Experiences at NATO protests.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

On Sunday I went to the NATO protests and it was fantastic, although I didn't stay long. I took a lot of pictures and videos, and got a few reading materials from people, and signed up for an organization. I also saw some anarchists, and asked if they were part of an organization. As I was leaving, I took a picture with Vermin Supreme:lol:. It was an amazing day, and I hope to be apart of more protests with Occupy. How was everyone else's day(s) at NATO?

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

I thought it was on the 31st? I was going to go.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

I thought it was on the 31st? I was going to go.

I think it ended today. That sucks, sorry you missed it!

[Art Vandelay]

Had an amazing time. Took the trip down from Canada, spent a couple hundred on gas and slept in my car, didn't have a meal for 3 days besides a cheese bun but it was worth it. The march on saturday was my favorite seeing as how it wasn't pre-planned. :D

[阿部高和]

A bunch of people bashing the "global capitalist order"--until their phone rings, and they answer their 300 dollar Iphone to tell mummy they need some more money put into their bank account.

[marl]

A bunch of people bashing the "global capitalist order"--until their phone rings, and they answer their 300 dollar Iphone to tell mummy they need some more money put into their bank account.
You sound like the typical rightist heckler at demos.
"FILMING ON YER IPOD? WHITE PRIVILEGE HYPOCRITE! GET A JERB!"

[#FF0000]

A bunch of people bashing the "global capitalist order"--until their phone rings, and they answer their 300 dollar Iphone to tell mummy they need some more money put into their bank account.

yeah you hit the nail on the head

all couple tens of thousands of them

[阿部高和]

yeah you hit the nail on the head

all couple tens of thousands of them

If only your sarcasm wasn't such an accurate portrayal of the situation...

[Misanthrope]

How were the police?

[阿部高和]

You sound like the typical rightist heckler at demos.
"FILMING ON YER IPOD? WHITE PRIVILEGE HYPOCRITE! GET A JERB!"

Even a broken clock is correct twice in one day.

[Ele'ill]

A bunch of people bashing the "global capitalist order"--until their phone rings, and they answer their 300 dollar Iphone to tell mummy they need some more money put into their bank account.



If only your sarcasm wasn't such an accurate portrayal of the situation...



Even a broken clock is correct twice in one day.

Stop trolling

[RedHal]

On Sunday I went to the NATO protests and it was fantastic, although I didn't stay long. I took a lot of pictures and videos, and got a few reading materials from people, and signed up for an organization. I also saw some anarchists, and asked if they were part of an organization. As I was leaving, I took a picture with Vermin Supreme:lol:. It was an amazing day, and I hope to be apart of more protests with Occupy. How was everyone else's day(s) at NATO?

golly sounds like you had a swell time. Yet Nato will continue terroririzing the world, the ruling classs can proclaim, that unlike those evil totalitarian states, in a democracy, peaceful protests are allowed. All the visible players in this spectacle comes out a winner!

[Misanthrope]

A bunch of people bashing the "global capitalist order"--until their phone rings, and they answer their 300 dollar Iphone to tell mummy they need some more money put into their bank account.

Hasty generalizing a bunch of people of your own stupid stereotype. :rolleyes:

[Art Vandelay]

If only your sarcasm wasn't such an accurate portrayal of the situation...

I am sure you had a much more productive weekend you twat.

[阿部高和]

I am sure you had a much more productive weekend you twat.

Yeah. I got my diploma.

[Art Vandelay]

Yeah. I got my diploma.

Well I already got one of those, but I was referring to political activity; seeing as how we were just a bunch of whiny rich kids out there this weekend and NATO is just going to keep dropping bombs.

[Ele'ill]

Enough of the trolling and enough taking the bait seriously stop it's painful to watch and don't use the word twat thanks.

What do you all have to say about this

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Four-Cops-Injured-One-Stabbed-in-Melee-152231125.html


Four Cops Injured, One Stabbed in Melee

[Art Vandelay]

Does anyone know how much of the black bloc was arrested? What percent of them usually escape, because when we had to leave I did not see any way they were getting out of there, they were practically surrounded.

