Washington SDS mini riot
Feb 1 2007 21:55
what happened there?
how serious is this? How much damage was done and (obviously don't be a liability) what groups are behind it? What exactly happened - a separate anarchist march joined up with a bigger anti-war march and atacked an army recrutiment centre?
Some info here:
http://antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/?p=175
ooh sexay punk vest, yummmm http://www.antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/photo-gallery/2007_sds_j27/images/000055.jpg
heh right on
http://www.antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/photo-gallery/2007_sds_j27/images/000058.jpg
free hugs 
look i want to know about this alleged shield wall that was fronting the black block. Surely thats some pretty heavy shit to try and pull in the US - especially if it was actually successfully used to deter the police?
Considering http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/7/large/j27_026.jpg what is the attitude of SDS towards anarchism - and what is the building they are on the steps of? Is it functional?
Feb 1 2007 22:26
#2
Tacks wrote:
and what is the building they are on the steps of?
looks like the capitol
Feb 1 2007 22:32
#3
xconorx?
Feb 1 2007 22:42
#4
Dude, that is sooooo 2000-2001... 
Feb 1 2007 22:46
#5
Alternatively it is so 1995... time stands still for american anarchokids.
Feb 1 2007 22:48
#6
newyawka wrote:
Tacks wrote:
and what is the building they are on the steps of?looks like the capitol
which is functional? Not a museum...?
Somebody please tell me about this tortugo formation shield wall, not knowing is killing me.
Feb 1 2007 22:48
#7
http://studentsforademocraticsociety.org/erap/index.php
Their forum.
Posted on it a few hours ago, asking for info or pics on the 'riot' or whatever it was.
Feb 1 2007 22:53
#8
Tacks wrote:
newyawka wrote:
looks like the capitolwhich is functional? Not a museum...?
no, it's where the united states congress meets.
(no jokes about congress being a museum, that would be so PBS)
Feb 1 2007 23:14
#9
guydebordisdead wrote:
xconorx?
That indymedia guy in dublin??? It does look like him...but wheres the bulky camera?
Feb 1 2007 23:20
#10
everything you want to know about it is here:
and
here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg7XMlPOrhE
There where several "snake marches" (I can explain what snake marches are if yall dont understand) through out Washington DC. There was the SDS snake march, a anti-authoritarian one and i've heard a rumor of a third. There of course was the larger liberal oriented peacefull march. The snake marches merged to form the "radical youth contingent" somewhere in the process a millitary reqruiting station was bashed up. Several police lines where forced back etc. there where shilds....plenty of em. R.Y.C. ended up storming the capitol building, nearly getting inside on several occasions.
Feb 1 2007 23:26
#11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xxfwRByres
follow the links on youtube for anything DC/antiwar and half of it should be the RYC
Feb 1 2007 23:59
#12
Feb 2 2007 03:20
#13
Is it sad that an event as weak as this makes me, in the words of a friend, want to dust the ol boots off?
God how far we have fallen from the action heavy days of the early 00's.
Feb 2 2007 04:08
#14
Quote:
Considering http://dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/7/large/j27_026.jpg what is the attitude of SDS towards anarchism - and what is the building they are on the steps of? Is it functional?
There seems to be a large "anti authoritarian" population in our organization. However there are also very liberal green chapters and chapters dominated by marxist leninists. In fact a university in my state has a chapter dominated by leninist politics.
Feb 2 2007 07:05
#15
Tacks wrote:
x357997 wrote:
SHIELDS!!
Thanks :)
what are those made out of, do you suppose? they look like oil drums cut in half, which might be decent.
i'm surprised at the uniformity of the ones shown in that video, though... the paint job and such, very similar on each one, looks rather professional (at least, from the angle i can see). i would've expected things to be a lot more mixed and varied - kudos to them for doing something so neato!
Feb 2 2007 08:41
#16
yes nice big rubber shipping drums cut in half with to tops and bottoms lobbed of, I defenitly dont have a dozen of those stashed away from back in the day...
Feb 2 2007 10:57
#17
x357997 wrote:
guydebordisdead wrote:
xconorx?That indymedia guy in dublin??? It does look like him...but wheres the bulky camera?
oh shit.
yer talking about this guy:
http://libcom.org/user/xconorx
I swear, there is a guy who looks like the person in that photo, in Dublin who filmed an event Pepe took me to.
Feb 2 2007 15:22
#18
Polish Greg.
Your right it looks a bit like him.
Feb 2 2007 15:29
#19
Feb 2 2007 20:01
#20
sam05 wrote:
Polish Greg.Your right it looks a bit like him.
Are you talking about the guy i'm talking about or the person guy is talking about?
Feb 2 2007 20:28
#21
sam05 wrote:
That looks so cool.
Feb 2 2007 21:00
#22
WeTheYouth wrote:
sam05 wrote:
That looks so cool.
it looks more risky to me. This is america right? And your wandering around with fucking metal riot shields?
Fair puh lay.
Feb 2 2007 21:38
#23
Tacks wrote:
WeTheYouth wrote:
sam05 wrote:
That looks so cool.
it looks more risky to me. This is america right? And your wandering around with fucking metal riot shields?
Fair puh lay.
The DC pigs were told not to arrest anyone because they "didnt want to give the anarchists the confrontation they wanted." Someone described in an article about this, if the cops arrested them the anarchists would have won (because we got our "confrontation") but if they didnt arrest them they would take the steps (which they did). I love win win situations.
Feb 2 2007 22:58
#24
Is that a green-and-black flag with some kind of Eurasianist logo on it?
Feb 2 2007 23:27
#25
oww shit I missed that green and black before...
Feb 3 2007 02:13
#26
MJ wrote:
Is that a green-and-black flag with some kind of Eurasianist logo on it?
its primie eco shit. too bad they didnt make them red and black to match the flags...
Feb 3 2007 02:34
#27
x357997 wrote:
its primmo eco shit.
Not neccessarily intentional; maybe it ws just meant to tie in with the globe a bit better..?
Hopefully.
Feb 3 2007 02:37
#28
violencia.proletariat wrote:
Someone described in an article about this, if the cops arrested them the anarchists would have won (because we got our "confrontation") but if they didnt arrest them they would take the steps (which they did). I love win win situations.
Er that chronology is fucked. So you do take advantage of their non-intervention and push to the steps; then they arrest you.
Feb 3 2007 02:51
#29
I hear the shields were organic.
Feb 3 2007 15:56
#30
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ive spoken to a few SDSers on revleft.com, and from the discussions that have gone on there it looks like most SDS chapters now have a very high if not majority anarchist friendly core of activists.
Having said that I dont think SDS is that big, mabey a few thousand folks across the country.