Wearing black clothes and bandanas does not make one an anarchist, that much is obvious, and no one has ever made that claim. The Black Bloc is a name and a TACTIC, not a fashion statement (Although I think it looks cool too).

Go Dick!
Durbin says no to signing the resolution for war in Iraq. I hear more and more anti-war sentiment every day.

Africa is an oppressed and exploited continent, still reeling from Imperialism and still being controlled by trans-national interests in the Global North. There is an AIDS crisis and widespread famine in Africa that is only getting worse. The U.S. supports diamond and gold mining operations and allows companies like Dupont and Monsanto sell genetically modified foods (which Africa does not want because GM crops, once planted, spread like a cancer over non-GM crops. It also has to do with future trade with the European Union, which has rejected GM foods from being imported as a form of trade contol - instead of inacting high tariffs. Rejecting GM crops accomplishes the same thing.). The solution to this can be found in a simple parable. Give a man a bag a genetically modified corn, feed his family for a day, Teach a man how to grow his own non-GM corn, feed his village for a lifetime.
Much like the African subcontinent is still exploited and oppressed, so too are the black people in the U.S.
The Civil War is over, but the war for black freedom is not.
The Civil War was not fought for the freedom of slaves, it was fought for control of the cash generator that was the South. While I sympathize with reparations, and I think that Blacks deserve reparations, I don't think money is the answer. Let's give them a better world. The Civil Rights movement is not over, black people today are NOT treated equally. They are still passed over in job interviews and too many young black males end up in a correctional facility or dead.