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Comment on Submit Content by Pedro Rodrego

Pedro Rodrego — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:28:51 +0000

###Event Notice###

Fight Back against Police Brutality

Students and activists are holding A demonstration to call for an end to
police brutality and harassment of students and visitors.

Meet on SF State campus at Malcolm X plaza
at 2pm today, Friday May 17.

36 hours after being violently evicted from their home by the San
Francisco Police Department, former SFC residents were beaten, harassed,
and arrested again by Police. On Thursday, May 16th, a few members of the
collective were visiting friends at a SF State dorm. SFSU police first
began harassing individuals while they where outside of the dorm and
proceeded to follow them back to their friend’s room. Within minutes,
campus PD and SFPD invaded, beat, and arrested many of those
inside. Six former residents of the squatted home and social center known
as the SFCommune were arrested. During the altercation, one person was
repeatedly struck in the ribs by a police baton while he was face down and
another person was tazed. Three individuals
were hospitalized for injuries by police. Some of those arrested are
currently facing charges of: battery, trespassing, conspiracy and,
lynching. It is still unclear when they will be released.

The SFCommune located at 200 Broad st. was a vacant building transformed
into a squatted social center. activists, who cleaned the dilapidated
building, making it habitable for the first time in years and
planted a blooming community garden, maintained an active community
kitchen, and offered emergency shelter to those in the city who needed it.
Welcomed by the community for their efforts in cleaning the neglected
space, during its 13 month existence, they were met by riot police with
lethal weapons Wednesday morning; 28 residents were forcibly removed and
briefly detained, while three were arrested.

Heres some Links

http://www.goldengatexpress.org/2013/05/16/arrest-at-sf-state/

Comment on First Person Account of FBI Raid in West Oakland by Emily Montan

Emily Montan — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:33:49 +0000

I strongly suggest you contact PUEBLO in Oakland as well as the ACLU. They can hook you up with some of the things you requested. I also suggest you lodge a complaint against the specific police department especially since you received contradictory information about the police break-in. Finally, writing a letter to the editor or your local representative about the incompetence of the police (warrant to search for someone who is already in jail/prison) would be the icing on the cake.

Comment on SF Anti-Colonial/Anti-Capitalist March by Support the ACAC19 « occupy california

Support the ACAC19 « occupy california — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:28:33 +0000

[...] banks and corporate chains by rushing the crowd of marchers. The resulting scuffle ended in 19 arrests. In an effort to ostracize the arrestees, police released photos of arrestees to local newspapers [...]

Comment on Hoodies and Hijabs by Zig Zag

Zig Zag — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:07:37 +0000

Don’t forget that many supporters of national socialism in 1930s Germany were small shop keepers and other middle class elements. Business improvement associations are comprised of small business owners who push for gentrification, more police and security, anti-panhandling and anti-graffiti measures, etc. Still, they are not the primary target of militant attacks so we shouldn’t make a mountain out of a mole hill.

Comment on Hoodies and Hijabs by On Boots and the Black Bloc « Queering the Singularity

On Boots and the Black Bloc « Queering the Singularity — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:51:16 +0000

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Comment on Hoodies and Hijabs by Summerspeaker

Summerspeaker — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:36:01 +0000

Plenty of small businesses – including, sadly, co-ops – treat their employees as miserably as corporations. The fetishization of small business serves capitalism.

Comment on Hoodies and Hijabs by Summerspeaker

Summerspeaker — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:33:03 +0000

The idea that we can win if we’re just more diligent and disciplined strikes me as implausible. Respectable and restrained organizing has as bad as record as insurrection. So far, both have failed. Capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and hierarchy of all sorts continue to reign. Text about building better alternatives and creating a mass movement is just that: text. I don’t know exactly why all our various efforts flounder, but I recommend that we blame the system rather each other. Infighting is easier, because we’re much weaker than the state and capital, but does little to advance the overall struggle.

Comment on Hoodies and Hijabs by Michael

Michael — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:19:52 +0000

Shopkeepers are not capitalists, they are shopkeepers.

Comment on Hoodies and Hijabs by bigshit

bigshit — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:13:57 +0000

rudy’s gives every oakland pig a free meal. fuck the trough.

Comment on Hoodies and Hijabs by herzfeld

herzfeld — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:44:24 +0000

Your logic is the same as those who say “workers are just failed capitalists”.
You couch your analysis in moralizing ethics rather than real structural analysis and strategy. A small family-owned business whose profits go into meeting their material needs is different from a bank run for the sake of investors (profits go to enriching shareholders and abstract reinvestment of capital). A employee owned co-op is structurally different from both of these, but is usually still a “small business”. It isn’t a question of ethics, it’s a question of class relations.