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“There is no better way to launder corporate multinational largesse than giving it to the movement that is confronting it.” — John Sellers, in a Financial Times special report, October 15, 2001
“There’s a cadre, if you will, of criminal conspirators who are about the business of planning conspiracies to go in and cause mayhem and cause property damage.” — Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney, speaking to Salon.com about John Sellers and the Ruckus Society, August 8, 2000
“I make a distinction between violence and destruction of property. Violence to me is against living things. But inanimate objects? I think you can be destructive, you can use vandalism strategically. It may be violence under the law, but I just don’t think it’s violence.” — John Sellers, in The Mother Jones, September/October 2000
“It’s cooler to give a crap than it used to be…. This is a watershed moment for us. Some amazing alliances are being formed in Seattle -- steelworkers and animal rights activists; people of faith and human rights groups. This is not just a single protest; we’re kicking off a movement this week that’ll be around long after the last WTO representative leaves Seattle.” — Han Shan (not his real name), in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, November 29, 1999
“You create symbols, then manipulate them so the public sees things the way we want them to.” — Howard “Twilly” Cannon, in U.S. News & World Report, May 12, 1997
“Monkey-wrenching is more than just sabotage, and you’re goddamn right, it’s revolutionary! This is jihad, pal. Everything, every assumption, every institution needs to be challenged. Now! And more spiking is needed to convey the urgency of the situation!... Go out and get them suckers, fill them full of steel, and I promise you this: you might get caught; you might do some time; your friends might abandon you. But you will never have to spike the same tree twice.” — Ruckus Society co-founder Mike Roselle, in The Earth First! Journal, December 1994/January 1995
“Anarchism has got a really bad rap, like communism” — Ruckus Society director John Sellers, writing in the New Left Review, July-August 2001
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