Video: World Can't Wait - October 5

[chat_noir]

Portland


Fox 12 Oregon Oct 5th Protest Coverage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnhxAHTEONs

Look at the police that break the line and go after a man holding a sign. They take him and the sign away. ???




10 Arrested Fox 12 Oregon Oct 5th Protest Coverage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQyG2fVztgI

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. was it those kids in black again?

It's hard to tell from the video. 9 still in jail, 1 released - have you found video of the interview with her?

on edit:

clip and article from KGW - more detail, better video
http://www.ktvz.com/story.cfm?nav=oregon&storyID=16852

[Reader Rabbit]

2. It sounds like it.

One of 'em is over in GD: Politics, bitching about how the police took exception to their attempts to run rampant through the streets of Portland.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2872360

I wish these dumb kids would find some other way to release their teen angst and rebelliousness. All they do is perpetuate the stereotype that everyone against Bush is a nut. Maybe at the next protest, some of those hard-core peace grannies will snatch 'em bald-headed, box their ears, or bang their empty heads together.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Wearing an all black-hoodie esp. with a home-made balaclava is...

...just an invitation to trouble. In Eugene, most of the demonstrators I've seen try to actively distance themselves from the "kids in black" during protests. Unfortunately, there always seems to be someone so hell-bent on soliciting a confrontation that merely distancing from people who appear dressed for open civil war doesn't always work. It's also unfortunate because some older people have expressed concern about the "kids in black", unsure of whether their own safety could be in jeopardy.

  There was a protest across from the Federal Building in Eugene a couple of years ago. Beautiful demonstration. I wound up coming back later in the day with my video camera- it was a wonderful night and I'd just acquired the camera and a tape. So I set up filming. Nothing particularly exotic, just demonstrators and counter demonstrators. But juuuust on the periphery were a couple of rabblers. I interviewed a few people there. Anyway, so this guy keeps getting into frame, always walking across the field of the camera but pretending to not be aware of it. So after a dozen or so walk-bys I asked to interview him too.

  He turned out to be a nut in training (I don't think he was older than 18). He had a secret code-name: Cedar. Or maybe it was Oak or Jackpine, its been a while. Lots of "I need to protect my identity because I'm wanted." (Oh, you're telling this to me? Do you know me?) Then he goes on to describe previous "actions" he was a part of, some of them well-known in the area which involved destruction of property. I knew that the price I had to pay to get him to stop orbiting me was to give him a few minutes to speak his peace but it was such empty bullshit. I remember him mentioning The Constitution or some part of it, so I asked him what he thought about X or Y in relation to The Constitution?

  Blank stare on so many levels. Like so many of the younger people in Eugene, the price of admittance into the ever-growing ranks of the "alternative political" army, the price of admission has less to do with learning or knowing anything about The Constitution, laws or respect for any rule of law and much much more with being able to afford the uniform (Pashtun hat, beard growth, hemp shirt and pants, a dousing of sandalwood incense residue and shoes that scream "I'm not you!") and breaking a window or two on the way to score some more herb.

PB