Anarchists plan to disrupt delegates at Pepsi Center

[The Sushi Bandit]

Source: Rocky Mountain News

PEPSI CENTER — The same anarchist protesters who Monday night blocked off a downtown street and clashed with officers in riot gear say on their Web site that they plan a similar disruption tonight at the Pepsi Center aimed at stopping delegates from reaching the arena.

The Web site of DNC Disruption 08 says that protesters are to take two different tactics tonight - "snake marches" and blockades.

"Two snake marches will leave from two locations north and south of the Pepsi Center, making their way through downtown in a raucous, festive manner (bring your noise makers!) to delegate entrances at the Pepsi Center," the site reads. "Should one or both of the marches not reach the security perimeter, the marches will fall back to secondary goals."

The time and exact locations were not revealed. As of midafternoon, the area around the arena was mostly calm. Shortly after 2:30 a small group of protesters approached the Pepsi Center perimeter, but were pushed back by police.

The site says the group Unconventional Denver is calling out to other uncommitted "affinity groups" for help.



Read more: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/26/anarchist-plan-disrupt-delegates-pepsi-center/

[midnight]

1. I hope that everyone will be safe.

[Mojambo]

2. Anarchists plan...

They do?

[slackmaster]

It does sound kind of contradictory

I think anarchists just do.

[Critters2]

7. I used to hang out with Anarchists and Wobblies and the like.

Can they hold meetings!! Hours and hours of meetings!! I laughed out loud once at an Anarchist meeting where they were talking about training organizers! Out loud! That's when I learned the other important thing to know about Anarchists. They tend to be lacking in the sense of humor/irony dept.

[bjobotts]

18. Anarchist's Plan...you mean like the constitution was an Anarchist's plan?

[guruoo]

34. Oh sure!

They plan to find the best dope, party, and ass (but not necessarily in that order)

[Mojambo]

36. Where do I sign up? n/t

[tama]

62. Of course

"No leaders" does not equal "no organising". There is, of course, big difference between (hierarchical) top-down organizing and (democratic) bottom-up getting organized.

[cyberpj]

3. Take names and check voter registrations - how many will be Rove Republicans?

Damnit.

[bjobotts]

14. All the ones who voted for FISA

[bjobotts]

15. Most of the Rove republicans are inside the AT&T party or have box seats.

[Pastiche423]

47. Like the nom did?

[dbonds]

4. So the anarchists are organized, the irony.

I actually think might be more black ops than anarchists.

[BlueManDude]

5. Do these people ever protest at GOP conventions?

[jeff30997]

6. They would be tasered to death. n/t

[bjobotts]

16. Yeah,how dare they say end the war and torture and spying..Must be Rove's people

[EFerrari]

8. Sure. That's next week, I think.

We just notice them more when they're around a DNC event.

[bjobotts]

17. You'd know that answer if they didn't put them in cages out of sight

[bjobotts]

9. What bullshit calling it "anarchists".Trying to demonize dissenters is the corporate way

[bjobotts]

10. Trying to put protesters in barbed wire cages out of sight is unconstitutional;

[bjobotts]

11. Pelosi,Reid and other dem leaders have closed their ears to the people' voice

[bjobotts]

12. They don't want to be bothered or "disrupted" by the "people" you call 'em anarchists

[bjobotts]

13. In that case..."Members of :the Party"used the military police to block the people's organizations f

from speaking out as they sat in their corporate suites burning small replicas of the constitution and laughing as AT&T rewarded them with cash and prizes for their efforts to restore the corporate state." There ...fixed

[Critters2]

20. Why do you keep replying to yourself?

It's easier to make one post with all your points.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

23. He's probably an anarchist. (n/m)

[Critters2]

38. LOL! That must be it! nt

[Canuckistanian]

43. LOL

[Critters2]

19. Some of 'em were carrying anarchist flags. So, I'm guessing they're anarchists. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

24. Um, you do know they call themselves that, right?

They even had their meetings on C-Span four years ago discussing their plans for disrupting those conventions.

