'Capitalism not working,' says marcher about what is fueling ongoing protests in Seattle

KOMO News ^ | 1/22/21 | Matt Markovich

[Uncle Miltie]

SEATTLE — The original rallying point for a protest that began Wednesday night in Seattle's Occidental Park was to support calls to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, but it transformed into what participants describe as a direct action event.

The protest resulted in the arrests of three people, several buildings tagged with graffiti and multiple shattered windows.

Sheena was one of those marchers participating in the Wednesday night protest.

“Direction action is beyond the picket signs in the streets," she said. "It's taking that a step further (and) it's willing to be confrontational, if needed.”

Sheena's has been participating for months in the direct action marches, along with others who all dress from head to toe in black and wear helmets so they are ready for a confrontation with counter protesters or law enforcement officers.

The group marches in a tight pack with the intent of staying within an arm’s length of each other for tactical reasons and protection.

“The reason people dress in black bloc is not to be scary,” she said. “If we are all (dressed) similar, then we are safer together. And people have legitimately had death threats made against them and threats against their family.”

Sheena said she has marched and demonstrated without black bloc during rallies for Black Lives Matter and Defunding SPD. There are several reasons why the participants are protesting, including because they are anti-Capitalism, want to defund police, support the Black Lives Matter movement and want immigration reform.

“Capitalism is not working,” she said.

But the direct marchers have gotten a reputation for the constant confrontations they have had with police along with the vandalism that follows their protests.

During Wednesday’s demonstration, the windows of Starbuck stores, Amazon Go shops and the federal courthouse in Seattle were vandalized.

There is no organizational leader for the march, and participants do so as individuals but take collective action as a group to make their point, which critics say usually ends in violence.

Sheena said they are disruptors.

“Sometimes you have to be willing to be uncomfortable and make others uncomfortable because that's where growth happens,” she said. "I don’t think you can be violent against a window.”

She said there is a deep distrust of the media among the group.

“It doesn’t matter what we do, we are going to be shown in a bad light,” she said. “You can't paint all Republicans and Democrats with the same brush, so you can't paint all activists with the same brush."

Sheena rejects the statement that she is participating in domestic terrorism.

“If you say everybody who does something that is perceived to be bad or makes me uncomfortable is a terrorist, I think people need to really need to take stock of why they think that,” she said.

What marks direct action marchers is their willingness to take the extra step that invites confrontation with police but it’s also the belief that it’s a necessary step to get their message across.

“I’m prepared to put my life on the line for black and brown bodies," she said.

[unixfox]

Capitalism made your iPhone. Capitalism allowed you to purchase it.

Now go back to your playground and let the adults take charge.

[central_va]

Globalists killed the golden goose...

[RC one]

This is it exactly. And with this in mind, is it any surprise that our new VP demolishes the eligibility clause?

[bigbob]

Capitalism is what we have here. Don’t like it, go to Venezuela.

[BenLurkin]

“Capitalism is not working,” for what?

if her disappointment is that “capitalism” is “not working” to advance communistic causes, then she should hardly be surprised.

[Texas Eagle]

Really, Precious? If it wasn’t for Capitalism, there’d be no incentive to make the spray paint for you to spray your precious messages with or windows for you to preciously break.

[Kazan]

It doesn’t work for losers.

[yoe]

Sheena? Sheena who? Is she being paid by someone? does she have a job, pay rent, pay taxes? Have a bank account. Seems as though Capitalism is working for her now, isn't she an Entrepreneur, has the liberty to say what she is saying, right or wrong?

Sheena, I am Cancelling you because I have the liberty to do so. March on Sheena, in freedom.

[Noumenon]

Capitalism surely does not work the lazy, the entitled and the willfully stupid.

[central_va]

You have it wrong. Global capitalism closed the spray paint factory in Tennessee and reopened it in China. A corrupt US govt allowed the paint to come back in in duty free. The ‘displaced’ workers in TN are now economic refuges or on drugs. ( unless they learned to code)..

