"Storming the New Seat of Power"
The Narco News Bulletin March 25, 2003 | Issue #29
Reporting on the Drug War and Democracy from Latin America Remarks to the Mídia Tatica convention Text of speech by Al Giordano In Sao Paulo, Brazil March 24, 2003
Boa Noite, Sao Paulo, e obrigado às pessoas legais do Mídia Tática: Thank you very much for the opportunity to borrow this microphone and speak with so many creative artists and workers who share our passion at Narco News for Tactical Media.
The title of this talk, The Masses vs. The Media: From May 1968 in Paris… to April 2002 in Caracas… to the Immediate Present, implies that I am going to speak in an historic line that begins in 1968 in Paris through to the present. Some of you have been reading the new translation, in Português, of Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life, which is translated as A arte de viver para as novas gerações. It's a Situationist book, an important book by a revolutionary whose own use of the mídia tática called coherent writing was central to the mass actions in 1968 in France. This is a wonderfully dangerous book. I read that book, quit my job as a political reporter in Boston, and left the United States. It's a jailbreak book.