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The fine folks over at Pirate Cat Radio have organized a rally this Saturday to protest American Apparel's plan to open a clothing store on Valencia Street. (Maybe you've heard about it?)
Pirate Cat Radio will host a demonstration to protest the licensing of formula retail in the Valencia Street commercial corridor. Pirate Cat Radio deejays, community leaders, local business owners, and concerned citizens will gather at 988 Valencia St. at 10:00am on Saturday, January 31 to show their commitment to maintaining a locally-owned economy and support for the unique businesses of the neighborhood.
Pirate Cat Radio will be broadcasting live from the location, giving attendees the opportunity to voice their concern about the construction of an American Apparel clothing store 988 Valencia St. ATA and Mission residents will join Pirate Cat Radio in expressing the significant interest in the Mission District protect the economic integrity of Valencia street.
10 a.m., sadly, is much too early for our blood. That, and we don't live in the neighborhood or particularly care where American Apparel sells their panties. (Though we do think any protest in the name of aesthetics is kinda keen, so there's that.) But for those of you who don't want the Mission's boutique strip tarnished with a retail chain, head on over. It could be a fun party. Otherwise, you can bellyache about it on Thursday, February 5th at City Hall.
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Oh get a life, you hipster douchenozzles.
AMEN!!
I just hate hipsters! don't you?
it's funny how first it was the "hipsters" that allegedly wanted american apparel to be here and now it is allegedly the "hipsters" fighting it. san francisco's favorite pejorative is close to meaningless already, and this controversy is pushing it further and further down that road.
hipster vs. hipster? it's like stalinist russia all over again. :(
This is the most pressing cause that Pirate Cat Radio can organize a protest for? What a progressive station!
I am imagining the station's logo as the Hello Kitty logo with a pirate patch on one eye. Total douchenozzles.
They should organize a rally to protest the sheer tackiness of these clothes and the company's ad campaign.
Good point.
I mean, while the anti--AA folks don't admit it, I think that's a part of their furor, or at least what sparked it.
their silly ads will definitely be featured on VH1's 2000s retrospective.
Everytime I see their ads I think of luriddiggs
> Everytime I see their ads I think of luriddiggs
/googles luriddiggs
/washes eyes out with bleach
see! and I even misspelled it but you just HAD to look.
> see! and I even misspelled it but you just HAD to look.
Still looking.
damn you, Travin!
Will there be soup?
WHEW. I was scared we weren't going to have an American Apparel post today.
If someone takes a photo of the protest with Frank Chu wearing the bart/pistol tshirt, then we'd be in bidnez.
That and an owner not picking up dog poop. And arrests not being made.
...while critical mass passes quietly by, like a scene from bladerunner.
Awesome. Brock should totally do an SFist ur-post with all these elements. Then he can run that on a slow news day.
seems like there is a protest every week in SF these days.
OH MY GOD the side walk has a crack in it! PROTEST PROTEST!!
It could be worse. The place could be filled with people who simply couldn't give a shit about anything.
touche
aka most anywhere.
This so calls for a counter-protest.
In American Apparel briefs and/or panties, and nothing else.
Why am I thinking this is all moot; slutty teenagers with money seem to stay within a 1/2 km radius of the Powell St BART - Union Square corridor. How many of them could actually find Valencia St? Or do I have the AA demographic all wrong?
there are definitely AA customers in the mission. no doubt about it.
Christ. I hate people.
me to.
If AA had tried to put this store on the same block on Mission Street, some 500 feet away, all of these ardent protesters wouldn't have given a shit. What do we can that?
I was too ardent, that can is call...
find something better to protest, like the bart service hours trimmings or any number of galaxies
My show (yes, I'm a DJ there) runs from noon to 2 (It's called A Novel Sound *cough*shamelessselfpromotion*cough*). So you should come hang out with me and listen to good music while the gentrification in the mission debate rages outside the studio.
