Thinking Ahead: What Will ARV/ATS Be in the Future?

category Uncategorized Tuesday 11 January 2011

Here are some potential projects I would like to see ARV/ATS develop in the years and decades ahead:

1) An independent radio network which would feature a variety of programs aimed at targeted demographics. Some might be in the right-wing populist Alex Jones mode, some might be oriented towards anti-New World Order Christians, others might be geared towards the dissident left, while still others might have a black nationalist flavor. The different programs would focus on issues relevant to the targeted demographics, but with the common themes of opposition to the empire, community autonomy, class struggle rooted in the vanguard classes, critiquing totalitarian humanism, and the pan-secessionist outlook.

2) A network of dissident student organizations to be organized on campuses (like Youth for Western Civilization is doing). The most likely purpose of the student groups would be to challenge the domination of the academic world by totalitarian humanism, demonstrate critiques of this from both the left and right, and bridge the gap between the varying opponents of totalitarian liberalism, e.g. dissident leftists, alternative rightists, black nationalists, libertarians, etc.

3) The development of independent self-sufficient communities like the Twin Oaks community mentioned in a previous post, and the networking of our communities with similar communities.

4) The development of alternative social service projects by ATS affiliates and allied groups (like BANA, NATA-NY, and and AI/AN-ATS have been doing).

5) The creation of a speaker’s bureau so that our representatives and allied others will be available to speak to other groups, with an emphasis on student groups.

6) The creation of single-issue activist organizations affiliated with ATS for the purpose of bringing issues related to the pan-secessionist struggle under the umbrella of ourselves and our allies. These groups would then work within and seek leadership positions in other, larger groups that focus on the same issues. For instance, I want “our people” to someday work their way into leadership positions within both the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association, and work to turn both of these away from their left-liberal and reactionary conservative orientations, respectively.

7) Conducting mayoral campaigns in dozens of American cities simultaneously that are oriented towards local issues and local culture, but share the common thread of the radical decentralist/pan-secessionist idea, and modeled on what Norman Mailer did in NYC in 1969. The purpose of such an effort would not so much be to take electoral politics seriously as much as a publicity stunt that was large-scale, well-coordinated, and geared to generate media attention.

2 Responses to “Thinking Ahead: What Will ARV/ATS Be in the Future?”

  1. Miles

    For #1) Can we just begin hosting radio programs on our local public radio stations? Also, is ARV a group that we can claim membership as long as we follow the 25 point program?

    Also, can I recommend an addition to #3? Entrepreneurs/Community organizers interested in setting up LETS, digital fabrication utilities, and urban agriculture projects in their respective communities. (Like many of the ideas brought forward in Kevin Carson’s Homebrew Industrial Revolution)

  2. keith

    “Can we just begin hosting radio programs on our local public radio stations?”

    Of course. Please do, if the opportunity is available.

    “Also, is ARV a group that we can claim membership as long as we follow the 25 point program?”

    Yes! Anyone who affirms the ideas behind ARV is considered an ally or associate. There’s no formal membership in terms of dues, membership cards, officers, etc. Those things just make everything more complicated that it needs to be.

    “Also, can I recommend an addition to #3? Entrepreneurs/Community organizers interested in setting up LETS, digital fabrication utilities, and urban agriculture projects in their respective communities. (Like many of the ideas brought forward in Kevin Carson’s Homebrew Industrial Revolution)”

    Yes! That’s part of what I had in mind.

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