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Subject: [mobilize-globally] SF:Anti-FTAA protestors Shut Down Stock Exchange!
Subject:
[fairtrade] SF:Anti-FTAA protestors Shut Down Stock
Exchange!
Date:
Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:17:05 EDT
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**ROBIN HOOD, MAID MARIAN, & THEIR MERRY HUMANS took over the Pacific
Stock
Exchange, SF, Today, Demanding That the Transnational Corporations Who
Do
Business There, RELEASE the TEXT of the FTAA AGREEMENT (They actually
possess the text of this trade policy agreement that will adversely
affect
billions of lives, indigenous cultures, and natural resources in the
Western Hemisphere, while we the people are denied access to
it)!!!!***
At 7:30 AM, ~50 PROTESTORS gathered in front of the Bank of America
building on California & Kearny--which had been completely
police-barricaded and was under HEAVY SFPD GUARD (this small band of
social and environmental justice activists succeeded in stopping
business
as usual at this gigantic financial institution!). There, we injected
the
cold heart of BofA (Bank of America) with a GIANT HYPO of adrenaline;
when that didn't work, we resorted to ELECTRIC SHOCK to give them a
Heart-On. When that didn't work, we did a Spiral Dance!!!....
From there, we--our numbers steadily growing to ~100-- marched to the
STOCK EXCHANGE, where we found GREEN-CLAD ROBIN HOOD and A MERRY MAN
inside, standing on a thin ledge on the other side of the guard rail
(!!!)
above the main entrance where the double staircase meets on the
mezzanine
(MARIAN stood behind them), with Anti-FTAA BANNERS unfurled.
(Evidently,
OTHER MEMBERS of the MERRY BAND had already entered the trading area
and
been arrested.)
WE FLOODED the FOYER and the STAIRS, SINGING "SI SE PUEDE!" and WOVE A
WONDERFUL WEB criss-crossing the chandelier, the stairs and the
foyer...
After an hour of high-spirits inside and heavy leafleting outside
(OUTREACH WAS STUPENDOUS: 1000's of fliers informing the public about
the
FTAA were distributed!!!), the police locked the doors, with those not
wanting to risk arrest on the outside.
WE CONTINUED the spirited demo outside within view of ROBIN, and the
others risking arrest. A SKIRMISH erupted in which the SFPD threw one
of
us to the ground, drawing blood; Starhawk proceeded to PUPPY-PUDDLE
the
downed protester--throwing her body over the demonstrator's to prevent
further injury... The SFPD immediately ringed them both, stopping
further
intervention--they were arrested, over our SHOUTS and CHANTS of
PROTEST!
STAR managed to roll her inredible drum to safety (I grabbed it!) and
we
used it to beat out more songs and chants until ROBIN and HIS COHORT
WERE
PHYSICALLY REMOVED FROM THE LEDGE and INCARCERATED. ELEVEN PEOPLE WERE
ARRESTED (unofficial report). A LEGAL TEAM and SUPPORT GROUP followed
them
to Central Station (Vallejo, between Powell and Stockton in North
Beach),
while a few of us remained to talk with MEDIA STRAGGLERS and
interested
bystanders. Media was excellent, btw, and included CNN Coverage, among
many other cameras. By 11:00, the doors of the PSE were re-opened. IT
WAS
A GREAT SHOW FOR JUSTICE!!!!!! Cheers and Onward!!!
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