two views on Seattle

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Max wrote:
>All other contending animosities aside, I'd like
>to say that I think the article had one good point:
>both wings of the protest would have benefitted
>if the labor march joined the sit-downers.  It
>would probably have reduced police violence and
>maybe discouraged window-breaking.  The sit-down
>would have been much more solid.  And there is
>nothing about such a move that betokens a
>"pre-revolutionary situation."  For gosh
>sakes, marching across town and sitting
>in an intersection is a long way from
>the Paris Commune.

I agree with Max here.  Also, the media coverage might have been better if
the labor march had been together with the sit-downers, in that (at least
some) pix would have had to show a wider variety of faces standing together
in opposition to the WTO.  Would have made a different impression than the
most of the photos carried by the media, which mainly focused on the visual
drama of cops versus youths.

Yoshie