San Francisco is a Hate-Free Zone

Volunteers are needed to declare
Our Community A Hate-Free Zone!

We condemn the increase in Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim discrimination, threats and violence in the wake of the horrible tragedies in New York and Washington DC. We in San Francisco pride ourselves on diversity and respect for people of all races, faiths and sexual orientations. Racism is always unfair and unjust. Racial prejudice is a spiral of hatred that only leads to more violence. Only love and respect leads to peace with justice.

Join members of Global Exchange
Friday, September 14th, 5pm
to post signs with the above message in homes and businesses across the city.

Please join us at the Global Exchange office:
2017 Mission Street #303 (at 16th Street)

Teams will be leaving the office from 5pm to 6pm
For more information, contact:
Marla Ruzicka, Global Exchange
415-255-7296
marla [at] globalexchange.org

We also need volunteers to help publicize a special concert with Michael Franti and Spearhead, other entertainers and peace activists.

The concert will be held:
Sunday, September 16, 2pm - 4pm
Precita Park in Bernal Heights
(between Folsom and Alabama Streets - one block north of César Chávez)

We are taught to hate someone! I bet they hate Moslems right now. Or militias or Rush Limbaugh. Don't worry they are taught by the STATE and mass meda who to hate. And it's always the wrong people or whatever scapegoat the State needs for more power and control. And the sheep, too stupid to think, from government schools and religion, listen to the crap and lick the State's boots. They teach you to hate business - instead of the real enemy - the State. What's wrong with a street vendor - that's business! It only gets corrupted when the State fucks it up.

Love a logger. Love a militia member. Love them all because they're all stupid in their own ways. No one is better than anyone else. And love a logger more than a tree!

where the fuck were you nike-protecting, benjamin-loving,
anarchist-arresting assholes when i was being attacked
by my drunken neigbor and being called a 'dirty arab'
right here in the wonderful mission district of
san franfuckingcisco on tuesday night?

san francisco is still in america, and that means
it's a hate-filled zone. if i hear one more white
person tell me how lucky i am to be living
in 'tolerant' SF right now, i am going to scream.

I am personally sorry that you are being hit with hate.

I am searching to no avail on-line. What are we doing people? We must hit the streets and actively resist U.S. bombing, hate crimes and global hegemony! Where is the resistance movement? The U.S. government has chosen its course; It is up to us to resist!

I was at the ralley/concert on Sunday. It was great. Totally wonderful to see people together, unified in love and compassion instead of the National movement to solidify a wall of hatered.

We need to do more. We need to be together more. We need to bring more attention to the fact that not all Americans support a vicious strike against "evil." In itself, that is evil.

How do we start the ball rolling?

I also fear that the government will further victimize the people of afganistan and focus their violence on people of arabic descent. Me and a few of my friends want to organize a peaceful event to encourage and celebrate unity and anti-violence within the bay area. We also want make it an opportunity for everyone to send a message to the people of this nation (especially congress) that we will not stand for violence against innocent civilians. Please contact me if you are involved with an organization that encourages unity and non-violence so we can gather our resources and have a positive, enjoyable, and educational event for the people of the bay area. Contact me zette16 [at] hotmail.com

To those who are feeling hopeless or like nothing is being done:

I have compiled a lot of information on what is being done. Please look at the site and pick your action--even a small one. If you are ready to protect those people who are being attacked, find others to join with you and make yourselves known to a neighborhood. Make no mistake, the violence is real and the "Hate Free Zone" is more to get attention focused on what should be rather than what is.

The media want us to believe that no one wants peace. The truth is that thousands of letters are pouring into Washington asking for restraint. We could not mobilize in a week, but it is happening. Unfortunately, the President was able to mobilize a bit faster. We have some catching up to do.

I feel for the person who was attacked by the drunk neighbor. Many people that I know are going out of their way to ask ANY person who is not very black or very white how they are doing, and if they feel safe or need help in any way. Black people and white people may not be safe either, but I know that I am more safe than a person of color right now. This is one of the most outrageous things I have ever seen in this country--even I feel fear when I walk the streets in a T-shirt that says PEACE. So, there is a fine line that we are all walking. We must speak, we must act, we must do it together for our own protection and we must start forming neighborhood groups in places where violence has been happening. We cannot meet hate with hate, however. Even those of us who will be attacked or jailed for speaking now must not hate our attackers or our jailers. We must think much higher than that. The time has come for a complete consciousness shift to create lasting peace here, and maybe around the world.

May we all be inspired to action before the first bomb drops...to stop any from falling. But if they fall, a rally is planned for 5 pm in SF. Check the web site. We must stop this together.
peace to you all, care for each other.

I am not really surprised that there is a war right now, everyone is clearly aware that this was planned decades ago! It is obvious to myself that Bush means to take over the planet in the long term, one by one, he will invade, kill innocent people.

Now I know that black people will get it the worst, because they will all be classed as muslims. You want to make it stop? Doing rallies and walking down motorways is a public display of anti-hate. How did Gandhi do it?

Not with banners and stuff, gather as many people as possible and go on such a peace march, that the government will have to take notice. Sit in the middle of the busiest roads for as long as it takes. Take supplies, if you have the balls or the female part, go on hunger strikes. If you are not being violent, there is no reason to arrest you. BUT, if a vast number of people sat along the road, right in the middle and didnt budge, the press, the officials etc, will have to listen!

By the way, I am trying to get that started on the other side of the world, I stay in Scotland if anyone wants to join me! Good luck all of you.