Anti-war activists plan new rush-hour action - San Francisco - 3/19

SFGate.com ^ | 3/13/04 | Joe Garofoli - SF Chronicle

[NormsRevenge]

The same people behind anti-war demonstrations that tied up San Francisco's downtown a year ago, led to 2,300 arrests and cost the city more than $2 million are planning to do it again.

Only this time, when activists fan out from Justin Herman Plaza during morning rush hour Friday, organizers with Direct Action to Stop the War expect their protest to be "a little more mellow."

[NormsRevenge]

fyi - Bay Area & The City

[paul51]

I hope a few of them get run over

[spunkets]

TIme to equip all your SUVs with cow catchers.

[squidly]

They're not gonna start pukin' again, are they?

[NormsRevenge]

Who funds these creeps?

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Direct Action

Education, Living Wages, and Healthcare -- Not Warfare!Protest and Nonviolent Direct Action, March 19. 7am, Justin Herman Plaza (Embarcadero BART) More March 19th & 20th Events:...

Join us in resistance to our resources being taken away from education, healthcare and community needs to fuel war and occupation in Iraq and to extend a global empire.  While billions of dollars go to Bechtel and other corporations profiteering from "reconstruction," the Iraqi people's healthcare and education are in crisis.

Help celebrate the anniversary of our shutdown of the San Francisco financial district against the invasion of Iraq, and the launch of DASW's Democracy vs. Empire Action Campaign in conjunction with the Global Day of Action on March 20.  Help make our dreams of real democracy come true!
MORE MARCH 19th & 20th EVENTS:...

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DEMOCRACY VS EMPIRE 2004 Campaign 150 people and over 30 groups participated in Direct Action to Stop the War’s January 10th Assembly to plan and strategize for 2004. United in the desire to effectively challenge the war for empire, the assembly began the development of a proactive, ongoing local campaign of education, movement building and resistance.

A CAMPAIGN OF ACTION
Please mark the following dates, plan to participate and get involved to help make happen by signing up for our list serve or action alert list, organizing a group of your friends, co-workers, schoolmates, neighbors or people in your group to participate, come to a DASW meeting or help with a working group.

ACTION DATES:

Friday March 19th
7am Justin Herman Plaza. (Embarcadero BART), SF
REAL DEMOCRACY NOT EMPIRE!
Education, Living Wages & Healthcare-- NOT Warfare!
PROTEST & MASS NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION in conjunction with March 20th internationally coordinated protests against the war and occupation in Iraq.....

Wednesday April 7th
No Police Brutality, No Union Busting, No War for Empire at the Oakland Docks and SSA....

April 15
Tax Day: Palestine to Iraq; Money for Education and Healthcare, not Occupation and Warfare....

June 6-9
Reclaim the Commons!
Come to San Francisco June 3rd - 9th
Dazzle the forces of corporate globalization with streets full of resistance and vision! While the biotechnology industry and its lobbyists meet in San Francisco and the G8 meets in Georgia, join us in San Francisco for a mass mobilization that says NO to corporate profiteering and destruction and YES to the world we want.
www.reclaimthecommons.net

August 30˜September 4
Republican National Convention, New York City protests in New York....

November 3: Day After Actions: Bay Area and nationwide day-after "Beyond Voting" actions to oppose war for empire regardless of who is elected....

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PLUGGING INTO DASW'S ACTION CAMPAIGN: A listing of upcoming
General Meetings, Organizing Group Meetings and contacts for Working Groups.

[NormsRevenge]

The address to mail donations is in Berkeley. They have an email address at riseup.net which is a pivot point for a number of international protest orgs including the one below..

The sites are all crisp and colorful.

The logo at resist.ca is interesting.

They appear to be well-funded at first glance.

hmmmm?

The Resist! Collective is a group of Vancouver-based activists working to provide communications and technical services, information and education to the greater activist community. The Resist! Collective (Resist!) and resist.ca project grew out of the old Vancouver TAO collective.

[cavtrooper21]

Did I miss something or isn't the "war" over???
Didn't we win?
Or am I lost in the same fog these nimrods are??

Pass that doobie, willya.?

[NormsRevenge]

affinity groups... collective... Fighting the Empire... :-\

[jdontom]

These "affinity groups" are 8 to 12 protectors blocking "consumption zones" to disrupt traffic. The guys act and look like girls and the girls act and look like guys!

[Alia]

Yes, NormsRevenge. Here in the Bay Area -- the colleges and some highschools have been revving up for this event. Thursday was calm -- anti-bush/anti-"ahnold" posters and signup tables. But FRIDAY -- they were marching and practicing. So loud, so invasive, students in their classrooms couldn't listen to their teachers. Classes were abruptly halted to make way for these "first-amendment abuser-types". These people have been in everyone's faces since, oh, about 1870s. Same rude tactics.

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

San Francisco rabble being "asked" to make way for the employed who need to get to work.

[Alia]

A slingshot. Hmm. That explains a number of things to me now. First off, it is cowardly as well as harmful to people. Secondarily? During the SF "shutdown" -- soon after, there was another protest at the Oakland docks. Some protestors claimed to have been hit by pellets "or something". I'll bet you dollars to donuts, protestors were hit by "things" shot at them with slingshots -- by those wishing to "agitate" at any price, including harm to allied protestors. Just to make a point. These folks are anti-humanity.

I searched hard for more data about those who had been hit. Nada. The left would claim the "nada" was due to "silencing and oppression by the brutal opposition"; however, could it be that no one *really* could figure out How these people got hurt? (except those who used slingshots....)

Oh, just a notion. But quite a solid one, given that Molotov cocktails were found after the protests in SF.

[DB]

The libs are so dumb... They trash their own neighborhoods at their own expense...

Anyone with half a brain knows you go trash someone elses neigborhood...

[Trillian]

This made me think of this:
http://maddox.xmission.com/nohippies.html

One thing about i've noticed about him is people love him or hate him, there's no in between.

[jdontom]

During the SF protects the SFPD were equipped with a non-lethal "super-sock" bean bag, the gun holds 10 shots. It was not used for crowd control but for officer protection only. At SF, the protectors did also use sling-shots and anything else they could throw. I remember the oakland protests and the "cry-babies" that were screaming police brutality, I'm not sure if the bean bags were used their are not but if they were it would definitely leave its mark on ya :)

[doug from upland]

You have to wonder how it happened that there are so many really stupid people. I have figured it out. God has a great sense of humor. They are here for our entertainment.

[dirtbiker]

Time to equip all your SUVs with cow catchers.

Already have them mounted here in the mountains of VA.......'cept we call 'em SNOWPLOWS!

[null and void]

I hope a few of them get run over

Just a thought. If they chain themselves together, they can't run. Pull a vehicle forward just enough to snug up the chains and shave reverse Mohawks on all dem greasy punk heads...

[null and void]

After all, even the french shaved the heads of collaborators...