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ProtestWarriors coming to Berkeley Campus 4/21 11am
The Protest Warrior group will be joining the Berkeley College Republicans in counterprotesting a protest of students who will be demonstrating against the Marines table at the career fair. The police have already set up barricades around the student union and aren't letting people without student ID in, so the noise action should be in Sproul plaza, where thousands of students pass to get to class
The UC police station is actually in Sproul Hall, so there should be a lot of them, so the risk of being harmed by the PWiors is low, but in their web forum, they have a strategy of jumping in front of media cameras. Demonstrators should use their loud bullying strategy against them by taking photos of them getting red in the face, taking recordings of them yelling etc. Lots of people have these new cheaper mp3 players that do voice recording, or camera phones. Come document them and report bakc here.
The sentiment of the typical Berkeley student is against the protest warriors, even if most people are busy studying for the end of the year and could probably barely be moved to come outside to join - this is a good thing.
http://forum.protestwarrior.com/viewtopic.php?p=9114269#9114269
During several previous events, right wing radio hosts have sent numbers of followers to the Berkeley campus expecting all sorts of sedition and imagined leftist goings on, and you could see these people stumbling around looking confused. One case was when they deliberately lied and said that students refused to pass out flags and would only pass out white peace ribbons for the 9-11 memorial - when really this was a totally inconsequential detail that a student on a committee had chosen, and another kid decided to retaliate by saying that it was an antipatriotic gesture. So you could actually see these right-wing freaks darting around Sproul looking for flag burners and they only saw students who with much higher IQs ignoring them.
The alpha protest warrior (they use very militaristic language on their web forum that you can sign up for) is a fellow named Rudolf the red, which is a slur on my grandpa Rudolf.
The sentiment of the typical Berkeley student is against the protest warriors, even if most people are busy studying for the end of the year and could probably barely be moved to come outside to join - this is a good thing.
http://forum.protestwarrior.com/viewtopic.php?p=9114269#9114269
During several previous events, right wing radio hosts have sent numbers of followers to the Berkeley campus expecting all sorts of sedition and imagined leftist goings on, and you could see these people stumbling around looking confused. One case was when they deliberately lied and said that students refused to pass out flags and would only pass out white peace ribbons for the 9-11 memorial - when really this was a totally inconsequential detail that a student on a committee had chosen, and another kid decided to retaliate by saying that it was an antipatriotic gesture. So you could actually see these right-wing freaks darting around Sproul looking for flag burners and they only saw students who with much higher IQs ignoring them.
The alpha protest warrior (they use very militaristic language on their web forum that you can sign up for) is a fellow named Rudolf the red, which is a slur on my grandpa Rudolf.
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Protest "Warriors"
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 2:23PM
Why bother with the pee wee's
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 10:51AM
their email
Thu, Apr 21, 2005 9:08AM
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