Gentrification debate? Yeah, I live in Pac Heights and I can't afford to shop on Valencia as it is. So good job, there.
yeah. hi. duh. thats the joke. that whole area has been on the development uprise for the past 5 years. so. good job to you.
Just filed a complaint with the FCC and 89.7 PIRATE DOUCHE RADIO!
providing that's actually the case, way to be out with your douchebaggery.
Maybe if the CIty bans/block AA -- they can open an illegal Pirate AA!
Why is it Pirate radio is trying to use law to control others? What jerks! Get them off the air FCC!
Come now. PCR is a part of SF. I would hate to seem it off the air.
yeah that is pretty awful.
Jesus, there's a lot of haters on the Internet. Why wasn't I told?
my thoughts exactly.
And while the USA remains at war, it seems to be legal for Pirate Cat to stay on the air:
http://www.piratecatradio.com/about.php
"We believe that Title 47 Section 73.3542 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations currently allows Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm to legally broadcast with out a formal licence from the FCC."
Title 47 Section 73.3542 states:
"Authority is granted, on a temporary basis, in extraordinary circumstances requiring emergency operation to serve the public interest. such situations include . . . the continuance of any war in which the United States is engaged."
wait, so when are residents and business that are up in arms about AA going to get as upset and organize against the condos and lack of affordable housing in the mission and the rest of SF? where were you when the old kelley moore parking lot was being turned into "market" rate condos?
But that's idiotic. If you can't afford to live here, you should move somewhere you an afford. Or get a better job and stay.
There were large, sustained protests about Walgreens and condos replacing the Keely Moore paints at Mission and Cesear Chavez, but that was mostly the Mission Anti-displacement Coalition people--mostly latino folks who were fighting gentrification back in the 90s.
That crowd isn't involved in American Apparel, and this new AA crowd mostly wasn't involved with Walgreens.
Exhibit 4397 of the cultural segregation of the Mission and San Francisco.
And the reason I mentioned that this group of folks are more organized and verbal group than that of the latino community, but got shouted down for being reactionary, absurd and offensive--which in and of itself speaks volumes of the criticism, but that's another issue. At any rate, facts is facts.
Now if the two groups would play nice and coordinate on common goals, not matter if they agree or even speak the same language, they'd be golden. Why that's not happening is as unfathomable as it is disappointing.
Yes, and what about the moon? Isn't anybody else concerned about it crashing into the Earth?
What exactly is wrong with the condos at Kelly Moore? You hoping for another "Out Of The Closet" or something? Lemme guess, you think the Hollywood Video should become a Blockbuster.
I don't want to get into a debate about the condos at Mission and Cesear Chavez and whether making 15% of them affordable units is enough. That's a complex and nuanced debate.
What isn't complex and nuanced is THIS MAP. If I'm at Mission and Cesear Chavez and I need a Walgreens, I think it's reasonable to walk to the one at Mission and 23rd, or the one at Mission and 30th. Or maybe the one at 24th and Potrero. Or the one at 24th and Noe. Or the one at . . . .
Walgreens probably gets a pass from most people due to prescription medication availability for the sick and disabled. I tried pulling up a google map to illustrate the point, but was unsuccessful. I'm willing to wager that near each location there is a senior center, hospice, hospital or free clinic in close proximity.
But when are folks going to get together and march against the random violence that seems to be picking up steam (or at least being reported more often) in San Francisco? Maybe that's what some of these early birds filing to run for Supervisor in 2010 should consider ...
Or a protest about the bank welfare going on right now, while the banks are using those tax dollars to lobby the government to go easy on them.
I mean, it appears the only thing you're willing to protest is "something else," so maybe you should just march against "difference itself."
I thought I'd stick within the realm of San Francisco problems that are worth protesting.
To some of these guys the violence is a good thing, so long as it happens to someone else. Keeps rents cheap.
Could you guys stop calling it "AA"? You're giving alcoholics anonymous a bad image.
Also, American Airlines.