A protest movement managed street chaos and blame while refusing state co-optation

Evidence

The MPL had to play a sort of “double game,” as Lucas “Vegetable” called it, which was to always blame the government and its repressive apparatuses for the chaos on the streets, to insist that it was the price rise and the police that caused the situation, while they also did what they could to make sure that the chaos remained within the levels they desired. … They put a note up on Facebook on June 7, emphasizing the first point. And as expected, the mayor’s office reached out. Someone from city hall got the phone number of one of the activists through a mutual friend (this is very much Haddad’s style) and called directly, offering to invite her in for a “frank discussion, from citizen to citizen” on transport policy. It was rebuked, on the grounds that this was not the kind of conversation they wished to have. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 371

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horizontal protest movements that refuse representation get co-opted or crushed by existing powers — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 444; A threatened protest achieved disruption without anyone actually blocking traffic — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 518; Co-opting a grievance party into government stripped it of its protest function — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 744 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• A threatened protest achieved disruption without anyone actually blocking traffic #exemplifies (0.85) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 518
• March 2013 crowds rejected the left parties that had built the protest #exemplifies (0.83) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 430
• Horizontal protest movements that refuse representation get co-opted or crushed by existing powers #complicates (0.82) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 444
• Protest movement leaders simultaneously shielded attacked police and blamed the state for violence. #exemplifies (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 377
• Co-opting a grievance party into government stripped it of its protest function #qualifies (0.78) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 744
• A major Brazilian protest movement organized as consensus-based and leaderless by design #qualifies (0.74) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 149