Photos From Nov.2 Protest (part 1)

Caption for Chron security cam photos:

"OK so remember I'll be in front of the Chron building on my bike. You throw this Police issue Molotov cocktail at me but don't hit me! Maybe let a little bit of glass and fire rain down on my shoulder or something. Then I'll stomp out the fire and look like a real hero. Now make sure you are standing near a real anarchist and put this bag full of Molotov cocktails next to that real anarchist so we can pin it on that person rather than you. Here is your police issue anarchist gear with the mask and all.
Now remember if you fuck up I will be prosecuting for that key of heroin we planted...er found in your car. And make it look convincing. I mean everyone will automatically think it was an anarchist attack because who else uses molotov cocktails. When we try to pin a murder on gang members we use Glocks, when we try to pin a crime on anarchists we use Molotov Cocktails. Its all right here in the SFPD Red Squad Handbook."

yeah - you said it. It looks so unwise that it would have a story behind it like that.
for context, I'll append a few sentences my father wrote me about halloween in the olden days. He has told us about an out of control celebration when the rich-kids high school in Kansas City won the football championship in 1939 (the kids often had cars despite the depression), where some streetcars and cop cars were knocked over after some were arrested for looting a store downtown, and so the others went and threw things at the police station in anger. So this is probably what he's referring to here, rather than that police cars were tipped each halloween. Boys getting beaten up at school, and rape was also more common and he also had a story about one day when a black kid kept trying to get into the swimming pool and getting turned away, and he wondered why, but it was very rare that black people would even attempt. But you get the idea.There is a different standard held now. Yet, this molotov thing was utterly stupid and sounds like a protest warrior infiltrator trying to make everyone look bad, if anything.

" About Halloween back in the '30s. Your getting it from somebody who was there. In Wichita I remember: Halloween, the water pressure all over town went down to dangerous levels because the pranksters opened up all of the fire hydrants in town; fires were started in the streets, the kids turned over police cars and busses , garbage cans were up ended on front porches, all unguarded windows were smeared with soap bars, etc. When they said trick or treat, these weren't idle threats. Th e holiday has tamed down drastically since WWII.
dad

We get the SF Chronicle delivered to the ESL institute where I work, and, on a weekly basis, as we skim through the pages of it, someone usually says something like: 'It's amazing no one has blown up the Chronicle building."
Then, when I heard a molotov cocktail was thrown at it yesterday, I was happy. I wish I had the guts to do that---or the numbers.

congratulation to all of you who sat down, made trouble, or even just marched against the war and the current regime of the empire.

fuck bush? yup. but fuck ANSWER too.

action against the war - no more permitted marches!

fuck bush, fuck answer, fuck permitted marches....

and of course, fuck capitalism