Check out this thoughtful blog post about the political impact of police repression at the G20 protests in Toronto last June, in the context of the austerity agenda of Harper and co: “While I think the G20 debacle may have stiffened the resolve of a radical few, it also was successful… in creating additional barriers that will make it harder for many people who are not already active but who are going to bear the brunt of the coming attacks from finding ways to give their individual impulse to resist a collective and confrontational expression.”
