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.

An Olympia police officer attacks a participant in the May Day protests.