As I was riding past East Burnside just now, I witnessed a dour Circle K employee scrubbing a circled A off the wall of the convenience store. Evidence of last night’s anti-cop protest is already succumbing to bleach.
- Megan Driscoll
- Graffiti from last night’s protest
But the activists are taking no rest! The Cascadia Convergence Network just sent out an email announcing another anti-police rally tonight at 6 PM in a location they describe as “Colonel Sumners park.”
“Cops, Pigs, Murderers!” begins the email, launching into a description of last night’s 50-person protest that marched up Burnside.
“The resistance took to the streets and left some minor destruction in their path to the precinct. The cops nest of filth was guarded by dozens of their fellow assailants who set up a police barricade on the block. Some toting riot gear and high powered rifles the pigs showed full force in order to guard their doors so that the resistance didn’t smash its way in demanding justice!”
Tonight’s rally will be a “general assembly and march to oppose police violence” says the email, closing with
No racist police
No racist state
Anarchy = Equality
So be prepared.
They sure stuck it to, uh … the Cirkle K clerk!
Those crybabies wouldn’t last two hours in true anarchy.
Press releases like this make me feel embarrased for the protesters.
How tough can it be to write a press release that doesn’t offend your target audience? Pretty much anytime I see someone refer to the police as “pigs”, I know that they’re not going to bring anything useful to the discussion.
Anarchy = damage to private property
I guess when you haven’t worked for anything, you don’t care about the things others have worked hard for.
I just realized, it’s spring break. The college anarchists have some free time; so they’re going to try and re-create the Black Bloc stuff they saw on that poorly shot documentary about Germany and Seattle and stuff. Fucking idiots.
Oh yes, D, tell us all about “true anarchy”. Enlighten us with your vast knowledge of theories and political movements stretching back for hundreds of years.
Well, this little protest is going to go well. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s headlines to see which businesses these fucking douchebag twerps on Spring Break deface next.
How embarrassing.
SPRING BREEAAAAAAAAKKKK!!! WOOO!
I remember one time when I was doing environmental stuff in Seattle around 1996. I was talking with a couple folks from a group similar to the one above. We exchanged ideas and had a good talk. Then I asked a question that was incredibly offensive to them and it changed the tone of our conversation. I felt bad, I didn’t mean to be such a downer. I guess my question was too radical of a concept in 1996, even for radicals.
My question: “Hey, do you have an email address?”
Footnote: A few months later I got disillusioned since the group I was with turned out to be more cliquish than my high school. I bolted out of Seattle and spent the next few months hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and suddenly I enjoyed life again.
Chief Wiggum: “Time for an old-fashioned hippie ass whomping!”
Public uprisings against real injustices committed by state power is an arduous, honorable, fundamentally democratic and American act. Their concerns should be addressed immediately.
Anyone focusing on minor property damage that may possibly have occurred in the process is a fool or on the wrong side of Justice.
I have a near-identical story to humanclock’s. But mine was in Portland. And about 2003.
Sure sure TP, but any person(s) causing “minor” damage to the property I have worked years building and caring for would find themselves on the wrong side of my whomping stick(s).
Best to leave violence at home. There are other ways to conduct civil disobedience without dragging innocent people into the fray.
On the topic, the protesters who attacked private citizens homes and businesses while leaving the police station untouched are lame.
A bolder and more effective demonstration would have been to silently protest daily in front of the police station. But of course then it would be harder to run away and avoid being arrested… and also you can’t drink beer and watch tv (other *American* pass-times) on public sidewalks.
Spring Break! That explains the noticeable uptick in spangers downtown this week!
TP: you do nothing to serve your cause by breaking other people’s shit.
I’ll bring my box cutter.
You two sound like a couple of Americans shedding Crocodile Tears for the Brit’s insignificant loss of Tea while the Real Patriots dumped it into the sea.
Are you seriously comparing 50-100 rioters breaking stuff at a Starbucks and a Wells Fargo to the Boston Tea Party, TruePatriot?
Sounds like a good rally to stay away from. Breaking other peoples’ stuff does NOT impress me.
Haha the merc reported on a fake rally.
Every resistance movement begins with a small revolt. Average people can recognize that the same corporations who cut benefits and cut workers are rapidly depleting and degrading the land-base then the movement grows from revolt to revolution. The system is functional for the profit of a few at the expense of the majority.
The claim of ownership over the land and resources is against the principles of equality and commonality. For instance, we all depend on clean air and water for life, yet that is being compromised by those interested in profit at any cost.
Some anarchists in the street means that some of us refuse to capitulate to authority. Some of us won’t follow on the concrete walkways built to disconnect us from the dirty ground, instead we walk in ancient footsteps with deep roots in the soil.
Destruction of the police state is the aim of the resistance, and we want all who see a better possible world to act with solidarity because our privilege to get in the street would mean being murdered outright in many places. We have an obligation to end the destruction of the eARTh because we are it, and it is all we are.
woot woot FUCK THE POLICE!!!