[Ian David]

29. Yeah, and fuck the lesbians for calling themselves lesbians!

:sarcasm:

[bitchkitty]

45. Well, in this case the dissenters refer to themselves

as anarchists:


http://dncdisruption08.org/?p=240">Anarchists 1 Police 0- Dissidents Reclaim Occupied Denver

[ohio2007]

21. Anarchists vid

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=qb84xVMbfqA&feature=related


http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=O3NLgwgeww0&NR=1




http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jGGZ8DcRwZA&feature=related

[wvbygod]

58. Loved the Rednecks for Obama!

Hell yeah! I even know a few.

[LiberalFighter]

22. If they are going to protest do it without preventing the delegates from attending.

[Ian David]

25. I really fucking hate Anarchists. They're fucking sea gull activists.

They fly in, make a lot of noise, shit all over everything, and produce no meaningful results.

They should ship them all back to Anarchia or wherever they come from.

[ExPatLeftist]

26. LOL at "Anarchia" comment. :D n/t

[guruoo]

32. I've hung out with some before....

and near as I can tell, they seem to be more interested
in partying, finding good dope, and gettin laid
than doing anything politically constructive.

[Ian David]

35. Libertarians with skateboards? n/t

[Gman]

53. LOL! Seagull activists!

good one!

[wvbygod]

59. The result of bad or no parents

Some are even overeducatedly ignorant.

[kegler14]

27. If they really are anarchists, say bye-bye

We really don't want or need them.

[Ian David]

28. I once got warned from a Mod for bashing Anarchists.

Why would someone who doesn't believe in government or hierarchal social constructs call upon an authority figure to discipline me?

You know what?

Fuck the Anarchists and the skateboards the rode in on.

[Critters2]

39. Seriesly?!

:wtf: :rofl:

[Ian David]

41. It was on my record that I "labeled an entire group of people as disruptors."

Well...

That's because disruption is all that Anarchists do.

[Critters2]

44. That is TOO funny!

I used to be a Wobbly, which is as close to an Anarchist as you can get without joining the Anarchist club. And trust me, disrupting is what they do. If the mods give you a hard time, send 'em to me!

[Ian David]

56. Nah, not necessary. n/t

[sam sarrha]

31. they are trained and organized, they fly in, show up together, wear a similar uniform, hoods, dark

clothes, in portland they worked together terrorizing the real demonstrators, making a peaceful demonstration into a riot in minutes

i believe they are there to impede free speach and prevent gatherings of peaceful people thru fear. they provide the Coporate Media an opportunity to spin and distort the real message of grass roots movements. they have organized training camps, but it is really hard to find any info on them

[Historic NY]

30. Yeah fuck with the Democrats because the Repukes won't let you near them.

[Mark E. Smith]

33. Obviously they are pro-Republican

The GOP has been destroying our govt for years.

[The Sushi Bandit]

37. What are you drinking??

Anarchists are so far from the right... OMG!!!

[Mark E. Smith]

55. Not so sure about that

They share in two things:

1) They both want to destroy our government.

2) They hate Democrats.

Which begs the question: why are we even discussing the little face mask wearing suburban wannabes
on a site dedicated to empowering the Democratic Party? Seems like a bit of a paradox to me. I mean,
everyone is entitled to live out their fantasies, but why should we have to hear about them here?

I think we need to do a survey of your so-called 'anarchist' friends and find out exactly how many of them
have ATM and credit cards. My guess would be around 90%. Most of whom are dependent on others to
handle the financing.

[Ferret Annica]

60. I am from Eugene and know many Anarchists

and have done street blockage work at the WTO riots in Seattle and know this mindset.

It is to get the worst person elected to help tear apart and destroy the system faster with as much chaos to it as possible.

