Bellamy

Bellamy lives in Oakland, California in a cooperative he co-founded. He is a white cis-male with vegan and anarchist perspectives. He has worked in community organizing around housing rights, domestic violence advocacy, and permaculture and urban gardening projects. He co-hosts Free Radical Radio (freeradicalradio.tumblr.com), a weekly broadcast on Berkeley Liberation Radio offering an anarchist analysis and commentary on both local and international events that highlights Bay Area events and activism.

Smashing egoism: against flashpoint action

For many anarchists, real liberation manifests itself through flashpoint: sudden, unannounced acts of violence. These people see themselves at war with the world, and are often derisive towards broader organizing. But successful resistance movements - whether violent or nonviolent - need community

By Bellamy

/ 6 Dec 2013

A flashpoint action reading list

Today Transformation published the first article in our debate on flashpoint action. Yalla Matame argued that flashpoints are a way of creating and radicalizing larger social movements. On 6th December we will publish Bellamy's response. Here is a reading list for the interested reader to find out

By Yalla Matame and Bellamy

/ 4 Dec 2013