February 12, 2008
East Bay To Get Even Louder Tonight
Anti-war fans, pro-war zealots, '60s fetishists, barely-legal Marines, the unshowered, and young college students trying to impress their boyfriends will be out in full force on the other side of the Bay later this evening. Why? Because after receiving loads of national criticism, as well as a few death threats, the Berkeley City Council will decide tonight whether or not to "revoke a letter it approved two weeks ago telling the Marines they are 'unwelcome intruders' and should leave their post." What's more:
The city [of Berkeley] is advising staff members who work at Maudelle Shirek City Hall to leave by 3 p.m. and keep public meetings to a minimum. The city also is setting up barricades so staff can get in and out of the building safely and is beefing up police, fire and paramedic services throughout the day. Code Pink activists got an early start on the demonstration by camping out Monday night on the lawn at City Hall. About 60 activists, including a few of the tree-sitters from UC Berkeley's Oak Grove, danced, sang, listened to jazz and drank carrot juice as they pitched their tents for the night.
Mmm, carrot juice. Anyway, you can read more about the current protest partying here and here.
In other East Bay news, Oakland just counted its eighth homicide occurrence since last Friday. Might want to check on your neighbor there, Berkeley.
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Flippin A.. get a job, dude.
...and cut that hair!
Ginger beards...always ginger beards (including the Code Pink "ladies"). Is it the carrot juice that makes them so red?
Free Mumia!
ha!
Mario Savio was so clean! How did the free speech movement lead to bad hygiene? This is not progress. Let's take after the Italians, who always wear Prada to their communist rallies. Why must Americans be so dirty? Makes me ashamed to be an American and a liberal.
Shouldn't we at least give him a couple points for the sweater?
true, mcgordonliddy. although i'm guessing it's acrylic, i really like his sweater.
The sweater is puzzling me. Part Cosby, part rug, part sofa cushion.
His name is Asa Dodsworth.
I'm gonna go ahead and say "no" to the sweater.
I can smell his hair from here.
What? Not one earnest poster commending the hippies for having the guts to go up against the Bush administration? Not one comment about how it takes real conviction to get up off your ass, hit the streets and tell the man that people are not going to take it anymore? Not one accusation that the rest of us are just republican yuppies who just don't get it? This thread sucks. Oh, I get it, you're all on BART heading out to the battlefield. Right on. Back to sweater-bating for the rest of us then.
More to the point, who is guarding the UC oaks?
Yeah, fizzandpop, because Code Pink has been so effective up until now. I mean, Speaker Pelosi herself has pledged that the House of Representatives will not move one inch until funding for the war is cut off!
Oh, you mean she hasn't? Then what pray tell has Code Pink achieved? Other than some (pink) photo ops?
The point is they're not "going up against the Bush Administration". This is a pointless protest. I think few posting here are pro-Bush or pro-Iraq war. But that doesn't mean we should take it out on the armed forces. This is a backwards protest, no conviction required. Shit, I saw this on the news last night and Medea Benjamin was doing this Grateful Dead twirly dance in the background that singlehandedly set the movement back two decades. Way to ensure that Berkeley continues to be a political laughingstock. Weeee!
Dudes it's me! I was being sarcastic. This protest is right up there with lawn bowling in terms of actual results. Now there's an idea, "Code Mauve! Lawn Bowlers Against the War!"
I would so sign up for lawn bowling for peace.
It's about the only thing these wasters haven't co-opted.
Like you soak that sweater overnight night and then use the water to make helacious pot brownies.
So, Brock, was there any intended irony in a story about shootings in Oakland in the same post about a bunch of hippies fighting over some empty, vaguely symbolic political statement involving carrot juice, dreadlocks, and dancing?
Or am I reading too much into it?
Redseca2- great idea.
Soak and squeeze sweater for THC.
I say we also have him stick his head in a bowl of water and the oil in his hair will make a great salad dressing.