For the Oakland Commune

[AfterClassTrip]

I avoid violence at all times. but if this revolution of freedom calls for direct actions, then I support the Oakland Commune. I can feel their emotions.

Anarchists, unite!

Solidarity from the Philippines, comrades!

[rhYkhanz]

Fuck yeah. Fuck yo bank, nigga!

[DktorChoas]

happy Lulzmas

[khrafstra]

Greetings and Solidarity from Greece! Go Comrades!

[Isaidhi7]

@khrafstra Don't tell me you're a Communist.....

[HeyItsAARONv]

Non-violence doesn't work because cops will not bow down to people dancing in the streets. Even then this can't even be classified as violent.

Force and pressure against are need to bring about social change as always.

[O5O1B0L]

for who wants to know, some of the songs are:

- Beastie Boys - Don't play no game that I can't win (SebastiAn remix)

- Gustav - We Shall Overcome

- Santigold - Go (Feat. Karen O.)

I would like to know the name of the other songs, though... :/

[MarsVoltaKA]

Who's the artist at 6:03 ?? i must know. it's wonderful.

Pat the Bunny brought me here :)

[afromandog]

@MarsVoltaKA pat brought me here too!

[mns504]

@MarsVoltaKA its, gustav - we shall overcome

[xLordOfNothingx]

Would someone, please, think of the windows!

[the1unknown9]

Actions speak louder than words.

[toohfbrush]

that song at like 7 mins is fucking awesome!!!!

[AnonChopin]

Violence : exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse

Vandalism : willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property

Source : MW Dictionary

[sucklingfatty]

wish boston was doing this

[AnonChopin]

The only violence in this video is when people physically harm another.  Vandalism != violence

[Madfoot713]

@AnonChopin vandalism = violence

[MrDeadRot]

@Madfoot713 Property damage is not violence. You cant emotionally nor physically hurt a building....

[HeyItsAARONv]

1st song?

[JCStanton117]

Looks like I went to the wrong occupy. Oakland here i come :)

[jumill87]

hipster queers... btw, ur music fucking blows.

[roverkarlos]

@jumill87 thank you for confirming everything i needed to know

[AnonChopin]

Property damaged that was stolen from the people in the first place != violence

[mf91007]

This kids are gonna be lawyers in 15 years.

[guatahala]

@mf91007

Being a lawyer doesn't preclude being an anarchist. Where do you think that legal support comes from?

[MarlaisO]

bored hipsters smashing some windows

so radical bra

the yuppies of tomorrow

[m0bi]

@MarlaisO

I'd rather smashing windows become trendy than, I dunno, pretentiously discussing art.

[zodiacchiller]

Terrific video

[m0bi]

This sure beats voting, or relying on representative democracy at all, and you can do this EVERY day of the year!

[virindi1]

awesome video, awesome music

[gpburr]

Hahaha.. So uh.. to all of you idiots.. What do you propose we do? Down with capitalism? REALLY? Down with free-markets? umm.. What?

[guatahala]

@gpburr

Yes.

Capitalism is in none of our interests. The free-market has never existed and never will.

Our solution is simple: Destroy everything that keeps us from ourselves and the world.

[scruffthemagicdragon]

@gpburr Yes, really.

[polybius15]

YEAH ABOUT GOD DANG TIME!!

[BohemianKitsch]

weak, punk-ass white kids who have never thrown down when the shit got real. where was all this bad-ass-ness when the cops started crackin heads for all the shit that YOU did? oh yeah, you ran back to the vanilla suburbs and let others take those lumps for you!

the destruction neither scares NOR impresses me. see, i actually grew up with REAL warriors, not cowards who break shit and run, folks who put in on the line with their LIVES. i grew up in the REAL shit. i'm battle-tested. are you?

[Lukasnovak]

I've never seen a CEO, or a lawyer, or an accountant fix a window or scrub out spray paint. It is the janitorial staff and day-laborers who will come clean up after these kids. Many of those are undocumented workers. Breaking shit only creates additional toil for the most marginalized people in our society. Nice one guys.

[m0bi]

@Lukasnovak

As if most workers won't be snickering while cleaning up their destroyed workplaces? As if most workers don't dream of doing it themselves?

[rtdropbox]

@Lukasnovak

With corporations cutting jobs left and right, workers need all the help they can get. Vandalism CREATES jobs in ways trickle-down economics never does. If someone has to clean up the mess, that's one more task for someone who might otherwise not be able to get the hours of work they need to pay their bills.

You must be a very ignorant and privileged person to not know this firsthand.

[justlinne]

whats the song at like 6:30?

[Facks2you]

@justlinne The artist is Gustav 'We Shall Overcome.' I love this song. :-D Let's destroy capitalism.

[Zasp3]

I like the music. What songs are used in this video? :)

[bjarczyk]

¡Viva la revolucion!

[920610]

I hate to ask but whats the name of the second song? i saw the names in the description but no luck...

[MrAnconsheep]

Long Live the Oakland Commune !! By Any Means Necessary !!

[pdxktv]

To the soundtrack of we shall overcome? Seriously?!

[maltrek1]

funny how you have 1 post..woohoo censorship.  maybe i should riot

[TomVeeTV]

I'm against all the violence in this video that takes place against those poor windows. In fact, I think we should organize peace teams armed with clubs and knives and whoever is seen acting violently (breaking windows, spray-painting, shouting) should be stabbed and beaten while we all chant "Peace! Peace! Peace!". We should fetishize the word peace and physically defend the private property of the 1% against those proletariat book-reading ninjas in black. Long live American privilege!

