Exactly, Barry.

Dissenters appear to have always had trouble telling strategy from tactics, while those established have not. Winning a confrontation is not winning the war, being ahead in a poll is not winning the election. It doesn't happen overnight, but only after years of planning, working, and possibly dodging and dying. At the end, you might have to compromise to get the best deal for the most people.

The Ukraine right now makes the US and the UK look sick.

Here's a scenario.

The WTO announces that it's gonna meet in, oh, say, Denver. Immediately the Denver PD, the Secret Service, the FBI and all the rest start making plans to "contain" the protests. This is their job (never forget that!), and they are very, very good at it. The dissenters also make their plans...via personal visits, via snail mail if necessary, but NOT by landline phone or cell phone or email or fax as these can all be intercepted.

But the dissenters plans have already been laid -- they only have to be activated and tweaked for the city.

The protestors and the cops start to arrive. The area around the meeting place is closed off, businesses are closed, cops everywhere....

And on the day of the WTO meeting, battalions of police are in place. And nothing happens. I mean nothing. No crowds of protestors, no giants puppets, nothing on the streets except cops and the occassional scrap of paper. An announcement is sent to the media from the dissenters, stating their case against the WTO, and that's it. No interviews with the "protestors" are given, only with the cops.

So what's gained?

First, you've cost the Man tons of money. They can't send the cops back, they have to keep them ready, because they work on what might happen (and all the dissenters have very quietly gone home). Second, you've hit the financial community in pocketbook for (in their view) no reason. Third, playing this game at the next WTO meeting will make the cops less ready. And then you actually do something.

Thinking outside the box....

That's tactics, and that's used to win a battle.

Dismantling the WTO is the objective. How to do this via what battles is strategy. What's needed to win the battles is logistics (how to get all the protestors out of Denver without the cops noticing, in the above example, or feeding and housing them).