Green Party Attacked by SF Police at Dolores Park on 4th of July 2015

Meanwhile, the thousands attending the annual 4th of July performance of the 56 year old SF Mime Troupe, who were watching a live, excellent as usual performance, this year on the police state in the workingclass communities, sat and did nothing while this horrifying police state attack on an electoral party took place. Many, perhaps the majority, were guzzling alcohol, illegal in the parks, and many were drinking from glass bottles, also illegal in the park. Shortly after the 2 park police left, an illegal barbecue was set up in the same area, with stinking petroleum used to make the fire instead of wood, paper and a match, and all barbecues of any kind are illegal in the park and there is never any reason for any barbecue.

If just 100 people had surrounded the Green Party table, the 2 police would have backed down and gone away. We know that for sure because they did absolutely nothing about the obvious thousands of illegal alcohol guzzlers since they knew they were outnumbered 1,000 to 1. The performance could have stopped a few minutes while we stopped the Democratic Party's police state right here in San Francisco. It was all in full view of everyone. They acted like they were watching a TV show instead of fascism in action, brought to us by the San Francisco Democratic Party.

This writer has been attending SF Mime Troupe performances for most of the past 56 years and has never seen any park police in Dolores Park. This is an escalation of fascism being perpetrated in this city, along with the gentrification.

The park itself has been redone and is not user-friendly. The steep hill facing East, below the statute, is steeper than ever, now completely impossible for people with weak legs to climb up or down, and there is now a steep hill on the north side facing Mission High School which is very difficult to climb up or down. They also removed the beautiful trees on the West side facing the J Church streetcar line, which protected viewers of the performance from the sun, as well as held in the soil, and added to the beautiful ambience of Dolores Park. IT IS MANDATORY THAT TREES BE PLANTED AROUND THE ENTIRE PARK so as to hold the soil, protect people from the sun, provide something for people to hold onto while climbing up or down the steep hills, and enhance the beauty of the park. A good example of a tree-surrounded park is Washington Square Park.

Instead of paying Park Police to harass an electoral party, we should pay janitors to maintain our brand-new bathrooms at Dolores Park, which were closed on the 4th of July. After all, we have 18 billionaires and many more millionaires in San Francisco, so there is plenty of money to pay for clean bathrooms. Hopefully, the City paid for the Port-A-Potties that were in the park on the 4th of July.

The SF Mime Troupe is again in Dolores Park on July 5, music at 1:30 and show at 2 p.m. Let us hope the SF Democratic Party Police do not attack the Green Party again, and if they do, the audience gets up and surrounds the table to protect it. Again, the Green Party is a legal, electoral party with lots of constitutional rights. In San Francisco, we routinely use ironing board tables for election work. Poles for large signs are routine and do not damage the ground.

Our answer to the San Francisco Democratic Party's police attack on the Green Party must be to REGISTER GREEN or PEACE & FREEDOM and VOTE GREEN or PEACE & FREEDOM.

In San Francisco, the Green Party is running Francisco Herrera for Mayor. See
http://www.peoplescampaign.net/platform

Jill Stein is running for president on the Green Party ticket. See
http://www.jill2016.com/

You can register Peace & Freedom or Green online at https://covr.sos.ca.gov/?language=en-US
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/platform/full-platform

http://www.cagreens.org/
http://www.cagreens.org/platform
http://www.gp.org/index.php
http://www.gp.org/what-we-believe/our-platform