Nike/etc.. Smashed in Portland

[Ele'ill]

with a baseball bat :lol:





http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/content/nike-smashed-portland



Nike Smashed in Portland

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 6:12am
In the spirit of May Day 2012 in Seattle, a Nike store alongside a major street in Portland had about half of its front windows smashed out with a baseball bat.
One of the large panes had text that spoke of community building. As the Portland 'LGBTQ' Pride NW festival and parade approaches, we queers cringe in disgust while corporate branding dominates the whole of the festivities.
Nike increasingly invests in their so-called community (i.e. people who will buy their products) through events such as Pride, yet if Nike were involved in such a thing as a community they wouldn't ignore key members such as the modern slaves working in their sweatshops.
This action taken in memory of three trans women of color who were murdered last month, Kelly Young, Ashley Sinclair, and Cemia "Ce Ce" Dove. Your beauty lives on through our rage!
Also taken in solidarity with those resisting the PNW grand jury, especially those who have been displaced by the state, and to show that action is still possible under the watchful eye of the FBI.

[Sasha]

Why is this in non-political, seems rather political (if a bit undirected simplistic catharsic) to me.

[Ele'ill]

*edit

Every action here in the PNW (at least, elsewhere too) has been a call out to the grand jury resistance even though the action may have had to do with other stuff too/mainly. I started keeping track but this stuff happens all the time there have been hundreds of actions. I didn't want politics to end up looking like a tumblr page because I thought some people would disagree with that. We can move it if you want and maybe we can have an area where this stuff can get posted. A new subforum called something insurrectionary where smaller/individual acts of sabotage and burning/looting/attack/smash can get posted about. Until then, the actions that seem to be *mainly* about other stuff I guess I'll post here in non-poli

[Ele'ill]

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Windows-smashed-at-NE-Portland-Nike-store-206606641.html


hahaha

"yo if ur gonna do something pickett or whatever but this just drives the prices up for everyone"


lol what

[A Revolutionary Tool]

You're buying Nike and worrying about prices rising? Half the people who buy Nike do so because it's so expensive, so expensive for a pair of sweatshop labor products

[Sasha]

*edit

Every action here in the PNW (at least, elsewhere too) has been a call out to the grand jury resistance even though the action may have had to do with other stuff too/mainly. I started keeping track but this stuff happens all the time there have been hundreds of actions. I didn't want politics to end up looking like a tumblr page because I thought some people would disagree with that. We can move it if you want and maybe we can have an area where this stuff can get posted. A new subforum called something insurrectionary where smaller/individual acts of sabotage and burning/looting/attack/smash can get posted about. Until then, the actions that seem to be *mainly* about other stuff I guess I'll post here in non-poli

maybe a (stickied) collection thread like we used to have for greek solidarity actions?

[Ele'ill]

maybe a (stickied) collection thread like we used to have for greek solidarity actions?

well grand jury related stuff, solidarity call outs, even those having to do with other issues so long as they have a pnw grand jury solidarity statement thing in the communique I'll still post in the grand jury thread(haven't done that yet with this one though)

I quite like the idea that some of the tumblr pages use where all smaller actions get listed from various regions relating to various issues and maybe a sticky'd thread would be good for those types of actions from all over the world, until they blow up into a larger situation


sorry to be posting in piecemeal I have a dodgy internet connection and want to post quickly then edit afterwards when I have net access

[Os Cangaceiros]

There's a guy in New York City who's been subpoenaed to testify in connection with the NYC "bike bomber" incidents, too, and he's refusing to testify. :cool: Read about it on @news.

[Rugged Collectivist]

Home run.