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Richard Spencer

How is it that Richard Spencer is not mentioned anywhere in the Black Bloc article? Spencer getting punched was surely a huge part of the whole antifa/black bloc uprising in America. Does anyone really debate this??? Even the antifa wiki article mentions it, and its not half as clear that the person who punched Spencer was antifa as it is that they were black bloc. Mbsyl (talk) 15:18, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

block, not bloc

The word in English for a group of persons is "block". "Bloc" is generally reserved for a group of countries. See the two words at Lexico.com (the online Oxford dictionary) for example. Wegesrand (talk) 12:49, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Wegesrand: Terminology in Wikipedia articles is based on what's used in reliable sources. Reliable sources on this subject almost exclusively use "bloc". – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:32, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Google ngrams seems to agree. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 22:00, 14 January 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Black bloc prosody

I came across this article while looking at sources for the Sean Bonney article; it has some meditations on the black bloc tactic in relation to poetry that could make for an interesting addition to this article:

Nowell Smith, David (2013). "'An Interrupter, a Collective': Sean Bonney's Lyric Outrage". Études britanniques contemporaines (45). doi:10.4000/ebc.746.

– Arms & Hearts (talk) 18:50, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I've removed the following as OR/Syn:

There is no evidence that the black bloc tactic is particularly vulnerable to infiltration, however, as investigatory—and even agent provocateur—activity has taken place regularly among completely nonviolent, non-"black bloc" campaigns. In 2003, the Oakland, California Police Department infiltrated a group of demonstrators protesting police brutality and the war in Iraq at the port; subpoenaed private comments by Captain Howard Jordan indicate that his plan was to steer the march away from the police station in order to avoid confrontation. In internal documents, Jordan mentioned this strategy was common in other police departments, including San Francisco and Seattle.^[1]

^ "State of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of Political Activity in Northern & Central California A Report by the ACLU of Northern California" Written by Mark Schlosberg, Police Practices Policy Director, July 2006; Gonzalez, Richard (8 August 2006). "Oakland Police Spy on Anti-War Group". NPR. Retrieved 13 April 2012.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:58, 14 January 2024 (UTC).[reply]

[1] "State of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of Political Activity in Northern & Central California A Report by the ACLU of Northern California" Written by Mark Schlosberg, Police Practices Policy Director, July 2006; Gonzalez, Richard (8 August 2006). "Oakland Police Spy on Anti-War Group". NPR. Retrieved 13 April 2012.

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