Nobody "led" that march on Clark. People just got tired of waiting, and left. People followed the band, by instinct, not the ISO, or any other group. And the cops were caught horribly off guard, since they had just agreed to allow the Dearborn march, and had all their troops on Dearborn. The march on Clark ended up being more spontaneous than the one on Dearborn. The Clark marchers did an end run around the cops (you should have seen the freak-out by the Deputy Chief when the people hit Clark -- I did.)

When the people hit Clark, it was no longer the "approved" route. At that point, the cops had "given" Dearborn to the march. It was the people on Clark who were breaking the rules at that point, not the Dearborn marchers.

The cops will always be more organized than we are. They are paid, and trained, and have a strict hierarchical structure, with sanctions for those who disobey. We will never be able to enforce that kind of disipline on our people, and we shouldn't even try.

We should accept the fact that "organizing" anti-war protests is like herding cats. People will listen if given a clear message but, when it comes down to it, people will do as they wish.

And that's the way it should be. We can't, and should not, even if we could, impose our will on people who disagree with us on tactics.

We should accept the ambiguity. learn to live with the uncertainty, and respect the freedom of autonomous individulas to do as they see fit.

It is a little odd to hear anarchists complaining that peaceniks didn't follow orders.