Battle of Seattle Footage

[FinnMacCool]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLqhu8AyR8w...ch=black%20bloc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLqhu8AyR8w&search=black%20bloc)

We need another one. Badly.

[which doctor]

The 2006 Battle of Olympia!

[TC]

lol @ "battle of seattle" what an f'ing overstatement.


If it was a "battle of seattle" would you have someone saying

"They're burning plastic down there...they're burning paint?"
"Who cares?"
"I care!!!..and i think better citizens care! This is NOT what the protests was about"

"Are you guys BURNING recyclable stuff?"
"yah"
"to burn recycling...its really lame!"


You know whats really lame? That people could be there, witnessesing what was going on, and just so not get it.

Disorganized, undiciplined, ineffective, superficial outlets for discontent and the ultra-leftist, liberal ideology that goes with it, really undermines the ability to channel that discontent into a meaningful anti-capitalist movement in the first world.

[FinnMacCool]

Your ignorance shines once more, Tragic. Those people were not part of the planning of the protests that were going on. Everything was planned prior to the execution and their intentions were clear to most everyone except for a few of those whiners apparently.

[violencia.Proletariat]

We don't need another battle of Seattle unless they start occupying and repossesing the buildings and goods and distributing them out on a need basis.

[bolshevik butcher]

The most significant thing about Seattle was that the local workers joined in whith the protestors. The most important thing about it wasn't the actual events but the way it helped reafirm the left as a force in politics.

[FinnMacCool]

I think the most important thing about the BoS was that it pushed the anti globalization movement, as well as the anarchism movement (for good or for bad) out onto the forefront of the american mindset. Unfortunately, 9/11 has reverted attention but if there was another one, we could get that back again.

[Year: 1]

Nice post. Yeah we need another one badly. Here are some other footage.



http://www.youtube.com/results?search=anar...e=search_videos (http://www.youtube.com/results?search=anarchist+protest&search_type=search_videos)

[bezdomni]

Pretty lame riot for parts of it.

"WHY ARE YOU BURNING RECYCLEABLES? FUCK WORKER'S LIBERATION...LET'S ALL EAT OUR SHIT SO AS TO MAKE SURE NOTHING EVER GETS WASTED!"

How stupid are some of those people? You'd assume they'd have gone home by then.

The riots really needed more organization. They should have accomplished a lot more than they did.

[bcbm]

We don't need another Seattle, we need to start organizing like other comrades have been doing across the world for decades, especially the Autonomia movements across Europe.

[ahab]

Seattle was a great movement but what has it gotten us? nothing, on a nation wide scale nothing has changed, and im sure in seattle even everything is back to the way it was. They smashed a few windows and burned shit, woo hoo. As soon as the riot police were coming they all just walked away. Did anybody else notice the number difference? People fail to realize that our STRENGTH is in numbers. They could've overrun those pigs but they didnt. The revolution starts here, what a bunch of shit, they all just seemed like teens all excited cuz they could burn and smash shit, what they shouldve been smashing is the pigs FACES! they could've moved on the cop shop, overrun post offices, corporate bulidings all that but they decided to sit around and wait for it to end. If there was another seattle I would hope the "battle" part would be more of a battle.

[FinnMacCool]

I'm I guess you missed all that footage with them fighting cops, hmm?

Well in any case, there is no reason for that kind of ageism that your showcasing right now and certaintly no reason to insult our comrades, o great radical leader!

[ahab]

ok first of all i am NOT disgracing them! i think its fine that their protest did what they did and yea sure i saw one maybe two people getting hauled away and i saw one person kick the gas can back, all i'm saying is they didnt take advantage of the oppurtunity. They had the city an an upheavel, but no buildings were taken, no buldings were burned if they really wanted to start the revolution they needed to start a war. Not just parade around. I am no radical leader so fuck you, i just saw an opportunity for war that wasnt taken

[Year: 1]

The way I see it we have to make sure we have our shit correct. Changing others should come second to changing ourselves. We have to become implacable to the state machine and when we get others to be like us then we'll get things rolling again and it will be bigger and more impressive than Seattle.

[ahab]

tru dat

[Fawkes]

I saw that someone spray painted "the revolution starts here", I was to young at the time to have been at the WTO riots, but, if you look, the advancing line of riot police was a single line, it was one person thick. There was a huge amount of rioters compared to a single line of cops. The rioters could have so easily over run those fuckin pigs. They should've charged the pigs with there bats and whatever the hell else they had. Although, i dont think bringing guns into the fight wouldve been a good idea, because the pigs would than have an excuse to massacre the rioters. But, if they were trying to start a revolution, they shoulld've started by fighting the oppressors.