PM, Breakout Session

**** 8:00PM, Scanner Party

** CONSULTA DAY 2:

*** Sunday, March 25

**** 11:00AM, Plenary Meeting

**** 1:15PM, Final Investigations

**** The Road Home

** CHAPTER 3: FROM BURLINGTON TO AKWESASNE

*** Thursday, March 29, 2001: Ya Basta! meeting, Brooklyn

*** Friday, March 30: Independent Media Center, Manhattan

*** Sunday, April 1

**** DAN Meeting, Charas El Bohio

*** Tuesday, April 3

*** Wednesday, April 4

*** Thursday, April 5

**** Ya Basta! Meeting at Aladdin’s Place in Chelsea, 6 PM

*** Sunday, April 8: DAN Meeting, Charas El Bohio, 6 PM

*** Tuesday, April 10

*** Thursday, April 12: Ya Basta! Meeting, Manhattan

*** Saturday, April 14

*** Wednesday, April 17

**** The Burlington Spokes

**** “Plan B”

**** Later That Night

*** Thursday, April 19

**** Akwesasne Itself

**** Border Action Manqué

** CHAPTER 4: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, QUÉBEC CITY

*** Friday, April 20, 2001

**** 2:30AM

**** 5:30AM, We Arrive

**** 8:30AM

**** 11:00AM, Convergence, Laval University

**** 11:40AM

**** 1:30PM, The Carnival Against Capitalism March Begins

**** 2:00PM

**** 2:10PM

**** 2:20PM

**** 2:25PM

**** 2:40PM

**** 2:50PM

**** 3:05PM

**** 3:15PM

**** 3:43PM

**** 3:50PM

**** 4:10PM

**** 4:17PM

**** 4:22PM

**** 4:30PM

**** 4:35PM

**** 4:45PM

**** 5:22PM

**** 5:40PM, I Descend to Get Coffee on the Côte D’Abraham

**** 6:30PM, Back to Ground Zero

**** 6:55PM, Avenue Turnbull

**** 7:27PM, Along St. Jean

**** 8:07PM, Stupid Little Spokes

*** Saturday, April 21, 2001

**** 11:00AM, Orsainville

**** 3:20PM, Finally Back in the City

**** 3:35PM, Ground Zero

**** 4:00PM, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

**** 4:20PM, Jean Baptiste

**** Notebook Entry, written the next day, 4/22/01

**** 5:25PM, The Park

**** 5:53PM

**** 6:00PM, Jean Baptiste

**** 7:15PM, I enter the IMC

**** 7:30PM, still in the IMC

**** (From notebook, 4/21/01, 7:50PM, emergency meeting, Québec IMC)

**** (From my notes again)

**** 8:50PM, Outside

**** 10:45PM, Côte D’Abraham

*** Sunday, April 22

**** 2:15PM

**** 4:25PM

**** 6:25PM, Bus to Montréal

** CHAPTER 5: DIRECT ACTION, ANARCHISM, DIRECT DEMOCRACY

*** I) WHAT IS DIRECT ACTION?

*** II) WHAT IS ANARCHISM?

*** III) VIOLENCE AND NONVIOLENCE

*** IV) AN EXTREMELY BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RELATION BETWEEN DIRECT ACTION AND DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN THE US SINCE 1960

** CHAPTER 6: SOME NOTES ON “ACTIVIST CULTURE”

*** DILEMMAS OF WHITE PRIVILEGE

*** DILEMMAS OF PRIVILEGE THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY RACIAL

*** THE MYTH OF TRUST FUNDS

*** SO: WHO ARE ACTIVISTS REALLY?

**** I) Work and Education

**** II) Class Backgrounds and Trajectories

*** ART AND ALIENATION

*** STYLES OF BOHEMIANISM

*** RANDOM OBSERVATIONS ON ACTIVIST CULTURE

*** Notebook extracts: June 2000, with some later jotted additions

**** Frailty:

*** Notebook extract, July 2000

**** Cigarettes:

**** Other drugs:

*** ACTIVIST LANDSCAPES