The use of black blocs it is exactly what the State, the system wants us to do

The State is thirsty of your violence.

The system is driving you desperate so you can succumb to violent action

The use of "targeted property destruction" it is not only not a revolutionary form of activism, but rather the fastest way to kill the movement

Why?

Because that allows the system to bring attention away from its own injustice, repression and violence to the very marginal violent actions, so they can criminalize, marginalize and disconnect from the 99% any form of political resistance

Also the argument of the "diversity of tactics" is not valid here, Adbusters, for when someone throws a stone against the cops, breaks a window and/or leads a container on fire, is provoking the inmediate indiscriminated counter-attack on all the protesters, and intensifying the criminalization of OWS/Indignados throughout the country.

If the media were owned by the people, maybe the "diversity of tactics" argument could be more palatable. But in the real world, in corporate capitalism, in a concrete, contextualized debate, we see the use of black blocs and engament of violent action means no more, no less than to let ourselves be trapped on the very trap the system wants to see us in.

If you take a look at the experience so far of the Indignados movement here in Spain, you'll see that while corporate media tends to minimize, silence or directly ignore pacific protests until they can no longer deny reality, they give massive attention to any black bloc, burning container, smashed starbucks and it is used as the perfect opportunity to characterize the movement as the "inner enemy"

On the general strike on March 29th there were some violent incidents in Barcelona. They were inmensely magnified by the media, corporations and politians and this is serving right now as an excuse to make a law that equirates legally sitting down to resist an eviction to throw molotov cocktails. Engaging in property destruction will be considered now a form of terrorism. Or resisting police authority in any kind, too. Please do not forget Spain is - used to be - a democratic regime just like France and probably more democratic than the US itself just some years ago. This isn't Syria - yet

The Spanish Indignados movement has organized then a national "Non Violence and Pacification Methodology" transversal working group. Iniciatives of the kind of WHITE BLOCKS (which block violent actions), mediation for conflict resolution in demonstrations, people witness (camera, livestream everywhere as a way to protect protesters), together with legal assitance, the use of panflets inviting to non-violent action in demonstrations, the organization of livestremmed non-violent workshops etc, etc, etc

For god shake I hope OWS won't step down into violence, because it will threaten the whole movement. Also jumping over corporate media as Adbusters claims. And going into universities and faculties to empower OWS, as we're doing, as a perfect complement to empower general assemblies and open spaces in parks and squares. Nothing will stop OWS once it gets strong in universities, boikot neoliberal economics deparments and opens up actively, persistently, in order to create bonds with the global revolution movement going on