"with love directed towards the IWW"
Sep 2 2007 03:02
Anarchist Sanitation Saboteurs Vandalize Bellevue Mall Bathrooms
On Monday, August 27th, members of Anarchist Sanitation Saboteurs (ASS) sabotaged over 50 bathrooms in and around the Bellevue mall. This was done while Bush was in town and people were outside protesting him. This was done under the eyes of the Secret Service, the police and mall security.
The mall is a revolting symbol of capitalist ignorance and stupidity. ASS merely chose a day when one of the leaders of world capitalism was in town to flood Starbucks bathrooms (with love directed towards the IWW), glue stall doors shut, remove sensitive items from toilets and leave our mark on wall after wall.
Flood the bathrooms of every corporate store!
-Anarchist Sanitation Saboteurs (ASS)
Sep 2 2007 03:10
#2
I find it hard to believe that any wobs would support the tactic of making more and grosser work for the people that had to clean up after your fucked up action. Ass is right.
Sep 2 2007 03:18
#3
i'd agree, but then i remember daniel gross boasting that wobs and sympathisers would go into non-IWW starbucks and pay for their drinks penny by penny, as a kind of protest, thereby making more tedious work for the very people they were hoping to organize.
Sep 2 2007 03:19
#4
This might be the worst action I have heard of in recent memory. Link to the Portland IMC article? Have I mentioned I hate the Pacific Northwest?
Sep 2 2007 03:23
#5
Sep 2 2007 03:39
#6
This is someone's biggest problem with the action:
Quote:
The only thing I would like to say is that toilets waste tons of the most precious resource on the planet water. Try to consider ways to do these actions without making the toilets keep flowing and flowing. I would say that if you just burst the pipes and flooded the place then you did more harm then good. Harm to the environment not the mall. The more harm to the mall the better!!
Sep 2 2007 03:46
#7
Right now this fellow worker can't organise himself to not fall over the couch or lock everyone out of their flat. IWW SUCKS!!!!11
Sep 2 2007 04:34
#8
j.rogue wrote:
Have I mentioned I hate the Pacific Northwest?
It's only geoduck envy.
Sep 2 2007 06:20
#9
this is an inspiring action. it's given me the courage to do some really great acts of solidarity with the starbucks workers. like, for example, i think i'll go ransack the houses of some starbucks employees later tonight - that'll show capitalism!
it's really good, too, cuz i wont waste any water doing it.
Sep 2 2007 06:27
#10
As long as you don't get to their houses by car, I'm sure that would be fine.
Sep 2 2007 08:11
#11
x357997 wrote:
Right now this fellow worker can't organise himself to not fall over the couch or lock everyone out of their flat. IWW SUCKS!!!!11
Sep 2 2007 08:16
#12
Had a couple of cold drinks, had you? 
Sep 2 2007 08:21
#13
the button wrote:
Had a couple of cold drinks, had you?
long story...
Sep 2 2007 11:21
#14
i wish i was a bit suprised by this 
Sep 2 2007 11:25
#15
I find it hard to believe that any wobs would support the tactic of making more and grosser work for the people that had to clean up after your fucked up action. Ass is right.
Sep 2 2007 12:52
#16
Quote:
Our intention was not to inconvenience janitors. We acknowledge that janitors had to clean up after us and we are sorry. But that is their job and they receive money for their services.
Sep 2 2007 17:13
#17
Ahhh, the pacific northwest, swarming with "insurrectionary" hippies . . . leaving their marks on bathroom walls . . .
Imagine the possibilities . . . projectile vomiting . . . boogers . . . unclean dreadlocks . . . "forest names" . . .
Seriously, why can't these tactics be used to reform the charges process?
Sep 2 2007 17:55
#18
antichef wrote:
Seriously, why can't these tactics be used to reform the charges process?
are you saying that shitting on the floor builds workers power?
Sep 3 2007 05:34
#19
This is totally a wind up.
What time is it?
Sep 3 2007 05:39
#20
EdmontonWobbly wrote:
This is totally a wind up.What time is it?
of course it is, it's ASS for fucksake.
Sep 3 2007 07:05
#21
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/364469.shtml
Quote:
Statement From ASS (A branch of the IAC) 02.Sep.2007 10:48
ASS linkAfter reading the comments posted on PDX Indymedia, Anarchist Sanitation Saboteurs (A branch of the IAC) has realized that it has made a horrible mistake. Within the next few days we will deliver written letters of apology to the affected businesses. We are so sorry for flooding their bathrooms. Those good proletarians the janitors are still probably crying themselves to sleep about what we did and we will write apologies to them as well.
Never do anything without taking everything into account. We have terribly hurt the cause of anarchy and now no one will ever take anarchism seriously. By doing what we did, we set back the movement ten years or more. We no longer call ourselves anarchists. We are abandoning the other projects we are involved in. No longer will we distribute food or build bikes for people or cop watch or garden or fight the police. We are not anarchists anymore because we caused some toilets to overflow. Now the people who took us seriously prior to Monday's action will hate us and hate anarchism. For this we are sorry. People are so easily swayed that some damaged toilets and glued doors will make anarchy non-viable for them forever.
To the anarchist movement at large, we offer our sincerest apologies. Next time we will just stay at home typing on our computers and ridiculing everything we see. It is the safer thing to do. This is our last communication to you all.
Anarchist Sanitation Saboteurs (A branch of the IAC)
It's either real, or one of the better wind-ups since Beyond the Future. I vote for real.
Sep 3 2007 07:20
#22
gotta be a parody. but then i think that about most anarchism 
Sep 3 2007 07:27
#23
I did a google news search, there's no references to any such action in Seattle/Bellevue only on indymedias.
Sep 3 2007 08:27
#24
Yeah that's normal for such stunts.
Sep 3 2007 10:08
#25
We have our own media. Don't speak to the capitalist pigdogs!
Sep 3 2007 15:49
#26
Hey, I wouldn't put it past the idiots out there calling themselves anarchists to do something like this. But I will certainly rest easier thinking it's not real.
Sep 3 2007 18:39
#27
Sep 3 2007 18:43
#28
you have to hope its a wind-up, if not its some warped logic in there.
Sep 4 2007 00:41
#29
newyawka wrote:
Quote:
i'd agree, but then i remember daniel gross boasting that wobs and sympathisers would go into non-IWW starbucks and pay for their drinks penny by penny, as a kind of protest, thereby making more tedious work for the very people they were hoping to organize.
Actually, when I've seen that tried, usually some customers leave, so it does not increase the workload, and I don't think it deprives Sbux workers of $ or gives them more work. I recall large tips being given along with the pennies.
Sep 4 2007 01:43
#30
Either way, doesn't one get the sense that "with love directed towards the IWW," is an intentional slight against us?
So, uhm, I was wondering if anyone out there can beat this post (from the Portland IMC) for excellent tactics.
Smearing boogers on the windows of big hotels or hospital, anyone? Perhaps we could use these tactics as part of the charges process.