San Fran protest movement shifts gears to corporate profiteering: ...One group of protesters marched to the Federal Building, near the Civic Center, and blocked the entrance on Turk Street. Gopal Dayaneni, 33, refused to leave the back door of the building, which was protected by steel barricades, when police gave the order to disperse around 10 a.m. "I have a soul," Dayaneni said, explaining his decision to stay behind as police in riot gear surrounded him and other protesters. Around noon, about 75 protesters were escorted to two white buses, searched and eventually whisked off to Pier 27, where plans were to cite most of them and release them. --------------- While the demonstration at the Federal Building was going on, other protesters were at the Transamerica Pyramid to focus on the Carlyle Group, whose investor roster ranges from former President George H.W. Bush to the Saudi family of Osama bin Laden. As a police officer stands guard on a police line used to cordon-off anti-war protesters, a members of the anti-war group 'Yoga for Peace' prays before her arrest for blocking the entrance to the Transamerica Building in downtown San Francisco as a protest against the war on Iraq, March 24, 2003. Demonstrators were specifically targeting the Carlyle Group, one of the nation's biggest defense contractors, who have offices in the building. REUTERS/Lou Dematteis Some protesters locked arms, and police moved in and loaded them into waiting buses. The rest of the crowd moved to Washington and Montgomery streets, where an eclectic mix of yoga practitioners, chanting protesters, riot police and confused passers-by mingled. "Compared to some of the other arrestees over the past week, this was kind of nice," said Police Department spokesman Bob Mammone. "They're not yelling epithets at us," he said. "It's a real peaceful, serene scene here, especially with the chanting. And the yoga was nice to watch, but unfortunately, they're still getting arrested."
The article indicates a shift to a refutation of the corporations that will make cash money from the killing of humans; I thought that aspect of this nightmare deserved its own space... If not, its all good...
You should have posted something about the vomit-in and the shit-in. Those definitely deserve their own threads.