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Being in SF, attending protests, and having some contact with anarchists and class action communists, I can say with certainty that a substantial percentage of them are people of color, radial queers, working and poverty class men and women, and not imported from Portland or anywhere else, but Californian. Whatever it is, it is not exclusively young white middle class hipsters from the suburbs, but a wide range of activists. The protests *are* often bifurcated and I've seen those who support peaceful protests often willing to work with police directly or indirectly by pointing out those who vandalize; I've seen it multiple times and been in meetings where this was discussed. The black bloc doesn't do itself any good by ignoring what the peaceful protesters are asking (to not rampage) and going ahead with their "propaganda of the deed" actions. Seems the Whitefish protest was able to deal with having both tactics work together. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/alt-right-whitefish-montana-antifascist-richard-spencer-protest/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
