Posted on 03/15/2003 8:05:53 PM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
Here's my report.
Hubby and I leave the apartment at 2:30 pm to go take a long walk to Ghirardelli Square. We've been hearing helicopters overhead and bullhorns.
Out the door we start seeing "them". I was saying to DH (Dear Hubby) that maybe we should see if our FRiends were there at McAllister and Polk, but DH said no as we see more of the unwashed coming our way.
We are sickened by them.
We start walking to our destination, Ghirardelli Square, up hills. Some *ickies* go right behind us, walking. I start saying things to hubby like how we hate hippies and anti-Americans, and say it loud enough for old gray professor liberal looking type and his trophy younger student-girlfriend can listen behind us. Hubby is agreeing with me, and adding things in his logical way.
Professor starts talking to the (way) younger girl, and they try to pass us on the sidewalk, and do pass us walking very very fast up hills.
We catch up with them. I say to hubby, loudly so they can hear "Liberalism is a mental disease".
They walk behind us trying to get in front of us again. Red light again. I say "National Socialist Party were socialists, too bad the left doesn't acknowledge their *roots*."......
Again, close to them, my last dig "the left is anti-semetic, always has been....".....they turned left on a hill, didn't want to walk around US anymore, naturally my DH said, as the left doesn't want debate.
Then, this evening, I checked out http://www.indybay.org aka http://sf.indymedia.org and found on that site the streets they are planning to block the day the war starts.
I phone the local police station with the information. I gave all the web addresses of sf indymedia. I explain to the police I am a republican and sad that only 157 (according to indymedia) have been arrested.
They thanked me, told me they will check out the site (they didn't know about it! so much for the SFPD so called spying on the left...typical SF Chronicle/Comical propaganda!). He asked me to fax it to them (the places they are planning to block), but I don't have access to a fax machine till I go to work Monday.
More:
Here is the link to what they plan on doing to San Francisco if and when the war starts:
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1570095.php
Hi, would you like to see our Action Menu today? by cmi Tuesday February 04, 2003 at 08:06 PM
Call for actions in SF the business day after war begins.
download PDF (197.0 kibibytes)
IF WAR BEGINS? 7:00 AM MORNING OF THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY AFTER WAR BEGINS MEET: Market and Main, Embarcadero BART, San Francisco
EMERGENCY MASS NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION & PROTEST
TRANSFORM OUR CITY >From Profit And War To Life And Resistance Shut Down The Corporate Warmakers!
o Don't go to work or school o HEAD DOWNTOWN: Bring friends, music, art, performance, and food to share o Join/create an ongoing transformation/occupation o Prepare Now: Form an affinity (action) group
Direct Action to Stop the War http://www.actagainstwar.org (415) 820-9649
OUR GOALS 1) If the government and corporations won't stop the war, we'll shut down the warmakers! We will impose real economic, social and political costs and stop business as usual until the war stops.
2) Assert our power to transform our city from profits, oil and war to resistance and life! We will create an open, welcoming, inspiring space that gives voice to the anti-war majority as an assertion of real democracy.
3) Uproot the system behind the war (and behind the war at home -- racism, poverty); help catalyze mass movements to challenge corporate and government power and create socially just, directly democratic, ecological, peaceful alternatives.
WHAT YOU CAN DO If the war starts, don't go to work or school and head downtown. Call in sick, walk out, don't go -- and get your co-workers/schoolmates to join you. Form an affinity or action group to get prepared. Get a group of five to 25 of your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, or schoolmates to prepare for and participate in the emergency morning-after action. Make a plan of how you will get together, get downtown and what you will do if war starts. Send one or two people from your group to the weekly action "spokescouncil" to coordinate with other groups. Participate in a nonviolent direct action training to get prepared. Several affinity groups can join together as a "cluster."
Bring friends, music, art, performance, and food to share to help transform our city. Help sustain the transformation/occupation as long as possible -- we will keep it going.
ACTION MENU We are asking affinity (action) groups choose from the menu and take over and transform the following key intersections and corporate and government offices/buildings. Or join the "Take Out" mobile Bikes not Bombs actions. Or plan your own action and menu item. Attend the weekly spokescouncil meeting to coordinate and help organize. The business day the morning after war starts you may wish to just go directly to a "menu" location or else to Main and Market where people will go out to support the actions.
There are many ways to reclaim, transform, occupy or blockade spaces. Sit-ins, street parties, lockdown, objects, performance, street murals, gardening, large sculpture, die-ins? PLAN AHEAD. Invite everyone you know. We will have fliers and encourage everyone to make an effort to talk to, diffuse or get support from those who get stuck on their way to work, school or other business.
