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San Francisco Shows Us How!
By Jim Kirwan
10-5-11
 

In a nation that seems gridlocked in protests across this land that always seem to end with police victories: San Francisco, in the early morning hours of today has given the country a physical example of how to deal with these out-of-control freaks.

Politics has always been just VICTORY, hotly pursued by DEFEAT.

Apparently far too many have forgotten that 'their victories over us in the streets: Are not written in stone.' And San Francisco just proved that fact by surrounding the police and driving THEM out!

For the last nine years people have been asking: "How can we make a difference ­ I'm just one person: What can I do?" Here's your answer people; follow San Francisco's lead and take back whichever city or town you live in by using this spontaneous spirit that arises whenever people realize that they are actually threatened by those that we pay to supposedly protect us. Because at the end of the day we outnumber the authoritioes by at least a hundred to one.

From one of the smallest of the "OCCUPATIONS" a NEW spirit of Real RESISTANCE was born; the cops were surrounded and DRIVEN OUT! Yesterday I wrote off this city as being hopelessly compromised before they had even begun. (1)
But through the early morning hours of today I was PROVEN WRONG by this SPIRIT of INDEPENDENCE & the will to actually physically resist that which was finally shown here in San Francisco: This has NOT been seen in any other demonstration in the nation ­ UNTIL NOW! (2)
The common-problem through all these demonstrations has always been how to deal with the extreme VIOLENCE of the thugs in uniform that are armed and anxious to attack the public; while the unarmed public tries to remain completely non-violent throughout the beatings, the tasers and the pepper-spray. It is not enough to just "not-resist" because what the thug-cops want is your total surrender. That has always been the problem-everywhere. But as San Francisco so aptly demonstrated, early this morning: There is an entirely other aspect to resistance that can be more than just effective:
 
"Roughly around 10pm the police began to gather a block away from the occupation. Word circulated quickly and as both the occupiers and the police prepared roughly 150 people assembled at the occupation. After a few hours of waiting, debate, and nervous conversations within the occupation the police finally made their first move. Marching down the street, adorned with helmets and batons, the police escorted a line of Department of Public Works Vehicles. Standing between the occupiers and the living spaces that had been created since the occupations' beginning, Department of Public Works workers were then forced to begin eradicating the space of any materials related to the occupation. The trucks were quickly filled with the same rapidity as the mood in the air began to intensify.
 
Almost spontaneously a large wooden pallet that the vehicles had not yet managed to collect was brought in front of one of the trucks. Immediately others began to follow bringing bodies and all material left behind in the encampment and surrounded the police and Department of Public Works vehicles. People grabbed anything they could find ­ garbage cans, street signs, cones and even the police's own metal barricades to prevent the trucks from leaving as well as corner the police. While the police had tried to encircle and intimidate the occupation those there quickly used the opportunity to encircle and intimidate the police. As the SFPD closed in on the trucks standing off with what was now hundreds of people on market street and beautifully constructed barricades, they began to make way for the vehicles to leave. This created a series of small scuffles. Eventually the vehicles left and the barricades stood proudly on market street between the starry twilight of 230am and the confused fright of the SFPD.
 
The night was an incredibly powerful reflection of not only what is possible but the emergent potential of the Occupy movement.
 
After the police announced that the occupation was going to be raided the occupiers began to decide what to do. The conversation was disparate, timid and unstable. This was directly caused by a few dominant voices controlling a decision making process in a situation that needed immediate attention. As the police came in this timidity, instability and disparity disappeared as all collectively participated in activity that reflected the needs of the immediate situation. No longer was the conversation dominated, but all voices flourished in the streets.
 
People also held together and refused to be the targets of police violence. Instead people collectively resisted the attacks by the police by directly interfering with their ability to function as police by constructing barricades. Their antagonism towards the police was a direct reflection of the immediate goal of responding to a police raid. This act of self-defense was also an offensive direct action and strengthened both the solidarity amongst the participants and the potential for antagonistic expansion.
 
If these occupations are to both survive and continue they must be protected from the police by any means necessary." (2)
 
And "This is how-it's done": Because the demonstrators did not leave their 'survival-skills' at home: They brought themselves to this demonstration, and all of their own instincts about what and how they needed to do, to survive, whenever real threats are clear.
 
Non-Violence for the sake of itself frustrates this natural response to blatant rage and violence generated by the authorities. Because all these demonstrations end up as just POLICE-RIOTS, that illustrate how this government actually feels about all of us!
 
What has been happening in virtually every demonstration where non-violence has always been uppermost: Is that the crowds have forgotten that nonviolence is about more than just not-being armed with weapons. We are always armed with our minds and our own tactics for dealing with every kind of threat: We need to remember than, whenever we attend a demonstration of any kind.
 
It means that you must take every action possible to turn the powers of your attackers against them. You don't need weapons you have the numbers. And when you use common sense and some basic tactics, those who came to corral and arrest people can themselves be rounded up, frustrated and driven off!
 
Until now there was no real demonstration of this possibility until San Francisco, with its smaller numbers of actual freedom-demonstrators, gave the whole world this picture of real resistance and genuine determination.
 
THANK YOU SAN FRANCISCO for proving me wrong!
 
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