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UC Berkeley dance party evolves into confrontation with police

by Josh Wolf (web [at] joshwolf.net)
Oakland North correspondents Shannon Service and Josh Wolf sit down to review footage of last week’s dance party at UC Berkeley and discuss their impressions of what they saw that night.
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On Thursday, Feb. 25, about 200 people gathered at Sproul Plaza for a dance party that had been promoted on Facebook and through flyers distributed on campus. Shortly before midnight the party moved to Durant Hall, which is under construction, at which point the party became an occupation to promote the March 4 demonstrations. The dance party left Durant Hall around 2 a.m. and soon left campus via Telegraph Avenue. Before leaving Durant, several people inside the building sprayed paint on the walls and broke at least one window.

As the crowd headed onto Telegraph someone broke the window at the Subway sandwich shop, and the crowd quickly squared off against the arriving tide of police officers.

Oakland North correspondents Shannon Service and Josh Wolf were there to report on the event. The two reporters sat down to review their footage and discuss what they witnessed that night.

A similar dance party is scheduled at San Francisco State March 3.
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by an anarchist
Dear Josh Wolf,

The anarchist and activist community really supported you through your court shit and its fucking absurd for you to release this kind of inflammatory commentary on the people who would have your back.

You are officially not on our side, you are on their side, hope you like it there.
by someone who wasn't there
I take it there was something about their commentary that you disagreed with..?
by Konsider
What did Josh Wolf and Shannon Service say that was negative about the dance party and what ensued? Maybe I missed something, but I tend to agree with their commentary.
by by another anarchist
Hey Official Determination Committee Chair of "Our Side" (aka "Fuck You..."),

For some of us anarchists, being an anarchist means being open, inviting discussion and debate and not publicly attacking folks who may not agree or take a certain political line.

You sound hostile, uptight and authoritarian. Who was it who said "you are either with with us or against us?"

Seems like some so-called anarchists may be using the student movement for a kind of "entryism," a political tactic of a group entering an organization or movement to gain recruits or take over. How many dance party folks were consulted or told what the dance party would do? How many of the non-transparent organizers knew all along what they were gonna do? Does that mean they were using the students and dance partiers folks as riot fodder?

WTF?





by leaf
That's a good point (the previous comment). The UC PD is sure to take advantage of online comments which anticipate a conflict on March 4th in order to justify calling in additional officers. This spectacle will draw over more students to see what is going on, which could cause officers to decide special crowd control or provocation is necessary. Then the onlookers are suddenly in the center of something.
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