Punditocracy

Heck of a job (Punditocracy)


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So far as oxymorons go, "anarchist organization" is right up there with "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp." Kansas Mutual Aid (KMA), however, isn't exactly a Molotov-hurling band of latter day Guy (and Gal) Fawkes bent on destroying society. A group of collective Lawrence anarchists founded in 2003, KMA prefers community gardening to burning down churches. It was in this spirit of nurturing a sense of communal solidarity-and an admittedly virulent distrust of government institutions such as FEMA-that KMA journeyed down to Greensburg following the May 4 tornado that nearly wiped out the southwest Kansas town. KMA member Jordan Ferrand-Sapsis talked to us about the resultant friction between her anti-establishment brethren and the hyper-establishment bureaucratic mess in Greensburg, their eventual expulsion from the town on what she views as political grounds, as well as the apolitical devastation that visited this tiny community.
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PunditocracyBy Gavon Laessig