I cried when I saw this lone mama resisting police with her babe in arms. She was probably killed or seriously harmed along with her child. I mentioned tonight in conversation that the organizers ignored or perhaps vetoed what would have been a useful and most likely effective guerilla tactic. I'm fairly certain that police in Toronto this past weekend weren't prepared to kill or even harm parents with small children. What if organizers had done outreach specifically with strategic resistance in mind? What if elders and parents with young children had been in the lead? I only took toddler boy to one demo on Friday. Things were tense but we stayed. If I had been walking with five hundred families of parents with children, I would have brought both my children everyday and found the strength to not move. I don't think Toronto police are prepared right now to murder, hit, push, traumatize young children. heh. It's probably only a deeply enraged mama who understands that there really is so much at stake, who knows that there is so much more we are all going to lose who would even think about testing that assumed boundary, though. Bad, bad mama. Yup.
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