{"article":{"id":38976,"heading":"Solidarity from San Francisco!","author":"Drew in SF","created":"2003-03-23 18:26:57","modified":"2003-03-23 23:45:27","last_modified":"Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:45:27","article":"

You have done a great job of raising awareness down there. It must be nice to have the opportunity to demonstrate during events when the whole world is watching LA. (like during this Sunday's Oscars) Keep up the good work!

San Francisco has been in complete chaos since early Thursday morning. That day, 1600 people were arrested, and perhaps another 1000 arrested yesterday (no official figures yet). All day, every day, people are demonstrating, 3-5 police helicopters hover over the city from 7:00 AM to midnite.

Let's keep the CA demonstrations leading the rest of the country.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"We want to express our solidarity with all the activists of LA.","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/38976.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":38986,"heading":"OSCAR NIGHT--COME HELP!!!","article":"For a variety of reasons, LA demonstrators seem unwilling to engage in very much effective civil disobiedence. So here is a call-out to radical SF demonstrators---swing down to LA Sunday to help us shut down the Oscars & inspire more direct, forceful action if you can.","author":"LA to SF","parent_id":38976,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 18:44:29","modified":"2003-03-23 18:44:29","fileurl":""},{"id":39063,"heading":"Sheer Extremism","article":"Yo, anti-war crowd, get a clue: the Hollywood elite are your allies!","author":"John Gilbert","parent_id":38976,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:35:15","modified":"2003-03-23 23:35:15","fileurl":""},{"id":39065,"heading":"solidarity","article":"thanks for support drew. however, we're still being pretty lame and tame by staying in one lump. i was in hollywood for 3 hours today and saw no groups break off. we need to have a big group, attract the cops, disperse when they get there and pop up in smaller batches all over the city. the ratio of cops to people in san francisco is higher than l.a. so, if san francisco can pull off this new style of protest, why the heck can't we?\r\nalso, monday morning at rush hour, we should swarm onto every freeway and shut them all down. since every freeway's a parking lot at rush hour, there's no bodily injury risk. imagine the chaos and media coverage this would create.\r\nno business as usual!","author":"eeyore","parent_id":38976,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:42:11","modified":"2003-03-23 23:42:11","fileurl":""},{"id":39067,"heading":"Reality check","article":"If you march against this war, you are a Saddam Supporter. That's true even if you deny it. \r\n\r\nIt's in Saddam's interests for you to have your way. You're pushing his agenda. Therefore, you are a Saddam Supporter.\r\n\r\nAnd that makes you a "Mass Murderer Supporter."\r\n\r\nWe have the good guys (GWB, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, etc.) and we have the bad guys (Saddam, the Baath Party Members, Susan Sarandon, the Dixie Chicks, Amy Goodman, Nessie, and all the anti-war assholes).","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":38976,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:45:31","modified":"2003-03-23 23:45:31","fileurl":""}]}