WTO is what starts the Seattle Bike Squad (if you listen to the guy who founded it) and that becomes half of Community Response Group in 2020 October. WTO changed police protest response at an institutional level and that began with custom riot sticks SPECIFICALLY FOR THE EVENT.

For me the empirical fact (not opinion) remains: without a direct action component, without disturbing the flow of capital or at least the day to day workings of society--- it doesn't matter one bit how many millions of people take to the streets. No disturbance...nobody cares.

Labor historians seem to always love blaming anarchists for messing up the perfectly planned union marches while rarely seeming to acknowledge many of the serious gains labor has made have grown out of those times the anarchists messed up the perfect plans of labor leadership

What’s the point of being a labor historian if you spend your career defending police abuses lol

Makes sense if you remember Bexk is Mormon, and what the Mormon churches beliefs about the origins of native Americans are.

Quit trying to retroactively divide people. The very beginnings of the WTO protest were organized by anarchist groups inspired by the Zapatistas and other anti-colonial movements. It would be more correct to say anarchist organizing prompted mainstream labor and environmental groups to join.

Listen, buddy. I was there, anchoring the legal support office. We’d been taking calls about police violence against nonviolent protesters all morning, HOURS before a single window was broken. The police violence was in response to the successful shut down of the WTO, NOT the black bloc.

Obviously. Imagine how craven and short sighted someone would have to be to blame their comrades for the actions of the police.

Imagine if someone's take on Stonewall was "we only wanted to drink in privacy and you ruined it" Oh wait I know that guy he organizes in PT.