A MOVEABLE FEAST Intersections and Arteries Primi Piatti (1st Course): 1) Lombard & Van Ness 2) Polk & Broadway 3) Polk & Bush 4) Market & Franklin 5) Division & Van Ness 6) 6th & Brannan 7) 5th & Mission (SF Chronicle) 8) 3rd & Folsom 9) Harrison & 2nd 10) Harrison & Fremont 11) Embarcadero & Market 12) Broadway @ Columbus Secondi Piatti (2nd Course): 131 & 132) Stockton Tunnel 14) Powell & Bush 15) Market & 6th 16) 16th & Valencia/Mission 17) Howard & Fremont 18) Embarcadero & Washington 19) Embarcadero & Broadway 20) Parking Lot of Your Choice a. Civic Center (McAllister betw. Polk/Larkin) b. Sutter/Stockton (entries on Bush and Stockton) c. 5th/Mission (entries on Mission and on Minna)
TRADITIONAL SIT-DOWN DINNER Government and Corporate Financial A) City Corpse/UK Consulate: Sansome & Market B) Carlyle Group/TransAmerica Pyramid: 600 Montgomery C) Pacific Stock Exchange (2nd floor): 220 Bush (near Kearny) Big Oil D) Shell Office: 100 Bush @ Sansome Media E) CBS Westinghouse Electric: 221 Main St. Near Howard Federal F) Federal Building: Golden Gate & Polk G) Federal Reserve: 101 Market H) Military Recruitment Center: 670 Davis
NO TIME TO DINE? TRY OUR TAKE OUT! BIKES NOT BOMBS Bicycling: A QUIET STATEMENT AGAINST OIL WARS. Join the mobile Bikes not Bombs. Bring your bike (or rollerblades, or skateboard or any human-powered wheels) with signs, flags, and decorations to Main and Market at 7am (or whenever you can make it) and support all the stationary action, fill the streets with bicycles, get the word out. Your affinity group can be its own moving anti-war bike ride.
That sounds truly ominous... FReep is called for...
You can contact these creeps by email at vafb@MGPnofate.org
Or call them at (831) 457-9917.
Given the phone number, the group is coordinated here in Santa Cruz.
HERE is one of their coordinating websites. Here is one of their programs:
NO MISSILE DEFENSE!
NO WEAPONS IN SPACE!
NO NUCLEAR ROCKET!
STOP THE BUSH WAR ON THE WORLD!
SUPPORT THE KUCINICH SPACE BAN BILL!
KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE!
FUND HUMAN NEEDS!
It looks as if they're still working for the Russians. If you go there, you will note that these guys have access to a pretty impressive list of activities: 87 events between October 5-14 last year, worldwide. We've got nothing on these creeps by way of organization.
Here's their list of speakers, anybody recognize the names?
SPEAKERS
(Please contact these people directly to negotiate speaking dates, travel
expenses, etc. during the week of actions. They all have considerable
expertise on the space issue and come highly recommended by the Global
Network)
ENTERTAINERS
(These fine singers/songwriters have space songs and other good political music)
Vandenberg Air Force Base authorizes 'deadly force' against trespassing protesters
Becki
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 90083, Gainesville, FL 32607
www.space4peace.org
On of their grantors is Resist, Inc. They appear to be tied in all over the country. Might be a money laundering operation.
Resist awards grants six times a year to groups throughout the United States engaged in activism for social and economic justice.
| Mailing address | Resist, Inc. 259 Elm Street Somerville, MA 02144
|
| Phone | 617/623-5110 |
| resistinc@igc.apc.org | |
| World Wide Web | http://www.resistinc.org |
As for the SFPD, hate to rag on our local police force, BUT....they do know about sfindymedia.org. Today's Chronicle mentioned that fact in one of their many articles on the "anti-war" movement. Supposedly the police are monitoring the site, but then I have to ask myself, why do they always seem surprised by the shenanigans of the Anarchists? They did bust a lot of them today though.
I faxed our contact at the SFPD print-ups from the site earlier in the week, at his request, but today the police pretty much kept their distance. Nothing major happened anyway, but I have to say that I've found their behavior very inconsistent when it comes to our counter-protests.
As for the civil disobedience in SF, I say, let the lefty lunatics get themselves arrested. It's irritating that this city is at the mercy of these idiots, but that's what liberalism gets ya'.
When it comes to attacking military sites though, doesn't that make them the enemy? Hopefully, our military will teach them a lesson or two...
As Charlie Brown used to say, "AAUGH!"
I will scream the next time I hear "civil disobedience" referred to as "democracy!" Democracy has ZIP, ZERO, NADA to do with demonstrating in the streets! Are these people really so stupid that they don't know the meaning of the word "democracy" itself, or are they simply trying to redefine the word for their propaganda purposes?
And "Anti-war majority"? Scuse me? There are about 725,000 people who call San Francisco home. If you want to believe these people's estimate of 200,000 for the February 16 rally (even after the Chronicle -- in a rare display of candor that borders on bravery -- put on its front page their revision of the estimate to only 65,000), that's STILL not even close to half!
Let's see, if this advice was followed, it could mean most of our leftwing campuses, publicly funded interest groups, law offices and suckling piglets at the public troughs wouldn't be there. How would the truck drivers, factory workers, small businesse and the rest of us who actually produce something for a living manage without their labour? </ sarcasm>
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