>Perhaps I'm not sure if comparing photography with politics is a
>very good idea, though I like your reference to Cartier-Bresson's
>"method of discovery." I think if I were journalists like Doug &
>Naomi Klein, I'd be happier with Seattle, A16, etc. This new
>ferment would then probably appear to me to be simply exciting.
>Even a picture of "each intersection" having autonomy, sometimes
>"defiantly guarding, well, nothing," would be touching. But as an
>activist, I have mixed feelings about it.
Not sure what you mean by speaking as an "activist," since the scores of thousands of people in the streets for N30 and A16 were also "activists." Perhaps as a Marxist you differ from their eclectisim and anarchism, but that's another story.
Doug