But Nathan, Clinton's plan has been pretty clear the whole way along (ranging from grassroots environment and urban struggles to new int'l financial architecture debates): to divide the opposing forces between ones who desperately want a seat at the table--and who in the process can be denuded by way of coercive harmony--and those who are dissatisfied by the inexorably neoliberal outcome.
So, by rejecting the table you attack Clinton's plans, do you not?
Likewise, by explicitly avoiding a tens-of-thousands-strong fortification of the non-violent Convention Center demonstration two blocks away, which would have changed the balance of forces quite considerably between sitdowners and cops, Sweeney implicitly endorsed Clinton's plan. Patrick Bond email: pbond at wn.apc.org * phone: 2711-614-8088 home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa work: University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South Africa email: bondp at zeus.mgmt.wits.ac.za phone: 2711-488-5917 * fax: 2711-484-2729