with the Occupy movement. A group of people came together with the intention of searching for solutions for fixing our economic and banking systems. The anarchists came in, secretly manipulated the debate, and the conversation changed from banking & government to violence and identity politics. With all of the division that caused, the anarchists could easily take control. It's all part of a well worn pattern that has been going on for many years. The result has been dismal- activist communities are often fractured and divided as a result of their violence. And, as we saw on a large-scale during the Occupy movement, many people who genuinely care about their causes get pushed-aside or they simply give up and walk away. What's happening right now in Victoria is an extreme example of the kind of damage that the anarchists can inflict on a community. The anarchists don't like the people at We Are Change Victoria- they have differing ideas on environmentalism, and most of the people in WAC don't support the ideas of old-left socialism. So, when the two parties met at Occupy Victoria, they spectacularly clashed. Here's where things began to get dirty- you see, anarchists don't play well with others. Anarchist Tracie Park (a.k.a. Zoe Blunt or Zoe Love) followed the anarchist script and started to label members of WAC as racists. The problem is that she had flimsy evidence that in no way proved her case. This is less of a problem than you'd think though. The