Posted on 11/29/2017 4:10:06 PM PST by upchuck
Full article title: Anti-fracking activists and anarchists are blocking rail tracks in Olympia, Wash. They don’t plan on leaving.
The encampment went up on Nov. 17. In just a few hours, the intersection at Jefferson Street SE and Seventh Avenue in downtown Olympia, Wash., was transformed from a drab piece of asphalt into a hulking structure, somewhere between a refugee camp and a carnival tent.
This was contested turf. Two sets of train tracks snaked north from the intersection. The encampment covered both rails, planting the makeshift site directly in the path of any engines heading in or out of the port.
“We assumed another raid would be coming instantly,” one participant, who declined to give her name, told The Washington Post this week. But when the sun climbed up the next morning, the camp was still there. “This year it’s much larger,” Kyle Taylor Lucas, an indigenous rights activist involved in the protest, told The Post. “Last year we only covered one of the tracks.”
Lucas said the attitude in the camp is hopeful. “What we are trying to do is resist the forced complicity in this brutal practice to devastate the earth,” she said. “The various affinity groups here bring their own specific messages and commitments and specific reasons for being here. But we came together for the common demands.”
The stand is a window into protest in the age of President Trump, a time when longtime activists find themselves fortifying the barricades with a younger breed galvanized into action by Trump’s election and other high-profile protests.
“We have more anarchists,” Lucas told The Post. “And I suppose last year we did have more mainstream activists there, folks who are doing climate change work but on a more mainstream level.”
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Bkmk
Run ‘em over.
After the locomotives have been fitted with rotary plows.
Send in the Czar’s Cavalry!!!
Don’t make them Martyrs.
Sue them. Bankrupt them through process.
Dear socalled Activists...
please be advised that a moving freight train can often take more than a mile to stop (and that’s in emergency braking mode, too)
Hmm...Evergreen kiddies, I wonder? Article doesn’t say...
Ramming speed Mr. Sulu.
You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.
Sue them? With OUR justice system and judges? Better, and much more effective, to martyr them
Shoot 'em. Wouldn't that be a giggle?
They are supported by various leftist groups and individuals. The sources of their funding have huge funds.
The object is not necessarily to get a conviction but to make the protest cost more than it is worth.
Don’t give the protesters or their sponsors an option of jail time. Require monetary damages
Choot ‘em
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Test the cow catchers!
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Only after public Trial and public hangings....Then bust a cap in em.
You beat me to it.
I’ve had enough of these scum!
Fracking in Washington?
Turn the Railroad “bulls” lose on them! They still have “BULLS” don’t they?
How dare anyone block a liberals access to the front door of an abortion clinic though
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