Lock-down to Protect Rudolph and Friends

As always, I was glad that these protests attracted media attention. My partner was in Union Square for the largest of the anti-fur demonstrations.(We are both strongly anti-fur and anti-vivisection, by the way, and I have a 25 year history of radical social activism.) He witnessed numerous protestors - mostly young, it seems - who were sadly behaving in aggressive and uncivil ways, contrary to the the process and spirit of civil disobedience (CD).<P>
It seems to me that CD training needs to happen - otherwise, why are these protestors actually behaving in ways that are inconsistent with the idea of peaceful, active, civil disobedience protests?<P>
Please - anyone who works with PETA and In Defense of Animals in the SF Bay Area: insist that ALL protestors for these very high-visibility demonstrations go through nonviolence training for CD.<P>
Thank you to all of the other protestors who were civil and who tried to educate the public about the horrors of the fur and animal research industries!