[lbo-talk] Regarding the anarchist protest march in Palo Alto

[Celi Ben]

Put up some pictures if you go! I relocated to Santa Cruz, and I have a 
morbid interest, but the escalation in the news makes it sound scary - that 
same group were among those arrested at the last ANSWER march, where it 
seems like the black bloccers had regressed in their approach, while the 
police had progressed. They are well-read and have a lot of energy, but a 
few statements on indybay.org showed that a few were high schoolers who had 
missed out on the smartly organized 2003 San Francisco protests because they 
were 13. The hear the local schools are into high pressure AP classes so a 
lot of students could be pretty advanced in their political reading. So, if 
they have a nice peaceful demonstration, it will amount to a brilliant 
advertising campaign bringing in onlookers and local residents (see: 
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/11974202.htm
and 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/24/BAGV9DEE0V1.DTL
(here also note the sentence about how in addition to 800 anarchists in Palo 
Alto, the police are worried that some of them may even be Animal Rights! 
protesters, which meshes with the announcement two days ago that despite 
billions in credit card and identity fraud, plus the war on terror, animal 
rights and environmental protesters are their #1 priority)).


>Subject: [lbo-talk] Regarding the anarchist protest march in Palo Alto
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>Got the following from Penninsula Peace & Justice
>regarding the upcoming anarchist anti-war march in
>Palo Alto this Saturday.  Thought some here might be
>interested in this.
>
>I'm going to go, if others here want to join me.
>
>-Thomas
>--- Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
><ppjc at peaceandjustice.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
> > <ppjc at peaceandjustice.org>
> > To: <entheogens at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [ppjc] Regarding the anarchist protest
> > march in Palo Alto
> >
> >
> > A note from PPJC director Paul George regarding the
> > anarchist protest march in Palo Alto this coming
> > Saturday...
> >
> > Dear PPJC members and friends,
> >
> > By now you have no doubt heard about the anarchist
> > protest march planned for Palo Alto this coming
> > Saturday evening, June 25.  Local newspapers have
> > been all over the story, apparently because of
> > anticipated violence at the march.  We have received
> > a number of inquiries here at PPJC asking how we
> > feel about it.
> >
> > To respond, I think it's necessary to look at this
> > from three different angles:  the organizers, the
> > police response, and the media coverage.
> >
> > The protest is being organized by the Peninsula
> > Anarchist Collective, Anarchist Action Palo Alto and
> > apparently other, similar groups.  These same groups
> > organized a march on May 20 that resulted in some
> > broken windows and two arrests-plus a fairly
> > apparent over-response by at least some members of
> > the Palo Alto Police Department and other agencies
> > that were called in.
> >
> > The organizers of Saturday's march held a press
> > conference yesterday (Tuesday) at Lytton Plaza,
> > which I attended.  Anarchist Action Palo Alto handed
> > out a statement that said they planned to "inflict
> > more economic damage", but noted that "economic
> > damage" could mean boycotts or civil suits.  The
> > Anarchist Action statement went on to say that "the
> > protest's organizers themselves have no plans to
> > break corporate windows or engage in any other
> > similar activities."
> >

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