I should add that I quit attending protests back in the era of the WTO and the Iraq war ones, because I couldn’t convince the organizers to actively denounce black block participants, or to actively train protestors in passive resistance. A couple of years back we had an anarchist enclave wander into the area and join in the I-69 protests. They completely reinforced my disgust with people who lack the discipline to divide up their emotion from the cause they’re purportedly organizing for.

I’m generally not a fan of “everybody meets and we all get indignant” type protests. They’re often masturbatory in nature. I have huge respect for Gandhi and Dr. King and his cadre, because it couldn’t have been easy to organize people so that acted so calmly.