Instant respect on the street and in other demonstrators venues for anyone who had good information, analysis and strategic or tactical ideas. Credentials did not matter at all. What mattered was one's ability to combine theory and practice in the moment and communicate it effectively. I think this is the hallmark of a real movement beginning to grow and self confident enough to make tactical adjustments at the base and not be totally dependant upon overall leadership for direction and also, therefore, to pressure that leadership effectively in the moment. There was a comradely care and nurturing for people one did not know and who were very different.
Workers washing gassed student faces and other such acts, also by residents and other on the street.
This sort of behavior is contagious as is the opposite. A new and big interest in all noncommercial literature and news sources, a hunger for information that had not been sifted through the corporations Police overreactions, including beatings and tear gas, but few arrests relatively- rather just brute force to move demonstrators around, with the national guard as backup. Worldwide interest and media coverage. Lots of workers and unions present and loudly supportive of the demonstration. Their educational importance to the Americans was immense and will be seen in future months and years.