Weekend Revolutionaries

[t3knomanser]

The G20 protests haven't gotten too out of hand, but there's a lot of broken windows. Thus far, only 66 arrests and 6 injuries, nothing serious or life threatening from what I can get from the news

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[ellie]

Remy, I gotta say thank you for this post, especially the bit about Pittsburgh being the hometown to Homestead Labor Strikes. One of the reasons I don't protest is because of how out of hand people can get. Violence just tunes people out. Even I don't want to listen to anarchists who start smashing things.

I also wish today's "revolutionaries" actually could read a book or speak with the labor strikers of the past. My uncle was shot in the back by the Pinkertons in Albany. He had no recourse as a striker. Today these kids throwing rocks at legitimate establishments, like a person's home or mom and pop store, get the full benefit of the legal system. The strikers of the past, my uncle included, either got shot - maimed or killed - and it wasn't nothing for the Pinkertons and the Government to fuck around with their families.