Subject: Re: Antifa at it again in Seattle
You don't need to resort to some imaginary centralized national organization pulling some strings to explain that.

So you don't think there are well known activists who teach "resistance" to locals?

Sure you want your argument to die on that hill?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

At a news conference on Tuesday before the arrests, Mayor Eric Adams said the pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia has been “co-opted by professional outside agitators” who have no affiliation with the institution.
“They are not here to promote peace or unity or allow a peaceful displaying of one’s voice,” Mr. Adams said. “They are here to create discord and divisiveness.”

Count the NYT as a news outfit that doesn't see it like you do.

Meet Lisa Fithian:
Ms. Fithian said she came to Columbia on Monday afternoon to conduct a training session with about 30 students activists focused on safety and the general logistics of a protest. She said she had been invited informally by someone — she said she did not catch their name — on Sunday during a visit to City College of New York. She said she was not paid.

Count the number of LOLs one could issue from that paragraph. So some guy randomly invited her over there? And why call out the paid thing? Hahahahahahaha.

“We have to be willing to create a crisis. We have to be willing to engage in social disruption and create crisis for the people in power who are creating harm.”

Her words.

https://www.organizingforpower...
Lisa Fithian has been working for nonviolent social change since the mid 1970’s. Over the years she has been a student, labor and community organizer on a broad range of issues. From environmental justice to student and worker rights, from peace and global justice to immigration and housing, Lisa continues to use a wide range of strategies and tactics and encouraged nonviolent direct action as one of the most effective strategies for change.

One of their code phrases is "Direct action", by the way.

Let's add far-right news org Reuters who also sees it my way:
https://www.reuters.com/invest...

You wouldn’t know it, but Armbruster, 5'5" and under 130 pounds, is a militant activist in the far-left Antifa movement. She has clashed on the streets with the rightwing Proud Boys extremist group, with the alt-right movement and with police.

Her arrest record – in Washington, DC, Arizona, Virginia, Minnesota and Florida – dates to 2003, for charges of unlawful assembly, failure to disperse, violating the Riot Act and assaulting far-right leaders and a police officer. Most of her prior charges were dismissed by judges or prosecutors; she faces three pending cases.

“We are prepared to put our bodies on the line in the event of police or fascist or racist violence,” she said. “And it’s really, like, a duty to humanity to do that, right?”

Like, totally a duty to riot, man. Far out!

In reality, Antifa is not a well-structured organization, but rather a loosely organized, secretive movement of like-minded far-left activists. There are no leaders, no hierarchy and no formal membership. Instead, the activists organize in small units called “affinity groups.”

In other words, cells based on the IRA model. You *can* take some solace in that the Reuters article is trying its hardest to pretend that this chick is some kind of hero.