There are always differences.  But the LA uprising drove the police out,
and I can attest that the better paid workers (in upscale West LA) were
panicked.  It took 2-3 hours to get home, when usual time is 20Min.
the roads were at a standstill.  If that isn't rebellion        I don't know
what is.  In that case it took the army to re-conquer the district.
Chiapas was more far-reaching of course, and there the army has yet to
fully return.
wcm
>
> I think the difference between the two situations- chiapas and south
> central-that makes one a riot and the other a rebellion/uprising, is that
> the organized chiapas action is directed at an identified enemy, and not
> simply unleashed at any convenient target. In a riot, as in south central, a
> small shop keeper was more likely to be ruined than a corporate criminal,
> and truly innocent people just passing or driving by, were beaten and
> murdered.
>
> The conditions that brought about a social reaction-explosion were similarly
> unjust, but the form of those reactions were shaped by the social
> conditions. In south central, despite what organized gangs may or may not
> have done, disorganized mobs were more the order of the day. If Chomsky , or
> you or I, had been driving through south central that night, we might have
> had our asses kicked or been murdered.Only the government forces would do
> that to us in chiapas.
>
> fs
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