AT CITY HALL IN SAN FRANCISCO
BY BRUNO
Yesterday, Wednesday, October 14, 2009, from 11:00am to 2:00pm, there was a civil protest against OS/EH at city hall in San Francisco, California, one of several being planned on or about that same day in several cities around the world, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Cincinnati (meeting only), Victoria and Toronto in Canada, London, India (internet mailings) and China (internet mailings), as part of a global day of protest being organized by a newly formed TI activism group called the International Alliance Against Covert Electronic Abuse,
www.iaacea.org. Debbie Newhook and Galina Kurdina in Canada, Soleilmavis in China and Derrick Robinson of FFCHS were some of the planners.
Christine Harris in SF was the contact person for the San Francisco protest, with Mesha Monge-Irizarry being a resource having had experience in protesting. Mesha is a non-TI activist Christine recently began networking with who among other things setup and moderated a forum to help organize the global protest. She has an office in San Francisco and apparently moderates ~250 internet forums, one of them being the recently created Targeted_Individuals yahoo group. She is considering holding TI meetings at her office in San Francisco.
A possibility of rain was forecast but the weather was clear and mostly sunny. I counted 16 protesters being present, including Christine, Richard in Marin, many other TIs who I've met before, a few I hadn't met yet, Mesha, and Marlon Crump, writer for Poor Magazine who Christine has recently began networking with. Most had arrived within the first half hour of the 11:00am protest start time.
We originally planned to protest at the park across the street from city hall, to be respectful of city hall workers, but a police officer came by and said we needed a permit to protest in a public park, though he said this first time he'd allow it. He also indicated we could protest directly in front of city hall if we liked, so we moved our protest to the sidewalk in front of city hall.
There was a plethora of protest signs of various sizes, colors and styles: "stop group stakling," "stop organized stalking," "stop organized terror," "stop covert torture," "stop electronic harassment," "stop electronic torture," "stop electromagnetic weapons," "stop defamation of character now," "restore human liberties now," "stop residential directed energy attacks now IAACEA," "unforgivable! MKULTRA should never happen again," and "my family is victim of mind control program illegally run by the US gov agencies. Torture, mental rape, robbery -- the outcome of the Nazi experiment." Also I brought buttons with the FFCHS logo for us to wear. The mood was positive if not festive, with us talking amongst ourselves, getting to know each other. Some of us had come from as far away as Modesto and Fresno, and for at least one of us this was our first time meeting with other TIs.
Foot traffic was light, even during the lunch hour, with some passers-by looking to see what our signs said. A few spoke with us to try to understand what we were protesting. Due to the relatively light foot traffic and us not being very aggressive at distributing handouts, we didn't distribute all that many. Handouts included one of the IAACEA press releases announcing the global protest, a letter from Missouri State Representative Jim Guest acknowledging the existence of OS/EH on many of the constituents in the country, a flyer on the book "A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America" by Dr. John Hall, who has treated patients suffering from the effects of OS/EH, a copy of an article entitled "Is the NSA Conducting Electronic Warfare On Americans?" regarding former NSA intelligence officer Russ Tice and the NSA's purported mind control technology, and a compilation of excerpts from Cheryl Welsh, FFCHS and H. Michael Sweeney.
Vehicular traffic on the other hand was ongoing, and heavier during the lunch hour. Some of us were lined along the edge of the sidewalk displaying our signs -- several drivers honked their horns and gave us the "thumbs up" in support!
At one point a reporter and cameraperson for an independent San Francisco internet video news group came by and did a brief interview with Christine and Mesha -- everybody felt they did a great job! Later on a CBS van parked across the street to cover a different event and Christine went over and gave them some handouts.
I spoke with several TIs at the protest. Christine says she is doing what she can to network to help end our harassment, a TI from Fresno says he is educating some of the people in Fresno on OS/EH, and another said God's message of love is the most important tool in counteracting our harassment. Marlon wanted everyone to know about his new, second, article on OS/EH, entitled "Targeted Individuals."
In my opinion the protest was certainly successful in terms of turnout -- this has been the largest turnout for any TI event in the San Francisco Bay Area I'm aware of and slightly exceed my expectations! Most of us stayed there until the 2:00pm protest end time, shortly after which we disbanded. I and at least a couple of others who were present took pictures of the event and I will be forwarding mine to Felix, a TI who plans to make a video of the global protests.
RECOUNT OF SF PROTEST
BY MESHA
OCT 14, GLOBAL RALLIES AND PROTESTS
AGAINST ELECTRONIC TORTURE.
We were a "crowd" of about 20 TIs & Allies with signs brought by Bruno, Richard, a Black Brother who came from Fresno (name?), Christine, the Kats Family, Judy, ...
Who am I forgetting ?
Among us, a Black Sister who is a college professor in Political Science in Oakland, accompanied by a Latina and a white woman TIs.
