Posted on 01/23/2021 12:19:17 PM PST by 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.
Corporatism is what is not working.
Only to a 'Freeloader who is not working'. Capitalism works great for those who choose to work.
Good thing the FBI is focusing on tracking down Trump supporters not the real domestic terrorists. Don’t want to violate their rights.
The little sh*ts did about 2 billion worth of damage to our cities, killed scores of people and looted for months. Maybe this little witch should show the bad clips from the press. We'd like to see them. Why? Because the press coverage of right-wingers got for a 2 hour violence spree that caused damage to one door and one window got about ten thousand times more negative press. AND thousands of national guard troops for months... and calls for re=education camps. While antifa with all their in your face crap - hardly got any negative press. What this twit Sheena doesn't know is she works for white liberal elites... they buy the bricks, batons, tents, plane tickets and hand out 'walking around money'. Does she think that all comes free? She's a little fool - a useful idiot - a girl without much curiosity about who's supporting her...land why... especially 'why'...
The little antifa sh*ts did about 2 billion worth of damage to our cities, killed scores of people and looted for months. Maybe this little witch should show the bad clips from the press. We'd like to see them.
Why?
Because the press coverage of right-wingers got for a 2 hour violence spree that caused damage to one door and one window got about ten thousand times more negative press. AND thousands of national guard troops for months... and calls for re=education camps. While antifa with all their in your face crap - hardly got any negative press.
What this twit Sheena doesn't know is she works for white liberal elites... they buy the bricks, batons, tents, plane tickets and hand out 'walking around money'. Does she think that all comes free? She's a little fool - a useful idiot - a girl without much curiosity about who's supporting her...land why... especially 'why'...
"Welcome to my world." - Donald Trump
Hey/Hey Sheena, Hoe and Joe here is your peaceful reality!
Thanks to BenLurkin for the reminder above, re Joe and his Hoe!
Smearing the current political and economic system as immoral, they justify totalitarian takeover ... crony capitalism and fascism. In the name of fairness and social justice.
Does the fool know communism would quite literally clean(kill) the streets very quickly? Oh yeah, and you’d have one pot to piss in with such a small amount of calories there wouldn’t be any “protestors.”
Defund the police...bring back the Black Marias and maybe Mao’s little red army?
They will someday beg for capitalism
Bkmk
[ Capitalism is ALL ABOUT WORKING. ]
It certainly doesn’t for people who refuse to though...
Capitalism doesn’t abide losers and idiots that got a “studies” degree.
Yes!
“Capitalism surely does not work the lazy, the entitled and the willfully stupid.”
In the Soviet Union at least in the beginning if you did not work you got shot. They had no use for lazy bums.
They are MARXISTS, Jim
They dont like free enterprise
There are also people who cannot stand that someone else has more than they do. They are miserable their entire lives.
Capitalism is working just fine.
What and who are not working are those who are out and about rioting and destroying what other have worked for.
Anyone caught rioting or doing damage to private or public property for political reasons should be cut off of all public and government programs Unemployment, welfare, food stamps, all medical coverage, and disability. If they work for government, at any level, they should automatically lose their jobs with the forfeiture of all retirement and benefits to include those listed above.
If one decided it is important enough to burn down what others have built then it should be important enough to them to self fund their passions and actions, forever.
Well, opening the border should do wonders for their employment prospects and wages
It’s not working for these Marxist children, because they don’t want to work.
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