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There seems to be a lot of curiosity surrounding the #chazseattle - a six-block wide "autonomous zone" established by activists.
I sent a freelancer there for a day to show how this community has grown - without cops - for the past ten days.
I sent a freelancer there for a day to show how this community has grown - without cops - for the past ten days.
One occupant said that the #CHAZ has been misrepresented by news organizations like Fox, who try to brand them as violent and even "terrorist."
He says CHAZ is a chance to protest against racism and express a need to reallocate funding from police and toward social programs.
He says CHAZ is a chance to protest against racism and express a need to reallocate funding from police and toward social programs.
Cal Anderson Park, which falls entirely inside the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone," has become a place where participants are given a stage to speak on the issues they advocate for: namely abolishing racism, capitalism, and policing.
Right now in Cal Anderson Park a large group is joining forces to erect a giant sized Black Power Fist the group at #CHOPseattle built @KIRORadio #seattleprotest #BlackLivesMattters
Safety first says the guy with the megaphone as the group moves it across the park to directly underneath its final home atop this structure @KIRORadio #seattleprotest #seattle #BlackLivesMattters
So, the anarchists are running a few city blocks in Seattle, renaming it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or #CHAZ. #SeattleAutonomousZone #seattleprotestcomms 1/14
It got me to thinking of the city of my birth where, a little more than a mile away across Lake Union sits a statue of Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union’s first dictator and mass murderer. 2/14 
In fact, Lenin and anarchists had an “interesting” relationship. 3/14
It seems not all takeovers are created equal.
Here’s a 🧵THREAD🧵about the ways outlets have talked about the anarchy of the #SeattleAutonomousZone vs. the 2014 Bundy standoff in Oregon.
Starting with @nytimes. Can you spot the difference?
Here’s a 🧵THREAD🧵about the ways outlets have talked about the anarchy of the #SeattleAutonomousZone vs. the 2014 Bundy standoff in Oregon.
Starting with @nytimes. Can you spot the difference?
Hot on their heels is @CNN, who seem to think it’s not worth pointing out the weapons when it’s a leftist group.
Good evening from the #CHAZ in Seattle over on Pine and 10th
“This is now a community center” reads one sign hanging outside the East Precinct in the #CHAZ
@MarshallLawBand still holding it down peacefully on the corner of Pine and 12th in the newly designated #CHAZ during the #seattleprotest
I 100% didn't understand Seattle's autonomous zone until a friend just showed me what was going on. The zone was established by Seattleites after days of clashes between police and protesters. The police finally left and people took over. What happened next is truly nuts.
Here's the abandoned police precinct.
Here's the whole zone. Known as CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone).
The #SeattleAutonomousZone is devolving into warlordism.
Rapper Raz Simone, who has been patrolling the barricades with an AK-47 and a handgun, has begun assaulting residents who disobey him.
"We are the police now," says his crew. "We are the leaders."
Rapper Raz Simone, who has been patrolling the barricades with an AK-47 and a handgun, has begun assaulting residents who disobey him.
"We are the police now," says his crew. "We are the leaders."
Here is another video of Simone allegedly assaulting another protestor the same evening:
And here is a video of Simone allegedly harassing a woman in "The Family," an organized prostitution scheme.
🚨This is the list of demands, BLM protesters have issued after taking over 6 square blocks of Seattle after city officials ordered police + unarmed national guard to abandon the area and their precinct bldg and stand down. #seattle #SeattleAutonomousZone medium.com/@seattleblmano…
First demand - not only #abolishICE but disband and #defundpolice 100% 2nd demand: No armed forces - nobody allowed to be armed to move them out of the autonomous zone - are you sensing a trend here?
Irony here is @GovInslee just sent National Guard he refused to arm home. Now he is going to need a special forces unit to recover 6 blocks of the city - tho no way he wld order that. So now it’s a stand-off. Someone on twitter made a reference to Basra, Iraq, but this is the US
Warning: Ppl should not get excited about #seattleautonomouszone.
It is not the product of a mvmt of the working class. The demands are reformist and middle class, they include asking Trump to investigate police violence & retrials for only POC convicts (why not for all?).
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It is not the product of a mvmt of the working class. The demands are reformist and middle class, they include asking Trump to investigate police violence & retrials for only POC convicts (why not for all?).
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There is no call for wealth redistribution, nationalization, taxes on the rich, no appeal to industrial workers or workers in other countries, etc. I.e. nothing that touches the property of the capitalist class. Racialist, parochial and middle class. #SeattleAutonomousZone
(above was /2)
However well-meaning the organizers may be, opposing state violence and racism ultimately means abolishing the entire capitalist system and developing a racially unified mvmt of the working class internationally. I.e. #socialism. Read the @WSWS_Updates
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However well-meaning the organizers may be, opposing state violence and racism ultimately means abolishing the entire capitalist system and developing a racially unified mvmt of the working class internationally. I.e. #socialism. Read the @WSWS_Updates
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#mineapolisriots
1/Last night a Police station was taken over by protesters and demolished. The Police had to flee
1/Last night a Police station was taken over by protesters and demolished. The Police had to flee
Conflict mapping the past two days of riots and popular uprising in #Minneapolis #minneapolisriots
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column of National Guard Humvees reportedly moving north along Cedar
Taking stock of what's been destroyed around Minnehaha Avenue and East Lake street so far #minneapolisriots
