What is effective?
Some thoughts by my friend Jarl on the G20 protests in Toronto:
Some say that the the throwing of bricks through the windows of banks by the youthful “anarchists” allows the protest movement against the G20 to be divided. This is not true - there isn’t any such unified movement. At least not one that was apparent at the demonstration on Saturday. There was no single reason which could make sense of why all the different groups were at the demonstration. Tibetans for a Free Tibet, pro North-Korean Trotsky-ists, Labour Unionists, an Iranian communist group and its opposition in the form of the homegrown Bolshevik Tendencies communist group, some Vietnamese groups, Tamil support groups, an anti-seal hunting group, Indigenous rights groups, walked alongside many other groups that I didn’t register. And there were many people who came not as a part of any group but for any number of reasons. And we should not forget to include all the “crazies” that these demonstrations unleash. Why do they all come? We should not disavow any of them - yet. The most salient division which the demonstration manifested was, however, between the police and everyone else.
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