“This city does not belong to them,” Fielder said. “It belongs to us. We are not backing down. We are not flying under anyone’s radar.”
“Thank you for calling Marc Benioff out on his shit!” someone else shouted after Fielder spoke.
But even without the “surge,” people in Big Tech’s front yard are still fired up. “Ultimately we see it as a win for people power that are organizing help to push them in this,” Donovan says. “But it’s not over. There’s still so much Bay Area, so we want to be ready and stand in solidarity.”
The federal presence at Coast Guard Island is still ongoing, and protesters are continuing to stage demonstrations nearby. San Francisco may be out of the crosshairs for now, but Oakland, San Jose, and other Bay Area cities are still on alert. The rallies will continue even if federal troops don’t show up in greater numbers.
As Donovan puts it, all these resistance efforts are in service of having a story to tell.
“We need to reframe the story so that it’s showing that communities are the ones under attack,” Donovan says. “It’s not that our cities are riddled with crime.”
Source: Wired.
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