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March against Occupation

by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
photos from today's march against the occupation of Iraq.
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photos from today's march from dolores park to civic center, against the occupation of Iraq.
§Ashamed of my Country
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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§Liar$ Anonymous
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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§Code Pink
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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§@ 16th and mission
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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crowd shot from 16th and mission.
§No more blood for Israel
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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reminded me of don quixote
§front of the march
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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§answer volunteer and anarchists
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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this answer volunteer tried to stop a group of anarchists from moving to the front of the march.
§fuck bush
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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§Impeach Bush Now
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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§civic center
by Darksyde (Darksyde888 [at] yahoo.com)
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by Anarchist
Peace nazis suck. Parade marshals suck. Marshals for ANSWER events suck the most of all.

Thank god that ANSWER is going down the tubes. You gotta love how ANSWER fucked up the Palestinians in New Jersey.
by john
wow. answer better never come to pittsburgh with their peace marshals.
by curious
so what will happen to answer if they try to organize a march in pittsburg and try to prevent the anarchists from getting in front? you gonna beat them up?
by let's try again!
so what will happen to answer if they try to organize a march in pittsburg and try to prevent the anarchists from getting in front?

no fair ducking the issues! (no matter how drunk you are)
by Dagny
What do you suppose would happen in Iraq if US troops, administrators, and engineers left Iraq tomorrow?

by i don't care
Lucky I don't go thru life worrying whether or not other people hate me because I'm an American.
none of your loved ones worked in the WTC.
by Dagny
"none of your loved ones worked in the WTC."

9/11 happened years before the current "occupation" of Iraq. What did the US do to cause those Islamic mass murderers to hate us?

by Than we can party!
What do you suppose would happen in Iraq if US troops, administrators, and engineers left Iraq tomorrow?

Many more Iraqis would die, than in the war. But that is what the peace movement wants! We were promised 500,000 dead Iraqis, by the UN and are upset because we didn't get them. The US could only show us millions of dead because of Saddam, but this doesn't help are agenda so we don't care.

Die Iraqi Die, We need you deaths, so we can have more street parties. We need the money for are own kind, not arabs that is why we don't want to help them now. We are the nazis, oh wait you can't call us that anymore, we are the ISM, ANSWER or any other group of letters that makes you think we are something different or new.
Support Israel. Literally, every April 15th.
by J.A.L.
"The weakening of the ideas which support the evil and oppressive present-day conditions means the ultimate breakdown of government and capitalism." - Alexander Berkman

Brothers and sisters,

Walking alongside fellow anarchists and anti-authoritarians at Sunday's protest filled me with an incredible sense of pride and enthusiasm.

Despite its small size, the anarchist contingent proved a powerful force during the march. Slowly moving from the back to very front of the march, the anarchists literally stole the show from the self-important A.N.S.W.E.R. organizers.

The highlight for me was when an A.N.S.W.E.R. volunteer tried to tell us to "get on the sidewalk or go to the back" because we "didn't organize this march." The response: "The streets belong to the people!...we organized this march!"

Anarchists were able to provide an anti-authoritarian counterbalance to the statist A.N.S.W.E.R. organization. We proved that the people can in fact make their own decisions. They don't people yelling cheers at them with megaphones.

Still, the anarchist presence was too small. We can do better. On October 25th, we need to take our message to the world. Make signs, flags, banners, stickers, t-shirts, fliers, whatever you feel like. And bring your friends, as many as can come. Let's make October 25th a great day for anarchism. We can do it.

Every anarchist who reads this, please show up on the 25th.

Until then,

J.A.L.
by anti Anti-Zionist
You, "Anti-Zionist", should be declared "world ignoramus 2003" and listed in Guinness.
Get a goddamn basic education about Islamist extremism, you bloody fool.
by American Taxpayer
The only difference between Islamist extremism and Jewish extremism is I have to finance Jewsish extremism every April 15th. Outside of that, they both suck equally.
by Another American taxpayer
you're jabbering about.

You don't even know how much of US aid to Israel really finances Jewish fundamentalism if at all. We need solid, measurable figures relating to concrete and correctly defined subjects; we can't go on your broad brush complaints. And we can't realistically establish all "settlements" are populated by Jewish extremists, that the IDF is Jewish extremist, that the Likud is Jewish extremist, and any other delusional narcotics induced myths propagated by extreme leftists worldwide.

