S T A R R | 24.01.2005 13:17

JAN 20 CACALERAZO SAW UNPRECEDENTED SDPD METHODS OF INTIMIDATION & TARGETED ARRESTS. BUT WE REFUSED TO BACK DOWN. AND NEXT TIME WE'LL BE BACK, STRONGER AND MADDER.

JAN 20 CACALERAZO/RECLAIM THE STREETS SAW UNPRECEDENTED SD POLICE METHODS OF INTIMIDATION & TARGETED ARRESTS. BUT WE REFUSED TO BACK DOWN. AND NEXT TIME WE'LL BE BACK, STRONGER AND MADDER.

Last Thursday night downtown - J20 Cacalerazo & Reclaim the Streets - proves that San Diego is at the forefront of efforts to bring down the police state and start the popular uprising the rest of the world is waiting for!!

SDPD was helpless in the face of our power! We banged pots/pans, danced, played music, chanted, & peacefully assembled in ways no member of law-enforcement could have anticipated!!

Capitalism got SHUT DOWN for hours while we voiced our dissent. Some announced on bullhorns that Sept 11 was a government ploy while others lugged huge anti 2 party puppets. Streamers were thrown over lightposts while the pigs just gawked & wondered what to do.

People from every anti-war/anti-Bush/anti-police brutality (etc.) faction linked arms & pushed through barrier after barrier.

Roughly 1,000 men, womyn, children, & those of us who defy gender gathered & made noise to tell all of San Diego & the world that we refuse to accept the status quo any longer - in City Hall, Sacramento, Washington D.C., Baghdad, Afghanistan, Gaza, Havana, Manila, Darfur, E. Timor, Myanmar, Detroit, Chiapas!!!

Hey S. Lynn of SDPD: Look out for the complaint I'm filing against you, man. You had no need to shove me the way you did. By doing so, you increased my humanity & diminshed your own. See you in court, punk *ss.

By the way, soon we'll even run the courts. Everyone, in common. No more rule by the elite! DOWN WITH: Capitalism! Patriarchy! Heterosexism! Racism! Able-Bodied Dominance! NO MORE: Misogyny! YouthHate! Globalization! EarthRape! White Privelege!

Let the Popular Uprising in San Diego continue to its full fruition!

Resist, STARR

e-mail:: starrphilosopher@yahoo.com

1,000? 24.01.2005 13:59 Funny how the numbers just inflate like that. I thought the head count was 250-500 or 600 at the most. Now this person is saying there were "roughly 1,000". C'mon, "roughly" doesn't mean "give or take a few hundred". Lets try to be accurate. __ 3 events... 24.01.2005 14:59 I drove by at 6:45 and there were easily 1,000 people there, filling horton plaza and spilling across the street to the hotal and the nbc building. Later in the night, for the Reclaim the Streets which had a higher risk of arrest there were more like 400-500 people, which thinned out to more like 200 as the police brutality increased. observer YES: 1,000 protestors 24.01.2005 17:02 To my detractors: YES, there were roughly 1,000 people there that night. How about addressing our political theories instead of quibbling over numbers? What would YOU suggest is the ideal form of government? Any thoughts on the best means of production & distribution of goods in this country? Hey, you want to come to our next book club meeting? We'll be analyzing the second half of V.I. Lenin's "Man & the State". Starr STARR e-mail:: starrphilosopher@yahoo.com loved your article 24.01.2005 17:32 i forgot to say, thanks for posting this, its awesome! observer hello! capitalism alive and well... 25.01.2005 01:39 You didn't "shut down capitalism," my friend. If you are saying that, you are truly delusional. I'm happy a lot of people got out and had a good time at the Reclaim the Streets party. San Diego could use plenty more of that. However, if you are actually being sincere here, then what I'm saying will necessarily sound harsh. But I have to honestly say that what you write really does sound like something that would be written by a rightwing nut trying to discredit leftists by writing pompous, juvenile screeds like yours, and I'm more than a little inclined to compost it as a result. There are people in Bolivia who are actually "shutting down capitalism" on a day-to-day basis, by leading general strikes, deposing US-sponsored puppet presidents, and driving out major multinational corporations who are trying to control their natural resources. Here's one way you can tell when people are actually making some headway in shutting down capitalism: At least some of them end up shot to death. And rest assured, the same thing would happen in this country the minute anyone actually seemed to be a credible threat to "capitalism" or seemed likely to "shut it down" for more than a minute or two, let alone hours or days. Just the same, I'd be all for it. But people in this country don't have the cojones to come even close to doing that yet. Give the robber barons a few more years. Maybe we'll be ready when more of us have our pension funds looted and our social security privatized and real hunger and scarcity is imminent on a more massive scale. imc volunteer not all imc volunteers are the same 25.01.2005 12:44 the above comments do not represent all of the imc collective, just to clarify... another imc volunteer Is the Critical Mass Ride this Friday? 25.01.2005 18:20 Hi, In the spirit of keeping this movement going, does anyone know if the critical mass ride is on for this Friday? It is usually the last Friday of the month, 7pm at the fountain in Balboa Park. Cheers! Biker response to imc volunteer 25.01.2005 21:02 imc volunteer: I completely understand where you're coming from in your comments about my article. I did not intend to minimize other efforts all around the world to "shut down capitalism". It just felt to me last week that anyone attempting to hit the Gaslamp Quarter & spend money was prevented from doing so by our efforts. And, perhaps more importantly, for several hours, hundreds of activists not only agitated together, but were simultaneously NOT spending money downtown (except, perhaps, for parking. My partner & I ended up buying a $3 lemonade at Horton Plaza to validate our parking, & then $2 on top of that since we went over 3 hours by only a few minutes!) Hey, overthrowing state-sponsored capitalism has to start somewhere. Thanks for taking the time to respond to me. I respect that a lot. See you at the next demo. starr starr i came, i saw, i walked (ran) 10.09.2005 19:51 i was there, and yeah in the beginning there were like 1,000 people there. but in a few hours all that were left were the 'head count of 600' like you said. i was the asian at the front of the march in a dress and a Scala hat. my sign read "THE WAR IS A LIE" and i do believe there's a hot picture of me in one of the archives. Serenity San Diego Street Kids WHEEE Serenity e-mail:: serenitytran@yahoo.com