Friday, June 12, 2020

ANARCHY AND REVOLUTION IN SEATTLE



PHOTOS: Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Has a Border Wall, Conducts Deportations

SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 10: A barricade is seen at an entrance to the so-called "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The zone includes the blocks surrounding the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct, which was the site of violent clashes with Black Lives Matter protesters, …
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Seattle, Washington’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) — formed by anarchists, Antifa members, and Black Lives Matter activists — has set up a border wall surrounding its perimeters and is seemingly conducting deportations.
CHAZ, a six-square block autonomous zone, has clear and precise borders made up of mostly vehicle barriers and various forms of fencing. Photos from CHAZ show the border controls.

A sign is seen on a barrier at an entrance to the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Barriers are seen on a street leading to the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct on June 9, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

A protester uses a scope on top of a barricade to look for police approaching the newly created Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington on June 11, 2020. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

People peer through a barrier with their dog at an entrance to the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

An acronym for “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” is seen painted on the street near the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct on June 9, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

A barricade is seen at an entrance to the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)
Likewise, CHAZ occupants have seemingly conducted at least one deportation.
On Thursday, reporter Julio Rosas captured a moment where CHAZ occupants kicked out a man who said he was a pro-life activist and had been live-streaming from inside the autonomous zone.
The man was taunted by a mob as he was kicked out. The process was far less technical and impartial than the deportation process of the United States federal government.


Found the community garden that is being set up in a park nearby “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” Occupiers have also set up tents in the park.


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Occupiers forced this guy out who was live-streaming inside the zone. The crowd was calling him a white supremacist, though the man being pushed out says he’s simply an anti-abortion advocate. The crowd chanted, “Who don’t matter? This motherfucker!”


As Breitbart News has noted, despite left-wing opposition to border walls and border controls, homes owned by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill Gates are surrounded by fences, walls, and sometimes 20-foot high barriers.
Similarly, countries like Israel, Hungary, Bulgaria, Australia, and Slovenia have proven the effectiveness of implementing strict border controls and erecting border walls to drastically reduce illegal immigration.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.



Seattle Protesters Issue Demands: Abolish Police, Grant Amnesty, Give Free Health Care and College

SEATTLE, WA - JUNE 09: Demonstrators march to the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct after marching inside Seattle City Hall, led by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, on June 9, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Protests have continued in many parts of the city including around the Seattle Police Departments …
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Protesters who have cordoned off several blocks in Seattle, declaring it a “cop-free zone” and “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” have released a long list of demands, including abolition of the Seattle Police Department and prisons, amnesty for all illegal migrants, and free health care and college for all, especially for blacks as a form of reparations.
The protests are part of a wave of sometimes violent gatherings that have taken place across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police.
“This document is to represent the black voices who spoke in victory at the top of 12th & Pine after 9 days of peaceful protest while under constant nightly attack from the Seattle Police Department. These are words from that night, June 8th, 2020,” the document states.

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The demands are divided into four sections — the justice system, health and human services, economics, and education.
The justice system demands include that the “Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus.” This includes seizing police pensions. It also calls for prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from operating in the city.
Under the health and human services portion of the document it states, “We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients” and — even though police will be gone if these demands are met — a separate 911 line manned by mental health professionals.
In both the economic section and elsewhere, the protesters demand free college, socialized medicine, and free public housing.

Sawant speaking at city hall, reminding of the vote on Monday to ban use of chemical weapons and choke holds. Also speaking further on defunding SPD and taxing Amazon.

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The demands are in line with the talking points from the far-left and the Black Lives Matter organization’s political agenda, but the authors of the demand list said the occupied area is being reclaimed for indigenous people.
“Although we have liberated Free Capitol Hill in the name of the people of Seattle, we must not forget that we stand on land already once stolen from the Duwamish People, the first people of Seattle, and whose brother, John T. Williams of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe up north was murdered by the Seattle Police Department 10 years ago,” the document states.
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MIGRANT LABOR SPREADS CORONAVIRUS



