Interesting...I was there, and some caaelii people were definitely race-baiting (as this last comment does as well--guess what, not everyone involved in a "left group" is white), cursing at them, telling them to leave and go "hold their own demo" and telling people not to donate money to help with jail for the people the police targeted (which included an arab women whose head scarf was ripped off by cops).

Thing is, other groups were organizing for this protest too before caaelii ever signed on--if caaelii organizers wanted to control things and wanted to have things go their way, then why didn't they ever talk to any of the other groups? All it would have taken was a phone call and maybe a meeting to say, Hey: we want no arrests or police confrontations, and Hey, we're planning on blockading the entrance/exit at this time...maybe undocumented folks should stay martching on the street and out of the path of cops, etc.

A little planning and communication could have gone a long way to diffusing tensions among groups.

Final thing: despite the assertion that *some* (not all!) caaelii folks put forward later that it was "white anrachists/leftists deliberatly provoking the cops", several actually were involved in trying to get kids and people out of the crowd when the cops moved in.

It's unfortunate that some people are buying into the divisions the cops are trying to sow among us. Any arrests, violence, etc. was the fault of the police and the racists--not activists who were there.