Submission
Last night, students, anarchists, communists, and other community members took up occupation at Drexel University. What was at first perceived as another boring rally/march with WAYYY too many fucking speeches and shit turned into an encampment being sprung up. This particular encampment set up had it ups and down. The down side was that the pigs were surrounding it and at times were pushing, shoving, and threatening people with various weapons and cowardly tactics. Also, in comparison to the encampment at Upenn, this start up was really slow, and there were so many big tents that took time and effort to set up unlike at Penn where most tents were pop up tents and we were all able to set them up in pretty quick succession. Also, at the beginning, food and water were very scarce and to this point, police have barricaded protesters into the encampment and have not been letting people return when they leave, making it hard for people to use the various facilities leaving people unsure of where to use the bathroom. Also to note, a comrade had told me that because the march took so fucking long to get to Drexel that shit got discombobulated and items for tents were scattered due to the lack of sufficient numbers. On the positive side, camp did eventually get established, food and supplies were allowed to be brought in, students for the most part did stand their ground, made small pockets of barricades and harassed the cops. All in all, pretty successful I’d say.
Throughout the long day, there were small escalations here and there from both protesters and cops. At one point the police entered the camp grounds. But eventually were bullied off. Some of the escalating tactics by cops were threats of violence, carrying shields and long wooden batons. At one point, we even saw one fucker threaten a woman with a taser by pointing it at point blank to her upper torso. Ultimately, it was their so called commander piggy that told him to put his weapon away. Another point of tension saw riot cops swarm in like ridiculous and drunken bees. They were quickly dispersed though. Seems these fuckers will always be so fucking horny to fuck up some college kids just taking up space. Probably spend more time jerking off to that then fucking they girls. Though, they probably wouldn’t have much to do that with anyhow.
Over all, we shall see over the weekend if this encampment will last as long, if not longer than the Penn one. Let’s hope the kids keep escalating and don’t let the peace police get in their ears. Solidarity to all encampments domestic and overseas and fuck 12 in any city.
