SFist: Silent Protest at Yesterday's Protest

April 10, 2008

Silent Protest at Yesterday's Protest

photo: WhatImSeeing

As we work on fixing our galley image snafu, do check out this image from yesterday's torch mess.

Any thoughts? We're not sure how to feel about it. Please advise.

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Comments (33)

[1] | 04/10/08 02:10PM

Ommmmm......

[2] | 04/10/08 02:11PM

i think those are Danielle Steele's two daughters, humming "Om-Shanti-Om."

[3] | 04/10/08 02:14PM

Reminds me of my favorite quote from Absolutely Fabulous,

"I'm chanting as we speak darling".

[4] | 04/10/08 02:17PM

i think you nailed it on there head, daithi. perfect.

[5] | 04/10/08 02:26PM

Thoughts? Well, I'd hit that. Both of it.

[6] | 04/10/08 02:35PM

Ginger, stripey hippy pants (dirty), green windbreaker. There is nothing hittable there. They'll have that Rainbow Grocery organic deodorant smell too and be they type who always "forget" to bring money when they leave the house. And even if they do have their ATM card, they'll just take out $20 and you'll end up getting round after round until they finally take the hint and slope off home on their granny bicycle. They will not have cable in their apartment.

[7] | 04/10/08 02:46PM

Don't they know it was a rally to FREE TIBET, not SAVE DARFUR? geeze hippies, get it together..

[8] | 04/10/08 03:15PM

Man, I never thought I'd defend hippies. But, they really were practicing what they were preaching, no?

Instead of screaming about peace, there were demonstrating it.

Do they look a little silly? Yes. Do they deserve our scorn? I think not.

Josh

[9] | 04/10/08 03:16PM

good point.

[10] | 04/10/08 03:35PM

It's odd how much I love San Francisco, yet find hippies, particularly young ones, so enormously annoying.

It's like loving hell but hating the devil.

[11] | 04/10/08 03:39PM

That green jacket on the right? I have it in blue. She got it at Target. 10 bucks says it was made in China.

[12] | 04/10/08 03:53PM

Tibet...Darfur...whatev'.

[13] | 04/10/08 03:58PM

"Any thoughts? We're not sure how to feel about it."

When in doubt, go with scorn. Furthermore:

* different, -1 point
* earnest, -1 point
* peaceful, - 1 point

That's like 3 strikes. More Chinese people beating up pro-Tibet protesters, please. That shit is awesome.

[14] | 04/10/08 04:02PM

I'm not sure if you and manys are being sarcastic or not, but China's been essentially propping up the Sudanese government that's been somewhat responsible for Darfur:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121302008.html

Anyway, I don't have an issue with these two...I just didn't think it was altogether helpful to Tibet and certainly not to SF to have a bunch of fools literally duke it out on the Embarcadero or try to grab the torch itself, which, when the day is done, is still the symbol of the Olympic movement and not China. The Chinese Consultate's still there this afternoon while the torch is in Argentina.

[15] | 04/10/08 04:04PM

Can't stand the young gals like these. They give off this "I'm so deep and complex, nobody understands my struggle". I bet they'll be living the Marina yuppie lifestyle in 10 years.

[16] | 04/10/08 04:06PM

Whatever, no one can achieve inner peace like a cop making time-and-a-half for staring out at the bay watching birds crap on each other.

Not to mention inner piece!

[17] | 04/10/08 04:27PM

While we love SFist, we are definitely getting tired of the first-person plural. Just saying.

[18] | 04/10/08 05:00PM

Thoughts? I'd do the redhead even though she's probably an annoying pain in the ass. The other one just looks like an annoying pain in the ass who eats soy and grass clippings. Just sayin...

[19] | 04/10/08 05:17PM

Just so we're no under any illusions here; if you're a recently fired teacher, this is what your old salary is now being spent on. But hey hippies, carry on under the belief that you harm no one.

[20] | 04/10/08 05:27PM

yes, yes, and a bunch of police

[21] | 04/10/08 05:29PM

"They" must put "we" in "their" stylebook at Gothamist. "We" see it worldwide, from Shanghai to London. I wonder if "we" would see it in Portuguese, if "we" spoke it, on Sao Paulo-ist?

