holy sheißa

So, we went to the anti-capitalist demo today. It was pretty much off the hook. There isn't actually much to tell despite the fact that it was off the hook. Rocks were thrown, bottles were thrown, flares were launched at pigs (bullen in german) and buildings. Then when the pigs tried to snatch squad a few people, the people in the vehicle that was travelling with the black bloc made an announcement over their PA and everyone came over and busted up a cobblestone sidewalk to make stones to throw at the police, and there was a dance of retreat-attack for several hours. For about an hour of that Säed and the guy who was with us who speaks german natively went missing and were presumed captured. They were not captured, only lost. I'm not sure what to say right now so here's some statistics from the media

over 100 cops injured
18 cops seriously injured
1 cop stabbed
hundreds of thousands of euro of damage to buildings
around 10 demonstrators arrested (my estimate)
5000 black bloc (my estimate)
30000 protesters in general.

There were a lot of commie black bloc groups, and they all fetishize latin ameria (che, castro, etc.).

The demos are likely still going on. I'd like to be there but one of us was uncomfortable. Actually it might be done by now, I'm not sure.

Their chants were kinda stupid, but kinda cute too, when they'd speak in English with the german accent. There was something sort of endearing about it.

Oh yeah, the anti-nazi demo was a flop, I'm glad we went to this one. The police were tied up with this demo, so they made it illegal, and the nazis decided not to march there, they stayed in a few major cities like Berlin where there were enough pigs to protect them. The few antifa hanging around the area where they were supposed to march (20 or 30) were arrested but have already been released. No nazi skulls were bashed in at all from what it looks like now.

Again, not sure what to say. I'm sure this would be better with my emphatic gesturing and if you have questions, ask and I'll answer em on here.

Here's a news article with some photos in the meantime http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-ex-g82jun02,1,2682627.story?coll=la-headlines-world&track=crosspromo

that link didn't seem to work so I changed it. This has a rad photo album... much better anyway.