[I originally posted this in chapotraphouse, but it was deleted for being “pro-cop” even though that very much wasn’t the case. (I believe PSL was actually involved in organizing the protest if I’m not mistaken.) The mod that deleted it openly broke the sectarian rule too.]
Been seeing a lot of people hating on what the protest marshals did during the pro-Gaza protests at the DNC and I feel they definitely did the right thing. Instigating stuff like going up against the cops under the guise of “revolutionary” action just gets a lot of people arrested and doesn’t accomplish anything.
EDIT: Users who were present at the protests have said, counter to what is claimed in the screenshot, that the protest marshals did NOT call for the police. Thank you for clearing this up, comrades!
The problem isn’t that other unspecified groups were prevented from doing things, but that all of the major orgs agreed to a neutered strategy
I don’t have any problem with disagreeing with the overall strategy. I would prefer if protestors had burned the DNC to the ground, frankly. But there’s no reason to believe that would have happened if this march hadn’t been planned and executed on the first day of the convention. The numbers weren’t there for effective violent action, and if people want to get their heads stomped in a police riot to no effect they can do it any other time and place