SF News Paper Printing Anarchists Pictures

[Nihilist Scud Missile]

I wonder what they're trying to acomplish? The news papers that is. If anything people can now send money to them at 850 Bryant St San Fransisco CA. My guess is they're trying to get these people harmed.




http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-cops-Vandals-tactics-seen-before-3928253.php

[Le Socialiste]

I actually recognize a couple of these folks...that's fucked up.

[thriller]

I wonder what they're trying to acomplish? The news papers that is. If anything people can now send money to them at 850 Bryant St San Fransisco CA. My guess is they're trying to get these people harmed.




http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-cops-Vandals-tactics-seen-before-3928253.php

I don't really think they are trying to get them physically harmed, just socially. Their names and faces are now available for all employers to google search and realize they are probably not "happy little wage slaves."

[Nihilist Scud Missile]

I don't really think they are trying to get them physically harmed, just socially. Their names and faces are now available for all employers to google search and realize they are probably not "happy little wage slaves."

You don't live in the Bay Area do you? It was the "busiest weekend in decades". BART, public ransportation, traffic on freeways. People everywhere. Baseball games, sailing tournaments, football so on so forth. Anyhow, blame is being put on the "anarchists" for shutting down traffic in San Fransisco during the "biggest event weekend" of many of our lifetimes. The posting of pictures like that was indeed meant for social pressure/control of the "anarchists" but can you not see it could also lead to their harm after such an "eventful" weekend of all the distractions capitalism has to offer? People late for their 200 dollar a ticket Giants baseball game weer pissed off. People late for their Yaght club boating tournament weer looking for someone to blame. People late to the festival in Golden Gate Park were angry at "the anarchists".

But ya, happy little wage slaves they are not but posting their pictures had little to do with getting them fired.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I wonder what they're trying to acomplish? The news papers that is. If anything people can now send money to them at 850 Bryant St San Fransisco CA. My guess is they're trying to get these people harmed.


I guess it was approprate that when I read the title of this thread, my first thought was, "I didn't know the the fascist forum 'SF' had a newspaper".

The San Francisco Chronicle, unlike some other local news sources, never had any period of even slight or feigned "neutrality" towards Occupy. The Chronical was openly hostile to the movement from the start even while local TV news was treating it as an interesting curiosity. The Chronical is tied to the Democratic machine in San Francisco and is almost always on the most conservative edge of the Democratic party - but somehow (probably because the Chronical also champions yuppie liberal cultural things like induvidual environmentalism and foodie-ism and whatever fitness or personal health fad is popular with the Google-set) it has a reputation as the most far-left thing ever.

But really it's total crap and right-wing, championing things like crackdowns on immigrants and neoliberal education reform. God I hate it and what's worse is after reading some hacky article making conservative arguments about welfare or education (or in-depth "reports" on homelessness that are nothing more that demonization of the poor and a rant about the horros of someone daring to ask for change) I sometimes accidentally read the comments at the bottom of the page (which are obviously Glenn Beck fans who post in the SF Chronicle website because obviously a San Francisco paper is made from weed and socialism) that go something like: "What you Obama-loving slacker lame-stream media types don't understand is that it's not engough to kick everone off welfare...":rolleyes:

Ok, sorry I'll stop ranting about the newspaper. At any rate, the Chronicle has always been unequivically against Occupy and has done quite a bit to try and demonize and distort the local movements here. I think that is their goal with publishing these photos. Unlike the other "SF" and similar fascists, the Chrinicle is not interested in these activists themselves, they are more interested in discrediting them and diverting any popular support towards our movements. For example, when Occupy activists in Oakland were occupying a public school with students, teachers, and parents that was scheduled to close, there was no real coverage in the Chronicle despite the obvious interest that the subject matter would get and the inherent drama of the situation. But at the same time a several-month old conflict over "Occupy the Farm" at Berkeley was on the front page despite not really having any new developments other than some ruling about it from a mediating judge. Hmm, school occupation or a judge's ruling - just from a news story perspective, it seems like the occupation would be the more interesting story. But why'd they go with the farm story? Because Occupy the Farm had little public support and could be reperesented in terms of the narrative about Occupy that the Chronicle had settled on: "spoiled college students who feel entitled to do whatever they want with no regard for anyone else". The school story implies the opposite about Occupy and also suggests that it's state burocrats and school administrators who do what they want with no regard for education or our communities.

So this story is reported because it's dynamic (property destruction) but it also fits into the narrative they've established (people who don't actually represent interests beyond their own). Why they've reported this story in this way and published the photos is not about the induviduals, but about the wider audience: look they are disheveled and criminals, because they look like criminals because they have been dressed up by police in the way that other criminals are dressed up by police. It's simple demonization and a threat against people engaged in these actions that if you do direct-action (implied any direct-action, not just smashy-smashy) we will publically humiliate you. And to think the Chronicle had editorials saying that gay-rights activists publicizing companies who secretly donnated to anti-gay legislation efforts was "nazi-like" tactics.

Incidentially, this is nothing new for the Chronicle. During the Oscar Grant movement, they took images from video of people taking shoes after someone broke the window to a foot-locker and blew them up so that the faces could be identified and then they published photos and names of those who were arrested that night by police. Fuck those "liberal-media" motherfuckers.

[Nihilist Scud Missile]

Ya, the mug shots do look bad. Since their names and photo's are already on "Front St." they should do some blogs with actual real life pictures working in the community etc in order to "re-humanize" themselves in the eyes of the larger Bay Area community. I'n today's drive by soundbite media world I'm not sure anyone would pay attention though. And so it goes...

"Made out of weed and socialism" lol.