Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 17:34:23 -0700
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: AUT: Fw: [PEN-L:15672] Re: A Death in Genoa (Re: Genoa and Beyond II: The



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From: "Tom Walker" <timework-AT-vcn.bc.ca>
To: <pen-l-AT-galaxy.csuchico.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:06 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15672] Re: A Death in Genoa (Re: Genoa and Beyond II: The
View from the Black Bloc


> It is not just discipline that is lacking. It is also strategy. The
> globalization protests are like a dog chasing a car. What would they do
with
> it if they caught it?
>
> Nathan writes about the protesters, the police, the elites and the media
as
> if they are the actors in the drama. The public makes a cameo appearance
as
> spectators: "much of the public shrugged and washed their hands," "the
> sympathies the public often has with the police," "an angry mirror to the
> consumerist individualism of those who shop there."
>
> Ah, but the mirror faces the other way. It is the protesters, cops, elites
> and commentators who are the spectators and the shrugging, shopping masses
> who are the spectacle. Is this any way to run a Salt March?
> Tom Walker
> Bowen Island, BC
> 604 947 2213
>



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