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Biotech protesters surrounded/arrested at 5th/Market (audio/mpeg 1.1MB)
audio from the Biotech rally/march on Market St. Tues. 6/8; listen closely in background, at 1:40 minutes in, police order fully surrounded protesters to disperse, about 2:00 in announce they are under arrest - compare to police reports from 6/9 Chronicle article...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 10:27pm PDT
Brook Shields Appears at BIO 2004 And Tells Protesters To 'Get A Life'
Actress chides protesters during appearance at BIO 2004 conference in S.F....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 9:20pm PDT
Photos: Reclaim The Streets, J8
Pictures from the Reclaim The Streets action, Tuesday, June 8, 2004.
Are there enough cops in these pictures?...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 6:24pm PDT
RTS Charges likely to be dropped Monday
Inside sources at City Hall report that Kamala Harris is likely to announce on Monday that the citations issued to Reclaim the Streets partiers at 5th and Market will be dropped....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 5:50pm PDT
BIO protest 6/8 (video/quicktime 5.6MB)
Short edit of Tues morning protests...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 2:59pm PDT
Pro-Biotech Protesters at Moscone Center
Yesterday at Moscone, I saw these guys standing outside the main entrance. There was a lot of good conversation happening there. I had hoped that the Reclaim the Commons participants had an intelligent critique of biotech, but I was wrong. I talked to at least 20 people and all of them had the most ignorant things to say about the science they are trying to destroy. It was upsetting to me....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 2:06pm PDT
SFPD Dreaming About How They Will Spend All The Overtime They Are Milking from the City
This is a picture of SFPD officers lounging after they had arrested 5 people during last Saturday's breakaway march. They went a bit overboard on police presence on Saturday and have continued to do so the rest of this last week, which is nice for them when they get their next paychecks, but means a lot of money being sucked from the city budget....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 1:13pm PDT
IMC reporters arrested at June 8th Reclaim the Streets
Three IMC reporters and two medics were put into the same busload of arrestees after the Reclaim the Streets march and dance party was stopped by the police in San Francisco yesterday. Additional reporters and medics were arrested later during the same mass arrest....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 11:51am PDT
SFSU Classes Cancelled Friday for RAYGUN! Idiotic
This is insane. The man who armed Iraq in the 80s is a reason to close school? I hope that students and others will organize and use this to educate people on who Raygun really was. Other government agencies are also closing that day. What BS!!! This needs to be the massively educate on Ronnie Raygun day. Hang banners at the very least....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 11:31am PDT
LaborFest 2004 Schedule
LaborFest will be celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike this coming July. It will have events both in San Francisco and the East Bay....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 8:56am PDT
Anti-Zionists Protest "Israel Celebration Day"
Another view......
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 8:54am PDT
Photos From Reclaim The Streets
Some 200 people joined the Mutant Street Fest that was organized by a group that called itself West Coast G8 on Tuesday, June 8th. The march was surrounded by the SFPD and the CHP, and the police eventually arrested everyone who was in the street....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 1:53am PDT
Uncle Sam - the real Terrorist
The People rally for Racial Justice locally and globally...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 12:56am PDT
Reclaim the Streets, June 8
A Reclaim the Streets party and anti-G8 solidarity march ended in a mass arrest Tuesday, June 8. More than 150 activists were surrounded by police and arrested, without being given an order to disperse. By midnight, most arrestees had been cited and released....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 12:33am PDT
Photos From Morning Reclaim the Commons Action
Photos from morning reclaim the commons action....
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 11:12pm PDT
two photos from Bio-tech protest today
two photos taken earlier today, around 11:30am, corner of 4th and Howard, in the middle of the Bio-Tech conference, SF, June 8, 2004...
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 10:29pm PDT
Israel Celebration Day Report Back: Justice in Palestine Coalition Holds Powerful Action
The Justice in Palestine Coalition held a powerful action today at the entrance to SBC (Pac-Bell) Park-- calling into question what there is to celebrate about 56 years of racist colonialism, displacement, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians....
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 8:00pm PDT
Biotech, 4th & Howard
Some pictures shot at 4th and Howard at around mid-day....
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 7:51pm PDT
tackled (divx.avi video) (video/x-msvideo 3.5MB)
Biotech protest today, June 8, 2004, about 6:45pm at 5th and Market, SF...
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 7:33pm PDT
Protestors Arrested
Protestors gathered and were arrested one by one by a massive police presence of probably 5 to 1 that I could see...
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 7:09pm PDT