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ProtestWarriors coming to Berkeley Campus 4/21 11am

by PW
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.
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by c
Attention all PATRIOTS:

Do not forward the following message to anyone else, unless you
absolutely trust that they love America and would defend it against
socialists. If that is the case, please forward this to them.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS RALLY
Counterprotest the Stop the War Coalition!

To Freedom Loving Americans and Troop-Supporters:

This Thursday at 10:30, the Stop the War Coalition and a whole plethora
of anti-war groups will be protesting the Military Recruiters at the
Career Fair in MLK Student Union. SFSU and several other colleges have
already kicked off their recruiters, while the Berkeley ASUC senate
passed a symbolic resolution banning the recruiters. It's time for us to
stop the growth of this insurgency.

In response, we will be holding a Rally for the Troops and Military
Recruiters at 11:00 on
Thursday. The rally will not be effective unless ALL OF YOU SHOW UP! We
need to show up with signs, American flags, and most importantly,
OURSELVES.

The media will be there. Evan Maloney, conservative filmmaker and
creator of 'Brainwashing 101' may come to film us for his next
documentary, so we need A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE!

Thursday 11:00 am- Rally; meet in front of BCR table

Note that the Armenian students will be holding an event at the same
time on upper Sproul, so we should show them respect and not disrupt
their event.

E-mail me if you have any questions.
Andrew Quinio
arquinio@...

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by bluecollar
Why even bother with them? Most of them are the guys who tried out for and coulldn't make their high school football team. They are just geeks and no one pays any attention to them. Its the military people who are the focus of the demo,maybe we could get the pee wee's to sign up?
by Makhno
Is this even considered a big deal? The Protest "Warriors" have already exposed themselves for what they are - a bunch of cowardly 40 year old men who act tough while hiding behind riot police but are as meek as kittens when the police aren't around to serve as bodyguards for 'em.
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