[EZEPELIGRO]

@TomVeeTV Sarcasm?

[blackavar001]

was this filmed in the fifties?

[IzzyData]

So.. what are they trying to accomplish again?

[TomVeeTV]

Great video man! Solidarity.

[anonymootle]

Capitalism isn't the problem. Crony-capitalism where banks get bailed out instead of go into bankruptcy or when the politicians are owned by the corporations, corporatism, is the problem. You runined the video with that. Also, Black Bloc are nothing to be proud of...

[MaccyMan1]

So stop people that are trying to make money to feed their family? How does screwing over the little guy hurt the rich again?

[garrettjohnsen]

It's just ironic because someone is making a money because someone bought spray paint to write something like "fuck capitalism."

[m0bi]

@garrettjohnsen

Implying things aren't stolen all the time?

[dszaro1990]

Shit.... Its getting real.

[Darkoffisbackagain91]

Fuck the system

[grinick]

Those smashing the windows in ninja masks do not represent my views. I stand in solidarity with the majority of the protesters, those ones committed to peaceful protest. This is an excellent way to do damage to the legitimate anarchists who would like to see real change. If you feel the need to smash random property, you can do so at anytime, anywhere. Doing it in the middle of someone else's protest does nothing for either of us.

[Sight099]

no anarcho syndicate/communist flags or any of the anarcho-* variants.

unable to organize into a political body.

if driven from the streets, movement is non-existent.

read a bit of history, solidarity isn't what you think it means.

at least you tried, nice music though.

[genocide98]

Bad electronic music, anarchy, and destruction of property is a great way to represent yourselves, guys.

[OBAViJEST]

why dont other cities follow suit?

[RaunchyFlyinTwinkies]

I must know the names of the songs after the first one

[Yeahyeah123ify]

im 12 years old and what is this

[wiseoldsnail]

@Yeahyeah123ify this is a very tiny minority of a very large movement to take back our government from those who've bought it from those who didn't own it in the first place. this is a propaganda video in favor of these destructive tactics. this represents the true beliefs of a group within the larger movement of people.

[Hecante]

The black bloc is not helpful for this movement. Moving hundreds of thousands of people to credit unions, costing the banks billions of dollars, that helped the movement. Breaking windows does not. Windows do not cost billions of dollars.

[speedcuber007]

yesssss

[oldeskimoose]

3rd song?

[ibpetrgaming]

You want a class war? That's cool. Gimme a few minutes, gotta load up all my AR mags and prepare my smoke grenades. You want socialism? You're welcome to try. All I'm gonna say is, we'll see how truly bent on achieving socialism you truly are and whether your blood truly is red.

[ChocoboKillerKanyo]

Violence and destruction of property are antithetical to the battle we must win in order to make a more perfect society. I can sympathize with the frustration and certainly don't fault individuals for being angry, but riotous behavior does nothing to win hearts and minds for our cause. Our enemy in this fight is corruption, which is not a fight which can be easily won by reckless abandon. Who really benefits from hoodlums breaking stuff to look tough, if not the banks to accuse us of barbarism?

[PetaNole]

These are Anarchists, NOT Occupy or BlackBLoc. Anarchists promote violence to get police to be violent.

[Tyyneys7]

Why the fuck couldnt you just have kept it in color

[grafter50]

Shouldn't these people be working?

[thecoolkid657]

Those people are Fucking idiots. IF your going to carry out a protest that MATTERS, you should do it professionally, not like a pack of Neanderthals.

[Pyware50]

This video got me pumped as hell nice upload.

[TheMysteriousSheep]

amazing complication, very motivated to head to my nearest occupy event now, distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful, fear is the mother of morality

[wiseoldsnail]

@TheMysteriousSheep clicked thumbs up by accident. fear is the product of ignorance. 

[Adrenailine]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

[mycatagro]

hey folks. no thanks. broken windows and spray paint may have felt good for you and the ego - but it does nothing to smash the system your fighting - who is going to clean up after you? not the corporate elite - minimum wage service workers. The media loves this and you know it. What you've done here is compromise the work of your comrades - comments welcome.

[thenoorys]

@mycatagro I guess if we're going to use those sorts of rhetorical points, you could say these rioters are giving the minimum wage service workers more work/hours in a building which is run by people who will perpetually give them less work and hours as fast as they can.

[ruedauseil]

Fight like a brave! Good to see the Occupy movement and Black Bloc in solidarity against the police that defend the corrupt state and it's degenerate corporate backing! We NEED more strikes across the country and less whining about peaceful protests. If they wanna come for a fight, let 'em have it. The people can only be violent in self-defense against the violence of the state oppressing them. It is not violence, it is self-defense.

[DoxyaYagami]

@ruedauseil Hispter detected.

[WhenWillYouCrack]

@ruedauseil I don't see violence. Only the destruction of property.

[wiseoldsnail]

@WhenWillYouCrack actually, i see threats and violence against those showing opposition to these tactics. plenty of people have reported being threatened and pushed around in their efforts to either record or speak out against these actions. whether i agree with the actions or not is immaterial. as part of the 99%, a person has the right to disagree with these actions without feeling threatened or being physically assaulted.