Seattle Anti-War Protest
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- kyl30
too much caffiene
- ********0
Don't Tread On Me!
b*tches
- Gilt0010
It is weird though, because as soon as someone says protest, people just come crawling out of the woodwork.
Maybe it's a little too chill for a lot of people and they need an outlet.
I think skiing or snowboarding might be better.
- ukit0
Gilt001, where do you work? I was just down on Pine at a client meeting...the protestors were chanting right outside the meeting room. They had a sign that said "Help Defeat Capitalism." :)
- ********0
how does breaking public property equate to a peaceful protest? will someone explain that to me? nearly every protest so far has resulted in destruction of public property due to the numbskull factor.
lol
- Gilt0010
ukit,
I work here:
http://www.glg.com
- unclesize0
So how did it go down?
- prodigalslacker0
"baby i'm an anarchist, you're a spineless liberal. we marched together for the 8 hour day and held hands on the streets of seattle, but when it came time to throw bricks through that starbucks window, you left me all alone."
who the fuck organizes a protest on a wednesday. do it on weekends so us who live on the left coast can come up and watch.
- ********0
lol
- designbum0
it's heartening to see such a vibrant group of thoughtful, insightful, and inspiring minds on NT. seriously, dumbshits, rights aren't given, they're taken. what do you think the civil rights movement was all about? a bunch of people sitting on their asses bitching about protesters? fucking wankers. i'm out.
- Gilt0010
Well i think it actually remained pretty peaceful, which is good. I saw some kids coming back down from Capitol Hill and they all looked like they were released early from high school...
A positive experience for once! nice!
At least they didn't decide to march down 2nd Ave in 5 o'clock traffic like they did during the WTO riots.
- unclesize0
Why is seatlle always a hotbed for violent protests like this?
jevad
(Nov 2 05, 15:03)Seattle, more than San Francisco or Berkeley has the distinction of being inhabited by the highest concentration of pavement proletariats.
More people engaged in the rights of the working class and poor, because they are working class and poor, living at or below poverty line. It is still very much an agrarian community: long shoremen, fishermen, loggers, farmers, factory workers, held over hippies and a large Native American population. Not to mention the shitty weather, the proximity to a more liberal British Columbia and the abundance of hard drugs.
Though Berkley, MIT, et al. certainly hold their weight in lofty progressive academics, those regions are held captive by predatory capitalism. For example, you would still need a half a mil annually for the privilege of living among those intellectual elitists in, say, San Fran, Boston or Berkeley.
So, short story long... I believe Seattle has more *passionate* activists because of class disparity and those motivated enough to do something about it. Gawd I love Seattle and the refreshment it gives me from those "too cool for school" cities, like NY or LA.
It is where I plan to make my home :) Sorry for the design board dissertation...
- kyl30
//How'd you know I make half a mil a year
- kyl30
anywho, SF did have some protests yesterday and still has many passionate activists living here as does oakland/berkeley.
- mrdobolina0
it smells like patchouli oil in here, you soap dodgers.
- unclesize0
kyl3:
Didn't mean to say SF or Berkeley doesn't have a thriving progressive movement. I was just speculating as to why Seattle tends to be more militant in their approach.
Certainly activism is alive and well all up and down the west coast, and in big cities across America for that matter. Not bloody soon enough I say!
- ********0
Get a fucking job hippies!
I hate how they 'protest' all day while we work for their asses.
- unclesize0
get a job?!
I'd hate to think what this country would be without a thriving counter culture.
Labor Unions
Social Security
Women's Rights
Minority Rights
Gay Rights
War Protesters
Health Care
Education Rights
and on and on, all as a result of protesting/activism.
I personally would like to thank these activists. Without them, many of us and our parents wouldn't have jobs you're asking us to get.
What do you think would happen if corporate america had even less responsibility to the citizenry than it does now?
- Mimio0
Exactly unclesize. Some people's general apathy toward social issues is disturbing.
- ********0
Thank you unclesize. Thank you.
Because I would hate to think what htis country would be without our troops who have fought for our freedom and liberty since the beginning. Without they're self sacrifice we'd all be speaking German right now and the Jewish race would have been wiped clean off the planet.
Yes. Protest war my friends. Protest war.