Umm, journos, interview folks from from the anti-corporate globalization wave. tl;dr: "black bloc" has always been *thoroughly* infiltrated.https://twitter.com/LAcrimes/status/830813499706134529 …
yes, inter-alia. That is why "helped". Definitely multiple factors but it was not a small factor.
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If anything the black bloc brought attention to the first protests helping it to spread. It's always contentious tactic for sure 1/2
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when the Iraq war happen the movement was becoming more mainstream, ballooning, black bloc very little effect then when derailed
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The anti-corporate globalization movement was doing fine for attention; black bloc only brought negative attention when they+
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the counterglobalization movement and its sturdiness is 1 reason anti war protest was SO large but when those protests had no effect
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it was destabilizing. The IMC network, the communicative glue of the movement, also frazzled + frayed. Much more imp than blackbloc
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