[22] | 04/10/08 05:32PM

fizzpop, last time i checked, sitting on the sidewalk isn't illegal and doesn't require a police presence. what these two are doing has absolutely nothing to do with the state education budget. there's not one possible way you can link the two. so go hate on someone else.

[23] | 04/10/08 05:36PM

oh and brittney. you can protest the chinese government's policies in darfur and and tibet and still occasionally purchase goods made in china. there's nothing blatantly contradictory about that as you seem to imply. what is it with all you complacent people and your need to hate on protesters? why not hate on someone doing evil instead of people speaking their minds in these dreadful times?!

[24] | 04/10/08 05:49PM

speaking your mind IS doing evil, get it right, PTFW. And which war? you know there are different ones.

[25] | 04/10/08 06:28PM

Man, if I knew I could Save Darfur and Free Tibet by doing some downward dog, I'd go to yoga classes.

[26] | 04/10/08 06:58PM

No, but it could help you lose a few pounds. And just between us...

[27] | 04/10/08 07:23PM

Carl Spackler said it best

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/carl-spackler-on-the-dali-lama/2521197245

[28] | 04/11/08 08:34AM

I'm just glad all their years going to yoga classes paid off. Look at their padmasanas-- such lovely open hips.

[29] | 04/11/08 08:40AM

fizzandpop for mayor!

[30] | 04/11/08 08:46AM

here's some background on the china/darfur connection, from wikipedia:

Human rights advocates and opponents of the Sudanese government portray China's role in providing weapons and aircraft as a cynical attempt to obtain oil and gas just as colonial powers once supplied African chieftains with the military means to maintain control as they extracted natural resources.[41][42][43] According to China's critics, China has offered Sudan support threatening to use its veto on the U.N. Security Council to protect Khartoum from sanctions and has been able to water down every resolution on Darfur in order to protect its interests in Sudan.[44] In response to these allegations, Chinese Ambassador to Sudan Li Chengwen said that China played an important role in promoting the agreement of the Sudanese government, the African Union and the UN for the deployment of the Hybrid Force in Darfur. China's view is that intensive economic development of the region is a more effective means than harsh economic sanctions, in the effort to stabilize the crisis and alleviate the suffering of the people.[3] Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reiterated these views on February 20, 2008, and pointed out that China was the first non-African nation to send peacekeepers to Darfur.[4]

There has been further evidence of the Sudanese government's murder of civilians to actually facilitate the extraction of oil. The U.S.-funded Civilian Protection Monitoring Team, which investigates attacks in southern Sudan concluded that "as the Government of Sudan sought to clear the way for oil exploration and to create a cordon sanitaire around the oil fields, vast tracts of the Western Upper Nile Region in southern Sudan became the focus of extensive military operations."[45] Sarah Wykes, a senior campaigner at Global Witness, an NGO that campaigns for better natural resource governance, says: "Sudan has purchased about $100m in arms from China and has used these weapons against civilians in Darfur."[42] There are additional concerns that Chinese oil companies are devastating the environment further inhibiting the local population's ability to survive. To be fair, the scale of Chinese oil companies operating in Africa pales in comparison to that of the Western companies, who are also guilty of devastating Africa's environment. This includes the clearing of forests for timber exports that increases vulnerability to erosion, river silting, landslides, flooding and loss of habitat for plant and animal species.[46]

[31] | 04/11/08 10:50AM

@ protesthefuckingwarratherthangetajobandcontributetosociety

Well you didn't check enough did you. The act of sitting on the sidewalk breaks about 12 laws, but you were not to know that were you. Maybe the complexity of society with all it's laws, manners and social etiquets is beyond you. But I'm sure your mom thinks you're special.

[32] | 04/11/08 12:10PM

All I know is yoga chicks are bendy. Yum.

[33] | 04/11/08 01:03PM

Sure, it's annoying and probably hopelessly ineffectual but we are all talking about it. And a few folks probably learned about the Darfur-China connection.

And they totally don't have cable.