During the historic Police Brutality march after the crowds reconnected, Ted Hayes stood as a shepard who inherited a flock of youthful energy that drove a crowd to let the Police know, "Who's streets? Our Streets!" Upon entering Persing Square he reflected upon the homeless and their plight after we are all gone on the 18th. He continued to share his love and admoration for the movement but stressed that we need true leadership. We need those bold few to stand up and say, "I am in charge here. I take responsibility. Deal with me." And unless we organize and deal with the powers to be by bringing them to the table, the energy that we've built today can take the wasted conclusion of the brilliant 60s.

If you've been around and know a little bit, the future is ours to carve one day at a time.

As the people broke free from police encirclement at the Aug 16th march today, Ted Hayes tried to sieze leadership from the youth organizers.

Almost immediately, as the groups was trying to slow down so as not to be too dispersed, and so become open to further police attack, Hayes urged the crowd to run faster.

Again, later in the non- permitted and daring march back to Pershing Square, Hayes urged the crowd to run when danger presented itself, and when solidarity dictated regrouping. When challenged, apparently there was a shoving match begun by Hayes "soldiers", a dangerous provocation.

When he showed up at Pershing Square a while later, he was told in no uncertain terms to leave. After some bluster and implied threats, he did just that.

Hayes notoriety stems from incidents like this summer's arrest of Food not Bombs activists in Pershing Square. As supporters rallied there to condemn the police harrasssment of the activists, Hayes condemned them and justified their arrests to the media.

More recently, he threatened in "negotiations" with D2K to use video cameras to document illegal activities, including non-violent direct action by other protesters.

Ted Hayes only attributes diffused energy to the "young people" around him, people who need a shepard, a leader to tell groups to "march here." I think this is wrong. The model of a relatively leaderless movement is something that genuinely frightens the current authority structures.

And since Hayes seems to have his eye on the position of shephard, he should note that contemporary leaders of revolutionary or even progressive movements in america who have been even slightly successful have come to notoriously bad ends.

We need to keep organizing, but not by lock-stepping according to orders. We need to keep acting, but not by becoming a militant faction of martyrs.

Ted Hayes proclaims that someone should stand up and say "deal with me." He apparently tried to do that -- and the police shot him.

Make alliances, not hierarchy.

As far as I can tell Ted Hayes is a poseur and a failed cult leader. D2KLA bent over backward to accomodate him in the protests, but out of some 200 diverse groups, his was the only one that refused to make solidarity with us. Instead he vowed to work with the police to put us in jail.

This guy's a wacko and an egomanic. You should have seen him stride into Pershing Square Wednesday night in his Jesus robes and with his followers tagging along behind. He got to the edge of where the anarchists were gathering, folded his arms and surveyed the scene like he way looking out over his kingdom. Shortly afterwards, he was kicked out of the park by some public spirited individuals who saw through his bullshit.

I noticed his disciples were recording his every move with a video camera, so I presume the IMC video and the reverent commentary accompanying it were produced by his followers.

Watch out for leaders in white robes -- if they can lead you to paradise, they can just as easily lead you to hell.

This is not true about Ted Hayes acting as a shepard. The 4 o clock march on wed. from parker center to staples was organizedby a coalition od youth named, ''youth are the future we demand a better world", which I am a part of. I am from the Refuse and Resist! Youth Network in L.A. After the people reconnected, everyone involved made a collective decision to take the streets again, rather than be herded like sheep into the staples protest pen.This was without a permit may I ad, which I saw as a victory by the people. As a matter of fact I personally saw ted marching in the opposite direction with his americrap flag around his neck yelling for everyone to head back to staples. this confused people but the masses stuck together and marched on to staples center. as we arrived at staples i saw ted hayes get in a confrontation with an activist who told ted hayes that he was not welcome there because he had backed the police at a past event instead of the masses. briefly after this ted was nowhere to be seen with his "body guards" by his side.