Comments on: All That Disruption

By: Joe La Sac

Joe La Sac — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:42:15 +0000

All kinds of people actually. Protests like this do not walk under a single banner, but in general they are fed up with the Democrats for some reason or another. I’m writing something about the Anti-globalization stuff for later.

By: Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:37:37 +0000

Joe,

you were planning on going to the DNC to film the protests correct? What sort of protests do you expect to see there? Anti-globalization? Anti-NAFTA? Or people angry the D’s have not ended the war in Iraq? Do you expect it to get violent and the Denver police to have to use their secret prison?

By: Joe La Sac

Joe La Sac — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:48:44 +0000

Most of those disruptions can be traced back to someone’s outrage at their government. But I guess you’re right – people would blame governments for not making them safe instead of taking it upon themselves to create better societies.

Also, in a country where we have more imprisoned than anywhere else, I find it interesting that our media focuses on “crime” so much. Most of this type of stuff would not be considered ‘protest’ as much as just ‘crime’ by most media, as if to diminish its message.

By: Electric Elliot

Electric Elliot — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:56:54 +0000

Obviously there’s a suppression of these events in the media because A. Most governments don’t want most citizens to know that people are actually dissatisfied with the way things are going. Furthermore if people were aware that there was such potential for destruction anywhere, they would be afraid an blame the government for not making their country more safe. B. The media knows that protest coverage doesn’t really sell quite like the Olympics.

I don’t think that the majority of Americans are really uninterested in knowing about protests, I believe a lot has to do with suppression of information and a decision by mainstream media to focus on it. That’s especially why blogs like “Bombs and Shields” and “Social Rupture” are so important.

Thanks for the linkage to those, Joe.