Occupy Underground
In reply to the discussion: Occupy Cleveland canceled May Day protest plans to march in the city because of this: [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)troublemakers to leave, while filming them and putting it up on the net, they'll pretty much know they aren't welcome.
The "that's not cool, man" paradigm of the sixties doesn't work in this day and age. You've got to get up in their grille--non-violently, of course, but with extreme purpose. Remove their little hoodies and disguises so we can see them--that'll help, too.
The repudiation of which you speak has not been anywhere near clear enough. When those jerks in Oakland destroyed that model in the city hall made in 1927, and burned the flag (after stealing it--not even bringing their own, which would have been constitutionally protected--but theft? That's just cheap-ass assholery...) they associated themselves with the effort. Had they been swarmed by a bunch of people who weren't putting up with their shit, and chased off, it would have helped. But they weren't. How do we know? A very few people were able--quite easily, too--to ruin it for the rest of the crowd.