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HOLY GOD IT WAS AMAZIN'
So there was this action. Reclaim the Streets. Basically it entailed taking over an entire block of State Street - shutting it down entirely, putting sawhorses at either end so that traffic was stopped, and throwing the equivalent of a giant illegal block party dowtown. It was organized by a couple people I know.
So I went with Zoe and Sasha - we met up with Kelso and others once we got there. I was an eggplant ( mrgreen ) Sasha was a kitty and Zoe had this scary mask. We got there just as they were starting to march into the block and put up the barricades, and at first I think the bystanders just thought it was a quick prank for Halloween, but then it became obvious that we had no intention of going anywhere and people crowded around on the sidewalks to watch. There were a couple hundred of us at that time, probably - and many of whom were obviously dirty smelly anarchists because of the all black, bandannas, etc. I guess people realized we were mostly college and hig school kids and mostly counter-cultureish, at least that's what they put in the newspapers the next day.
We grew to somewhere maybe around...I dunno, several hundred. We took chalk and drew all over the street and some guys got together and hooked up their amps and then we had people on guitars, a guy singing, someone with an accordion and another with a fiddle. They started playing and we started dancing and singing. At one point we had a mosh pit going that was beyond description, and there were conga lines as well.
After about thirty minutes of completely law-free bliss, the police started showing up. There weren't enough of us to take up the block, so we crowded together at one end of the street because we knew if we got seperated the police would target us and attempt arresting somebody. Anytime they started closing in we just started chanting and singing louder, and it kept them away since we were such a big group.
But then something happened where some of our number split off and went down to the other end of the street where the cops were; I'm not sure why. They did something - maybe they were trying to leave - and the cops started hassling them and telling them they'd been breaking the law and I guess they started running, 'cause then there were shouts and somebody got Tazered.That scared the crap out of a lot of people, and before we knew it like half of the people who'd been there found ways to disappear. So there were maybe about a hundred to two hundred of us left, and we agreed it wasn't safe to stay in one place. So we left State Street and marched through the surrounding streets, stopping traffic on most of them and chanting the entire time. The cops realized what we were up to and started tailing us, and they must've had squad cars coming in from all sides because basically every street we turned onto there they were.
Eventually there was some confusion about whether we were trying to run from the cops and get home safely or whether we were continuing the block party as a marching action, and people started splitting off in all directions. A lot of people were getting really scared becuase they knew the less people we had around us the greater chance we had of being stopped by the surrounding police. But we kept getting smaller and smaller. It was down to about fifty of us when one of the organizers said we should split up into groups of two or three and scatter so that they wouldn't know which way to look. That was pretty much the downfall of us, becuase once we did that we were all on the same street still, so once one group saw a potential hiding place or escape, EVERYONE tried to get there and we all ran into dead ends.
What ended up happening was that I found a small parking lot with a convenient hiding place and went there with Zoe and Kelso and Sasha; but five other people went with us, and the cops saw it. They cornered us and told us to get down otherwise we'd be Tazered, so we had no choice. They detained us - it was me, Zoe, Sasha, Kelso, Tim, Angie, and two other kids I didn't know. At first I was scared out of my mind but after a few minutes when I realized they weren't gonna sic their giant German sheperds on us I calmed down a little. They just kept us on the pavement and told us not to move. Most of us were underage but Tim wasn't, and he got taken away I think. Kelso had the hardest time; when they took our information down he started off by giving them a fake French name just to be silly and was about to tell them his real name when they pulled him in for "giving false information." They kept him under observation and I didn't see him after that.
They just called our parents to pick us up, but we're all getting court dates and we'll either be fined or given community service. I think they expected our parents to give us the worst of it, but mine certainly didn't mind. xd
But you know what, ******** the cops. It's hard to explain exactly how liberating that night was but I think even if it wasn't the best night of my entire life, it was by far the best Halloween, even if there was no candy included. cool
I'll try to find the link to the news story and put it on here for you guys to see.
[edit] Okey pokey, here's the link.
http://www.keyt.com/news/local/10931131.html?video=YHI&t=a&randpre=5806256
Brittastiq · Fri Nov 02, 2007 @ 12:35am · 2 Comments |
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