Why was the Crimethinc. Convergence specifically targeted?
It had first been proposed by some Pittsburgh apoc that the conference, its organizers, and its attendees be addressed initially by a boycott. There were apocers from Pittsburgh who made a call for action and Smack a White Boy Part Two was proposed and some local Apocers gave 100% support for an action. This support for an action had much to do with the CrimethInc organizers’ disregard for the role they and CrimethInc attendees could play in gentrifying the neighborhood in which it was held. In email correspondence with one apocer that attended the convergence for its entire duration, the CrimethInc. organizers refused to address that they were organizing a white event (an event that, despite the attendance of a small handful of poc, was structured for white people, largely by white people, and as a white space). The organizers did not obtain the consent of any of the relevant communities before arranging for a convergence and went so far as to attempt to buy a building in a poor black
