andolfatto

I just talked to you again for the first time in 4 months.
Holy Shit.
Be ok.

1. Bake Bread
2. Read Mr. Natural
3. Plant cucumbers and kale
4. Have picnics
6. Start painting again
7. Go to work
8. Watch "A Nightmare On Elm Street"
9. Make dreamcatchers
10. Make love all the time

Sounds like a damn fine plan to me.

For all of us who watched the CTV news footage of the Feb 13th anti-olympic protest, we all saw some wonderful biased footage of windows being smashed by anarchists without ever pausing to think, "Why were they smashing windows?" well here Is a video that shows just why protesters got so angry.
This independent media video shows police beating 2 unarmed independent cameramen. It then cuts to the only remaining footage of my arrest for wearing a mask. (This is footage you won't see on CTV or in The Vancouver Sun.
I'm not posting this here for attention, I'm posting it because I want you, my friends to see the other side of what happened that day. We as activists are constantly asking ourselves, " How can we show the real story? How can we get past all this media propaganda? How can we show them why we fight?" This is now my way.
Many of us have NO IDEA of the real expense of the games: for taxpayers (7 billion+ and counting), the environment ( a rare and near extinct habitat being blasted for a highway in what is supposed to be "the greenest games ever"), the homeless (over 600+ people evicted and thrown to the streets to make way for olympic development) and of course what we are about to see, the creation of an olympic police state (including police harrasment, beatings and preemptive arrests).

I now present you with real "from the street" footage of police beatings and the arrest of a minor.
This IS the face of the 2010 games.

Gina

-----------> www.youtube.com/watch?v=plzd2j…

When you get off meds, you realise things that you didn't know about yourself. This includes who you truly love and loved and who you used as a crutch for your deep dark fears and secrets, either knowingly or not ( the red haired boy was, the girls were...I realise this know.)
and I don't mean love as in puppy love or girlfriends or boyfriends or anything silly and juvenile and meaningless like that.
I mean people you truly and utterly care for, without condition or reservation.
This isn't about dating, or who "belongs" to who.
This is about knowing that you have shared or do share something so complex and beautiful that you can't even begin to describe it.
An understanding, an agreement, the recognition of a higher purpose, the ability to submerge yourselves into the true realm of possibility. (even if it could never be in this physical life we all share, or maybe it could? whi knows.)
This is the person you would battle the apocalypse with, the person who you would fight to the death for, whether against repression, zombies, boredom or the feds.
Someone who understands the beauty and need to go on adventures and search for abandoned swimming pools and ride the bus as far as it can go and fight artisitc and political repression and make as much love as possible all the time and yell and scream and hoot and holler!!!
The one person you would chose to disapear with you into your dreams, if you could choose a single person. (Did I ever tell you that I have been asking myself that question for years? and since the first time I met you and knew it would be you? creepy eh?)

I guess I just needed to let you know that you are this person to me, this is why I have been so desperate to talk to you >_<
whether it's the right time or way to say this or not, it is said, so THERE HA!.
all my apologies, I guess.

NOW THAT THAT'S DONE WITH! LETS GO ADVENTURING AND HAVE CRAZY SHENANIGANISING AND STUFF AND ENOUGH OF MY SERIOUS AND TENDER THOUGHTS! ALL THEY SEEM TO DO IS COMPLICATE MY ALREADY COMPLICATED LIFE!! D:

On February 12th and 13th, 2010, thousands of courageous individuals came together to resist the 2010 Olympic police state and to attack the corporations plundering the land and deepening poverty. We write this communique as participants in and organizers of the black bloc presence at these demonstrations, known as "Take Back Our City" and "2010 Heart Attack."
On February 12th, the Vancouver Police Department pacified us with a force of mounted police. The next day during 2010 Heart Attack, they deployed riot police armed with M4 carbine assault rifles. They claim this was necessary in order to stop the march from "jeopardizing public safety" – yet the only threats to public safety were in their own hands. Participants in the demonstration only undertook strategic attacks against corporations sponsoring the Olympics and did not harm or attack bystanders.
The media are now busy denouncing the political violence of property destruction, such as the smashing of a Hudson's Bay Company window, as though it were the only act of violence happening in this city. They forget that economic violence goes on daily in Vancouver. People are suffering and dying from preventable causes because welfare doesn't give enough to afford rent, food or medicine, and because authorities routinely ignore the medical emergencies of poor or homeless individuals. This economic violence has gotten worse as we lose housing and social services because of the Olympic Games.

In response to this assault, thousands took to the streets, hundreds joining what is known as a black bloc.

The black bloc is not a formal organization; it has no leadership, membership, or headquarters. Instead, the black bloc is a tactic: it is something people *do* in order to accomplish a specific purpose. By wearing black clothing and masking our faces, the black bloc allows for greater protection to those who choose active self-defense. The majority of people involved in the black bloc do not participate in property destruction. However, in masking up they express their solidarity with those who choose to take autonomous direct action against the corporations, authorities and politicians who wage war on our communities.

Participation in the black bloc is an act of courage. With only the shirts on our backs and the masks on our faces, we took to the streets against Canada's largest ever "peacetime" police force. Protected only by black fabric and the support of our comrades, we stood in front of anti-riot cops armed with assault rifles, pistols and batons. We proved that $1 billion of "security" couldn't prevent us from clogging the heart of downtown Vancouver and crashing a party of 100 000 people -- and getting away with it.

You won't ever know who was in the black bloc this weekend, but you *do* know us. We are the people who organize community potlucks, who dance during street festivals, who make art, defend the land, build co-ops,bicycles and community gardens. When we put on our black clothing, we are not a threat to you, but to the elites.

Whoever you are, one day you will join us. As long as government and corporations attack our communities, we're going defend – and that means attack.


Signed,
Two organizers and participants in the anarchist presence of the "Take back our city" demonstration and "2010 Heart Attack" street march, February

2010, Coast Salish Territory