A call for non-violent civil disobedience.

In a country where preventing a corporation from making a profit is a felony.

You were paying attention to what the police did to the non-violent protesters in Pittsburgh during the G-20 meeting, weren't you?

The police used overwhelming force, pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets and LRAD sound cannons on unarmed, unresisting protestors.

They used these methods and weapons on people who were watching the confrontations between police and protestors on their SECOND FLOOR BALCONIES, and could not 'leave the area' as the police demanded.

The police smashed cameras and ruined film and video tape that had recorded their excessive force. The police attacked random passers by who had no part of the protests.

And after it all, the police were PRAISED by the mayor and city council for demonstrating restraint.

The Pittsburgh police, 2500 National Guardsmen, and police volunteers from across the country were not there to protect the people of Pittsburgh. They were there to ensure that the economic ministers from the G-20 nations were not confronted with the reality of their actions in allowing and defending the implosion of the world economy and it's effects on the world population.

The time for non-violent protest is over.

The start of violent revolution is, unfortunately, coming.

Walk in peace.

I have a simple suggestion. How about putting out publicity well before the actions? I just saw this. Meanwhile, the action took place earlier in the day in my city.

Joe

meanwhile... take heart at what is happening in Honduras among the people whose nonviolent actions continue to swell and make impact, regardless of the Clintonista type skewing of the true position of the US in this coup.

These things will happen when and where they need to. There is very little anyone can do to stop them, not really. The situations that catalyze massive populist response are not wholly predictable beyond the fact that they will and do happen... and they change the landscape.

I believe this is an evolutionary fact. In these historical events the ruling class's actions, similar to the kinds we see played out more and more across the globe, become an active ingredient toward the inevitable boiling over point when the people, much like birds migrate, with hardly a nod to one another, take to the streets.

Just keep doing what you are doing, in however you support activism and dissent. The building of a movement is a constant and takes many forms and stages, without predictable time frame. It will happen. Nothing can stop it. It is part of how the collective being of the race is wired to survive. Study the roads that were taken up to any revolution, violent or nonviolent. Look at Russia and France. Look at how South America and Africa shed the colonials and are still working to complete that process. This is intergenerational work.

In the meantime I believe that the only reason Pittsburgh was chosen as the location for the G-20 bake sale and weenie roast was simply because of how it is easily defended and cut off due to its location on the congruence of the rivers that become the Ohio, down in a very easily controlled valley. In spite of this, up against this, the protests were impressive and showed what exactly can't be stopped.

The fact that the ruling classes had to take the location into consideration, and put their high fructose, high carbon footprint camp out in this fortress-like setting only proves how successful these protests have been and how frightened and paranoid the rulers are of the people they continue to rip off, torture and deny the basic amenities of living so they can continue to feed the gluttony of the tiny population of their global oligarch friends. What a shame that Obama has been sucked into this. What poor choices he has made out of such potential!