Locally anachists have an organization to get conservative Jim Torrey elected to throw out Liberal Democrat Kitty Percy and call it E.A.T., Eugene Anarchists for Torrey.

I hope this helps enlighten you, believe me, I know what I am talking about here.

[LeftyMom]

40. ^ This thread is a fucking disgrace.

:eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. It's not as bad as this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6758513&mesg_id=6758513

[LeftyMom]

48. Right now I'd trade away a whole lot of centrists for anarchists, leftists and plain old radicals.

There's getting to be a real problem with authoritarian personalities on this board.

[joshcryer]

51. So freaking true.

It's why I find that poll about DUers political leanings completely surprising. Most people here do not seem libertarian socialists at all!

[jonnyblitz]

54. all the anti protester threads on DU are a fucking disgrace.

they sound like a bunch of fucking freepers. :puke:

[Canuckistanian]

42. Anarchists? What is this, the 1920's?

Who the Hell thinks that anarchy is going to be a successful (or popular) strategy in the 21st century?

And if they're a legit movement, where are their websites, their blogs?

I call shenanigans.

[conspirator]

61. Their blogs? I would say DU is 20% pure anarchists nt

[tama]

63. Me thinks

What is certainly not a succesfull strategy is keeping the faith in exponential growth of consumerist economy - the most fundamental faith of the two-headed US party of corporate fascism, the system of repreresentative corruption and plutocratic oligarchy (certainly not democracy except for propaganda purpose).

For example, ecovillages and other similar seeds of future are organized according to anarchistic principles (even though they seldom define themselves as "anarchists").

[Canuckistanian]

68. Oh, I agree

The label "anarchist" was so often applied to those who just wanted a better deal from society.

The genuine "anarchists" never had that much power.

Oh, and I welcome you to DU, if I haven't already.
:toast:
:hi:

[mahina]

49. Media hyped this satirical vid in a fearmongering news story.

I have to think they didn't imagine that anyone would find the source video, because they look so ridiculous.
"News' story:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo5CQw-EJAg&feature=related

The "anarchists": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo5CQw-EJAg&feature=related

Give me a f-in break!

[joshcryer]

50. Some 60+% of DUers are anarchists according to a political compass survey someone did:

Poll: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TahitiNut/436

Results: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TahitiNut/426

Pretty interesting.

Of course if you didn't know the theory you wouldn't know you were an anarchist.

[conspirator]

52. I am glad to see that the anarchy movement lives. Our time will come nt

[The Sushi Bandit]

65. Anarchy is important to the discussion of freedom

all they want is to be free

[davhill]

57. Operation Chaos?

Is this a continuation of Limbaugh's plan? Who is funding these people?

[tama]

64. "Who is funding these people"

you wonder, referring to anarchists. They are not funded by anyone, but self-organized.

So, on the other hand, who is funding the people allowed inside the Pepsi Center? Their corporate masters.

So, there is one group of people, ordered to be confined to the anti-constitutional "Free Speach Zone", real democrats who are fead up with corporate fascism and the corrupt two party system in servitude to corporate fascism. And other group of people getting corrupted by corporate fascism in the Pepsi center, protected from seeing and hearing the democrats by storm troopers of the corporate fascism.

And you identify with wich group?

[joshcryer]

66. American anarchism is a bit disorganized compared to the EU counterpart.

It's a shame but the anarchist movement in America (at once 200k people strong) has been pretty well squashed by corporatist Social Darwinism. Most who identify as anarchist in America cease being as such as soon as the dope runs out and they realize it actually ... doesn't necessarily get them laid.

So it's not unfair to take the young kids running around throwing rocks very seriously. In America you can consider it a ritual of sorts, get past the banal shit, actually get into the theory, actually organize with other anarchists, you'll probably be one for life.

[tama]

67. Under my definition

Even though these folks: http://www.ic.org/
may not be very interested in getting into the anarchistic theories (and endless debates about them), what they practice is anarchism at best.