Washington Post: Migrant Labor Spreads Coronavirus

FLORIDA CITY, FL - FEBRUARY 06: Workers fill a trailer with tomatoes as they harvest them in the fields of DiMare Farms on February 6, 2013 in Florida City, Florida. The United States government and Mexico reached a tentative agreement that would go into effect around March 4th, on cross-border …
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Low-wage migrant farm workers are spreading coronavirus through the southeast United States, so the fix is more testing and medical care, but not more labor-saving automation, according to the Washington Post.
Laura Reiley reported for the Post:
The agricultural community of Immokalee is quickly becoming an epicenter of coronavirus cases in Florida, with the state health department’s dashboard showing a large cluster of cases with nearly 900 recorded since April. And as workers move north to work the summer fields in other parts of the country, advocacy groups worry they will take the virus with them.
As of Wednesday, the Florida Department of Health’s Division of Disease Control and Health Protection reported 899 positive cases out of roughly 2,500 tests conducted in the Immokalee Zip code. That is a 36 percent positive rate, far higher than the 5.58 percent positive rate for those tested in Florida overall and much higher than wealthier areas of Collier County.
The farm workers are a mix of illegal and unskilled immigrants and Americans. Farm companies hire them because they work hard, but also because they accept very low wages.
This government-delivered supply of archaic stoop labor means that farm companies do not have to invest in labor-saving machines and hygienic automation, even as they are facing growing competition from automated foreign harvesting.
In other states and countries, farm employers buy labor-saving machines to keep their workers and to stay ahead of their competition.
The Washington Post’s focus on testing is expected, said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center of Immigration Studies. He continued:
The mantra of testing is just the escape hatch of the day to avoid addressing the harmful issue of our dependence on imported labor. In different circumstances, they’d be grasping at something else. Because whatever it is, it can’t be immigration. This leads to cognitive dissonance [because] immigration must always for everyone be good. If you acknowledge there are downsides [to immigration], you are committing blasphemy [because] open borders is part of the progressive religion. It is like [a Christian] saying, “I don’t believe in the Trinity.”
The Washington Post author recognized that more testing is not a fix.
For example, she quoted Kristine Hollingsworth, a spokeswoman for the county’s health department, saying:
There’s a powerful incentive for many growers to demand workers stay on the job, as well as for workers to keep working even after a positive diagnosis. “We can’t pay them or supplement their income,” she said. “We’re trying to tackle those hurdles, but we know people want to provide for their families, often sending money back to support people where they are from.”
One consequence of this elite tolerance for farmers’ use of migrant stoop labor is that Democrats and progressives also tolerate the terrible conditions which allow China’s coronavirus to spread among the hard-working, close-packed migrants.
The Washington Post‘s report sketched the terrible conditions:
Latino and Haitian migrant workers board early-morning school buses or hop into the roll-up backs of U-Haul trailers to reach the fields. They work side by side hand-harvesting mostly round green tomatoes that are later gassed with ethylene to ripen them. At the end of the day, workers hop back in those buses and trucks to head home to retrofitted trailer parks often owned by the growers, with between six and 16 workers bedding down in bunk beds and mattresses on the floor in single-wide trailers meant to be one-bedroom homes.
The article also described a farmworker who has lived her life in poverty in the United States:
Gloria Carrera, 43, a tomato picker for Pacific Tomato Growers in Immokalee for the past 20 years, said in the past week she has seen many of her friends and co-workers leave for farms farther north.
Originally from Santa Cruz Bay in Oaxaca, Mexico, she said she is staying put, trying to stay healthy and to protect the health of her two kids, ages 9 and 16. But it’s not easy and she’s scared. She lives in a trailer with nine people total, some of them friends she has known for a while, some of them strangers.
The Post‘s story about the Florida fieldworkers echoes many reports about the nation’s meatpacking plants.
Employers have been able to avoid buying high-tech, hygienic meat-processing machines because the government provides them with an endless supply of cheap labor, amid quiet cheerleading by Democratic progressives and GOP business-advocates.

China's disease hits poor migrant communities hard b/c they must work or live in crowded buildings.
So maybe cheerleaders for illegal migration should get some public blame for the epidemic?
Along with the cooperating employers & legislators, of course. https://bit.ly/2SekneH 


Amid the rationalizations and excuses, Krikorian spoke freely.
Progressives “cannot disenthrall themselves from the religion of open borders, so they’re coming up with increasingly implausible explanations and fixes,” he said. “At some point, somebody has to realize this is BS.”