Jewish extremism is not even remotely as harmful as Islamist extremism, except in the minds of you and your ilk. You don't even complain about US aid to one extremist Islamic country, Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Jordan (which are semi-theocratic) which still receive US aid:
"The legislation passed, 370-50, after the House rejected an attempt to add Saudi Arabia to five other nations - all on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism - that are ineligible for U.S. aid."

(snip)

"...$1.9 billion for Egypt and $456 million for Jordan."


Go now to a good school this time around.
by no we don't
One penny is too much.


>Jewish extremism is not even remotely as harmful as Islamist extremism,

All religious extremism is harmful. Jewish extremeism is no less harmful than Islamist extremism. It kills just as many people. It causes just as much grief. It just doesn't get as much press in the West, that's all.
by yes we do
You aren't in the least bit curious how your tax dollars are supporting the energy bandits? How many blackouts will it take to peak your curiosity?
by Another American Taxpayer
You got one general statement right, but that was just by a fluke ("All religious extremism is harmful.").

Your nauseating balderdash doesn't merit an intelligent response to try and refute it.
Join the Narcotics Anonymous program. Maybe then there will be some hope for you because right now you're beyond hope.
by Another American Taxpayer
you self important feeling moron. Now this statement is an ad hominem.

Try getting over your impulses to post idiocy.
by need a new debate coach
What exactly is the topic of this thread? It started with a comment about anarchists and peace marshals at the ANSWER march and then it degenerated into the 40,098th argument about tax dollars going to Israel.
by Patriot
We need to encourage our troops to stay in Iraq, until a measure of stability and peace are restored to that country. Bush and our military are doing a wonderful job, but it's obvious more time is needed.

The anti-occupation protests will turn out to be about as effective as the anti-war protests were. This will have the effect of pissing off the pro-tyrant Stalinists at ANSWER, though, so that's a good thing.
by ok
If you people care about the iraqi people, you shoudn't be demanding the US leave now. None of us wanted the war, but it's already happened, and to leave now will just leave iraq in a state of chaos, with private armies forming to kill each other until they can take over the country. Endinig the occupation of iraq "today" is good for gangs and private armies in iraq, not for THE PEOPLE. Taking the time to actually allow the people to vote for real candidates who will run a responsible government and respect everyone's human rights is the way to go.

Likewise, with israel, it makes no sense for israel to end the occupation as long as the people who will gain the power will be arafat and hamas, war-mongers who will just allow a new state to be a terror-fest who eventually make massive war on israel. If you actually care about the well-being of the israeli people and the palestinian people and all people around there, you should want the israel occupation to end only when the resulting power shift goes towards moderates, not fundamentalists.

yaser arafat does not represent anything we want in a leadership. Wanting freedom for palestinians should not be equated with a state being created that is run by arafat or hamas. They are wannabe dictators, fueled by religious extremism.

Yelling "freedom for the people" is all well and good, but handing power over to gangs, terrorist groups and scumbags isn't going to result in good things for anyone on either side.

by peak oil
Global oil is now peaking.
This is why we at war in iraq.
The pie will only get smaller, so to maintain the US economy we need to keep taking a bigger cut of the global oil pie.
http://www.dieoff.com/
http://www.oilcrisis.com/magoon/
by almost humored to tears
Sounds like everyone is fighting for the "front", the head of the line, the most exposure, the most and best reason to be right. Could this be intentional sabotage? This is one reason I don't affiliate with any one group. None of this quabbling will matter when we are dead and gone. And more proof that the US will never be a force for change, compassion on any front. Listen to all this hatred, resentment. Funny how I found myself at the end of the march. Good luck human beings. We are capable to self-distruct ourselves and we are well on our way. That way we can say we all lost somebody on this terrible day.
by kdawg (lkajdf;lkj [at] yahoo.com)
by anti-Zionist Tuesday September 30, 2003 at 04:51 PM



Support Israel. Literally, every April 15th.
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Try reading Osama's fatwa highlighting the reasons for attacking the US. he released in 1998.
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