Hard core SF Bay Area peace activists say their battle is just beginning

SF Chronicle ^ | 5-4-03 | Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer

[Oldeconomybuyer]

President Bush says the combat in Iraq is over, but hard-core peace activists have no intention of leaving the battlefield.

These hard-cores are well-spoken, highly educated, and they're not afraid of being arrested. Either they're students or they have jobs flexible enough to take time off to protest.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The freak show continues ...

[microgood]

"Yoga for me has been about radical transformation," Louise said. "And since the personal is the political, yoga can help give people the strength to face that transformation, both in themselves and to a larger scale."

Translation: I cannot find a job because I am an idiot.

"You don't feel like a citizen of the world if you don't get out of your own 'hood too much," Cyril said. "The enemy is not one person. It is a complicated set of forces that have a shared set of goals."

Translation : I love protesting just for the fun of it.

[finnman69]

(Professional) Freaks

[observer5]

"deciding how to channel the movement's street energy -- and Internet-organized lobbying -- into a force that is about something other than being against the war...

how about Anti-American?

[sauropod]

We will be on the streets to meet them.

FReepers love America and we will not allow it to be stolen from us by America-hating anarchists that will not distance themselves from the black block.

I want my country back!

[sauropod]

Can you explain that? Was this wench on the street and ran the wrong way into a police baton?

[FreedomPoster]

>>they're not afraid of being arrested.

Some law enforcement agency needs to step up to the plate and accomodate these clowns as soon as they step 1mm over the line. And the judiciary needs to set appropriately high bails, so they won't be walking right out while waiting for trial.

[martin_fierro]

[FreedomPoster]

I think that was from a rubber bullet encounter at the docks when the peace rioters were trying to prevent the loading of ships carrying cargo to the military in the ME.

[johniegrad]

For her, the philosophy behind why the United States got involved in Iraq is linked to the poverty and crime in her neighborhood.

I am in full agreement here. Clearly, living in a bad part of town and going to war to overthrow a brutal dictator are intrinsically linked. Now if we could just convince everyone to move to more affluent neighborhoods, there would be no need for war ever again.

"But, we shouldn't allow the idea that you can't break property to stand between us and a society where we can be more free."

Where do you even start with this kind of idiocy?

"But it shows you that whether you're doing yoga or in a picket line, you have no power over what the police can do to you."

Sure you do, Babe. Simply refuse to involve yourselves in high profile activities where someone might fire rubber bullets at you. Yoga could have the same transforming effect on you and the world if practiced legally.

"We so tired of the rhetoric from both the left and the right," Michael said.

Sorry, Michael Whatever-The-Hell-Your-Hymenated-Last-Name-Is, you ARE the left. However, this degree of insight is probably compatible with a protesting, employee of Enema Retarded Fallatio who also happens to be a master's student in education.

Whoever referred to this as a "freak show" is right on. These people have widely divergent ideas and motivations all trying to find an umbrella under an organization of misfits and malcontents. Also, notice how many of these people are transplants stirring up additional trouble in an already difficult place to live?

[wayoverontheright]

Over the next few weeks, anti-war activists will be meeting in groups large and small,

The war is over, they're not anti-war at all, they're anti-capitalists who will oppose anything which would advance the cause of capitalism.

That's why they didn't oppose Clinton's wars, they recognized him as socialist.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Malkia A. Cyril is a 28-year-old African-American organizer and Brooklyn native. She has worked with low-income youth and communities of color as an organizer for the past eight years with organizations such as the Applied Research Center, the Alameda County Homeless Youth Collaborative, Youth Together, the Community Organizing Team of BOSS, Youth Force Coalition, Uniting Communities Against War & Racism, and We Interrupt This Message. Malkia has directed numerous youth organizing projects, focusing specifically on poverty and race, and has worked closely with young people on media accountability for balanced news coverage of youth and youth policy.

[ItsJeff]

She has worked with communities of color

While in her jeans of blue?

[Byron_the_Aussie]

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[Byron_the_Aussie]

Hundreds of citizens of Oakland, California jammed a City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 8 to protest the violent police attack on an antiwar demonstration the day before that left scores of demonstrators injured. Chanting, “Shame, shame,” the Oakland residents showed their outrage over the attack and demanded an investigation. Sri Louise, a pacifist, who was struck by a wooden bullet that left her with a softball-sized welt on her jaw, told council members they had a responsibility to investigate police conduct.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Michael Rosenberg-Beausoleil

[johniegrad]

"My name is thiiiiiiiiissssss long"

[sauropod]

Then she deserved what she got. That action was treasonous!

[DoctorMichael]

Awwwwwwwwwwww............A 'human interest' article on the protestors?

How nice.

What an 'effin pantload.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Johnnie, note that he has partly named himself after the (notorious Communist spies) Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and (I presume) Bobby Beausoleil, one of the Manson Family. This guy is hardcore.