susie cagle piece came out: <http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-oakland/1328726021/>http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-oakland/1328726021/
She interviews people who were there, corrects some of Hedges more idiotic errors, but also addresses internal criticisms.
If you really are interested in understanding black bloc tactics, this video linked to in the article joe pointed to, is pretty good. Harsha Walia is an anarchist from the No One is Illegal campaign and was involved in the anti-Olympic protests in Vancouver where there were dreaded black bloc'rs (she doesn't engage in black bloc tactics) who not only smashy smashy but also engaged in de-escalation mediation with the Porkpies!
http://youtu.be/oesjegD1-Vg http://youtu.be/-BuPK81aWks http://youtu.be/JIXEmeTRdUQ
(i'm not actually interested in debating the anti-crowd. More interested in posting this material because someone had the decency to do it on lbo and pen-l, back in the day when Dhlurved BB. As a consequence, I found out that a lot of what I was hearing from leftists was mis/disinformation - and bitter resentment. ;p )
At 02:06 PM 2/8/2012, Joseph Catron wrote: