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Anarchists Vandalise KONO For Gentrifying Oakland:

The racist drive for capital and its methods of “development” have erased, exploited, and colonized our neighborhoods since the birth of the modern city. After taking the best land for themselves, the rich stuff us into ghettos and barrios where they criminalize our survival and suffocate us of any resources. Gentrification is a process whereby the rich ressurect the dead property values our neighborhoods to make money, by encouraging better off white people to move in, taking our homes, and funneling our bodies into the prison industrial complex. The Koreatown Northgate project, or KONO, is one appendage to the monster that is gentrification attempting to connect Downtown Oakland with the Temescal shopping district.

Last night, less than 24 hours before First Friday, a property management office that promotes gentrification along the KONO corridor was attacked by breaking the windows, setting off a fire extinguisher and shooting paint into the office. Forcing the office to close during its main monthly event, the gentrifying force that is First Fridays, was done to show these rich bastards that Oakland will not be gentrified without a fight.

Source: anarcho-queer

Sylvia Pankhurst, a British militant suffragette, left communist and anti-fascist was arrested 100 years ago for breaking windows in East End of London during a protest.  Sylvia was a member and campaigner of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and wrote The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement. She became critical of the WSPU’s campaign to legalize voting for educated women of the upper social classes, who felt they were best able to handle the vote, equally with men. Sylvia openly disagreed, and in notable contrast, believed in universal suffrage for men and women of all social classes. In 1914 she broke with the WSPU to set up the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), which over the years evolved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to Women’s Suffrage Federation and then to the Workers’ Socialist Federation.
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Sylvia Pankhurst, a British militant suffragette, left communist and anti-fascist was arrested 100 years ago for breaking windows in East End of London during a protest. 

Sylvia was a member and campaigner of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and wrote The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement.

She became critical of the WSPU’s campaign to legalize voting for educated women of the upper social classes, who felt they were best able to handle the vote, equally with men. Sylvia openly disagreed, and in notable contrast, believed in universal suffrage for men and women of all social classes.

In 1914 she broke with the WSPU to set up the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS), which over the years evolved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to Women’s Suffrage Federation and then to the Workers’ Socialist Federation.

Source: anarcho-queer

“Hate crimes against Muslims have tripled since 2010, and we on the left are sitting here arguing over vandalism. This idea that’s there’s only one way to protest inequality is just ridiculous. There’s a spectrum of protest. People have to protest in the best way that suits their conscience and principles.” - Mona Eltahawy, who was arrested after vandalizing a controversial ad on a NYC subway station that referred to Muslims as ‘savages’.
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“Hate crimes against Muslims have tripled since 2010, and we on the left are sitting here arguing over vandalism.

This idea that’s there’s only one way to protest inequality is just ridiculous. There’s a spectrum of protest. People have to protest in the best way that suits their conscience and principles.”

- Mona Eltahawy, who was arrested after vandalizing a controversial ad on a NYC subway station that referred to Muslims as ‘savages’.

Source: anarcho-queer

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