Also was present a San Franciscan woman, former nurse who blew the whistle on her medical unit at PMC, when she saw several patients with electrodes in their brain, and realized from their encephalograms that something terribly wrong was being done to them... she disconnected everything,
and the electronic torture started, did not let up for over a decade.
At first the cops, then the sheriffs tried the intimidating routine by demanding to see a permit ,
but when told:
"we are not blocking traffic, we are only exercizing our right to peaceful assembly, this is a peaceful demonstration",
they did not know what else to do.
Then when they approached us again, twice, I gave them a big smile, told them I was a City Commissioner and asked:
"Are you going to keep us safe, Officers?"
which was sufficient to make them instantly go away after exclaiming "Of course !!"
one sheriff, astoundingly, raised a timid fist and quickly told us
"GO GET 'EM" as he walked away with his colleagues
(Refreshing ! A TI cop ? )
Christine, Richard, the Kats Family, Carole, Judy, John, Yolanda, Carol , Bruno, Marlon, educated onlookers and passed on flyers (forgive this fried brain for omissions...), and Bruno passed out Buttons.
SF Based Tom MCray, TI and political writer, and a homeless person soon joined us.
I talked to a colleague, a Veteran for Peace, published poet, who actually wore many political buttons,
among them one on Covert Surveillance:
Robert Wegan , who is the acclaimed Honorary chief of the Native Nation, although he is white, due to his incredible activism for Natives and Aborigines and tireless fight to ban School of the Americas and ROTC.
He happened to just be waiting for a friend on City Hall steps, and enthusiastically interacted with us.
Robert stated: "We are ALL targeted !".
I will stay in touch, potential powerful ally for us.
I talked about the protest
nd IAACEA Goals & Objectives as defined in Debbie's pres release
to Sophie Maxwell,
City supervisor of my district,
and to a campaign team member of James Keys,
District 6 Supervisor candidate.
Many participants actively engaged passerby's,
including an Asian Gay Youth who now wants to be an ally to our movement.
No negative interaction whatsoever!
(To the sorry exception of a perplike loser...
older white dude in a SUV who sped by, hollering:
"Go get a job!"
Which made us laugh.... Comic relief of the day)
One press interview with Christine
who handed out a press package and with myself,
Christine connected with the City Hall Court TV Media Liaison,
and participants took many pictures and videos of our event
For a first, Huge Success !
In the future, we should bring munchies,
2 participants were hungry and broke,
and started getting hypoglycemic and shaky.
Being a diabetic, fortunately I had glucose tablets with me,
and after ingesting 2 of them, they got better.
But we need to FEED folx who came from afar, and our local people next time ! Just water and packaged Health bars, so we do not need a food permit, would do jut fine.
Marlon Crump from Poor Magazine PPN came to interview participants, stayed with us during the entire event, and will work on his third article on "Targeted Individuals" that he will submit to his editor, the formidable "Tiny" Gray Garcia !
Christine and I will work on an article , recount that we will self publish on Indybay.org, along with a compilation of pictures, under Health isues (Covert Violence IS a Public Health issue !)
People came to join us from :
Modesto,
Fresno,
Marin County,
Oakland,
Berkeley,
local San Franciscans too !
Cloud 9 yall !
Christine is talking about making it a monthly event,
either still City Hall,
but also in front of the SF Chronicle newspaper,
where there is a lot of foot traffic.
We could also "target" (umph....)
all Bart Stations, the old Mint,
and the Federal and State buildings.
A month timeline gives us time to prepare press conferences, and work on solid 3 minute presentations, with a core team and a couple of prepared public testimonies at each event.
The most endearing marker for me was to see
the visible, profound camaraderie and empathy of all participants towards each other.
One woman TI was escalating,
but the group kept it under loving control.
It amazed me that we were
not met even once with skepticism, incredulity or mockery by any onlookers who inquired around what it was all about!
The Collective Unconscious KNOWS !
Up to us now is to develop speaking engagements
with colleges, progressive churches, social groups etc.
The Global Movement at street level is in full motion,
and there'no stopping dat train !
I am interested in working on a People of Color Coalition,
to grow that contingent in our poor neighborhoods,
where trust and cultural norms are different from mainstream,
which has been extremely successful
for example in building grassroots Power against Police Excessive Force and Racially biaed policing and the monitoring of ICE Raids,
as well as taskforces against the local and State Budget Cuts.
Maybe also an LGBTQ contingent.
The spirit not being divide and conqueer by all means,
but working within intimate circles of trust,
in collaboration with larger, generic coalitions.
There's no Power
Like the Power of the People
kuz the Power of the People Don't Stop !
and yes, we should start working on chants,
(no shouting....),
to be visible, ongoing presence, people on the streets recognizing our signs and joining our effort,
like Code Pink, Global Exchange, Oct 22 Coalition, etc.
Chosing a color to always wear on rallies day,
maybe Green for Healing ?
Arm bands would also make us more recognizable.