> We - the RadioNation crowd I've been hanging with - have been
> speculating that the cops probably assumed everyone would disperse at
> the first whiff of teargas. They didn't, and just kept reconfiguring
> their demos.
That surpised me watching events on TV and looking at wire photos. Credit should be given to the CD folks for good training. There refusal to budge while under assault by chemical weapons is what projected them onto the front pages of the newspapers.
> By the way, it's hard to imagine any of this happening quite this way
> without cell phones. What was that bromide about not using the
> master's tools to dismantle the master's house?
Hey, I use the master's tools all the time with my Internet activism. Been doing this for most of the 90s, so it's nice to see hard work online finally paying off in the streets.
BTW, Doug, I've appreciated your insighful commentaries from Seattle.
-- Chuck0
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