Protesters around the world are commemorating todayās May Day with rallies in support of workers and against the economic and political powers that be. Much of this has been peaceful or at least standard Occupy-style protest-and-arrest, but in Seattle, in the same downtown area where tens of thousands of gamers gather each year to attend the Penny Arcade Expo, some protesters are smashing windows.
Seattleās KIRO-TV tweets: āRaw video: Black-clad protesters smash Niketown windows in Seattleā
Hereās the video. (One of the protesters appears to be wearingā¦ Nike shoes.)
Itās ugly out there in Seattle. Smashing windows in a Niketown? It gets press, but itās not clear what productive point it makes. It seems about as productive as dressing up as a super-hero and pepper-spraying the protestors
But hereās the more peaceful scene outside the Seattle offices of Popcap, as Tweeted by the companyās Jeff Green.
Violence erupts as May Day protesters flood streets [KIRO-TV, via Twitter]
