Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:44:02 -0400
Subject: Black Bloc mentioned on NPR
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-dojo.tao.ca>


I'm listening to the live broadcast on NPR of the Democratic Convention. OK, 
I'm a media masochist, so shoot me. I'm just keeping an ear on the news 
'cause I have no working TV right now and I'm wirking away on anarchist 
projects.

About 15 minutes ago, NPR did a strange thing. They went to a correspndent 
outside the convention hall to get a live update on the protests. There is a 
live Rage Against the Machine show happening in one of the convention 
center's parking lot (go figure why the cops are allowing this to happen). 
The reporter was talking about how the cops are pushing some folks around. In 
the banter between reporters, they talked about the black bloc that was 
pretty prominent this afternoon. They also spent some time talking about the 
protests and mentioned how in 1968 the protesters could protest right outside 
the convention doors. Apparently, a few of these reporters are 1968 protest 
veterans, so maybe their conscience is coming back to them. Another possible 
factor in their coverage of the protests, WHILE broadcasting live from the 
convention is that outcry NPR may have received for their non-coverage of 
protests at the Republican Convention.

No bad. Four years ago I attended Active Resistance '96, which protested the 
DNC convention. We've come along way.

Chuck0