Anarchist Organizing

Sorry, I don't understand question around relationships building ? huh ?

 

Building relationships with people who share a common stance on specific issues, to reach a common goal.

A.K.A.: Organizing.

To answer your question: Both.

 

100% agreed: Taking part in campaigns and protests is important to make up numbers and show to the public that there is a growing counter culture/counter politic/movement opposing the system - it's encouragement for the still undecided, support for the affected and a great opportunity to propagate the "other"/alternative side of life.
It's also relation building with people from other areas, I don't want to miss the internationals I've met at protests and rallies elsewhere - almost always enriching my humble being with their views and knowledge.

Working in a neighborhood project in our area is more of relation building, by now we reach more than 400 people with all kinds of repairs, renovation and social services, around 70 activists work on a regular basis up to a few hours each day, weekends included. The network is multinational, voluntary, not necessarily mutual, except for the cost of materials without any financial reward - maybe far from being anarchist for now, but I think we make constant little steps towards autonomy and self-determination.
People from whatever nationality get together, learn to know each other and overcome ethnic prejudices, work together and for each other - realizing their similiar situation and needs. We have two football/sport dates per week for fitness and fun, some people organize chess competitions or small gigs with ethnic music. We already had political projects running too, racist cops and especially boneheads on the street experience growing problems because the immigrants emancipate themselves and ask for respect and their rights.
My personal favorite is a project very similiar to foodnotbombs, the crew is highly motivated, perfectly organized and gaining a growing reputation throughout the city - little steps towards some kind of free community some day...

 

very well said. i agree. however, people still have issues that actually exist....it's more like the beliefs that they hold or their ideas are conceptual whereas our human needs as well as our environmental needs are real. i think humans need a strong relationship with their enviornment, which includes each other (people are the enviornment as much as any other piece of matter on this planet). and what good is a relationship without love or respect?

 

Shouldn't every anarchist be considered an organizer?
"Defined constituency..." - ourselves.
"...through leadership development,..." - self-leadership/discipline.

And as anarchists we will have many issues (including activism) in common, leading to personal relationships and ultimately organization. It's all intertwined. Sure, new issues can arise AFTER organization, but those personal relationships that lead to organization wouldn't exist without those original core common issues.

So unless I've misunderstood something here (which is possible, it's hard to stay sharp living by the schedule of an insomniac one-year-old), I still say both. I don't think you'll have one without the other.

 

This is simply your opinion...

 

I can kinda see where you're going with this, but you can't really speak for ALL activists. Just because you see it a certain way doesn't mean others can't believe in an issue and in people at the same time. Even when like-minded people agree on certain issues there can always be variations as to how and why (this forum being a good example). So though it's not invalid (and I don't 100% disagree with you), as punkmar77 said, it is just your opinion and not an absolute fact.