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I am sorry, Toronto, about your baby trees.
I did that thing with the bandannas once and I'm never doing it again, and I'm not saying it wasn't because I'm privileged and the experience of police violence created too much cognitive dissonance for me to deal with at that point in my life. I wrote a story where I projected a combination of youthful romanticism about that world and actual experience of that world onto John Sheppard (while trying to deny any autobiographical thingamajigs at the time) and I shut the door on that one. I mean, I've worked for the po since. I feel very differently about some things now, and the same about some others. People change. You know how it is.
I will say that I knew some black bloc kids, and they were good kids. A lot of people involved in summit protests were committed, ethical human beings who I admired. I am not going to insult people who are currently getting beaten and arrested with my armchair activisting; I will say that there are reasons besides basic sell-outing that I don't do that anymore, but that doesn't change the fact that I met some really good people when that was my end of the world.
Sabotabby over on livejournal has some interesting coverage of the G20 protests from a bit closer to the other side of the bandanna, though as always, not necessarily the opinions of NPR or any of its member stations, if you know what I mean. It's good to have someone from the protester POV, though. Since from the outside it's all smoke and confusion.
I did that thing with the bandannas once and I'm never doing it again, and I'm not saying it wasn't because I'm privileged and the experience of police violence created too much cognitive dissonance for me to deal with at that point in my life. I wrote a story where I projected a combination of youthful romanticism about that world and actual experience of that world onto John Sheppard (while trying to deny any autobiographical thingamajigs at the time) and I shut the door on that one. I mean, I've worked for the po since. I feel very differently about some things now, and the same about some others. People change. You know how it is.
I will say that I knew some black bloc kids, and they were good kids. A lot of people involved in summit protests were committed, ethical human beings who I admired. I am not going to insult people who are currently getting beaten and arrested with my armchair activisting; I will say that there are reasons besides basic sell-outing that I don't do that anymore, but that doesn't change the fact that I met some really good people when that was my end of the world.
Sabotabby over on livejournal has some interesting coverage of the G20 protests from a bit closer to the other side of the bandanna, though as always, not necessarily the opinions of NPR or any of its member stations, if you know what I mean. It's good to have someone from the protester POV, though. Since from the outside it's all smoke and confusion.