[RebelDog]

Anonymous letter:

An Open Letter to Our Comrades



On the eve of the feast of the cabal of hypocrites, otherwise referred to as the 2012 NATO Summit, the people of Chicago have undergone a grave injustice at the hands of the violent police state. The Chicago Police's actions today, May 19th, were a brutally violent attack on our bodies and on our rights. An absurdly large police force was deployed in order to intimidate and provoke a peaceable assembly, and resulted in unbridled, militaristic attacks on activists demonstrating against NATO, inflicting several serious injuries - including broken noses, bloodied eyes, and a particularly sickening incident in which a dedicated comrade was belligerently run down by a police van.
We vociferously condemn these unacceptable and cowardly attacks, and know that the people are beginning to awaken from the falsified dream of liberty in a nation thats find itself in a newly authoritarian police state which crushes any dissent and defends the war machines of internatonal violence and global capitalism, instead of the human beings it feigns to represent. Yet we will not be so easily fooled by these tactics. The actions by the Chicago Police Department were carried out tonight with the calculated intent of provoking and generating fear within our collective into a reactionary state. This is a police tactic that is used to distract our focus and to spiral us into downwardness and negativity. We must resist these feelings, for we lose our autonomy in reacting to the script they have written for us, and without steadfast descipline in the face of the arm of state repression. We have to be serious and disciplined in order to not fall into this trap. It is EXACTLY what they want from us. We know that this is a panicked attempt to postemptively justify to the people the astronomical amount of our public resources that have been wasted on the exorbitant number of police on the streets, the unlawful and intrusive surveillance & unjustifiable home raids, and the Orwellian fear being propagated by the puppet corporate media. Our organization will not be provoked into a state of disorganized rage, for we are well aware that is exactly as they wish to manipulate us. It is no better, nay, it is worse to fall into their cheap and predictable trap than it is to subserviently subjugate ourselves to obeying the orders of authority.
This national convergence represents an incredible and unique opportunity to bring together a diverse spectrum of activists in a unified front of resistance unlike any other seen in over a decade. Tomorrow, we enter the stage with a righteous fire in our hearts at the injustice done to us and our comrades on these streets just a day before. Yet we will not be overriden with heightened emotions that cloud our judgement. We recognize this attempt at coercion as yet another manifestation of systemic oppression, and remain autonomous individuals who will not be ordered around, explictly or implicitly. Instead, we channel our anger, our pain, our compassion, our despair, and our passion for a better world without this oppression into our messaging and our actions.
Comrades. Let us take a deep, deep breath together. Let's heal together, and then work together to make tactical decisions that are arrived at out of truly free and autonomous choice, not dictated by authority. Be safe, look out for one another, organize in small, accountable groups of affinity and trust, Stay calm, and remember why we traveled to Chicago - to stand in the face of a war machine that acts recklessly beyond transparency and accountability to the people it affects and claims to represent - and to say we want a world free of war and oppression.
Solidarity forever.
-Anonymoushttp://www.zcommunications.org/an-open-letter-to-our-comrades-by-anonymous

[Questionable]

^Wow, I had no idea Anonymous had such strong leftist tendencies nowadays. I knew about all the hacktivism, but when they first started out, weren't they just concerned with freedom of information and nothing else?

[Catma]

Anonymous is a lot of people, from commies to anarchists to libertarians and black-hat hackers. I'm pretty sure you can find letters signed as anonymous containing any ideology you want. That said, the past few years have been very radicalizing.

[Omsk]

Full of nationalists and ultra-right wingers here. I avoid them.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

How were the police?

The news says they did a "great job", but in reality, they just hit people on the head.

[Krano]

Enough of the trolling and enough taking the bait seriously stop it's painful to watch and don't use the word twat thanks.

What do you all have to say about this

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Four-Cops-Injured-One-Stabbed-in-Melee-152231125.html
How much pro cop rhetoric can there be in one comment section.

[Jesus Saves Gretzky Scores]

golly sounds like you had a swell time. Yet Nato will continue terroririzing the world, the ruling classs can proclaim, that unlike those evil totalitarian states, in a democracy, peaceful protests are allowed. All the visible players in this spectacle comes out a winner!

Sorry asshole, it was my first protest, and I was a little bit excited. I wasn't there long because I had to go see my sister, so I didn't get to help march or anything.

[Thirsty Crow]

golly sounds like you had a swell time. Yet Nato will continue terroririzing the world, the ruling classs can proclaim, that unlike those evil totalitarian states, in a democracy, peaceful protests are allowed.
Actually, that's not what I read in a brief news item boradcasted on the national TV here where I live.
It stated that after the march, a group of demonstrators refused to disperse and continued to chant anti-war slogans, and then the police came crashing in and beating people up.
Any truth to it? (I can't really see why such a misinformation would be broadcasted)

[Art Vandelay]

Actually, that's not what I read in a brief news item boradcasted on the national TV here where I live.
It stated that after the march, a group of demonstrators refused to disperse and continued to chant anti-war slogans, and then the police came crashing in and beating people up.
Any truth to it? (I can't really see why such a misinformation would be broadcasted)

That is completely true, it happened after we were ordered to disperse on sunday.

[Questionable]

The news says they did a "great job", but in reality, they just hit people on the head.

They did a great job of hitting people on the head.