In many ways the controversy over the black bloc intervention in
Oakland on November 2nd during a day of protests designed to shut
down the port was just the latest involving two wings of the
anarchist movement.
In an November 12 article that appeared on Znet titled “Throwing
Out the Master’s Tools and Building a Better House”, Rebecca
Solnit wrote:
Another Occupy Oakland witness, a female street medic, wrote of
the ill-conceived November 2 late-night antics, “watching black
bloc-ers run from the cops and not protect the camp their actions
had endangered, an action which ultimately left behind many
mentally ill people, sick people, street kids, and homeless folks
to defend themselves against the police onslaught was disturbing
and disgusting in ways I can’t even articulate because I am still
so angry at the empty bravado and cowardice that I saw.” She adds,
“I want those kids to be held accountable to the damage that they
did, damage made possible by their class and race privilege.” And
physical fitness; Occupy Oakland’s camp includes children, older
people, wheelchair users and a lot of other people less ready to run.
As Oakland Occupier Sunaura Taylor put it, “A few people making
decisions that affect everyone else is not what revolution looks
like; it’s what capitalism looks like.”
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-black-bloc-and-the-battle-of-seattle/
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