In a time when financial collapse is on everyone’s lips, anti-capitalist ideas have become increasingly relevant. The Self Described Anarchist Collective wishes to organize large actions that inspire others to become involved with the anarchist movement. Even if mass mobilizations do not create change by themselves, they provide an opportunity to inspire more people.

The Self Described Anarchist Collective is a regional collective of individuals dedicated to creating a stronger anarchist movement along the eastern seaboard. By organizing large, vibrant actions that create a visible expression of anti-capitalist and anti-state ideas, we hope to create an environment where resistance and insurrection is possible.

As a collective, we have come to consensus around the People’s Global Action hallmarks, and we embrace and respect a diversity of tactics.

We have adopted the Hallmarks of the People’s Global Action, which are:

1. A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalisation.

2. We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all creeds.
We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.

3. A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker;

4. A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social movements’ struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximize respect for life and oppressed peoples’ rights, as well as the construction of local alternatives to global capitalism.

5. An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.