  Interview With Chris Hedges About Black Bloc  Thursday, 09
February 2012 10:21 By JA Myerson, Truthout | Interview   •
Print   • Email  Chris Hedges' syndicated Truthdig column "Black
Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy," printed Tuesday at Truthout and
elsewhere, created quite a stir among members of Occupy Wall
Street (OWS). Some endorsed the sentiment. Among others,
including some central organizers who helped plan the action
over the summer, the column raised eyebrows and hackles. I
compiled what I considered to be the best critiques of the piece
that I came across (as well as my own questions) and interviewed
Hedges over the phone.  I explained at the outset that I, too,
had written in Truthout to urge doctrinal nonviolence and that I
am enormously fond of Hedges' prodigious body of work.
Nevertheless, I explained, there was a lot about the column that
confounded me and many people I'd heard from, and I asked him to
let me push for clarification on a number of points. Here is the
transcript of that recorded int