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whomever did this graffiti and wrote the communique are wonderful. great job! keep it up!

i hope to see more anti-gentrification actions going on all across north america. "developers", of projects like the one attacked here in tacoma, show no signs of any empathy or compassion and are shown time and time again to have such a blatant disregard for workers who build their projects and the people they are displacing when they construct them. the way in which they treat the natural world is reckless, disgusting and repugnant.

this madness really does need to end immediately.


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Actually,
I am more bothered by the company that manages the billboard: Clearchannel, which owns hundreds of radio stations across the country and is strongly behind the centralization of our media. Should have mentioned something about them in the graffiti as a subtext. Yes I know I could do it myself, but I have less audacity. Thanks.

great work. let's keep working on smashing ice and shutting down the detention center! no human is illegal!

it is interesting to see the modification of the communique written for this action. how it changed over the last few days? social rupture has the original...

Point Ruston is one of only 20 Superfund sites ASARCO is responsible for:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asarco#Pollution_and_environmental_issues

I didn't realize that Ruston is actually a town and not a part of Tacoma:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruston,_Washington

The Point Ruston development will actually be an exclusive town containing 16 buildings and up 1,000 well off residents.

This absolutely is vandalism. It is pointless and stupid. Find the people who did this, send them to jail, make them pay fines, and make them clean it up.

I LOVE LAWS I LOVE LAWS I LOVE LAWS
just kidding I actually just love the thought of hundreds of yuppies with stomach and skin cancer

these fucking ugly condos going up all over t-town are vandalism. send the developers to jail for destroying our city and driving up the cost of living so poor and middle-income folks can no longer afford to live here.

Don Quixote-

first off, don't say "illegal aliens." that's a racist and stupid thing to say. they're not from another planet. they are undocumented workers, people, just like us. they are forced to come to the US for the scant opportunities here, because American corporations and gov't policy destroy their homelands, making people poorer, stealing their resources, polluting the environment, supporting brutal dictators who supress free speech, etc. that's why poor people from around here are coming into this country without documents. they have very little choice. maybe the corporations and American government should be called illegal, not the people coming here for work. and before you talk about the "gang scum," think about why gangs exist. why are they poor and lacking real connections that drive them to join gangs? in the 80s, the Hilltop CRIPS started to help each other out, to improve their community, and to fight racist cops.

now, since you're interested in my "end goal" and "vision statement" i'll tell you what i want to see. simply put, i want a world were everyone is equal and each person determines how she lives her life. who has this under the present social system? even you, who on $70 should be able to get by easily enough, do you determine how you live your life? how much decision-making do you have over every aspect of your life?

i know i don't. and almost nobody else in the world has the freedom to choose how to live their lives.
this won't happen in a system of hierarchy, racism, sexism, capitalism, and government. i want anarchy. anarchy is tree freedom, full liberty. the freedom to choose where to live, the kind of shelter you have, how you acquire food and the quality of it, what you do to "make a living", who you associate with. no one to tell you what to do.

this does not mean people will go crazy and literally do whatever they want, regardless of potential harm to others. because in a system where everyone is free, and people know others in their neighborhood/community, people will feel responsible to each other in that they won't hurt others and will freely offer assistance when needed (mutual aid).

this is what i want. ultimate freedom. anarchy. that's my "vision statement."

Part of fighting for this kind of society means attacking the current system. It can't all be done in one big action, so many small actions are undertaken. Point Ruston is hurting workers and driving up the cost of living in the city. These are unjust, hierarchical acts that further stratify and exploit people. By causing the development company fiancial loss (albeit a small loss) and by pointing out to passersby the means and end of the development (gentrification), this goes a small way toward stopping the developer and sending a message to other developers and potential condo-owners, thereby working towards the anarchist goal of destroying the system, creating an opening for more acts of resistance and for a new society to be created.

if you're interested in finding out what anarchism is about, there's a great Frequently Asked Questions that can answer your questions probably better than i could. Here's the link:
 http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html

i really doubt the people who carried out this action are from olympia. there are anarchists and radicals here, in tacoma, and some have been here for decades, so people need to stop saying that whenever there's a radical action or event people from olympia did it.

keepers of the system need to look for out tacoma anarchists, not anarchists from other cities.

and anarchists don't have che posters.

"that's why poor people from around here are coming into this country without documents." should read "that's why poor people from AROUND THE WORLD are coming into this country without documents."

It's horrible what's happening on the waterfront. It's being massively privatized. I'm not sure this is an effective step; it certainly isn't adequate. We're late in the game. Ideas on how to stop the "occupation" of the water front?

Oh ya, a contaminated site for no one was better than cleaning it up and providing 50 acres of open space for PUBLIC use. Why don't you people open your minds and look for some good in this world for a change?

Anyway you look at it, people working on this site are employed vs. unemployed. That's a positive.

Built Green (the highest possible standard too) and energy star rated seems like a positive to me too.

If you only look for negatives, you will surely only find negatives. I'm happy to see the amount of positives in this project and thank the developer for their obvious positive efforts toward the area and the enviornment.

I think it is about time they did something with that ugly piece of contaminated land. After watching that video it seems like the issue is with that Rain City company. They seem to be taking advantage of the hispanic workers, whether they are documented or not I don't know.