quickening rhythm of mounting revolt. Further, the observation and personal experience of police brutality succeeds and reinforces each of these phenomena. With stark awareness of how far the enforcers of Order are willing to go to thwart raising a single tent, we now feel that any probability of reoccupation is impossible. However, an anarchist history of resistance consoles us, and our common interest in continual praxis of rebellious intervention will not stagger. Even now, the situation as it is – with many Midwest occupations gone – seditious discussions carry on and various attacks congeal. Within our ranks we recognize those who will never cease experimentation, no matter how difficult the terrain becomes. Inside of these moments of resistance, these manners of being, we take solace in one another. That within our networks of comrades, rebels and anarchists, the world over, a rare connection can be found. It functions like a circuit built over many years of action and now thriving beyond struggle. We know this concept by many names, but often simply describe it as friendship. We speak of this in order to promote a potential line for the continuation of our attacks and simultaneous attempts of taking care of one another. We see the ever-growing necessity to expand beyond our insular networks, but the need for friendship is revealed in the more governments deepen their laws over conspiracy and transgression. In the development of these particular bonds we mean to extend ourselves to exceed rupture while continuing our efforts towards such. We see our friends as those who are at risk and with whom we are at risk. We seek friendship with those who are filled with an eternal desire to detach from subjectivity and interrupt the dominant cycle of normality. Some of us involved in last fall’s plaza occupation downtown and other subsequent events have followed a line of inquiry centered around the emergence and expiration of Occupy, as seen through our collective experience. This line produced many questions, which have continued circulation amongst friends and comrades in Saint Louis. How will larger local demonstrations come about now? What other contemporary struggles can we look to? What relationships have we gained that could add assistance in furthering experimentation? We most likely cannot satisfy our craving for demonstrations with greater depth and potency and for more interesting environments, in which we can meet and reclaim, again for sometime. The openair social space of the occupation, once nestled in the center of
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