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The nearly spontaneous wave of demonstrations against the police murder of George Floyd is a truer measure of what is going on in the USA today than the headlines of the papers. First of all these were not riots when they began. They were nearly spontaneous demonstrations. Those that became riots were usually triggered when the riot police attacked the demonstrators. Almost certainly police provocateurs spurred vandalism on to increase the harvest of the arresting officers. This is certainly what happened in Oakland, California. Second, these demonstrations have occurred all over the country and are not being systematically reported on. In California they occurred in San Jose, Sacramento, Oakland, LA, San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield and who knows else where. The crowd in Oakland was mostly white, mostly young, but with a lot of black and Asian participants. There were no apparent leaders. These young people far outnumber the right wing open-the- economy astro-turf demonstrators paid for by Devos and the Koch brothers. Anthony _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
