Oct 22 in SF: We Win

On Oct 22nd thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest police brutality. People from all walks of life, from all political persuasions came to the event. There were radicals and moderates, environmentalists and animal liberationists - all there to say we won't take it any more. No more beating, assasinations, unjust arrests at the hands of the gestapo commenly refered as police officers. The day started with a rally at 24th and mission in San Francisco. The energy was high as the event started off. Speakers told crowd about their experiences with police brutality and the crowd responded with ever increasing amounts of sympathy and anger. And so the march started, with a group of people that weren't going to take it any more. We marched down mission with numerous chants bouncing off the buildings. There were relatively few police present at the march, and in light of that some capitalist monoliths got some well deserved redecoration (namely wells fargo, whose window was redecorated with "f*** banks" and their walls with the circle A logo, and "f*** wells fargo"). The march continued and worked its way onto valencia street. That is when the real fun started. Unfortunately for the lacky's with guns, one of their havens was located on that street. They had the entrance closed off with a barricade and some cops standing at that barricade, but that was it. So people broke out the chalk and stated to go to town on the walls and sidewalks. but unfortunately for the police, some people were just not content with chalk. Some people got busy with the spray paint and redecorated the front of the building with Circle As and numerous epithets about the police, and the best part about it - the police couldn't do a thing. Their whole stations front side was redecorated with slogans, it was a beautiful site. People were cheering the painters on and the police couldn't do a fucking thing. Eventually the march got going again and ended in dolores park, with no arrests that i know of. The families of those slain at the hands of police told their stories. I left about that time, and on my way out of the city I happened to pass the mission police station. They had managed to clean some of the building, black smucged where slogans once were. But there, on the front of the builing was one lone Circle A still left. A fitting sign for what is to come after the revolution. We will win.

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