by Jami Williams

In a recent issue of Works In Progress, Peter Bohmer's article "Reflections on May Day 2008" emphasized his position on a message supposedly lost at the expense of graffiti artists and rock throwers. Also emphasized was the claim that these things were done self-servingly and on behalf of building a thunder-stealing Black Bloc movement. This response is addressed to not only Peter Bohmer but anyone who has ever made claim to a moral high ground or strategic ethicality to achieve a saturated condemnation of one individual’s actions for the predominance of their own.

Police use pepper spray on anyone in the vicinity of the Port entrance. Saturday, Nov. 10. (Photo by Jami Williams)

Riot police at the Port of Olympia, Nov. 11. (Photo by Jami Williams)

Demonstrators on the 4th Avenue bridge tell people what they really think about the police. (Photo by Jami Williams)