Yeah, tell me how anyone was going to get there after Police kettled the activist bloc away from that parking garage
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Those principles don't actually hold when faced with the facts of that day. If we actually had the ability to get any group of people there
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we would have. But we didn't. And we were up against considerably more militia firepower than the west coast sees.
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Respectfully, Cville is a very different place than Berkeley. Despite the super progressive reputation, police here are incredibly hostile.
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Black Bloc techniques are more to thwart law enforcement than the fascists. And Aug 27th was one of their greatest successes.
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Police here use tear gas and other riot munitions to disperse crowds without trying other techniques that don't harm people first.
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Hadn't been out protesting in a while since I was tear gassed at a peaceful protest that was kettled to agitate the protestors.
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I'm mildly asthmatic and it was the first and only time I've had a life threatening attack.
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Cville happened and it inspired me to go out again, this time as a street medic and armed with a respirator.
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Back to why it was a huge success. They organized with the less militant factions and businesses this time.
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Tactically, it was a success. Strategically it was not.
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