[knarf]

Head smack !

Socialists claiming Capitalism doesn't satisfy socialist aims.

[Republican Wildcat]

Capitalism isn’t working *in Seattle*? It’s been awhile since they’ve tried it.

[frank ballenger]

Capitalism is ALL ABOUT WORKING.

Protester: "You mean working like me having a job? I'm talking about someone paying more taxes so I can sit at home and watch TV and smoke dope. You and I have our signals crossed here. Get woke."

[MrChips]

Obviously, she does not like to work, save, invest, pursue happiness . . . like the rest of us. It’s called Capitalism.

[depressed in 06]

“Capitalism is not working,” she said.

Socialism is all about being paid not to work. Capitalism is about being paid to work to your best ability.

[ETL]

You’d think the communists in the Democrat party and those running the “peaceful protests” in our streets would learn from history, yet they never seem to.
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The long bloody FAILED history of COMMUNISM...

And you can add to the following totals the now ONE MILLION PLUS (worldwide) already dead from the communist China virus that they KNOWINGLY set loose upon the world. .......

“The Black Book of Communism, a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone [65+ million for communist China under Mao Zedong]), and some say that number is too low.”

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
by Jonah Goldberg, August 2008

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Black Lives Matter [New York] leader states if US ‘doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system’

“[Hawk] Newsome told the host, “if this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right?

And I could be speaking ... figuratively. I could be speaking literally.
It’s a matter of interpretation. ...”

—Victor Garcia | Fox News | June 24, 2020
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BLM co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, says in interview she and co-founder, Alicia Garza, are inspired by Mao Zedong

Meanwhile, Mao Zedong, via his so-called “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution”, is reported to have killed close to 70 million people!

Below, from Time Magazine, February 26, 2018

“[Patrisse] Cullors [CO-FOUNDER “BLACK LIVES MATTER”] weaves her intellectual influences into this narrative, from black feminist writers like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong.

Reading those social philosophers “provided a new understanding around what our economies could look like,” she says.

Aric Jenkins | Time Magazine | February 26, 2018
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“I went through a year-long organising programme at the National School for Strategic Organising (NSSO), and it was led by the Labour Community Strategy Centre.

We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao...”

-—Patrisse Cullors, co-founder Black Lives Matter

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Profile: Mao Zedong (aka Mao tse-Tung)

“Mao Zedong was the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1949 until his death in 1976.

Mao is arguably the greatest mass murderer in history, eclipsing even the murderous Joesph Stalin in this regard.

Some 70 million Chinese, along with countless Tibetans, Mongolians, Manchus, Koreans, Hmong, Uyghurs, and other nationalities, perished at his hands during his long and brutal reign.”

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[samadams2000]

Xactly. These dirtbags don’t want to work.

[cp124]

You got your Communist regime so what are you complaining about?

[polymuser]

“Capitalism + globalism = slavery for the multitudes”

China seems very capitalistic, no?

Especially with, and now within, the USA.

We’ll now have The Century of China, thanks to progressives and D’rats. Trump was a only speed-bump they rolled over (because we the people patriots did not stand and fight with him).

[frank ballenger]

.... Global capitalism closed the spray paint factory in Tennessee and reopened it in China. A corrupt US govt allowed the paint to come back in in duty free. The ‘displaced’ workers in TN are now economic refugees or on drugs. ( unless they learned to code)..

Tragic. I wonder how many stories like that are repeated in towns and cities all over the 50 states. With the Communist Chinese coming back strong with America Last policies of the Dems.

There used to be Made in Michigan gift baskets with local fudge, candy, nuts, preserves, salad dressing and so on. So many things went to other states, or China, that the baskets were so empty they stopped putting them together.

Lists of Made in America will soon be short enough to go on a playing card, with extra inches paid for by MyPillow to keep the last vestiges of American pride going.