It's time to create a new world from the ashes after the ruined one . . . Fight back and don't get caught. For much of yesterday, anarchists acted away from the mass of protesters, smashing windows in the shopping district while most protesters tried to shut down the WTO meeting. I just don't want to be around those people. Not everyone condemned the vandalism.
People are angry.
Solnit helped train people in peaceful protest methods. You're talking about property, which is part of our problem because the WTO holds property more sacred than people and the environment. At the Pike Place Market, the anarchists were met by the head of market maintenance, who calmly talked them out of vandalism, telling them the farmers and vendors there were afraid of them, and that the market is not a corporate center. But on Fifth Avenue, the anarchists flattened the tires on eight police cars and left their trademark A on each cruiser. Down the block, they marched in place to the drum corps as they faced off with police.