seattle indymedia center

thank you for your actions. this is well written and very meaningful as well. stay safe.

he spends all his time protesting and whining on the internet. what a fucking hippie.

If illegal aliens are involved with these criminal actions and they are caught more of them will be deported.The jokes on them.The only aliens that are worthwhile are either legal or extraterrestrial.

This was well coordinated and planned. And judging from the media coverage of it, pretty effective. Thanks for doing this.

Picture of windows

Mike Cohen, one of the Tacoma condo developers, fired and threatened migrant workers with deportation recently when they spoke up about dirty air in their working conditions. This is just one example of the city looking the other way when two of their plans get in the way of each other (anti-immigration and gentrification). Mike Cohen is still going to make the condos, and the city is going to keep pissing on migrant laborers. There will be no repercussions because the city values its very important gentificationists more than it values its working class. These issues are all tied together, and we have to realize the overall urban plan and architectonic vision of the Tacoma and broader Pierce County designers: which is short-sighted, captured by special interests or just people with unsophisticated social analysis.

Look, for everybody else who lives in Tacoma, don't feel threatened by this place. I am glad we live here. We *could* live some place where there is less corruption to fight, or where every neighbor is a leftist, where the city is on our side, etc etc. But we don't. We live in the most stressful city in the United States, according to a recent CNN analysis. We choose to live in a place well worth resisting in, worth building a better world in.

We can no longer combat all these things through alienated forms of struggle. I hope you will take what Im saying to heart. I don't think the window smashing is alienating, it definitely helps to scare the shit out of racist globalists who make money from migrant labor arbitrage. I think the fact that we have a weak culture here is alienating. This is the city of closed doors and stiff-faced commuters.

But even though the glass here is so thick, and the walls around people's ears and hearts are sometimes impenetrable, I can feel all this cracking. I can feel it splintering at least. I hope to see it completely fucking shatter one day and fall all the way down, when we can reclaim everything here and bring the city into direct control of all of its inhabitants. Yes! This is what some of us are all about.

Tacoma to the city government is not a place to live, really live, but to commute through, to "visit in your own backyard", and to be amused by. A lot of these city government people dont even live here themselves. (I heard City Council member Mike Lonergan say that his base of support actually comes from Gig Harbor.) To us Tacoma is a place to live, but if we are serious about that then we have to lay claim to the fabric of this society and take it back all the way.

Cheers

These actions of vandalism are felonies which could bring dire consequences to those involved.A felony conviction for an alien will mean a 0% chance at ever obtaining U.S. Citizenship.I think that the economy is doing so bad now that Lonergan's 2040 vision plan on urban redevelopment in Tacoma is coming to a halt.Already there is an extended moratoriam with the Tacoma City Council on development.Most likely this will probably be extended indefinitely until the economy improves in perhaps 5 or 10 years from now.About the condominiums so far statistics show 13% are selling with 87% being unsold.Many developers are drastically resorting to renting unsold units to section 8 families and taking huge losses because of the huge miscalculation of both the developers and local government in the belief that the economy would do well and property values would continue to rise.There is currently a glut of empty housing,condos,apartments right now on the market not seen since the great global economic depression of the 1930's.Urban Growth and Suburban Sprawl are coming to a halt.
Of just the homes in Tacoma 1,500 of 79,000 households are facing foreclosure or about 1 in 50.This does not include those that are already foreclosed or all the other vacant houses being sold on the market in Tacoma.The economy is going to get worse much worse I think.So most alien(whether legal or illegal) construction workers are very soon going to find themselves unemployed very soon in the construction industry because few new condos,homes or apartments will be built.

one of the things the communique points out is to help those in need of shelter from ICE and offer safe havens. i like that the whoever did it pointed this out as an alternative, and i wonder how that is possible.

also, you already know somebody is investigating these posts to find a connection. I would just like to warn people to be very safe about the information they provide. Sometimes you may not even know whether the kind of information you're providing can help ICE or the police. I hope you're posting this material from somewhere safe or are somehow making sure your physical location cannot be traced. Use different methods each time. I hope I am not scaring you, just be calm and careful and don't worry after the fact. Don't be led into traps; don't get carried away.

Other ideas:

The city is so hypocritical because they hire people who hire illegal workers and then act like their hands are clean. How possible is a sanctuary city for migrant labor?

Dismantle the 2040 architecture project: it's not going to happen, we need alternatives. This is Mike Lonergan's plan - and it's the same old planning methodology. It's not going to make the Northwest sustainable at all. I wish we didn't have to plan county structures, but we have to realize that they have already made a shitty plan with socially irresponsible consequences, so we SHOULD be involved. What we do right now will have very, very long lasting impacts on the growth of Pierce County and South King County.

Lead a public teach-in about migrant labor. Possible locations: 6th Ave on a Saturday, downtown on a weekday, Proctor District, South Tacoma Way B&I. Talk face to face with people.

If you don't like the way things are done, get involved in the process and change it. Breaking windows isn't going to change anything (except your interest rate when they add the window replacement fees into their busniess costs and pass it on to you).

can you please ban the ip of, or delete the comments of jeffb

How in the hell is what you are doing and encouraging others to do supposed to change immigration policy? How is what you are doing and encouraging others to do making life better for current detainees?

Your sense of entitlement is sticking out all over fuck. Name ONE detainee who has asked you to do what you do and encourage others to do. Name one detainee who has condoned your actions. SPIT ON AN ICE AGENT? Are you fucking kidding? Yeah, spitting on an ICE agent will *really* make him/her want to treat detainees more humanly, you ASSHOLE.