Tactical Evolution Protest Culture, Dissent and Radical Change

Exploration of protest movements in the Bay Area from Vietnam through the Central American wars of the 1980s, the anti-nuke and nuke freeze movements, up through the WTO/Seattle protests, the March 2003 shutdown of San Francisco when the Iraq War started. Do the political forms received from past decades still work? If not, where are we going? What are our goals? How does protest and dissent fuel creative and innovative alternatives to the status quo? Have tactics backfired and reinforced the politics we oppose? (David Solnit, Kate Raphael, TBA