tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143156594353039090.post4894961563750969348..comments2013-09-21T23:07:12.888-05:00Comments on Thoughts on the Struggle: Lessons from the RNC #1 - The Building Bloc(k)sSetantahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07203926704262636983noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143156594353039090.post-70702527028241729472008-11-19T10:14:00.000-06:002008-11-19T10:14:00.000-06:00I was reading your post and thinking about the "No...I was reading your post and thinking about the "No Peace For the Warmakers" demo on Day 4 of the RNC. I have been thinking about tactical stuff around it. I know the march intended to get into downtown. I know that at one point the lead banner made it past a police line (During the move from John Ireland to Cedar) but that there was not enough momentum from the crowd to maintain the break through. <BR/><BR/>I think this had something to do with the level of experience of most people at the march and a lack of communication between more organized / experienced groupings who, if working in concert may have been able to sustain a breakthrough. I am interested in trying to figure out how to dialog on issues of practical tactics especially in the context of police infiltration. I think there was an assumption by some folks that there were limits on what the goals were that just didn't exist. I think those assumptions were essentially sectarian and if those sectarian assumptions hadn't been there and people had been ready to work together on the ground, across political lines the war makers would have gotten a whole lot less peace.<BR/><BR/>That said, My arrest bus was filled with people who had just taken their first political arrest and it was and remains a moving and radicalizing experience for them. that was the situation for probably 2/3 of the 800 arrestees and I actually think that it accomplishes something for people to see the nature of the state and "democracy" close up and personal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com