so far every video and this story have failed to mention that a peaceful protestor was beaten, pepper sprayed and arrested for no reason and now faces two counts of battery to an officer one being a felony and another a misdemeanor.
how do we ever expect to stop wars in other countries if we can't defend our selves and stop the war in our own communities being waged by the city government and police?
i'm sure the speeches were real nice, but i can guarantee those fuckers in the helmets and batons weren't listening and the scum in town hall and in D.C. weren't either.
they sent a few hundred police to watch a few thousand protestors. along with "security" trucks, with cameras on them, which were a sorry excuse for intimidation and surveillance.
what about the day was a success?

Do you know how things are going for the "peaceful protestor"? Have people come forth with money/support for him? How is he doing?

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So far, I've read nothing from march organizers on the number of people who participated. Was it "thousands" as a couple of comments would have it?

Hmm, "Success". You think that there might actually be a good, sound reason for why any video evidence - if it exists - of the arrest and beating isn't posted here? You know, like maybe the arrestee's legal defense would like the opportunity to review it before anything goes public? Ditto for photos? Whaddya think?

So what qualifies this neighborhood march as a success?

Well, for starters, the fact that it even happened, despite every legal effort by the City of Chicago and the CPD to prevent it - including parading those Cook County goons in riot gear to openly intimidate the community. Despite this, according to local organizers, Saturday's march was one of largest protest marches in Pilsen in years - especially relevant for a community whose young people have been targeted by the military for recruitment at the same time as their parents risk arrest and deportation by ICE. And like the earlier march up Devon Ave, this anti-war and immigrant rights march garnered significant support from folks who actually live in the neighborhood. If we're ever gonna rebuild a grassroots antiwar and social justice movement worth the name in this town, it'll happen in part because of neighborhood mobilizations like these.

As for turnout - my best guestimate is about 1,100-1,300 people at the peak.

What is the criteria for success?

There was never any clearly stated goal for the march, so it seems like the organizers spent a lot of time and money on getting a permit to march for the sake of marching. What have we won from this march? What do we judge success by? If all we wanted to do was march, we could have done that without a permit for a lot cheaper. The Capitalism Gives Me The Creeps march does that every year without hitting up other groups for cash.

Yeah, the only problem is that only those already in the know typically can participate in unpermitted actions (publicity just brings on the heat), and thus they're generally much smaller and less inclusive. Don't get me wrong -- I support such actions, but they have their own limitations as do permitted actions.

Saturday's march among other things helped claw back public space without having to resort to stealthy unpublicized action. It helped bring anti-war activists in contact with immigrant rights activists and vice versa. It wasn't, for the first time in a long time, a white-dominated peace march in a city which is predominately people of color.

The goal of the march was no mystery really. Connecting up anti-war and immigrant rights issues, and taking a wholistic rather than "single issue" (or laundry list) approach to issues in general. There were no sacred cow issues sheepishly slipped in on the side lest they "offend" the more conservative among us. Hence there was much discussion of the continuing siege of Gaza and no hesitancy to take on the liberals' "good war" -- Afghanistan.

A large, public action which attempted to address the ICE raids in a major way, but for which organizers did not attempt to get permit, would have been the height of irresponsiblity on their part -- inviting arrests of participants and the subsequent turn over of some of them to ICE.

Again, the bitter opposition of the Daley administration to this and previous annual marches should give you a clue that they're effective at least in part. This was at least implicitly recognized by our black block friends in that they chose to participate in the event (even if not in the organizing of it), rather than holding a separate event elsewhere in the city.

And as for those who constantly remind us that these marches have stopped neither the Afghanistan or Iraq wars yet, we don't need to get that news bulletin. The truth is that no tactics have achieved this (yet). I myself support a multiplicity of tactics -- they are means to an end, not ends in and of themselves to be fixated on as "the only one true path."

One of the best determinations of whether or not you're achieving headway is if the other side decides to fight you. If they don't, they're either throwing in the towel (unlikely at this juncture, unfortunately) or your tactics are so ineffectual that the other side doesn't give a damn (that's the problem with so many sleep-walk single issue liberal protests).

One last thing -- Before we get completely despondent about our failure to end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it's important to remember that they're not the only wars we're fighting. At this same time last year and for at least a good year before that, it looked very likely that the U.S. was going to escalate the current wars by bombing Iran. We won't know for sure until decades later when the secret White House files are released, but I'd like to think that the anti-war movement played at least some role in the avoidance of that particular humanitarian catastrophe.

During the movement against the Vietnam war, many of these same frustrations were also (rightly) expressed against the failure to end that war. A multiplicity of tactics were tried, and yet the war ground on. Only years later did we learn that the worldwide anti-war movement played a pivotal role in preventing the Nixon administration from nuking North Vietnam. For all the failures of our movement at that time, that was one success that those who were active back in the day can rightly be proud of.

Exactly, Lev.

Sure, I would not have organized it this way. And, no, it hasn't brought an end to all the things we object to.

But it helped. There is no one right way to do this. In fact, doing it lots of different ways, from lots of different angles, is the means to ultimate success.

Again, I would not have done it this way. But I absolutely support it, I'm glad I went, and thank the people who participated, especially those who did the heavy lifting with organizing (not me -- I wasn't an organizer.)

It's not the only way. But it's a good way. One of many good ways. Every effort helps.

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