As the people's anger gets organised, so does that state in its attempt to stifle that anger and destroy any organising by the people. It is happening in Italy, Greece, UK, Spain, US, Canada and in most countries across the globe. As the people's anger grows expect the state repression to grow.
Room after police visit.
Early
morning, July 10, SWAT police forced their way into the Seattle
apartment of organizers from the Occupy movement. The sleeping
residents scrambled to put on clothes as they were confronted with
automatic weapons.
The neighbor
Natalio Perez heard the attack from downstairs: “Suddenly we heard
the bang of their grenade, and the crashing as police entered the
apartment. The crashing and stomping continued for a long time as
they tore the place apart.”
After the
raid, the residents pored over the papers handed them by a detective.
One explained: “This warrant says that they were specifically
looking for ‘anarchist materials’ — which lays out the
political police state nature of this right there. In addition they
were looking for specific pieces of clothing supposedly connected
with a May First incident.
When the
police finally left, they did not arrest anyone. This action
targets well known activists from Occupy
Seattle and the
Red Spark Collective (part of the national Kasama
network).
This apartment has been a hub for organizing the Everything 4 Everyone festival in August – to bring together West Coast forces for a cultural and political event building on the year of Occupy.
This apartment has been a hub for organizing the Everything 4 Everyone festival in August – to bring together West Coast forces for a cultural and political event building on the year of Occupy.
The raid is
a heavy-handed threat delivered by armed police aimed at intimidating
specific people – but also suppressing the work to continue the
Occupy movement in Seattle, and create E4E as a space for radical
gathering.
The E4E site
will update this with more as we receive it, including hopefully
statement from those involved. http://www.everythingforeveryone.org/
Contact:
Liam Wright, Red Spark Collective, redsparkcollective@gmail.com
