Regardless of how we interact with the official Occupy Portland, it has politicized a great number of people who now attend every (anti)political event they hear about. Occupy’s terrible excuse for a class analysis and total lack of analysis of societal power means that these new activists play the role of peace police again and again. These new activists also tend to have very little tactical experience. I would like to believe that as much as they may have wanted the black bloc arrested, they didn’t intend to give the police wanton access to everyone else in the march. Not that throwing garbage in the street needs any justification (mad love to the trash bullies!), but bringing dumpsters into the street served a specific tactical purpose of slowing the cops who were trailing behind the march. Removing the dumpsters gave the cops access not only to the black bloc but to the 9 other random marchers they arrested.